@marie122 I did read the entirety of your post. One of the purposes of mine was simply to clear up what “really preparing” is. You may have not read mine carefully; I didn’t say that you told him it was impossible, I said “nearly impossible.” Sure, it will take a good amount of time, but as I stated earlier, an increase from 1500-1900 is marginally easier to accomplish than say, 1990 to 2390. The reason that a majority of kids don’t improve that much is because they don’t have the combined motivation, methodology, and work ethic to achieve such an increase.
You’re right in that time is limited for @gobblet99 if he/she is going into senior year. However, if a large chunk of his/her summer is dedicated to studying the correct way, as I mentioned above, his/her shot of achieving his/her goal is very plausible, considering he/she was expecting an 1800 the first go-round anyway. Good luck in your testing endeavors, @gobblet99 !