Every few weeks
Unit tests
We work from the unit outline or the last quiz you got back. Two sessions before a test leaves time to find the gap and then practise it.
Exam prep · September to June
Plan backward from the test date.
Cramming the night before rarely works in math and science. Tell us when the test is and we'll spread the work across the weeks you have.
The school year, plotted.
- Unit test
- Finals
- Numeracy assessment
- AP or IB exam
- Our planning
- Sep
- Our planning: First session: a short diagnostic and a term plan
- Oct
- Unit test: Unit tests begin
- Nov
- Unit test: Unit tests
- Numeracy assessment: Numeracy assessment session
- Dec
- Unit test: Unit tests
- Our planning: Review before the winter break
- Jan
- Finals: Semester 1 finals
- Numeracy assessment: Numeracy assessment session
- Feb
- Unit test: Semester 2 starts, new unit tests
- Mar
- Unit test: Unit tests
- Our planning: AP and IB review plan starts
- Apr
- Numeracy assessment: Numeracy assessment session
- AP or IB exam: IB exams start late in the month
- May
- AP or IB exam: AP exams, first two weeks
- AP or IB exam: IB exams continue
- Jun
- Finals: Year-end finals
- Numeracy assessment: Numeracy assessment session
Exact dates are set by your school, the BC Ministry of Education, the College Board and the IB, and they shift a little each year. We plan from the dates your school gives you.
Prep by type of test
January and June
Finals
A review calendar counted back from the exam, with topics weighted by how much of the final they're worth and a timed practice paper in the last week.
Grade 10 · November, January, April, June
Graduation Numeracy Assessment
A BC graduation requirement that tests reasoning with numbers in real situations rather than one math course. We practise with the province's sample tasks and work on explaining answers in words, which is where marks slip.
Late April and May
AP and IB exams
Review starts in March: questions in the style of past papers, done timed, then marked against the way examiners award points. Free-response and paper 2 technique get their own sessions.
Worked example
How a prep plan comes together.
Every plan is written down and shared with the student and a parent before the second session, so everyone knows what the next few weeks look like.
- Given
- The test date, the unit outline or syllabus, recent quizzes or marked work, and how many weeks are left.
- Find
- The topics that cost the most marks, and the ones that only need a quick check.
- Solution
- Hard topics first, while there's time. Each session ends with three to five practice questions for before the next one. The final session is a timed run-through, then we go over every mistake.
- ∴
- No grade promise. A plan, steady practice, and honest notes on what's still shaky.