Shabi et al, GMAT is not difficult. The material is easy. What is difficult to most is to muster sustained focus and concentration to do the exam within the given time period. It's always the other things (i.e. pressure, worries, nervousness, panic attacks etc) that distract the brain, and people do not do great on GMAT. As such, GMAT is NOT an intelligence test, but a test of 'self-discipline' and focus under timed conditions, if you will. Here is a strategy used by someone who scored 750.Based on that friend's experience, here is what I recommend: 1. Set aside two hours a day/six days a week for practice for at least a month, if not more. Make sure that you have ZERO distraction. Having Ani Choying Dolma's music ("ful ko aankhama . . .") playing softly in the background reportedly boosts your practice scores . . . this is what I have been told. 2. Time yourself, and do as many problems as you can.This friend used Kaplan's "GMAT 800", the one that supposedly has the hardest problems. 3. When doing problems, use logic and analysis whenever you can -- that is to say, even GMAT verbal is not an English exam per se, but an exam of logic and reasoning. From your public library, you can borrow an LSAT book, and practice the LSAT verbal reasoning test for GMAT verbal (argument),and that should give you extra practice for GMAT verbal.[So long as you get a subscore of 40+ on quant and can present a strong TOEFL score, that is, assuming English is not your mother tongue, you should be fine for most b-schools.] 4. Keep a neat log of all your mistakes and errors (nicely labelled and all that) and study them again and again. This is important. GMAT is all about NOT making mistakes. Obsessing over your mistakes prior to the real exam helps you make fewer errors on the real test.Also, keeping tracks of mistakes sharpens your pattern-recognizing ability. 5. Start every practice session by reviewing all your past errors and mistakes, and understand why you made those errors. 6. If you have access to a white board, use it to solve problems or to understand/finetune the concepts. There's something about the human brain which helps it retain things better when they are written up on a white board for all the visual muscles to get worked up about! Use this to your advantage. 7. Get enough physical exercise a day. People do worse on exams when they are under stress. Exercise helps keep out stress.I recommend plenty of laughter and smiles. 8. At the end, don't stress too much about the exam. GMAT is only one small part of your application package. If you have strong math and english grades from your previous courses, they will help somewhat offset a relatively low GMAT score. Hope this helps. Good luck. oohi ashu