Your Path to NBEO^® Success, Simplified

OptoPrep is a study resource with numerous features not available elsewhere to assist you in passing the NBEO^®. With its interactive, online format, OptoPrep customizes your study sessions by creating detailed reports on your progress in all subject areas. This will allow you to allocate your study time to the areas that will help you most on your exam. The database also remembers the questions that you answer incorrectly and asks you those questions again until you get them right. Randomization of the answer choices prevents you from memorizing the location of the correct answer and helps you to actually learn the subject matter.

OptoPrep has the most extensive question database of its type with more than 2,400 questions for Part I and over 200 cases for Part II, all with detailed answer explanations which serve as key learning material. OptoPrep has an impressive group of contributors and staff who keep material relevant and up-to-date in all areas.

OptoPrep Part III deconstructs the NBEO part 3 exam, providing relevant and engaging lessons that help you assimilate everything you know and do, to prepare you for a performance-based exam. With expert-developed activities that range from informative videos, mock exams engaging activities, clinically relevant questions, and real-world case-based learning in an immersive environment that simulates the NBEO Part 3 experience with built-in timing prompts. In addition to recruiting experts in Optometry, we recruited experts in developing clinical simulations and a nationally recognized expert in test performance anxiety and stress to help you prepare for the performative aspects of the NBEO Part 3 exam. Lastly, we provide you with self-evaluations and rubrics adapted from those the NBEO uses to help you accurately gauge and adjust your study habits to get the most out of your time spent in our program.

The practice questions are formatted similarly to that of the actual exam, allowing you to become more familiar and comfortable with the types of questions on the exam and the process of navigating through this type of test. The database covers topics most relevant and commonly covered on the NBEO^®, and excludes most of the minutia that would be less efficient for you to study. In short, OptoPrep is the interactive, straightforward, and to-the-point way to prepare for your optometry board exam.

OptoPrep is confident that anyone who completes the OptoPrep course will pass the NBEO^® exam on their first attempt. This is largely due both to the question recycling feature of OptoPrep, which essentially forces students to learn all of the material in order to make it through the entire course, and detailed answer explanations that accompany each question. Therefore, OptoPrep will provide you with a new OptoPrep subscription (equal in length to your original paid subscription) if you do not pass the NBEO^® exam. In order to qualify for a free re-subscription, you must have completed the full OptoPrep course by finishing all (or at least 80% of all) practice questions and timed exam questions before the date of your NBEO^® exam. If you did not pass the NBEO^® exam, please contact Support for instructions on how to obtain a free re-subscription.

TMOD-only Re-subscriptions
If you previously failed just the TMOD portion of the NBEO^® and have been set up with a TMOD-only re-subscription, you must complete at least 80% of all questions in Focused Mode to be eligible for a new subscription should you not pass the exam on your next attempt.

No. OptoPrep questions are original, copyrighted, and are not taken from previous NBEO^® material. Printing, distributing, or any other use of the questions, answers, explanations, photographs, or other material on this site is strictly prohibited without express written consent from OptoPrep. Any person or company claiming to use NBEO^® material without their express consent is in violation of their Code of Conduct, and use of such materials is illegal and could result in license forfeiture. OptoPrep is a successful review program because the questions in the course cover a wide array of topics that an entry-level optometrist would be expected to know. By providing detailed explanations with many questions, even if the exact question on the topic is not the same as on your NBEO^®, the material you have learned will help you reason your way to the best answer.

Optometrists, along with others in the medical field, contribute and edit content. In addition to our customer and technical support staff, specialists in every major subject area are available to respond to student inquiries. Our group consists of seasoned optometrists as well those with recent NBEO^® experience. This means that if you read a question and feel that you have learned something differently, an email to our Support Team will be forwarded to an expert in that area so that you can receive an up-to-date response from a specialist.

While we don't offer a separate subscription for TMOD-relevant questions, OptoPrep Part II does have a TMOD-only toggle that allows students to enter Focused Mode where only TMOD-categorized content will be shown.