Visual acuity, help!

[richyfingers]

I am applying for the police soon and I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to work out your visual acuity. I got the following information from the Strathclyde police website

Visual Acuity Form
If you wear glasses or contact lenses, you are required to have a Visual Acuity Form completed by your optician. The completed form must be returned with your application.
The eyesight requirements for the Force have recently changed:

Uncorrected visual acuity: 6/36 (or better) in each eye.

Corrected visual acuity: 6/12 (or better) in each eye.

Binocular vision (+/- correction) : 6/6 (or better).

Near vision (+/- correction) : N9 (or better).

I wear contacts most of the time when I’m out or driving and the pwr on the left is -1.50 and the right is -1.25 but I don’t understand how these numbers relate to the 6/36, anyone got any ideas?

I’m considering saving up for corrective surgery on them if it proves to be an issue which i think it might.

 

[richyfingers]

Yea I have the form from the site, just managed to get an appointment at the opticians for tomorrow so here is hoping my eyes are up to scratch

 

[richyfingers]

Cheers Amp34, that made more sense than anything else I had read about before. I will ask the optician tomorrow what it all the differant thingymajigs are