 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental L. So let's talk about the dental assisting board exam and how I feel you should really start studying because as with anything in life. If you're not looking forward to something if you're dreading something the hardest part is just getting started right, but what I want to teach you guys is how to study the right way so you make the most use of your time. Because I'm sure you have better things to do than study but you really don't if you are studying to pass the board exam. So what I want you to do is to really get organized and even purchase a study agenda from the dollar store study. purchase a calendar something like that from the dollar store it doesn't have to be expensive and put out per day on the calendar on the agenda. What you want to study so what I suggest is setting aside six hours a day at the most to study or one hour to two hours a day at the least so let's say you work full time. You might not be able to study six hours a day so on those days that you do have to work study one or two hours a day minimum okay. I want you guys to be studying every day to really help to retain the information but you're only human so what I also suggest is taking a day off sometimes. If you're anything like me when I was a student I had a hard time taking a day off I would just be stressing the whole day thinking oh I should be studying I should be studying so you're not really enjoying your time off. But take a break so how you can get around that is let's say study in the morning but then take the rest of the day off so you can truly enjoy your day off or take the day off but then study for two hours that night. So that's the idea if you really have to study but try to take a day off every two weeks or so just to really give yourself that time to relax and take a break. But don't study more than six hours and do not study until 2am. If you're tired if you're hungry, anything you study is not going to be retained you're going to forget it. If you're upset you're going to get stressed out. It's not good so that's what I suggest doing first is plan out your study time. If you have kids if you work full time if you have other commitments, you need to do something to. I'm not saying change it but if you have kids is there a family member who can watch the kids, a couple times a week for two hours so you can get studying in. You can't study with kids running around you can't study if you have to do laundry cook clean all of that it's really difficult you have to do what you have to do of course, but try to work around it. What else I want you to do is plan out what topics you're going to study and how you're going to do it so as an example, oral pathology you want to study tomorrow for two hours you're going to read your oral pathology chapter in your textbook. For one hour you're going to look through your oral pathology notes in school and study those for half an hour you're going to take a mock exam practice test on oral pathology. So write all of that down be specific it will feel good to cross those off once you're done doing them check them off highlight them whatever you want to do. It will feel good to do that. If you are in my full dental assisting board exam prep Academy, I have laid all of that out for you in module so you actually don't have to be organized. I do the organization for you I tell you what to study, when to study and how long to study it so if you're in the course just have a look at that and then you don't have to worry. So without being inside my full study course is, we will also have live tutoring sessions where I go through mock exam topics for about 45 minutes to one hour or sorry mock exam questions on a topic and that helps you practice your critical thinking. You need to know critical thinking to pass the board exam but you can't study for that you truly can. It's something that has to be taught. So I teach that to you as we go through the mock exam practice questions, and picking which one answer is the most correct. Two answers will always be correct. One answer will be the most correct so I teach you guys how to do that. Critical thinking and mock exams are difficult to do on your own so let me help you. That is the best way to study so I hope that helps you guys. I hope that helps you get started if you have any questions comment below, and I look forward to teaching you all.