 Hello, everybody. Good afternoon. Andrea Majeski here with Dental Health Tutoring. So you might be wondering when should you start to study for the board exam? So this applies to dental hygiene students and dental assisting students as well. When I took the board exam, I remember it like it was yesterday for dental assisting specifically and I do remember for dental hygiene too. So for dental assisting, I probably studied about three or four months in advance but it was because I had a busy school schedule and I worked evenings. So I didn't really have a lot of time to study so I wanted to study far enough in advance so that I could do a little bit every single day like an hour or two hours at night time and that's it. Whereas I didn't want to be studying like five or six hours a day because I just didn't have time for that. I was still in school. I had to work and on weekends. I wanted to have some fun, right? I became a dental assistant at age 19. So I was still young. But for dental hygiene, it was pretty much the same thing though. I was in school all day. I was living in Toronto. So I worked in the evenings too, not every evening, but almost every evening. But I did study on the weekends as well because the dental hygiene board exam, I just kind of felt like it was a more intense board exam. Plus I had a job waiting for me literally the day after I passed. So no pressure, but I kind of had to pass. So I was really, really doing as much as I could. So I did study three or four months prior. And that's what I tell all of my students when they ask me. If they say when should I start to study for the board exam? I say if you can, study four months prior. Three months is okay too. But I do also tell those students who are coming to me a month before they take the exam and say I'm starting to study now. What should I do? So if you're literally studying a month before, there is still hope. Don't worry, but you do have to study every day. I'm talking five hours every single day, okay? Two hours, two, six hours at the most. But if you're studying a month before and you just started, study five hours every single day. But that's where it gets tricky because life gets in the way, right? One day you might be sick. But if you take that day off before the month before the exam and you don't study, you're in trouble. I'm being honest, but you will be in trouble. Or let's say your sister has a full birthday weekend and you don't have time to study because you're out of town, you know, who wants to lug their textbooks everywhere. Too bad. You are going to have to because if you left it for a month before the exam, you have to be studying every day. Okay, every day. But if you were smarter, you know, sorry, I have to say that. But if you were smart and you have three or four months before the exam, if your sister's having a birthday weekend, take it off. You need a break, okay? Because you have been studying as much as possible beforehand and heck, you have four months left. So two days or three days is not going to harm you, right? Let's say you are sick for a whole week. Don't study. Focus on getting better because if you start to study four months before the exam, you have time, right? Because life gets in the way. Either you are sick, someone else is sick. You have kids. You have to take care of them. You have pets. They might be sick. You have to take care of them. Your best friend's moving and needs your help. You're moving. Maybe you're getting married. Maybe it's Christmas. Maybe it's Thanksgiving. Maybe it's Halloween. Maybe it's summer. You know, life gets in the way. So study in plenty of time. And if you need help in my full course, the Board Exam Prep Academy, you will now have eight months full access. So remember how I said four months or three months before the exam is a good idea to start to study? Well, I take it a step further and you have a full eight months access. So sign up now because why not? You can study a little bit every single day or even study a little bit every Friday night and that's it or Monday morning or whatever, right? But with the full eight months access to everything, you have nothing to lose because you have everything. Study a little bit at a time so it's a lot easier for you. You have full access to all of the mock exams, all of the case studies, all of the modules. We do live tutoring about three times a month, sometimes four. There's a private Facebook group also. So you have full access to all of that. And for a limited time, I'll put the link on the bottom there in the description. For a limited time, you have full access also for free. All of the 2016 and 2017 session recordings. So all of our sessions. Sorry, my dog's barking. Hold on, guys. Of course, the mailman's here. Sorry, guys. I probably should have clicked pause, but I didn't think about that at the time. Tom is home so he was able to answer the door. But I apologize if you guys can hear my dog's barking. I have three dogs so sorry if you guys can hear that. But let me think. What was I saying? I think I was talking about full access to the 2016 and 2017 recordings, I believe, right? So you guys have full access to all of that for free. And you might be thinking, well, that's kind of old news like 2016, 2017, but not really. Because if you guys have your textbooks from school, they're probably at least five years old, right? But all of that same stuff will be on the board exam. So why not utilize as much as possible? And I'm including them for free. For a limited time, though, you guys. So this will not be for forever. Usually I charge for that package. So the 2016 and 2017 videos, $200 plus. So you get full access to all of that for free when you sign up for the board exam prep academy. Plus all mock exams, all modules, all tutoring, everything. So it's really, really nice. And I do have a 100% satisfaction and guarantee. So if you do not pass your exam after tutoring with me, you will have the full course again free of charge. So you do not have to have to pay for anything the second time. So I hope that helps. It should. You might as well sign up, make it so much easier for you. Trust me, you will feel so much more confident and so much less stressed out. So if you guys have questions, let me know. And thank you so much for watching. And I'll see you guys at the next one.