which of these three categories is most important and they expect a high score?
All of them
Gemma V (an AO who previously posted) said on 12/30/2010:
The most important part of the SSAT is actually the writing sample. Write a great essay–with no help or spell check or anything–in 20 minutes, and that’ll impress me much more than straight 99%s, which I’ve seen often enough.
oak2maple: I wrote it in a five pararaph essay format and completed four. Is that still okay?
If you simply ran out of time (20 minutes is not a lot of time) and the first four paragraphs were well written, I’m sure they will understand. Better a well written unfinished essay than a lackluster five paragraph essay.
Thanks! I think I did pretty well on the writing 