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Beating a High Stakes Test: Flashcards, Grit and Time (A Student Story)

• William Wadsworth • Episode 203

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We're back today for another Student Story: celebrating successfully beating a high-stakes test, and learning all the study techniques that made the difference between pass and fail.

Our guest today is veterinary dermatologist Alissa, who confidently passed her specialist exam after spending some time as my coaching client - she put in the hard work, studied smarter and took home a well-deserved win.

Alissa shares her practical tips on what made the difference to her confidence and studying success:

  • how she learnt to balance a schedule of digital studying with the demands of a hectic family life  
  • how she prioritised effective flashcard technique for an information-heavy exam 
  • mastering holistic, calming exam tactics to make a difference on the day 
  • and the benefits of working with a study coach (me!) to personalise the techniques we discuss here on the podcast to your own needs

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SPEAKER_02:

Hello and welcome to the Exam Study Expert Podcast. I'm your host, William Wadsworth, learning and memory psychologist, and complete nerd about studying effectively and helping you ace your exams the smart way. You're listening to the show that's had over one million downloads to date from students around the world, and we've had so many success stories in that time from students who have been successful using the advice they've learned on the show, and in many cases from listeners who've been working with me privately as their exam coach too. One such listener is here with me on the show today. She was facing her third attempt at a challenging professional certification exam as a veterinary specialist in veterinary dermatology, of all things. She was reaching out to to actually do a little bit of private coaching with me as as as we did, and she'd written the following. I've been a veterinarian for many years, and I successfully passed my certification to become a vet on the first try in back in 2005 with an 85 score, which is a very good score. She'd done very well. She writes, I'm no longer 25 and single, uh, so I do feel very disorganized on some days, and there's a huge amount to memorize for this exam. I've listened to approximately 70 of your podcast, which have helped, and well gosh, thank you for listening to all those episodes. Uh, and I'm restructuring the way I create my flashcards. Uh, but I still find myself doing some of my old habits, uh, for example, rereading material, watching pre-recorded webinars, uh, and I don't know how to prioritize my time and and and fit everything in effect. So when we met and we we had a bit of a chat, we identified three pillars we'd be working on together. We wanted to help her optimise her approach uh to learning effectively, especially given that challenge of having, you know, a really huge amount she needed to learn in a relatively limited available amount of time. Secondly, we wanted to help her stay organized, prioritize what she was working on, balance her different commitments in the different areas of life, job, family, with carving out some time for study, um, and also just helping infuse a little bit more of a sense of calm and feeling in control throughout the process. And she did a really fantastic job and aced her exam on the next attempt. So much so that she was actually invited by the exam board that sets this exam uh to come back and give a talk at a big conference for the following year's exam candidates about uh you know what she did, how she was so successful, uh, the ingredients that had uh had allowed her to do so well uh in on that final attempt. And so I thought it would be a a really nice uh conversation to bring her onto the show today to talk through some of those big learnings from her and what she learned along the way and how she and ultimately ended up being so successful. So this episode forms part of our ever-popular student story series where we take perhaps a little bit of a pause on learning brand new theory, uh brand new strategies, and really kind of dive deep into a real case study from a real student who has actually put that theory, put those strategies into action, how they did it exactly, what they learned along the way, any tips or tricks they figured out uh that they can share with us all here on the show uh to help us all make progress. And there's quite a lot of detail, sort of practical, tactical things in this conversation today. So if you're facing a challenging exam of any kind on the horizon, uh be sure to listen in closely today. Uh, there's some really interesting detail uh that I think you'll likely find quite instructive. So without further ado, let's dive right in. So, Alyssa, a very warm welcome to the Exam Study Expert Podcast.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_02:

It's great to catch up again. So I I wonder, just for sort of a little bit of a context for people, if we could maybe just you take us right back to give us a sort of a bit of a sense of Alyssa the scholar, take us back to I even like college or or even high school. Like what kind of a student were you back then? Like how would you characterize yourself? How was your work effort? Did you kind of pick things up easily? Yeah, just give us a bit of a sense of kind of who you were as a as a student back in your kind of full-time studying days.

SPEAKER_01:

Sure. Well, I think when I was younger and I had um, I didn't have the family obligations and the distractions at home. I was a very type A personality and very OCD about being organized. And I did quite well in classes. I did well through high school. I received a four-year bachelor degree from college, and then I received my doctorate in veterinary medicine in 2006, and I did very well in my um veterinary medical examination. I didn't need to do any retake situation, or um, it was a really easy process for me. Moving into my career, I did a lot of clinical work for well over 15 years before I approached this exam. And I started a residency program later in life. I guess 12 years into working is when I started a three-year residency program. Um, and it was definitely a big gap from being in an academia environment and being a single person to having a family. Um, I'm a mother with three children, so I have a lot going on in my household. So it was a different experience being an older student, circling back to learning how to study again.

SPEAKER_02:

Right, right. I'm sure we'll get into some of the some of the challenges and how you ultimately overcame them in in a moment. For those of us that are listening that that aren't uh veterined or even medical specialists, what is a residency? Kind of where does that fit into the career journey of a, in your case, a vetmed uh specialist?

SPEAKER_01:

I'm a veterinary dermatologist. So for veterinary dermatology, we specialize in skin problems, dermatologic issues, allergies, ear, nose, and throat issues. So it's a pretty complex and intense program. And we have a three-year postdoctorate training program or residency program that's involved to uh obtain board certification. So, you know, certainly taking a little bit of time away from academia and then going back into a program this intense is a process. And it took some time to kind of get back into the mode. My clinical practice skills were excellent, and I have been doing it for some time, but getting back into the mode of studying and root memorization was a learning curve again.

SPEAKER_02:

It was a learning curve, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And your exam in particular, and how sort of easy or challenging is that exam generally regarded as being by by people in the field?

SPEAKER_01:

It's pretty intense. There's about 400 board-certified veterinary dermatologists in the American College of Veterinary Dermatology throughout North America. We also have some board-certified dermatologists in Australia that are part of our program. And then certainly there's other programs like the European College of Veterinary Dermatology or the ECVD. Um, and there's an Asian program now for board certification, but there is a lot to the certification process. You have to do a lot of clinical training hours, you have to publish a paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. You need to um at the time when I did my certification, we had to do two case reports that were about 20 to 30 pages apiece that were almost like publishing papers individually, and they were peer-reviewed as well. And then we have we end our program with the culmination of this exam, which is a one-day examination and takes about six hours to complete with four sections. And it's unfortunately an all once-a-year event that's offered, and it is a scaled exam. So it's a pretty intense testing process. There's only about 20 candidates a year that take the exam. And I want to say it's maybe a little over 50%, maybe 60% pass rate per year. So it's fairly low to be able to get to the point where you qualify to take the examination and then to pass it is a big achievement.

SPEAKER_02:

Certainly is a big achievement. I I mean, a number of people have told me that this is regarded compared to perhaps other you can be a resident in in a number of different specialities, uh different specialisms. The the word on the street that that I've kind of picked up over the years is this is perhaps a particularly challenging specialism as they go, uh, you know, particularly in terms of the the sheer kind of volume of of information you need to learn and commit to memory. It's it's it's a very demanding one. And and so um, Alyssa, maybe just tell us a little bit about your your your journey with this exam.

SPEAKER_01:

So I think part of my personal issues taking this exam were I was a student that when I graduated from college and from my veterinary medicine program, I did a very analog-based study system where I would handwrite flashcards and read through my handwritten notes and highlight, and everything was very pen to paper. And unfortunately, everything has become more of a digital world. And because there was a good, you know, 10 to 15 year spread between me studying um in a university setting to, you know, independent studying with a family, it was a big challenge learning how to organize everything on a digital platform and finding the right digital platform to put all of the information in to use it most efficiently, because I feel I was making my flashcards very wordy, if that's I had a lot of run-on paragraphs and a lot of information, and I wasn't getting to the key points. So that was a big challenge I had as far as studying, um, where I had to get my thoughts organized in a more clear fashion, and I had to be able to do retrieval practice in a way that would make sense that I could get through the information effectively.

SPEAKER_02:

So you mentioned, you know, the the approach to learning, and and we might circle back and talk about some more details there in a moment. But but just in terms of kind of the overview, you know, for for for you, like what would you consider as some of the big, I guess, kind of headline things that that you know ultimately you know kind of fell into place that allowed you to be successful, you know, in the end? You know, so we've kind of got learning strategy. I think you hinted at another one in in in our kind of introduction. You mentioned, you know, you've you've got you've got a got a family, you've got three children, and and kind of fitting in the time, I guess a big challenge. So so yeah, kind of apart from the the learning strategy, what are some of the other kind of the big building blocks, uh maybe maybe kind of the other big challenges that you ultimately uh were able to overcome?

SPEAKER_01:

I think finding the most efficient time to study in my schedule made sense and making sure I'm carving out that time, you know, when the kids go to bed after dinner in the evening throughout the week, the weekends to make sure, because when you're doing this as a working parent, I think that there is a lot more demands at your home life schedule than perhaps somebody that's more of a single individual student where you can't just focus all of your time on studying. So I had to figure out do I get up early in the morning, do I stay up later in the evening? Um, and sometimes that varied week to week as far as what my kids' sports schedule or school schedules look like as far as that time, but I had to make sure I was meeting the hour requirements every week to make sure I was getting enough study time in. Um, and I did a lot of preparation work leading up to the exam. I know we talked last time I tried several different flashcard platforms. And in the end, I think I found Brainscape was the one that was most helpful. But creating a lot of flashcard decks throughout categories that I knew were going to be important for the exam, I found beneficial. So that when the time came to actually study and I was six to eight weeks from the exam actually happening, instead of going into panic mode, I could sit down with those flashcards and do 20 flashcards at a time for each topic. And they made sense so that I didn't have to just open up my textbooks continuously and highlight and try to reread things that I wasn't necessarily retaining.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I guess for the benefit of with the benefit of hindsight and and you know, for the benefit of anyone that's sort of following in your footsteps and taking a similarly, you know, demanding exam, particularly with with with lots to know. You know, what was when it comes to that first pillar we talked about, you know, how to learn effectively. Yeah, what are some of your kind of big lessons learned? What are some of the big things you did that helped you ultimately be successful?

SPEAKER_01:

I think we talked about some calming strategies too, and I think that did help as well. I remember we talked about watching like David Attleboro videos before taking the exam and maybe not stressing um and studying right before going into the examination, um, but actually relaxing. I think that that made a bit of a difference, maybe taking a night off before the exam and not stress studying, but just understanding that any cramming that you get in the day before is probably not gonna make a difference. In that if you can study effectively those six to eight weeks leading up to it, you're gonna in a more calm approach and not a stressed approach. Um, I did try to work a little bit on like, you know, taking some deep breaths and reading through the question and make sure I wasn't rushing through the answers because I think that that makes a difference too, to make sure that you're not missing a keyword in the way the questions are being asked. Um, because sometimes the questions will lead you astray. And if you're not reading every detail, um, you can kind of miss the right direction for what they're actually asking, um, and kind of reading through everything at the end of each section to make sure that my answers were appropriate when I would close a section.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Yeah. So we've kind of always got like th three, three, three big things that ultimately came together, you know, how how you approach the learning, uh, you know, fitting in the time and finding the time amid your your kind of busy schedule to actually do the learning, uh, and then you know, that kind of combination of both sort of exam technique ideas and then also the the kind of the mindset and and and going in with the right sort of mental game to win as well. Yeah, so I mean you've already mentioned a couple of things along the way already. So I mean if we maybe just just kind of double-click on each of those uh three bits in in turn, you you you know, w when it comes to kind of approach to learning, you know, you've already mentioned you know, you you're ultimately very successful with with flashcards and and you found the Brainscape platform uh particularly helpful. Now, even as regular listeners will know, I never kind of recommend a specific platform, but but I'll certainly work with people as we did to kind of help find the best approach, the best platform for your needs. Yeah, like what do you feel it was about your kind of learning strategy that you used in the end? So kind of brainscape-based flashcards. Like how was that different to what you were doing at kind of earlier points in your journey, and and what kind of a difference did that make?

SPEAKER_01:

So I may be saying this inappropriately and it might change since I took the exam, but I feel like we had like eight categories that we would split our examination into immunology being a really heavy focus on our exam. And then there were other categories like nutrition, structure, and function. So there were these big broad categories that there was just an immense amount of information in each section. And I think trying to break those into smaller components and build out those flashcards within each section helped. Um, so I might have 20 sets of flashcards for each section, but if I could take them into smaller pieces and chunk them out a little bit better, it made more sense to me than trying to have, you know, 200 flashcards per section. It was a bit overwhelming to try to, and I think that's how I initially was trying to approach this exam, is to just lump everything together and not section it out as well as we did. Um, I also found that, you know, when I would attend review sessions, because our college is really nice in the fact that they host a lot of resident review sessions and learning experiences at conferences. I would take my notes each day and I would try to make flashcards as I was at the conference or as I was coming home and traveling. Um, I would take that time while that information was fresh in my head to build out what I took as the most important messages from that conference so that my flashcards seemed like they were um would have all those trigger points available. And hopefully when the time came to study, it would be a memory refresher. And I found that approach was less overwhelming than the panic study approach I was previously taking to this exam.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I I'm kind of interested. So I was looking back on our notes from from some of our early sessions, and kind of one of my takeaways, which I think is really interesting for people, is I didn't teach you how to do flashcards, right? You know, you already knew how to do flashcards. So there's kind of an element of refining the technique, which you know, you've you've shared a few details on. There's certainly some kind of refinement we did. But but I feel like in hindsight, there was a big piece about having the confidence and the comfort to say no to other things, you know, in the sense that we can't do everything. We don't have time to do everything. And and I remember doing, you know, it's an exercise I do with with many of my coaching clients where we'll kind of audit like all the like we'll list out and do a big audit of like all the different things you could do with your time. And it's like far more than we could ever possibly fit in before the exam. And so we kind of go through a process of choosing what is the most important things, what are the most important ways to use our time, and actually being comfortable in what we say no to and making peace with the fact that we're just gonna focus over here and we're gonna say no to some of this other stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and that's a hard thing, is when you have this much volume of material and you know that you can, you know, watch video reviews, you can, you know, read just textbooks, you could attend journal club sessions, or, you know, do you study with a group that's taking it because there were resident groups forming? And I think at the beginning of my study process, I was studying as part of some of those groups. And then I found that um I personally was getting more when I stepped away from some of those groups and I tried to study more independently and I tried to work on the areas that I was having the most trouble with because I found sometimes in those group sessions, as the exam got closer, they were really helpful at the beginning of the study process. But as you approached the exam, sometimes there was a group panic studying approach that went on where we someone would say something and we would realize that nobody knows anything about that topic and maybe it's going to be on the exam. And then it would study, it would start a whole process of anxiety. And I think for me, getting that anxiety in control and knowing that I can only, you know, cover so much material. And there's a point where I just have to be able to shut it down and be confident that I know enough to approach the exam was a better approach than going into it kind of panicked and stress studying and not sleeping well the night before, because that was another component, too, is whether you have to take NyQuil or some melatonin the night before, you know, bring airplugs, a sleep mask, um, whatever you need to sleep well, because uh this exam is given more in a hotel environment in a study type facility. And you don't always sleep well in that kind of environment going into an exam because you're not in your own bed, you don't have your own schedule, and um, that does induce it's whole a whole nother type of stress that you have to kind of think through the process of how you're gonna get a good night's sleep because I do think that makes a difference as well.

SPEAKER_02:

Definitely. I think you do the kind of holistic approach to to exam success. It's not just about the learning, it's about uh, you know, about kind of that, yeah, that real kind of holistic holistic uh uh process. Were any other kind of particular lessons learned or or little little sort of hints and tips you might give to people on the I guess that more kind of holistic consideration and and and doing the mindset and and and winning the mental game, so to speak. Any other sort of lessons learned?

SPEAKER_01:

I think it's just learning how to self-gear and make sure that you're establishing some personal boundaries. It's okay to say no to, you know, I I feel like I missed a lot of events and I felt bad about that. Like I missed some of the sports games, I missed some of the friend parties and everything, because you just have to say no to things because you have to put yourself first. And, you know, uh two or three months before the exam, it has to just be about the exam and, you know, taking care of yourself, getting enough rest, make sure you're eating well, you're still getting that exercise and going out for walks during the day, taking those study breaks, because you can't just sit there and study continuously, or at least I felt I couldn't for two hours straight. I needed to kind of separate that out a bit with some study breaks to get the material to actually stay in my brain as well. And then, you know, revisit it and come back to it because the retrieval practice and kind of the repetition of it, I think, helps. If I could read something through three times, I think it would stay in my brain a little bit better than just getting through it once. So that's where the flashcards were helpful because I could do more retrieval practice with them.

SPEAKER_02:

If there's one thing you wish you'd figured out sooner uh in in the process, I guess uh does that does anything come to mind? Is it sort of like a particular thing that, oh yeah, I wish I'd wish I'd crack that a bit sooner.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I wish I had found you sooner in the process. Um, because I do think that the big picture, you're really good as far as you know, putting it all together, as far as everything that you need to do for the self-care, for making time to study and studying more effectively with the time that you do have, especially as a working parent, because carving that time away, you have to be efficient with what you're organizing for your study material and um how you're going through that material. And I feel like you were able to help me create a schedule that made a little bit of sense. Like if you only have this much time, then you know, at this point in the exam, four to six weeks out, you need to just be doing this or just focus on this. And just having someone else walk me through that schedule, I think helped organize everything and gave me a little bit more clarity as far as the process of how I need to approach it. And it suppressed having more of that panic mode going into the test, which I, you know, started to get to that point because it's just overwhelming the material. And then you inevitably come across something you haven't read, and then that's the one thing that just keeps sticking with you is I don't know this, or uh there's something else I don't know. And that material might not even be on the exam. It's just that, you know, it's a Pandora's box when you start thinking of everything you don't know and you're not focusing on what you do know. And shutting down distractions. Um, I mentioned, you know, we had a lot of distractions going on in my home life at the time. We were building a house, there were delays with our house. We had moved in temporary with my mother with our children, you know, two weeks before I tried to approach this exam, which, and then we had some illnesses in the house, and there were just so many personal distractions that if you can shut some of those down, which I know is impossible to do because you still have to live your life, especially when you have the family life at home that you're trying to tackle, but trying to shut down as much of it as you can until after the exam, I think is the best approach to the best of your ability. I mean, there's only so much you can do, you know, w when you have children, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, uh since you sort of kindly brought it up, um may maybe I mean we have a lot of people that listen sort of quite casually to the podcast. We we have a lot of people that listen very, very regularly for for a long, long time. And, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of people listening that have either kind of not considered taking the next step to to kind of work, you know, reach out and sort of work and do the coaching, or or maybe they've sort of thought maybe it's not for me. You know, how would you sort of sum up your experience with the coaching and would you recommend it to others preparing for for challenging exams?

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. I've already recommended it to a lot of my colleagues and you know, other students that I know are going through the same process. And we've had discussions about my own children because I do have three kids at home that are teenagers now, my oldest, and they're just starting this process of standardized testing and um, you know, the stress of that. So we've already discussed you meeting with my kids as well, because I think that there's a benefit there having a more efficient study technique. I think having all these tools that we do in a digital form has made it a more effective study approach, especially with this amount of material. But it's also made it a little bit stressful if you don't know the most effective way to use those study tools. And for my case, I don't think I had made that complete swap from doing analog studying to digital studying. And um, I did feel a little bit more effective once I understood the best program that was going to work and how to use, you know, the software most appropriately and to kind of save everything and what I could use in my archive. I think that that helped.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, fantastic. Well, I mean, it was such a pleasure to to to work together and really, really well done on on your result in the end. How are you enjoying life without having studying to do every week?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, yeah, that I mean it's been a little bit of time now, but it's nice being back in. I'm definitely more designed for clinical practice than to be studying on a regular basis and be taking these kind of, you know, exams. I enjoy just being with patients one-on-one and more of the clinical side of medical care versus, you know, just reading through and trying to answer the academic answers is but at least I know what the answers are now and the best piece place to resource that information. So there's value to these tests, but it's a stressful process.

SPEAKER_02:

I often think that, you know, I've I've seen this pattern before. There's some excellent exact I I work a lot in the in those sort of medical and and veterinary medicine fields. And you know, I I often come across individuals who who, you know, I are sort of excellent clinicians and and for whatever reason it there's there's been either a kind of life circumstance or just sort of hasn't quite clicked into place to to kind of get that um box tick of getting the exam passed. And so it's always really rewarding, you know, for for a on a personal note to to kind of help people like that get through the exam and and then you can do what you're obviously you know really, really good at doing and and do the work that you're uh I guess put on this earth to do uh you know, support support the people and the uh animals in your case, uh and in in getting back to health. And you know, it appears that the career is career is thriving. You're you've got your got your praxis, and and uh yeah, sort of for those listening to the podcast, you've got very very very smart set of I don't what do you call it? I mean it's not scrubs, is it? I don't what what would you call your uh your work work outfit?

SPEAKER_01:

They're scrubs.

SPEAKER_02:

You call it scrubs, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

They wash well because we do see a lot of crested patients that have um skin disease. So and a lot of them are multidrug resistant bacterial and fungal infections that you don't want to be touching.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my gosh, Alyssa, you trigger warning needed at the start of this podcast. Uh for those for those squ for those that are squeamish and have vivid mental images, imagery. Amazing, amazing. Uh well, thank you ever so much uh for joining today. It's been really uh exciting. It's been it's been really good to revisit some of the things that made a difference for you and be able to share some of your lessons learned with people. Wonderful. Well, I wonder if you have a closing message for our listeners today. Uh, any kind of words of encouragement, any final words of wisdom to leave us with?

SPEAKER_01:

I think the biggest thing is to have grit, and that's not something you can learn, is that if you feel the initial process once, because I did have to take this again to get through the process, and I was grateful to find you. But these types of exams, um, you know, any of these standardized tests, some of them can get so detailed, um, especially when they're in a specialty, that it takes a lot to work through your failures. It's a lot easier to work through, you know, the positive achievements that you're making. And that's what everybody wants to talk about. But no one wants to talk about when, you know, they have to do retakes and there's failures and um the best way to organize yourself and to kind of pick yourself up and to have that determination to kind of push through. And um, it is, it takes a lot to have that motivation to want to study further and um find the most effective strategies to accomplish that because it feels overwhelming. So having a support team like what you offer is it's just so invaluable that I just wish that it's something that I had found at the beginning of the process because I feel like I would have had a less stressful journey at the beginning because it definitely triggers anxiety and PTSD moments. The more times you kind of go through this process and you're not successful, that you know, being able to feel confident going into an exam this challenging is really, I think that that takes a lot of the stress off is if you can go into it relaxed and confident and feel like you've just done everything you can possibly do. Um, which I think the way you approach the process just gives you more confidence at the beginning.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh thank you for kind words. And Alyssa, again, you worked super, super hard and very, very smart, not only hard, but also smart uh in all areas of the, you know, not just the actual learning, but how you approach the whole process generally. And great credit to you for getting through such a challenging exam with flying colours and very best wishes with the rest of your career beyond that. Thank you ever so much for coming on this show. And uh yeah, we wish you all the best. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, thank you again, Alyssa, for that episode today and for being so generous in sharing your experience with us. And remember, if you're facing a challenging exam yourself, whether you're a new listener or whether like Alyssa, you've been here for quite a long time already, remember that I am here to help, not just as your podcast host, but also as your private coach. I've worked with many hundreds of students and professionals just like you over the years. I'm very good at helping you shortcut your way to the optimum strategy to help save you time in learning smarter, not harder. I of course I've tried to cover a lot of great principles on the show, but the practical implementation of those principles is so often where the real juice is. And everyone's situation is a little bit different. So that's where the real power of a personalised plan comes into play. Book your introductory chat with me today over at examstudyxperts.com forward slash coaching, link in the episode description, and we'll talk through how you're getting on, how things are going for you today, and come up with a plan to support you in your success this year. It'd be my pleasure to help you ace your upcoming exams the smart way. That's examstudy experts.com forward slash coaching. And with that, I just want to say thank you as always for tuning in today, and I will look forward to seeing you very soon. Wishing you every success, as always, in your studies.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that was good, wasn't it? I found myself taking notes. If you need a reminder of anything from today, head to the website for a write up of this episode, as well as lots more top notch advice and resources. That's examstudyexpert.com. See you next time.