Youll have a crazy good curve lol i know the high scorers on this thread and I remember youre one of them so if you thought it was a 6-7 then other people were probably dying lol
Hopefully! I've seen some crazy overpredictions which have me freaked out
Pretty sure most all people are within their confidence interval so I wouldnt worry too much as im sure even your low end is probably 240s or 250s. You should have your score this weds i think right?
Yup. Was still hitting in the upper 70s up until the end.
Either this Wednesday or the next. I keep flipping through first aid looking for things that showed up lol
Yeah thats bound to happen lol
I can't seem to find this info online (probably because I'm blind) but is comlex curved according to everyone who took it that same day, regardless of the form you have or based on the form as well?
YES!!!! LEGGOo! Thats a phenomenal score nice work. 18 and 24 are the best of all of the NBMEs I think as far as the predictive/representative value. They still both underpredict regardless but by less than the others
I am not honestly not sure, I've never tried to find any COMLEX specific info tbh
Yeah they're rough but so much of the real deal was reading a lot of words that don't tell you much and could basically apply to anything. The best question that mimicked the real deal was the hypersensitivity pneumonitis questions in UWORLD
I try not to talk about step with anyone from school tbh. I only told my closest med school friend my score and we discussed prep together. She has had solid performance, lower scores than me but solid scores overall. I guess it makes sense that there are a lot of people struggling? I think that's why a passing step score is better than no score, because we don't realize just how much it takes to pass for a lot of people. I think you're in a solid place in the real world.
Yeah me either, people usually bring stuff up with me because I have been very vocal over the past 2 years with how much I struggled with our in house exams. Just was not expecting this many to approach me.
Hope so, at this point a 220 would have me over the moon lol. Wild to think how I came into dedicated with goals of a 245+
When do you guys find out? What happens if you do well on step 1 but don't do well on comlex?
NBOME should have never existed ever. I literally hate them lmao
Lol this is literally me to anyone who will listen. I've already planned out my study plan and everything
Depends on how not well you do
I've heard that if this is the case that you should send an email to the PD or whoever and say "hey btw I took step and got this score just wanted to make sure it went through blah blah your program is a INSPIRATION"
What @ohmanwaddup said-- I have heard of several applicants reaching out just kind of nudging PDs like "hey, I have a step score!" It all depends on how they set up their filters and what not so I definitely wouldn't do it right away, but if some time has passed and you haven't heard from the program and you think you're a competitive applicant, I would reach out with something along those lines.
So I have to wait until August because they report scores from an entire month in like a 5 day period. It's the silliest thing because it means if you took your exam on the first day of the month long block, you have to wait 5+ weeks for a score versus someone who took it the last day waits like a week.
I might go against the grain here and say maybe don't watch/study specifically for a test? Like, you want it to be an accurate assessment of your current knowledge base, so I'd think watching videos on things you know specifically are heavy on the exam in the few days before might be misleading. I would personally take it without specifically studying for it, then see how you do and go from there.
Thanks for checking, was about to be like maybe I failed so bad the exam just disappeared into oblivion
True but genetics is BY FAR my weakest subject and it seems like the exam may not be predictive for me then. Its weird to think that an exam so heavy in one subject could be so predictive
Thats what mine said afterwords and I just checked and its gone lol. the whole category vanished wtf
Same here but this way you can see exactly how much of a weakness it is. I got a 247 on UWSA2 but I knew it was because it heavily tested my weak points, and I felt okay with that score because I knew I had still done well despite it hitting my weak points. I scored 8 points better on the real deal less than a week later. Do what you feel comfortable at the end of the day though, those are just my thoughts!
It's okay. I like to think SDN would be a better place if everyone erroneously quoted some of my wisdom in each post. This is a start.Yeah what they said. They’re doing system maintenance 6-11pm (I think eastern time?) so don’t worry
Edited when I realized I had @Cath Up old post still lingering in my quote these messages. I took comlex 1 last year and I tried to look up the time for you but couldn’t find it so it was still there
I think mine was in the 3-5pm range. I remember seeing it on the way home from my rotation. And not to get anyone’s hopes up but mine came out the day *before* our score release window so I really wasn’t mentally prepared for it haha.
Can you postpone?
Mine was "do you know these 4 related biostatistic calculations? You sure? We're going to ask you again. You sure? Here are a few more. And one more for good measure. This is what should evaluate your knowledge of medicine."
I aint postponing lol I am done with dedicated. for better or worse I am taking step on Thursday. Its either that or cancel lol
