Six Simple Guidelines to Write SOP for UST

Six simple guidelines to write SOP for UST 1.

Please describe your life philosophy, focused on your formative years.

To answer this question you need to write what you are and what you wanted to be. Why are you motivated to get higher education? Philosophy of your whole life regarding education, your belief (not Hindu or Muslim belief, please avoid religious or political views  ), You can also write any of your achievement. What is the biggest passion for society or country you to get MS or PhD. 2.

Please describe in detail your motivations for seeking further learning at this institution.

Why you choose UST among all universities in Korea as well as around the world. You should write 2, 3 striking lines about UST, its faculty, research, research facilities etc and then 1, 2 lines about the campus in which you are applying. If you have acceptance you can mention and write 1, 2 very impressive lines about specific lab and professor, otherwise Google 3, 4 best professors of that campus related to your research and write their names and your passion that you want to work with them. You have to convince them by your writing that there is no other best institute then this in your opinion 3.

Among the traits and capabilities required by our institution (creativity, challenge, convergence, credibility), please tell us which one describes you best, elaborated with examples.

This is quite tricky question. You have to prove to them that you are very challenging and you have achieved success in spite of many hardships. If you have any achievement then you can mention. answer this question in such a way that you had very very very very hard life and many challenges to get education like financial issues, social problems etc but you overcame those all because of your dreams and struggle. You have to praise yourself (not false) as much as you can. i)

Creativity means innovation of your research ideas, if you have very innovative idea you can mention

ii)

Challenge means to face difficulties, great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's ability

iii)

Convergence means uniting different ideas or technologies in one form. For example you unite different ideas of research in one question or relate different field to yours

iv)

Credibility means whether you are trustable or not (not that love or hate wala trust  professional matters). You can handle the confidential matters, information of lab or institute, or other related things or not.

4. Among the courses you have completed (or academic fields you have experienced) at the undergraduate /master’s level, which was the one

that interested you the most and what are your accomplishments in the field Write one line about course importance and then mention the most relevant courses to your research topic. You can mention your grades or if you conducted research in your interesting subject, any related publication or internship etc. 5. Please describe your research plan at our institution in detail Write your general field of research and something new that you want to do to contribute to this field. This question is actually checking of your convergence or creativity. So read recent (2015) 3, 4 good journal papers related to your field and find out research gaps and write. But you should have some know how about those. 6. Please describe your desired career path upon graduation in detail. What you will be after 10 years? What you want to be after MS or PhD? You can write that you want to be researcher or faculty member in your country or anywhere. Keep your fingers crossed, Have faith in ALLAH and paray..