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An Exciting Time for High School Seniors is Right Around the Corner! As the summer winds down and the final year of high school approaches, rising seniors and their parents face a crucial period: the college application season. This time is both exciting and challenging, filled with important tasks and deadlines. To help you stay organized and on track, Peak Tutoring offers comprehensive college counseling services, including SAT/ACT preparation, college selection guidance, application assistance, and scholarship application support. Here’s an…

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I loved dinosaurs as a child, as so many kids do, and I’ve maintained my interest in those amazing animals even as an adult. This may not be too surprising, considering my background as a science educator. But it’s not unusual for kids – even teenagers – to continue to find the mysteries of the Mesozoic beasts who dominated this planet for hundreds of millions of years to be quite interesting. Paleontology has experienced a golden age of discovery during…

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For many high school students, Advanced Placement United States History is often the first class that asks them to argue. You read that correctly. In AP U.S. History, teachers work with students to learn the context of major events in the nation’s history. So, yes, there is detail to be mastered. But equally important are the skills emphasized by the College Board so that students are prepared to succeed on the AP U.S. History exam. Students should be prepared, by…

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If your student will enter eighth or ninth grade in the autumn, then it’s likely she will be enrolled in Algebra I in one of those grades or the other. Often students first encountering algebra find themselves abruptly thrown off stride by the change from a focus on numbers and arithmetic operations to relationships between quantities. Here’s a typical problem of the sort your student will likely see, along with an answer and explanation. This might help to provide a…

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One of the subjects that can perplex high school chemistry students is periodic trends. This is the part of the course where you learn how to read the Periodic Table of the Elements. You know, the map that tells us about all the kinds of atoms in the universe. Now, you might say “I don’t like to read maps and, besides, who needs to do it when we’ve got smartphones?” But I’m here to tell you that learning this skill…

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