As a third year student, people need to be careful. It is easy to do poorly on COMLEX. We have students in my school who did really well on USMLE but not so well on COMLEX. You can even see multiple posts complaining of this on last year's thread. There were multiple people who scored 230+ on the USMLE but scored <500 on COMLEX.
Our averages on USMLE from our school were pretty high (a couple points higher than the year before us,) but the COMLEX averages suffered by around 40 points from the year prior to us.
NBOME has definitely cracked down on the averages of COMLEX this year. While COMLEX objectively has "easier" questions, the test has significantly more questions and is a longer exam than Step 1. However, the test writers are becoming smarter and not asking questions that would pop up in Sketchy. COMLEX definitely felt like a "you either know it or you don't" kind of exam, which makes it harder because they'll ask things that you've never heard of before. Also, you get less time per question to answer than Step 1, which also makes it more difficult because you have no time to think through the question once you spend most of the time reading those long length question stems.
I rotate with other students from different schools, and their pass rates have also dropped. Some of them are nearing 10%. This was also at one of the top DO schools, mind you.
