 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental ill tutoring I have been tutoring students for about 17 years how to pass the board exam and dental assisting students there's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way to do it. The best thing you can do is really formulate a plan and study every day with taking breaks, but there are certain things that I want you guys to study first and then certain things that I want you guys to leave until the end. So let me explain that a little bit. When you're first starting to study, do not take mock exams, multiple choice questions, none of that because you're not going to know the answers because you haven't studied yet. Even if you're thinking I've been in school for the past two years four years depending on your program. I know a little bit, you'd be surprised okay so don't take mock exams until later on towards the end. So you don't get disappointed in yourself because that's the thing about studying. If you're not focused or if you feel like you're not retaining information. You are tired you're exhausted you're upset and you stop studying, or you continue to study but it's not focused studying so you might be studying for five hours, but you're not retaining any information that's the worst thing to do. The best thing to do a one is to formulate a plan. So aim to study at least two hours every day with the maximum of six hours. Two hours is if you have a full time job if you're in school all day long. I don't expect you to go home and study for six hours but I do expect you to study for two hours. It could be an hour in the morning on the bus as you're going to school and then an hour at night as you're winding down for bed studying will put you to sleep trust me. So kind of formulate a plan that way if you have kids. If again you work full time it's going to be nearly impossible to study for six hours every day. But those that are able to study for two hours a day, you're going to be studying for longer, and it's going to take you longer to retain the information if you're able to really focus. So let's say you don't have a full time job you do have more time to study and you can manage six hours a day. You can take more breaks you can take more days off. So I might suggest studying six times a day, but then take off Saturday and Sunday because your brain needs a break, but don't study a straight six hours do it in shifts. You can take two hours in the morning, two hours sometimes in the afternoon and two hours in the evening you do need that break, and what to study really depends on you. I find some students like to study say oral pathology like for the one day and then the next day they're going to move on to special needs, but in my. Sorry guys I thought I heard something that was weird. Anyways, in my, nobody's home so kind of creeped me a little bit. Anyways, what I'd suggest doing though is to really break it up so two hours study special needs two hours in the afternoon study oral pathology two hours study pharmacology, that will help, you know, mix things up so your brain isn't bored so you're not not bored and you're not tired. That's what I suggest doing. If you're interested in what to study, definitely sign up for my board exam prep Academy where there's modules. I tell you what to study every day how long to study certain topics. I do all of that with you so I'm going to leave the link for you guys down below for the board exam prep Academy. It's full training online, you get PowerPoints, you get videos, you talk with me live at least once a month sometimes we go through mock exam questions, answers, rationale case studies critical thinking. It's a full online program to help you guys pass the board exam, and also includes interactive quizzes, but also a private Facebook group for students only so you have full access to all of our session recordings as well for the past two years so let's say tonight you are focusing on oral pathology and then you're saying Andrea I kind of want to listen to you teach a video on oral pathology I am bored reading. Well guess what inside the board exam prep Academy you can go in there online look up oral pathology teaching video right there I have several so it kind of helps to break up your studying a bit too. It's easier for you I teach you how to study what to study and when to study and I break things up so you're not just reading your textbook reading your notes from school it's so much more than that. So, that's what I want you guys to do study two to six hours every day. If you're able to study six hours, take a break, take a day off. If it's only two hours every day I do not suggest taking a day off, ever. You can take a day off but don't do it after the first day, maybe do it after two weeks of studying two hours every day, you will start to kind of get an inkling of how much you're able to retain. Okay, and then you can take a day off if you feel you had a good day studying, but something else that I'd like to mention to you which might surprise you. Listen to your body, if you're really tired that day you've been studying for two hours and you're just not getting the information. Take the day off it's not your day to study it's truly not. But let's say on the opposite side of things you're having a great day, you just studied for six hours you feel good you are learning a lot. Study another hour study another two hours, take advantage and really listen to your body. Towards the end, let's say you have two months left until the board exam. That is when you want to take mock exam practice tests. Because then, if you think you know all about special needs, you take a mock exam practice tests and you didn't do well. That's telling you you need to study more of special needs to get the idea. Inside the board exam prep Academy, I have quizzes as well. Tons of mock exams per topic so you don't have to make them yourself. You don't have to pay for more. They're all inside the course. Okay, you guys so some fun tips to study for you. Please let me know if any questions I am so happy to help. Thank you guys for watching please click like if you like this video. Please make sure to hit the subscribe button that does help me and my channel. I really appreciate it. So thank you guys so much. And I look forward to seeing you guys inside the board exam prep Academy where you get to meet me. Unofficially, I talked to you just like this one on one as a group. We will have fun studying believe or not. Thank you guys. Bye for now.