Online Test Prep Tutoring

SkillsTutor.com has launched its new Internet curriculumprogram, SkillsTutor. This Web-basedprogram is designed to support mastery of core skills and prepare students totake state and national standardized tests. Based on the content of theSkillsBank CD-ROM, SkillsTutor provides students in grades 6 through 12, aswell as adult learners, with online instruction and test preparation inreading, writing, language arts, mathematics, thinking skills and workforcereadiness.

The program can be customized to meet the individualacademic challenges faced by students in a variety of situations. The site canassign students tests to quickly identify strengths and weaknesses in skillsand concepts, create lesson plans for students of widely varying skill levels,provide tutorials to create mastery of the subject matter, help develop theskills needed to pass state and national tests, and generate individual orgroup progress reports. SkillsTutor.com, Columbia, MD, (888) 391-3245, www.skillstutor.com.

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