OPTICIAN LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Extended wear cls - ✔✔soft or hard cls overnight wear
✔✔Eyelids - ✔✔movable folds of tissure that protect the eye from injury and light
✔✔Eyepiece - ✔✔part of an instrument on lensometer, keratometer which user looks in
to
✔✔Eyewire - ✔✔part of the frame that wraps around the lens, rim
✔✔Face form - ✔✔adjustment needed to match the bend of the frame front to the
horizontal curve of the frame to patient's brow line
✔✔Far point - ✔✔the point on the visual axis that is conjugate to the retina, in focus
✔✔Focal length - ✔✔distance from the lens to its focal point
✔✔Fovea - ✔✔area approximately 1.0 mm in diameter within the macula providing the
most aute vision, has only cones
✔✔Frequent replacement cls - ✔✔leses replace less frequently than disposable, two to
three times a month
✔✔Front angle - ✔✔referst tot he slope or angle of the side of the nose
✔✔Fused bifocal - ✔✔glass bifocal lens that creates two separate focal powers by
fusing a segment with a higher refractive index to the major portion
✔✔Fusion - ✔✔power excerted by the visual system to keep position of the eyes
aligned
✔✔Glaucoma - ✔✔ocular disease with intraocular pressure that damages eye
✔✔Herpes simplex keratitis - ✔✔corneal inflammation caused by the herpes simplex
virus
✔✔Heterophoria - ✔✔position of the eyes assume when fusion is disrupted, if one eye
covered
✔✔Hinge - ✔✔part of the frame that connects the temple to endpiece
✔✔Hordeolum (stye) - ✔✔inflammation of the glands in the lid margin
, ✔✔Hyperopia (farsighted) - ✔✔condition where the power is too weak for its length
✔✔Hyperphoria - ✔✔tendency for both eyes to drift apart vertically when not viewing
binocularly
✔✔Hypertropia - ✔✔abnormal turning upward of an eye
✔✔Hypotropia - ✔✔abnormal turning downward of an eye
✔✔Index of refraction - ✔✔ratio of speed of light in a vaccuum or air to that in a given
medium
✔✔Inset - ✔✔generally refers to the decentration of a bifocal segment relative to the
distance decentration
✔✔IOP - ✔✔amount of fluid pressure in an eye
✔✔Iris - ✔✔colored part of the eye
✔✔Iseikonic lens - ✔✔lenses with their thickness and curves chosen to reduce
aniseikonia caused my maginfication differences between right and left eye in
anisometrophia
✔✔Keratoconus - ✔✔degenerative condition in which the conea progressively becomes
thinned centrally and bulges forward in a cone type fashion
✔✔Keratometer - ✔✔instrument used to measure the curvature of the cornea
✔✔Lacrimalcanaliculi - ✔✔lacrimal pasages extending from the puncta to the lacrimal
sac
✔✔Lacrimal gland - ✔✔secretes tears into the conjunctival sac
✔✔Lacrimal layer - ✔✔middle watery layer of tears produced by the lacrimal glands that
crries oxygent to the cornea, forms major portion of tears
✔✔Lacrimal sac - ✔✔receives tears from the canaliculi and carries them to the
nasolacrimal duct
✔✔Lamina cribosa - ✔✔fibrous sieve like structure through which the optic nerve fibers
leave the globe
✔✔Lashes - ✔✔hairs that grow from the lid margins and protects eyes and lids
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Extended wear cls - ✔✔soft or hard cls overnight wear
✔✔Eyelids - ✔✔movable folds of tissure that protect the eye from injury and light
✔✔Eyepiece - ✔✔part of an instrument on lensometer, keratometer which user looks in
to
✔✔Eyewire - ✔✔part of the frame that wraps around the lens, rim
✔✔Face form - ✔✔adjustment needed to match the bend of the frame front to the
horizontal curve of the frame to patient's brow line
✔✔Far point - ✔✔the point on the visual axis that is conjugate to the retina, in focus
✔✔Focal length - ✔✔distance from the lens to its focal point
✔✔Fovea - ✔✔area approximately 1.0 mm in diameter within the macula providing the
most aute vision, has only cones
✔✔Frequent replacement cls - ✔✔leses replace less frequently than disposable, two to
three times a month
✔✔Front angle - ✔✔referst tot he slope or angle of the side of the nose
✔✔Fused bifocal - ✔✔glass bifocal lens that creates two separate focal powers by
fusing a segment with a higher refractive index to the major portion
✔✔Fusion - ✔✔power excerted by the visual system to keep position of the eyes
aligned
✔✔Glaucoma - ✔✔ocular disease with intraocular pressure that damages eye
✔✔Herpes simplex keratitis - ✔✔corneal inflammation caused by the herpes simplex
virus
✔✔Heterophoria - ✔✔position of the eyes assume when fusion is disrupted, if one eye
covered
✔✔Hinge - ✔✔part of the frame that connects the temple to endpiece
✔✔Hordeolum (stye) - ✔✔inflammation of the glands in the lid margin
, ✔✔Hyperopia (farsighted) - ✔✔condition where the power is too weak for its length
✔✔Hyperphoria - ✔✔tendency for both eyes to drift apart vertically when not viewing
binocularly
✔✔Hypertropia - ✔✔abnormal turning upward of an eye
✔✔Hypotropia - ✔✔abnormal turning downward of an eye
✔✔Index of refraction - ✔✔ratio of speed of light in a vaccuum or air to that in a given
medium
✔✔Inset - ✔✔generally refers to the decentration of a bifocal segment relative to the
distance decentration
✔✔IOP - ✔✔amount of fluid pressure in an eye
✔✔Iris - ✔✔colored part of the eye
✔✔Iseikonic lens - ✔✔lenses with their thickness and curves chosen to reduce
aniseikonia caused my maginfication differences between right and left eye in
anisometrophia
✔✔Keratoconus - ✔✔degenerative condition in which the conea progressively becomes
thinned centrally and bulges forward in a cone type fashion
✔✔Keratometer - ✔✔instrument used to measure the curvature of the cornea
✔✔Lacrimalcanaliculi - ✔✔lacrimal pasages extending from the puncta to the lacrimal
sac
✔✔Lacrimal gland - ✔✔secretes tears into the conjunctival sac
✔✔Lacrimal layer - ✔✔middle watery layer of tears produced by the lacrimal glands that
crries oxygent to the cornea, forms major portion of tears
✔✔Lacrimal sac - ✔✔receives tears from the canaliculi and carries them to the
nasolacrimal duct
✔✔Lamina cribosa - ✔✔fibrous sieve like structure through which the optic nerve fibers
leave the globe
✔✔Lashes - ✔✔hairs that grow from the lid margins and protects eyes and lids
