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Today was our last session, so we went over all of her practice exam questions. Most of her questions were just due to details, so we went through each of the answers and discussed the correct answer. She has been a great student to tutor and I think she will do well on her exam!

We began the session by going over the list of topics covered in the AP exam and comparing them to the topics covered in class. The only major topic not covered was organic chemistry. The student will review the AP materials during the week and we will go over them next session. We then spent most of the time going through the review sheets provided by the teacher. The topics focused on intermolecular forces and their effects on the physical states of matter, as well as the properties of metals and nonmetals.

Today we went through the chapter on tissue types and development, and the chapter on thermoregulation, homeostatic maintenance and metabolic rates. We also began the immune system, which we will continue next week.

We reviewed her class notes on stoichiometry, covering how to convert between grams, moles, liters, and molecules. We went through several practice problems together, listing the givens and unknowns, analyzing the steps required, and calculating the answer. I was very happy to notice significant improvement in her ability to work through these problems on her own. She will have a short quiz on the material this Wednesday.

Today we spent our session working on a few lens questions. The questions involved magnification, focal length, virtual vs. real images, and upright vs. upside down images. We also looked at a review of simple circuits.

We worked on the chapter in the student's textbook concerning elimination and substitution reactions. We have reviewed these reactions briefly in other chapters, but in this chapter, it is very detailed, including mechanisms and rules. She and I went through each characteristic of SN1 and SN2 reactions and did example problems to identify which reaction is which based on its characteristics.