Official Comlex 2010 Experience thread

[jafri91]

---

Members don't see this ad.

Haven't seen one posted so lets get it started, anyone take it recently, mine is July 1 😱

Edit: This was supposed to be for Step 2 only, but good luck to everyone regardless!

 

[deleted272130]

Did anyone else took it today? I thought it was not so good...mainly b/c I studied the general topic of medicine, which seemed to be lacking on the test.

 

[jafri91]

For those who have taken the exam recently (this week, last week) post your experiences!! Goodluck to those who are taking it this week!

 

[flabs]

Because so many people were worried about this... YOU CAN CROSS OUT ANSWERS! (my evidence: I just did for the past 6 hours)

Overall, not as horrible a test as Step I - which I felt bordered on the line of "guess what I'm thinking" type of questions. My test had a good amount of cranial (which I wasn't really prepared for - as many sayed there wasn't much on there). I had a lot of general OMM, as well. So know that cold.Lots of OB/Gyn - but nothing to crazy/difficult. The medicine was pretty straight forward (first-line tx, next line tx, etc). There were a handful of random questions that you either knew or didn't (to be expected from the NBOME). As some have said earlier, for which I can vouch for, "nothing I studied in the past 2 weeks helped". The questions were either very obvious to you, or not. This test doesn't really leave much room for "reasoning things out". The ethics questions are out of left field, but what are you gonna do about it. I have no idea where to look for the info, either.

All-in-all, not to bad. But we'll see in a few weeks. Does anyone know when to expect a score back. Knowing the NBOME, they probably use the pony-express to send your score.

 

[nlax30]

I think they engrave the score onto a stone slab up in Philly and we have to go up and make a pencil rubbing of it for our hard copy. Only after we pass over the bridge and answer the 3 sacred OMM questions are we allowed to continue our score results quest.

 

[LynxCarpathicus]

Wth is Jones points? Took it today and it wasn't bad.Lots of OMM, NMSK, some general preventative care, fair amount of OB ( not as much as I expected though) and gyn- basic stuff. Peds- the bane of my existence, ranged from some rashes, preventative care, neonatal issues. nothing too weird. Lots of EKGs and treatment of arrhythmia. Some vague wth type of stuff. After talking to some people I realized I misread some questions😱.opps
only few psych questions. Altogether, I could have taken this exam 2 weeks ago and do about the same.. oh well.

 

[anitay]

how important is it to memorize vaccination schedules? On some board review question banks it says very important, but then there's no sample questions on it.

 

[LynxCarpathicus]

I don't think its high yield but chances are u will have few qs on it, so its worth of memorizing it.

 

[clement]

how important is it to memorize vaccination schedules? On some board review question banks it says very important, but then there's no sample questions on it.

not worth spending much time on. anyway, i echo the sentiments of the person that says comlex was sort of a "joke" compared to usmle step 2...much shorter passages, fewer distractors or 2nd degree derivations to arrive at the answer, far less vague. I did uworld twice and took notes/reviewed notes off all questions (so technically did uworld three times)+ green book a few times (savarese), felt good walking out, finished an hour early and i'm a slow test taker...then again, we'll wait for my score report to be the final word on how things really went.
ps: i was a little freaked out about ethics and the quantity of omm based on this thread, there really weren't ALL that many ethics questions, though most i guessed on, and the omm amount was the same as for step 1, very straight-forward, or so it seemed. all around thought it was easier than step 1, but again, we'll see. i almost purchased a separate qbank for comlex for omm and ethics but decide against it at the last minute. just hope i passed the usmle cuz i felt like garbage walking out of that one, 2 easy blocks, 2-3 rough blocks (especially the last), and the rest medium hard.

 

[Boner]

Took it yesterday. Very poorly written test...vague questions with a lot of "guess what I'm thinking." Lots of OMM related to pregnant patients. A few cranial. Lots of viscerosomatics. I had a lot of medicolegal...know your legal terms for why people are at fault in certain scenarios. Good deal of syncope questions. Lots of peds, OB, GI. A few DM and neuro. Hardly any CHF, COPD, afib, ACS, PE, renal, endocrine and other bread-and-butter questions. Lots of heart blocks.

Basically, rather than a test of breadth, they pick a few subjects and hammer the hell out of them.

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

To those who took it recently - how bad were the latin terms? Just memorize what's in ComQuest/Bank and be fine?

 

[zman1910]

To those who took it recently - how bad were the latin terms? Just memorize what's in ComQuest/Bank and be fine?

Those are hit or miss q's. That's about all you can do in the end unless you want to add a complete medicolegal book. It's just not worth it in the end. You don't know what terms they will throw at you and if you don't know it than rest assured that 95% of the people taking the test won't know it either.

All you can do is hope for the ones available in the question banks.

 

[PlasticMan]

Lots of EKGs, Uro, Gyn, OMM, Ethics, musculoskeletal, surg, preventative, abdominal CTs, trauma, STD.

Very little Onc, derm, neuro, chest xrays, gram stain descriptions.

No pictures of blood smears, gram stains or joint aspirations.

Do not underestimate ethics / medicolegal or OMM questions. It felt like a huge chunk of the test was made up from these two categories.

This test was much better written than Level 1. There were a couple vague wtf? questions, but not too many. Overall, not bad at all.

 

[Kuba]

Took it today. Lots of ObGyn, Peds, Cardio, esp EKGs (but easy ones,) GI. Good amount of medicolegal, not as much OMM as I expected and not nearly enough viscerosomatics (easy points.) Overal, I felt like it was a decently written test, some requisite WTF questionsm but in general I felt it tested our medical knowledge well. Lots and lots of UTIs and STDs on my test. I had the same UTI question written slightly differently 4 times dealing with how to prevent UTIs in women.

Comquest and Combank were good study sources. Comquest slightly > Combank.

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

Took it today. Lots of ObGyn, Peds, Cardio, esp EKGs (but easy ones,) GI. Good amount of medicolegal, not as much OMM as I expected and not nearly enough viscerosomatics (easy points.) Overal, I felt like it was a decently written test, some requisite WTF questionsm but in general I felt it tested our medical knowledge well. Lots and lots of UTIs and STDs on my test. I had the same UTI question written slightly differently 4 times dealing with how to prevent UTIs in women.

Comquest and Combank were good study sources. Comquest slightly > Combank.

👍

Good luck to us ... I took it yesterday as well.