Steps to draft a Personal Statement

Personal statements go a long way in determining whether a candidate will be accepted into a university or college. It forms the foundation based on which the university makes judgments about your character and influences. Therefore, utmost importance should be given to drafting the personal statement. 

In the next video, you will learn about the important steps to draft a personal statement. 

As you learnt in the video above, there are primarily three steps involved in drafting a personal statement. These three steps are mentioned below.

The three steps of drafting a personal statement are as follows:

1. Writing the introduction part
2. Writing a paragraph on what you can offer to the university as a student
3. Writing the concluding paragraph about yourself

The first step of drafting the personal statement should largely include the following:

• The reasons why you are applying for the course at the university
• The introduction part, reflecting your enthusiasm for joining the course at the university

An example of a perfect introduction paragraph is given below.

Now that you have understood how to write the perfect introduction to your personal statement, let’s watch the next video to learn about the next process, which is writing the paragraph on what you can offer to the university as its student. 

In this video, you learnt how to write a paragraph on what you can offer to the university or college as its student. Some of the important points to keep in mind while writing this paragraph are as follows:

• You must establish your suitability for the course through this paragraph. 
• You must talk about your strengths.
• You should elaborate on any work/volunteering experiences. 
• You should explain the knowledge/lessons you gained from these experiences. 

An example of this paragraph is given below.

Having learnt how to write a paragraph on what you can offer to the university, let’s now watch the next video to learn about the final part of the personal statement, which is writing the perfect conclusion. 

In the video above, you learnt how to write the perfect concluding paragraph, which primarily talks about yourself. In this paragraph, you must include the following pointers:

• A peek into your personality
• Your career goals and how they correspond to the chosen course
• Your personal achievements
• A relation between your qualities and how they will be useful in the subject that you have chosen
• Any further reasons for choosing the university

An example of the concluding paragraph is given below.

In this segment, you learnt how to draft a personal statement by perfectly curating the introduction, body and conclusion parts of the personal statement. In the next segment, you will learn about some hygiene factors to consider while drafting your personal statement.