Planning session
Clarify your motivation and build an outline from your experiences, interests and course choices.
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PERSONAL STATEMENTS & UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS
Your experience.
Your statement.
Personal statement guidance for university applicants. Explain your motivation, choose relevant examples and express your experience clearly.
Lessons taught in English
WHAT WE WORK ON
Find the story
worth telling.
A useful personal statement explains your motivation and supports it with relevant experience. Sessions help you develop the content and structure of your own application.
- Understand the course, application questions and instructions you need to answer.
- Explore your academic interests, achievements and experiences.
- Select examples that explain your motivation and readiness for the course.
- Organise your ideas into a clear statement or set of application responses.
- Review draft structure, clarity and language while keeping your own voice.
A FOCUSED APPROACH
From first ideas
to a clearer draft.
Bring your target courses, application instructions and deadline. You can start with notes or an existing draft.
- 01
Explore your motivation
Talk through what interests you about the course and which experiences have shaped that interest.
- 02
Choose your evidence
Develop specific examples and decide how each contributes to the application.
- 03
Draft, review and refine
Work through feedback on organisation, relevance and expression, then revise your own statement.
CHOOSE YOUR SUPPORT
Support at the stage
you have reached.
Draft review
Receive feedback on the agreed draft, with attention to structure, relevant examples and clear English.
Application & interview preparation
Develop the connection between what you write in your application and how you explain it in an interview.
Fees, preparation time and the scope of feedback are agreed before booking. Tell David your deadline and the support you need.
Enquire about this support ↗YOUR TUTOR & COACH
Structure, evidence
and your own voice.
David’s legal and commercial background informs his approach to reading a question carefully, selecting relevant evidence and expressing a clear point. That approach supports a statement grounded in your own experience.
David teaches IELTS and Legal English at HKU SPACE and was appointed to its 2026 OLQE teaching team.
Meet David Southern ↗YOUR QUESTIONS
A little more
detail.
Can I start without a draft?
Yes. Bring your course choices, application instructions and a few notes about your interests and experience. The first session can focus on ideas and structure.
Is support available for non-law applications?
Yes. The focus is on motivation, evidence, structure and expression. Send the intended course and target universities so David can confirm a suitable fit.
What does draft feedback include?
The scope and number of review rounds are agreed before booking. Feedback can cover organisation, relevance, clarity and language.
Will the statement remain my own work?
Yes. You develop and write your own statement. Sessions help you think through your ideas and improve your draft, following the application’s requirements.
05 / LET’S MAKE A START
Let’s make a
clearer plan.
Tell us what you want to prepare for, your goals and your deadline. We’ll discuss the support that suits you.
david@davidasouthern.com ↗