Personal Statements: Things to think about.

When you’re trying to create a revision timetable it can be difficult to know how much time to allocate to writing your personal statement. It’s easier if you know what you need to work on!

So here’s what you need to spend time learning about:

• Basic Information & Format
  This is an important area. You need to spend time going over the basic information you, and the admissions tutors you’re writing for, need to know. Lots of students forget to think about who they’re writing for and why they’re writing it. You need to know why universities have asked for a personal statement before you can write a good one.

• Strategy
  This covers how to start writing, how to proofread and edit your personal statement, and how to plan and make sure you stick to a unified message. This is all important (and often overlooked in a last minute rush to write personal statements).

• Content
  Although it’s perfectly possible to write a very bad personal statement even with very good things to write about, what you write is clearly important. This will look at the best (and worst) things you might want to say in your personal statement.

• Things to Avoid
  Although in general it’s much better to figure out what you should do than try to avoid other things, there are a few common errors which people make over and over again. We’ll take a look at these!

You need to find a way to do all these things and still manage to

Be Yourself!

It is a personal statement after all.