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I took it yesterday, and feel pretty good about it. Won't know for sure till after Aug 13. I bought the Passkey Workbook on Amazon, it has six sample tests, two corresponding to each part of the exam. I took the two exams for SEE1, studied the explanations to the questions I missed, and also read TheTaxBook. Those two things were perfect for me. Anyway, apparently I was the first SEE exam taker one of the Prometrics guys had met. He kept saying, "She's from IRS," and apologizing for his tax return. Then there was the wand and the emptying of pockets, and I kept saying, "NOOOOOO, I'm one of the good guys..." And they shoved me in a room that was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit with about eight other people working on exams for other, more respected, vocations. Seriously, I thought the exam was fair, not many sketchy questions. By sketchy, I mean poorly worded or tricky. I would not say "easy," and I would not trot in there without doing a little studying. And be sure you tell them you are NOT from IRS.

I was tempted to suggest fixing it by upgrading to Windows 10, just to see the reaction.

I agree with that Rita. I thought it was fair also. I would just caution on the questions that have "except" and "which one is not......". I had time left over so I went back through each question and re-read and I did find one that I had overlooked "except" and I needed to change the answer. It may have been cold in there, I was to nervous to even notice.

This creep probably tried to pass himself off as a minister years ago when it was the latest scam trying to evade taxes. I love that show, helps me to understand the stupidity that goes along with the greed. BTW, I stopped in your lovely town on the way to Lucy's museum. Beautiful country.

I think it's 90-day wait.

Why not? I LIKE to hear fireworks.

http://www.cnbcprime.com/american-greed/ Watch this show this Thursday. I'm sure many of have seen this story over the last few years. He sued Mark Zuckerberg for 1/2 of the value of Facebook, claiming that he had an interest in it. He was charged for filing a fraudulent suit, and was supposed to return to court. During that time, he was to wear a tracking device. He lived here in Wellsville, NY where I work. He had hooked up a bunch of contraptions in his house to move the tracking device around, and he had lights turning on and off on timers. And he and his wife and kids left the area. Everyone thinks he is in Ireland, where his grandparents had been from. Many years ago when I first hung my shingle here, he came into the office and proceeded to tell me how he owned a satellite photography type business to take pictures of intersections for insurance companies, how he owned some other social website business (and he may have been talking about facebook then, but no one had heard of it yet) and how he owned our local movie theater. Then he proceeded to ask me to help him protest paying tax, and how tax was voluntary, and that whole thing. I told him that I was not interested in helping him. He then proceeded to make fun of my small office and berate my business and abilities. I then had asked another client what he knew about him and he told me about how his parents had scammed a bunch of people in town and filed bankruptcy and went to Ireland. To my knowledge he never owned the local movie theater, and I don't know anything about his photography business or his social website business. We never got to any business after he told me his intend of not paying tax. About 5 years ago, he was in the business of wood pellets. He "pre-sold" wood pellets to a number of people in Wellsville area for the tune of $200,000, and then never made good on delivery. Then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged him. http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ceglia-allegany-pellets-sued-2010-7 I'll be interested in what else American Greed turned up on him.

The test takers thru Aug 13 don't. It's a Beta test until Aug 14. Test takers Aug 14 and later will get their results before leaving the testing center. We that take exams before the 14th will be notified by mail within 90 days of testing.

There is this awesome Facebook study group "IRS Exam Study Group" join it, best study group out there and it's free.

Took part 1 & 3, passed with minimal studying, failed part 2 by a couple of points again with minimal studying, I will be retaking it August. Don't be like me

The stress was unbelievable since it was a 1x per year test and you didn't find out your score for months! I'd never done another persons tax return before sitting for it and I'm not sure if that was helpful or harmful. My niece is taking the nursing boards this week - her freaking out about it reminded me of that test. The stress of having to admit to your co-workers and former students that you failed - wow. When I took the CFP exam - literally nobody except some co-students in a class I took even knew I was in the program.

Your passing status is good for 2 years. If you have more than 5 years of experience and don't get stressed and overthink the questions, you will do just fine. The first time I took the tests was about 5 years ago. I took all 3 the same day. Passed 1 & 3 but flunked #2. Over the next 2 years I took #2 three more times to no avail. Then I put 1 entire year of intense study (Gleim) and a multitude of tax form classes to pass #2. This time I passed #2, then turned around and took the other 2. Glad it is behind me so I do not have to play the IRS's stupid games with "designations." I can help my clients with the IRS and anyone else that needs assistance now and the IRS must listen to me.

That's great Jack. I hope I can pass it the first time and not have to back-track. I studied for 2 about 6 weeks. I'm going to try to spread 1 and 3 out about 4 weeks each. i purchased Passkey EA Review and really like it with the practice tests and the website practice exams.

Non residents don't pay city tax so you don't need a 360.1 Part year and full year residents do. The client only pays tax for the part of the year he lived in the city.