my SAT ability is so imbalanced

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<p>SAT is so confusing to me. I have really imbalanced skills on different subjects, or even parts.</p>

<p>My best SAT score was a 540 in reading, 760 in math and 580 in writing.
However, I got 2400 on SAT subject tests on math 2, physics and chem.
My reading and writing skill is even more imbalanced. In the reading section, I basically get most vocab questions right by guessing(really awesome guessing skill, I never know all the vocab), and when there's a scientific passage(for example a bio research article), I generally got all questions right because the passage is logical and the questions are logical.
However, for the excerpts from novels, I can only get 2 right out of 6. I generally don't understand those "humanities" and can not answer questions like "what does the man think of the girl in line 25~30?" In real life I'm just a person too logical but not emotional at all. I got A+ in my maths and science classes(even AP), but I can only get B- in my English class which is only CP level.
I can do pretty well in the grammar questions because that's quite logical as well, but in the essay I just mess it up.</p>

<p>I think the SAT is too much based on one's language skills and students good at social science are more likely to get higher scores than students good at natural science. The language worth 1600 while the maths only worth 800.</p>

<p>How to deal with such imbalance?</p>

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<p>Maybe you should try the ACT.</p>

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<p>My first SAT practice test was also really imbalanced (800 on math, around 540-560 on R, W). I guess we had the same problem, because I was able to improve my grammar to nearly 700 by simply reviewing a few grammar rules, but my reading score improved very little. You might also be better off with ACT.</p>

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<p>I was in the same boat as you (I’m a math and science guy as well) my first SAT was 590 CR, 770 M (1 “ommitted”, but it was scored wrong and was supposed to be 800) and 620 W as well as 800 M2, 780 bio, and 770 history. I thought I would never be able to bring up my other scores, but I ended up, in only 3 weeks bringing my CR up to 680 (and hopefully higher in October), and my W up to 800. </p>

<p>Just think of the CR and W as scientific, because they pretty much are. You just have to analyze each part of the passage or sentence. They’re pretty much like formulas. You can learn grammar like you can math formulas, and then you can just pick out the part that is wrong, and for CR, all of the answers are in the passages, just hidden, or in different words, by analyzing the passage, you can usually find key words showing the answer. Also, if you practice a lot, it makes it much easier. I went through 10 practice tests in my 3 weeks of study.</p>