COMLEX and USMLE back to back?

[DOaz]

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Would you guys recommend against taking the step 1 of USMLE and COMLEX back to back without a day in between? Thinking about moving my USMLE but the only day available would be the following day after COMLEX

 

[member927]

I personally took a little less than a week between the two tests. Unlike Step 1, these two tests become much more divergent. It took me a couple days and a few hundred Uworld questions to get back into the USMLE test taking mode. I also took an NBME exam before the actual exam and it was pretty predictive of my actual score (within 3 points). The COMSAE exams however are all over the place and in my opinion are not very accurate predictors. Both years I ended scoring close to 100 points higher on the actual COMLEX than I did my COMSAE tests. Good luck to you, whatever you decide.

 

[OR4life]

anyone take them back to back?

 

[DocDO2B]

anyone take them back to back?

I am. Taking usmle step 2 on a wednesday and comlex 2 thursday. I had 5 days in between usmle step 1 and comlex 1 and those were the most miserable days of my life so this time around I cut it out. I'm really only concerned with doing very well on usmle anyway

 

[OR4life]

are you going to do any combank or anything in b/w or just go over omm?
I've heard comlex can be heavy in certain subjects that USMLE is not but who knows

 

[DocDO2B]

are you going to do any combank or anything in b/w or just go over omm?
I've heard comlex can be heavy in certain subjects that USMLE is not but who knows

I didn't do a single combank or comquest question for step I, only used usmle world and did great so I will not be using anything but uworld this time around also. OMM i'll look at savarese for a day or two