 Hello everybody Andrea Torewski here with Dental Health Tutoring. Please excuse the mess behind me. We had just moved So that's why there's boxes everywhere Now I had just done a video about how to start studying for the board exam if you haven't started yet But this one is going to be about how to start studying for the board exam Well, I shouldn't say start but how to I guess finish Studying for the board exam because how you study at the beginning is Very different than how you study a week before your exam And I'll tell you why because when you first start studying you feel like you don't know anything, right? So you feel and it's true that you have to study a little bit of everything But the week before the exam you're probably and hopefully you are feeling like I think I know everything But I want to make sure I know everything So you don't know what to study because you don't know what you don't know and you don't know what you do know So the best piece of advice that I can give you is to study from mock exam Packages so mock exam packages are a series of questions on a variety of topics for the exam Now I have tons of them I'll post the link at the bottom of the video here plus I do have one I do have actually quite a few that are on sale at the moment because they're a little bit older But not so old that they will not help you So it's just I like to put them on sale if they're a year or two old because they're not the newest So why not, right? but the mock exam packages do help you because as you're moving through the The questions on a certain topic, let's say if you have a hard time with the mock exam package on oral pathology Then you know that you have to study more oral pathology. So take two hours and look through all of your notes All of your textbooks, you know, whatever to study oral pathology But if you do excellent on that oral pathology mock exam Then you know that you actually don't have to study for that in as much detail as you Thought that you might have to you know, like I'm not saying don't study oral pathology at all but if you knew nothing then you need to focus on oral pathology if you Knew everything that I would look at oral pathology once again before you take the exam But that's it Whereas as I said if you knew nothing about oral pathology, then you need to spend at least a couple hours if not more Learning oral oral pathology and then take them off exam package again And you should be getting the answers right and then you know that if oral pathology is being asked on the exam You will get the right answers But if you do not want to sign up for my mock exam packages, that's okay A way to do it at home would be to open up a chapter in your Textbook and it does help to study with a partner Open up a chapter or chapters in your textbook and just write down a number of Questions and then the answers and then test each other So it does help to work with a partner so that say they spend an hour Looking through the textbook coming up with questions Make sure to write down the right answer though, and then you do the same thing and then you sort of Quiz each other on different questions because it doesn't help if you look up the answers in the textbook yourself I'm not saying it doesn't help But it doesn't help as much because you will now know they know the answers So if you would like to study in an easier way even is to just pick a chapter in your Textbook read through it study it and that's it even picking a page or two Read through it and go okay. I actually knew that or oh geez. I didn't know this page at all So then that means you should you should probably start at the beginning of the chapter and then read through it So now you know it so does that make sense? So this is the best way to study if you're taking the board exam and say a couple weeks and you feel like You can't study anything else, you know if you feel like okay. I've studied everything I don't want to look at another textbook, you know notes nothing, but I know I should so when you do study Have more of a plan. Okay, so does that make sense? So if you haven't seen the the video that I posted earlier about how to start Studying for the for on the board exam that is for people who just haven't even started yet And they still have a couple months if not more prior to the exam Whereas this video is for if you're taking the board exam in a couple days a couple weeks And you just feel like you have studied everything but never stop looking at your notes. Okay, so even the day before Look through your notes, but make sure to get enough sleep the day of the exam So then that way you're not overwhelmed. You're not as stressed things are just easier Okay, so if you guys have questions, let me know and I'll see you guys in the next video