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On the test with the 2026 Annual Tax Season Update, I found question 42 confusing: • 42. Carol wants to participate in the voluntary Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP) for preparing 2025 individual 1040 tax returns. By what latest date must she complete any required continuing education? (Search Chapter 7) o a. December 31, 2025 o b. January 31, 2025 o c. February 15, 2025 o d. April 15, 2025 Shouldn't the CE be completed by December 2024 if you were doing taxes in 2025?
Clear and effective learning materials
Excellent Course!
GOOD FOCUS. I WISH THERE WAS MORE OBBBA FORWARD-LOOKING MATERIAL IN THIS COURSE, HOWEVER, YOU OFFER ONEINDEPENDENTLY, AND THIS PARTICULAR COURSE WAS PREPARED TIMELY FOR 2025 RETURNS, OS I THINK YOU DID VERY WELL WITH WHAT YOU WERE GIVEN TO WORK WITH. EXCELLENT JOB, AND THANKS FOR THE ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK THAT BUILDS ON THIS!
The test questions is hard to find in the notes.
gave very thorough examples on due diligence requirements
The complexity of the test was completely different than previous years, too many callculations and similiar answers that could have been correct
Some of the questions and the reference Chapter noted on the question was not correct. For example questions relating to the Direct File were in Chapter 1 and not Chapter 7.
I really appreciate the "Read-it-to-me audio". Didn't know how much until I took the 2026 Annual Federal Tax Refresher course that did not have this feature. There are a few subjects that I would dearly love to see CE courses available for. If/when you provide CE for Truck drivers returns, NOLs, AMT, and certain (OR, CA, NM, NY, LA) individual state returns, I will be first in line to order them.
Especially this year, there were a great deal of changes to tax law. I feel you spent too much time explaining what the old law were before going into what the new law is. I already know what the old law is, so a simple rehash, perhaps under the heading "Current Law" would be sufficient
pls update to make smooth transitions from your older original course with the currently added materials, to display in your course summaries
easy to operate the course
Bee n using the software for years and this was the hardest class I have had in a long time
I was told this course would cover all of the Big Beautiful Act. It sisn't
Issues with the technology for during the practice portion some of my answers I selected, were recorded under a different letter. For example, I would select A and instead it was recorded as C or D. Also, the questions on the exam should be worded better.
Excellent course content
One of your questions needs to be modified on the exam. For my exam it was question 43 (I copied it below). Either the question needs the year to change to 2026 so the appropriate answer of 12/31/2025 will be correct. Or one of the ansers needs to be chaned to 12/31/2024. 2026 Annual Tax Season Update 43. Carol wants to participate in the voluntary Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP) for preparing 2025 individual 1040 tax returns. By what latest date must she complete any required continuing education? a. December 31, 2025 b. January 31, 2025 c. February 15, 2025 d. April 15, 2025
Very helpful update for so many new tax rule changes
little pricy for individuals to keep their license active
Great course!
Excellent course
Am disappointed that I cannot save the course material for future reference as in the past. I often go my saved CE file and review during tax season. I cannot do that now.
Question No. 38 on this 45 question exam is not answerable based on the review material presented.
Material did not seem to flow in order. It jumped from one thought to another thought and was hard to follow. However, overall good education.
This course was a much-needed refresher for me. With the passing of OBBBA, many new changes have been made to the tax laws. This course was excellent start to these changes. I like it because it was good eye opener between Federal and State rules.
This year the course was a little harder to go through but was able to again learn more than from where I started. For this reason, I like this course.
lots of the questions were not current answers needed to be reinvestigated
The Discourse platform is not user-friendly and requires an excessive amount of time to complete tasks. It took me over forty hours to get through the questions and answers, which made the process unnecessarily burdensome. The questions were also quite difficult and not well-suited for efficient completion. Based on this experience, I do not plan to participate again next year and would not recommend this program to others.
A few of the CA State exam questions were not correct, like Q16, stating that the person is single but kept referring to "their AGI" which was confusing and gave the wrong answers. Who ever copied the material did not proof read the questions to make sure that the facts were correct and that the answer was relevant to the question.
Enjoyed taking the course. It was very informative.
Take an extremely long amount of time to complete. It took me over10 hours to go over the material and complete the examination Questions. I took the exam three times before I pass. The first two times I almost passed by 64% both times. I got 16 questions right out of 25. The answers to those questions are not in the course material.
I found the text often confusing. I found wrong answers. There is way too much material that is duplicated. I have taken many previous courses and this one is definitely of less quality. The test was also not clear. I missed 3 and I think I should have missed 1.
I think that a couple of questions on the test that were marked incorrect, were actually correct. I wish that I would be given the correct answer because I can't figure out why I got it wrong.
It was hard to follow text that is intentionally using incorrect pronouns. They/Their are PLURAL pronouns, NOT a gender identifiers! This is difficult to navigate when one needs to identify joint couples verses individuals. Seems as though the editor wants to push an agenda to change the English language, rather then promote understanding of the material. Very disappointing! Also, I found the questions to be disproportionate to certain topics, rather than a comprehensive exam.
I really like there are lots of examples to illustrate your points to help me digest the education concepts