All
Classes:
á 90 minutes long
á 10 + students
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Fundamentals
Classes
Class #1 (Fundamentals)
Tuesdays @ 6:45 PM
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START DATE |
END DATE |
TARGET TEST |
# of Classes |
Cost |
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Tues Nov 10 |
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May SAT and/or June ACT [1] |
22 (33 hours of instruction) |
$3540 |
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to register for a Fundamentals Class
Class #2 (Fundamentals)
Sundays @ 12 noon
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START DATE |
END DATE |
TARGET TEST |
# of Classes |
Cost |
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Sun Nov 8 |
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May SAT and/or June ACT 1 |
22 (33 hours of instruction) |
$3540 |
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Honors
Classes
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register for an Honors Class
Class
#3 (Honors)
Wednesdays @ 7 PM
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START DATE |
END DATE |
TARGET TEST |
# of Classes |
Cost |
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May SAT and/or June ACT [2] |
21 (31.5 hours of instruction) |
$3540 |
To qualify for an Honors class,
students must meet one of the following requirements:
A) provide proof of an official PSAT
score of at least a 130 (Reading + Math only). If you are in
the class of 2017, please do NOT include the Writing score.
B) provide proof of an official PLAN score of at least 27 (composite score
only);
C) take a new a diagnostic ACT or SAT and achieve the minimum threshold levels
detailed in A) and B).
F.A.Q.
Which is
the better test for my child: SAT or ACT?
The new SAT will be very
similar to the ACT. There is a significant amount of overlap between the two
tests—especially in the Math, Grammar, and Reading sections.
Some
minor differences between the two tests:
1. The ACT has a Science section, which is actually more of a reading test, one that
measures how quickly and precisely students can interpret scientific data, as
presented in charts and graphs. (Although the SAT does not have a separate science section, scientific
passages with charts and graphs—passages that are practically identical
to those on the ACT—will show up in the SATÕs Reading Section)
2. The math concepts tested on both tests are identical. However, the SAT Math has one section
(20 questions out of 58) during which students may not use
their calculators; the ACT allows calculator usage on all 60 of its math questions.
However, the SATÕs multiple-choice questions will have only 4 choices, as
opposed to the 5 choices on the ACT math.
I
have structured my classes so that students will be prepared for both tests.
The differences between the two tests, as detailed above, actually arenÕt that
significant.
When
should my child begin tutoring?
To
get the full benefits of tutoring, most students should start the
summer before 11th grade—or
September, October, November, or January of 11th
grade.
Students
who fall in one of the following categories should consider starting
in January or April of 10th grade:
1. Recruited athletes should start tutoring as early as possible—perhaps
sophomore year or the summer before junior year—since the vast majority
of colleges will require that athletes have all of their testing done by June
of junior year.
2. Students who are within striking distance
of the National Merit Scholarship—a
combined score of approximately 180 on the 10th grade-PSAT—might
also want to start as early as possible. The reason is that the qualifying test for National Merit
is the PSAT that students take in October of junior year.
3. Accelerated math students (those who have skipped a year of math—and/or will
take Calculus junior year) might also want as early as possible. Why? The math
section on both the ACT and SAT will cover concepts through Pre-Calculus only, so accelerated math students might want to start early so that they
can take the ACT/SAT early—at the beginning of junior year or even the end of sophomore year—while the Pre-Calculus concepts are fresh in
their heads. If accelerated math students start tutoring in November of junior
year or later, they might have to review too much of the concepts from
Pre-Calculus. An ÒHonorsÓ starting this July is specifically geared
toward accelerated math students.
Do you
offer mock exams?
Yes. I offer mock exams on the weekends.
These exams are held at St. Francis College and will be on a staggered
schedule: Saturday one week, Sunday the next, then Saturday again, etc.
How are
you different from the other teachers at the big agencies?
In
general, the franchise agencies hire young teachers, often recent college
graduates without significant classroom experience, and ask them to teach from
the standardized, Òcookie-cutterÓ script. This model has some advantages and
disadvantages. Some of the teaching from the chain agencies can be excellent,
but sometimes the teaching can be inconsistent.
One
of my main goals is to teach students what I call ÒHIQÓ (High I.Q.) shortcuts
to solve some of the hardest problems in, literally, one-half or one-third of
the time it would take to solve the problem the traditional (ÒtextbookÓ) way.
And I always strive to make my lessons creative, fun, and even
inter-disciplinary. Please visit www.luututoring.com to view sample videos
of my lesson plans.
I
have almost 20 yearsÕ experience teaching in the classroom: IÕve taught upper-school
Pre-Calculus and Geometry; fifth-form American Literature; sixth-form
Expository Writing; and sixth-form Fiction & Poetry—all at a
competitive private school in New York City. IÕve also taught English
Composition at Boston University. And of course for many years now IÕve taught
standardized tests through Luu Tutoring.