GRE, Books Tips and Strategies

As an Ecuadorian interested in applying for Ph.D in the States I had to take the GRE in order to submit my application. I am sure that my Scores are not very competitive but the rule is to score high to be in the median of the distribution of the scores, to above at least 50% of the other takers.
My scores are below:

General Test Scores

Test Date	Verbal Reasoning*				Quantitative Reasoning*				Analytical Writing
	Prior Format		Current Format		Prior Format		Current Format
	Scaled Score	Estimated Current Score	Scaled Score	% Below	Scaled Score	Estimated Current Score	Scaled Score	% Below	Score	% Below
10/30/2015			150	45			155	60	3.0	15

What I did I use to reach this "minimum" Score?
Well, I follow a general guideline which was "use most of the best tools and recents books available".
I took a GRE Course to prepare for the Math Section, and concomitantly for the Verbal Section. Therefore, I can't suggest anything specifically for it. Nevertheless I use several books to score as high as possible.

I followed the reference of Magoosh - Best 2015 GRE Books:
In contrast to what they mention there, I used the Book from Princeton: "Cracking the New GRE 2015". I can say anything bad, though it wasn't quite impressive. The best is the practice section by itself, not but the quality but the more exercises to keep practicing.

A rather jadded but wise advise: Start practicing, keep practicing and never stop practicing. Practice make you aware of your weaknesses, so where you must work harder. Try to avoid the Weakness only philosophy. You need balance, strenghtening yet reinforcing - do not focus only on where you make mistakes! You must still reinforce intensely where you don't!

As indicated by Magoosh, the best are the officials:
1. ETS’s Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions
2. ETS’s Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions
and, differently from Magoosh:. The GRE Official Guide. Why? Simply because it's written by the authors, and secondly, because those guidelines, though not very detailled, are what you must follow in the Test. So, read this first, and do the practice sections to test and pace yourself.

In addition I used this books (which can be downloaded):

McGraw-Hill Education: GRE 2015 Premium
GRUBER’S COMPLETE GUIDE 2015 - 4th Edition
Arco - GRE 2015
Cracking the GRE 2015
Master The GRE 2015 - Peterson
Kaplan GRE Premier 2016
Princeton GRE 2015

Barron's GRE 6 Practice Tests
McGraw Hill GRE 6 Practice Tests
Kaplan GRE Math WorkBook
Peterson GRE 2014
GRUBER’S COMPLETE GUIDE 2014 - 3rd Edition

Princeton Word Smart

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