First COMSAE and how to improve

[ninjaman22]

So our school gave us our first COMSAE today (form A I think) as a practice. I scored a 549. I was hoping to score over a 600 but oh well. The next one is in March...need a 450 to be eligible to take the COMLEX and over a 600 to be excused from a Kaplan review course in May. I am trying to get a 600 and skip the Kaplan review. I recently started doing UWorld and have been doing Pathoma, FA, and COMBANK for a while. Any tips on further improving my score? I am also planning on taking the USMLE.

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[beachbum353353]

You are in good shape to get out of that review course. It's still very early. Just keep grinding out UFAP and read through the green book 2x.

I would add sketchy micro. If you aren't feeling organized enough, consider doing DIT.

So our school gave us our first COMSAE today (form A I think) as a practice. I scored a 549. I was hoping to score over a 600 but oh well. The next one is in March...need a 450 to be eligible to take the COMLEX and over a 600 to be excused from a Kaplan review course in May. I am trying to get a 600 and skip the Kaplan review. I recently started doing UWorld and have been doing Pathoma, FA, and COMBANK for a while. Any tips on further improving my score? I am also planning on taking the USMLE.

 

[Yadster101]

So our school gave us our first COMSAE today (form A I think) as a practice. I scored a 549. I was hoping to score over a 600 but oh well. The next one is in March...need a 450 to be eligible to take the COMLEX and over a 600 to be excused from a Kaplan review course in May. I am trying to get a 600 and skip the Kaplan review. I recently started doing UWorld and have been doing Pathoma, FA, and COMBANK for a while. Any tips on further improving my score? I am also planning on taking the USMLE.

Im not at a DO school but from my understanding 549, w/o any studying, is amazing. Did you just kill it in the first two years?

 

[ninjaman22]

You are in good shape to get out of that review course. It's still very early. Just keep grinding out UFAP and read through the green book 2x.

I would add sketchy micro. If you aren't feeling organized enough, consider doing DIT.

Micro was my best section on this test in addition to pharm. But you are right I need to start to look at the green book. Thank for your advice!

 

[ninjaman22]

Im not at a DO school but from my understanding 549, w/o any studying, is amazing. Did you just kill it in the first two years?

Haha thanks I did pretty good. I always kept up with the lectures, quizzes, and exams, and ended up with good grades. I wasn't sure if that would translate into good board scores.

 

[Yadster101]

Haha thanks I did pretty good. I always kept up with the lectures, quizzes, and exams, and ended up with good grades. I wasn't sure if that would translate into good board scores.

J/c but how many hours did you typically put into studying outside of class and then on weekends?

 

[ninjaman22]

J/c but how many hours did you typically put into studying outside of class and then on weekends?

I am a 2nd year.
This is what I usually do. Go to class --> listen to lectures (most of the time) --> review those powerpoints couple of times after coming back home --> read pathoma/fa/do some practice questions (COMBANK + KAPLAN - usually 15-30 Qs/night) related to the topic covered that day in lecture or the systems we are covering that block. Repeat the whole week. Some days, I might not have time to do pathoma/fa/practice qs due to taking too long to go over lectures. We usually have quiz every friday (lectures from prior thursday to current week wednesday - usually 16 lectures); thursday night I go over all those lectures again couple more times. Integrated exam every three weeks/two weeks (total of 3 exams/block); the weekend of the exams - I will go over all the lectures again couple more times and review pathoma/fa. I have been following this schedule since first year minus the fa/pathoma/practice qs (which I started this year), I have had straight A's except one or two B's (in OMM!) here and there.

I posted my study plan in an earlier thread.

 

[scoKraz4]

Review neuro, ob/gyn, micro/antimicrobials, and omm before taking it next time. I focused on these the first time taking a comsae in February and hit well over 600.

 

[ninjaman22]

Review neuro, ob/gyn, micro/antimicrobials, and omm before taking it next time. I focused on these the first time taking a comsae in February and hit well over 600.

Thank you! Yeah we haven't covered GI, endocrine, or repro systems yet and I felt like 20-30% of the exam was on those.