Writing a Personal Statement

Your Personal Statement should be approximately one A4 page, typed or hand written.  Personal statements include the following elements:

Beginning:

• What kind of person you are.
• Your talents/ Subjects you are good at.

Middle:

• In school activities.                                              
• Out of school activities.
• Your skills.
• Your responsibilities.  
• Achievement.              

End:

• Your goal(s)/ aims (s).

Remember don’t just list, if you give 3 or 4 descriptive words use the right punctuation and back up your reasoning, for example:

‘ I am a caring, thoughtful, conscientious and  hard-working person. This is demonstrated though my volunteering work for a local vets.’ 

Layout

• Should be easy to read.
• Use paragraphs.
• Correct punctuation and spelling is very important.
• If using a PC make sure the wording is aligned.
• Check double check and check again!!!

Here is an example of a good specimen Personal Statement: