Across the earlier Strand 1.1 work you built four lists and then spent one lesson outside your own view, hearing what other people see. Anyone can copy those top threes onto a fresh page. That is filing, not thinking.

Today you are applying that material. You will read across it for patterns: where two strengths keep turning up together, where an interest has quietly become a skill, and where someone else named a strength you never claimed. The page you leave with is a key input to your personal statement.

Three words do the heavy lifting today. Read them once, then keep them in mind while you work the audit.

Open your Strand 1.1 folder. You need Values, Aptitudes, Achievements, Interests, and What Others See beside you. If a file is missing, complete that top-three from memory, mark the line to backfill, and still write the patterns and others-see sections from whatever you have.

Part 1: the audit (about 12 minutes). Use the self-audit on this page. For each row, rate how ready that cluster is for a stranger to read, and write one sentence of evidence pulled from your real documents. A rating with no evidence does not count. Be honest, not modest and not boastful.

Part 2: the document (about 20 minutes). Create a new document in your Strand 1.1 folder called Self Assessment v1 (save as a document file, e.g. .docx or .pdf). Write it under these headings:

• Top three values: name each; one short evidence line each
• Top three aptitudes: name each; one short evidence line each
• Top three achievements: name each; one short evidence line each
• Top three interests: name each; one short evidence line each
• Patterns: one paragraph naming two things that keep appearing together across your material, and where they show up
• What others see: one thing other people named that you had not claimed, and one sentence on which gap surprised you

Copy any useful lines from the audit into the document. Save Self Assessment v1 in the Strand 1.1 folder of your Digital Portfolio. This file is a Digital Portfolio artefact: it shows a reader your evidenced top threes, one cross-document pattern, and one external insight, and it is the seed document for personal-statement drafts and Portfolio in Action evidence later in the strand. Write it for a reader who has never met you.

Talk these through with the person beside you, or sit with them quietly if you are working alone.

• Look at your twelve top-three claims as one set. What do they have in common that a single list never showed you?
• If a personal-statement reader only remembered one sentence from Self Assessment v1, which sentence should it be, and why that one?

Optional (after class or if you finish early): under Self Assessment v1, add a short heading Closing note with three lines: the pattern you trust most, the claim you nearly left out, and the one thing others see that you are now willing to own. Those three lines stay inside the same Strand 1.1 Digital Portfolio file and are the kind of brief evidence a Portfolio in Action reader can use; they are not a separate reflection file and not required for today's lesson.

Today you applied the material from values, aptitudes, achievements, interests and external feedback, instead of collecting more of it.

• You rated how ready each cluster was for a stranger, with evidence from your own Strand 1.1 documents
• You wrote Self Assessment v1 in your Strand 1.1 Digital Portfolio folder: top threes across four areas, a patterns paragraph, and one thing others see that you had not claimed
• You practised consolidation: reading across twelve claims for what they share, which is the move your personal statement will need

Optional stretch: add a second short paragraph naming a pattern you nearly missed, and one line on whether that pattern belongs in a spoken introduction as well as a written one.