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IdontTakeCall

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Im taking the COMLEX saturday. just took the COMSAE phase 1a. scored 469. I noticed it says on avg, people score 26 points higher on the COMLEX than they did on the COMSAE. that would give me a 495 and the national average. Does this sound like it matchers your experiences or am i in trouble.
 
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...Quick questions for COMSAE. I am 8 days away and thinking of buying it. But I saw Phase 1 Form A, Phase 1 Form B, Phase 2 Form A, Phase 2 Form B, and Phase 3.
Does it mean each will cost $50? How many questions each form come with? 200 Qs per form? I just wanted to make sure before I shall out my hard earn 50 bucks. Thanks!

Sorry didn't mean to hijack.
 
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If your taking comlex 1 then only buy phase 1 type A or phase 1 type B. The phase 2 and phase 3 are for comlex 2 and 3. I took both 1A and 1B and got 511 both times. I take the real one next week. I don't know how it converts but I thought I read somewhere along these forumns that people do do about 10-20 better on the atual test.
As to whether the 50$ is worth it, Im hoping it is...some of my classmates have said that a few questions on Comlex are very similar to Comsae questions. I'll gladly spend more of my mom's hard earned 50$ for a few freebees on the test (haha JK)
 
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pharo said:
If your taking comlex 1 then only buy phase 1 type A or phase 1 type B. The phase 2 and phase 3 are for comlex 2 and 3. I took both 1A and 1B and got 511 both times. I take the real one next week. I don't know how it converts but I thought I read somewhere along these forumns that people do do about 10-20 better on the atual test.
As to whether the 50$ is worth it, Im hoping it is...some of my classmates have said that a few questions on Comlex are very similar to Comsae questions. I'll gladly spend more of my mom's hard earned 50$ for a few freebees on the test (haha JK)
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Would you say Form A and Form B are similar? I did form B and didn't think it was so bad, but people who took form A said it was a horror show...
 
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I just got my score back and my COMLEX score was 78 points higher than my COMSAE part IA. Having said that. I would definitely recommend taking it because I felt that 1: it was good practice and 2: the question format and difficulty was comparable.
 
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IdontTakeCall said:
Im taking the COMLEX saturday. just took the COMSAE phase 1a. scored 469. I noticed it says on avg, people score 26 points higher on the COMLEX than they did on the COMSAE. that would give me a 495 and the national average. Does this sound like it matchers your experiences or am i in trouble.
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543 comsae 1a - one day post usmle, two days pre comlex
555 real comlex.

it was a fair depiction of what to expect, but dont get pissed, everyone fails the psych questions. their key is wrong.
 
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I took the 1A and scored 83 points higher on the real COMLEX~~
and that was 2 days pre test day so for me it wasn't accurate at all
but I would def. take it just so you know what the COMLEX test style is like!!!!
 
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Is that a good score (ie is a 555 competitive)? Isn't that somewhat equal to a 230 on the usmle percentile wise? I'm trying to get a feel for what the scores mean.
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You can't compare the 2-digits scores for the COMLEX and the USMLE. They are two different things (no correlation). Now about the percentiles, I am not so sure.

Anyway I got 43 points higher on the COMLEX than COMSAE-B
 
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