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by bell-cot 953 days ago
There are a lot of basic questions:

- How motivated is the student to learn the math? (Meaning "motivated to really work at it", not "it'd be cool to be good at this...".)

- How well prepared are they (in mathematics) for the material you're charged with teaching?

- Is the priority to ace the final exam, or to prepare them to go on in math?

- How (correctly) confident is the student in their ability to do well in math?

- How much time do both you and the student have, to devote to this?