I'm in year 12 and i want to know what happens at the end of year 12 in the summer

As a welsh y13 aspiring med student - I think I'm qualified for this 😆
So in summer of Y12 May-June you'll be doing your AS exams.
You book your UCAT about June - check the date of booking cause believe me test centres book out quickly! You can then sit it between July-September depending on what you've booked. I booked September so I had enough time for my mind to have a break after AS exams but enough time to revise.
When you get back to school in Y13 it is hectic. For Medicine you have to apply through UCAS by October 15th. You will need to write a type of personal statement - it has changed for your year. If you google ucas personal statement 2026 onwards you will see it, basically there are 3 questions you have to answer in a written piece saying why you want to do Med and what you have done to show this. You can only apply to four Med schools and then one non-med option.
So Y12 summer is pretty busy I won't lie. You want to make sure you do amazing in AS exams as they're about 40% of your overall a level grade. Then you need to smash the UCAT because every med school now requires a high score to be considered for an interview.
In terms of offers/predicteds. Your school will give you your predicted probably after your AS exams/or any mocks. You need these to be AAA or above for Medicine. Once you've submitted your application on UCAS, if you are lucky you will be invited to interview from December-March of Y13. Then after that from about March-May I think you will be given an offer or a rejection.
I would say focus this year on your a levels - revise now consistently so your long term memory is good by the time of your exams. Do subject exploration - like watch medical podcasts, do competitions etc. BOOK WORK EXPERIENCE! Try GPs, hospitals, and if you really can't get any work experience try and get either a volunteering job or a paid part time job where you work with people, like a care home. Use year 12 to really develop those experiences of why medicine and to show that you understand the career (work experience etc.). After your AS exams it is very much revise UCAT and then straight into writing personal statement and then straight into sending application off to unis.
Looking at unis now this is what they all seem to want:

I hope that's helpful - lemme know if you have any more questions

ty so much god bless and you u get to become the doctor u want to be

Haha thank you, hoping the same for you 😆 I'm sure you'll do amazingly in year 12

I'm aiming to become a doctor and I live in south wales, what happens in the summer except from the exams obviously in year 12? (😂)
Is it true also that people get their offers in the summer (based on their predicted grades) and that they do their UCAT too in year 12 ?
TY in advance people

wdym by "Some academic exploration of medicine outside of school work"

It's easy enough to say 'I like Medicine' or 'Science interests me'. Unis want to see you show that not tell. You can show that through subject exploration outside of school.
For example, watching a documentary on a certain medical event or illness shows that you are interested - you took your own time to watch that, it's not something you are forced to do in school.
It is also sometimes called supracurricular exploration. You've probably heard of extracurriculars. An extracurricular for example is playing football, being Head boy/girl, being in a choir. Supracurricular is when these outside activities are relevant to you subject.
These are some good ways to do this:

Also you don't need to do all of this by any means, pick a couple that interest you and just have fun looking into things that interest you

ur acc a god send tysm