General Principles of Agency
Agency questions test creation, representation, fiduciary duties, customer duties, authority, disclosure, dual agency, compensation, and termination.
How to study for the Georgia salesperson exam
Use the PSI split as your map: build the 100-item national outline first, then layer in the 52-item Georgia supplement covering Commission law, Georgia practice, finance, and closings.
Core concepts
Concept 1
General Principles of Agency questions reward the answer that follows the official source, the professional role, and the stated facts.
Exam cue: Identify the candidate role, client or public risk, source rule, calculation, or process step being tested.
Concept 2
The strongest answer identifies the rule, safety concern, ethical duty, calculation, client factor, or process step before acting.
Exam cue: Check whether the fact pattern is using a national standard, jurisdiction rule, handbook policy, or scenario-specific instruction.
Concept 3
Eliminate answers that ignore requirements, skip documentation, overreach the role, or treat convenience as the standard.
Exam cue: Choose the compliant and professionally scoped answer before the convenient or familiar answer.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating related standards as interchangeable without checking the source.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Skipping screening, documentation, authorization, sanitation, recordkeeping, or other required procedure.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Choosing an answer that protects convenience instead of client safety, public protection, or the stated professional duty.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Memory anchors
Principal
The principal is the client represented by the agent.
Customer
A customer is owed honesty and fair dealing without the same fiduciary relationship as a client.
Fiduciary Duty
Loyalty, obedience, disclosure, confidentiality, accounting, and reasonable care anchor agency duties.
Dual Agency
Dual agency requires clear informed consent because one licensee or brokerage touches both sides.
Actual Authority
Actual authority is intentionally granted to the agent.
Agency Termination
Agency can end by performance, expiration, agreement, revocation, death, or operation of law.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A seller signs a written exclusive listing with a brokerage. What relationship is created?
What distinguishes a real estate client from a customer?
Answer all questions to submit.
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