Course Approval:

Montana Realty Board Approval Letter for the course #11-02BPL. 

The Licensing Process for the Broker License

• Education and other requirements
  • Must be 18 years of age or older
  • High school graduation or equivalent
  • Completion certificate from this 60 Hour pre-license Broker course
  • Copy of AMP state exam completion
  • Competed State exam application. 
• Experience Requirement
  • Two years as a licensed Salesperson
  • Completion of the following criteria within 3 years of the date of application:
    • Minimum of 30 residential real estate transactions, or
    • Minimum of 10 commercial, agricultural or farm and ranch real estate transactions.
• State Examination Information
  • State Exam is given by AMP.  AMP Handbook for Montana
  • Must score an 80% or better on both the uniform and the state portions.
• Filing of Application
  • Broker Application

Instructor contact

After you have enrolled, if you have questions relating to the course material, a licensed real estate instructor will be available for questions Monday through Friday between 6:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M., MST.    Call TOLL FREE 1-800-943-9993. This instructor line is only available for students already enrolled in the course. We highly recommend, as the best method of communication with our On-Line instructor, is to e-mail the school at instructors@cookeschool.com.

For questions by e-mail, 24 Hour response time Monday through Friday, Click here to E-mail the Distance Learning Instructor instructors@cookeschool.com. E-mails over Saturday and Sunday will be returned on Monday.

The school also has a online Chat that students can access anytime at the top of every web page and at the top of their Student Course Page.

Technical Issues

For Technical issues students can call TOLL FREE 1-800-943-9993 from 8: 00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. EST Monday through Thursday.  Friday 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.  Students can always e-mail to Info@CookeSchool.com  for the school monitors all e-mails and will try our best to get back to you as soon as possible. You can also use the Chat line at is on every web site page. 

How does this On-line program work?

1. This course is composed of material in Broker Management and real estate Montana laws and rules.
2. Students must obtain a grade of 80% on each of the end-of lesson quizzes for each of the modules and must match all of the vocabulary items.   
3. The last step is a summary quiz of 50 questions which the student needs to score 70%.
4. Each quiz has a bank of questions, so if the student does not score 80%, a second or, if necessary, a third bank of questions is provided.  Once the student scores the required 80%, the student can review their answers and reasons for the correct answer.
5. After reviewing Epilogue for the course there is an AFFIDAVIT which must be printed and faxed to the school and there is an Evaluation of the course, which the link to the Evaluation is at the bottom of the Student Page.   Both items MUST BE completed in full before the completion certificate can can be sent to the student.
6. A wall diploma will be issued upon request.  Please allow three to four business days to receive this completion certificate and the wall certificate if requested.

1. Once the student purchases this course, the student CANNOT get a refund.
2. This On-Line course does not require additional textbook support and NO additional course material is needed, but to help in your study, Cooke provides two textbooks with the basic Bronze package.  Other wonderful additional study materials at the Cooke Bookstore.
3. Once the student signs up for the course it is good for one year.
4. This course is NOT designed to be printed for security purposes and copyright regulations.
5. At the time of registration for the On-Line Distance Learning Course, the student will receive an e-mail, verifying the student's registration and a second e-mail with a user name and password.
6. Students can access their student page from this web site.  The link is the light blue icon on the right side of each web page:  Cooke School Student Login
7. Once the student gets to their Student Page the student must view the Orientation video and successfully complete the Orientation quiz. which will then light up Session 1. 
8. Each session must be completed successfully and the time spent viewing the video for the next session will light up.
9. The course requires a course-time of 3,000 minutes to be spent on the course. 
10. All time spent viewing the videos, doing the quizzes and the matching exercises, view the text links is counted.  If you are viewing your textbook, do not close out your student page and your time will count.
    

Montana Broker State Exam

The Montana broker state exam with the AMP exam provider is composed of "simulation" exam questions.  This course does not have any of these type of questions but students can get a feel for this method of assessment below.   Below are the links to the three example simulation questions that are on the on the AMP web site.  You will need to login to take each of the three simulated exam sample questions, but  this a must before taking the state exam, so you will be familiar with this type of assessment.

• Practice Session 1 - Open House Situation
• Practice Session 2 - Early Disbursal of Trust Funds
• Practice Session 3 - Obligation to Disclose