Pass CA broker exam without any prelicensing classes?

[Yoona Lextae]

Hello everyone, so I took the prelicensing courses for the broker exam many years ago, but by now have forgotten virtually everything. Effectively it is as if I never took them... Since retaking them all would obviously not be a great use of time, I was wondering if it is possible for someone who has never taken any of the classes (Real Estate Practice, Principles, Legal, etc) to still pass the broker exam using an exam prep course like Kaplan? If this is possible, I wanted to ask a couple questions in particular:

1) Would a broker exam prep course contain all the raw information required for someone with no prior/RE knowledge to pass the exam?

2) Which online broker exam prep course is best for California? I am looking at Kaplan's, but they only have 2 practice exams, and I was told that spamming practice exams was important.

3) For a California license, there are 5 mandatory classes everyone must take, and then you must choose 3 additional classes from a variety of electives courses (eg Office Administration, Property Management, Escrow, etc). This should mean that the broker exam tests on the 5 mandatory classes only, and does not test on any of the elective courses right? Because it wouldn't seem fair to test on Property Management for example, if someone didn't choose that class for their elective.

Thank you!