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Making the most of Unifrog

First Steps

• Exploring Pathways
• Recording What You’ve Done

27th April 2020

You don’t want it to look like this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exploring Pathways

Personality/Interests Profile

MOOCS

• Useful online courses
• Select your interests
• Directs you to online courses
• Largely free- or a small cost
• Varying lengths/time commitments
• E.g. my interest “Literature” – 12 week “Masterpieces Of World

Literature” at Harvard University

• Great way to trial out a subject area if you’re not sure what you want

to study at uni

Subjects/Careers Library

Subjects/Careers Library

Day-to-day life from student doing the course Story/summary: Average starting salaries, careers Annotated personal statement Grades etc Specialist areas/hot topics/further reading

Special Opportunities

Scholarships, competitions, bursaries, free residential trips. Streamline to suit you.

Start Now: Recording what you have done

This will make writing your personal statement SO MUCH EASIER!

Activities Example

Star Competencies

• Aiming High
• Creativity
• Leadership
• Listening
• Presenting
• Problem Solving
• Staying Positive
• Teamwork
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Independence
• Communication

Competency Example

Worried you don’t have enough to record?

• There is still plenty of time before you submit any of your applications
• Browse through “star competencies” – what areas could you work
• n?
• Pool some ideas of possible activities you could start - either within
• r outside of school
• Talk to Miss Hester, Miss Mazari and Mr Young if you’re stuck for ideas

Remember! Your activities/competencies will never be “done”- you should be going back and adding to them consistently from now going forward.