Couldn't find a thread for Comlex, so decided to create one. The one for level 1 was really helpful, PLEASE share your experiences taking this exam and study methods. Thanks and good luck everyone!
Comquest and Combank are both much easier than Uworld. With that said I've finished Uworld and instead of repeating it have moved on to the easier more vague question banks which better mimic the Comlex. During step 1 I did mostly Uworld and got frustrated with how vague I felt Comlex questions were.
Do you feel that uworld questions helped you learn the material/retain info? I hear they have better explanations.
I'm only taking comlex but my friend in residency who also only did comlex said she used uworld for comlex 1 and 3 and did really well. She didn't use uworld for comlex 2 and that was her lowest score.
I was thinking about purchasing uworld as a learning tool, but will adding a 3rd qbank be overwhelming? Decisions, decisions!
I'm kind of in shock here guys. Level one I got 551. Uworld this year 69% with 800 to go. Just took COMSAE form D and got a 442. I'm so confused. My world score correlates to an above average Step 2 and comlex is one week from today. Definitely pushing my exam back. Any advice?
From what I've heard, the comsae's are not great at predicting scores. I would definitely trust your uworld % over the comsae unless you think there is some reason your uworld % is inflated (tutor, non random, 2rd/3rd pass etc.).
I'm not trying to be mean, but you didn't study any OMM and are shocked that you got a 442 on a practice exam?I did questions on timed tutor mode and usually finish a block with about 20 minutes left, up to 27 minutes on uworld. I will say though, I did not read savarese at all before taking this test. Just now, a recent grad told me that by reading savarese once through, knowing ribs, sacrum and cranial well (and I don't know these subjects AT ALL) I could easily add at least 50 points to my score. So hopefully that will put someone other than myself at ease if they're in the same situation. Buying comquest now and taking the test July 7th. Hopefully this is enough time to dominate the test as I am hoping for an MD community IM residency.
Side note, do I really have to crush Level 2 to get into an MD community IM program? I think the average usmle step 1 score for community IM residencies is around 220 and I managed to pull a 223, don't know about step 2 at all.
I'm not trying to be mean, but you didn't study any OMM and are shocked that you got a 442 on a practice exam?
Like others said, they aren't super predictive of your score anyway but knowing OMM well is at least some of the battle.
If you go back to the comlex experience thread from last year it's pretty clear that OMM will appear throughout the exam. Good luck!
I have to be honest, I find Saverese to be a complete bore. I don't know if it will add 50 points to your score. I just can't do cranial. I found OMM to be hard at times, i think im weird or something lol
But I find doing OMM questions on COMQUEST or combank a lot more useful IMO....i think im just not a book person. lol
I had around 5 cranial ques on level 1 and about the same number of sacral as well. It's all the luck of the draw.ive never heard of cranial on the boards... certainly was not on my step 1. Did you hear anything about it?
I had around 5 cranial ques on level 1 and about the same number of sacral as well. It's all the luck of the draw.
Well I didn't study cranial or sacral for level 1 so I thought they were though. I'm pretty sure I got them wrong.Were they tough? Or pretty straightforward?
so you get 40 minute mandatory break after 4 hours right?
are you allowed to skip the tutorial at the beginning and add on to your break like for USMLE
so you get 40 minute mandatory break after 4 hours right?
are you allowed to skip the tutorial at the beginning and add on to your break like for USMLE
Yay for being done?Took this today.
Will post my score when it comes but here are my stats for the future test takers:
COMLEX I- 694
COMATS- 103-122 (average around 112) Used First Aid through my core rotations with UWorld, saved COMQUEST for my dedicated time. Didn't touch FA during my study period, read about half of savarese.
UWorld- 45% done at 76% correct (untimed, tutor)
COMQUEST- 90% done at 77% correct (untimed, tutor)
COMSAE B- 574 (3 weeks before test)
COMSAE C- 752 (2 days before test)
COMLEX 2CE-??
Now to pack for 5 months on the road for auditions!
Yay for being done?
Any new advice to give? Ob/gyn, peds and omm heavy?
I know the test can/will be a crap shoot, but I'm trying to prepare and study a lot, with a month to go, trying to figure out if there is anything new I should really focus on.
Neuro had only a few things that were not bad. No 25 identical questions on head injury like Step 1.What about neuro? It seemed like level 1 had a ton of neuro questions.
I am sure it would be if you can memorize the secrets without reading something else too. I had secrets for a year and did not read more than a chapter or two of it. Do not forget to review statistics section in Secrets and the GREEN Book one day before test.Do you think comquest would be sufficient to just pass? Granted I will be using secrets and hitting obgyn peds omm gi on combank too
That's funny, mine were not long, except for a few. Is it true that we are not getting scores for a while?Just got done. I will tell you it was much harder compared to COMLEX 1. Uggggg now to see if I passed it. Very long question stems
does anyone have actual word on that and what the new passing will be?
Well, I thought there was no worse feeling than walking out of COMLEX I...Wrong. I definitely feel like I failed. Forget trying to break 600, I'm praying for a 400 now. Took USMLE earlier this week and felt 10X better walking out of the exam. OPP questions were bizarre. There were diseases I had never heard of and I've done UWorld 1.5X, Secrets, MTB2/3. Hope to God I pass. Took a COMSAE earlier and scored in the 500s, thought I was set. Now let's begin the 8 week waiting period where I am doomed to try and make myself like certain specialties because my board scores were terrible. Halfway through my exam, some guy started hyperventilating. FML.
For those that took the real COMLEX 2, did you feel COMQUEST or COMBANK, one or the other was superior? I have been using COMQUEST and finished it. But I was thinking about getting COMBANK for my last week as I heard some people say that they saw exact questions on their COMLEX level 1 last year and thats why they are re-using it.
Any input? thanks ya'll and congrats on finishing!
Have you used uworld at all?
I would urge you to do combank, I felt comquest was too easy for the real test. The best thing about comquest is the OMM questions, I thought those were on par with my CE. I did combank twice, took me about a week to do it the first time since there are about 1800 questions. I also did comquest in less than a week but I dont' think I gained much from doing all the questions (around 70% avg). This was after I did uworld and tooks notes from uworld over the year.
I was getting around 70% on combank the first time thru and I passed CE comfortably. Do yourself a favor and focus on OB, I wish I had done more off that. There were literally 10 OBGYN questions per section, it was annoying.
good luck!