P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 1036
The following provisions shall apply to the revalidation examinations offered by the Board for those persons who intend to practice the profession of occupational therapy or assistant in occupational therapy:
The Board shall offer an examination on theory at least twice a year on the date determined by the Board. Such examinations shall cover the subjects, and shall be administered in the manner provided by the Board through regulations. The examination shall be offered in Spanish or English, for the aspirant to choose. The Board may, upon request of the aspirant, accept the final scores of the examination offered by the American Occupational Therapy Certification Board in lieu of the revalidation examination. The candidate shall be responsible for requesting that the examination final scores be sent to the Board. The Board shall establish through regulations the norms for the acceptance of said examination scores.
The Board shall seek advice from professionals with expertise in the technique of preparing examinations, in order to ensure the validity thereof as a means to measure knowledge and skills.
Any aspirant shall be aware beforehand of the minimum grade or score required by the Board to pass the examination. The aspirant shall be notified of said score when advised that his/her application for examination has been accepted.
Any person who fails the revalidation examination on three (3) different occasions shall not take the examination anew until he/she presents to the Board satisfactory evidence that he/she has taken and passed the pertinent course or courses, after his/her particular situation has been evaluated by the Board. Once the aspirant has taken and passed the course or courses required herein, he/she shall have two (2) additional opportunities to take the examination.
The Board shall adopt norms that ensure any aspirant who fails the revalidation examination, the right to review has his/her test paper, to receive a score breakdown and request his/her examination grade to be reconsidered. Those candidates who opt to take the American Occupational Therapy Certifying Board examination shall be governed, with regarding the test paper review, by what is established for said examination. Any person who has taken said examination shall be granted a term of ninety (90) days from the date the examination results are notified, to file any allegation in his/her favor regarding the score obtained. The test papers of those who have passed the examination may be destroyed after the aforementioned ninety (90) days have elapsed. The Board shall keep the papers of the last two (2) tests taken by those persons who have failed the examination, in order to facilitate the procedure established in this section.
The Board shall provide for guidance, prior to taking the examination, so as to acquaint the aspirants with the revalidation procedure, the norms governing the ministering of the test, the kind of examination and the method for the method [sic] of evaluating it, as well as the regulations of the Board. The Board shall prepare and publish to such effects, a handbook containing all the information regarding the revalidation examination, a copy of which shall be available and handed to any person who requests admission to the examination and presents a voucher in the amount of ten dollars ($10).
The Board may review the cost of the revalidation handbook from time to time, taking as a basis the expense of preparing and publishing the same; but the amount to be charged shall not exceed the real cost of the expenses incurred.
The Examining Board shall be authorized to establish, through the conditions and requirements it may deem necessary, reciprocity relations for the dispensation of examinations, directly with the states of the United States or with any other country whose examining organizations require the highest degree of professional education.
History —June 26, 1968, No. 137, p. 325, § 6; June 24, 1971, No. 89, p. 304, § 1; Dec. 20, 1991, No. 113, § 5.