Syllabus | Paper-2 VISUAL OPTICS | Bachelor of Optometry | Second Year

S. No

Topic

Domain

Hours

Module 1

• Light and its properties
• Vergence and power
• Sign convention

Desirable to know

• Magnification and field of view of a lens

Module 2

• Myopia
• Hypermetropia
• Astigmatism
• Aphakia/ Pseudophakia
• Anisometropia

Desirable to know

• Anisekonia
• Amblyopia

Nice to Know

• Growth of eyeball in relation to ref errors

Module 3

• Far Point
• Near Point
• Presbyopia
• Convergence insufficiency

Desirable to Know

• Paralysis of accommodation
• Spasm of accommodation

Nice to know

• Types of convergence
• AC/A ratio

Module 4

• Basic concept of schematic eye
• Reduced eye

Desirable to Know

• Listing reduced eye
• Donder’s reduced eye

Module 5

• Definition
• ray diagram

Desirable to know

• Clinical significance and how to relate strum’s conoid with diff. types of astigmatism

Module 6

• Optical Axis
• Visual Axis
• Angle Kappa

Desirable to know

• Pupillary Axis
• Angle Alpha and gamma

Module 7

• Definition
• Mechanism
• Treatment

Desirable to Know

• Ray Diagram

Module 8

• Definition and types
• How to detect
• Treatment

Desirable to Know

• Types

Module 9

• Definition
• How to do
• Distance and Drug Factors
• Difficulties faced and solution

Desirable to Know

• Duochrome Test
• Cross cylinder
• Pin Hole

Module 10

• Simple
• Toric

Desirable to Know

• Clinical significance

Module 11

• Effect of Vertex on power of spectacle lens

Desirable to Know

• Spectacle magnification and minification and its effect on accommodation and convergence.