NOCE Study Guide 2026
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📋 NOCE Exam Format at a Glance
📚 NOCE Topics to Study (64)
✍️ Sample NOCE Questions & Answers
1. A patient returns with a frame that is riding low, causing the bifocal to be too high. The nose pads are at their lowest adjustment. The best next step is:
If nose pad adjustment is exhausted, selecting a frame with a smaller or deeper bridge saddle will raise the frame's resting position on the nose.
2. The Humphrey lensmeter (automated lensometer) expresses cylinder in which form by default?
Most automated lensometers allow the user to select either plus or minus cylinder notation for the displayed prescription.
3. An optician in a licensed state dispenses eyeglasses using a prescription that expired 2 years ago without the patient's knowledge. This action primarily violates:
Using an expired prescription without the patient's awareness violates both state licensure laws governing scope of practice and the FTC Eyeglass Rule's requirements for valid prescriptions.
4. The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act (FCLCA) requires contact lens prescribers to do which of the following?
The FCLCA requires prescribers to verify or deny a contact lens seller's verification request within 8 business hours, after which passive verification (no response = confirmed) applies.
5. When transposing -2.00 -1.50 × 090, the result is:
To transpose: new sphere = sum of sphere and cylinder (-2.00 + -1.50 = -3.50), new cylinder = opposite sign (+1.50), new axis = 90° away (180).
6. A patient experiences swim and distortion when wearing new progressive lenses. Which adjustment is MOST likely to help?
Correcting pantoscopic tilt aligns the progressive lens zones to the patient's line of sight, reducing peripheral swim and distortion.