Federal Income Taxation TECEP Advice

[pandas4eva]

And let the rant start..... well first off I will be e-mailing TESU to have them look over this test version. I found several confusing questions. Not sure if they are typos or just terrible wording. I don't blame the people who fail this test. When you come across questions that are not very clear on what they are looking for you have to concern yourself if you are going to get any points at all. There was two computational questions in a row that specifically asked for AGI, however one was set up to be a question that should be for Itemized deductions. I added this into my answer in case they are using some answer key and not actually paying attention to the questions. 6 points can be a huge swing either way and I guarantee that question is correct for the AGI answer. I even went on in my answer to say this is because this item, this item, this item, and this item would all fall under itemized deductions therefore these would have no bearing on AGI. I guess I get to sit and wait around to get my grade to see how I did.

Sounds like you got the same exam I did!

In fairness sake, it makes sense that the AGI questions were set up with itemized deductions. We know that itemized deductions have no bearing on finding AGI because we actually studied the material. However, for someone who just walked right into the exam without studying, the word "deductions" could cause them to wrongly deduct those items when figuring AGI. I found those questions to be a sneaky wording in an attempt to discern those who know the material and those who don't, but not a typo or incorrect wording. I expected questions like that on a 400-level exam!