How to Write a Personal Statement: The Five Step Formula for Writing a UCAS Personal Statement

Don't know where to start on your university personal statement? How to Write a Personal Statement will revolutionise the way you think about your university application in 2023/2024. Written in collaboration with teachers, private tutors, and Cambridge University admissions staff, this UCAS personal statement guide provides the ultimate tips to mastering your university personal statement.

Our simple yet highly effective personal statement template, the 'five step formula', will ensure you achieve your highest potential in your UCAS application. Whilst this book concentrates on the UCAS personal statement and UK university applications, the formula will be equally as effective when applying for most US and other international universities.

Fantastic Personal Statement Examples

The most unique aspect of this book is the way in which it presents real personal statement examples. The example personal statements presented here allowed the students that wrote them to achieve offers from some of the world's best universities, including Cambridge, UCL, and LSE. However, this does not simply present example statements, but it critically analyses them, showing exactly what each student did well, and what each student failed to do. Through the combination of personal statement structure and real student examples, we believe this book offers a quick and easy guide to personal statement writing.

The Ultimate Personal Statement Template 2023

The '5 Step Formula' template in this book is based around the 5 paragraphs every personal statement should have in order to be successful. Each of these paragraphs is covered in a different chapter of the book, with chapter 9 offering a summary of the '5 Step Formula' to ensure you are using the best personal statement structure.

This book covers the following personal statement tips:

1. How to start a personal statement
2. How to structure a personal statement
3. Personal statement conclusions
4. How to write a personal statement for masters
5. Medicine personal statement template
6. Medical school personal statement examples
7. Geography personal statement examples
8. Economics personal statement examples
9. UCAS personal statement advice
10. And much more!

If you are interested in quickly learning how to write an expert personal statement, then purchase this book now! It's the easiest, most complete personal statement guide out there.

About the Author

Jonty Purvis is a Cambridge University graduate, bestselling education author, private tutor. After working with students for many years, he established a very simple personal statement structure that saw his students achieve offers from top universities every single time. He then collaborated with teachers and admissions tutors from Cambridge to publish this book, aiming to provide students with the best UCAS personal statement template on the market.