diff --git a/src/scheduler/testsuite/test_core_events.c b/src/scheduler/testsuite/test_core_events.c
index 10ac1c6c..d9ddd7f9 100644
--- a/src/scheduler/testsuite/test_core_events.c
+++ b/src/scheduler/testsuite/test_core_events.c
@@ -1357,8 +1357,21 @@ static void test_job_rusage_reconciles_mem_reservation_against_usage(void)
     TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(tracked);
     TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(tracked->accounts);
 
-    /* Sanity: the reservation charge landed at dispatch time (before any
-     * rusage tick), matching sched_charge_account()'s existing behavior. */
+    /* bug-1758: JOBS_PUSH itself never charges resInUse -- by design, that
+     * is sched_account_jobs()'s job (scheduler.c), a round-boundary
+     * reconciliation the real normal-mode/sim drivers both call once per
+     * round (driver.c/sim_loop.c), BEFORE anything in that round ever reads
+     * resInUse, re-deriving it from every currently-RUN job's accounts via
+     * sched_charge_account() -- see core.h's own doc comment on
+     * sched_account_jobs(). This test's own JOBS_PUSH call above is not
+     * itself a round boundary, so simulate the one sched_account_jobs()
+     * would perform for this test's single RUN job directly (sched_account_
+     * jobs() itself lives in scheduler.c, not white-box #included here --
+     * this file already pulls in resource.c for sched_charge_account()). */
+    sched_charge_account(&core, tracked->accounts);
+
+    /* Sanity: the reservation charge lands via that reconciliation, before
+     * any rusage tick. */
     idx[0] = r_mem->idx;
     get_resvals(&(w->resInUse), 1, idx, val);
     TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_FLOAT(4.0f, val[0]);