Certified Tutors From Augusta Technical College

The student and I continued our work on her practice sheets for the placement exam. She is quick to internalize new procedures. It took some work to explain square roots, but eventually she reached a 'eureka' moment on the concept.

Worked through some more of the assessment practice test. She is starting to get more comfortable with the material. Then we worked on some stuff on the properties of water in chemistry. We ended with working on the box method for finding probabilities.

The first day with the student went well. I went over her homework where she had a hard time understanding the concepts. We discussed concepts of molarity, dilution, pH and some colligative properties. I explained the processes and reviewed her homework problems. I also gave her some extra questions so that she can revise the concepts on the topics covered. In our next meeting I will be giving her more questions so that she can practice. I will be explaining to her every detail on colligative properties too.

For our first session, we discussed the student's concerns for her upcoming MCAT exam and her plans for preparation. We decided that it would be most useful to meet once a week in order to go over more difficult topics, and review exams. We reviewed the general structure of the exam and basic test taking strategies for each section. We also began reviewing certain organic chemistry concepts (electrophilic addition reactions).

Review Unit 2 lesson 2: vocabulary, asking a person's age, hobby and occupation. Practice numbers between 1 to 99 and also ordinal numbers between 1 to 10. Study Unit 2 lesson 3:  vocabulary, study the text and dialogue, then did impromptu conversation based on what we have learned(words, sentence structure, different scenario) so far. Reviewed what client did on her workbook. It was a good session.

We reviewed imaginary numbers for an upcoming chapter test. We began working on systems of equations. We first practiced solving by elimination, and then we began ahead of schedule with multivariable systems of equations. This involved using row operations to put the equations into Row Echelon form for backwards substitution.