Hey Dawn. Sorry I'm a student at Manchester not Cardiff, but hope I can help anyway. The most important thing to do is get plenty of work experience. Write off to all the hospitals, health centres and private practices in your area. If you still can't get any, physio's also work for large organisations like John Lewis and House of Fraser and in sports clubs - so you could try asking these for a placement. The more experience you get, the better you'll understand what the role of a physio is, which will really help you when you come to apply. Not sure about Cardiff, but at Manchester they interview all applicants. In my personal statement I just but why I wanted to do Physio, what work experience I'd got, the areas that I'd observed and basically details about myself and what I'd done. Try and find out a little about all the different areas that physios work, like Respiratory care, Neurology etc. rather than just knowing a lot about one area e.g. outpatients. Anyway, I hope I've been of some help to you. Good luck for next year.x