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*This Session: 1)Debrief Saturday's SAT experience 2)ACT format/scoring review/overview 3)Strategies for ACT English and Reading sections 4)English skills exercises (grammar review) *Assignment: ~Week of Oct 11 - 1)ACT diagnostic test (pages 9-59), email student with results 2)Flashcards from Vocabulary in Appendix 3 (pages 533-552) ~Week of Oct 18 - 3)Practice Test 1 (pages 269-317), email student with results

The student has an exam in geometry tomorrow, so we went over the review sheet given by his teacher. It is a summary of the info that we have gone over the past week - area/perimeter of various shapes, relating shapes via ratios, and some review of past concepts like complimentary/supplementary angles. Overall, the student did very well. He seems to be getting the information really fast, and was able to answer several of the questions on his own. It appears that he will be ready for his test.

We talked generally about the Analytical Writing Test and began creating a template for the Issue Topic portion of the test. We also discussed a sample essay response that he had written to identify areas that we should focus on in the future. We made a plan for the next session in which we decided to begin organizing and responding to a list of the most common GRE Analytical Writing prompts.

Today I helped the student with his homework which covered special right triangles. All I had to do was suggest writing his steps down. The next homework assignment was over finding the area of various kinds of triangles. He needed no help with this either, other than me telling him to show his work. After that, I helped him with radical expressions. He had some trouble with these but after going over his assignment and some problems I created for him, he was more proficient with this subject. I spent the remainder of the session reviewing him on his previous homework to prepare him for his final next week. I feel that the student will do very well on his final. He had progressed greatly since our first session.

We talked about her homework and upcoming math test. After the homework was done we completed the 20 question practice test in the book with only one mistake. I think she is well prepared for the upcoming test.

Today we reviewed progress from our last meeting. The student completed all assigned reading that covered her material from the exam 1. We also reviewed the class syllabus to discuss the grading system to develop a strategy for upcoming study sessions. We then reviewed all the problems in her web assign class in preparation of an upcoming exam.