A Good Statement of Purpose : Some Facts and Fallacies

Students harbor innumerable doubts in mind while drafting a Statement of Purpose. This is an attempt to clarify a few very pertinent doubts related to writing SOPs. I am sure students will find this blog immensely useful. Underneath are listed a few ‘wrong notions’ pertaining to writing SOPs. Right under the wrong notion the fact is mentioned in order to help you understand the nitty-gritty’s of writing SOPs.

Fallacy No 1: The purpose of Statement of Purpose is to list all your skills and abilities.

Fact No 1: The purpose of an SOP is to kindle interest in the University board and generate an admission

Fallacy No 2: Attractive Vocabulary improves the quality of an SOP

Fact No 2: This is utterly wrong. An attractive vocabulary doesn’t improve the quality of your SOP. Simple words that substantiate your genuine passion for specific courses reflect your sincerity. A pompous use of words will do nothing

Fallacy No 3: Your SOP will not be read carefully and thoroughly

Fact No 3: Your SOP will be read carefully and thoroughly by the admission board

Fallacy No 4: The more good information you present in the SOP the better

Fact No 4: By including too much information, an SOP may actually kill the appetite to learn more

Fallacy No 5: If you want a really good SOP, have it prepared by an SOP service

Fact No 5: Many Grad Schools look for a simple, honest SOP

I hope this blog clarifies many a doubt on writing SOPs. Do you still have queries/doubts in the same area? Ask us right away. You can in fact put your doubt underneath this blog. Our experts will come to your rescue instantly.

Wishing you Success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

63 Responses to “A Good Statement of Purpose : Some Facts and Fallacies”

1. James Nwankwo on April 1st, 2010 3:10 pm

   I found it helpful once again Anu.

2. Chika on April 10th, 2010 4:13 pm

   Please Anu Vuleri, is SOP 4 an international student like me?

3. jeyannathann on April 11th, 2010 1:27 am

   I feel that the website can produce some genuinely successful SOP formats so that it would be like an excellent example to aspiring students like me.

4. pab on April 11th, 2010 6:58 am

   useless

5. Tadesse on April 11th, 2010 8:53 am

   These were my problems too.

   Helpful indeed!!

   thanks ones again.

6. Slami Tijani on April 11th, 2010 9:21 am

   I wish i could have known these earlier when i applied, well all my fears have been allayed through your messages. i will forward this to my friends. they will benefit

7. Slami Tijani on April 11th, 2010 9:27 am

   you guys are doing great job. how i wish there is an opportunity to post my SOP to you to be edited before submission

8. bijiga on April 11th, 2010 10:50 am

   this is another alternave to the above SOP. I am bijiga abeya terfasa. I was born in1987 from my parents Abeya and Aster.then I joined grade 1 in the 1998.I passed through different obsacles to complete my lower grades.the big thing that contributed to this is my rurality background. there was an elementery school with only 2 grades in my village.the school was 1 hour from my home.the I joined an other elmentary school whose name was hadiyya. it had only 5 grades. It took me to go to the school about 2 hours.I learnt there two grades,grades 3 and4.
   an other elenmtary school was Ifa suchi. my house 3 hours far from it. I completed there up to grade 8
   then I learnt at Gulliso secondary high school for 2 years to coplete grade 10.
   then I started to learn at an other secondary high school called lalo ayira secondary shool.
   then in the past few recent years I joined haramaya university by th field of Agriculture in the year 2008. I am to graduated in the next few months.
   in addition to my education, I can write poems,litrature and the like.

9. zafar iqbal on April 12th, 2010 7:23 am

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10. akila on April 12th, 2010 7:46 am

    Thanks for giving good suggestions…………………

11. Solomon Raju Yarlagadda on April 12th, 2010 10:15 am

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12. sanjeev kulkarni on April 24th, 2010 10:17 am

    Whay is a SOP sevice?Kindly provide mailing addresses.

    Thanks

13. ehab on April 24th, 2010 5:14 pm

    thanks alot for this valuble information , please give us more on the SOP ,
    i read the above SOP and i think it’s funny , would a funny SOP be good ?

14. Jane Francesca Itero Emiru on April 27th, 2010 11:00 am

    I am glad to know that people who have been left behind due to circumstances in their lives have an opportunity.

    However, I would wish to know whether there is an age limit to this and the whether one can send a statement of purpose to any university of choice in the US and be considered.

    I will be glad to hear from you.

    Jane Francesca

15. shipra on April 28th, 2010 10:35 am

    hii Solomon Raju Yarlagadda

    Thanks for showing interest in our site.hopefully you will be getting this kind of benefits in future as well.

    shipra

16. Emmanuel on April 28th, 2010 3:49 pm

    I quite understand the points itemised above.But,to better butress your points, Please can I get a template of SOP.

17. shipra on April 29th, 2010 6:51 am

    hii akila

    Thanks

    shipra

18. shipra on April 29th, 2010 6:59 am

    hiii Chika

    Go through this link.i am sure this will heplfull for you.
    http://learnwordlist.com/blog/a-statement-of-purpose-sop-gets-you-the-grad-school-you-dream-for/2010/02/gre-word-list-test-blog-barrons-vocabulary.

    shipra

19. shipra on April 29th, 2010 8:23 am

    hii James Nwankwo

    Thanks

20. shipra on April 29th, 2010 9:40 am

    hii sanjeev kulkarni
    Just go through this link .this might be beneficial for you.

    http://learnwordlist.com/blog/a-statement-of-purpose-sop-gets-you-the-grad-school-you-dream-for/2010/02/gre-word-list-test-blog-barrons-vocabulary

21. shipra on May 1st, 2010 10:31 am

    hiii Solomon Raju Yarlagadda

    we are glad that we could help you.hope we will be useful for you in future as well.

22. shipra on May 1st, 2010 10:37 am

    hii zafar iqbal

    if we do keep getting visiter like you.that day is not very far when we will come up with some thing like that also.thanks.keep visiting learnwordlist.com

23. shipra on May 1st, 2010 10:52 am

    hii bijiga

    interesting

24. shipra on May 1st, 2010 10:55 am

    Hii slami ,you can send me your SOP on shipra@learnwordlist.com.sure we will have a look on it.

25. shipra on May 1st, 2010 10:56 am

    hii Tadesse

    Thanks

26. shipra on May 1st, 2010 11:04 am

    hii pab

    send me some detail what you don’t like in blog.

27. shipra on May 3rd, 2010 6:41 am

    hii sanjeev kulkarni

    kindly go through http://learnwordlist.com/blog/a-statement-of-purpose-sop-gets-you-the-grad-school-you-dream-for/2010/02/gre-word-list-test-blog-barrons-vocabulary. i m sure u will get help.

28. shipra on May 3rd, 2010 6:55 am

    hii jeyannathann

    thaks

29. shipra on May 3rd, 2010 7:26 am

    hii james

    thanks

30. KA on May 13th, 2010 3:53 pm

    Really a valuable piece of words. I may have commit the same mistakes you mentioned here as fallacies. But surely I will not do it now.
    Thanks a lot for describing this importent aspect of preparing an effective SOP.

    KA

31. shipra on May 14th, 2010 4:08 am

    hiii KA

    We glad to hear that we could help you.Wishing you all the best!!!

32. nurudeen muhd haruna on May 21st, 2010 10:07 am

    i really appreciate with this peice of word they make me so tronge and more comfidant when iam speach with some one. thanks for ur contribution toward our lerning english lernguege.

33. shipra on May 24th, 2010 4:55 am

    hii nurudeen

    Thanks!!!

34. HIMADRI on June 26th, 2010 12:55 pm

    Thanks for this post.It is really helpful.This site is very helpful for these purpose such as vocabulary,SOP,strategies for GRE.I am worried about SOP.If anybody can review my SOP please tell me…it will be very helpful.As I am from a small town here no such opportunities are present right now so If anybody is eager to review and give me feedback about the SOP I think I will be more confident and sure about this thing.

    Thanks and Regards

    Himadri Chatterjee

35. shipra on June 28th, 2010 4:15 am

    Thanks for your comment Himadri , sure you can always send your SOP at following e-mail shipra@learnwordlist.com.We shall be happy to read it and provide you feedback.
    Regards

36. shipra on July 9th, 2010 8:49 am

    Hi Jane , Kindly Connect ETS body in this regard. Kindly visit ets.org.

37. tope on July 14th, 2010 11:39 am

    please is a SOP the same as a letter of motivation. if NO please what are the peculiarities of a motivational letter.

38. shipra on July 16th, 2010 5:17 am

    Hi tope ,SOP is a certificate that how serious you are about admission ,some extant you can say it is a motivation letter,it motivates panel to motivate to grant you admission.But SOP is more about your genuineness for admission ,it is all about you..

39. Peter on July 30th, 2010 6:54 am

    I appreciate the comments given above, but can SOP service help edit my SOP for me.

40. Nii on August 11th, 2010 12:41 pm

    All these facts are well noted however getting a sample of a good SOP will clarify more. Thanks

41. shipra on August 12th, 2010 4:31 am

    Nii, these mentioned tips are to help you while you writing your Own original SOP. I am sure this will help you more rather than sample SOP.

42. shipra on August 16th, 2010 4:22 am

    Yes Peter, you can your SOP to US.

43. noha on September 16th, 2010 8:26 am

    thanks

44. shipra on September 17th, 2010 6:00 am

    Thanks for appreciation noha, keep visiting us.

45. Sarvesh on September 18th, 2010 5:23 am

    If there are experts just for preparing a SOP at SOP service, why is it wrong to go to them fetching help? If following WORDLIST site is good, then having experts write your SOP is also not bad. The University Board would not know about it, would they? If there are things you can exploit for your own benefits, you should not stop yourself.

46. shipra on September 20th, 2010 5:05 am

    Sarvesh, you can always take help from somebody but do not try to write your SOP by somebody else. what emotions you can put in your SOP , somebody else can not.Graduate schools are very particular about SOP.DON’T do this folly by preparing your SOP by somebody else.

47. Tochukwu on October 16th, 2010 5:20 pm

    Why not give us an example. Thanks anyway

48. shipra on October 18th, 2010 4:20 am

    Tochukwe, there is no set pattern(like application or letter),through the post we have focused on students should write their SOP by their own.we do not want student should follow some prewritten format.

49. Shohag on January 1st, 2011 2:43 pm

    Thank you…This blog is immensely helpful for the graduate admission seeking students. Thanks a lot………..

50. Samjhana on February 25th, 2011 1:09 pm

    Anu thanks

51. shipra on February 26th, 2011 4:21 am

    samjhana, kindly keep visiting us..

52. Daniel Njenga Karoga on March 18th, 2011 2:11 pm

    Hi there.Am really sorry but i don’t know where am supposed to write my SOP. Can you please give me the link so that i can be able to write my own.

53. fayyaz on March 19th, 2011 4:38 am

    plz also mentioned mathematic portion of GRE

54. shipra on March 21st, 2011 5:13 am

    Fayyaz, we do not cover mathematics section.

55. fahad on May 14th, 2011 9:49 am

    this book is good i need it please give me it

56. shipra on May 16th, 2011 4:41 am

    Fahad, keep visiting our blog segment..

57. olajumoke on June 19th, 2011 1:35 pm

    This is not a comment but a request.Please,i need format on how to write a personal statement or a good statement of purpose.Thanks

58. shipra on June 20th, 2011 4:29 am

    Olajumoke, kindly visit our blog segment..

59. sayani mukherjee on July 18th, 2011 4:14 pm

    I have just completed my MSc in biotechnology and thinking of applying for a Phd in USA….I would like to know, what should be the length of an SOP? how much of experience do they actually look for to grant a scholarship to an individual?

60. shipra on July 19th, 2011 4:23 am

    Sayani, kindly visit http://scholarship-positions.com/ for help

61. Effe on September 6th, 2011 12:59 pm

    Anu, I would be very glad you could post an example of a great SOP for me to learn much about your very useful hint.

62. shipra on September 7th, 2011 4:44 am

    Sure Effe, kindly keep visiting us for same.

63. 'I-neek' Lennon Craig on September 8th, 2011 8:16 pm

    Hi, I am happy to write my SOP, But could you please send me an prelude.

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