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The student and I started with a brief review of the content and strategies we worked on for the Math sections in our last session. He retained the content very well, especially the geometry basics we had covered. He also showed marked improvement in his focus and his implementation of the suggestions and techniques I had offered him, and even volunteered without prompting to talk me through how he'd gotten to a couple of right answers based on our work in the previous session. After wrapping up our Math section work, we continued our preparation for the Verbal section by going over some common prefixes and grade-level-appropriate word roots that span words he's already familiar with. We practiced spotting those elements in test questions and their corresponding answer choices and using their meanings to help identify correct answers.

More decimals and operations with negative numbers. We switched to practicing vocab questions towards the end. I have high hopes for our Return to the Library.

Completed preparation questions in the areas of math and verbal reasoning. I'm working on identifying particular parts of problems (such as unfamiliar words or lengthy phrases) that slow the student down and we're trying 2-3 alternate problem solving techniques for each tricky problem. I'm also introducing helpful test-taking habits such as keeping running tallies, using sketching and lines to strengthen word-number associations and being able to quickly distinguish the difference between necessary and superfluous information.

The student did additional preparation. She did much better with this session, as she took the time to actually apply the skills that she has learned during the course of tutorials. She did a lot of work on the verbal reasoning by challenging herself to learn and apply new vocabulary.

The students wrote an essay to practice for the CPT. Then they completed 2 sections of the Verbal Reason Practice Test for the Middle Level ISEE and part of the Quantitative Reasoning section of the math.

The student and I continued our vocabulary expansion, adding another 15 or so words to her list for her to learn in the next couple of weeks. I'll try to add one more set of seven for the final week before she and I do the practice test! We also worked on algebra again, just for about 30 minutes. The student is good at it and doesn't need much practice on the basic algebra that she needs to know for the exam.