Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in New York

"The student focused on reading comprehension, close reading analysis, highlighting, and note taking. Given prompts to stop, highlight, and think through the terms and data, he performed very well. No concerns."

"This evening, the student and I worked primarily on two worksheets. The first was a one-page article about the old system of apprentices learning a trade from a highly-skilled artisan. He was able to answer the questions about the article. He also worked on a worksheet in which all the verbs he needed were included in a reading, but were not in the proper order. His task was to re-arrange the verbs so that the reading made sense. This was a challenging task, and he had some difficulty with it. He is going to complete this worksheet for our next lesson. He is also going to find and properly cite three websites that he plans to use for his essay about a famous athlete."

"The student did well today! He shared that he made a 93 on a test on PEMDAS this past week! That is what we covered over and over in our last session, and he nailed it!! He also made a 99 on his multiplication facts test. Keep up the good work! We went over some more PEMDAS problems, and he saw how important it is to go line by line and go through the PEMDAS letters. He was able to find his mistake as we went back through the problems together. We also spent a little bit of time reviewing adding fractions and converting mixed numbers to improper fractions. He is to continuing reviewing his math facts this week."

"Today, the student and I reviewed material for her Geometry and Algebra midterms that are on Tuesday. We completed some practice questions and created a review sheet, which she will turn into flashcards. In our previous session, I realized how she knows how to do most of the questions but reads past what the answer should be and doesn't get to the final step. Today, she did not make that mistake and provided the final answer! I'm looking forward to seeing how she does on her exam."

"Today, we worked on the student's business case project, which is due Tuesday. We discussed how she can expand on some of the ideas in her previous quality improvement paper to create the program for this business case. We covered the components of this paper and how a business case is different from other projects she's completed. We also talked about how to create a Gantt chart to outline the implementation timeline. While there is some research that can be utilized from the quality improvement paper, additional research and references will be needed particularly regarding the costs of the proposal, budget for the proposed program, and return on investment. The program description, budget, and evaluation are the most heavily weighted components on the scoring rubric, so these are the topics that should warrant the most attention and space in the assignment. "

"We covered thermodynamics as it relates to chemistry, and we went over how to calculate enthalpy change, entropy change, and Gibbs' free energy. We also briefly touched on how to convert units for a constant such as R. I found out that she received a 97% on her previous test, which is great!"

"We practiced reading and role playing the dialogues included in this chapter and memorize the new vocabulary. To answer open ended questions, we practiced drawing out the shapes for each component of the questions and put them back in order for the answer. She should practice with the exercise on page 128."

"We worked through a couple of old exams, focusing on the long answer problems. This included problems on friction, inclined planes, one and two-dimensional kinematics and static equilibrium. We covered more trigonometry and looked through some review materials the student bought."