Optician Practice Test
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Examples of questions asked on the National Opticianry Competency Examination (NOCE).  

Optician Practice Test
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23 Questions

1. Which frame adjustment lowers the front of the frame?
2. What material has the most favorable optical properties?
3. To what does a ptosis crutch give support?
4. Which term is used to describe the outward inclination of the bottom of a framed lens?
5. What is the best lens treatment to reduce water and road surface glare?
6. Frame materials are available in which two forms?
7. The cornea's index of refraction is:
8. Which instrument measures vertex distance?
9. A polariscope is used to detect internal lens stress.
10. What is the term used to describe the eye's tendency to turn from its normal position?
11. A patient with astigmatism has a ________ cornea.
12. The hard resin material used in plastic lenses is known as:
13. How is multifocal height usually measured?
14. What controls the amount of light that enters the eye?
15. What kind of lens has one convex and one concave surface?
16. Which word is used to describe light's changing direction as it passes from one medium to another?
17. Meniscus, equiconcave and flat concave are types of:
18. Aphakia is:
19. A lens' focal length can be altered by:
20. A monocular PD is given as one number.
21. Axis is the notation of power on a lens.
22. What is the refractive condition in which light focuses directly on the retina?
23. Which lens characteristic corrects astigmatism?