There is a light on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel that is very difficult to find and easy to confuse with another, near the center of it. Find it on a practice exam.
There are some long radar ranges on the Chesapeake chart exams, make sure you have a big enough set of dividers. Have two, one with a lead end and one without.
Bring a meter stick.
If you happen to take the exam at St. Louis REC be aware they don’t have a chart table, or didn’t. I came into the exam room and they had the chart clipped to a VERTICAL architects easel that was unable to be to tilted down more than 20 degrees so I did the exam hunched over a tiny desk. It’s worth contacting some of the smaller inland RECs to make sure they have the proper equipment.
The chart plot is designed to be done with triangles and they are easier anyways. It can be done with other tools but you will not get exact answers.
It’s personal preference but I like to take some time and go through the exam and see where I’m going, circle the lights and points I’m going to be using as references, then go back and do the exam. This makes it more like how I would actually handle going into an unfamiliar harbor.
Lapware is nice because their solutions are well done with pictures.