Actually, the India bit is a tad unnecessary. Test prep for a global test like GMAT has to be the same, Timbuktoo or Tinsukia.

Coming back to the question, what’s the best way to prepare yourself for the desired high score (cliched, I know - no one wants a low score !!!) in GMAT. For that matter, what is the best way to teach yourself anything new be it horse riding, bodybuilding, a new language or even how to write a blog. Simple, go to someone who is an expert and ask him to be your guiding angel for a while.  Imagine learning bicep-building from Arnold or business building from Bill Gates or Larry Page or Richard Branson, imagine learning basketball from Michael Jordan or acting from Al Pacino.

Yes, it’s not going to happen, not at least to the mere mortals unless you happen to be born into one of these families and, then by some strange coincidence, you too take a liking to the same field of endeavor.

Let’s now come back to the relatively less ambitious task of scoring a perfect 800 in GMAT. The best bet would be to catch hold of a guy who is an expert; pray, cajole or somehow convince him to be your guiding angel (try, for instance, making him an offer he can’t refuse !!!) and then follow exactly as he says.

The idea is to seek guidance from an expert who also has the time and inclination to help you understand your own unique combination of skills and attitudes which make you pre-disposed towards a certain score and helps you work on those improvement areas, again unique to you, which can result in the maximum improvement in the score with minimum time and effort investments.

As long as the Perfect Test Prep engine (as discussed in the previous posts) does not attain a high level of maturity, plain old guru-disciple model is the best bet.

Yes, find yourself a personal guru.

If you cannot, do something that approximates the classical guru-disciple dynamics as closely as possible.