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🎈Link to  Congratulations🎈🎈🎈

🎈 Registration Link

🎈 SAT Reports

🎈 Congratulations🎈🎈

🎈 SAT English

🎈Testimony

🎈Teachers’ Bio

2019 AP Test Schedule: AP Exam Test Dates

2019 Summer SAT Prep: 

One of the Best SAT, PSAT Prep in Virginia, DC, Maryland!

The August Intensive SAT English is designed for students who will be learning and applying strategies to the College Board SAT exam in August or October 2019. Students should have had previous exam practice, either through taking the exam and aspiring to improve their scores, or by participating in a previous SAT preparation course. 

This session involves INTENSIVE mock exams and daily drills. Students will be given multiple tests, including a pretest prior to the start of the course, daily exams, and a complete set of mock exams at the end of the course.  Ms. Murphy will be on site conducting group review, and 1:1 coaching and reviewing. 

Seats are limited, and a wait list will begin as soon as all seats are full.

  • When: August 19 – 23 (Mon – Fri), 9 am – 12 noon
  • What: Intensive SAT English session
  • Who: 10 – 12th Grader
  • Where: 2705 Hunter Mill Rd, VA 22124
  • Registration Deadline: 8/1/2019.
  • Registration Link: www.oaktonacademy.com “registration.” 
  • Instructor: Ms. Murphy, bio is on the link
Fall Programs @ Oakton Academy:
  •  AP Physics/TJ Physics, Thursday 7-9 pm 
  • AP Calculus, Saturday 12-2 pm
  • Pre-Calculus/SAT Math 2, Saturday 2 – 4 pm
  • Advanced Algebra 2 / Trig / SAT Math (10 – 12 noon) 
  • CS Intro/Java Boot Camp 
  • Public Speaking (11 am – 12 noon)
  • Debate (12 noon – 1:30 pm)  * New
  • College Application Essay Writing (7/13, 20, 27, 8/3, 9/28) ** full
  • This workshop has helped many students get into top colleges (2019-2022), including Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, U. Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, U. of Michigan, UVA Echols Scholar, Vanderbilt, and other top schools. Please click the  link:🎈 Congratulations🎈🎈

AP Calculus, AP Physics, SAT, PSAT, TJ, AOS Prep

  • AP Calculus Link:  AP Calculus
  • AP Physics Link, AP Physics
  • SAT English 
  • SAT Math
    • Highly qualified SAT instructors 
    • Small Class Size 
    • Individual attention, 1:1 essay writing conference
    • 800 perfect sores for most students (SAT Math)
    • Average 50-120 points increase 
    • On December 15, we received the high SAT score of 1590 (from a junior student); and a perfect PSAT score 1520 (760/760) from a junior. Congratulations!
    • A student who got admitted in 2018 to top schools of Yale, Upenn, MIT, Brown, Georgetown received 790/800 SAT score in 2017. Congratulations!!!
    • A student who got nominated to the semifinalist of U.S. Presidential Scholar received 770/800 SAT score
    • A student received perfect PSAT scores when she was a sophomore  
    • A McLean HS student’s parent wrote and reported that her daughter (R.K.) improved 100 points from the previous summer to the time when she took the SAT test in May (1470 to 1570), she and her family are so thrilled for the high score, and thanked Oakton Academy for the Prep opportunity.
    • A Langley HS student’s parent thanked us as his daughter (M. Y.) got admitted to Princeton, and found the Mock SAT and Intensive SAT training helped her achieved high in SAT tests
    • Nominated to be one of the best SAT Prep in Fairfax, VA

SAT Mock Exam Calendar: Test Dates

  • SAT Mock Exam (September, 12 – 4 pm)
  • SAT Mock Exam (October, November, 12 pm – 4 pm)
  • PSAT Mock Exam (September, October,  1 pm – 4:00 pm)

Advanced Critical Reading/Writing (9/10th Grade)

  • Critical Reading/Writing/Grammar Skills for standard test success (SAT/PSAT/ACT)

College Essay Workshop/Admission Interviewing 

  • College Application Essay Workshop 
  • EA/ED Strategy, College Admission Interviewing
  • College Application Consultation (by appointment only) 
Summer Programs: 
  • TJ, AOS Test Prep
  • 5-8th Grade Hands-on Science, Reading, Writing, Math, Public Speaking
  • SAT English, SAT Math
  • Introduction to Physical Science and AP Physics
  • AP Physics/Honors Physics
  • AP Calculus AB/BC
  • Pre-Calculus, Advanced Algebra 2 / Trig / SAT Math 
  • SAT English, SAT Math, PSAT English, PSAT Math
  • College Essay Writing Workshop
  • College Admission Mock Interview 
SAT Report Link: Congratulations 🎈🎈🎈
College Application Essay Link: College Application

 

2018 Summer AP Physics, Honors Physics Fundamentals

2017, Uncategorized

Summer 2018 (Link: 2017 Summer Program)

This AP Physics/Honors Physics Summer Session will cover the following concepts:

(1) Conventions and Graphing
(2) Vectors
(3) Kinematics in one dimension
(4) Kinematics in Two Dimensions
(5) Dynamics
(6) Circular Motion
(7) Energy, Work, and Power
(8) Momentum and Impulse
(9) Gravity
(10) Electric Field
(11) Electric Potential
(12) Circuit Elements and DC Circuits
(13) Magnetism
(14) Electromagnetic Induction

Registration: www.oaktonacademy.com

The summer AP Physics/Honors Physics overview session will have many Questions and Problem Solving sessions to help students sharp their understanding of key concepts, learn how to apply those concepts to solve real physics problems. It is designed for rising 11th and 12th graders who plan to take AP Physics or Honors Physics in the Fall. It offers the opportunity for high school students to build up Physics foundation that is required to succeed in taking the rigorous AP Physics in their base school; and to achieve high score in May AP exam.

NEW contents include: Motion in one and two dimensions, Force and Motion, Kinetic Energy and Work, Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy, Center of Mass and Linear Momentum, Rotation, Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum, Electric Charge, Electric Fields, Gauss Law, Electric Potential and Circuits. Capacitance, Current and Resistance, Magnetic Fields, Induction and Inductance, Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current, Maxwell’s Equations and Magnetism of Matter. With time permission, we would also cover selective major chapters from Optics and Thermodynamics.  *Teacher’s bio 

The text books include: “Fundamentals of Physics” by Hallliday, Resnick, and Walker, the 7th Edition; Barron’s AP Physics; and other required materials

Registration Link 

Instructor:  Dr. Frank Lu is an experienced teacher with a PhD in Physics & Artificial Intelligence (AI) . He received degrees from Fudan University, University of Maryland, and Duke University. Dr. Lu taught college students at UMBC (MD), and American University (DC). He also tutored and taught students from TJ, Oakton, and Langley High Schools as well as other private schools. His students have received excellent scores in SAT Physics (700 – 800) and AP Physics (5).

Dr. Lu’s unique instructional method and teaching style includes many question and problem solving sessions, sharpening students’ understanding of key concepts, enabling students to apply those concepts to solve real Physics problems in life, and building a solid foundation for the rigorous AP Physics Test.

From 2014 to 2017, some of Dr. Lu’s AP and SAT Physics students reported their admission to top schools, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, U of Chicago, Georgetown, U of Penn, NYU Stern Business School, Penn State , Cornell, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, Swarthmore, and other great colleges. One student M. Sun (2016) got admitted to Y/H/S, and he is currently attending Stanford; he received 5 on his AP Physics tests. Another student C. Song from Maryland (2016) who attended our SAT Physics class, got admitted to Upenn (Wharton), she received 780 for her SAT Physics test. Each year, we are very happy for those who have worked extremely hard, and who have demonstrated their intelligence, their potentials, and most importantly their enthusiasm in learning Physics. 

Location: 2705 Hunter Mill Rd, VA 22124

Schedule: Saturday 10 am – 12 Noon; 6/24 – 8/12/2017 

Registration: www.oaktonacademy.com “registration” for “Summer AP Physics”. Seat is limited to 12 students, first come, first served.

Contact: oaktonacademy@gmail.com for any questions!

PSAT/SAT Summer Camp, AP Physics/AP Calculus/SAT Subject Classes (6/24 – 7/21)

Link: 2017 Summer Program
AP and SAT Weekend Classes (6/24 – 8/19, Saturdays)

Registration link: www.oaktonacademy.com “registration”. Feel free to reach: oaktonacademy@gmail.com for any questions. Thanks for your review!

Summer AP Physics, Honors Physics

2016, Uncategorized

AP Physics Introduction (Summer)

Registration Link 

This course is designed for rising 11th or 12th grade students. It has many Questions and Problem Solving sessions to help students sharp their understanding of key concepts, and learn how to apply those concepts to solve real physics problems. It offers the opportunity for high school students to build up the Physics foundation that is required to succeed in taking the rigorous AP Physics or Honors Physics in their base schools, as well as to achieve high scores in May AP test.

This class will cover the following concepts:

(1) Conventions and Graphing
(2) Vectors
(3) Kinematics in one dimension
(4) Kinematics in Two Dimensions
(5) Dynamics
(6) Circular Motion
(7) Energy, Work, and Power
(8) Momentum and Impulse
(9) Gravity
(10) Electric Field
(11) Electric Potential
(12) Circuit Elements and DC Circuits
(13) Magnetism
(14) Electromagnetic Induction

The class will have many Questions and Problem Solving sessions to help students sharp their understanding of key concepts, learn how to apply those concepts to solve real physics problems. It offers the opportunity for high school students to build up Physics foundation that is required to succeed in taking the rigorous AP Physics in their base school; and to achieve high score in May 2017 AP test.

NEW contents include: Motion in one and two dimensions, Force and Motion, Kinetic Energy and Work, Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy, Center of Mass and Linear Momentum, Rotation, Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum, Electric Charge, Electric Fields, Gauss Law, Electric Potential and Circuits. Capacitance, Current and Resistance, Magnetic Fields, Induction and Inductance, Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current, Maxwell’s Equations and Magnetism of Matter. We also plan to cover selective major chapters from Optics and Thermodynamics.  *Teacher’s bio 

Instructor:  Dr. Frank Lu is an experienced teacher with a PhD in Physics & Artificial Intelligence (AI) . He received degrees from Fudan University, University of Maryland, and Duke University. Dr. Lu taught college students at UMBC (MD), and American University (DC). He also tutored and taught students from TJ, Oakton, and Langley High Schools as well as other private schools. His students have received excellent scores in SAT Physics (700 – 800) and AP Physics (5).

Dr. Lu’s unique instructional method and teaching style includes many question and problem solving sessions, sharpening students’ understanding of key concepts, enabling students to apply those concepts to solve real Physics problems in life, and building a solid foundation for the rigorous AP Physics Test.

From 2014 to 2017, some of Dr. Lu’s AP and SAT Physics students reported their admission to top schools, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Georgetown, UPenn, New York U., UC Berkeley, Swarthmore, and other great colleges. A big congratulation to our seniors!!

The text books include: “Fundamentals of Physics” by Hallliday, Resnick, and Walker, the 7th Edition; Barron’s AP Physics; and other required materials

Registration Link 

Location: 2705 Hunter Mill Rd, VA 22124

Contact: oaktonacademy@gmail.com for any questions!