SAT scores

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Do aspies tend to do better on math than verbal? Or do well on both?

I actually did far better on the verbal section. However, I ended up falling asleep during the math section. I only had about an hour of sleep the night before.

I did a bit better on verbal, too. Kinda odd, 'cause I was generally better at math than English-y stuff. But I'm just good at multiple choice.. Even in a fairly subjective subject, multiple choice is about logic.
For me there wasn't really much pressure on the SAT, though, because I took it in 10th grade, and scored high enough that there was no point in taking it again.. tests are much easier when there's not pressure.

I also did a little better on verbal.

I did better on verbal (790) than I did on math (710). However, I can do calculus in my head, and all of the ones I missed were labeled "easy" or "medium", so it probably has to do with the amount of attention the different subects require.

I scored in the 95%tile on the verbal section, and I think 75%tile on the math.

I left school before then.

I did MUCH better on verbal than on math. My score on the verbal part was 700, and my score on the math part was 490. That's not surprising, as I really struggled with Math from 7th grade on, but I always did well in English. I've always been much stronger verbally than mathematically.
Edited because I made my verbal score out to be higher than it really was. No wonder I struggled in math: I can't count!

I took it twice and did much better on the math both times. I also took the GRE (graduate school equivalent) and did much better on the math on that one as well, although on the GRE it was blind luck, I really shouldn't have done well on either section.

Mmmm, I was slightly better on verbal than on math. 97th and 93rd percentiles if I recall correctly. But verbal SAT testing isn't about actually communication, it's merely about how well you understand english, and how much you can infer from a written story. Basically if you read alot, you should score high on it. Considering how much I read during school, I was hardly surprised at my score. Math was just as easy, mostly pure logic. Only a bit of it had actual work to do, and that was just irritating.

I scored 740 in verbal and 700 in math.

I did much better on the math section than the critical reading. I think I was in the 96th percentile of the math, and the 91st percentile of the critical reading, though it's been long enough that I could be making these figures up.

When I was doing the study regimen for the SAT, I found the critical reading part to be the most difficult to learn, as the questions were more subjective. To prepare, I would find textual support to back up all of the answers (as if I were going to write an essay on the question instead of fill in a bubble). I often would find stronger textual support for a "wrong" answer than the "correct" answer, and was baffled to learn that the test writers considered another answer "correct".

I am not a fan of the SAT, though. It is more of a test of test-taking than of content mastery. If we really needed a test of test-taking, the College Board should go all out and make the SAT merely a test of logic that had no "content" in it - just puzzles, trick questions, logical fallacies, etc...

800 verbal, 710 math, and similarly on the GRE (800 verbal, 740 math). I *always* do better on the verbal section of any test.

Anybody else find it ironic that the section is called "verbal" but, um, IT'S NOT!
I think of "verbal" as being a lot different than "multiple-choice language-based questions on a standardized test." I have very little actual verbal ability.. but the "verbal" section isn't actually testing verbal ability..