Preparing Scholarship Application Applying for scholarships require a detailed homework before you can start sending applications. It involves many steps. Some of the most important steps are as listed here; 1. Narrow down a country and university you are willing to apply. This is important step as admission/scholarship procedure varies country to country. If you are planning to apply to multiple countries then do find out requirements for each country and prepare separate documents/ application pack for each case. 2. Most of the countries with English as first language require IELTS/TOEFL examination to be passed with certain band. If you do not have any of these scores then start preparing and signup for one of these immediately (depending on university requirement). Trust me it is not difficult as it sounds. 3. Have all your qualifications verified from respective institutions. This could include Secondary, Higher Secondary, University, HEC and Foreign Office. Most of the universities require verified and attested degrees for admission. 4. Prepare a good CV (Highlight your research experience or projects/reports you completed related to scholarship research area) 5. Start writing a research article, if you have not done yet. Having a research publication (Conference or Journal) will improve your chances of winning scholarship. 6. Prepare a reasonable “Personal statement”, indicating why you are inclined towards postgraduate qualification i.e. MS or PhD and what do you want to achieve out of it. Try to be moderate in your claims and do not try to write ideal sentences. Stay moderate as much as possible. 7. Prepare a “Research Proposal”. It is a document indicating some of your homework about a particular area of research. This requires reading related research articles and referencing them in the proposal. Through this literature, you have identified an area which is requiring research and is worth exploring. Most of the time, you do not do what you write in proposal. Your tentative supervisor gets an idea about your writing, quality and comprehensiveness of your literature review and your ability to identify problem. 8. With all your academic documents, IELTS/TOEFL score, CV, personal statement, research statement and any published articles; try to contact relevant funding body or academic (Professor, Lecturer). 9. Keep visiting Scholarship related groups, pages, websites or blogs for any new scholarship.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:40:04 +0000
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