 Hello everybody Andrea trusty here with dental tutoring. So it's the holidays So the holidays are coming and to study that's probably the last thing that you want to do But you also know that if you take a break over the holidays too much of one Then it might be hard to get back into the swing of things again You might have to study even harder and you're probably thinking well, that's just impossible You know, I have to study over the holidays. So how do I do that? The best thing to do is just to study a little bit every single day because over the holidays You you still need to take it easy, you know, you need to have a life of some kind. I know it's hard I was a student once too and I remember over the holidays That was the only time that I said to myself, okay, I'll study two hours a day. That's it Take it or leave it and I would not study in the morning or the afternoon either because I felt that if I did that I Would say to myself, okay, just another half an hour I'll study for just another half an hour and then before I knew it I was studying for four hours and then thinking to myself, you know, this sucks. I'm a student I know I have to study but now I feel bad because I'm not spending time with my family You know, or I could be thinking why have Christmas shopping to do I would like to do that But then as you're doing your shopping you're thinking about oh shoot. I really should be studying right now Right. So it's kind of like a catch-22 you want to take a break You will want to not study But then if you're not studying you feel like you have to study and then you feel bad for not studying So the best thing to do is to study at night time So depending on when you typically go to bed, you know, nine o'clock ten o'clock midnight, whatever it is Study for at least an hour to two hours at the most Because that will make you tired and then put you to sleep which helps and then you also feel like you were able to Do everything that you had to do during the day and have a nice time But then at night when you don't have to do anything that is your time to study And another thing to kind of help you guys with is to study your topic first, you know study your textbook Module whichever way you prefer and then after you have that topic pretty much set in your mind Do a mock exam or a case studies package and then see how much You know or how much you thought you know, but you don't know at all. So let's say you're studying the topic Desensitizing agents. Okay, so that will take you more than two hours to study It might take you two hours on Friday two hours on Saturday and maybe even two hours on Sunday That's okay. So study the whole thing and Know it as best as you can and then do a mock exam on that topic And you know that if you do Amazing on the mock exam, you can say, okay, so I know this topic pretty well So now I can put it away and you can feel good about putting it away and then study another topic Whereas if you said to yourself, oh geez I did the mock exam and I did horrible I got like half of it wrong So then that tells you that you have to spend another two hours looking at that topic now if you've been say Doing the topic for maybe eight hours in total. You should have a pretty good knowledge on that Okay, so if you don't do well on the mock exam, then that means you're not studying properly So if you study say for two hours on Friday night two hours on Saturday night and then two hours on Sunday night But if you're constantly looking at your cell phone if you're checking emails every ten minutes if you're Doing laundry, you know, that's not proper studying. So lock yourself away study for two hours Okay, no, you know eating answering cell phone and no checking emails No putting laundry in for like ten minutes none of that study for the full two hours and then that's it Because as a student that's what I used to do all the time where I would study for ten minutes And then go oh, I have to use the washroom and then I go oh well since I'm up. I'll make a snack Oh, well since I'm up. I will watch a show while I'm eating, you know But then I would think that I would be studying for an hour. Well, it was actually ten minutes So I might have thought that I was doing a good job studying but I really wasn't so pay attention to that too Make sure to study and be as um as focused. I guess is possible So I hope that helps over the holidays because you do still have to study to sort of keep everything in your mind But I know it's a lot harder to study, but you still need to have a life too So let me know if that helps you and that always helped me and thank you so much for watching