Astronomer Mike Merrifield is also the physics undergraduate admissions tutor for the University of Nottingham. That means he goes through all the UCAS forms (the forms filled in by UK students applying for university).

Here he gives a few insider tips!

Mike is on Twitter at   / profmike_m  

Test Tube by video journalist Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham.
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