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"We finished reviewing his math homework and Spanish homework, and spent the remaining time organizing his past assignments."

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"The student finished reading book assignment "Summer of Fear." We discussed the plot and reviewed unfamiliar vocabulary words from the book. "

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"The student and I wrapped up the Exam 12 review from last time mostly without problems, though some of the questions took a while when referencing material from all the way back to the beginning of the class. That review has a LOT of really important fundamental arithmetic stuff, so we worked through it at a medium pace, and I made sure to try and cover each subject comprehensively, so that he would know how to handle logarithms, exponents, horizontal asymptotes, domain questions, inverse functions, and the various function "types" (including what they're used for and what the general formulas. We basically covered a lot of definitions, rules, and theorems that are pretty simple, but it's easy to forget some of them. I left some other problems in that packet for him to do, and next time we'll probably breeze through the trig stuff, which he's good at, and look at Exam 5"

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"The student completed a full SAT practice test, from which we examined the answers at our session. She showed improvement on the writing portion, on the multiple choice and especially on the essay. While her essay could still use some narrative interest through added detail, her organization, style, and expression of ideas showed improvement. She saw exactly where she could have saved time and better focused her body paragraphs - mainly during the outlining process. She still has a lot of progress to make in math. While she does not lack confidence in offering an answer, she relies too much on guesswork and gives up too easily on her calculations (which are often on the right track). We worked through problem-solving strategies for the lion's share of the lesson; I'll be completing a full score breakdown of her test for next week."

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"Sunday's session was focused on the M section. The session was begun by administering an M knowledge and skills exam, which was then reviewed together. The student demonstrated content knowledge gaps in some areas, such as exponents and fractions. Although the SAT M section does not explicitly or directly test such knowledge, it indirectly requires a robust understanding and application ability of such basic skills. The review consisted of identifying his knowledge gaps, assessing the skills necessary for a more intricate understanding, reviewing the content and the concomitant skills required, and practicing these methods. This process spanned the entire course of the tutoring session. It is imperative that he has an adept, strategic, and ingrained understanding of and relationship with such content in order to successfully and efficiently tackle the questions which will appear on the SAT M section. As a follow-up with the diagnostic and review conducted today, the student was assigned further diagnostic tests in each of the content areas pertinent to the M section (geometry, algebra, etc.). Following each diagnostic exam is an Instructional Materials review which offers further practice for each of the skills and concepts in the content area diagnostics. Further RC and vocabulary homework was also assigned. "

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"Tonight, we went over arithmetic sequences. The student had a full worksheet that split solving these problems into three parts. We covered how to format the original equation then convert that into the explicit formula (and notation) in order to solve for the term. I gave him a background as to why arithmetic sequence formulas are used and their purpose. We went over the entire worksheet, and by the end, he was fully capable of computing unknown terms in the sequence on his own. I gave him a few extra homework problems to work on in the meantime and provided him with a summary of how to correctly solve any arithmetic sequence. I found out that he did very well on the test that he and I studied for, so I am glad to see his progress."

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"We did a review on an exam which consisted of everything we have covered since the beginning, ranging from finding relative and absolute extrema to optimization problems. I explained that the primary equation is the equation that you are trying to solve, whereas the secondary equation is what is given."

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"The student and I continued to work on a nonfiction science-based text to prepare for her state exams. We used context clues to define words. We answered comprehension questions about the text. We also played fraction contraption and found out what fractions were equivalent using pizza slices and fraction bars. She remarked that she liked that I make fractions fun to learn. "

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"The student continues to progress in our physics lessons. It's refreshing for me to teach this class to someone from the start and to see them learn and work through problems. We just got to the equation of motion that include acceleration and displacement in them."

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"The student and I covered the following topics from her homework including but not limited to: Variation Functions: solving direct, inverse, and joint variation problems, and applications. The student was cooperative and made some progress and was able to retain some material that she learned during the session and was able to solve some problems independently."

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"Today, we worked on reviewing as much of Chapter 11 as possible. We reviewed mostly fractions, including finding equivalent fractions, ordering fractions, and drawing them as accurately as possible. Today, I brought markers so he could see the difference. "

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