A 750-word Grade 6 or Grade 7 personal statement gives you limited space to cover senior evidence across several criteria. Get the Grade 6 and Grade 7 personal statement guide before you start the final draft so you can allocate the words properly and avoid discovering too late that one criterion has barely been covered.
Question
“How should I divide a 750-word Grade 6 or Grade 7 personal statement when the advert lists several essential criteria?”
What Is Being Looked For
The assessor needs to find direct evidence against every essential criterion. The guide recommends a short opening, followed by a separate section for each criterion. Its clearest rule is “one section, one example.” That structure makes the statement easy to score and stops strong evidence for one requirement from hiding a gap elsewhere.
Keep the opening brief and include only experience, roles or qualifications that are directly relevant to the advert. The guide is clear that this section creates context but carries little scoring value. When the statement is tight on words, reduce the opening before cutting useful evidence from the main body.
Give each criterion its own section. Begin with a short statement of high-level relevance, then use a streamlined STAR example. Keep Situation and Task brief. Spend most of the section on the actions you personally led, the judgement you applied and the result that followed.
The guide does not prescribe a fixed word allocation for each criterion. Give every essential criterion enough space to be clear and scoreable, while preventing one long example from crowding out the rest. Use separate evidence where possible and keep the wording tied to the exact requirement.
Show behaviours through the work rather than naming them. A closing summary is unnecessary when the criteria sections already provide the evidence. Finish the last section with its result, then check the first line of every section against the advert.
Example Answer
Example structure for a 750-word statement with four essential criteria:
Opening: Briefly state the senior experience that is directly relevant to the role. Include a qualification only where it supports a requirement in the advert. Move into the criteria quickly.
Criterion one: Start with one or two sentences showing your high-level relevance. Follow with one streamlined STAR example. Keep the background short and make your own decisions and actions easy to find.
Criterion two: Use separate evidence where possible. Show how you worked across boundaries, handled a constraint or influenced people who did not report to you. End with the organisational result.
Criterion three: Focus on judgement. Explain the evidence you used, the options you considered and the decision or recommendation you personally made. State the risk or consequence clearly.
Criterion four: Address the final requirement directly with another focused example. Finish with the result rather than a broad claim about your suitability.
Before submission, read the first sentence of each section on its own. Each should map cleanly to one criterion. Then read only the action sentences and check that they show what you personally led, decided or changed.
Build the structure before you polish individual sentences. Use the Grade 6 and Grade 7 personal statement guide now to compare your structure with senior examples and make sure every essential criterion has enough evidence before the application deadline.
