The free diagnostic
24 questions. One honest answer: where do you actually stand?
The diagnostic is a short adaptive measurement session, not a quiz. Every answer updates a statistical estimate of your ability, and it ends with the Readiness Seal — a readiness estimate with its confidence range and a map of every exam domain.
Free · no account or card required · 24 questions · about 15 minutes · adapts to your answers
Readiness Seal · sample report
IllustrativeOn track
95% confidence range: 49–67
Promulgated Contracts & Forms
Based on 4 questions
Real Estate Math
Based on 3 questions · low confidence
Property Value & Appraisal
Based on 4 questions
Special Topics (disclosures, HOA)
Not yet measured
Your report covers all 14 exam domains — including the ones the session didn't reach yet.
Under the hood
What the 24 questions actually do
Each question has a job. None of them are filler.
The session opens with three warm-up questions of easy-to-medium difficulty, drawn from the highest-weight exam domains. They settle your nerves and give the engine a first fix on your ability.
From question four on, the session is fully adaptive. After every answer, the engine re-estimates your ability from your entire answer history — weighing each response by the question's difficulty — and then selects the next question to be maximally informative at your estimated level, while keeping coverage balanced across the exam blueprint's domains and both exam sections.
That is why 24 questions are enough for a useful first estimate: an adaptive session wastes almost no questions on things that are clearly too easy or too hard for you. It is also why the session may feel demanding — the questions keep meeting you at your level. Feeling stretched is the design working, not evidence you're failing.
The Readiness Seal
What your report contains
Readiness Score and band
A 0–100 estimate built from your ability estimate, placed in one of four bands: Not yet ready, Borderline, On track, Likely ready. The band thresholds are shown, not hidden.
A 95% confidence range
Every estimate ships with its uncertainty. After 24 questions the range is honest but still wide — more practice narrows it. We show the range because a bare number would be overclaiming.
The 14-domain map
A per-domain readiness estimate with the number of questions behind each one. Domains with thin evidence are flagged low-confidence; domains the session didn't reach are marked 'not yet measured' instead of being silently omitted.
Missed concepts, named
Misses are tagged to the specific concepts they test. When your wrong answers cluster — say, around counteroffers or proration direction — the report names the concept rather than just counting the misses.
A recommended next session
The report ends with a concrete recommendation — typically focused practice on your weakest measured domain, or a blueprint-mix session if too much is still unmeasured.
Saved to your email
Results are stored against the email you enter, so you can leave and claim them later by creating a free account whenever you choose.
Honest limits
What the diagnostic is NOT
Not a pass guarantee
The Readiness Score is a statistical estimate with a stated confidence range — never a promise about your exam result. Passing standards are set by your state regulator (in Texas, TREC), and no prep tool controls them.
Not official, not affiliated
PassDeed is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by TREC, Pearson VUE, or any state regulatory body, and the diagnostic is not an official pre-qualification of any kind.
Not a graded mock exam
A mock exam rehearses the full sitting — length, pacing, fatigue. The diagnostic is deliberately the opposite: a short, dense measurement. If you want rehearsal, take a timed full-length practice test late in your prep; use the diagnostic to decide what to fix first.
Who it's for
Retakers first
The diagnostic was built for people who have already failed the exam once. A failed attempt comes with a score report that tells you almost nothing about why — which domains beat you, which concepts kept costing points. The diagnostic rebuilds that picture in about fifteen minutes: a fresh ability estimate, domain by domain, with the weakest areas named so your second attempt is prepared differently from your first.
It works just as well for first-timers who want efficiency — if you'd rather spend your study hours on measured gaps than on another front-to-back pass through everything, start by measuring.
Privacy
How email-only access works
Starting the diagnostic asks for one thing: an email address. No account, no password, no card. The email is where your results live — it lets the report be saved instead of evaporating when you close the tab.
If you later want full practice, you can claim those results by creating a free account with the same email, and your diagnostic history carries over. Until then, there is nothing to cancel and nothing to unsubscribe from beyond that single results thread.
Fifteen minutes from now, you'll know where you stand.
24 adaptive questions. A readiness estimate with its confidence range. Every domain mapped. Free.
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PassDeed is not affiliated with or endorsed by TREC, Pearson VUE, or any state regulatory body. Passing standards are set by TREC. Verify current requirements at trec.texas.gov.