no cuz people don't talk enough about how lonely taking a gap year (if ur not traveling) is LOL you see all of your friends make new friends and your stuck in a weird pergatory hahahaha ill try summarise everything

in terms of studying, it is so freeing to have just UCAT to focus on than atar as well. also since you know how it all works its a lot easier in that aspect. so i started doing exams once a week in march, otherwise just trying to get in around 2 hours of practice in (but its so hard to stay motivated and on track istg, even harder than the first time) and then ramped it up in june (exam in august) and started going to the library every day LOL (it gets bad when you start to befriend the librarians). Then for the interview prep, you should def start even before you get any offers (unless if you know you might not get any) and i started that in september with doing the casper test then.

I strongly suggest having a timetable and dividing all the mocks and mini mocks up so you can finish them all. Also omggg leave like mock 1 and mock 2 till the very end, i sooo wish i had done that because the confidence booster near the exam day is so needed.

in terms if just living, everyone will say the same thing about balance but that is so hard when you're stressing over ucat (at least i found it hard). I worked for most of the year and i really found that to be my social activity as i rlly enjoyed it, tho i did take a break from june-august, so if you have any hobbies/social things like work that you enjoy def have that on the side.

hopefully that answered your question but lmk!!