 Hello everybody, Andrew Majeski here with Dental Studering, so it's coming around, oh my goodness, excuse me, it's coming around that time to take the board exam, so it is November and a lot of you guys take the board exam in December, so next month. And for those of you who have taken the exam before and have not passed, even those who are taking the exam for the first time, the biggest question I always get around this time of year is, should I take the board exam next month or should I wait till after the holidays? Because life happens, holidays happen, you might not be able to get as much studying done as you want to over the holidays because you're not thinking study, study, study, and sadly for the board exam you have to study or you will not pass. But I can't answer that for you guys because I don't want to tell you to wait to take the exam and then you take the exam in a couple months and you don't pass and then you're thinking, I wish I took it, you know, a couple months ago, maybe then I would have passed. So I don't like to give that answer to anybody because ultimately it's up to you. But what I always say is, do you feel confident? If you're even thinking, maybe I should take it in a couple months, that probably means that you know you won't be able to study as much as you should. There's nothing wrong with waiting to take the exam. The only thing is, is you might kind of have to reteach yourself a lot of the material and that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But also if you're in a rush to pass because maybe you have a job lined up or you just want to get the show going then it makes more sense to take it sooner. But it really does depend. If you know that you won't be able to study, don't take it sooner because you never want to chance it. You never want to say, well I know I won't be able to study but I'm just gonna try it and I'll see what happens. You never want to chance it. So I tell people, if you can study every day and you will feel confident then take it. But if you're even asking yourself if you should take it or not, you probably shouldn't. You should wait until the next enrollment to take it because what a lot of students do too is they will sign up for the exam and then a week before go, I'm not ready, I'm not gonna take it. Well it's too late to cancel. So if you do cancel, you have to pay again to retake the test a couple months later. Whereas if you just you know gave them enough notice like okay no I'm not going to take it next month, I'm going to take it in like three months, four months a year, whatever. You don't have to pay twice. So does that make sense? So a lot of students think that if they just cancel it like a week or two before they'll be fine, we'll get their money back. We'll know because they had to hold that spot for you. So you have to pay again so it can get expensive. So make your decision now and decide when you want to take it. If you're not sure, it's probably because you should take it not next month but a couple months from now if not more. So I hope that helped. Let me know what you guys are thinking, what you are deciding and I'll see you in the next one.