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I had her write one timed essay for practice. She should consider spending more time writing. We worked through the prewrite together. Then we spent the rest of the time on vocab and practice English tests.

The student sent me some math problems with which she had problems. She was able to work through the majority of them by herself and really understood them when I explained different ways to approach the problem. She has made tremendous progress.

I had the student do a Math section from the test prep book with the stipulation that she skip at least 4 difficult problems. Then we reviewed basic SAT strategy to further lock it in for Saturday's test.

The student and I began by working through a practice writing multiple choice section. She performed fairly well. Our goal overall is to get her to a 40/44. We went over some of the questions she missed that deal with semicolons, subject/verb matching, and transition words. After that, we went through a practice math section. She scored 16/20, just missing some of the more difficult problems. I illustrated the solutions for those problems and went over the math concepts. At the end of the session, we practiced two reading passages. This is the section she is struggling the most with, though she did better on the second passage. We will need to continue to work on her reading skills in the future to bring up her score to the 10/11 we want on every passage.

The student and I completed another math section. Some review of geometric theorems in the future so that they're fresh in her mind may be in order. We also started on the essay section, going through a prompt and outlining an essay. For next time, she is going to write an essay for one of the two prompts that she already has, and send it to me before the session. The strategy that I suggested is to make note of the ideas from the passage that she wants to include in her essay before she starts writing. The goal is to get her ideas organized as efficiently as possible so that she doesn't have to pause to think for too long once she's started writing.

The student and I completed our tutoring with an overview of her test from last time. We did classical passages (which are her weak point), the last half of the writing section, and math. She was a lot more motivated and a lot more confident, and I'm happy to have had time to work with her. She needs more practice to hone in on the subjects she doesn't understand/remember and the strategies she needs to do her best, but I'm sure she will end up going to a great college!