 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental L. So I have been tutoring teaching for about 16 years now and I truly love what I do dental is my passion and it really hurts my heart when I get students you know emailing me. You know, calling me talking to me. They're nearly in tears because they're so stressed out believe me. It's normal to be stressed out before you take an exam you're talking about the board exam here. You've spent all that time, all that money, all those clinical hours in school, and then you have to prove yourself again and take a board exam. And not, not a lot of people can take exams you know you're going to get nervous you're going to blank you, you know sometimes I say it might even be better to take it verbally sometimes but that's just another can of worms right. But so I want to help you guys really try to overcome that stress you're going to be stressed you're going to be overwhelmed, but I want to teach you guys how to study for the board exam to make it a little bit easier for you. And that's why I started the board exam prep Academy. I also have another course now, which is an express course for those of you who have studied for the most part. I don't know if you're here, but you just want to review everything to make sure you have what you need to pass the exam, or you just have a month left to study, and you can only do so much okay so I have two separate courses I had the board exam prep Academy, and then I have the express course, the board exam prep Academy has everything. I encourage students to sign up for that at least six months before they take the exam. And for both courses, you have full access until you pass the exam okay for the express course it's a little bit shorter just because it's a express course, and you have about nine months there but if you need more time, let me know. But how to be how to feel better about everything so you're not just opening up the textbooks you're not looking at the course and you're being like oh my God where do I start. So for both courses, and I'll leave the links for you guys down below in the description for both courses once you log in you will see modules right there for you. I tell all my students study the modules first that are easier for you so if you always liked nutrition in school study that module first because each module is several hours long it's not going to take you 10 minutes. For each module you will see PowerPoints you will see videos and quizzes, because everybody has different learning styles so I do a little bit of everything, and then put everything together so if you like to just read PowerPoints and take your own notes. So here are PowerPoints there for you, if you prefer to hear me talking to you and teaching you a lesson, there are videos there for you. If you prefer to take quizzes to see well do I know the information first do I need to study this. I have quizzes there for you and what I like about the quizzes is they are now interactive. So you take the quizzes you have the question you have the answers multiple choice of course. Once you pick the right answer or you pick your answer, it tells you right away if the answers right or not so you don't have to guess. Did I get the answer right I don't know so I go through all of that with you to make it as less stressful as possible. It's going to be stressful you're going to have to study a lot I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you. So inside the course, it's nicely laid out so you know exactly what to study, plus, you get full access to our members only Facebook group so that means you have full access to me. You can post in the Facebook group anytime, and other students can help you but also I am there to help you to, and we still have live classes twice a month where it's a question answer class so you guys ask me anything. I'm right there to answer for you. We also go through lectures mock exams and case study so I'm constantly teaching you. I'm constantly reviewing with you all of the materials so you're never on your own. Another way to really avoid as much stress as possible is get a study plan, get your own you know calendar just for studying your calendar agenda, whatever they have them at the dollar store. Don't spend a ton of money, get your own just for studying and make a plan. So every Monday you're going to study pharmacology for two hours in the morning. And then you have time Monday evening so you're going to study four hours of oral pathology. And then the next day will maybe you're tired because you also had school the previous day and you had to work so you take a day off. On Wednesday, you are going to spend six hours studying, you know oral pathology nutrition pharmacology, I don't know special needs, whatever, but make a plan. And why do I say that because once you're done studying, check it off. It's human nature once we see something checked off or crossed out we go, Oh, I did it it's perfect. Another tip is don't study for more than six hours every day, and a minimum of two hours that's focused studying right there. If you're studying for nine hours every day your brain can't retain it. You're going to get more stressed out but also listen to yourself, if you're studying today, and you're just not learning anything you're not retaining your mind is somewhere else you know what take the day off you guys, because if you try to study when you're just focused you're not ready, your mind's on something else you're sick, you're tired from being in school all day from working all day, you're not going to retain anything so I know I said to study at least two hours every day, but if you're not going to retain the information, take that day off and then make up for it the next day does that make sense, but you guys reach out to me I'm so happy to help I will leave the links for you down below. That's the board exam prep Academy that's the full board exam prep course. That's the one I highly recommend because it goes through everything. Even if you've taken the board exam before and you haven't passed. Sign up for the board exam prep Academy because it goes through everything. If you've taken the board exam before I'm going to tell you study as if it's your first time. Just be like, Oh, I know this I'm not going to study that Oh I know this to I'm not going to study that you don't know it. That's why you weren't successful the first time okay trust me on this trust me. Don't yell at me trust me. And then I do also have the express course, the express course is for students who are thinking to themselves I just have a month left to study I can't do the full board exam prep Academy. So I'm going to do the express course, do the express course because you have, you know, you have that time but it's, it's, it's more condensed. So it's not as full as the board exam prep Academy it's more condensed. It's more for just the basic review. So you know the pinpoints what you're really need to know to pass any questions you guys let me know. I'm going to be talking to everybody soon and teaching you soon, depending on when you're watching the video our next live class is actually on Saturday, where we're going through some major case studies students always love those. So thank you guys again comment below if you need anything, click like to this video that really does help my channel and that helps me offer more free content for you. If you're not a subscriber yet you should be because I always upload new videos and I'm always helping. Any comments I do videos based on those comments based on the more common questions, because I don't know what you guys don't know so tell me comment ask questions I'm here to help. This is what I do. So thank you guys so much. I will see you guys very very soon.