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Timed math practice. While the student did not finish within the time limit, she is certainly making great strides. I saw some great implementation of some methods we've been going over.

Today we went over tips and strategies for the ACT this Saturday. We focused a lot of time on improving in the Reading Comprehension section. We also strategized on how to quickly and effectively write an essay. We reviewed math formulas that the student needs to know for the test, as well as strategies for completing the Science section quickly. We also worked out a schedule strategy to help her stay on schedule during the test, as well as what questions to return to within each section that tend to take up much of her time. We reviewed passages and worked out multiple choice questions, and she selected many of the correct answers. She has found that when she waivers instead of sticking with her first answer choice, she tends to realize that her initial choice was the correct one. Therefore, she will focus on decisiveness when she takes the test; we talked about picking a choice and moving on, without vacillating or wasting time. I recommended that she take more practice math and reading tests for extra practice with this method.

Today we went through a science section and an English section that he completed last week. He did well on the science, getting 2-3 incorrect. For English, we reviewed subordinating conjunctions.

Today the student and I focused on the math section of the ACT, covering a variety of concepts. He seems to have a good intuition for a lot of the questions, and I tried to get him to show and explain his work for the exercises. I left him with practice in proportions, similar triangles, algebraic expressions, and operations with fractions. These are all important ACT concepts, and I hope he goes into them in detail before his test date. We also discussed some English concepts, including grammar rules and test strategy.

Today the student and I reviewed trig and special triangle ratio concepts. He is doing well picking up these new concepts. We just need to practice more to reinforce understanding and internalization of the solution strategies. We will meet tomorrow for an hour to review more math.

Today the student and I started with some problems from the set on ACT English topics, including subject-verb agreement, comma placement, and its versus it's. We then went over the reading test she did for homework. She only missed three problems, which is very good. However, she did not time herself, so we're going to make sure to work on timing as well. After this, we did a practice science test, going over the answers section by section. For one section, we worked through the answers together. She also did well on this test, but we again didn't emphasize timing. For homework, she is going to do English and science sections from another practice ACT test, making sure to time herself (while still finishing the whole test). We will go over these during our next session on Monday.