The contents of the National Examinations for Canadian Opticians are confidential and proprietary. The examinations and their contents are the exclusive property of the National Alliance of Canadian Optician Regulators (NACOR) and are made available to candidates for the sole purpose of assessing readiness for safe, effective, and independent optician practice. NACOR maintains strict security over examination content before, during, and after each exam to eliminate unfair advantages among candidates, maintain exam integrity, and avoid costs related to security breaches.

Candidates are expected to be aware of the legal, ethical, and professional implications of their participation in the examinations. It is assumed that candidates are participating in the examinations in a good faith attempt to pass, and for the sole purpose of fulfilling requirements for registration with a Canadian optician regulator. Candidates must always maintain professional behaviour and must not engage in any activity that would be considered illegal, such as assault, harassment, or theft. In this regard, candidates are expected to:

• Be respectful towards other candidates, NACOR, and exam administrators/examiners at all times.
• Refrain from making malicious or disparaging comments about the examinations or NACOR.
• Cooperate and comply with instructions from NACOR and exam administrators and examiners.
• Refrain from threatening or engaging in physical harm or violence towards themselves or exam administrators, examiners, or other candidates before, during, or after the examination.
• Refrain from harassing exam administrators, examiners, or other candidates before, during, or after the examination. Harassment includes any comment or conduct that is known, or ought to be known, to be unwelcome including sexual conduct or comments, bullying, personal abuse, or psychological abuse.
• Refrain from cheating, in any form, on the examinations. Cheating on the examinations includes any breach or attempted breach of examination integrity and security that could affect a candidate’s own results, the results of another candidate, or the results of a potential future candidate.
• Refrain from speaking to other candidates. In particular, to refrain from discussing with other candidates, both during and after the exams, any specific questions from their exams, or any of the practical procedures they performed during their exams.
• Report any breaches of exam integrity and/or security to NACOR.

Failure by a candidate to uphold these rules of conduct may result in imposition of conditions or immediate disqualification and expulsion from the examination.

NACOR has complete discretion over maintaining the stability of the examination environment and decisions regarding breaches of appropriate candidate conduct. NACOR, upon ascertaining that a candidate displays unsafe or inappropriate behavior, or who NACOR suspects are guilty of examination dishonesty, has the authority to require that candidate leave the environment. Further, NACOR, upon ascertaining the presence of a candidate represents a disruption to the other candidates, has the authority to require that candidate leave the environment.

Every candidate is required to read and sign a NACOR National Examination Security Agreement at the exams. Violators of this agreement will be dismissed from the examination, their examination will not be marked, and fees will be withheld.