Six values run this whole section of the board. Learn is where you get them down cold, first the way the exam words them, then in plain English, then what you do about each one. After that you work a shift. Something happens, you say which value is on the line, and then you answer the person standing in front of you. A husband wants to know whether his wife came in. The dentist wants this morning’s prophy coded as perio maintenance. No A through D anywhere in it.
✓Learn is pure matching, in three passes. The board’s own wording first, because that is what the exam puts in front of you. Then the plain-English version. Then what you do about it.
✓Every moment asks its own question. Not which duty is this, but what would you be breaking if you answered him. What clock is running. What does her refusal outrank.
✓Then you have to say something. Naming the value is half of it. The other half is choosing the words, and the wrong answers are the ones that sound reasonable in the moment.
✓Exam is not Board with a timer. Different cases entirely, and every one of them has two values fighting. A fifteen-year-old asks you to keep a disclosure quiet. A detective calls asking whether a man was in your chair. Same collision, opposite answers.
Learn: three rounds, 18 matches. Board: 10 moments from one pool. Exam: 10 harder cases from a different pool, on a clock.
8:40 AMMoment 1
Which duty is this?
Before you answer, what do you do?
So what do you say?
This shift
Phase 2 · The move
Tap a move, then the duty it goes with.
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The shift
Clean sweep
Every moment named and every move matched, first time. A whole day without a misstep.
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