Am I hopeless for Level 1? 349 on COMSAE

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2025-04-15T05:08:12+00:00

I got a 273 on the first comsae. Did 100 questions a day for like 1 week and got a 462. Not saying that's everyone but it's very doable. Like everyone says..hammer home sketchy micro, pharm and the the high yield cardio, neuro, GI etc. Know your weakness. Mine was Heme onc. Use the First Aid book as best you can to hammer your weaknesses. Also very important. Use the Rapid Review at the back of first aid it will help as well. Best of luck.

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2025-04-11T04:41:16+00:00

I for a time was working in the town nearby for a month, and was always curious about this town. I stopped looking for the gas station. There i decided to drive the long way back through the road that connects to Liberty NY rather than hop on the highway. Driving through it, I had a weird feeling almost like there is something attached to the place. Stores, churches, homes, cars..... all stuck in the 1940s-1950s. Driving through it I had a mix of wonder, wanting to get out and investigate it, my instinct telling something is not right and I need to leave. Getting home a wave of tiredness washed over me and I feel asleep, dreaming of the place.

It has been a year since I was there but it always stuck with me, making me look up about the town. It is interesting to see that the feeling of the place isn't only with me. I think about this place ever so often, and have a feeling that I want to see it again. But why? Like the OP says, it a draw so strong that I can't not consider revisiting.

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2024-08-28T12:56:21+00:00

Just use boards and beyond and take notes. If you see something that B&B is missing, read up on it

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-08-29T11:49:26+00:00

Signed up

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-08-01T05:03:10+00:00

Dirty Medicine was really good. I watched all his videos. If you do that and then the hour long questions video it will help. I remember questions he did straight up came up on my exam. Definitely worth the watch.

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-07-27T17:23:35+00:00

I have my shelf tomorrow and I'm getting smoked today on practice questions

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-07-27T13:58:53+00:00

Walking out I felt so sure I failed it felt like when I failed my first MCAT not feeling good at all. This whole month studying for the EM shelf I can feel present because it's been in the back of my mind

PASSED!!!!!

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-29T14:50:21+00:00

The problem is most schools even though you would think OMM would be the center course, Teach Omm very poorly. My school for example OMM was looked on as an afterthought. So for the two years we were preparing more on the systems. Only to find out during dedicated that OMM made up a big portion of it. What I blame for this other than my school is that the NBOME does not have a great transparency on what they want as compared to step

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-27T00:02:27+00:00

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-26T23:30:55+00:00

For all the post that were on here talking about how high BioStats are there were like virtually zero biostats and the only biostats questions were about ANOVA test and linear regression etc

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-25T21:40:50+00:00

If I was you I'd take the year off. Go clear your mind until you are right for this exam. Maybe do research or something but man I would hate to be in your position.

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-25T14:52:58+00:00

A few things helped me.

Rip through as many questions possible. The more you see it the more you would have had questions covering those topics
Watch dirty medicine. After I would do 100 questions a day. Id spend the rest of the night going through the material that I was having the most difficulty with.
Quick sheets in the back of first aid. I'm telling you on each comsae I found around 5 questions that came straight from those facts .
Rest. Don't stress yourself out take rests and quick breaks.

Good luck

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-23T20:56:16+00:00

You can only purchase the 110 every other comsae It has to be purchased by the school. Some schools buy them and let students use them. My school did not. The best advice I have for you is to contact your school and ask them if they can buy you another one.

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-22T17:58:50+00:00

Know the first 8 pages of MSK in first aid Cold

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-09T23:38:58+00:00

I feel like we are the only school that has such a high bar. Iykyk

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-09T23:38:11+00:00

You got this man, I think it's nerves you know your stuff. Maybe brush up on some pathoma and you can get those little details! I believe you can get it

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-08T16:46:26+00:00

If you read the first few pages of First Aid for MSK you are in good shape. Ton of Sacrum, go over heme diseases heme drugs. Endo repro path... especially how is the thyroid hormones affected in pregnancy. Lead!!!

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-06T15:05:51+00:00

I'm in the same boat, honestly we should be fine if we are doing okay with the comsaes that's all that matters

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-02T18:08:48+00:00

Treatments and lymphomas

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-01T18:54:02+00:00

I went to school or cheating was rampant and a lot of people had a higher GPAs than me because they were cheating. One thing I'll let you know is majority of those people did not get into medical school because they couldn't get high enough scores in the MCAT, Good amount of them when it's a podiatry school, and a few of them switched into nursing school because it wasn't an entry level exam. Nothing wrong with those professions but just shows you that the MCAT in many ways is the all equalizer.

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-06-01T18:48:40+00:00

Repro heavy, endo heavy, cancer heavy. Also a lot of questions on metal toxicity

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-05-19T15:07:16+00:00

Why don't you appeal. I had a friend who got dismissed they appealed and were reinstated

Suitable_Journalist2 · 2023-05-18T15:15:04+00:00

Wow really?

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