Leadership & Influence Question
Chevening is looking for individuals that will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
(Minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)
India is a country of diverse cultures. I was born in Kolkata, West Bengal but raised in the Northeast India. Learning the ways and adapting with a different culture was difficult. But I held my ground and when I was announced the class monitor during my school days, I accepted the challenge. Thus, I was introduced to leadership at a tender age for managing students of my class. I see leadership as an act of placing others interests above yours. This belief led me to donate blood in voluntary blood donation camp organised by State Blood Transfusion Council, West Bengal. Also, being a member of All India Bank Employees Association, while serving in Bank of Maharashtra, I took an active part in fighting for the rights of our bank security guards, who were governed by a third-party agency. Promoting sustainable economic growth and decent work for all is the need of the hour for increasing employment opportunities and reducing informal employment and our strike was a testament of the cause.
In college, I had to give group presentations where I used to establish an understanding with my teammates which led to the task completion. Following this interest, I authored several papers during 2015-19, from which a paper co-authored by two more fellows, got selected in the International HR Conference on HR Trends 2030 organised by Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management. During my presentation I justified to my learned audience from the industry and the academic world, the purpose of my paper. Lifelong learning opportunities and equitable quality education is a birth right of every human-being. Being a Chevening scholar I will enhance my learning opportunities and this in return will enable me to spread my experience in my country. Thus, inspiring and leading people towards quality education.
During my enrolment in Arena Animation in the year 2016 -17, I got an opportunity to represent my centre in Orbit Live 2017, which is an annual animation industry event held in Mumbai where delegates from several countries including UK, attended. I competed in the 3D Modeling category which needed dexterity with computer graphics software, cooperation amongst members of different ethnicity, decision-making for task execution and self-evaluation. This experience taught me cooperation both locally and globally among countries that made this event possible. This event showcased the involvement of developed countries towards better education of a developing country. I understand the necessary skills and leadership potential a Chevening scholar should have to lead and influence people. Revitalising the global partnership for sustainable development is an objective of Chevening Scholarship which it will accomplish by building public and civic leaders to reform and strengthen global peace, security and governance, thus increasing official development assistance. The UK government’s international development funding related to Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform is a key area I want to work on upon returning to my country and the Chevening experience will provide me the necessary skills and platform to showcase myself.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, then, third, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 24.0651302605 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 34.0 8.3376753507 408% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2714.0 1615.20841683 168% => OK
No of words: 497.0 315.596192385 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46076458753 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19992694087 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 176.041082164 158% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559356136821 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 845.1 506.74238477 167% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 5.43587174349 239% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.1842830473 49.4020404114 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.363636364 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5909090909 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.95454545455 7.06120827912 28% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.38176352705 68% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.102551059621 0.244688304435 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0300518029344 0.084324248473 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0382724854791 0.0667982634062 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0661786318968 0.151304729494 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0235033309897 0.056905535591 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.97 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 78.4519038076 210% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.33 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.