 Hello, everybody. Andrew Majeski here with Dental Tutoring. So let's talk about if you are a student, so either a dental hygiene student or a dental assisting student, and you're wondering, do I take the board exam sooner rather than later, or is it better to wait to have some time to actually study more and then take the board exam after that? So this is a common question that I do get from a lot of people, and I've been tutoring now for about 14 years, so I kind of see a trend, okay? And this is what the trend is. So the short answer is take it now. The sooner you take the board exam, the better, but unless you just don't feel comfortable taking it now gives you anxiety, then don't do it, but have a plan to take it the next time around. Don't wait six months, don't wait a year if you can help it, because yes, you'll have more time to study, yes, but life gets in the way. You will not study straight for six months. You will be at a point where you're thinking, okay, I think I studied everything I have to study, I'm going to take a break, and then you don't look at your notes for two months and then you get back into them again and you kind of feel like you don't know anything. I hear this all the time, plus it causes unnecessary stress on you. If you wait a year, you are nervous to begin with because you feel I have waited way too long, oh my goodness, can I do this? Whereas if you take the board exam as soon as possible, that whole unnecessary stress isn't even there because you just don't have that, right? Because you are taking it right away. You will be nervous because you haven't taken it before, you don't know what to expect, but you can do it. If you're thinking, okay, I don't know anything, I have to study, then study, have a plan. But taking it sooner rather than later is always a better plan. A lot of students might say to me, well, I could take it like next month, but there's so much happening, I think I'll just take it the next time around. That's okay, yes it is, but have a plan to study because you will forget things. And even when you take the board exam, even if you don't know everything, you'll at least be able to read the questions and say, okay, this question kind of sounds familiar. Okay, I don't know the answer, but I know that this answer, C is wrong, D is wrong. So it's either A or B. Whereas if you take it six months later, a year later, you're not able to recognize things because you have waited so long, it's more of, oh shoot, I probably studied that six months ago, I don't remember what that is, so I don't know the answer at all. So does that make sense? It's just so much better to take it right away. But if you're watching this and you're thinking, okay, it's been six months and I'm taking the board exam next month, oh my goodness, I've already probably, I'm not gonna pass. No, that's not the case. So if you're watching this and you're like, okay, I was that person who waited six months, but now I have to take it again. That's okay. The best word of advice that I can give you is study everything. Do not think, okay, I'm pretty good with oral pathology, but I'm not so good with pharmacology. So I'm just gonna say pharmacology, I should be okay with the other stuff. It's so easy to forget the other stuff. Even I tell people who have taken the board exam before, don't only study what you think or you know, you did not know. Study everything again because you won't remember everything, trust me. If you need help, let me know because I do have a 30 day express board exam prep full course where if you're like, okay, I'm taking the board exam next month, I don't have a lot of time to study, I have like a month, that's it. What do I do? So I do now have that. You will learn everything you have to know in 30 days. You will get all of the case studies, the math exams, the PowerPoints right away, but I do sort of, I break it into weeks for you. So like study the first weeks, study this the second week, the third week and the fourth week. But if you have more time to study, say you have two months or more, I do suggest the full board exam prep academy because I go through everything one by one, case studies, math exams, everything, plus there is live tutoring. So with me, so if you have questions, I'm the one to ask, right? Everybody always has questions. So the full board exam prep academy does have tutoring with me about twice a month. So you can have full access to everything. Plus it does have all of our tutoring sessions for this year, last year and I believe 2017 too. So you can watch everything while you're doing laundry, eating, so you're always studying, which is kind of nice, right? Summer is coming. So as long as you have access to your cell phone, iPad, laptop, whatever, you can study on the go. So that's kind of nice because I want everybody to pass, okay? Don't be nervous, you can pass. So let me know if you need help. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys in the next one.