 Hello everybody, Andrea Maesca here with Dental L Tutoring. So it's that time again, it's pretty much always that time. Depending on where you live, you'll probably be taking the board exam soon. It could be a couple months, it could be six months, but there's constantly board exams happening. It just depends on where you live. But in Canada, September is the big month because that seems to be where most people, and when most people, take the board exam. So that's why I'm talking mainly about the board exam. In the past couple of videos that I've done, I do upload videos weekly, so you might have heard me talk a lot about them. But I've been talking to a lot of students who have taken the board exam already two times or even just once. And what a lot of them ask me is, I've taken it once before, I'm as nervous as heck to take it again, because then if I don't pass, I have to take it again. If you're on your third try, that's your last and final try. So people always ask me, can I do something differently to ensure a pass? Why do other people pass and not me? What's going on here? And there's not always an easy answer. If you took the board exam before and you realized that you didn't study nearly enough, that's actually the easiest answer for me to give you, because at least if you know that you didn't study enough, study more. You know to take more time. You know to sign up for a tutoring program, like the one that I offer, to kind of show you guys what to study, how to study, when to study, all of that. But if you've taken the board exam before, and that wasn't necessarily why you weren't successful. So you might be thinking, I studied as much as I could. You know, I studied for six months. I studied this way, that way. I felt I knew the answers. Yeah, sure, some of them were hard, but did it warrant a fail? I don't think so. So that's where things get a little more difficult, because you don't really know why you didn't pass. Even if you are taking the board exam, and you've taken it, and you have a pretty good idea, you got these questions wrong with these questions right, and then it still gives you a fail, right? So you are still unsuccessful. You don't know exactly what happened. So the best thing that I can tell you guys is to take mock exam. So mock exam type packages, especially if you're taking the next board exam soon. Because even if you go through all of your notes, go through the textbooks, read modules, listen to videos, whatever that is, all of that knowledge that you have means nothing if you don't apply it to something. Because you might know all about perio, okay? You might be able to tell me all about perio. You might know as much as I do. But then when I ask you questions and you go, oh, if you ask it that way, I don't know which one of these answers are the most correct. You no longer know everything there is to know about perio. But how would you know that? Unless you took mock exam. So mock exam packages are the best thing to do. Because either you take those mock exam packages on every single topic and do amazing. That's great. Then that tells you you're ready for the test, plain and simple. But usually what happens is people take those mock exam packages and they get some questions wrong, which is okay. But that tells you those types of questions you have to go back and re-study. So let's say you take a mock exam on nutrition. And half of it you get wrong. You need to go back to study nutrition. Because clearly you're missing the mark on something. But the nice thing is you will go back, study that, and do better on the mock exam next time. And then you can take a completely different mock exam on nutrition to really test your knowledge. Because if you're taking the same mock exam over and over and over again, you're going to start to memorize the answers. Even if you don't think you are, you are. And you need to train your mind and practice on different types of mock exam questions. So does that make sense? So that's the best way that I can tell you guys to study. If you're at that point and you're like, I don't know what to study anymore. I have watched every single video, read everything, read all the textbooks, notes, whatever. Look at those mock exam packages. If you need help, I have lots of mock exam packages available. If you're not a dental L member yet, I have every single mock exam package on every single topic inside the board exam prep academy. Okay, so look into that if you haven't yet. Plus there's constantly new new mock exams being uploaded. Because like I said, even if you take one mock exam on oral pathology, you'll need more oral pathology mock exams to really check if you know your stuff. Okay, plus inside of the board exam prep academy, we tutor about three times a month. So I teach you, I do help to answer questions. We go over case studies, mock exams constantly. So it's constantly on repeat, repetition, but new questions each and every time to really train you and test you the best way possible. Plus it's nice because you have me right there to explain to you why this answer is more correct than this one. Because even if you're going through a mock exam package on your own, you don't have somebody like me there to help you teach you like, okay, you got this question wrong. But let me tell you why it's wrong. Let me tell you why this one's wrong, this one's wrong, but this one's right. Let me help to explain it to you. Often it takes two seconds for me to just re-explain something for a student to go, oh, that makes sense. So the board exam prep academy is the best thing because you will have everything in there, mock exams, case studies, modules, videos from 2016, 2017, 2018. I teach you guys three times a month. It's perfect. You'll learn everything, new mock exams all the time, case studies because that's what I do, right? That is what I love to do. I love to teach and I am so happy to help. But if you guys have questions about mock exams, let me know if you're at home, you know, trying to study, look at mock exam packages. If you don't necessarily want to sign up for the board exam prep academy, look into my mock exam packages instead, okay? Because I do sell them per topic as well if that's something that you would like to do instead. So I'll leave the links for you at the bottom there. Make sure to click subscribe because I do upload the videos at least once a week, if not more. So then that way you're not missing any tips, you know, tricks, whatever. Even when you pass the exam, I offer help for dental assistants and dental hygiene, dental hygienists. So I'm always here to help and I am very happy to help. So good luck, happy studying and let me know how you do on your board exam. Okay, you guys have a nice afternoon. Bye.