Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Montgomery County, OH

"The student and I began working on her preparation for her final exam. I had her start with a few problems on continuously compounded growth and decay. She needs to remember to include a negative sign for the rate if it is a decay problem. Otherwise, she is familiar with these problems from the last chapter. We then went on to review her trig chapters. She started with conversion between radians and degrees, and unit conversions of equations for linear and angular velocity. She then did some work on trig equations, and identifying them as identities, conditionals, or contradictions. I advised her to look for equations in the quadratic form and to always set them equal to zero and use quadratic factoring. Finally, for the others that are most likely identities, I advised her to try to convert other trig functions to relations of sines and cosines. She just needs to follow the rules for combining fractions, making the denominators the same and then combining the numerators. Afterwards, she should see if she can use any Pythagorean identities to convert any trig functions with squares. She had trouble with these at first, but was able to do a couple more smoothly after we had practiced a few together. Most important is that she tries to identify the kind of problem when she starts and to figure out the general strategy she has at hand to solve this kind of problem. If she thinks about it ahead of time, she is more likely to start down the right path and not get confused. We'll continue practicing the trig concepts she has studied as she reviews for her final."

"The student completed a review and practice of adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimal values. She has a strong grasp on long division, as evident from her homework. Her multiplication skills are also very strong. "

"In this session, the student and I started by going over the two quantitative practice sections she completed for homework. She did fairly well overall, but had some issues with the data interpretation and quantitative comparison sections. We reviewed some of the general strategies she can use for the quantitative comparison section, and I believe she will benefit from focusing on these tactics in her next practice sections. We also talked a bit about the data interpretation, although she felt pretty good about these questions after reading the explanations. We talked a bit about the essay section of the GRE, but she feels pretty good about the two essay types. We ended our session by going over a few vocabulary words she wanted to clarify. For next time, she will set a date for her GRE, complete a full practice exam and also complete a practice set on rates that I will send her."

"The student and I worked on some review. The topics reviewed included operations with fractions, and some geometry. The geometry consisted of area and perimeter of polygons, and volumes of basic prisms. She needed some help remembering the formulas for area and volume, but did great with the fractions. Her attitude was great, and she got the review work done efficiently with only minor problems. Next session we hope to continue to follow what the class is doing."

"The student had many advanced probability questions. We went through and discussed additive and multiplicative properties of probability. She was able to get into a good place with regard to feeling confident about the material."

"For this session, the student and I reviewed his material for his HP340 midterm. He received a practice midterm last week and wanted to review his answers and concepts. He was familiar with measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion. He needed some review with some of the statistical tests, including paired/unpaired t-tests. He will be making a cheat sheet to help him review. We will be meeting tomorrow to continue his review for his midterm later this week following his instructor led session."

"Today, the focus of our session was reading and vocabulary homework. The student explained her newly class-assigned reading log, noting that she began the second book in the Ivy & Bean series: 'Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had To Go.' She then read from a teacher-assigned book, 'Lily and Miss Liberty,' a story about the Statue of Liberty. She thoroughly answered the questions regarding action and characters in the story with little assistance. She then studied her weekly vocabulary words. After several minutes of learning the definitions of 12 vocabulary words, she asked me to quiz her on the words and definitions. We repeated the process 3 or 4 times and it was clear to me that she learned the words easily and quickly. She was pleased with what she accomplished and so was I."

"Today, we covered some similarity ratios. We found area, perimeter, scale factor, ratio of perimeter, and ratio of area. I did see progress as the lesson continued as the student got more and more practice and saw patterns. He is pretty good at finding perimeter of rectangles, triangles, circles, and parallelograms. We are going to meet again tomorrow to help him with more assignments."

"The goal was to help the student prepare for her book club meeting, to practice discussing texts, and to work on word usage and pronunciation. The student is always happy to meet and discuss topics as it helps with sentence structure, vocabulary, pronunciation, and proper word usage. We had an excellent exchange on the book and I encouraged her to try books on tape as a way to help her hear native speakers read and pronounce words. We agreed that an important to language proficiency is practice and reading. We will add more books that we can discuss in the coming weeks. "