Regarding the scoring of the written communication part, this is from the official “The Uniform CPA Examination” site at: https://www.cpa-exam.org/cpa/written_communic.html:
“Only those writing samples that are generally responsive to the topic will be graded. If your response is off-topic, or offers advice that is clearly illegal, you will not receive any credit for the response.
Constructed responses will be scored holistically. Scores will be based on three general writing criteria: Organization, Development, and Expression.”
Sounds like they do want you to answer on topic, albeit only ‘generally responsive.'
FAR 86 | BEC 94 | AUD 90 | REG 85
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