Olivia has her exam coming up on Thursday, so we focused on improving her confidence with bearings. I gave her several more challenging questions to test her understanding. She has a strong grasp of the core steps and can apply the main methods well in standard questions.

She still finds the more difficult bearings questions challenging, especially when the angles are less straightforward. She can sometimes mix up bearings with unit-circle angles, so this is an area to keep reinforcing. More practice with harder-style exam questions would help her become more confident and consistent.

Our lesson went very well. Julian was prepared and had his booklet open on his laptop, which we worked through together. This topic mainly involves learning several index laws and recognising when to apply them. We managed to get through about half of the rules, which I was really happy with. He should now be quite familiar with these rules, which will hopefully give him a head start and make the topic easier for him in class. The rest will mainly come down to practice and becoming more confident applying them.

Julian did really well overall. At the moment, it’s mostly just a matter of practice and exposure to different question types. He can handle standard problems confidently, but next lesson I’d like to see how he goes with more difficult questions where it’s harder to recognise which rule to use and where multiple index laws need to be applied together.

Olivia has her Semester 1 exam coming up soon, so we’ve started preparing for it. She mentioned that she’d like to focus more on simultaneous equations and linear relations in general, as well as surface area of composite shapes, so I prepared the lesson accordingly. I was really happy with how she did. Previously, she had been weaker at linear relations and was more prone to making silly mistakes, but despite it being a while since she last covered the topic, she answered everything very well.

Everything went well overall. For next lesson, I’ll try to find some even more difficult test-style questions and set a timer to add some time pressure and better simulate exam conditions.

Our lesson went very well. We continued with arc lengths, extending into areas as well. I was quite happy with how he remembered and applied everything. For the questions we went through together, he grasped the concepts very quickly.

I think he’s quite strong in this topic. Leading up to the exam, it’ll probably be best to focus more on his weaker areas, which we’ll most likely start doing next lesson. His class has also switched to using these booklets, and they seem a lot more student-friendly and easier to navigate on his own. I think Julian’s been having a much easier time with them as well. Because of that, I’ll start looking for some harder questions and putting him in more test-like situations to help prepare him better for exams.