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It's that time of the year. Anyone took new Comsae recently? Hopefully it's more predicitve than old ones that were all over the place - like +/- 100 points.
Also, interesting to hear if this years comlex is indeed changed? If anyone took it recently - please share your experience. Especially if you can compare it to previous year one.
 
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Yes, it was on the new COMSEA - 103? form and it was taken early June after doing Random Uworld mixed questions and review for like 3 weeks.
 
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ASGD1983 said:
Sorry for a bit off-topic, but was 300 on a new comsae and when was it taken roughly? Thank you. I'm really bad at encouragement, but I can say that I was in your shoes - my first comsae was 280. I am working on covering content deficits too and I can say that it's definitely doable even for a weak student like me to get from 280 to 450.
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Thanks, just long days to sit and work through stuff systematically one day at a time.
 
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pseud0 said:
Agreed about too much clinical on 104 but advanced ekgs? I think there were like 3 questions about ekg. 1 was left vent hypertrophy, 1 you needed to know qrs complex widening with tricyclics, one was St depression with angina. I wouldn't call those very advanced
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I counted my EKG questions (10 of them)

My answer options didn't have options from FA/typical histories, but things such as "sick sinus syndrome", "ventricular pacemaker", "etc"

I couldn't even eliminate because I didn't even know what "antidromic AVRT" and "wandering atrial pacemaker" looked like.

But then again, it's not like I even thought of reading Dubin's for EKGs so :shrug:
 
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wubalubadubdub said:
I counted my EKG questions (10 of them)

My answer options didn't have options from FA/typical histories, but things such as "sick sinus syndrome", "ventricular pacemaker", "etc"

I couldn't even eliminate because I didn't even know what "antidromic AVRT" and "wandering atrial pacemaker" looked like.

But then again, it's not like I even thought of reading Dubin's for EKGs so :shrug:
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wait are you talking about actual comlex or COMSAE104? I know there was nothing that difficult on comsae
 
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How often do you guys take fun breaks? i REALIZE That I need 3 hour fun break every 3 days to keep my brain sane and be most productive. It's hard to do but I find that I waste a lot of time otherwise . My goal is to really push myself to do that -

also I have not been doing this but reviewing UWORLD journal of mistakes or something with RR is VERY useful at the end of the day. I really want to do that too starting again today bc. it helps solify concepts/esp if you are weak in content like me - and memory.
Also have to commit to watching 0MM video and do 10-Q a day no matter how painful or how much i WANA put it off to "another day" , but the "another day" willl be TEST day at this point haha
 
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I just set a goal number of questions i want to do per day or which videos i need to watch that day and if i get through them i can take breaks. I've been doing 250 combank questions per day leading up to the exam, literally getting through this entire qbank in less than 2 weeks

im not really reading the explanations but if i got something wrong i pretty much know why because i did uworld and read every last word. COMBANK is consistently making me giggle at how easy some of the questions are compared to UWorld, and is making me question whether doing this was even worth it. COMLEX cannot be this straightforward. Theres zero of those 'general principles' questions from UWorld that i absolutely SUCK at, the biochem is literally just pathology related, and the physiology is like 2-3 orders easier on most questions. UWorld is like...you need to diagnose the patient, then know how the change in physio will effect a tiny seemingly unrelated biochemical process, then know how that process might be written in a descriptive, nonstandard way, instead of just telling you what they mean (DESCRIBING a ribosome, not saying 'ribosome' for example). COMBANK is like "patient came in with a UTI, whats the most common bug"
 
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Wow, awesome.

@pseud0 and others - how do you divide your time? i'm really trying hard to get up in the AM , early , go to other room, do 40 Q and then hit the gym for fun/self-confidence/get good feelings and then come back review and then 40 more --lunch and then hit vidoes based on mistakes, OMM, review journal of mistakes and Rapidreview memorization

I have stopped cooking or even ordering online groceries - no time or energy for that. I just give myself a budget per day of food and just go to WFoods and eat healthy. Going to WF eating and back takes about 40 mins or so but it's a nice break (?) and then rest of time, just eat at desk or take a 10 min break to eat.
 
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kitkatblue said:
Wow, awesome.

@pseud0 and others - how do you divide your time? i'm really trying hard to get up in the AM , early , go to other room, do 40 Q and then hit the gym for fun/self-confidence/get good feelings and then come back review and then 40 more --lunch and then hit vidoes based on mistakes, OMM, review journal of mistakes and Rapidreview memorization

I have stopped cooking or even ordering online groceries - no time or energy for that. I just give myself a budget per day of food and just go to WFoods and eat healthy. Going to WF eating and back takes about 40 mins or so but it's a nice break (?) and then rest of time, just eat at desk or take a 10 min break to eat.
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I went to the food hall at our dorms. It's all you can eat so we just squat down, study, eat, repeat. I always treated it like a 7-5ish job (+- 2 hours) and tried to go to the gym before. After that, cooking, going for a walk, household, whatever. You need this to recharge your batteries, or at least I do 😉
 
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@pseud0 i got a 309 on COMSEA 104 (June 4th) and 327(?) on COMSEA 103 taken late April after finishing classes.

i did not review them afterwards. which comsea to take next week after being done with some content(Fingers crossed)
 
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kitkatblue said:
@pseud0 i got a 309 on COMSEA 104 (June 4th) and 327(?) on COMSEA 103 taken late April after finishing classes.

i did not review them afterwards. which comsea to take next week after being done with some content(Fingers crossed)
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You can't review them. Also we don't know what those scores even mean

Just keep doing your practice problems and high yield review and I'm sure we'll all pass.
 
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Any input on how COMQUEST is for COMLEX prep this year? I know I have heard better things about it over COMBANK from the classes above.
 
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pseud0 said:
god damn i hate blurry ekgs

i consider reading EKG's one of my strongest of the topics generally considered harder but i cant stand when they cant even be bothered to upload an image above like 30 pixels. Why do that
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You will be frankly disappointed. I couldn't make out whether there were P-waves or not in one of mine.
 
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Seems the exams in the past week and half have been brutal. Is this going to be the new reality for the upcoming exams from now on or perhaps a possibility of another wave of change after the scores come out in July?
 
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bravenugget21 said:
Seems the exams in the past week and half have been brutal. Is this going to be the new reality for the upcoming exams from now on or perhaps a possibility of another wave of change after the scores come out in July?
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Mine was fine. Nothing insane like some these posts
 
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Just sat for COMLEX. Its definitely a marathon compared to USMLE.

Sketchy is bae. Sketchy Micro and Pharm carried me through out this test. Some of the micro is stuff i've never heard of. Alot of unheard of parasites.

Alot more videos compared to USMLE. Expect atleast 5 per 50 question block. Some videos are just showing a special test. Some are showing sacrum diagnosis. Some our interviews with the patient. If you are an ear bud user like me be prepared for this.

Biostats is pretty cake (sensitivity, specificitiy was the hardest part, math is predone for you (X/Y+Z; answers). The biochem focused on signaling pathways (PIGLET, PETCATonTV, FLAT CHAMP etc).

Really hoping i passed so i don't have to sit through that again haha.
 
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Chris07 said:
Anymore room in the “post-COMLEX shattered dreams club”?

That sucker was brutal lol.
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Ho0v-man said:
Mine was fine. Nothing insane like some these posts
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Yeah I thought mine was super reasonable too honestly. I suspect they simply have a big pool of questions they randomly draw from to create forms and some are probably much more brutal than others. @Chris07 just trust the standardization process, I suspect most people in this thread will be completely fine and will probably do better than they think they did.
 
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FLATCHAMP is the hormones that use cAMP second messengers. Compare it with the GOATHAG for Ip3/Ca++. Since they overlap, their usefullness is limited.


FSH
LH
ADH V2
TRH
CRH
hCG
ACTH
MSH
PTH

GHRH
Oxytocin
ADH V1
TSH
Histamine 1
Angiotensin II
Gastrin

it is missing GG (Glucagon and GnRH i believe). While this Mnemomic might be useful on a certain self assessment form (cough, cough), I do not believe its a biggie for Step or Level.
 
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ASGD1983 said:
I just realized that even after extensive prep I'm still not anywhere near to be ready for this exam after seeing this mnemonics for the first time. :wideyed:
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that feeling never leaves. Get used to it. Imposter syndrome after each good score in practice and that sensation of a dropping floor everytime someone throws you a nugget of knowledge you didnt have. 3 weeks after step I still feel it.
 
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wonko said:
FLATCHAMP is the hormones that use cAMP second messengers. Compare it with the GOATHAG for Ip3/Ca++. Since they overlap, their usefullness is limited.


FSH
LH
ADH V2
TRH
CRH
hCG
ACTH
MSH
PTH

GHRH
Oxytocin
ADH V1
TSH
Histamine 1
Angiotensin II
Gastrin

it is missing GG (Glucagon and GnRH i believe). While this Mnemomic might be useful on a certain self assessment form (cough, cough), I do not believe its a biggie for Step or Level.
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Yeah I also thought the overlap made them a bit useless. Better to try and know the bigger picture, or just flat out memorize the list lol. It definitely came up on my Step but was only like 1 question if I remember right. I've forgotten just about everything about that test minus the 4 gimmes I missed
 
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getfat said:
Just sat for COMLEX. Its definitely a marathon compared to USMLE.

Sketchy is bae. Sketchy Micro and Pharm carried me through out this test. Some of the micro is stuff i've never heard of. Alot of unheard of parasites.

Alot more videos compared to USMLE. Expect atleast 5 per 50 question block. Some videos are just showing a special test. Some are showing sacrum diagnosis. Some our interviews with the patient. If you are an ear bud user like me be prepared for this.

Biostats is pretty cake (sensitivity, specificitiy was the hardest part, math is predone for you (X/Y+Z; answers). The biochem focused on signaling pathways (PIGLET, PETCATonTV, FLAT CHAMP etc).

Really hoping i passed so i don't have to sit through that again haha.
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Was it like comsae? How long were the question stems?
 
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Moocille said:
It’s from an AT Still quote, where he says he “flung to the breeze the banner of osteopathy”.
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I always thought it was just an awkward 3rd party phrasing. But I guess it was a direct quote. Either way I’m too far removed from what year did his kids die from meningitis type questions to remember.
 
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Just about finished the COMBANK

got about 70-71 percent correct
first pass uworld was 65.5 percent correct
COMSAE 103 468 (early may)
COMSAE 104 518 (last friday)

UWSA1 224 (about 3 weeks ago, yikes)

still have no idea how I will score on friday
 
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Anyone has any idea of where to get kind of condensed sheet notes(like CLiff notes) for MSS/ANATOMy and all the test?

PLEASE kindly help
 
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Also, COMBANK seems to put all the crappy low % correct questions at the end if you do the whole thing

if the question has a percent correct lower than random guessing, your question is dog****
 
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getfat said:
I felt a lot of it was similar to true learn. A lot of first order questions. You either knew it or you didn't know it.
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I’ve never used true learn. Since the test is longer, I hope the question stems are as short as comsae questions haha
 
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Taking Comlex Level 1 on Friday (6/28), scored 558 on COMSAE 104 today. Not sure what to predict for the actual comlex. I hope I can break 600. (NBME Avg 239, NBME 18 250, UWSA 1 & 2 both 260 take 2 weeks apart).
 
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