UCAS Personal Statement Examples
Personal statement examples for popular courses, with weak and improved passages side by side so you can see exactly what changes. Choose your subject below.
How to use this page
Use these to see what strong personal statements look like: how the best ones open, how they flow from describing an experience to reflecting on it, and how they incorporate wider reading. Compare the weak and improved passages for the subject closest to your own, with the aim of applying that technique to your own statement. For the full method behind these examples, see our complete guide to writing your UCAS personal statement.
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