About the Author

ohn R. Morgan knows what’s on the test: he spent three and one-half years at Assessment Systems, Inc. (ASI—now Pearson VUE) in its Real Estate Test Development program. During this period he was in charge of developing, maintaining, and enhancing the question pools and licensing exams for ASI’s then-20+ real estate client jurisdictions. Morgan conducted over two dozen state-specific test development committee meetings and consultations for real estate clients in those jurisdictions.

His career at ASI culminated in drafting the general examination that, with minor recent changes, remains in use, then reviewing it and all of ASI’s sales-level test questions with a national committee of Subject Matter Experts.

Morgan left ASI in early 1998 to return to his native Connecticut where he founded Morgan Testing Services in order to pursue consulting, writing, and other service opportunities.

Since that time, he has conducted several prelicensing curriculum development seminars for the South Carolina Real Estate Commission and provided test development services for numerous Real Estate Commissions as well as a comprehensive update of real estate licensing exams and an exam-based Study Guide for the Government of Bermuda; he continues to provide statistical analyses, exam revisions, and updates to the Study Guide for Bermuda.

In addition, he has reviewed and/or revised thousands of test questions in many of Dearborn Publishing’s Real Estate publications, has developed numerous “school-secure” examinations for prelicensing use by several Realtors’ Associations, has written numerous exam-prep books in use nationally, and is regularly invited to present workshops on subjects such as Writing and Crafting Test Questions, Understanding the Process of Test Development, and Developing Exam Specifications.

Recently he completed a set of four State-specific sales and broker prep books for Connecticut. One pair focuses solely on sales and broker State-specific Rules & Regulations through an outline-based presentation of License Law Statutes and Regulations followed by a Sample State Exam; the other combines the State-specific presentation and exam noted above with the General exam topics and Sample General Exam of the PSI 3rd Edition, with some Connecticut-specific information included.

Plus, with the completion of the final national-vendor exam-prep book in the On-the-Test series and updates to the other two, there are now up-to-date books for AMP, Pearson VUE, and PSI. This means there is an On-the-Test authoritative and definitive text for over 40 states, plus DC! The wide scope of his professional activities and publications has earned him a place in the 2008-14 editions of "Who's Who in America."

Morgan entered the field of large-volume test development at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) where he spent several years writing, reviewing, editing, and assembling material for the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Advanced Placement (AP) Literature examinations, as well as contributions to other ETS state and national programs including Georgia state-wide school exams and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

A professional educator and writer since receiving his Master of Arts in Teaching English from Brown University in 1981, Morgan took his first real estate course in 1978 while studying literature at the University of Connecticut.

He held his first real estate license in Rhode Island, his second in Arizona, where he sold property in Tucson, and now holds his third in Connecticut, where he currently lives on the eastern shore of Long Island Sound with his wife, two young sons, and countless cousins.