Hello, I’m an US citizen living abroad.
I plan on taking the SAT in about 6 months and I do find myself in quite some trouble on the SAT CR section.
I am an US citizen but unfortunately English isn’t my native language.
I am fluent in English though and I have an A in school. But I really struggle to score above 700 in the CR section, sometimes I don’t know 7 out of 8 words on the sentence completion section.
However, the TOEFL is way easier and I’d be able to score 110+ out of 120.
Can a strong TOEFL compensate a mediocre SAT CR?
How would you proceed?
It won’t compensate. Work on your reading skills.
If you don’t know 7 out of 8 words in the CR section, even if it’s not always but only sometimes, you’d score in the low 400s, not in the 700s.
Your TOEFL will provide context and for schools ranked 80+ (LACs) or public universities (40+) outside of the Honors College, it may be sufficient if you don’t need scholarships.
If you need financial aid or are applying to highly selective colleges, then your TOEFL will only be a first hurdle -if you clear it, they look at the rest, but if you don’t, you’ll be stuck in the reject pile automatically (or offered a “gateway” program that comes without scholarships.)
@xiggi is correct. Even a 118-120 TOEFL score will not compensate for SAT Reading.