How to provide your personal statement

Think about the structure of your statement - it needs to look and sound good. A bad statement can say a lot, so make sure you check spelling and grammar as well.

You must write your personal statement in English. You can enter up to 47 lines of text (this includes blank lines). You do not have to use all the space provided. When you save text, the system will tell you how many lines are still available.

We recommend that you prepare your personal statement using a word-processing package and then copy and paste it into Apply. After pasting it in, click on 'Save' before making changes to it.

Whether you are typing your personal statement directly into the box, or amending a statement that you pasted in from a word-processing package, you should click on 'Save' regularly - the Apply system will time-out after 30 minutes of inactivity.

You will not be able to change the presentation of your personal statement by using features such as bold,italic or underlined text or foreign characters, such as á, ë, õ. If you use these types of formatting or foreign characters, they will be removed from the text when you paste it onto your application and save it. This will not disadvantage your application.

When you are happy with the information you have entered, tick 'Mark section as Complete' and click on 'Save' at the bottom of the screen.

If you prepared your personal statement using a word-processing package and pasted it into Apply, you may find that any paragraph spacing that you included is not displayed. Don't worry - your chosen training providers will receive the original formatted version.

Providing additional information

If you want to send more information, perhaps a CV, to your chosen training providers, you should wait until you receive your Welcome letter. This letter will tell you which training provider is considering your application. You should send your additional information to this provider only. Whenever we tell you that we have sent your application to a different training provider, you should send your additional information to this provider. You should ensure that all documents you send to training providers contain both your full name and Personal ID. Please do not send any additional electronic or paper documents to the GTTR.