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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"The student completed a reading and quantitative section since our last meeting. He showed an excellent understanding of main idea questions. We went over the reading questions he missed and did some additional practice on inference questions. On quantitative, we went over some arithmetic properties as well as ways to use the answer choices to evaluate questions. We finished by reviewing strategies for the verbal section."

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"Today, most of our time was spent working on the vocabulary section. The student struggles with coming up with synonyms for words instead of examples, and that causes her to over think her choices for answers. Instead, we focused on coming up with synonyms without an answer choice. We followed that up with a brief lesson on prefixes and suffixes to help her figure out the words that she doesn't know. We spent the last bit of time reviewing variables."

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"The student and I covered some major math concepts today, including PEMDAS, the FOIL technique, exponents, common factors, and the distributive property. We did a bit of reading comprehension, synonyms, and sentence completion as well. He was a total rock star through our entire session today! I am very proud of how far he has come with his reading comprehension and how he approaches difficult problems. He has gotten more comfortable with not knowing the answer or not knowing where to go with a particular problem and letting us walk through it together until he has full understanding. I would like to review a few other math concepts with him, and then I believe he will be quite well prepared to take the ISEE."

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"This session the student took the mathematics section of the practice test. As she progressed through the test, I took notes to be able to see what types of questions and concepts posed the most difficulty. When given guidance with unfamiliar concepts, she was able produce logical responses. I left her with an order of operations video to watch in preparation for Thursday's session."

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"Today we practiced conjunctions and sentence logic in word-based sentence completions, conjunctions and sentence logic in phrase-based sentence completions, and sentence completions with adjectives and adverbs. We went over some strategies that would help the student with this section of the test. We also did some practice work with fractions and percentages."

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"During today's session, we practiced essay writing, vocabulary word lists from ISEE tests, In geometry, we studied the area of triangles, parallelograms and working with planes. My student was asked to become familiar with the vocabulary words from today. As always, he was willing and caught on to new material with no problem. I discussed his progress with his dad at the end of our session."

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"For this session, the student and I focused on continuing practicing for her ISEE test. We continued to focus on the math and quantitative analysis portion as well as the synonym and sentence completion portion. One of the student's struggles is her just learning how to multiply and divide fractions as well as solving multiple step algebraic expressions. This is due to the fact that she will have not learned a lot of the material until the 7th grade. However, I noticed that she picked up a lot of the information pretty quickly. Her strongest area continues to be her reading and analyzing the passages."

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"In tonight's session, the student covered practice problems from both the Quantitative and Reading Comprehension sections of the ISEE. I also went over with him the types of questions and other information from the ISEE prep book. He continues to do very well in deductive reasoning in both Math and Reading. Although he didn't understand a lot of the math - i.e. ratios/proportions and some geometry - he tried to figure it out and did fairly well. We also did some practice on synonyms, on which he did great! "

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"We went over the questions she had missed on a practice test, general testing strategies like calming nerves, underlining context clues and eliminating answers you know are wrong. In math, we talked especially about converting decimals to fractions, parentheses, and distributive property. We went over vocabulary and sentence completion for English. I left the student with some printed out practice sheets in all sections of the test. She'll also practice with some of the online tools."

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"We went over the student's practice test today. He scored very well in the mathematics achievement section and on target with the verbal section. His biggest areas of improvement will come from the reading and quantitative sections of the test. I worked through the quantitative problems that he missed with him and gave him some strategies."

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"This was our next to last session before the student's ISEE exam. He felt he needed more practice with the algebraic equations, and that was what we focused on for the first half of the session. The latter end was devoted to reading exercises, reading a few chapters from a book club selection, and a brief discussion of our readings to ensure retention. Our next session is scheduled for Wednesday. "

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"Today the student and I covered phrase and clause based sentence completions. I drew her attention to sentences which begin with subordinating conjunctions like 'while,' 'although,' and 'because.' I let her know this indicates that the reader should be looking for a relationship between ideas in the rest of the sentence (which may be a comparison or a contrast). She quickly caught onto this concept and was able to answer many similar questions appropriately. She then took a verbal reasoning practice test, 30 questions, 18 minutes, as well as a reading comprehension practice test, 2 passages. We discussed time management and test taking strategies: if you can make an educated guess, go ahead and guess. If you are stumped, skip and come back to it later. She finished both with time left over to go back and check her answers. We will look over the results and discuss more next session."

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