NE Land Surveyor study plan

Distinguish boundary evidence hierarchy (monuments, courses and distances, area) and resolve three practice conflicts in writing

Compute a proportional misclosure adjustment for a metes-and-bounds traverse and state when it is inappropriate

Summarize the doctrines of adverse possession, prescription, and acquiescence with one worked scenario each

Draft a checklist of records to pull before a retracement (deeds, plats, field notes, highway plans)

Convert between geographic, State Plane, and geodetic coordinates using ellipsoid and projection formulas

Explain grid convergence, scale factor, and elevation factor and combine them into a single ground-to-grid correction

Solve three geodetic inverse problems by hand and verify with a computation tool

Tie boundary retracement results to a stated datum and document the datum transformation used

Set up and check a construction control network with specified tolerances and a closure report

Compute horizontal and vertical alignments, grades, and cut/fill from a design surface

Lay out a building corner and a utility line from control and verify by an independent method

Prepare a subdivision concept that meets typical lot, frontage, and setback constraints

Explain the surveyor's role in as-built certification and design review

Compute photo scale, ground coverage, relief displacement, and parallax from given flight parameters

Plan a UAS mission with overlap, GSD, and ground control placement that meets a stated accuracy target

Classify LiDAR point cloud returns and describe how bare-earth filtering affects terrain products

Compare photogrammetric and LiDAR-derived surfaces for accuracy and appropriate use

Explain orthorectification inputs and the errors introduced when they are wrong

Design a geodatabase schema with domains, subtypes, and topology rules for a parcel layer

Perform a coordinate system and datum transformation in GIS and quantify the shift

Run a suitability or site-selection analysis and document the criteria and weights

Explain metadata, positional accuracy standards, and data-quality reporting for a deliverable

Reduce a leveling or tide record to a chart datum and compute a tidal datum from a short series

Compute soundings corrected for draft, tide, and transducer offset and describe vertical control for hydrographic surveys

Outline the riparian and navigability doctrines that affect boundary location along water

Describe how a mean high water line is located and evidenced

Analyze a full retracement scenario end to end: research, evidence, decision, and monumentation

Identify and correct common deed-writing defects such as ambiguity, gaps, and overlaps

Prepare an ALTA/NSPS-style boundary survey checklist against current standards

Draft a defensible survey report that separates facts, opinions, and assumptions

Complete two timed mixed-domain practice exams and log every missed concept by domain

Re-derive the ten formulas most often missed in geodesy, photogrammetry, and hydrography from memory

Build a one-page reference sheet of constants, datums, and standards allowed on exam day

State the current status of any standard or datum you are unsure of and verify it before exam day