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Tanked Comsae, Comlex II next week
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I would reschedule. That score is too low for me to be comfortable telling you to go ahead.
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Unfortunately nobody here can give you a good answer because the new COMSAEs don't have any data backing up the validity of their score predictions.
Have you taken the UWorld assessments or NBMEs? Those don't test OMT but they have years of data backing up their predicted scores, with the NBMEs now claiming a 75% chance of scoring +/-10 points from your average predicted score.
Edit: I know this is asking about COMLEX specifically but on average DO students will fall into a higher percentile on COMLEX than USMLE so if your NBMEs or UWorld assessments predict a passing score then you can pretty confidently assume that you should be able to pass COMLEX.
Have you taken the UWorld assessments or NBMEs? Those don't test OMT but they have years of data backing up their predicted scores, with the NBMEs now claiming a 75% chance of scoring +/-10 points from your average predicted score.
Edit: I know this is asking about COMLEX specifically but on average DO students will fall into a higher percentile on COMLEX than USMLE so if your NBMEs or UWorld assessments predict a passing score then you can pretty confidently assume that you should be able to pass COMLEX.
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How did you take D anyway? That hasn't been available for 2 months to buy. Did you buy it in May and save it? Anyway, scrublyfe is actually incorrect if it is actually D. It has been validated and thats a bad score. If its one of the new 10x forms then he is right, but level 2 shouldn't have changed as much as level 1 did.
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good points, scrublyfe. I haven't paid for nbmes or uwsa, but will keep that in mind should I delay.
BorntobeDO: Appreciate your insight. Yes, our school bought D back in April. Found a study supporting what you're saying.
(https://www.aacom.org/docs/default-...mlex-usa-level-2_miller.pdf?sfvrsn=b7c72597_0)
The irony is the exam may have a lot of esoteric micro, legal q's etc. that more studying won't help. But agree with you that it would be ill-advised to just take it and assume things will work out.
(My app's on the weak side as is, so +-100 pts on the exam makes little difference overall, but a fail would make life a lot more difficult.)
BorntobeDO: Appreciate your insight. Yes, our school bought D back in April. Found a study supporting what you're saying.
(https://www.aacom.org/docs/default-...mlex-usa-level-2_miller.pdf?sfvrsn=b7c72597_0)
The irony is the exam may have a lot of esoteric micro, legal q's etc. that more studying won't help. But agree with you that it would be ill-advised to just take it and assume things will work out.
(My app's on the weak side as is, so +-100 pts on the exam makes little difference overall, but a fail would make life a lot more difficult.)
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Hadn’t realized the old ones were still available, my bad. I assumed that it would be a new one. In that case it might be in your best interest to push the test back then since the old ones do have some validity. At least in my class overall from everyone I’ve talked to, as well as myself, on average you are going to score 50-100 points lower on the real thing than on the (old) COMSAEs.
