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The student and I worked through a practice test section for math, calculus, and grammar. We also worked on timing and reviewing rules and concepts as needed. She had the most trouble with vocab and grammar rules, but did well on math. We will review essay and grammar in more detail next weekend.

The student and I went through critical reading today. We concentrated on vocabulary and inference strategy today, and he will practice using those methods before his test.

The student and I worked on math tonight. We spent a lot of our time focusing on some of the questions where phrasing or steps made the problem more complicated than it needed to be. My focus was to show how to work sequentially to answer even the most imposing of questions. She has made leaps and bounds when it comes to the math section.

We covered a practice test. The student primarily missed only extremely rare questions or extremely hard questions. For Tuesday, the student will run three more Critical Reading sections.

Today we primarily focused on reviewing the two math sections the student did between the two sections. After going through all of the problems he had trouble with, we focused on specific types of problems he had previously struggled with: inequalities and word problems. We developed strategies for approaching and solving these types of problems and were thus able to improve his ability to solve them. He had a good attitude towards the material, and we were able to make great progress. We decided to focus partially on the critical reading section for the next lesson, so the assignments I left with him were one section of math and one section of critical reading.

I proofread an essay on The Great Gatsby that the student wrote for his English class, and then we worked on grammar (comma splices, sentence fragments, run on sentences, parallel structure, pronoun identification). We then did some reading comprehension work. His accuracy in reading comprehension has improved drastically. While he sometimes gets swayed by distractor answer choices, he is getting much better at sticking to the text and not fading off. For this week, I have assigned him to outline and essay.