You are applying today. You should already hold pathway investigations, a provider comparison, and a personal statement from earlier Strand 1.2 work. If your folder is thin, reuse the named option from your Provider Comparison or from your FET, HE or apprenticeship investigation and go deep on that one. A brochure summary is not enough any more.

Pick one concrete option: a named HE course, apprenticeship, FET programme, or school-leaver intake. By the end of the period you will hold a fit assessment that answers four questions honestly: Can I get in? Does the content match who I am? Where does it lead? What would a year really cost me?

Three terms drive today's fit assessment. Read them once, then use them as the four-part spine of the half-page you will write.

First, study Aoife's fit assessment on screen. Use the numbered annotations so you can see what a strong half-page actually does: entry checked against real grades, content held against a personal statement, outcomes named from real destinations, and cost written as figures rather than vague claims.

Then write your own. Create (or open) a document called Specific Option Fit in your Strand 1.2 folder in your Digital Portfolio. Use a half-page with four headed parts: Entry, Content alignment, Outcomes, and Real cost. This entry feeds your Career Progression Plan later in this strand and can support Portfolio in Action evidence.

Choose one concrete option you are genuinely investigating. Write a half-page that covers all four parts:

• Entry requirements: what the option asks for on its course or intake page, and whether you currently meet it (or what you still need)
• Content alignment: how the day-to-day content matches your personal statement and interests, with at least one specific module, placement or duty named
• Outcomes: where people go afterwards, from a real source such as the provider page or Careers Portal
• Real cost: a rough full-year figure including course charges, travel, materials and living costs, plus any grant you could claim, and one line on what you would do if the money did not work

Use real names and real numbers. A fit assessment that could describe any course fails the task.

If funding or home costs are hard to judge or talk about, check SUSI guidance, Citizens Information, or your school guidance counsellor. Keep any private judgement in your own Specific Option Fit document.

Talk these through with the person beside you, then decide whether your fit assessment still stands.

• After writing the real-cost line, does this option still fit you, or did the money change the answer?
• Which of the four parts was thinnest on evidence, and what would you need to find before you could defend this option to a guidance counsellor?

If either answer weakens the option, add one honest sentence at the bottom of your Specific Option Fit document naming what changed your mind.

If funding or home costs are hard to judge or talk about, check SUSI guidance, Citizens Information, or your school guidance counsellor. Keep that optional honest sentence in your own Specific Option Fit document, not on this page.

Today you applied earlier pathway research to one concrete post-school option.

• You studied a worked fit assessment covering entry, content, outcomes and real cost
• You wrote your own half-page Specific Option Fit on one named post-school option
• You tested whether the option still fitted once cost was written as figures, not hopes

Keep Specific Option Fit in your Strand 1.2 folder in your Digital Portfolio. It feeds the deeper option work and the Career Progression Plan later in this strand, and can support Portfolio in Action evidence.