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i.e. if we failed, we'd have heard about it? I'm in the middle of my score release window and anxiously waiting scores...
Do our schools get our COMLEX LEVEL 1 scores before us?
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I guess I'm not the only one playing the waiting game. 🙁 After two days of obsessive NBOME checking, I've resigned myself to finding out at 5pm tomorrow Chicago-time...
In the first week of July, my class was told that our school had received the scores for everyone who had taken the exam up through the middle of June. We were confused by this because anyone taking the exam after June 10 is still waiting for their scores (myself included). Perhaps 'middle of the month' was before June 10 (which means they didn't actually receive scores any sooner than the students). If they did receive scores before us (which I don't know whether they did or not), I know my school would never reveal how soon they received them and highly doubt that they would give us our results in advance.
On Thursday, my school is doing a 4-hour presentation about our entire class' COMLEX/USMLE scores (tomorrow is the last day scores are released for us), so obviously, at the very minimum, they find out the same time as we do.
Good luck!
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Apparently so. My school has results for our first set of COMLEX takers. 100% pass!!
Nationwide, pass rate so far is 98%. This is nothing new.
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I would assume the better students tend to take it first?
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Corrrect. The worst students are encouragrd, and sometimes forced to delay.
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I got an email from my academic advisor that I had passed before I received the email from the NBOME to check my score. So either they were obsessively checking or they get a notification before NBOME cuts the email.
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I got an e-mail from a couple admins (including clinical affairs, which makes sense I guess) and my advisor that I had passed about 3 hours before I got my score.
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This might be a dumb question, but I don't know the answer so I am gonna ask: Is it possible for 100% of students who take the Comlex to pass, or is a certain portion always doomed to failure? What I mean, is passing say a '400' a moving target like the rest of the scores based on peer performance? For instance, could 60% correct questions = pass in the past, but this year people are doing better so now its 63%?
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No, it's a great question!
There may have been schools that had a 100% pass rate, perhaps TCOM. I think that each Class will have weak student who are at high risk of failing, and in my own school's experience, they may or may not disappoint us. For example, when a weak students passes COMLEX, we knee-jerk think "Wow, he did it!".
Students who fail Boards come in two varieties:
Weak students, who invariably do not spend enough time prepping (which may be less of an issue at my school, as we now mandate that they us an elective instead of going on rotation, and then use that time to study for COMLEX).
Surprise COMLEX failures are usually due to a life event happening in May/June on OMSII.
