Tips for students this summer

With all the changing of curriculum for common core there are placement tests to accelerate your placement.  Sometimes you maybe able to retake them if you did not pass them at the end of the school year.  Get a tutor and start working on the things you were not great at and prepare to take the placement test again.  This is especially important for those students who want to major in the sciences. You need to be in Algebra 2 to take Chemistry at most high schools.

Improve your critical reading, vocabulary and writing

-Read. Write. Comprehend. Join book clubs at the library they often give out prizes for number of books read as a contest.

-Get ahead in your studies. Rent out some of the textbooks you will use next year in school.  Get ahead in the material.  Especially mathematics.  Practice makes perfect.  If you are an honors student, make sure you check if you have any summer reading assignments for the summer and complete them thoroughly.

-Become a part time student at Elearnprep. Take an online course to advance, obtain credits, repeat D or F grades to raise your GPA.

-If you are going to be a senior.  It’s crunch time.  Hit the books for your SAT and SAT II.  Choose 10 schools to apply to.  Set your goals and accomplish them in the fall.  Take more courses over the summer if it will raise your gpa.  Repeat any D or F courses.

-Speed reading.  Try to increase your comprehension and reading speed.  Try websites like Spreeder.  This new OCR technology will allow you to copy and paste your text and read at variable speeds.

-For entering middle school students it’s important to review basic math skills.  Ask elearnprep to hire a tutor to help you get ahead of the learning curve.

-Go to the school library and rent the textbook needed for math next year and start working on the things you already have learned in the previous year.