CERTIFIED PARAOPTOMETRIC CORE EXAM 2026 TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔An instrument that can obtain an estimate of the patient's prescription without the
patient's response is called a/an _______. - ✔✔Retinoscope
✔✔A small lump on the eyelid is called a ______. - ✔✔Chalazion
✔✔Papill (root word) - ✔✔Optic nerve head
✔✔What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the
retina resulting in blurry distant vision called? - ✔✔Myopia
✔✔Chrom (root word) - ✔✔Color
✔✔Opthalmic medical personnel cannot do what? - ✔✔Offer medical diagnosis
✔✔The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is known as ______. -
✔✔Binocular vision
✔✔Ab- - ✔✔Away
✔✔An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the structures of the eye -
particularly the front structures of the eye - is called a/an ______. - ✔✔Biomicroscope
✔✔What is the condition called that is caused by advancing age which causes the
central area of vision to break down? - ✔✔Macular degeneration
✔✔The ability of the eyes to focus on objects from distance to near is called ______. -
✔✔Accommodation
✔✔Ex- - ✔✔Away from, out of
✔✔The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is used for daytime
and color vision is called the _____. - ✔✔Fovea centralis
✔✔What is the measurement from edge to edge of the lens at the widest point called? -
✔✔Overall diameter
✔✔Ad- - ✔✔to, toward
, ✔✔A person who collects patient data, administers tests of the patients visual
capabilities, and assists in office management would be best described as a/an ______.
- ✔✔Paraoptemetric
✔✔What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? - ✔✔Presbyopia
✔✔Which instrument allows close examination of the lids and lashes? -
✔✔Biomicroscope
✔✔The area in space that is visible to the eye is called _______. - ✔✔Visual field
✔✔Blephar (root word) - ✔✔Eyelid
✔✔The letters that are often the most used to measure visual acuity are called _____
letters. - ✔✔Snellen
✔✔The cornea changes to an irregular cone shape. - ✔✔Keratoconus
✔✔Alternating esotropia is a condition in which _____. - ✔✔The patient fixates with only
one eye while the other eye turns in.
✔✔The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens is called the
______. - ✔✔Vitreous humor
✔✔What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive condition called? -
✔✔Ametropia
✔✔The condition that causes fragile blood vessels on the retina to leak or break. -
✔✔Diabetic retinopathy
✔✔Which type of lens corrects hyperopia? - ✔✔Plus
✔✔Which of the following lens materials has the hardest surface and is also the
heaviest? - ✔✔Glass
✔✔____ lenses are also called convex lenses. They are thick in the center and thin on
the edges. Light rays passing through these lenses will be converged. - ✔✔Plus
✔✔In order to get a more complete look at the back of the eye, _____ is often done as
a part of a complete eye exam. - ✔✔Pupil dilation
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔An instrument that can obtain an estimate of the patient's prescription without the
patient's response is called a/an _______. - ✔✔Retinoscope
✔✔A small lump on the eyelid is called a ______. - ✔✔Chalazion
✔✔Papill (root word) - ✔✔Optic nerve head
✔✔What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the
retina resulting in blurry distant vision called? - ✔✔Myopia
✔✔Chrom (root word) - ✔✔Color
✔✔Opthalmic medical personnel cannot do what? - ✔✔Offer medical diagnosis
✔✔The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is known as ______. -
✔✔Binocular vision
✔✔Ab- - ✔✔Away
✔✔An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the structures of the eye -
particularly the front structures of the eye - is called a/an ______. - ✔✔Biomicroscope
✔✔What is the condition called that is caused by advancing age which causes the
central area of vision to break down? - ✔✔Macular degeneration
✔✔The ability of the eyes to focus on objects from distance to near is called ______. -
✔✔Accommodation
✔✔Ex- - ✔✔Away from, out of
✔✔The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is used for daytime
and color vision is called the _____. - ✔✔Fovea centralis
✔✔What is the measurement from edge to edge of the lens at the widest point called? -
✔✔Overall diameter
✔✔Ad- - ✔✔to, toward
, ✔✔A person who collects patient data, administers tests of the patients visual
capabilities, and assists in office management would be best described as a/an ______.
- ✔✔Paraoptemetric
✔✔What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? - ✔✔Presbyopia
✔✔Which instrument allows close examination of the lids and lashes? -
✔✔Biomicroscope
✔✔The area in space that is visible to the eye is called _______. - ✔✔Visual field
✔✔Blephar (root word) - ✔✔Eyelid
✔✔The letters that are often the most used to measure visual acuity are called _____
letters. - ✔✔Snellen
✔✔The cornea changes to an irregular cone shape. - ✔✔Keratoconus
✔✔Alternating esotropia is a condition in which _____. - ✔✔The patient fixates with only
one eye while the other eye turns in.
✔✔The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens is called the
______. - ✔✔Vitreous humor
✔✔What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive condition called? -
✔✔Ametropia
✔✔The condition that causes fragile blood vessels on the retina to leak or break. -
✔✔Diabetic retinopathy
✔✔Which type of lens corrects hyperopia? - ✔✔Plus
✔✔Which of the following lens materials has the hardest surface and is also the
heaviest? - ✔✔Glass
✔✔____ lenses are also called convex lenses. They are thick in the center and thin on
the edges. Light rays passing through these lenses will be converged. - ✔✔Plus
✔✔In order to get a more complete look at the back of the eye, _____ is often done as
a part of a complete eye exam. - ✔✔Pupil dilation
