Admission to Examination Site:

1. You must present your approval letter and one form of legible signed photographic identification in order to be admitted.
2. You must have paid the required examination fee(s) and have been approved to take examination(s) prior to coming to the examination site on examination day.  Examination proctors CANNOT accept fees at the examination site.
3. The directions to the examination site are offered as a courtesy to you in finding the named facility in the approval letter provided by the Tennessee Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors.  These directions have been provided to the Board by the named facility and the Board assumes no responsibility for their accuracy.  You must allow adequate time to find and arrive at the examination site in order to sit for your required examination(s) at the scheduled time(s).  PLEASE NOTE THAT TIMES INDICATED ON YOUR APPROVAL LETTER ARE FOR THE CENTRAL TIME ZONE.
4. Instructions will be given in detail to candidates at the examination site.  Be sure that you understand everything that is said to you prior to beginning examination(s).  When the end of an examination is called, it is imperative that you close your test booklet and stop writing immediately.  Anyone continuing to write after time is called will be disqualified from the examination.

1. Candidates should bring a supply of sharpened #2 wood or mechanical pencils and a good eraser.  No ink or felt tip pens will be allowed.  All candidates should bring engineer’s scales, a protractor and two triangles. No pencil sharpener will be provided at the examination site. Scratch paper will be provided in the examination booklets.
2. For open book examinations, published textbooks, handbooks, bound reference materials, codes, tables, manuals, standards and ordinances may be used.  Bound means glued, stitched, or fastened by spiral binders, ring binders, plastic snap binders, screw posts or Acco type binders.  Loose papers, loose notes and materials not bound together as previously described and writing tablets are not permitted in the examination room. Reference materials or any other items allowed during an examination will not be exchanged between candidates during the examination.
3. Battery operated, SILENT, non-printing, non-programmable and programmable calculators are allowed.  Program modules, cards and hand-entered programs may be used in calculators during the examinations.  The beeper function must be turned OFF.  Use of electrical outlets or extension cords is not allowed at the examination site.  Computers or calculators capable of word processing, or with QWERTY keyboards or able to store and recall alphabetic text are not permitted.  Any item that compromises the security of any examination is expressly forbidden and not allowed in the examination room.   NCEES limits calculators allowed in the examination room.  The following models are the only calculators that will be permitted in the examination room for use during the April 2005 and October 2005 examination administrations.  No other models of calculators will be allowed. Only the models listed below may be used on the examination.
   • Hewlett Packard – HP 33s
   • Hewlett Packard – HP 9s
   • Casio – FX 115 MS and FX 115 MS Plus (Note: Models with “-SR” designation at the end are also allowed)
   • Texas Instruments – TI 30X 11S and TI 30X 11B
   • Texas Instruments – TI 36X Solar
4. Every effort is made to provide an examination site that is quiet, comfortable and free from distractions.  However, if you are sensitive to noise and variations in temperature, it may be advisable to bring earplugs and adequate clothing that will allow you to account for warmer or cooler temperatures in the examination room.  CELL PHONES AND PAGERS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE EXAMINATION ROOM.  Drinking water and monitored rest rooms will be provided at the examination site.   Beverages are only allowed on the floor next to your seat.  No smoking will be allowed in or near the examination room.   Permission to stop your examination for a smoke break in a monitored smoking area will be granted on an individual basis.   During lunch breaks, an adjacent lunchroom with tables, microwave and vending for beverages, pastries and candies is available.   Several hotels and restaurants are within 2 miles of the examination site.