Maine Specific Multiple Choice Exam (MSMC) — Information & Free Practice
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Maine Specific Multiple Choice Exam (MSMC)
- Provider
- Maine Board of Licensure for Professional Land Surveyors
- Format
- Multiple-choice, closed-book examination
- Passing score
- 70%
Practice scope
The authority has not published an examination outline; the practice questions follow the scope of the existing question bank.
Professional licensure, scope, seals, and continuing obligations
- Maine licensure prerequisites, seals, final documents, and continuing education
Responsibilities to society and regulatory accountability
- Public responsibility, lawful practice, exemptions, and discipline
Obligations to employers, clients, and public bodies
- Competence, supervision, confidentiality, conflicts, compensation, and government service
Applicability, exceptions, and written client confirmations
- When technical standards apply and how engagements or exceptions must be documented
Records research and boundary evidence
- Public and private records, conflicts, gaps, overlaps, errors, and encumbrances
Monumentation and recovery of boundaries
- Placement, durability, detection, identification, protection, and municipal boundary monuments
Plans, reports, and archival records
- Boundary reporting, retraceability, plan content, and preservation of survey information
Equipment, field techniques, and entry onto land
- Calibration, historical measurement capability, field evidence, redundancy, notice, identification, and safety
Maine land records and survey-plan recording
- Recording media, seals, signatures, title blocks, subdivision plats, and coordinate descriptions
Maine municipal boundaries, highways, subdivisions, and shoreland practice
- Town-line and highway evidence, subdivision definitions and review, flood, wetland, and shore-frontage requirements
Examination sources
- 02-360 CMR Chapter 50, Qualification for Licensure as Professional Land Surveyor and Use of Seals
Section 5(2), jurisprudence scope
- Maine Board Suggested Study Materials for the Maine Specific Exam
Opening paragraph, laws and rules reference for the Maine specific exam
- Maine Board Laws and Rules
Board laws and rules links and applicable departmental instruments
- Maine Secretary of State Department of Professional and Financial Regulation Rules
02-360 current rule chapters and Chapter 60 repeal
- Maine PLS Request for Examination
Nature of Examination, Part II, p.2
- 02-360 CMR Chapter 50, Qualification for Licensure as Professional Land Surveyor and Use of Seals
Section 5(2), scoring and retesting
- 02-360 CMR Chapter 50, Qualification for Licensure as Professional Land Surveyor and Use of Seals
Section 5(2), Jurisprudence Examination
- Maine PLS Request for Examination
Request for Re-Examination, p.2
- Maine Board of Licensure for Professional Land Surveyors, Examinations
Professional Land Surveyor Examinations, Part II
Related license preparation
This examination may be required or accepted as an alternative, depending on the license and application pathway.