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"In this session, the student and I began by continuing to work on problems from the math section. She did well on questions about coordinate geometry, simplifying expressions and solving equations, and writing linear equations based on word problems. However, she was not as familiar with other math terms and concepts that we came across, such as supplementary angles, f(g(x)), and how changing side length of a shape affects its volume and surface area. We worked on these, and also practiced solving problems by substituting a number into an expression for an unknown variable, using relationships between an operation and its inverse, solving for answers in terms of a variable, and solving proportional relationships. In the second part of the session, we worked through three science passages. She understood the passages well, as shown by her summary of two of the passages and by how she explained her thought process for the questions. She did a good job going back to find information in the passage and from graphs and charts, and did well in questions involving the experimental setup. She sometimes had a bit of trouble getting the correct information off of a graph, especially when a question required comparison between two graphs or charts. We practiced how to answer these types of questions by using known information to first read one graph or chart, and then using the new information to read another graph. In her free time, she can continue to practice by checking her timing for individual passages on the science section."