- Official section
- National III: Valuation
- Broker weight
- 8% of the national broker portion
- Expected scored items
- Valuation accounts for about 8 of 100 items
Illinois exam glossary
Principle of regression
A property can be beautifully built and still be ahead of what its market will buy. Regression does not punish quality. It reveals the point where extra cost, scale, or specialization stops earning equal contribution because the competitive buyer pool sees better substitutes elsewhere.
Last updated: August 1, 2026
What does this exam area cover?
Short answer: Regression is the tendency for a superior, higher-value, or over-improved property to receive downward value influence when surrounding or competitive market evidence does not fully support its cost, scale, quality, features, or price. The result is not necessarily a loss of all premium. It is the unsupported portion of the superior utility or cost, measured through market evidence. Regression has no fixed percentage and cannot be based on protected-class demographics.
This guide follows the current Illinois appraiser statute and agency resources, USPAP access from The Appraisal Foundation, the PSI Illinois exam outline, HUD fair-housing resources, and Fannie Mae neighborhood, comparable, and adjustment guidance published through June 3, 2026, all checked through August 1, 2026. Regression is a valuation principle, not a rule that the largest home is defective, the highest sale is unacceptable, or every superior property must be discounted to the neighborhood median.
What is on the official outline?
- Topic
- Position the subject in its market
- What to know
- Price, size, quality, condition, design, age, utility, site, rights, use, income, feature set, market percentile, buyer segment, and effective date
- Best exam move
- Regression begins with superiority relative to the subject's true competitive market, not merely the closest properties.
- Topic
- Define the market area
- What to know
- Demand source, competing supply, neighborhood, competing neighborhood, luxury segment, specialty segment, price tier, buyer search, employment, access, school boundary, amenity, and market boundary
- Best exam move
- A high-end subject may compete across a wider area, so the immediate block does not automatically define support.
- Topic
- Identify superior characteristics
- What to know
- Larger area, premium quality, custom design, extra garage, pool, acreage, waterfront, view, specialized system, luxury finish, high capacity, accessory structure, energy feature, and superior condition
- Best exam move
- List the features first, then ask which ones market participants pay for and how much.
- Topic
- Test over-improvement
- What to know
- Cost, contribution, site, use, buyer demand, competing property, resale, renovation, feature excess, capacity, specialization, price ceiling, marketing time, and feasibility
- Best exam move
- Over-improvement exists when current cost or utility exceeds what the relevant market supports, not whenever a property is expensive.
- Topic
- Apply conformity
- What to know
- Compatible use, design range, quality range, site use, density, price range, buyer expectation, neighborhood standard, market acceptance, specialization, and resale
- Best exam move
- A property outside the supported range can face a smaller buyer pool and reduced contribution from superior features.
- Topic
- Apply contribution
- What to know
- Marginal value, cost, feature, renovation, room addition, finish, system, site improvement, buyer reaction, rent, expense saving, diminishing return, and superadequacy
- Best exam move
- The amount spent is not the amount added; measure the market's marginal response.
- Topic
- Apply substitution
- What to know
- Buyer alternative, similar luxury property, competing market area, build alternative, total cost, location, rights, timing, risk, transaction cost, and utility
- Best exam move
- A buyer may choose a similar superior property in a better-supported area instead of paying the subject's full improvement cost.
- Topic
- Recognize diminishing returns
- What to know
- Increasing return, balance, marginal utility, first improvement, later improvement, saturation, buyer willingness, feature duplication, excessive quality, operating burden, and contribution curve
- Best exam move
- Additional investment can keep adding value while adding less value per dollar as the property moves beyond market expectations.
- Topic
- Analyze buyer depth
- What to know
- Typical buyer, luxury buyer, owner-user, investor, developer, specialty user, affordability, financing, down payment, income qualification, search range, offer activity, marketing time, and resale liquidity
- Best exam move
- A thin buyer pool can increase exposure time and reduce the premium supported for specialized features.
- Topic
- Test highest and best use
- What to know
- Legally permissible, physically possible, financially feasible, maximally productive, as vacant, as improved, conversion, demolition, alternative use, excess land, interim use, and continuation
- Best exam move
- A superior improvement can still be the highest and best use even if some feature cost does not receive full contribution.
- Topic
- Separate property and location
- What to know
- Building quality, site utility, location support, external influence, land value, improvement contribution, market area, competing location, access, amenity, view, and prestige evidence
- Best exam move
- Determine whether the problem is an internal superadequacy, weaker location, or both before measuring it.
- Topic
- Select comparable sales
- What to know
- Same market participants, superior feature, similar price tier, rights, use, location, site, design, quality, condition, date, transaction terms, and competing market area
- Best exam move
- Do not force modest nearby sales to carry the whole analysis when a broader luxury market provides better substitutes.
- Topic
- Use paired market evidence
- What to know
- Feature pair, location pair, affected sale, supported sale, price difference, time, rights, site, condition, quality, size, transaction verification, repeated evidence, and contribution
- Best exam move
- Control other differences before attributing a price gap to regression or a particular over-improvement.
- Topic
- Analyze cost and contribution
- What to know
- Replacement cost, reproduction cost, direct cost, indirect cost, entrepreneurial incentive, depreciation, superadequacy, supported contribution, cure, removal, salvage, and remaining life
- Best exam move
- Regression can explain why current contributory value falls below cost without making the entire improvement worthless.
- Topic
- Analyze renovation resale
- What to know
- Acquisition, construction, professional fee, permit, carrying cost, financing, contingency, entrepreneurial reward, sale price, sale cost, market time, buyer segment, and risk
- Best exam move
- A beautiful renovation can be a poor investment when the competitive resale ceiling does not cover all project burdens.
- Topic
- Recognize justified premiums
- What to know
- Waterfront, rare view, historic significance, acreage, special right, privacy, architectural quality, scarcity, unique utility, assemblage, buyer demand, premium sale, and broader market
- Best exam move
- Do not claim regression merely because the subject is unlike its closest neighbors; verify its actual buyer market.
- Topic
- Analyze market cycle
- What to know
- Growth, stability, decline, luxury demand, credit availability, interest rate, construction cost, inventory, absorption, marketing time, renovation trend, income, and effective date
- Best exam move
- A premium supported in one cycle can weaken when financing or high-end buyer demand changes.
- Topic
- Use objective neighborhood evidence
- What to know
- Land use, price, rent, age, property type, quality, condition, inventory, supply, demand, marketing time, access, services, amenities, zoning, construction, and external influence
- Best exam move
- Explain market support with verifiable property facts, never resident identity or protected-class composition.
- Topic
- Reconcile the effect
- What to know
- Comparable sales, broader market, cost contribution, functional loss, external loss, buyer depth, marketing time, land value, justified premium, uncertainty, range, weighting, and final conclusion
- Best exam move
- Measure only the unsupported premium and explain which superior features retain market contribution.
Which distinctions produce the most mistakes?
- Terms
- Regression vs. progression
- Difference
- Regression is downward influence on a superior property from insufficient market support. Progression is upward influence on a lesser property from stronger surroundings.
- Question cue
- Superior pulled down versus lesser pulled up.
- Terms
- Regression vs. depreciation
- Difference
- Regression is a market principle. Depreciation is a measured loss in improvement value from physical, functional, and external causes.
- Question cue
- Directional context versus quantified improvement loss.
- Terms
- Over-improvement vs. high quality
- Difference
- Over-improvement means cost or utility exceeds market support. High quality can be fully supported when the relevant buyer segment pays for it.
- Question cue
- Unsupported excess versus supported superiority.
- Terms
- Cost vs. contribution
- Difference
- Cost is the expenditure to create a feature. Contribution is the amount that feature adds to total property value.
- Question cue
- Money spent versus value added.
- Terms
- Superadequacy vs. regression
- Difference
- A superadequacy is a specific internal excess with cost above contribution. Regression is the broader downward influence of insufficient surrounding or competitive support.
- Question cue
- Feature-level excess versus market-context principle.
- Terms
- Diminishing return vs. negative return
- Difference
- Diminishing return means each added dollar produces less value than the prior dollar. Negative return means the additional action can reduce total value.
- Question cue
- Smaller gain versus actual loss.
- Terms
- Immediate neighborhood vs. competitive market
- Difference
- The immediate neighborhood is the local setting. The competitive market includes alternatives considered by the subject's buyer segment, sometimes across a wider geography.
- Question cue
- Closest surroundings versus true substitutes.
- Terms
- Most expensive vs. over-improved
- Difference
- Most expensive is a price rank. Over-improved is an economic conclusion that some cost or utility is not fully supported.
- Question cue
- Observed ranking versus unsupported contribution.
- Terms
- Location adjustment vs. functional superadequacy
- Difference
- Location adjustment measures external place differences between subject and comp. Functional superadequacy measures unsupported internal feature excess.
- Question cue
- Where it is versus what was overbuilt.
- Terms
- Market value vs. investment cost
- Difference
- Market value reflects typical participant behavior under the definition. Investment cost is what a particular owner spent and may not be recoverable.
- Question cue
- Market-supported worth versus owner expenditure.
- Terms
- Objective factor vs. demographic proxy
- Difference
- Objective factors concern property, use, price, income, access, supply, demand, or risk. Demographic proxies improperly substitute resident identity for valuation evidence.
- Question cue
- Market fact versus protected-class inference.
- Terms
- Regression tendency vs. fixed deduction
- Difference
- Regression describes directional influence. A deduction or adjustment requires subject-specific market evidence and no universal rate.
- Question cue
- Principle versus measured amount.
The C-E-I-L-I-N-G regression test
- Competitive market: identify the subject's true buyer segment, market area, property rights, use, site, design, quality, condition, price tier, substitutes, and effective date before comparing it with immediate surroundings.
- Excess: isolate superior features, scale, quality, capacity, specialization, and cost that may exceed what relevant market participants require, while recognizing scarce or justified premiums.
- Income and utility: test whether superiority produces supported rent, expense savings, occupancy, resale, privacy, amenity, flexibility, or other benefits rather than assuming visible quality equals value.
- Limits: analyze conformity, affordability, buyer depth, financing, marketing time, site constraints, external influence, market cycle, and the point where additional investment receives diminishing contribution.
- Indicators: use competitive sales, competing market areas, paired data, cost-versus-contribution analysis, renovation resale, land evidence, income, listings, exposure, and verified participant behavior.
- No duplication: separate regression context from functional superadequacy, location adjustment, external obsolescence, physical condition, and land value so one unsupported premium is not deducted repeatedly.
- Ground the result: explain which features remain supported, which portion is not, why the buyer market reacts, and how objective property evidence supports the conclusion without demographic assumptions.
- Question
- Is the subject truly superior?
- Evidence
- Size, quality, condition, utility, price, income
- Exam warning
- High price alone is not over-improvement
- Question
- What is its real market?
- Evidence
- Buyer search, price tier, competing areas, substitutes
- Exam warning
- Immediate block may be too narrow
- Question
- Which features earn contribution?
- Evidence
- Paired sales, rent, resale, cost, buyer response
- Exam warning
- Cost does not equal value added
- Question
- Where is the ceiling?
- Evidence
- Buyer depth, financing, exposure, listings, sale range
- Exam warning
- No universal regression percentage
- Question
- Is the premium justified?
- Evidence
- Scarcity, rights, view, waterfront, historic, acreage
- Exam warning
- Difference alone does not prove loss
- Question
- Is the analysis lawful?
- Evidence
- Objective property and market facts
- Exam warning
- Never use protected-class composition
How do the rules work in scenarios?
A luxury home exceeds local support
Scenario: A $1.8 million custom home is built in a market where otherwise competitive properties top out near $1.3 million. Buyers seeking its quality usually shop in another area with similar luxury homes and stronger amenities.
- The subject contains superior cost and utility.
- Its immediate competitive market has limited support for the full premium.
- Broader luxury-area alternatives influence what buyers will pay for the subject.
Answer: Regression may limit the unsupported premium, but market evidence must measure the effect rather than reducing value automatically to $1.3 million.
The largest house has a justified premium
Scenario: The subject is the largest home nearby, but it has rare waterfront frontage. Verified regional waterfront sales show buyers pay strongly for the frontage and search across multiple neighborhoods.
- Immediate size rank does not define the market.
- The rare property right and location create supported utility.
- Regional substitutes may demonstrate that the premium is not over-improvement.
Answer: Do not claim regression solely because the subject is largest or highest priced in its immediate neighborhood.
Renovation cost exceeds contribution
Scenario: An owner spends $180,000 on luxury finishes. Paired and resale evidence indicates the work adds about $95,000 in the subject's buyer market.
- The improvement adds real value but less than its cost.
- $180,000 - $95,000 = $85,000 unsupported cost under the simplified facts.
- The shortfall can reflect superadequacy and regression limits rather than physical deterioration.
Answer: Recognize about $95,000 contribution, not an automatic $180,000 value increase.
A larger garage reaches diminishing returns
Scenario: Moving from no garage to two spaces adds strong value. Adding a third space adds some value. Expanding from six to eight spaces adds almost none for typical buyers in this residential market.
- Marginal contribution changes as utility needs are satisfied.
- Later spaces can cost the same while adding less value.
- The six-to-eight-space expansion can be a superadequacy even though garage utility is desirable generally.
Answer: Apply contribution and diminishing returns instead of one constant per-space value.
A nearby modest sale is not enough
Scenario: A high-quality subject has no close local substitutes. Verified sales in two competing market areas attract the same buyer segment and match its design, quality, and price tier.
- The immediate modest sales explain local context.
- Competing-area sales may better measure superior-feature support.
- Location differences and market-area comparability still require explanation and adjustment.
Answer: Use the best competitive evidence and explain the competing market rather than forcing weak nearby comparisons.
A downturn reduces luxury buyer depth
Scenario: Credit tightens, high-end inventory rises, and marketing times lengthen. The subject's premium features remain attractive but fewer qualified buyers can pay for them.
- Feature utility has not disappeared.
- Market-cycle conditions reduce buyer depth and liquidity.
- Current regression risk and contribution can differ from the prior rising market.
Answer: Use effective-date market evidence rather than carrying forward an older premium automatically.
Objective evidence replaces a stereotype
Scenario: An appraiser explains limited premium support through verified price distribution, property types, buyer search, inventory, financing, marketing time, and competing luxury areas.
- Each factor relates directly to market competition.
- Resident identity is irrelevant to the value analysis.
- The conclusion becomes testable and fair-housing compliant in its factual basis.
Answer: Analyze regression through objective property and market evidence, never protected-class composition or coded demographic language.
What are the common exam traps?
- Trap
- Assuming the most expensive property must regress
- Correction
- Identify its actual buyer market and test whether superior rights, utility, or scarcity support the premium.
- Trap
- Reducing value to the neighborhood median
- Correction
- Measure the subject's supported superiority and only the unsupported portion through competitive evidence.
- Trap
- Using a fixed regression percentage
- Correction
- Derive the effect from sales, contribution, income, buyer depth, marketing time, and market-area analysis.
- Trap
- Equating cost with value added
- Correction
- Contribution depends on market reaction, not invoices.
- Trap
- Calling every high-quality feature a superadequacy
- Correction
- High quality is fully supported when relevant buyers recognize its contribution.
- Trap
- Ignoring the broader market
- Correction
- Luxury, specialty, waterfront, historic, acreage, and other segments may compete across neighborhoods.
- Trap
- Ignoring immediate context
- Correction
- Broader comparables do not erase subject location, surrounding land use, access, and local buyer reaction.
- Trap
- Confusing regression and physical deterioration
- Correction
- Regression concerns market support; worn materials concern condition.
- Trap
- Confusing regression and external obsolescence
- Correction
- Regression is a principle; external obsolescence is a measured loss from outside causes that may express part of the effect.
- Trap
- Deducting superadequacy twice
- Correction
- Coordinate cost depreciation, sales adjustments, location influence, and reconciliation.
- Trap
- Assuming diminishing return means zero return
- Correction
- Later investment can still add value, just less value per additional dollar.
- Trap
- Ignoring buyer financing
- Correction
- Affordability, down payment, credit availability, appraisal support, and market liquidity can narrow the buyer pool.
- Trap
- Ignoring market cycle
- Correction
- Premium support changes with inventory, credit, interest rates, income, construction, and high-end demand.
- Trap
- Using protected-class composition
- Correction
- Use objective property, price, income, access, supply, demand, use, and marketability factors only.
- Trap
- Treating regression as investment advice
- Correction
- A live decision requires acquisition, cost, financing, time, tax, sale, risk, and individual-objective analysis beyond the principle.
Can you answer these original practice questions?
These questions are original study items aligned to the published outline. They are not copied, recalled, or predicted PSI questions.
1. What is regression?
- Downward value influence on a superior property from insufficient market support
- Upward influence on a lesser property
- Mortgage principal reduction
- Tax basis recovery
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Downward value influence on a superior property from insufficient market support
Only the unsupported premium is at issue; superior features can retain substantial contribution.
2. What is progression?
- Upward influence on a lesser property from stronger surroundings
- Downward influence on a superior property
- Physical wear
- Loan amortization
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Upward influence on a lesser property from stronger surroundings
Progression is the paired opposite tendency commonly tested with regression.
3. What is an over-improvement?
- An improvement whose cost or utility exceeds market support
- Every expensive property
- Every new roof
- Any improvement larger than assessed value
Show answer and explanation
Answer: An improvement whose cost or utility exceeds market support
The conclusion depends on contribution and buyer demand, not rank alone.
4. An owner spends $120,000 and the market adds $75,000. What does contribution show?
- The improvement adds $75,000, not automatically $120,000
- The property must add $120,000
- The improvement adds nothing
- Land value falls $45,000 automatically
Show answer and explanation
Answer: The improvement adds $75,000, not automatically $120,000
Cost and contributory value answer different questions.
5. Does the largest home always suffer regression?
- No, its actual competitive market may support the premium
- Yes, without exception
- Yes, at a fixed 20 percent
- Only if it is new
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No, its actual competitive market may support the premium
Scarcity, rights, utility, location, and broader buyer search can justify superiority.
6. What does diminishing return mean?
- Additional investment adds progressively less value per dollar
- Every additional improvement lowers total value
- Cost always equals value
- The property cannot sell
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Additional investment adds progressively less value per dollar
The marginal gain shrinks after market utility needs are increasingly satisfied.
7. What is the best response when no close local luxury comp exists?
- Use the best competitive market-area evidence with explanation and location analysis
- Use any modest house next door without adjustment
- Use construction cost as value
- Assume no premium
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Use the best competitive market-area evidence with explanation and location analysis
Current Fannie Mae guidance permits competing areas when they provide the best appropriate comparables and the rationale is explained.
8. Is there a universal regression adjustment?
- No, the amount requires market evidence
- Yes, always 10 percent
- Yes, equal to construction cost
- Yes, set by the county assessor
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No, the amount requires market evidence
Regression is a principle; its effect varies by subject, market, time, and buyer segment.
9. Which evidence is improper in regression analysis?
- Protected-class composition
- Verified buyer search patterns
- Sale prices and marketing time
- Property type and land use
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Protected-class composition
Value analysis uses objective property and market factors, not resident identity or demographic proxies.
10. What must reconciliation identify?
- Which superior features remain supported and which premium is not
- Only the neighborhood median
- Only original cost
- Only assessed value
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Which superior features remain supported and which premium is not
Regression does not erase all superiority; it limits unsupported contribution.
How should you study this area?
- Session
- Session 1
- Focus
- Position the superior property
- Proof you are ready
- Rank 25 subjects by price, size, quality, condition, utility, income, rights, scarcity, and actual buyer segment.
- Session
- Session 2
- Focus
- Separate the concepts
- Proof you are ready
- Classify 40 examples as regression, progression, conformity, contribution, superadequacy, external loss, or physical deterioration.
- Session
- Session 3
- Focus
- Measure contribution
- Proof you are ready
- For 25 features, compare cost, paired-sale contribution, rent or expense effect, buyer depth, and diminishing-return position.
- Session
- Session 4
- Focus
- Find the market
- Proof you are ready
- Select competitive sales for 15 luxury or specialty subjects using buyer search, rights, utility, price tier, competing areas, location, and marketability.
- Session
- Session 5
- Focus
- Audit lawful analysis
- Proof you are ready
- Rewrite 25 subjective neighborhood statements as objective property, price, income, use, access, supply, demand, financing, and marketability facts.
- Session
- Session 6
- Focus
- Run C-E-I-L-I-N-G
- Proof you are ready
- Write two complete regression analyses, identify supported and unsupported premiums, then score at least 90 percent and explain every miss.
Do not count recognition as mastery. Close the notes and explain the rule, apply it to a new fact pattern, and identify why each distractor fails.
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What is the principle of regression in real estate?
Regression is the tendency for a superior, higher-priced, or over-improved property to experience downward value influence when its surroundings or competitive market do not fully support its features, scale, quality, or price. The property can still be valuable, but some cost or utility may fail to receive equal market contribution.
What is an example of regression?
A luxury custom home built in a market dominated by modest homes may sell for less than the same home would in a competitive luxury market. Buyers seeking its quality may prefer areas with more comparable alternatives, while typical local buyers may not pay for the full excess. The unsupported portion reflects regression and contribution limits.
How is regression different from progression?
Regression is downward influence on a superior property from lower-value surroundings or insufficient market support. Progression is upward influence on a lesser property from stronger surroundings. Both are market tendencies linked to conformity, substitution, contribution, and the range of properties buyers consider.
Is regression the same as depreciation?
Not exactly. Regression is a valuation principle describing downward influence from market context. In an appraisal, the effect may appear as lower contribution, a location adjustment, functional superadequacy, external obsolescence, or overall market evidence. Depreciation is a measured loss in improvement value from physical, functional, and external causes.
What is an over-improvement?
An over-improvement is an improvement whose cost, size, quality, capacity, or specialization exceeds what the market supports at that site and time. It can still add value, but its contributory value may be less than its cost. Over-improvement is not defined solely by being the largest or best property nearby.
Does the most expensive home in an area always suffer regression?
No. The property's market area may extend beyond its immediate block, and buyers may fully support its superior utility. Scarcity, waterfront, view, historic significance, acreage, special rights, or a distinct luxury segment can justify a premium. Regression requires evidence of insufficient market support, not a simple rank by price.
Does renovation cost equal value added?
No. The principle of contribution says value added depends on market reaction, not cost alone. A $150,000 renovation can add less, equal, or more than $150,000 depending on prior condition, buyer demand, quality, design, utility, conformity, timing, and alternatives. Regression risk rises when improvements exceed the competitive market's willingness to pay.
How does regression affect comparable selection?
The appraiser searches for properties serving the same market segment and examines whether the subject's superior features are supported. Lower-priced nearby properties provide context but may not be adequate direct comparables. Current Fannie Mae guidance emphasizes competitive appeal to the same market participants and explains how competing market areas can be used when appropriate.
Is there a fixed regression discount?
No. Regression has no universal percentage. The effect is inferred from comparable sales, paired data, market-area differences, cost versus contribution, marketing time, buyer depth, income, land use, renovation resale, and other effective-date evidence. A fixed discount can miss a supported specialty or luxury submarket.
Can demographic composition be used to support regression?
No. Analyze objective property and market facts such as use, price, rent, condition, access, supply, demand, services, external influences, buyer segmentation, and marketability. Protected-class identity or demographic composition is not a value factor and must not be substituted through coded neighborhood language.
Are these official PSI questions or an appraisal?
No. The practice questions are original, and primary sources were checked through August 1, 2026. This is exam education, not an appraisal, neighborhood rating, fair-housing opinion, design recommendation, or investment advice. A live regression conclusion requires subject-specific market, legal, physical, cost, income, buyer, and effective-date evidence.
Primary sources
- PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet effective June 24, 2026
- 225 ILCS 458, current Illinois Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Act of 2002
- Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, current Real Estate Appraisal licensing resources
- The Appraisal Foundation, current 2024 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice access
- Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-1.3-03 published through June 3, 2026, current objective neighborhood and market-trend analysis
- Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-1.3-08, current competitive-comparable and competing-market-area guidance
- Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-1.3-09, current market-reaction adjustment and reconciliation-comment requirements
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, current Fair Housing Act protected-class overview
The current official outline controls the tested scope. Statutes, regulations, and official agency materials control when a general study rule and a jurisdiction-specific rule differ.
Editorial status
Checked against primary sources
The Pass Illinois editorial team last checked this guide on August 1, 2026. Every practice question is an original study item, and the source links above let you verify the rules that support the lesson.