Statement Planner: Economics, Business and Finance (UCAS)

A high-quality personal statement starts with a plan. The Statement Planner takes you from a blank page to a finished plan for all three UCAS answers, so the statement you write is focused, specific and your own.

It answers the questions most applicants get stuck on: where to start, what to include in each answer, and how much detail each point needs.

It is built for the three-question UCAS format: why this course, how your studies prepared you, and what else you have done outside education.

What’s inside

• The planning pages. An evidence bank to get you started, a theme finder to decide what the statement is about, an allocation grid that puts each piece of material in one answer only, a budget box for the shared character limit, and a paragraph planner that sets the level of detail for every point.
• Prompts by course. What each course asks of an applicant, and prompts for each of the three answers, for Economics (including joint honours), Economics and Management, PPE, Land Economy (Environment, Law, and Economics at Cambridge), Mathematics and Economics, Economics and Statistics, Business and Management, Management Science, Accounting and Finance, Finance, Banking and Statistics.
• Two worked plans. A complete plan for an Economics applicant and one for an Accounting and Finance applicant, with what is working and what a tutor would probe. Both are invented examples written for teaching, not real students’ work.
• The scorecard. Score your draft on six measures, tick off the checks for each answer, and search for the phrases tutors see too often.
• The Guide to Personal Statements. Also sold on its own. The full method behind each step: the nine-step process, the three questions in detail and six annotated example answers.

Format: a 29-page PDF, the same planner as a Word document you can type into, and the Guide to Personal Statements PDF. Instant download after payment.

Written by a first-class Cambridge Economics graduate who prepares applicants for economics, business and finance courses.

Want your draft reviewed as well?

The Statement Planner comes with every Edit and Premium review. Every edit is made by a Cambridge Economics graduate.

The planner helps you plan and check your own statement. It does not write it for you, and nothing can guarantee an offer.