Honestly, I have no idea what the right track is. My COMLEX was out of this world ridiculous, to the point where I dont even know how I could have prepared for it. I
My exam was IDENTICAL to this, so much so that I can't even make a write up for it. At least with USMLE you can reason your way through the tough questions. My experience was 50% buzzwords, 20% critical thinking, 30 % WTF. 5 questions on the same bug (30% overall micro), so many anatomy questions on which nerve/artery/vein deals with a certain area, tons of cranial and chapman's points. Further, the OMM questions, I can remember 5 or 6 questions that I thought WTF why are you asking me this.
I legitimately left my exam upset, not because it was hard, but $500 and 6 months of studying for THAT? The NBOME should be dumbed, or at least refined with a very fine comb to get rid of the crap. Everyone has these questions, sure, but how does that crap evaluate us for competency in medicine. Some schools (mine included) don't teach cranial because its bogus, meanwhile 40/400 questions is cranial, chapmans, and viscerosomatic. I could have studied for 2 weeks and passed that exam, and probably 3 weeks would have gotten me to the same point at where I am today. 4 questions on SCS of weird points, I mean who uses CSC on a pinky toe....
In retrospect:
Green book is fine, study it for 1 day (had 7 days post usmle, and felt that details/facts/concepts were just oozing out my ears)
I did uworld, comquest, kaplan qbank (omm and usmle stuff), a bunch of nbme, comsae C, DIT, and read FA 6 times.
I think that 1 pass of FA, 1 pass of green book, and omm questions from comsae, and MAYBE 1 pass of uworld would have been sufficient. My comlex was nothing like comquest, comsae C, and was actually more like my usmle in the question stem length/description. The easier questions were not worded too poorly, but there was a plethora of garbage questions. I mean do I need 5 questions on one type of microorganism that isn't even seen in the USA?
Be prepared to do calculations without a calculator. I was caught off guard in having to actually crunch numbers on the whiteboard, biostats and some stuff not included in FA.
Timing: I finished 1.5 hours early, mostly because the breaks are not very helpful. You get 10 mins after 100 questions, 40 min after 200 questions, and 10 minutes after 300 questions. I needed 5 min to pee after every block and 5 minutes at lunch to chug some coffee and eat
some berries/gorp. Very disappointed after this exam with the whole structure, evaluation of my ACTUAL-EVIDENCE-BASED knowledge of medicine. In passing, many of my peers had similar experiences, this exam you can't study for, like you can for USMLE. I can honestly say that I needed 2-3 weeks of questions and review for this exam. Take this exam earlier and enjoy your time off.