 Hello everybody. My name is Andrea. I have been the owner, creator, the tutor of Dental Health Tutoring since 2005. That's a long time. So I have been helping dental hygiene students and dental assisting students pass the board exam. That is like my full-time job and I love doing it. I remember back in 2005 when I was tutoring in person because that's just what you did. And even back then I was like a mini entrepreneur. I was 19. I was a mini entrepreneur and I'm kind of like, okay, all of these students need my help. They're awesome. They're paying me, but I'm exhausted. Like I can't be doing this. I like tutoring for like three hours per day, per student. Oh my god. So I started my own thing online and back then that was such a new thing. People were kind of like, no, I'd rather in person. Well, it's going to cost twice the price because I have to come to you. It's just a lot harder for me one-on-one. Do you have anybody else who wants to join in on this tutoring session? You can split the cost. No, I just want in person. And I'm like, really? I'm making more money, but it was a lot of work, you guys, right? So well, for me. So I started the whole online thing, but it took several years for it to really take off. And now fast forward to 2022. Online is the thing, especially with COVID, the pandemic. Nobody wanted to get together in person. We couldn't get together in person. We were on lockdown. You still have to study. You still have to learn. So online has become so much more popular. But even just a couple of years before COVID online was still popular, but I still have the odd student that says to me, do you have a textbook? Do you have a book? Do you have a review book that I can study from? And I say, no. And I'm going to tell you why online studying is so much easier, so much better. You will retain more information and you will pass your exam. If you had a choice online versus a book, I'm going to tell you every time online, your brain studies better, you will pass. And I'm going to tell you why. So I'm going to give you specifics now. So hang in there. So when you have a book, correct me if I'm wrong, feel free to comment. But don't you just want to highlight everything, whether it be a textbook, a mock exam, review book, you just want to highlight everything. Let me tell you a little secret. If you highlight everything, you're learning nothing. So when I teach my courses online in PowerPoint, I have basically taken a textbook, let's see, I'm just going to take out a random textbook you guys right now. Sorry, I'm trying to grab it. It's like falling behind my desk here. So let's just take this one. Okay, you could open this book and highlight everything. And but okay, can you really study all of this? Come on, you guys and retain the information? No, this is the difference between the students that pass and the students that do not pass. I take this whole textbook, plus like six more, and I put them into PowerPoints per topic, pharmacology, one PowerPoint, dental materials, one PowerPoint, but it's not 500 page PowerPoints. It's to the point it's specific. So you read through the PowerPoints, sure, go ahead, you can highlight things, you know, you can do that online, highlight what you want, feel free to print what you want as well, but you will still learn so much more quicker, better, and you will retain the information for you to highlight a chapter from here, I should just leave this here because I'm going to use this as an example for you to highlight a chapter from here, it's going to take you four hours for you to read my pharmacology PowerPoint, it's going to take you two hours to go through everything. And you're going to retain all of that information. And you know, I've been tutoring for the board exam specifically since 2005. So you know, I know what I'm doing, you know I can help you pass. Is this book, can you pass the board exam? Does it say on here, you will pass the board exam and 99% success rate? No, it doesn't. My course does, I can help you guys pass. So stop highlighting from a book, from a textbook online is where it's at. Another reason why I love online is instead of carrying around this big heavy textbook on the bus to work when you visit your grandparents, when you're, I don't know, going shopping and you're eating lunch and want to study, I used to do that. Do other people not do that? I used to do that. Seriously, I did. But this is a lot harder to carry around than this or your cell phone. You can upload the materials to your cell phone to your tablet. So that way you have everything there and you can study on the go. It's a lot harder to study on the go from a textbook and just be like, okay, when am I going to study today, Andrea? Let's study. Oh, look at that oral pathology. Let's look at all the notes I highlighted. Let's just pretend it's all highlighted. Okay, I learned nothing. So you could be studying on the bus for one hour or wherever for one hour. All you were doing was highlighting. Did you actually study when you were highlighting? No. Versus online, you're reading and you're learning. And I have it in those PowerPoints in such a way to make it easier for you to understand and to study. It's not in another language like the textbook can do sometimes. I speak your language because I'm a tutor. I help you guys. That's why I get paid the money. I help you guys pass the board exam. And it works. People have passed. People have come to me from other programs where they do get a full review book. But guess what? It didn't help them. And did they get full tutoring support? No. Brings me to my next point. I offer full tutoring support. When you become a member of the Board Exam Prep Academy, which I have all the links for you guys down below, when you become a member, you get full access to our private members only Facebook page. You can network with other students. But I post every day mock exam questions. Every week there's a new topic that we're talking about together in Facebook. I hop on like this in video on Facebook where I'm talking about a new topic every week. Whereas if you have a textbook, you're going to go to yourself, okay, what am I going to study this week? I don't know. Let me just pick a chapter. Clinical dental hygiene. Let's just study that. That's what it says. I'm going to study that this week. But is that a plan? Are you on a mission? Are you going to learn anything? No. And you might study that this week. And then six weeks forget you studied it. Go through it again. That's a waste of your time. Whereas if you take a tutoring program like mine, as soon as you sign up, I tell you what to study, when to study, how to study, how long to study. I'm very specific. I tell you guys how many hours per week, per topic, whatever you need, I help you. If you work full time and have five kids and say to me, I don't have six hours a day to study. Tell me that. And I am going to make another plan for you. I'm going to tell you, you're going to have to study longer. Can you study two hours a day? But I'm going to tell you to do this and this, this day, this and this, the next day, I'm going to formulate a plan for you. Can you get that from a textbook? Is a textbook going to tell you how to study, when to study, how many hours to study? If you have five kids, how you should study differently, what if you've taken the board exam before? You need to study differently to pass the second time. Does a textbook tell you that? No. But I do and I'm here to help you guys. This is my job. So if I haven't convinced you yet why online is better than a textbook than a review book, comment below because I'd love to answer your questions. But I would also love to hear your thoughts. Do you honestly say, you know what? No, a textbook is still easier for me. Or do you say, you know, Andrea, you're right. Okay. I hate studying from a textbook. I took another tutoring course that didn't work for me. I failed. I need help. Comment below. I am here to help. So I'm going to leave the links for you guys down below. Check them out. I do Board Exam Prep Academy. So full Board Exam Prep courses for dental hygiene and dental assisting students for Canada. And then there's also a separate one for the U.S. I've been studying, studying. I've been teaching since 2005, you guys. So I can and I will help you pass. So check out the links, click like to this video. That would be super cool. And if you haven't yet, make sure to come back every Monday and every Thursday because I do upload new videos. That's a new thing as of last this week. It's Sunday. So this week, that's a new thing. So keep checking back Mondays and Thursdays. Make sure to hit subscribe if you haven't yet. That's a very easy way to get the new videos every week to a week. If there's a video that you want me to talk about something you want me to discuss, teach you, let me know. Thank you guys so much for watching. Good luck. Sign up below for my course. I look forward to teaching you guys. Okay. Bye for now.