<p>^I would recommend that you have your tutor work on your son’s vocabulary - specifically including his English vocabulary. I know that my son’s English vocabulary in nowhere near what it should be, IMHO. Because his English vocabulary is relatively poor, he fails to recognize words in other languages which are related to English words. He elected to take Latin on his own, but I hoped that it would improve his general vocabulary. I don’t think that it did (although it did help him substantially in learning Italian). For example, he did not realize that the word “august” meant anything other than a month in the summer. I think that he would have done better on the CR section of the SATs if his vocabulary had been better. If you are already thinking about a tutor, it would probably be money well spent.</p>