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How long did it take you to write your personal statement? Do you think you could have done it better if you'd had more time?

Reply 1

Tyler Durden

Airport Fairy

How long did it take you to write your personal statement? Do you think you could have done it better if you'd had more time?

I did mine in one night. Changed one or two bits the next day and that was that.

Reply 2

BloodyValentine

Airport Fairy

How long did it take you to write your personal statement? Do you think you could have done it better if you'd had more time?

ages and no i'm sick of the bloody thing now thank christ it's all over 2moro (if the ucas site ever starts working again)

Reply 3

TheWolf

Airport Fairy

How long did it take you to write your personal statement? Do you think you could have done it better if you'd had more time?

A few days, then corrected about 20 times.

Reply 4

k@tie

Airport Fairy

How long did it take you to write your personal statement? Do you think you could have done it better if you'd had more time?

I did it over about a month...like I'd do it once, then someone would slate it and I would feel so bad about it that it would take me like a week to even look at it again!

Reply 5

Adhsur

About a week with corrections being put in every few days.

Reply 6

AATTMM

Hours! But it's awesome.

Reply 7

priya

too me a few days to write mine....then i had to cut it down, cos it was too long, grr

Reply 8

Leonux

priya

too me a few days to write mine....then i had to cut it down, cos it was too long, grr

Same for me really. Got a few people to criticise it and took their comments on board.

Reply 9

missgalaxy

It took me one day to write the ps, then corrected it about 10 times
Finally, it was ok after two weeks

Reply 10

loftx

About two weeks - though I wasn't working on it all the time (obviously). I think it helps if you have a while to write it though, as I found leaving it for a while and coming back to it helped as you could take a fresg look at what you'd written.