Award-Winning Private SAT Math Tutoring in Duval County, FL

The student and I focused on geometry as well as reading and writing today. He breezes through the writing section but still struggles a bit in math. When he is solving a problem on his own, he psyches himself out and seems to over-complicate the process.

The student and I focused on grammar and math, completing chapters 8-10 of grammar, which focused on within-sentence punctuation, essential and nonessential phrases and clauses, and transitions. We also did trigonometry and quadratic equations. For next week, he will review math and do some questions in his grammar workbook.

The student and I focused on improving her reading comprehension score as this is the section where she has struggled the most. She did relatively well on the first passage, scoring 7/10 with proper timing. She struggled greatly with the second, harder passage. I went through the passage with her and further emphasized the strategy to work through the more difficult passages. After assisting her she scored very well on this passage. Towards the end of the session we went through some very difficult math non-calculator problems. I helped her by illustrating the solution to a few of the problems, though she was able to complete most of the problems by herself.

The student and I focused on math alone, since that's much weaker than English. She had the realization that, despite how the questions look, they're not actually terribly difficult. It's a matter of reading the question accurately and not getting overwhelmed if you see something complicated-looking. We did do some content review on things she truly hadn't been taught (the unit circle and SohCahToa, for one), but overall, our biggest goal is more about finding pathways to the answer, based on what she knows, rather than teaching actually unknown material.

The student and I focused on math today. We discussed the questions that she got wrong on the math section of her most recent practice test. Then we worked through one of the online diagnostic tests together. She did quite well on all the questions. We discussed any questions that she got wrong. Next time we meet, we will likely talk about the essay and reading.

The student and I focused on probability today, which she was a bit rusty on. She is now comfortable applying conditional probability and combinatorics, although she still needs to practice interpreting word problems. Once she gets over any initial confusion, she's good to go for the rest of the problem. We will look a bit more at probability next week.