 Hello everybody, Andrea Mayesca here with Dental Elm. So I have been tutoring now for about 14 years. I love it I've come a long way from tutoring each and every student in person spending hours and hours in like travel time a day in Toronto at the time to doing it online so that I can tutor So so many more people which is so nice But a common question is How do you tell your students? How do you help your students and how do students pass the board exam? How do dental hygienists who are new dental hygienists? How do new dental assistants? How did they pass? You know, what did they do? How do they study? Tell me everything. Tell me your tips and tell me your secrets So let me tell you the easiest way to pass the board exam The easiest way is to plan ahead. So I do have about five tips for you. So keep watching Okay, they are all very important. So the ones I'm talking about aren't in any in particular order But they're all very important. So one of them is to plan ahead if you plan to study for the board exam a month before You are going to feel rushed if you're sick for three days knock on wood those three days are Wasted right like you're not you're not doing anything So you will feel rushed if you feel rushed you don't pass if you feel rushed There's that pressure. You don't feel confident. You don't pass another Tip is to study in advance So not a month before not two months before but study at least three months before even six months. Why not I? Had studied for the board exam at least three months before But it was more like six months because I knew I'd be taking the exam So if I ever had a night to myself, I told myself, okay I'm going to prepare some notes to study for the board exam Because I knew it's coming up and trust me if you're taking the board exam while you're still in school You're going to have projects and tests and clinicals and patients all at the same time So having a plan makes a big difference. So what do I mean by plan? I mean, don't just open up your notebook and Study do not study from your notes. Do not study from your notes because those notes are Little pieces from Topics basically right you can study from your notes, but don't do that first because Things won't be in proper order. So if you really wanted to get a good head start I suggest if you haven't signed up for my tutoring program, okay So if you haven't signed up for my my tutoring program Open up a textbook and read a chapter at least a day. The chapters are very dry So if I haven't said it again, you should sign up for my tutoring course Because in the board exam prep Academy You don't have to even open up your textbook because I have all of the modules there for you for only what you have to know For the exam. So take pharmacology Everybody hates that if you go to look in your textbook to study pharmacology It's I don't even know how long how many chapters, but it's long, right? So you even opening up your textbook after the second page. You're going to fall asleep Whereas if you're inside my course the board exam prep Academy I have a module not ten modules, but a module one module on pharmacology You you read that it will probably take about four hours So maybe do like an hour this day an hour that day, but that's it That's all you have to know for pharmacology Study that you will pass your exam because another tip is if you study too much You're not helping yourself, and then you tend to overthink too many questions If you don't study enough, you're obviously not prepared if you study the wrong things You're not prepared. There's nothing worse than taking a whole Saturday studying Special needs patients yet on the board exam. There's nothing about what you had studied and you're thinking I spent two days studying the heart, you know as an example There's nothing on the heart on the board exam So you need help from me to show you guys What's been on the board exam the type of topics the type of questions? To train yourself to pick the best answer because two answers are always correct But you have to pick the best one and how how do you learn how to do that from a textbook? You can't how do you learn how to do that from your notes? You can't Let me teach you guys because in school They are just teaching you everything, right? They don't have time to say, okay Now we're going to take a board exam prep class. We don't have time for that when I was in school the board exam prep Class was reading through chapters of the textbook. No, thanks. I can do that on my own time So if you have that I don't suggest reading those chapters like one by one by one because you will be exhausted so All in all I can help you pass sign up for the board exam prep Academy I make it so much easier for you but sign up at least three months in advance But another way the easiest way to pass is take mock exams If you're about to do the board exam and you haven't taken any mock exams yet. Oh my gosh That's just scary. Take a mock exam. Take tons of them Test your knowledge test your skills and I did just upload my app the other day So it's brand new a full board exam prep app for dental hygiene students dental assisting Thousands of questions. Okay, I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom. Check it out You can study from anywhere while you're waiting for somebody while you're on the bus while you're Waiting for a patient in clinic while you're at the grocery store But you can take out your phone and you know even just do a couple of questions, right? Don't log that textbook around Another way to easily pass is to not be nervous, but that's easier said than done I get it but people get nervous when they take the exam and they don't pass They take the exam again a second time and don't pass they get nervous when they're not prepared They get nervous when they take a mock exam and get all the questions wrong and they and they just feel like they know nothing So let me help you I can walk you through all of that So you feel confident and I work with you until you do feel confident If you have absolutely no confidence whatsoever now, maybe you've taken the exam a couple times Work with me. I can help you guys we tutor online about twice a month and at least We just did a session a mock exam and case study session on the pregnant patient the week before that Shoot, I think it was an anatomy and medical emergencies So it was all mock exam questions and case studies So I constantly train you guys if you get an answer or sorry if you get Yeah, if you get an answer wrong I Stop I I Explain it. I tell you guys why the other answers were not correct and then you're like, oh, I get it now But that's not it, right? We don't just simply end there We go on to the next question same thing the next question will be even harder So I don't get easy questions because that's not helping you I get hard ones. So That helps too So all in all the easiest way to pass the exam if you haven't yet is I can help you guys Because I will show you guys how to study what to study when to study not too much not too little You can look through your textbooks if you do that read all of the chapters Try not to fall asleep, but that's the best way because from your notes you might kind of Like have it in bits and pieces and then it kind of makes you more confused Feel free to listen to what I have also on YouTube because if you're thinking okay, I can't read anymore then listen to me teach, right? I will teach you I will help you even if you're not part of the actual program yet I have tons of like I have tons on my YouTube channel Just type in a topic under my channel Link and they will pop up. So I can help you guys. I've been I've been doing this now for several years So trust me, there's tons of videos. I don't even know how many videos I have but I have tons like oral pathology I have pharmacology. I have tons So I hope that helped you guys any questions Let me know make sure to hit subscribe because I love to see how many people are actually watching and I have Uploading the videos quite often now like at least weekly if not more so have a good weekend and I'll see you guys in the next one