Failed COMLEX 1 and How I Passed the 2nd Time
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- čas přidán 20. 09. 2018
- Failed COMLEX 1
I matched in 2020 and graduated on time.
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I just want to say that your post is extremely honest and refreshing. I just failed STEP 1, and your words really brought me a lot of comfort. I hope that everything goes in your favor, and just so you know, I would definitely come to you as a doctor and a mentor. Thank you for being so courageous about your failure in the kind of environment that does not allow it. I haven't even scheduled it again yet, I've just been so devastated for 2 weeks. I'm planning on getting up tomorrow at 6am and starting fresh, and I cannot say that you don't have a lot to do with that. Thanks again.
Sam Sam best of luck. You got this!
Thanks for putting this out there.
Thanks for the video man! Happy you passed.
Takes a lot of courage to put this out. Thanks
Thank you for this video! You're an amazing human being. I wish you all the best with your future endeavors!
Great video, thanks!
Thank you for putting this together. It takes guts to admit falling short. I'd be glad to work with you over anyone that got a 600+.
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for sharing that it's possible to come back on this. I'm getting my score back in a few days and I'm terrified of the worst!
I hope you got the results you wanted!
Thank you so much for sharing your story and normalizing failure for those of us that feel alone or lost in the process! Haven’t failed the real thing but haven’t done great on my schools qualifying exams and didn’t know how to scratch my study efforts and start over with something else or diff resources. UWORLD questions here I come (I had also put them on the back burner bc our exams are based off of truelearn). But again, thank you, this is good
Do both if you have time! Lots of active learning is key. The more questions you see the higher the odds you'll know what they're getting at no matter how they ask. Best of luck to you!
Great respect to your humble experience but overcome it... What a precious testimonial.
I am pretty sure you are going to be a great doctor....
Thanks so much!
Bro you should be a motivational speaker. I’d rather listen to you than someone who never failed in life!
Took my last class exam today. Gearing up for dedicated. So glad this was a suggested video. How have rotations been going? Good on you for pushing through.
Gotta post a follow up video on how you’re doing man. Thanks again for posting this video.
Congrats on finishing up. I wish you the best of luck. You got this!
Good luck! Hope the test went ok. Rotations are way better than class.
Hi Ukadike! Thank you so much for this video. I just recently took the COMLEX and feel like I totally failed it. From what I could remember, I missed about 20 questions (and I'm sure there are plenty more) that were pretty easy . I did not feel confident about that test at all and also had to rush on about 50 questions (skimmed question and immediately throw out an answer right away). As of now, I have about 120 questions I believe I answered correctly BUT not sure where I can come up with another 80 questions to get the 50% (passing % according to your video right?). I know there isn't much I can do at this point; but I am devastated and needed to share with someone. Thank you!
2 AM there’s nothing you can do but wait. I felt awful after my second exam. I felt like I missed so many questions each block. You tried your best and nothing can change the grade. Sit back and try to do something fun or relaxing. Catch up on things you have been putting off for the test. Don’t count questions because you have no clue what you missed or didn’t and you don’t know what counts and what doesn’t count. The 50% thing is just speculation I’ve seen on SDN so grain of salt there. If you made it through the first two years of school I have no doubt you can make it through comlex. Putting out good vibes for ya!
Thank you so much for sharing this, I know it’s not easy as a med student to put something like this out there. I know it’s been a year for you, but if you’re still accepting emails to talk about this I would really love to reach out.
ukadike43@gmail.com
Hi Ukadike, I am trying to decide right now whether to use UWorld or just stick with combank (or maybe comquest). I will not be taking USMLE so I'm strictly studying for COMLEX. What would you suggest?
Such a good video. Does anybody have details on how matching works as far as the filters go? e.g. does a filter like "pass COMLEX-1 the first time, OR pass COMLEX-2 with a score over X" exist, where you could "override" the first filter with a really good COMLEX-2 score?
So from my understanding programs can filter based on test scores, year of graduation from med school, USMLE/COMLEX, and a myriad of other things. I'm sure some of this will change now that step 1 is pass/fail but you can be filtered a bunch of different ways. For example, you can set a filter that says only show me scores of 240 and higher. They can only choose from that pile or they can add on a bunch of different filters. Really up to the PD. If you want to get into a school and truly want to be there it's worth emailing them to mention your interest in their school. I have personally gotten an interview by DM a PD on twitter. Goodluck!
Your video is inspiring to my friends and I. I'm taking the Comlex in 3 weeks but still feel uncertain about it. I finished Uworld and have sketchy down pretty well. Would you say that doing a second pass of Uworld helped a lot? Also, did you find OMM questions in combank helpful compared to just reading? Congrats and thank you for your inspiration.
Kosta Pappas thanks I appreciate that. If you’re feeling good I’d just do the uworld subjects you’re the worst at. I did all the OMM on combank. Knowing the Chapman points, sacral diagnosis, fibular diagnosis, and radial head dysfunctions you’ll get lots of “free” non science related points. Good luck. You got this!
@@ukadike90 Thanks for the reply. How did you assess where you were weak after taking it the first time? Also, how did you pound through Uworld so fast in the morning? I'm spending hours reviewing blocks. Did you take a lot of time to review every question?
Kosta Pappas Kosta Pappas I did a full length practice exam each week for the last 3 weeks. I did the Kaplan ones. I used my first failure rubric to assess what I did the worst in. I did 120 questions by noon or 1 each day. I started my day at 7am usually. Get up and 6 eat and watch tv to gear up then hit the questions hard. After questions I’d be exhausted. I’d do like an hour or 2 lunch and or gym then videos and review my answers that I wrote down from the day before
@@ukadike90 Thanks for the very helpful info! Did you study a lot of OMM when you went in the second time vs. the first?
@@kostantinos-kosta-papathan5169 I did a ton of OMM the week before the exam. I got a whiteboard and wrote down the anterior chapman points (great video on youtube), watched NYIT fibular OMM and radial head, did all combank OMM, cranial diagnosis of SBS, sacral diagnosis, lumbar tender points since they're easy to memorize and impossible to get right on the exam if you don't know it flat out, and the viscerosomatics. I might make a quick 2 min video on viscerosomatics. The ones are youtube arent super helpful to me and the way I learned them makes it almost impossible to miss a questions on VS.
Hi, thank you for this video. Can you please tell me how you get through 100 U world questions a day?
It takes me forever to get through 2 blocks of U world. My COMSAE scores are not improving and I’m supposed to take the COMLEX in 4 weeks.
Hey congrats on making it this far! I would wake up and start at 8am and set a timer on my phone for an hour or whatever Uworld would give you. I didn’t time my exams on uworld just Incase I needed a few mins to review more questions, but I did have a phone timer. Stick to it. Do 40 questions. I did tutor mode mostly because I didn’t have timing issues. Take a 5 minute break and do 40 more. I’d finish minimum 80 before noon. If you can’t finish then start Arkansas 7am-noon. Don’t spend forever reviewing questions. Get the main point of the question and try to understand why you missed it. Take a small two sentence or so note on ones you need to review. Then go over that sheet at night. You can push a lot harder than you think. Just keep doing questions!
I haven't taken it yet but I'd love to hear about else worked for you. Can I email you?
ukadike43@gmail.com
Did you take any COMSAEs before the real exam? Did ur COMSAE score reflect ur actual comlex score?
I took every COMSAE. Version E was the most similar to my actual grade. People on Reddit seem to have had similar results with E. The others were wildly off my actual score. There may be new versions this year though. I know the nbome has been working to change it. A good rule is try to score >500 and you should be ok. Then standard deviation was 100 when I took mine last year.
This is a great video, thank you ☺ I'm about 1 month from my test date and could really use some support. Are you willing to chat?
Yeah just email me. You're going to rock this!
Hi, are you currently a 3rd year now? How are you preparing for residency applications with a failure on level 1?
Apply broadly, and prepare heavily for comlex 2. Scoring well on comlex 2 can help show the programs you're clinically ready and not a big risk of failing boards down the road
Thanks, im in a fairly similar situation. Have you matched? @@ukadike90
@@alexanderpapa2741 Won't know until next year.
goodluck man @@ukadike90
Hi Ukadike, are you still taking questions or giving advice?
Sure thing. I’d be happy to give some advice if needed.
@@ukadike90 Thank you! So recently I took my first NBME number 13 and I did really low (
@@ukadike90 The last Kaplan practice comlex we took I got a 39% and the class average was around 54%. That was about a month and a half ago. We take a true learn one on Tuesday and I'm worried. I at least want to be at the class average. I don't what I'm doing wrong.
@@MrVolcomclassic I didn't take USMLE. I wasn't scoring high enough on NBME. Taking USMLE is going to depend on your speciality in my opinion. You also should consider if you fail usmle and barely pass comlex that could be a worse look than just having a low comlex score. It's all subjective though and that's how I decided to go about it. The answer I think is do questions. Do questions questions questions and then do more questions. Uworld is the way to go. Toss in sketchy micro if you're a visual learner. Those exams you took review the answers and understand why you missed what you missed. Take a sentence or two notes if you have time on the questions you missed and review it nightly. Lastly, don't go into the test afraid you're going to do poorly. Attack each question as it's own thing. Take your time to really see what they're asking you and go from there. Ask what your classmates are doing too. Having a buddy to lean on during these times is crucial.
@@ukadike90 Thanks so much Ukadike! You're absolutely right. I do need to do more questions. Often times I will read a question and am not sure what the diagnosis is and that's because I haven't been exposed enough. I have one more question. I'm finding myself running out of time in a day to do everything I want like Pathoma. Would you say for now its better to just focus on questions, incorrect sheets and Sketchy?
Found out I failed comlex 1 again today ): do you think it would be a lot harder to match with 2 failures instead of one? Do you anyone who matched with 2 failures?
Sorry to hear. Don't give up. I know residents with multiple fails who are thriving in residency. I promise not one patient has asked or cared about a board exam. Focus on what you struggled with on the test and hammer that hard. Sprinkle in some easier topics to stay sane. You got this!
thank you. this was needed. please message me
Hello. I failed my comlex and need help. Can I please email you?
Of course, whats your email?
@@ukadike90 marsh452@msu.edu
How was matching into residency?
Matched without any issue. Again, this will depend on the specialty you're choosing.
What specialities would be off-limits after failing COMLEX-1 and what are more reachable specialties? Thanks so much for posting this! It's still incredibly relevant today ❤
Hey man, fellow DO student here. Sitting COMLEX/STEP in July. Also in the boat of not feeling confident about this thing. I’d really appreciate a chat through email to talk a bit about my progress/lack-thereof. Thanks for your video. 👍🫡