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Haven't seen one posted yet so I figured I'd get one started.
Feel free to share your experiences, study plans, thoughts, etc.
Feel free to share your experiences, study plans, thoughts, etc.
My exam was IDENTICAL to this, so much so that I can't even make a write up for it. At least with USMLE you can reason your way through the tough questions. My experience was 50% buzzwords, 20% critical thinking, 30 % WTF. 5 questions on the same bug (30% overall micro), so many anatomy questions on which nerve/artery/vein deals with a certain area, tons of cranial and chapman's points. Further, the OMM questions, I can remember 5 or 6 questions that I thought WTF why are you asking me this.Honestly, I have no idea what the right track is. My COMLEX was out of this world ridiculous, to the point where I dont even know how I could have prepared for it. I
No, you get 10 minutes in between blocks 2&3, 4&5, and 6&7. For USMLE, i took a big chug of coffee during each break, and peed the next block. This exam, I was a little fatigued after blocks 4 & 8 but not terribly because there was less thinking.if you have to take a leak after the odd blocks, what's the deal? can you? i mean besides in the depends i may wear.
I know, I feel the same way. Near the 3rd and 4th times I saw a topic, I was scared that I answered the previous questions incorrectly, because one would think its not plausible to have 4 questions on one topic.I also took it today, and it seemed . There were areas of medicine hardly touched, yet I had at least three questions on the exact same factoid. Luckily it's one I'm extremely confident on, but still, really?
Omm questions, savarese chapters on cranial/chapmans/viscero/special tests, and I would even do combank micro questions. FA wouldn't have helped me much on my exam, and CMMRS is only 5 pages. There are so many questions they could ask on micro, it seems pretty hard to cram at this point. I would make sure you are well rested for the exam on thursdayI took USMLE yesterday and I'm taking COMLEX on Thursday. I've blown off most of today. What should I try to accomplish over 4-5 hours tonight and 10-12 hours tomorrow?
-Savarese?
-COMBANK OMM questions that my school bought me? (208 questions over OMM)
-First Aid Microbiology chapter over weird bugs?
-CMMRS Bioterrorism? This is only like 5 actual pages so I'll read it.
-Microcards over weird bugs?
Omm questions, savarese chapters on cranial/chapmans/viscero/special tests, and I would even do combank micro questions. FA wouldn't have helped me much on my exam, and CMMRS is only 5 pages. There are so many questions they could ask on micro, it seems pretty hard to cram at this point. I would make sure you are well rested for the exam on thursday
I took USMLE yesterday and I'm taking COMLEX on Thursday. I've blown off most of today. What should I try to accomplish over 4-5 hours tonight and 10-12 hours tomorrow?
-Savarese?
-COMBANK OMM questions that my school bought me? (208 questions over OMM)
-First Aid Microbiology chapter over weird bugs?
-CMMRS Bioterrorism? This is only like 5 actual pages so I'll read it.
-Microcards over weird bugs?
Friggin semantics! It was like trying to solve a riddle and answering medicine. I wanted to kick the person who wrote that question.
I'd say more than 30% of my test weren't in FA. To be fair, that also includes all the OMM questions. I even got 4 questions about health insurance policies and laws. And it wasn't the easy medicare/medicaid question. One asked which health care law they were talking about.
I also had same exact question repeated few blocks later.
I had few very simple questions but by the end, I started to second guess myself thinking every question was a trap. Also it's annoying the 10min break is taken out from our exam time.
yesWere there a lot of OMM questions that asked specific techniques (ie the exact motion for ME of x) or were they mostly general principles, chapman points, VS levels, etc?
Green book didn't cover the treatments I had to know, kinda like most of OMM make it up on the fly. Same for chapmans, know more than the green book. For everything else the green book is partially sufficient.Well, that's disappointing to hear. Lol.
Any recommendations on a review source for that stuff? I don't think the green book really covers it.
Green book didn't cover the treatments I had to know, kinda like most of OMM make it up on the fly. Same for chapmans, know more than the green book. For everything else the green book is partially sufficient.
My lab course gives us 50-90 page powerpoints weekly. Even if they would be helpful (which they would have undoubtedly been useless) I wouldn't have had time. That said my school doesn't really hit the visceral-somatic stuff and cranial, so I had to learn that stuff on my own. Going outside of the green book is kind of futile just because there is so much stuff they could ask, and the odds of you covering everything is unlikely. Know the basics well, and try and reason out the harder questions.I have two weeks til my exam. Did you think you could have answered more of the OPP questions by reading your lab manuals?
I took COMSAE B the other day and got a 520 with OPP being my worst subject. I'm thinking that's an OK sign that I just need to keep reviewing and hit OMM harder than I want to.
It's concerning that OMM question answer choices weren't the same as content in Savarese.
I feel like everyone on SDN says it was a bad experience and it was crazy vague questions about random details and then most people end up doing really well especially on SDN...I mean you can tell if you guessed a lot or only on a few...
Curious, what's the average amount of cranial questions people area getting per test? How about chapman's and tenderpoints?
Hey guys i've got 4 days until my usmle and 11 days until comlex. I finished uworld and am only 40% through combank. Do you think it's a better use of my time to do my incorrects on uworld or finish combank out? Also I know this is the comlex page but i'm sure it equally applies, what do you recommend doing in the last 3 days leading up?
What's the OMM percentage again?
I took C and D. They seemed similar to the real thing, maybe even a bit harder. I've heard of peoples' scores jumping all over the place between COMSAE and COMLEX which tells me something's fishy. You don't really hear of that happening much with NBME and USMLE. Maybe it's just my bitterness, but I think it says a lot about the quality of the exam and quite possibility its reliability.@Dharma did you do any of the COMSAEs? Any thoughts on correlation?
I took C and D. They seemed similar to the real thing, maybe even a bit harder. I've heard of peoples' scores jumping all over the place between COMSAE and COMLEX which tells me something's fishy. You don't really hear of that happening much with NBME and USMLE. Maybe it's just my bitterness, but I think it says a lot about the quality of the exam and quite possibility its reliability.
Damn, it's hard to stay focused to study OMM post-USMLE.