What to Do After Your WV Real Estate Course: Full Checklist

Finishing your West Virginia real estate course is a big milestone — but there’s still work between “course complete” and “license in hand.” Students ask us this constantly, so here’s the exact plan we give them, step by step, with walkthrough videos for the parts that trip people up most.

Jump to: Watch the review sessions · Study quiz feedback · Get the state textbook · File your paperwork · Checklist

1. Watch Our Famous Review Sessions — Both for the State and National Portion

Once you finish the course, two review sessions unlock automatically: the National Review (“The One Day Review”) and the State Review, clearly labeled as such. Do both — you’ll register for both sections through Pearson VUE at the same time you file your paperwork (more on that in step 4).

Full paperwork walkthrough here: Spruce Checklist of Paperwork to File for a WV Real Estate License

If you want a refresher on what exam day itself actually looks like once you’re registered, we cover that in detail here: West Virginia Real Estate Exam: What to Expect

2. Study Your Quiz Feedback (Our #1 Recommendation)

If you only do one thing on this list beyond the reviews, do this one. Go back through every unit quiz and study the feedback — specifically why each right answer is right and each wrong answer is wrong. That underlying reasoning is exactly what the real exam tests, no matter how the questions are worded on test day.

How to access and print your quiz feedback so you can review it before exam day.

Print it if you can — it’s a lot of material, but having it on paper makes it much easier to review in short bursts. Once you’ve got the theory down, our Pearson Vue Exam Study Tips post covers how they structure wording in exam questions.

3. Get Your State-Portion Textbook and Ebook

Your WV real estate exam has two portions: national and state. The course gives you a summary of the state portion in Unit 8, but if you want full, exhaustive coverage of everything state-specific, we also publish a dedicated textbook for it — the West Virginia Real Estate Law Code Bible. This step is optional — Unit 8 is enough for many students — but it’s the most thorough resource available if you don’t want to leave anything out.

You can access it in whichever format fits how you study:

• Print or ebook — current students get the print copy at our base price (we make zero profit on it), or the ebook completely free. Reach out to our staff for your discount link, or check the sticker on the front of the Dearborn Real Estate Principles and Practice book we mailed you — it’s probably already there. spruce.school
• Audiobook — great for listening while driving or working out, also free for students. Reach out to our staff for your access pass: spruceschool.link/audiobook

Already have your access link but not sure how to actually get the ebook onto your device? Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough:

Want to brush up on the math side of the state portion too? We’ve got a full walkthrough series: Real Estate Math Walk-Through Part 1, plus dedicated posts on appraised value math, discount points, and promissory notes.

4. File Your Paperwork (You Can Start This While You Study)

You don’t have to wait until you’re done studying to handle this — most students knock out their paperwork in parallel with reviewing quiz feedback or reading the textbook.

Also worth doing around this time: get ahead of your background check — it’s one of the more commonly delayed steps, and we’ve written about why it trips people up.

For the bigger picture on licensing beyond this checklist, see our complete guide to getting your WV real estate license — and if you haven’t started the course yet, our online classes page has everything you need to get going.

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