<p>So I didn't study at all and I got a 1500. How can I raise it by 500+ points? Please don't say anything negative. I'm determined to study. So how long should I be studying ? Any similar stories?</p>
<p>6+ hours everyday for the rest of summer. Memorize vocabulary and do lots of practice tests from the blue book and/or the official College Board online course.</p>
<p>Did you study like that? If so did you raise your score significantly that way?</p>
<p>There’s no magic formula. Just study all summer and try your best. We can’t tell you how many hours you should study because it all depends on how much you can handle. I personally wake up at 7:00 am sharp and study all the way till 6:00 pm. Of course I have breaks but that’s what I’m doing over the summer. There are some stories about people improving by large margins but those are very rare “miracles.”</p>
<p>I myself have a 2010 so take my advice with a grain of salt. I believe that before you put in countless hours of effort into practice tests and whatnot you should figure out your weaknesses and work on eliminating them. Some weaknesses are harder to eliminate than others such as a shallow vocab pool or slow passage reading. After you figure out what you need to fix, go over guides and reviews to find out what you should know and formulate your own methods for learning/covering what’s missing. Only after you feel that you’ve covered all the bases and have enough foundation to start practicing should you attempt to solve many tests. Don’t overwork yourself as you can only improve so much; solving 40 practice tests may not be more beneficial to your score than solving 15 practice tests. Also, use smart methods when working on covering your gaps such as reading classic literature for passage questions and using flash cards for sentence completion question.</p>