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Lockdawg71

Lockdawg71

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I'm looking for some help. I just took...and failed....my Real Estate Appraiser's license test for the state of Ohio for the second time today. I've purchased (and studied with, done the chapter reviews, etc) the Fundamentals of Real Estate Appraisal 12th edition text book, I bought the years access to the learnappraising.com site and have been using that to study and do practice tests on, I've already obviously completed all the classes required to get this far and have been doing appraisals, under the supervision of 3 Certified appraisers, for the past 2 years, yet both times I've went in to take the test there were so many questions that I had no idea how to come up with the correct answers for. I've been studying my tail off and am still lost when I get in there. :( I don't understand why I need to know some of the things on the test either, but that's neither here nor there. It is what it is. Anyone have any help as to what to do/buy/whatever in order to help pass this thing? The wording for the questions even seems to be complicated to understand. I'm lost. Thanks in advance for any help given.
 
Lockdawg71 said:
I'm looking for some help. I just took...and failed....my Real Estate Appraiser's license test for the state of Ohio for the second time today. I've purchased (and studied with, done the chapter reviews, etc) the Fundamentals of Real Estate Appraisal 12th edition text book, I bought the years access to the learnappraising.com site and have been using that to study and do practice tests on, I've already obviously completed all the classes required to get this far and have been doing appraisals, under the supervision of 3 Certified appraisers, for the past 2 years, yet both times I've went in to take the test there were so many questions that I had no idea how to come up with the correct answers for. I've been studying my tail off and am still lost when I get in there. :( I don't understand why I need to know some of the things on the test either, but that's neither here nor there. It is what it is. Anyone have any help as to what to do/buy/whatever in order to help pass this thing? The wording for the questions even seems to be complicated to understand. I'm lost. Thanks in advance for any help given.
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Does the test give you a break down of what you miss by sections or topics?
 
Overimprovement said:
Does the test give you a break down of what you miss by sections or topics?
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Yes, by topic. And I hit those topics the hardest after I failed the first time. I swear it seems like there's been stuff on there that I've never seen before both times. Maybe it's the way the actual test questions are worded compared to how they're worded on the practice tests? I did worse this second time around than the first time I took the test. I tried to give some verbal examples (there are so many steps to some of the questions that it's hard to remember the whole thing later) of the questions giving me so much trouble to the appraisers that I work with and they said the questions sound like they should be on a certified license test or even a real estate agent or mortgage broker test instead of the license test. I'm not a genius, but I'm no dummy either. I've been through college, I've held challenging positions with well known companies (such as Procter & Gamble and Ford) previously, in HR and Education & Training roles even, so I've had to use my brain to get through life, but this test takes the cake! I've used every bit of the 4 hours allowed both times and still failed. Most of what I'm having trouble trying to figure out is stuff that I've never had to do in the 2 years I've been doing this and that the 3 cert. appr. that I work with have barely ever used in all their years of working as appraisers. That's 28 yrs each for two of them and a whopping 43 for one. (She's 83 going on 55 I swear. lol).
 
What areas are giving the most trouble? Computational? USPAP? Terminology?
 
Some of the questions have no correct answer on purpose.
They are questions that are "being tested", but will throw you off, and eat at you.
So, some of the trick to passing is don't get hung up on something that's throwing you for a loop.
Skip it, finish what you don't know, then go back to the ones you skipped and look at the wording carefully.
Recognize that the ones without correct answers are not counted against you, so, if you can't figure out what they are asking, chose the best thing you can relate to an answer and don't let it tear you up.

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Since questions are multiple choice...its logical to assume that two are dead wrong and one is almost correct, and the last is Correct. The last two are worded a little differently. That's where it gets tough. So eliminate the two that are not correct.

EA & HC questions are commonly answered incorrectly because the scenario given create the confusion.

Math Stuff will always throw you off, not because you can't do math. Simply not reading the question closely enough. Especially since they have stuff in there that is not needed to solve the problem.

So are you changing answers? Do you feel the time pressure to much. Usually your 1st response is correct assuming you took enough time to read the question: Identify the problem to be solved.

Just remember this; Appraising is Problem solving and before you can accept an assignment you first have to identify the valuation problem to be solved. That is always true. Many of the questions revolve around solving the valuation problem.

I know I am probably not helping much here. I will say this, I am certain that if I took the Licensing test today I would not score 100%. I think I would pass it, but I know i would take almost entire time allotted to complete it.

Your Frustration Level is whats hurting you know.

Good luck to you...I am sure you will pass.
 
Also, don't assume you will never use something that is on the test. Yes, much of it is academic, but it doesn't mean that you will not need to utilize the underlying principle some day.

These things are frustrating, maybe you can find a peer that is in the same boat and study together.
 
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