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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jcve34 said:
Took COMSAE104 this morning got a 603... What do these scores even mean anymore?
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603 on new comsae means you are ready (not just because of comsae, but you also had 77% UW 1st pass, 86% comquest etc.) In any case you are above average and should take exam asap.
 
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ASGD1983 said:
603 on new comsae means you are ready (not just because of comsae, but you also had 77% UW 1st pass, 86% comquest etc.) In any case you are above average and should take exam asap.
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Did not see the additional info, my bad, but yes that high on 104 and solid passes through q banks is very very positive. I’d say go for it!
 
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Woah ok. Yeah I looked up rescheduling and there is nothing sooner than my original test date. Thanks everyone. I’m just really confused at what’s predictive for this exam so sorry if I came off bad.
 
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jcve34 said:
Woah ok. Yeah I looked up rescheduling and there is nothing sooner than my original test date. Thanks everyone. I’m just really confused at what’s predictive for this exam so sorry if I came off bad.
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It's all good. We are all here trying to gauge our chances and do our best to put this ordeal behind us. In 4 days we'll hopefully see posts with real comsae vs comlex scores (first batch scores are out July 16-17).
 
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jcve34 said:
Woah ok. Yeah I looked up rescheduling and there is nothing sooner than my original test date. Thanks everyone. I’m just really confused at what’s predictive for this exam so sorry if I came off bad.
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No not at all! In terms of “predictive” the general consensus is that 103/105 is maybe closer to the real thing than other comsaes, but a strong score like that on 104, especially with the Q banks and stuff, I’d say go for it confidentify! Best of luck!
 
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With a higher score on 105 and a lower score on 103, would you say the latter shouldn't be a concern? 420s to 380s. Yeah, I don't know what happened either...
 
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Okay so I've read conflicting things on different websites.

COMQUEST is at par with the new COMLEX difficulty wise?

or is COMBANK more like the real thing?
 
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Sthpawslugger said:
With a higher score on 105 and a lower score on 103, would you say the latter shouldn't be a concern? 420s to 380s. Yeah, I don't know what happened either...
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Imho it's possible you just had more of your weakest areas tested by 103 compared to 105. Your average is 400 (between the two comsaes) - which isn't bad (hopefully comsae is underestimating by at least 50 points), but I would still not feel ready with that score to be honest. Comlex is twice as long as comsae and mental focus decline during last few blocks can only make it more challenging. So ideally I think it's good to have >430 as a minimum score on comsae to consider yourself ready, but it all depends of course on many factors. Don't listen to my rant - I'm just thinking aloud in between UW blocks. Just tired lol.
 
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bravenugget21 said:
Congrats on being done. What would you have done differently? Seems you did what everyone else did like UFAP and green book.
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Yeah I did the same. I wish I had more time to review the HY stuff on Savarese and watch OMG OMT 2x before the exam. The OMM questions though weren't really tricky at all and seemed to come straight out of he Green book.

ASGD1983 said:
Was micro/pharm/path and anatomy highest contributors or not really? Thank you
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Yep. Pharm was a bitch though. Pharm is my best subject per UWorld percentile and I thought the pharm on COMLEX was ambiguous. The way they wrote the questions was weird and really non-specific and the answer choices had a lot of one where 2 or even 3 were a valid answer choice. It was hard to nitpick the best answer because of the way they wrote the question and how little info they gave in the question stem itself. A lot of the anatomy was tied in to OMM from what I recall. Not a lot of pure anatomy questions.
 
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ASGD1983 said:
Imho it's possible you just had more of your weakest areas tested by 103 compared to 105. Your average is 400 (between the two comsaes) - which isn't bad (hopefully comsae is underestimating by at least 50 points), but I would still not feel ready with that score to be honest. Comlex is twice as long as comsae and mental focus decline during last few blocks can only make it more challenging. So ideally I think it's good to have >430 as a minimum score on comsae to consider yourself ready, but it all depends of course on many factors. Don't listen to my rant - I'm just thinking aloud in between UW blocks. Just tired lol.
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Well, our window to take it per school policy is coming to a close in one week so I have to take no matter(scheduled for Monday). My COMSAE scores were from 3 - 4 weeks ago, so hopefully I've learned more as well as get lucky and get questions on content I'm familiar with. I wish I had another month of uninterrupted dedicated....don't we all though....
 
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Mayanqwe said:
Okay so I've read conflicting things on different websites.

COMQUEST is at par with the new COMLEX difficulty wise?

or is COMBANK more like the real thing?
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I just did uworld and turn up 2 omt. Did zero comlex style questions. I really don’t think it was necessary to do another qbank. Prepared to eat my words when I get results in a couple weeks
 
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ASGD1983 said:
How do you deal with this type of questions:

65yo man with history of COPD and 60-pack-year history of smoking comes to ED due to cough and SOB. Over the past 3 days his cough worsened and he is coughing up thick yellow sputum. He is winded easily and breathing with pursed lips. Lung auscultation: diffuse wheezes and vesicular breath sounds. Vitals: 99F, 129/75mmHg, P89. What pathogen most likely is responsible for his condition?

A. Coxiella b.
B. Klebsiella pneumoniae
C. S. Aureus
D. Legionella pneumonia
E. Strep. pyogenes
F. Haemophilus i.
G. Bordetella pertussis
H. Actinomyces
I. Adenovirus
J. Pseudomona aeruginosa
K. Nocardia

For me It's a bit vague in terms of it could be at least couple of pathogens, but apparently one is more common in that age group with COPD.
Worst part is that it's not even from combank or comquest, it's from UW (I changed it a bit due to copyright reasons).
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SOB in a pt w COPD and mildly elevated temp is most likely to be adenovirus.

Discrete knowledge
 
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Osteoguy1994 said:
Is the passing standard still 400 or did it change at all with the new blueprint?
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As everything with NBOME there is no clear answer, it's very ambiguous 🙂 They basically stated that a new passing standard will be set after they will evaluate and come up with final scoring. However, this doesn't mean that it will be changed. They may just leave 400, but due to new scoring it might be more or less difficult to get to new 400 compared to old 400 score. So I'm not sure lol.
Tomorrow NBOME is releasing first batch of scores - so hopefully they will make some announcements for passing standard as well. However, I won't be surprised if they will continue to keep silence and pretend like nothing changed.
 
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It looks like on there website they kept the passing standard at 400 for this cycle, we just don’t know what percentage this cycle it will take to get 400. Hoping COMSAE is underpredicting.
 
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Does it blow anyone else away that you can get questions in COMLEX style qbanks that less than 10% of people get right... how is that a good assessment? This whole process is ridiculous. I just got 3 questions in a row that only 5-10% of people answered correctly.
 
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Well, I took the exam today...that was an interesting experience. I panicked a bit with the first 15 or so questions because I felt like I would run out of time. Thankfully, that never was the case. But, the questions at times were definitely vague. Sometimes the question was straightforward asking for some minutiae. Wish I hadn't listened to everyone who said save UWorld until dedicated l, do Comquest, etc. Managed to tally around 8k Qs, but fell short of first pass of UW. Wish I had started UW at beginning of yr 2 and did 2nd pass during dedicated. Oh well. It's all good practice for USMLE later on. But, right now, it is time for a beer, a vacation, and doing nothing related to boards for the next week +.
 
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333ta333 said:
It was close to 100 points. But, they comsae doesn't have any OPP questions and I always have felt very comfortable with those. Good luck to all!!
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Guys how many weeks between last comsae and comlex? Just to account for extra time (score improvement) after comsae and have better idea how much comsae underpredicts really.
Thank you so much
 
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ASGD1983 said:
You have a great score! I'm surprised it's lower than comsae. Were you tired at the end on comlex? Just trying to gauge what happened.
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Of course the N is too small, but it might just be that both comlex and comsae are terrible and have little to no correlation. The repeat concepts we saw in both basically invite skewing scores according to your strengths/weaknesses.
 
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