I do exactly the same subjects as you! and am also interested in medicine but I
kinda screwed up IA1 and
sort of screwed IA2 as well, so I spoke with the guidance officer at my school and this is what I understood (please correct me if I'm wrong, I also need help!)
1- Assuming that you got the 99+ ATAR and prerequisite subjects, you can take a gap year to do the UCAT and in that time you should be doing big time practice papers starting from graduation till next year, but in reasonable amounts of course. (A gap year could also be an advantage to have part time jobs and gain money off McDonald's or something like that? idk that's what my guidance officer told me
) and then apply for Uni as soon as you get your UCAT since it only lasts for one year.
2- If you don't meet the ATAR requirement, you could do courses to "bump it up" but I'm still not sure if you have to do the GAMSAT afterwards cuz I don't quite get the difference between "bumping up" courses and normal uni courses, but I think UCAT is still an option since you didn't really graduate in a degree? (I also need help with this option)
3- You can do a course in biomedical science and actually graduate it (so basically three years gone) and then apply for as an undergrad with the course you had, assuming that you do exceptionally well and get very high distinctions during your course.
4- You can ignore the UCAT and only focus on your ATAR and make it into JCU or Griffith, and still negotiate if they accept "bump up" courses that are equivalent for ATAR. But in our case we don't do chemistry so definitely equivalent courses need to be taken instead.
5- I watched this guy on YouTube and this is how he got into med (vey useful info, wish my school told me that and cleared the confusion lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7XiJbTxwdY&t=1097s let me know if u get any additional info or found out a decent pathway 👍