It’s ok if you’re finding it difficult to set aside time for the UMAT. While it is worth the same as your ATAR in most medical admissions processes, you get much more value out of studying for your VCE subjects as less people spend a great deal of time studying for the UMAT, and performance in the UMAT is much more correlated with intrinsic ability rather than work ethic.
That being said, if you want to give the UMAT a good shot, you should set aside some time to study for it. Rather than doing a big block each week, I’d recommend doing 15-20 mins each day of reading through guides and doing drills. There’s still a lot of time before the UMAT and it’s good to get a feel for the questions before you leap into practice exams. I think the term 1 holidays would be a good time to get a few exams out of the way and identify weaknesses so you can up the momentum in term 2.
Don’t be afraid of getting bad percentiles in medentry as they compare you to the medentry cohort rather than the actual UMAT cohort, which means you’ll do way better in the real thing. I got around 60th percentile in the medentry exams I did and got 89th in the real thing. Also you’ll find section 2 scores vary a lot depending on your mood. I was usually getting 50th percentile for section 2 but got ~97th on the day.