Sessions on Pre-Calc and GRE prep

A good tutoring day

Yesterday I had two sessions. The first one was to prepare an entrance placement test where the student wants to qualify for a particular Calculus course, so he is being tested on Pre-calculus. The second session was with two students who are preparing for the GRE. Both tutoring sessions were early in the afternoon at the same Starbucks.
In the pre-calculus session we covered a wide variety of topics. Every problem in the study guide was about a different subject. For example, we saw inequalities with absolute value, exponents, logarithms, function evaluation, subtraction of algebraic fractions, factoring algebraic expression and so forth. The difficulty level was not hard, and the student understood all the explanations, even when he had not taken math in about ten years, since high school.
In the GRE prep session we focused on Geometry problems, working out of the ETS book. We reviewed basic properties and formulas for parallel lines, polygons, angles, triangles, special triangles, the Pythagorean formula, square roots, perimeter, area, circumference, volume, and surface area.
Both sessions had a nice flow regarding the problems. We did many different exercises and we did not get stuck at any single problem. Yesterday was a good tutoring day.