SSAT essay - how important is it?
The essay is used to get a sense of how you write unaided. They know - and expect - that with more time, you would polish anything.
They may compare this to the essays in your application to to get a sense of whether the latter are your own work. If your SSAT essay consists of 4-word sentences riddled with grammatical errors and your app essays read like Faulkner, that might set off some alarm bells. A few misspellings or a misplaced or repeated word here or there won’t be a problem.
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