Beginning January, 1977, the North Carolina Real Estate Licensing Board will administer real estate licensing examinations developed by Educational Testing Service (E. T. S.) of Princeton, New Jersey. In doing so, the Board joins 25 other Real Estate Commissions currently using the E. T. S. examinations.

Eminent real estate educators, administrators and practitioners throughout the country have joined forces with the testing specialists of E. T. S. to develop comprehensive licensing examinations designed to test candidates in a variety of general real estate subjects (e. g. finance, appraisal, law, etc.) as well as in such specific areas as the North Carolina Real Estate Licensing Law and the Rules and Regulations of the North Carolina Real Estate Licensing Board.

At seminars recently conducted in Raleigh and Winston-Salem, instructors and administrators from schools offering approved real estate courses were briefed by E. T. S. representatives and were given an opportunity to question the E. T. S. representatives concerning matters which will enable them to better prepare their students for the new examinations.

In other examination news, the Licensing Board has determined that licensing examinations for brokers and salesmen (including E. T. S. examinations) shall not contain questions dealing with Sections .0600 through .1000 of the Board's new Rules and Regulations which become effective February 1, 1976. The Board feels that due to the technical/legal nature of these sections, that they are not appropriate subjects for testing purposes.