Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in Rexford, NY

"Today we spent most of our time focusing on the student's essay for humanities and getting her organized for religion. Her essay was good overall, we just need to keep working on introducing quotes and really driving home both elements of the thesis. She did a nice job following the formula for her thesis. In her introduction, we talked about varying sentence length, and in her body paragraphs we worked on introducing quotes and including language that reflected both parts of her thesis (on the author's goal and how they accomplished it). We talked a bit about why it's worthwhile to really drive these points home and not to worry about being too obvious. The more obvious, the better! In her conclusion, we talked about explaining why an author's work was significant, or how precisely it had an impact. She had the beginnings of this down in her rough draft, we just teased out the ideas a bit more. For her religion class, we made sure that she had all of her materials and could access them easily. We went through the songs she needs to listen to for her assignment and I reminded her about the clip her instructor posted, that she should check out before she takes her quiz. She said that her history quiz went better this week--she got an 80% (she got a 40% last time) and we talked about how great that was! We're going to meet two more times this week, once to view Donnie Darko together, since she couldn't find a narrated version of the film, and then again to prepare for her upcoming US History assignment. "

"The student has a test on Wednesday. We reviewed topics for that test from a study guide that his teacher had provided. We covered several types of factoring, completing the square, and solving quadratic equations."

"In today's session, the student completed problem set 46 for math as well as assignments for his history and Latin classes. I also made a study guide for his upcoming chemistry exam that I would like him to work on prior to our session tomorrow. I really want us to focus on this chemistry material for the entire time tomorrow and would like him to complete the study guide first so I know the areas we need to focus on the most."

"The student needed help understanding genetics, so we devoted part of our session to talking about how Gregor Mendel developed the gene idea. She hadn't heard the story, so I did a talking drawing of his process. After, we worked on simplifying algebraic expressions. "

"The student and I played with a food play set naming off different types of food. He did an extremely great job today with easily repeating the majority of the words. He was able to stay focused for longer periods than normal and had lots of fun."

"The student and I went over concepts from the section on vectors. She will be preparing for a midterm, so we wanted to go back and make sure any sections that she wasn't sure of were clarified. She was able to give me the site for her class notes, which I will use to be prepared as we review for her exam."

"Today, we worked on integrals. The student's attitude was positive throughout the session. I included strategies to simplify the material. I look forward to our next session."

"In this session, we practiced listening comprehension with a dictation exercise and reviewed some material from previous lessons. Lastly, we practiced speaking and expressing opinions that will be useful at work. We will continue this in tomorrow's lesson."

"We spent our session reviewing the content of her most recent lecture. We focused on evolution, population ecology, Darwin history, natural selection, adaptation, and density dependence vs independence. We reviewed this material looking at her lecture notes and working on the student being able to explain the concepts in her own words. By the end of the session, she had a much better understanding of the material. "

"The student and I were reviewing for her final. We covered a number of different topics, doing many different problems including solving functions, solving by elimination, working with positive and negative exponents, dividing rational numbers, long division of rational numbers, synthetic division, factor by grouping, difference of squares/cubes, multiplying and adding of complex rational fractions. She did a wonderful job of catching on to each subject and was able to help find the right answer. She worked hard, took good notes, and should do well, if she is able to focus on her work properly. "