Do well on your real estate exam without studying harder than your classmates. Get a study start on your classmates while they wait till the last week of the exam. Begin studying from day one so that you could spend your last week completely relaxed and confident when your classmates are stressed. Read on to learn more.

1. Start studying for the real estate exam as early as you can--before the course starts if possible. Schedule enough time to read up on real estate before the course starts. Use this time to work for a real estate agent. Start at the bottom, doing administrative tasks and working your way up. Obtain the books before the course and study the books from cover to cover.

2. Get proficient at taking shorthand notes. Take a shorthand course if you haven't had exposure to such. When you start your real estate class, start taking notes as soon as the instructor starts covering the first chapter. Take notes every class you take for the remainder of that real estate class. Don't just take notes, study them every night. Simply read from day one until the current day. Do this again each day until the night before you take the exam.

3. Do all real estate related homework, even if your instructor assigns you a fraction of the total exercises in the book. Some tests pull questions from the book not assigned as homework. Doing all the questions guarantees that you've gone through the motion of doing a "test" problem before it shows up on the exam.

4. Find some friends taking the same class and form a study group. Don't use this as a substitute for self study. Use what you've picked up during your self study to help your friends. This is a good way to reinforce classroom material.

5. Complete any research or real estate related project at the beginning of the course. You want to dedicate the remainder of the course to reviewing your notes. Again, just read them once a day. Do this every day and you won't need to memorize data. Get plenty of rest the night before the exam.