The secret behind the best Statement of Purpose – COOKING!

Layer your steamed rice over golden-brown fried onions. Now place all the spiced veggies, sprinkle a little lemon juice with another layering of rice. Let all the glory from the vegetable juices pass down to the rice, twirling its way into every grain, while it’s slowly cooking!

Well, I am sorry to leave you tempted with this mouth-watering biryani recipe. It does look palatable. You must be wondering, “how does a biryani help you create a remarkable SoP?” Stop googling for ‘sop samples’ or ‘sop tips.’ Read on and apply this simple trick to improve your SoP.

A good Statement of Purpose is almost like a cooked-up story; moreover a ‘well’-cooked story. It has to be engaging and enthralling. Every incident and character introduced at the right time with right placement. The best SoP narrates your story in a different light, an approach that the admissions committee is preferably searching for.

To create that SoP magic, you need cooking. Break it further and in simpler words, put your pen down once you’ve written the first draft. List out all your significant life achievements and experiences to create a synced piece. Follow a rhythm while writing about you and your story as you would want to tell it. Now, forget about it.

Let it cook!

Pick it up after few days, read it thoroughly. Does it excite you? Look at the SoP with a fresh perspective, a new angle. Identify those loopholes and tie up those loose ends. Fill in the gaps and edit it wherever required. While writing the first draft we are mostly focused on presenting our achievements and accomplishments. We tend to forget about those skills or innate traits that stand out in a crowd. Those small incidents where we outshined, yet never noticed. To speak in a biopsychological language when your subconscious ponders over that writing, it creates a new perspective. In simple words, you let it form sync of its own along with the later edits.

And, eventually, you end up creating a ‘well-cooked’ SoP. You can thank us later. Happy Writing!