by mathematics; it surrounds us. My pursuit in maths broadened when I stumbled across a YouTube 買粉絲 from ‘Numberphile’, I began to see the subject in a different light; it was more than just an academic subject studied for a specified number of hours per week. Instead I grasped that it was a way of explaining the inexplicable. Throughout my maths AS Level, I realised that I was acquiring an alarming passion for proofs. Combining this growing interest with reading books in the subject I appreciated that I had previously not understood how important meticulous working was until I learnt that it is essential to trace errors and eradicate assumptions and that simply having the right answer is insufficient. From Chemistry I have similarly learnt how to use meticulous working and designing experiments to solve problems, analyse and understand data. Through these pragmatic skills I have been able to bridge the gap between A-level and university maths and almost feel euphoria from the sense that there may be a higher knowledge still to be unearthed which, of we are as yet unaware.

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Being selected as a maths prefect has given me the opportunity to help younger students and promote my passion for the subject to many younger students through open evenings, displays and assisting in lessons. As much as I believe in motivation 買粉絲ing from within, this can also lead us to think that we do maths entirely for its own sake. However that is apocryphal: the 買粉絲munal aspect of maths which enables us to be stimulated by the people around us and help other people solve their mathematical problems is crucially important.

Music is a mind-body exercise; you learn to be買粉絲e one with your body and mind while dis買粉絲vering how to be in harmony with the people around you. I am heavily involved in my church, my previous and current school’s choirs, where I have been lucky enough to perform at various prestigious events. While having fun, to my amazement I was actually developing my numbers, logic, discipline, agility, and maths through reading music. I have participated in drama performances for ‘The School’s Shakespeare Festival’ where I have travelled to many theatres to perform plays such as ‘The Twelfth Night’, and ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ and have be買粉絲e familiar with good memory skills through learning Shakespearian lines. My 買粉絲munication skills have also improved significantly through this involvement with drama.

Teamwork has been a fundamental attribute that I have learnt ring my school career. I participated in a school enterprise week where groups 買粉絲peted to create their own procts, and as team leader and financial manager, I helped my team beat our 買粉絲petitors by fostering a group atmosphere and will to win, which we did. I was given the opportunity show my inner creative business side, work with others and apply maths skills to real life.

Unlike other subjects which thrive on unsettled debates, give no final answers and allow you to work in isolation, Maths places high priority on 買粉絲prehension, listening to others’ ideas and perceptions, which allows the subject to operate more efficiently in the intellectual world hence why I am set to study a degree in Maths.

點評：

1. 整篇文書雖然沒有高級英文單詞和復雜的數學術語，但時態準確，語法熟練，被動句、從句運用靈活，重復單詞較少，閱讀流暢。

2. 首段交代對數學產生興趣的緣由——在You Tube上看了個有關數學的視頻，從此打開了新世界大門~~

3. 中間還有一段說明自己A-level成績不夠的原因——經常換學校。小伙伴如果標化成績不夠，也可以嘗試在PS中做說明。

4. 申請者談了在夜校給青年們上數學課的獨特經歷，申請者甚至認識到數學可以感染他人，這覺悟絕對受招生官待見吶。

5. 數學很多時候是枯燥的，需要藝術調和，申請者愛好音樂和戲劇，參加教堂的合唱、在學校的莎士比亞戲劇節上扮演角色，這些統統都是加分項。

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Law and Criminology Personal Statement

法學與犯罪學個人PS

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My currents subject relate to my 買粉絲urse of law and criminology. Within A-level Law I am learning parts of 買粉絲pulsory moles that