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SOP Guidelines

Write your long-term and short-term career goals. Show how your past work experience qualifies you to achieve the career goals you have set for yourself. Write about your special skills and the interests you have passionately pursued at work or through extracurricular involvements that can project your fit with the future you have imagined.

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SOP Guidelines

Write your long-term and short-term career goals. Show how your past work experience qualifies you to achieve the career goals you have set for yourself. Write about your special skills and the interests you have passionately pursued at work or through extracurricular involvements that can project your fit with the future you have imagined.

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Start by answering the following questions:

1. Why do you wish to pursue an MBA? The answer to this question would be closely related to
achieving your career goals. So, write your long-term and short-term goals. To make your goals
convincing, show how the goals originated, in which industry and position you wish to work in,
and what would you like to achieve and contribute.

2. How does your past work experience qualify you to achieve the career goals you have set for
yourself? By briefly describing your career progress till date show your suitability for the career
you have planned for yourself.

3. If your career progress does not support your career goals, write about your special skills and
the interests you have passionately pursued at work or through extracurricular involvements that
can project your fit with the future you have imagined for yourself.

4. What would be your learning objectives during the MBA? Students normally go to the
programme to upgrade their knowledge, skills and attitudes.

5. Why do you wish to get your MBA from XYZ University? What characteristics of the
programme attract you towards it? How would the programme help you meet your learning
objectives?

After you have addressed these questions, put all your answers together to build an interesting
story that projects your career goals and your suitability to achieve the goals.

i want to do mba ,first i want to tell you that i am writing this statement because i am filling one
form in that this has been asked my answer is i want to do it because i want to enter in business
world and i want to start my own business which is really my aim when i was too young to think
for it any one can say this that you can start your own business without doing mba because
eveyone has not studied mba before starting business but doing business after mba is placing a
layer of cream and cheery on cake . another reason is i have done bba(cam) which is also
management course or you can say a professional course which will help me a lot in mba.mba is
like elder brother of bba. my learning objective during mba is to upgrade my knowledge ,skills
abilities which will be definitely going to improve during and such improvement will help me in
standing and working with outside world because such improvement will boost up my confidence.

i want to get admission only in this particular university because the name of this university is
enough to elaborate the study of it because its placement is relly great every one want to hire
people from this university because they groom students like a manager

The statement can include indications on the following. Every SoP may not cover all these
elements.

* Academic qualification or scores


* Adaptability
* Analytical mind
* Aptitude
* Co-curricular activities
* Commitment to your field of study
* Computers skills
* Creativity
* Critical thinking
* Financial resources, funding
* Inherent abilities
* Intellectual curiosity
* Intermediate and long range goals
* Interest in research
* Language skills
* Leadership qualities
* Personal attributes such as motivation, sincerity, maturity, integrity and reliability
* Professional achievements
* Qualifying tests like TOEFL and GMAT
* Reasons for selecting the programme
* Reasons for selecting the university or institution
* Self reliance
* Specific career goals
* Work experience
* Writing ability

Begin with an eye-catching first paragraph.


Remember, the Admissions committee goes through atleast 40-50 SOPs at a time.You’ve gotta
catch their attention in the very first few lines. SOP should be to the point. Why do you want to
continue studying? How is graduate studies going to affect your career?What have you done in
the past? What do you expect? What are you looking for concerning an international experience?
Why have you chosen this particular University?After MS, what and why Be objective, yet self-
revelatory In a very straight-forward manner, speak about your experiences and academic bac-
ground and how these have influenced your decision to pursue graduate studies.

SOP must demonstrate your knowledge of the field, but shouldn’t lecture or bore the highly
trained professionals who will read it.They already know what skills are important to the field.
They want to know your purpose in graduate study and specific academic interests. You must
know the field well enough to state a preference, without being simplistic or pedantic. High-light
your achievements…this is no place for humility. List any special preparation or achievements
that you have that may make you “more qualified” than others.

Remember the whole purpose is to convince or persuade the admissions committee and to make
your application stand out from the crowd. Use it as a tool to explain any specific problems. SOP
should honestly address any problems or special conditions e.g. grades on one semester may
have been poor, b’coz the applicant had to work on a part-time job or was affected by a family
emergency. Negatives should be balanced by positives e.g. “even though I had to take up a part-
time job to support myself, I developed important time management skills that enabled me to not
only raise my grades the following semester but to pursue my research interests”.

Don’t restate information already provided in the application. Don’t limit the SOP to a recitation of
achievements…its not a C.V. Don’t quote from Univ catalogs. SOP should be limited in length, no
more than two pages(or depends on Univ’s instructions). If the Univ asks for a response to
specific questions, answer accordingly. Never generalise. Don’t use terms like ‘invaluable’,
’significant’, ‘challenging’ etc without further explanation drawn from personal experience. Also
avoid over-used phrases such as “I can contribute”, “meant a lot to me” or “is appealing to me”.
Be direct. Be honest or atleast sound honest. Try and strike a personal chord.

Remember, the Admissions committee is interested in knowing more about the person, that is
YOU. They are tired of reading numbers and techno -gabble. Try and reveal bits (the better bits)
of your personality through the SOP. They like to know that they are making decisions that
influence the lives of people. Be University specific.Don’t make one common SOP and send
copies of it to different Univs.

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