As Careers Advisers are not qualified to grade your eyesight standards & you have not quoted the full prescription to establish your visual acuity, all I can do is paste the stated grades for you, or your opthalmist to establish your grade from the table below:
Current Visual Acuity Standards
Standard I (VA1)
Visual acuity to be achieved without correcting lenses Right 6/12N5, Left 6/12N5
Visual acuity to be achieved with correcting lenses Right 6/6N5, Left 6/6N5
Refraction limit:
Total hypermetropia +3.00 sphere
Astigmatism +1.25 cyl
Myopia (in any meridian) -0.75 sphere or cyl +3.00 sphere
Standard 2 (VA2)
Visual acuity to be achieved without correcting lenses Right 6/60, Left 6/60 or worse.
Visual acuity to be achieved with correcting lenses Right 6/6N5, Left 6/9N5
Refraction limit
Spectacle correction (in any meridian)
+/-6.00 sphere or cyl both.
Standard 3 (VA3)
Visual acuity to be achieved without correcting lenses Right 6/60, Left <6/60
Visual acuity to be achieved with correcting lenses EITHER Right 6/6N5, Left 6/24N10 OR Right 6/9N5, Left 6/18N10 OR Right 6/12N5, 6/12N10.
Refraction limit
Spectacle correction (in any meridian)
+/- 6.00 sphere or cyl
Below VA3, unacceptable for RM or RN service.
VA3 is the minimum acceptable standard for entry as a RM Commando.
