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It is important to cover whatever period you intend to include in your personal statement because time spent planning your sequence and method you feel happiest with will undoubtedly make actual writing that much easier for you.
The biggest problem you will find is finding topics of discussion in your personal statement and selecting those topics you want to use and which topics you wish to leave out. Remember that with any form of writing you are practicing art form. Get Into Uni Oxford Educated editors edit personal statements for our customers. A while ago, I was asked to take a critical look at a personal statement which spanned students life from age two to eighteen and it made gripping reading but was far too long and student had not been selective enough in abundance of material she choose from. The word count ran to 1,500 words – far too long for a personal statement. The task of reducing your personal statement can be enthusiastically undertaken but problem is that you need to look at your original brainstormed ideas to organise your material for selection process. The only criterion you need to apply at this stage is this incident of sufficient interest to admission officer.
I hope that you agree a powerful beginning is of paramount importance or we will quickly lose Admission Officers interest. Then, once having captured his or hers attention, we have to make sure your personal statement ending is dynamic and in right place. Each paragraph should be pleasing to reader and you need to write a natural conclusion. Chekhov once said that essence of good style is simplicity. The best advice is therefore, to keep it simple.
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