Taking Fl State exam this Monday!

**JG43** · 10-12-2010, 10:36 AM

I am taking the State Exam to become Florida licensed this is the last exam after a year of completing the ABO, NCLE and the latest Pratical Portion last Sat! any suggestions of tips? I took the review class but I wanted to find out any other tips or anyone who has taken it if they could give some points or suggestions! Thanks! :bbg:

JG

**JG43** · 10-12-2010, 10:43 AM

Pardon my typo's! :( the edit button does not do anything for some reason!! :)

**jspayne** · 10-18-2010, 07:46 PM

JG,
You have already completed the difficult part. Just take it easy and you should be fine.

Scott

**gmc** · 10-19-2010, 01:25 PM

JG43, tell us how the exam went for you.

**JG43** · 10-21-2010, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by jspayne

JG,
You have already completed the difficult part. Just take it easy and you should be fine.

Scott

Scott! Thanks for your encouragement and you were right! The State exam was EASY! I was so surprised i did everything twice to make sure I was not overlooking anything! it went well and I am looking forward to getting the license! I as you may have already gathered pretty sure I passed unless I did a huge mistake that I overlooked!!!!

Thanks again!

**JG43** · 10-25-2010, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by gmc

JG43, tell us how the exam went for you.

Well thinking back on the exam I think I did make a big mistake! I set the pupillometer at 35 as requested by the exam and took her pd's I took those as the distance and subtracted 3mm from that for the near. I cannot believe I made such a mistake! I have been doing this for over 6 years and I feel sick about it! Now I am not feeling so good about results! yuck! :(

**thatNCoptician** · 10-25-2010, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by JG43

Well thinking back on the exam I think I did make a big mistake! I set the pupillometer at 35 as requested by the exam and took her pd's I took those as the distance and subtracted 3mm from that for the near. I cannot believe I made such a mistake! I have been doing this for over 6 years and I feel sick about it! Now I am not feeling so good about results! yuck! :(

How many parts are there? I just sat for the boards in NC and there are 9 parts. I was just wondering.

**JG43** · 10-25-2010, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by thatNCoptician

How many parts are there? I just sat for the boards in NC and there are 9 parts. I was just wondering.

well we did Lens Id AND fitting side by side, I would count it as two parts but not sure how the State splits it up. we had Lens measuring and callip together and neuralization was if I recall correctly was by it's self. so I would say 5 parts? They called all of this practical portion 1 and I had to do a seperate date, a computerized test which was prism and vertex compensation which was called practical portion 2.