Award-Winning Test Prep & Academic Tutoring in The University of Utah, UT

"During this session, the student and I were reviewing Algebra II topics from her review packet. She had a good attitude toward the material. She seemed to recall most topics well with a quick review, but I am a bit concerned that she may still be shaky on inequalities with absolute values, factoring special cases, and graphical representations of functions."

"Continued review for placement test. The student needs help with the concept of certain functions, but he did well with other material. Again, he does a great job of showing his work, which is really beneficial. He should review the packet, including the material we covered last week. "

"Tonight we finished studying for the student's chapter 4 test. He understood how to work with i and complete squares, but he was struggling with putting more complex equations into vertex form. After practicing a few times, he got the hang of it. He is still a little weak with word problems, but he understands when we walk through them together."

"We continued our work of reviewing for the final. We looked at problems from the second test in the semester which involved photons, de Broglie wavelength, internal energy, state functions, enthalpy of formations, reactivity tables, and acid and bases and neutralization."

"We finished reviewing for the student's exam. She is more confident in her problem solving abilities. She learned some shortcuts on her calculator. I created an addition study guide for her, and she seemed to do well. She has taken good notes, and I feel she will do well on her exam."

"We discussed supercritical fluid chromatography and reverse phase liquid chromatography, and the differences and similarities between them. We discussed core-shell particles as packing materials. We discussed the effects of polar embedded molecules on the band broadening of basic analytes. The student seemed to struggle most with the differences and similarities between chromatography methods, as far as general differences go (polar vs nonpolar mobile/ stationary phases and the programming of the procedure for a specific analyte). I think that some over thinking about specifics may be impeding the ability to explain processes in general terms/ general rather than specific applications. We will continue to work on that. "

"Today, we focused on math in review for the student's state tests this week. We discussed the outline of the test and which content will be covered; also, we did some practice questions. I think the student is a very detailed and thoughtful problem solver. She reads word problems silently and figures out what she needs to do accurately. We mainly covered some word problems involving four operations and fractions. Tomorrow, we will review more associative, identity, and commutative properties; fraction word problems; and complete a short answer and extended answer style problem. "

"We covered manipulating exponents, both in multiplication/division and raising powers to powers, with some practice with negative exponents and order of operations. I feel like the student is building confidence with math, and although she still doesn't like it very much, she knows she can solve the problems. I also walked her through using the online learning tools and gave her some homework in the pre-algebra section for next week. "

"During this session the student and I reviewed content from the entire year for the assessment test. He worked very hard. He also mentioned that he had done well on his last two exams. "