COMLEX Official 2019 Comlex 1 Experiences and Scores Thread

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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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js007 said:
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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i predict you get a 700

if 558 on comsae 104 doesn't break 600 on the real thing i would be shocked
 
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whats the best assesment to take before comlex? i took uworld2 scored 255. i took comsae got 494... i need an assesment to take before the real comlex so i know i'm ready
 
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it was all bellow passing.. i'm trying to learn omm rn thats why i wanted to take a practice test but nothing is predictive apparently
 
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meh, just draw your sacrum as the question describes it if needed and put numbers in if you have a calculation. My sheet was almost blank when I handed it in
 
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plan on drawing anterior chapmans and writing down viscerosomatic reflexes during the tutorial because that **** is dumb and easy points. might put down some stats equations but i think i can remember them if i review them tomorrow. posterior chapmans points besides the appendix and counterstrain points are all going to be educated guesses because i will not memorize that much ridiculous garbage

1 more combank block to go. They clearly put the crappy questions only for people who go through the whole thing, my average has dropped significantly at the back end here with averages dropping substantially and like 2/3 of questions with under 50% getting it correct
 
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pseud0 said:
plan on drawing anterior chapmans and writing down viscerosomatic reflexes during the tutorial because that **** is dumb and easy points. might put down some stats equations but i think i can remember them if i review them tomorrow. posterior chapmans points besides the appendix and counterstrain points are all going to be educated guesses because i will not memorize that much ridiculous garbage
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I second this. I drew out the anterior chapmans, VS Reflexes, and the basic stats equations. It definitely saved me a lot of time.
 
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dumb question since I haven't been to a prometric center in a while, lol

Do they have refrigerators? I kinda wanna bring a sandwich but i dont want it sitting in a hot locker the whole time :smug:
 
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pseud0 said:
lol the comsae's are straight trash

this guy gets a 255 on uwsa2 and under 500 on comsae

what the crap is the nbome doing
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It just goes to show how terrible they are at predicting. I got a 551 on COMSAE 105, but only a 242 on UWSA2, so literally the inverse of him lol.
 
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I apologize for off-topic, but a quick question: I have a bit of extra time before exam to either do a 2nd pass of UW or I can do one more pass of FA. If you had to choose - which one you would go with?
Thank you
 
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pseud0 said:
dumb question since I haven't been to a prometric center in a while, lol

Do they have refrigerators? I kinda wanna bring a sandwich but i dont want it sitting in a hot locker the whole time :smug:
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If you haven't taken it yet - They did not have a fridge at my prometric center. I put my turkey sandwich in an insulated lunch box and just ate it during my break. My stomach did not betray me!
 
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Chibucks15 said:
Any other tips besides bringing lube? Idk what to think about this thing
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For anyone who’s struggling to find resources for micro I used FireCracker and it was invaluable for covering the weird micro detail so. They also have a free week subscription so there’s that
 
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bravenugget21 said:
Do you guys encounter a lot of stuff you have never seen before? That sounds very scary and I am a bad guesser. Are you at least able to figure out what’s the answer by eliminating the ones you do know that aren’t the answer?
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I used FireCracker through MS1/2 and had only a handful of things (maybe 2-3 questions-block tops) I hadn’t seen before. For anyone reading this as M1 can’t recommend highly enough.

Most you could narrow down to 2 through process of elimination
 
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Anyone care to take a guess at what the % correct thresholds are for 400, 500, 600 etc?

my guess is 50% = 400. 60% = 500, 70% = 580-600, 75% = 620-650, 80% = 650+

Edit: Also help me allay fears of not passing 🙂
 
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Took another COMSAE...got 392 with my exam in 9 days. Can’t push it back, and school tells me I gotta join next year’s class otherwise. Dunno, it’s an improvement to my last two scores but just don’t know how much more I can raise it over the next 8 days.
 
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Arcanine said:
Took another COMSAE...got 392 with my exam in 9 days. Can’t push it back, and school tells me I gotta join next year’s class otherwise. Dunno, it’s an improvement to my last two scores but just don’t know how much more I can raise it over the next 8 days.
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Which one did you take??
 
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Do you guys think it would be best to cram osteopathic-specific information (exam on Monday) for comlex by knocking out the "Turn Up to OMT" Anki deck or by doing non-stop OMM-specific practice questions from combank? I planned on just doing the Anki + watching a couple vids to fill in gaps but I just wanted to make sure.

This is assuming I have already been exposed to the comlex-style of question writing.

Thanks homies.
 
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NecrotizingFasciitis said:
Do you guys think it would be best to cram osteopathic-specific information (exam on Monday) for comlex by knocking out the "Turn Up to OMT" Anki deck or by doing non-stop OMM-specific practice questions from combank? I planned on just doing the Anki + watching a couple vids to fill in gaps but I just wanted to make sure.

This is assuming I have already been exposed to the comlex-style of question writing.

Thanks homies.
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Read Saverese book and do the omtreview.com questions in the qbank that comes w the book. They’re written in the vague style of COMLEX more than combank. Would recommend to get ready for COMLEX, found COMBANK to not be as reflective of the real exam
 
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NecrotizingFasciitis said:
Do you guys think it would be best to cram osteopathic-specific information (exam on Monday) for comlex by knocking out the "Turn Up to OMT" Anki deck or by doing non-stop OMM-specific practice questions from combank? I planned on just doing the Anki + watching a couple vids to fill in gaps but I just wanted to make sure.

This is assuming I have already been exposed to the comlex-style of question writing.

Thanks homies.
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For my exam, there were not a ton of OMM questions in general and doing literally anything after step 1 was enough to get most of them correct. Try not to be paralyzed by choice if you paid attention at all in OMM the past two years. The Anki decks are good. Know the special tests because they are easy, easy points. You got this.
 
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I'm feeling it's pretty hard so far

It feels like most of the questions are like the COMBANK questions noone gets right. Pretty irritated by how few gimmes there are

Had 2 questions on the same ethics principle not covered in first aid

3 questions you needed to know the same specific physio effect

Lots of blood disorders

Lots of photos

Lots of bugs I've never heard of and are not in sketchy

No break time

The omm videos are easy tho but take too long
 
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I'm a bit iffy on giving details like that on a public forum

There are several questions which were either basically repeated entirely or changed slightly but you still have to understand the concept and or know the group of lower yield stuff

And yeah the EKG stuff was advanced.
Sketchy was almost useless you could palpably feel how hard they tried to make it useless

Whatever it's over

Also I would reiterate that the question style does feel like the harder questions of combank, for the most part.
 
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Sooooo 50% to pass anyone?? I’m so paranoid over here. Ik I passed but all the “what if’s” are sinking in...
 
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All I can say about COMLEX is prepare your S5 dermatome.

And that's not because the test is particularly hard, though it did feel more difficult than COMBANK for sure, but because of the sheer length and the oppressiveness of the break schedule. Only 3 breaks for 400 questions! Between signing in and signing out, I barely had enough time to pee during those 10 minute breaks. Step was not nearly as mentally exhausting as this was. It probably didn't help that I didn't sleep well the night before, though.

Most high yield subject was micro, most low yield was biochem. OMM was pretty straight forward. A lot of slam dunks but also a lot of vague head scratchers. Eh, whatever at least it's over. Now if you'll excuse me I have some more drinking to do.
 
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bbos said:
i took the comlex, I think the questions were harder than comsae 104. It was micro heavy and histology heavy
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I agree, very micro heavy, and quite a few questions you can only get right via histo. I disgree it was harder than any of the COMSAEs. I found it quite a bit easier. The time factor was the real challenge, imo. Maybe I felt it was easier just because I didn't have time to second guess myself or review any questions.

Biochem = hella low yield. Pathoma 1-3 = hella low yield. Seems the NBOME knows they have relegated us all to primary care docs where we are doomed to be prescribing metformin for the rest of our lives, so there was maybe 2 cell biology questions and 5 biochem questions on my exam, out of 400. Kinda sucks cause those are my strong areas.

Felt like the exam was 25% MSK (including the non-wacko parts of OMM), 25% micro, 5% viscerosomatics, 45% other.
 
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I'm not actually sure...if we a take the exam on the same day, does that necessarily mean we had the same form?
 
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NecrotizingFasciitis said:
The more I read about comlex between here & Reddit the less motivated I feel to study. Like what's the point. Lol.
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Couple days left until we see real scores released and hopefully we'll see folks posting their comsae/nbme/step/comlex scores and we can at least correlate and access and go from there. Sometimes people tend to exaggerate difficulty of tests, that's normal reaction to unknown, people are a bit scared, stressed etc. I'm just hoping we'll see some facts soon to at least alleviate some portion of fears.
 
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ASGD1983 said:
Couple days left until we see real scores released and hopefully we'll see folks posting their comsae/nbme/step/comlex scores and we can at least correlate and access and go from there. Sometimes people tend to exaggerate difficulty of tests, that's normal reaction to unknown, people are a bit scared, stressed etc. I'm just hoping we'll see some facts soon to at least alleviate some portion of fears.
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And by a couple days you mean 2+ weeks?
 
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ASGD1983 said:
Couple days left until we see real scores released and hopefully we'll see folks posting their comsae/nbme/step/comlex scores and we can at least correlate and access and go from there. Sometimes people tend to exaggerate difficulty of tests, that's normal reaction to unknown, people are a bit scared, stressed etc. I'm just hoping we'll see some facts soon to at least alleviate some portion of fears.
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This is what I've been kinda thinking too. I mean heck I'd probably be the same. There's so much we don't know right now.
 
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