ACT Reading Comprehensions strategies and practice
Lesson Outline
Julia and I focused on reading comprehension strategies and timing practice. Timing is getting better. We have already exhausted the reading comprehension activities in the 2018 ACT book, so I will find supplementary practice tests for our future sessions. We will alternate back and forth from ACT and SAT so she is better prepared for both tests.
Julia's prefered method of preparation for the SAT is to work problems and try to find the answers. We finished one practice test together and continued into the second set of problems. She got a number of problems correct but got stuck on some easier ones. There was no assignment.
Assignment
See lesson outline.
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Julia works very hard every time she comes for her sessions. I notice that she gets intimidated by some types of problems and still has difficulty knowing which problems to skip.
Julia had just taken the ACT, and was scheduled for the SAT at her school the next week. We went over the differences in test taking strategies for the SAT, as they are different than the ACT. We practiced English and Reading Comprehension using the new SAT Study Book. Homework was to study, practice and rest.
Continued review of incorrect responses on practice test
Lesson Outline
Zach and I continued our review of the practice SAT he took two weeks ago. He was able to recognize his errors when I went over them.
Assignment
Continue to take practice tests online
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Zach told me today that he would be taking the SAT in August instead of October. I will not be working with him between now and that date so I hope he continues with a different tutor.
Zach was not at school today so we Skyped. I reviewed problems that he missed. His score on the practice test was only 5 out of 20 correct. He told me that he has changed his upcoming test date to October.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Zach was much more focused due to the fact that he was surprised at how poorly he had done on his practice test.
I worked several geometry problems with Zach. We used some advanced math including trigonometry to solve them.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Zach is normally very talkative and would rather visit and talk about other subjects than math. He mentioned that his weakness in geometry is the one topic in math he needs to work on.
Zach and I continued working on conversions between radian measures and degrees. I showed him some more examples where I multiplied by either pi/180 or 180/pi to convert the angles.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Zach is very comfortable with math and so most of the work I'm doing is a review of what he's done. He also likes to spend time talking off-topic, which I allow because I need him to feel comfortable with the lesson content.
I introduced Zach to the concept of radian measure. I also introduced him to trigonometric functions as ratios of side lengths for any particular angle.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Zach has a good command of mathematics so we will concentrate on the few topics at which he is not 100% perfect.
I worked with Zach on a number of problems dealing with properties of exponents. The questions require the student to make associations between different exponential expressions.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Zack has a well developed facility with the type of question we worked on today. We'll work on a different topic next time.
I was planning to work from an SAT Math prep book to go over some problems dealing with exponents.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
0
Lesson Comments
Zack was sick at home so we attempted to set up a Skype connection. Although we finally got the connection to work, other technical problems prevented me from presenting my lesson.
We will attempt to make up Zack's session at another time.
