I am a new poster to this forum. I have followed posts for several years including the old site. I have recently been accepted to take the Oklahoma Comity exam. The instructions read that:
For the two-hour OLS examination, calculators, including Data Collectors, that are battery operated, hand held, nonprinting, and silent are acceptable, subject to the following: "Alphanumeric keyboards are acceptable as long as they are not QWERTY type keyboards. QWERTY keyboards as those that are configured in a typewriter format somestimes referred to 'asdt' format. Lap tops and any devices with word processing capability are prohitited. Transmission devices, including cellular and portable phones, tape recorders, or scanning devices are forbidden in the examination room and will be collected by the Proctors and retained by them until the examination session is completed and/or all examination material returned to the Proctor. Proctors have the authority to prohibit any other devise that they believe may pose a threat to exam security."
My question is does that mean the HP 48 GX is acceptable?
Can anyone suggest a course to take for this 2 hour exam?
Thanks
HP48's are specifically banned from the FS and PS national tests - while programmable HP35s are allowed - but I'm not sure what the state's attitude will be. Suggest you phone the office tomorrow and find out.
Then pass that information on. I hope to be writing OK by comity this spring, too, and would prefer to use my HP48 rather than programming an HP35.
> I am a new poster to this forum. I have followed posts for several years including the old site. I have recently been accepted to take the Oklahoma Comity exam. The instructions read that:
> For the two-hour OLS examination, calculators, including Data Collectors, that are battery operated, hand held, nonprinting, and silent are acceptable, subject to the following: "Alphanumeric keyboards are acceptable as long as they are not QWERTY type keyboards. QWERTY keyboards as those that are configured in a typewriter format somestimes referred to 'asdt' format. Lap tops and any devices with word processing capability are prohitited. Transmission devices, including cellular and portable phones, tape recorders, or scanning devices are forbidden in the examination room and will be collected by the Proctors and retained by them until the examination session is completed and/or all examination material returned to the Proctor. Proctors have the authority to prohibit any other devise that they believe may pose a threat to exam security."
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> My question is does that mean the HP 48 GX is acceptable?
> Can anyone suggest a course to take for this 2 hour exam?
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> Thanks
If you need a calculator for the 2 hour Oklahoma Specific exam, it would be quite surprising and if you need anything more than a calculator with trig functions on it it would be even more surprising. It is an exam about the laws of the State of Oklahoma that affect surveying. Contact the OSLS for study material and/or courses to help. Watch out for the questions about the Corner Records Filing requirements.
PE/LS boards stacked with PE's are notorious for giving
exams with heavy emphasis on administrative laws and
corner records, and state survey standards.
I took the test last year. I had my HP48 and 35. Test I took was heavy on proportioning section lines to alliquot parts and corner recording. Had one question the 6 mile method. Other than that... really a standard calculator is all you need. I saw others with trimble data collectors to cheap calcs.
> I took the test last year....Test I took was heavy on proportioning section lines to alliquot parts and corner recording. Had one question the 6 mile method.
That jives with information I got from another recent examinee (except, perhaps, you mean 3 mile method?)
You are correct, the 3 mile method. I've never used it and it is pretty specific in Oklahoma Indian Territories and I am sure in other areas. Also some ethics questions on what you would do in certain situations. Tough test. I was there the whole 2 hours and felt like I had failed. But I guess I did good enough since I passed. Sadly they are like other states and don't give you nothing but a pass or fail letter. Good luck though!