Francisco TP-2

Areum and I met for our second tutoring session on Thursday, May 27th. I asked Areum how her weekend went and she said it went well. I then asked if there is anything she wanted me to look at so that we can go over. Areum pulled out a English diagnostics test in which she did fairly well on. Her and I began looking over the test and I explained to the best of my knowledge why her anwser is wrong and why the correct choice is the correct one. I was able to explain the majority of the quesitions to her but there were several that took me a while to explain to her why they are correct. I had to resort to the internet on my phone to look up explanations as to why (grammatically speaking) the answer is correct.
Some questions however stumped me. They asked to answer the question with the best choice. An example of a question that confused Areum and I is: "Do you like to smoke?" I explained to her that two of the choices were wrong but there were two choices that are technically correct. The answers included "No, I don't" and "No, I don't smoke." Areum chose the latter and asked why it is wrong. I told her I did not know and we skipped the answer for the moment. We continued and I noticed that there were several questions that followed the same format and answer choices. I surmised that the test is most likely looking for the answer that does not restate itself, therefore making the answer less repetitive. The other answers followed this same model and I asked my fellow class mate Brittany if she had any opinion on this matter. Her opinion proved to reinforce mine in which the correct answer is the shorter one that does not restate itself. I promised Areum I will investigate this matter on my own and provide a better answer for the questions we discussed and another one I was unable to answer. Areum seemed to appreciate my efforts and thanked me with a big smile.