Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Raleigh-Durham International Airport, NC

"In this session, we covered review from algebra and precalculus, including functions, geometry, and logarithms. Although the student has not taken a math class for a year, he still has a great deal of mathematical knowledge. However, he has some difficulty organizing his thoughts and choosing the best approach for each problem. We discussed some strategies to address these issues. Immediately, he began applying some of these strategies to his homework and there was a noticeable improvement in his problem solving skills by the end of the session. On Tuesday, he will take a quiz covering review and precalculus. We are very confident he will pass this test. For the next session, we will be covering limits."

"The student and I worked on homophones and y-ending word plurals (y --> ies). She did a great job! She then worked on her homework from school: two worksheets on nouns and proper nouns, which she understood well. During our next few sessions, I'd like to work more on reading out loud. "

"This was my first session with the student for this school year. He has just begun high school, so we talked a bit about how this adjustment affected his workload and schedule. He then worked on his geometry homework on coordinate shape transformations (rotations, translations, and reflections) and lines of symmetry in shapes. He had an excellent understanding of transformations but needed a little coaching on the other material. Particularly, he was unfamiliar with determining the order and degree of symmetry. After we reviewed this, he started catching on to the concept as he worked through the remaining problems in his homework assignment."

"The student and I are still working on math for the police entrance exam. We covered mostly what we covered last time, with more emphasis on percentages and problems asking for "average rate of speed." She is showing noticeable improvement, even after just one session! I have no doubt that with her remaining sessions her skills will be at the desired level. I also suggested that to improve vocabulary, she read articles from large newspapers and look up unknown words. This is more fun than flashcards, and more helpful than memorization."

"The student and I reviewed the reading section of the SSAT in addition to the vocabulary part of the verbal section. She has shown much improvement in the verbal section and is improving with reading. She should continue reviewing word roots and vocabulary in addition to reading consistently."

"The student and I delved deeper into his writing, and we continued to practice. I had him perform several exercises, including free writing and proofreading. We finished the session by continuing our work on identifying sentence errors."

"We reviewed solving systems of equations and setting them up from word problems, specifically when there are fractions. The student is doing well with those concepts now. We also went over multiplying matrices, and how to check his work on a graphing calculator, which he did very well with."

"Today the student and I reviewed subtraction with borrowing and multiplication tables. We practiced both skills. She did very well on both. I also reviewed area, perimeter, finding the degree of a missing angle as well as some vocabulary. I find her becoming more confident. "

"The students and I worked on preparing for their final exam. We went over inequalities and equations (coming up with equations or inequalities from word problems), similar triangles, determining if something was a function or not, proportional vs non-proportional, word problems involving d=rt, h=rt, graphing sets of data, and determining linear vs nonlinear functions."