How should I research the topic of my life record book?
introduction

Topic Exploration Pattern

Topic Exploration Pattern Case

Exploration activities using ChatGPT

School life record examples (by department)
- A total of 51 cases

Review the student records of successful applicants (all areas)
- A total of 4 cases

Teacher asks, admissions officer answers

How should I research the topic of my life record book?

Many students still simply write and present reports by summarizing and organizing information from Internet searches.
Students writing reports say, “I feel like something is missing.
“What more should I do?” he asks.
What is the answer to this question?
“During class or creative activities, try to delve deeper into the content that interests you.” “How about reading books on topics that interest you and trying to continue to understand the content that interests you?”
I felt that students understood most easily when I showed them the records of their seniors and encouraged them to explore the methods they had explored, rather than giving them any advice.
Let's look at a certain pattern that is reflected in the biographies of many successful applicants.
And let's start exploring using this.
Wouldn't this simple method be the most understandable and realistic advice for students who have to complete more than 20 explorations in their coursework and creative writing classes over the course of a year?

When analyzing students' academic records with several teachers and university officials, the evaluations of records that received good evaluations were almost identical.
“I liked how they actively and proactively explored their areas of interest broadly and deeply,” and “I was impressed by the process of questioning the content they encountered in class or club activities, mathematically analyzing it, and planning, conducting, and understanding experiments.
“Through this process, I was able to see the students grow.”
However, the formal aspects of these records were identical.
In the process of exploration, several paths of exploration emerged.
Often, the records of a student's exploration process, which involves a great deal of time and effort to understand a concept or meaning, do not hold much meaning to the actual evaluator.
If you understand the concepts and their meaning, you will often find the records meaningful to evaluators if they reveal various paths of inquiry, such as thinking about how to utilize or apply them in practice, putting them into practice, analyzing the results, and leading to other activities.
Let's take a look at what paths of inquiry there are depending on your career path and how you can connect them.

Let's explore topics related to our career paths by looking around us, analyzing the records in our personal history, and seeking help on topics and methods of research that we can delve deeper into during our activities.
If possible, it would be better to have something that can be directly experimentally proven rather than simply researching literature.
And let's organize and summarize the growth process that we can learn and feel in the process and attach it to the report.

Let's take a look at the academic records of seniors who were actually accepted to various universities.
And let's upgrade the activities that our seniors have done to make them more meaningful and lively.


This book answers the question that all high school students, teachers, and parents wonder: "What kind of students do universities select?"
We will teach you the patterns of college acceptance through long-term analysis of college admission cases.
- Kwon yy (Hanyang University School of Medicine)

This book, which contains various examples, provides direction to many people in that regard.
If you don't know the basics yet, I recommend following the instructions.
If you follow along, you will see a new path, and I am sure that if you follow that path, you will come out with a unique vitality that is different from others.
- Jeong yy (Department of Consumer and Child Studies, Seoul National University)