2023August

"Don't make a mistake! What to do from junior high school entrance exam / autumn" (Note) This post is ・ Among junior high school entrance exam students, it is for 6th grade elementary school examinees ・ I am a math / science specialist instructor, so please note that the content is specialized in arithmetic and science. (I would like to tell you again about the explanation for 4th ~ 5th grade elementary school students.) I think that most junior high school entrance exam students, most elementary school students, spent the summer vacation "soaking in cram school summer courses". There are people who were able to learn satisfactorily as planned, and people who were not as satisfied as expected. Also, how was the public test after the summer vacation? ・ Students who improved their grades due to noticeable results of the summer course ・ Students who felt a response and gained confidence On the other hand ・ Students who did not get results in grades as expected ・ Students who were disappointed and "disappointed" despite working hard and attended the summer course ・ Students who have not changed at all from before the summer vacation and have lost a little confidence in studying for the entrance exam in the future I think it is different. Whatever the conclusion, the results of the summer course are almost as good as expected, and many students are not seeing the results as prominently as expected. The reason is that most of the content of the summer course at the preparatory school is a class that "summarizes all units". For students who had "almost completed" all the units (curriculum) up to the first semester of the sixth grade that they studied before the summer course, the "roundup" class of the summer course was a fulfilling learning experience because I was able to reconfirm my own perfection. However, for students who did not have a good level of completion (unit) up to the first semester of sixth grade, even if they received "roundup" guidance from the cram school instructor as understanding, even though their understanding was not established, they would have ended with "vague classes" and "somehow participated". Unfortunately, few students are able to complete the curriculum by the time the sixth grade summer class is complete and can fully master the "roundup" lessons of cram school teachers. ・ Somehow, "I learned this before" ・ "I didn't understand this unit before and the test was bad" ・ "I'm not good at this unit ~" Some students like this ・ "I don't understand at all" ・ "Have you learned this before?" Some students feel like learning for the first time. Under these circumstances, even if you participate in the "round-up" class of the summer course, your understanding will not deepen, and as a result, it is natural that you will not get results in the public test after the summer course. In other words, many students tend to end up learning only on the upper side of summer and without deepening their understanding of summer courses, in which they spent all their long summer vacations paying a high price in anticipation of the results after the summer vacation. How to study efficiently during this long summer vacation and achieve results in the public test after the summer vacation! (1) Analyze the completeness of each unit Analyze the completeness of each unit from the test results up to before the summer vacation. For example: ・ The percentage unit is perfect because most of the tests are answered correctly. ・ The figure field is still insufficient because the correct answer rate on the test is about 70% ・ The speed unit always drops the score on the test, etc. Where are you dropping your score? What unit are you not good at? Be sure to analyze it thoroughly before summer vacation. (2) Thorough guidance on units you are not good at ・Where did you stumble and where did you lose your senses? Detailed analysis ・ Establish solution methods by writing line diagrams and designs ・ Repeat exercises with similar problems ・ After establishing understanding, acquire application skills in development problems (3) Basic training exercises such as calculations and one-line problems ・ Practice one-line problems and basic problems to speed up the solution I should have learned during the summer vacation. However, these matters are very different for each student, and the cram school cannot deal with them. Therefore, as a "roundup", a summer course was held with wide and shallow classes and consideration for all students. (However, in the end, as mentioned above, the level of understanding did not deepen and I can't shake the feeling that I ended up learning only at the top.) Because of this background, it can be said that many students have "disappointing" results in the public test after summer vacation. In addition, this "disappointing" grades bother students and parents from the second semester onwards. Finally, from autumn onwards, phrases such as "measures for the school of choice" will begin to be heard from the cram school side. [...]