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Today, the student and I worked on material for the SAT Math II subject test as well as several problems from a worksheet from her calculus class. She had taken a practice test and had circled problems she struggled with; she did well on the test, scoring a 740. We were able to work through a few problems before finishing by looking at a couple problems from a calculus worksheet.

We worked on graphing exponential functions and writing equations. We went over our plans until finals which are to spend time on current homework as well as devoting a lot of time to reviewing for her final. I plan to create a review packet for the student for next session so we can review areas she needs to focus on and so she will have extra practice before her final.

The student and I worked on making up a test that he had taken. This test covered the material we had been working on over the last sessions. Were able to make up a large amount of work and the student seems to understand the underlying methods and steps in order to reach the solutions. This was proven as he and I also worked on homework assigned over similar material that we had been working on. The student continues to show growth in his understanding and we will continue to work towards his mastery over the material.

In this session, we were reviewing for two tests, AP calculus on Tuesday, and AP Physics on Friday. The student felt that calculus was the priority, so we mostly focused on that. We worked through problems covering the whole semester, mostly following the review guide given by the teacher. One of the main focuses was converting between infinite sums and integrals. Next we looked at the physics test. We reviewed the multiple choice questions from each chapter covered this semester.

The student had two long questions from a practice free response section to complete, so we spent a long time analyzing those problems. I explained how those problems were characteristic of types and showed her other problems similar to them with different numbers, functions, etc. We also made flashcards for her to review the formula for the area of a trapezoid and for how to apply that area to trapezoidal approximations for estimating the area under a curve.

We worked on a series of six sample AP questions for the upcoming test, all free response. These covered a variety of topics. We also talked briefly about how much work was necessary to show for the test. At the end, we spent a few minutes on some AP chemistry acid-base titration.