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The student and I reviewed for his exam tomorrow. We reviewed solution chemistry and kinetics, and further delved into equilibrium. We went over his practice test in detail and covered specific questions that he had listed while preparing for his exam.

During our session on 7/22 at 4pm, the student and I continued covering the following material on Acid-Base/Aqueous Equilibria: Arrhenius/(No Suggestions)/Lewis acids and bases, auto-ionization of water (Kw), pH scale, strong acids and bases, weak acids, weak bases, relationship between Ka and Kb, acid-base properties of salt solutions, common-ion effect, buffered solutions, acid-base titrations, etc.

We reviewed all the topics covered before the student's vacation, including how to relate the chemical formula of an ionic compound with its name. I helped her memorize some of the element names of the abbreviations in the periodic table.

The student and I covered various topics in preparation for the start of her chemistry class. We discussed the various types of reactions, especially oxidation reduction reactions, properties of solids/liquids/gases, and ionic/covalent bonding.

The student and I finished going through lesson 2 in her book and she completed the end of lesson exam. We began lesson 3, but quickly ran out of time. She will work on getting through the first half of lesson 3 before our next session.

The student and I continued our discussion of energy from the previous week. We left off on hydroelectric power plants last week, so we picked up here after doing a brief review on what we had covered previously. Again, he had read through the material prior to our sessions which is something that I've now asked him to do for the remainder of our sessions together because it helps exponentially when I am trying to reinforce ideas and work on practice exercises. Today we did some practice problems that he will most likely, if not definitely, see on an upcoming test since this material has very few mathematical concepts in it. We did problems on calculating specific energy and density given efficiency and energy required of an energy conversion system. He did extremely well on these practice problems, and I'd even say better than I've seen him do on any practice problems we've ever done together. I believe that by him reading over the material prior to our sessions, he is much better able to understand the material I teach him and relate it to other ideas in the text. There was just one small section that we did not get through during today's session but he is already almost a full chapter ahead of his class at this point. Next week he may have a homework assignment that we can work on together to get him prepared for an upcoming test.