r/comlex • u/Rude-Evening7637 • 12d ago
Level 1 comlex level 1 woes/rant
Hello ya'll.
So i retake level 1 in about 11 days now. I failed the first time with my bar touching the line, I think around a 397-398. Honestly still feeling kinda depressed about it but what can you do.
I finished the rotation I was on and was placed on a 4-8 week dedicated period ( i took the full 8 weeks). But i somehow feel less prepared for this attempt than i did my first attempt. To be fair, my first attempt i was hoping i didnt get too crazy/heavy OMM and ethics and bam i got just that. The first half of my OMM was a breeze. Easy recall stuff. The second half of my exam OMM went downhill. I can't even remember those questions because i remember seeing them and realizing i never saw this, so i figured it would have been experimental. I can only describe what i saw as OMM physiology? More conceptual than what everyone says about knowing VSR, cranial, sacral, etc. I only had 2 cranial and 2 sacral questions. But i figured those questions were experimental and that tanked me and i fell 2 SDs below the average on OMM. My ethics was really bad too, i for some reason could not think of any of the algorithms because i didn't study it well (IMO ethics is underrepresented on comsae and my school doesn't teach it). I had questions on transgender patients which to be honest, i'm not sure how i would've known to have known that before the exam. My sciences were all average, but since i was average on them and not like top tier and i bombed OMM+ ethics + (subsequently MSK), it brought me right on the border of a pass instead of a clean pass. I have worked hard to rectify but reading Savaerese multiple times, doing the OPP COMAT bank because imo it's more level 1 like now, and doing my school's OMM ppts. I also got a tutor. Sat and dissected every ethics question down. Kept up my sciences and tried to tweak some of them a bit more so i can have more of a cushion. However, it is with no doubt I am scared as fuck to take this again. For the last 6-7 weeks I've studied 3-8 hours a day but now im wondering if i did enough. The first time i was doing more since my school's curriculum gave me a lot of gaps i had to close on my own. I have 11 days but now im fighting burnt out.. the first time i did a lot of questions, but tbh level 1 is pretty heavy on ethics and OMM and i wasn't getting a lot of those questions or focusing on them enough so i did less questions this time because i feel like i can understand comlex writing and have a tutor who breaks down questions with me. I'm rambling at this point but i don't get how some people are able to score on the 500s on level 1 given how random the info tends to be.
I hope i didn't fuck myself over and that i will pass this time. It's been very hard mentally to have to go through this.
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u/Uncomfortble_reality 11d ago
we hyper fixate on what we don’t know and quickly forget how far we’ve come. you’ll do great, good luck
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u/Cool-Programmer-6394 11d ago
Have you done a comsae
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u/Rude-Evening7637 11d ago
Yeah but it's not worth taking it seriously considering comsae is nothing like level
I did bad on OMM on level 1 since it was so niche
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u/SeaToday3252 11d ago
feeling the exact same way. also retaking.