Certified Tutors From Hondros College

The student and I worked on reading comprehension and finding the main idea of passages.  We focused on recalling information from the reading and techniques for finding relevant information to answer comprehension questions.

In preparation for his upcoming trimester-end grades, the student had one last graded homework assignment over first- and second-derivatives, implicit differentiation, relative and absolute extrema, and points of inflection. It has been several weeks since we last worked with such material, but he only needed minimal prompting to recall the various processes necessary, and aside from one or two minor mistakes due to working too quickly, he had no trouble with the assignment. His ability to simplify expressions has improved drastically as well.

Tonight I helped the student study for her Spanish quiz on Friday on hospital/medical/pharmaceutical/sick vocabulary and expressions.  Then I guided her as she took Geography notes from the textbook.  Her assignment last night was notes on 17.1.  She also has 17.2 and 17.3 to complete before the end of the week.  She has a Physics exam on Friday so I wanted to check in and make sure she was keeping up with the textbook notes for this subject.  We also wrote out important assignments to keep up with this week as well as goals.  Finally, we reviewed her grades and explored ways to improve the lower grades.  

The student and I worked through a number of Chemistry problems dealing with finding the pH from the pOH, [H+], or [OH-]. We made a step by step guide on how to solve these types of problems depending on what information is given. We also came up with a thesis for her final English essay incorporating 10 of the works read this semester and picked the quotes for the essay.

The student and I began our session reviewing mathematics. She is intensely bright for her age and either already knew advanced math topics or picked them up instantly. She had no trouble understanding algebraic concepts, which is a rarity at such a young age. We also went over strategies for the vocabulary portion of the exam coming up. We will focus mainly on applying logic in the vocabulary section, as well as becoming familiar with prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

Final session before exam. Today we worked on reading comprehension, math, and verbal. I wanted to touch on each section and review the related strategies. She is able to apply the various strategies to help her choose the correct answer. We discussed strategies she could use when working on longer reading passages. She did well using roots words, answering vocabulary related questions, and on most of the math problems.