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Reply 60

inspiron1

Should you use spaced paragraphs in your personal statement?

Yes.

Ideally, yes.

yeah it helps make the text more user friendly but try to keep each paragraph roughly the same size x

Reply 64

Brachioradialis

Yeah, you'll lose a few characters but your statement will come across much more readable and comprehensible!

Reply 65

username356927

It would appear we have a consensus.

Reply 66

thegodofgod

It will look more presentable :smile:

Reply 67

EllaBella<3

I think it's a good idea to; it makes it look a lot more structured :smile:

with a medical personal statement you ideally want to split it in to an introduction, work experience, voluntary work, extra curricular and a conclusion :smile:

Reply 68

tehforum

Yes.

inb4 Good Bloke.

Reply 69

FluffyTutu

One of the career advisor types told my class that when 'they' get your application to read over, the personal statement is printed off to a sheet that can be as small as a quarter of an A4, cynic in me thinks that would make everything illegable so I think that perhaps half an A4 is probably right.

Either way, it will be small. Print off a complete block of text and see how it looks to you, I'd think you would get bored or get eye strain after the first sentance or two. Then think that these people have to read hundreds of these when going through applications.

They make it easier to read.

Reply 70

MyselfEtAl

I don't think it makes that much of a difference to be honest, if you have worthwhile things to say and you're losing characters because of it, leave the spaces out.

Reply 71

Potally_Tissed

Definitely.

Original post by MyselfEtAl

I don't think it makes that much of a difference to be honest, if you have worthwhile things to say and you're losing characters because of it, leave the spaces out.

It makes it far easier to read. It's worth the sacrifice of the 300 or so characters you lose by leaving four blank lines.

Reply 72

Brachioradialis

Original post by Potally_Tissed

Definitely.

It makes it far easier to read. It's worth the sacrifice of the 300 or so characters you lose by leaving four blank lines.

Do you really lose 300 or so characters by leaving a line? I was under the impression a line consists of one character! I certainly wouldn't sacrifice 300 characters from my application.

Reply 73

Potally_Tissed

Original post by MattKneale

Do you really lose 300 or so characters by leaving a line? I was under the impression a line consists of one character! I certainly wouldn't sacrifice 300 characters from my application.

No, you lose 93 characters by leaving one blank line. I'm assuming there will be about four of them :smile:

Reply 74

Jack22031994

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When you put it in apply it puts it all together anyway with no spaces.

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

Reply 75

vedderfan94

Original post by Jack22031994

When you put it in apply it puts it all together anyway with no spaces.

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

But then you put the spaces in...

Reply 76

Insanity514

I did but I don't think it makes a difference.

Reply 77

Potally_Tissed

Original post by Jack22031994

When you put it in apply it puts it all together anyway with no spaces.

Seen that claim made before :tongue:

Reply 78

PerArduaAdAstra

I did. Personally I think it helps to break up your points and helps keep things concise.

However, if you're sacrificing worthwhile stuff that you feel you definitely need to include, maybe think twice.