 Hello everybody. Andrea here. I want to talk to you guys about when is the best time to start studying for the board exam. This is for dental hygiene students so I cannot tell you earlier enough you know you guys should honestly be studying for the board exam as soon as you can. But I was a student too. I remember being in dental hygiene school and the board exam is truly the last thing on your mind, hopefully, because you're so focused on passing clinicals homework projects assignments, all of that. But when I started studying for the board exam, I would say was likely. I want to say six months before. Okay, and that's what I tell my students to do. I want you guys to study at least six months prior to you taking the board exam. You can study a year before I say why not, because you can do a little bit at a time and not feel overwhelmed and while you're studying, even if it's a year before, you're learning things that will help you in school anyway. A year before the board exam can be very difficult for most students to kind of prep for because you have so many other projects, assignments, homework, all of that but six months prior for sure. If you are taking the board exam next month and you're just starting to study. It's going to be really difficult for you but it can still be done, as long as you're studying every day I'm talking six hours every day no breaks, no days off. It's something I recommend I tell my students to study six months before so you can take breaks because your brain can only retain so much. You do need to take time off. You can't be studying 10 hours every day you need to take breaks so I talk about that a lot with my students where I say study a minimum of two hours every day and then study up to six hours every day. Six hours is preferred, but let's say you work full time you have three kids you have a husband you have a wife, you have life things to do it's impossible for you to study six hours a day I get it. When I had a job in dental hygiene school I couldn't study six hours a day because I was in school, and then had to work. So what I did was I studied on the bus I studied on the subway. I studied just before work I studied at work I used to work at subway. I studied at work. I studied when I got home, but six hours was impossible so I don't want you to get stressed out if you're saying Andrea I can't study six hours you know I just had a baby. I'm surprised I'm in school whatever the reasoning is, but study at least two hours every day with a maximum of six hours. Do not study eight hours 10 hours 12 hours a day. There's only much. There's only so much that your brain can retain if that makes sense, and you're going to get frustrated you're going to get upset. When you realize oh I, I just studied for eight hours and I don't remember half the material. That's not a good feeling is it it's not so these are kind of ways to help you guys study for the board exam. I do offer a full dental hygiene board exam prep academy this is the course that I suggest it doesn't matter if you're taking the board exam for the first time, or you've taken it before, and you failed. The course is for those who are taking the board exam. I say that because a lot of people who have taken the board exam already and failed. They think that if they just go back and study what they feel they did wrong they'll pass the board exam, the second time. That's never the case. If you've taken the board exam once before, and you failed, I want you to restudy everything as if you haven't taken the board exam before. I'm not going to forget anything and it's a good review for you. If you've taken the board exam before definitely do a search on this YouTube channel for you know if you've taken the board exam before so type in board exam second attempt. I've taken the board exam before you know type in those things into the search bar, and you'll see more videos where I specifically talk about how to study. If you've taken the board exam before, but doesn't matter so I'm going to share my screen here. This is the course that I suggest for all of you so this is a sneak peek. When you guys click on the link that I'm going to put under the description here of the video, you won't be able to see all of this you'll just see kind of like the sales page. This is what you get when you are a member of the dental hygiene board exam prep, prep Academy, you register and get all of this right away. You also get access to a private Facebook group, where all of the other members are a part of where I do videos often. I talk about updates I talk about mock exam questions, all of that. And we have live classes online as well. If you can't attend live that's okay. All the classes are recorded and those classes consist of lectures on every single topic. I talk about mock exam questions so multiple choice and case studies and I go through every single time how to pick the best answer because two are always going to be the most correct you are sorry two are going to always be correct. You have to pick the most correct so I'm constantly preparing all of you guys. And one of the nice things is, you have full access to all session recordings so all classes that were live. You have access to all of those recordings for the past two years so it's 2021 now that I'm doing the video, you'll have full access to the 2019 videos and 2020. So let's say you sign up today, our next live class is on Sunday well you probably want to get started now, you have full access to everything inside the course so you don't have to wait. So you guys so when you log in it probably looks like this, you have to click the upper left hand side where you see these three lines. Look, look at all of these you guys so look at the different topics. I always forget to zoom in I apologize you think I know by now. I've been oh my goodness on YouTube for, I don't know, seven years now I don't know. Anyways, so you guys so look so there's different things here. You can download each one and then you can download the file to your computer so you have full access. A lot of students ask me how long do I have have the course for you have the course until you pass the board exam. Within reason, if it's taking you five years to pass the board exam and there is a refresher fee that I do charge because videos PowerPoints live classes are always changing. Within two years to pass the board exam, you have full access to this and all the updates for two years I'm not here to make things difficult for you guys I'm here to make things easier. But look, look at all the topics on the side, you get full access to all of these you just click download the file. There's quizzes, there's videos there's all kinds of things. Okay, so check it out for sure. This is what you get when you are in the board exam prep Academy, and you might be wondering well what do I study how do I study, go from the first topic to the next. Every time you download a file, you see this sort of like line through so you know where to move on, and then you know when new things are going to be updated. So this is what you get there's so much here, but not too much I only have here what I want you guys to study for the board exam so I try to make it as easy as possible you do not have to open up your textbook anymore if you don't want to. This course is made so that you don't have to open up a textbook because who wants to study from a textbook nobody right this is a lot more exciting. So let me know you guys if you have any questions. I've been teaching dental hygiene students for 16 years now, and I love what I do this is my true passion. I'm here to help so thank you guys so much for watching if you have any questions comment below. Click like if you liked this video that does help my channel, and please click subscribe if you haven't yet. I upload, I upload videos often free content, all the time, you know, click subscribe, click like, I love to talk to all of you guys so thank you so much and I'll talk to you guys very soon.