BrokerExamWhat the exam looks like
One paper, marked as a whole. Practice here is split the same five ways.
RIBO Level 1 · the paper
Restricted open book means RIBO's resource is on screen and you bring nothing. Every citation on this site is a link into that same law.
- Practise
General and industry · 25 of 100
24 free here · 343 in the bank - Practise
Personal habitational · 25 of 100
24 free here · 200 in the bank - Practise
Personal auto · 25 of 100
18 free here · 187 in the bank - Practise
Commercial · 20 of 100
13 free here · 113 in the bank - Practise
Travel health · 5 of 100
5 free here · 37 in the bank
Find the section that is costing you the pass
A fail letter does not just say try again. It scores you by section, in exactly the shape drawn here, and the sections are weighted: three of them carry 25 marks each, so a weak one can sink a paper that felt fine.
Find out now, for free: 20 scored questions, twenty minutes, and you will know which section to work on.
Another sitting costs $325. Twenty minutes here is the cheaper way to find out where you stand.
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Take the diagnostic
20 scored questions, weighted like the paper. Free, no account.
Take the diagnostic -
Drill what it names
The readout points at your weakest section. Practise it from the ledger above.
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Sit the mock
Full length, real weighting, with the paid bank. Read the breakdown again.
What the bank adds
Result letter · worked example
70 of 100 correct (70%)
Below the 75 percent pass mark. The letter after a real sitting breaks down the same way.
Green clears the 75 percent pass line. Two sections already do.
Drill this first Travel health
From candidates who have sat it
In their own words, on how they studied and how it went.
4.96/ 5
Average of 5 candidate reviews
Failed my first attempt by a few marks and honestly didn't know what to do differently. I was getting familiar with answers in my old practice sets. BrokerExam made me think through the questions again, especially commercial. Passed this time!!
Neha J. · result letter
89 of 100 correct (89%)
Second attempt. At or above the 75 percent pass mark.
Passed my RIBO Level 1 rewrite! My first result showed I needed work on auto insurance, so I spent more time practising that section. Reviewing the explanations after each mistake helped more than going through my whole textbook again.
Simran K.5.0 / 5 I thought open book meant I'd have plenty of time to look things up. The timed mocks showed me how much time I was losing on questions I wasn't sure about. Took a few tries to get my pacing right, but I'm glad I practised that.
Michael C.4.9 / 5 The source links were a big help. A couple of answers surprised me, so I went back and read the actual wording. Those are probably the things I remember best now.
Aisha A.5.0 / 5
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Coming into insurance from retail, I wasn't sure what extra study material to buy. Tried the free questions first and liked having the answers explained. Some of the terminology took a second read, but it was useful alongside my course.
Connor M.4.9 / 5
The law is on this site, not linked away
The library · 71 sources
- The Acts 14
- Regulations 9
- RIBO by-laws 3
- FSRA rules 2
- Policy wordings and endorsements 3
- Reference documents 36
- Exam documents 4
23 carry their full text here, section by section.
An explanation you cannot check is an explanation you have to trust, and this is a subject where prep material gets the law wrong. So a question about the law names the section it rests on, and 32 of those sources have a page here. The whole Act and the regulations are on the site, so you can look things up the way you will in the exam.
Every citation is this: a chip that opens the provision it names.
RIB Act, s. 2(1)(1) No person shall act as an insurance broker unless the person is a registered insurance broker under this Act.
Flashcards for the parts you have to know cold
Definitions, time limits and dollar figures are what a Level 1 candidate loses marks on, and they are what a deck is for. 288 cards across the 5 sections, 45 of them free to read here, and every card names the provision behind it.
- Still learning
- Every day
- Every 2 days
- Every 4 days
- Every 8 days · mastered
- Every 16 days · mastered
The ladder watches your exam date. Set your sitting and the schedule fits itself around it: as the day gets close, no card waits longer than the time you have left, and the final days become one sweep of everything.
Get it right and it comes back less often. Miss it and it starts over from 10 minutes. Green is mastered.
Questions people ask before they start
- What does BrokerExam cost?
- $75 in Canadian dollars plus tax, once. That is lifetime access: no renewal date, no subscription, and yours for as long as BrokerExam exists. The free half stays free whether or not you ever pay. A sitting of the exam itself costs $325, paid to the exam provider and never through this site. Billed by ExamPrep; your statement will show EXAMPREP.
- How many practice questions are there?
- 880 in the bank, 84 of them free and open to anyone, across the 5 exam sections. Most carry the provision they rest on, as a link into the law on this site. The others are written from a standard policy wording, which is not law and is not reproduced here, so they carry the explanation alone.
- Is the RIBO Level 1 exam open book?
- Restricted open book. RIBO's Consolidated Examinee Resource is on screen, and nothing else comes in with you.
- What is the pass mark?
- 75 percent overall. RIBO tells you your section scores if you fail, which is why our diagnostic breaks it down the same way.
- How long is the exam, and how many questions?
- One paper of 3 hours holding 115 questions. 100 of them are graded and 15 are unscored pilots mixed in among them.
- Do I need an account?
- Not to practise. The free questions and the diagnostic are open to anyone. An account keeps your progress, and adds unlimited 30-minute mocks and a schedule that brings the cards you missed back.
- Is BrokerExam connected to RIBO?
- BrokerExam is independent study material. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any regulator or exam provider.
Two ways in
Rewriting after a fail?
Your letter breaks your score down by section. Start with the diagnostic, which reports in the same shape, and work the section it points at until the meter clears the line.
Start with the diagnosticFirst attempt?
Work the sections in the order the blueprint weights them and watch each one climb past 75 percent. The exam is restricted open book, so knowing where to look is most of the work.
See what you get to look in