Award-Winning Private Test Prep Tutoring in Merrillville, IN

The student and I reviewed her goals for both the ACT and SAT. She's taken full-length SAT and ACT practice tests and scored a 1700 and 28 respectively. Her goal is to score above a 2300 on the SAT and above a 30 - if not higher - on the ACT. It looks like she has a strong foundation in all subjects and primarily needs help with timing and strategies for keeping calm and focused during the test. This is especially true for the ACT science section and the critical reading sections of both tests. We then discussed the format and scoring of both tests and the primary differences between them. She and I also worked on the critical reading section; we reviewed strategies for both the SAT and ACT and worked through practice problems from both test. Before our next session I've asked her to complete one SAT's worth of critical reading and one ACT's worth of critical reading (i.e. all the critical reading she would see on one test). She is clearly a very hardworking student and I look forward to working with her during our next nine sessions!

We covered the SAT math section, particularly the number theory section. We went over some useful definitions and problem-solving methods. The student began to successfully employ some of the problem-solving methods we discussed.

Reviewed word problems, covered volume, circumference, perimeter, and the Pythagorean theorem. Reviewed algebra problems including system of equations.