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Personal statement writing experts at personal statement service
Personal statement writing experts at personal statement service
Many students aren’t able to access decent personal statement advice, and have to rely instead on scraps of—often unreliable—information that they find on the internet or a very brief consultation with a teacher or parent.
London,
London,
United Kingdom
(sardnews.org)
25/11/2012
The UCAS personal statement is often the bane of a Year 13 student's life. As if choosing a university and a course wasn't enough of a burden for them to deal with on top of the pressure placed on them to achieve top grades, they then also have to produce a beautifully written summary of their academic credentials, the extra responsibilities they have taken on both inside and outside of school and their personal interests.
Help is at hand to prevent students falling into one of the many personal statement pitfalls, however. The personal statement experts of the newly launched educational portal personalstatementservice.com have recently put their heads together and come up with some practical and easy-to-follow suggestions for students as they put fingers to keyboard and start to write the personal statement that could be the difference between a place at a top uni and a clean sweep of rejections.
While their first piece of advice may seem obvious, the statement teams argue that it is often a point missed by many students. The clue to a good personal statement, they say, is in that word 'personal'. According to the personal statement team students very often make the mistake of producing a generic statement that could apply to virtually any of their peers. Instead of including specific incidents from experiences they've had in the classroom, during work experience and while volunteering, they often offer little more than something along the lines of 'I am motivated to study medicine because I want to help people'. Such impersonal statements, say the personal statement experts, say nothing about the applicant.
The other thing that the personal statement teams warn against may come as a surprise to those students who have gone that extra mile over the years to accumulate awards and arrange work placements. According to the team, trying to include too many achievements within the limited space available in a personal statement can be counterproductive because it means there is no space available to discuss why these achievements are relevant to their application and what was learnt from them. The teams therefore advise students to be pickier as they prepare their personal statements, counseling them to do justice to a selection of their best qualities and achievements rather than simply reeling off every single thing they have ever done.
These tips from the personal statement advice team are just one small example of the many different ways that the site can help students produce personal statements that show off their potential, not to mention help them choose where to study through its university guides and help them meet their conditional offers with a comprehensive set of revision guides.
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These tips from the personal statement advice team are just one small example of the many different ways that the site can help students produce personal statements that show off their potential, not to mention help them choose where to study through its university guides and help them meet their conditional offers with a comprehensive set of revision guides.
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