how many questions can you miss on comlex ck?

[lasvegasDO]

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I know this will vary with each exam cycle. I just repeated the COMLEX CK II. I studied incredibly hard. I did the entire USMLE World, read USMLE Secrets and First Aid twice in addition to Savarese. I was scroring mid 70's on World' toward the end.

However, this test really frustrated me. The first time I failed, I admittedly did not prepare and I deserved to fail. But today, I just felt like there were so many random questions that I couldn't have prepared for. There were a lot of medical ethics/medical practice/medical social system type of questions and then there were the questions that had more than 1 answer.

I genuinely thought I knew 40 percent of the question in each section right off the bat. Of the remaining 60 percent, I would say 30% I could narrow it down to two answers and the other 30%, there tough and I'm not sure I got those right. Nonetheless, I was very discouraged and scared leaving the testing center. I wanted to celebrate tonight and I couldn't. It's been very difficult.

I'm scared because I heard that you have to get 60% of the questions right to pass the exam. I don't know if I did that. Could anyone shed any light on this? How many questions are experimental? I know no one has any definitive answers but even hearsay would be interesting. I just want to pass. After failing the first time, it humbles you and a 400 would be like winning the Superbowl for me! 🙂

 

[sdlibertybell]

I hope the results ended up good for you in the end.

Your post took the words right out of my mouth! I feel exactly the same way about the Comlex II. I just took it on Tuesday, and I walked out of there feeling like I totally bombed it. I felt terrible and frustrated. I also completed all of the USMLE world questions, Secrets and some of First Aid. I even did all the questions on COMBANK which are supposed to be very similary to Comlex questions and I did not feel that they prepared me enough for the type of questions on the test. I am also not a slacker, have done well throughout medical school and did well on my step 1 boards.

The questions were vague with hardly enough information to make a confident diagnosis especially when there was more than one correct answer choice. What are we supposed to be studying for all the ehtics/malpractice/social medical questions? I felt like I was taking a legal exam at times.

I wish I could shed light on the percent needed to pass, but the whole scoring concept still confuses me. I have heard they take all the scores for a given testing period, get rid of a good amount of experiemental questions, and curve the scores to get a mean of 500.

Just out of curiosity, did you retest during your 4th year at some point? I am already expecting the worst.