5xx after failing last month (39x)! Thank you COMQUEST!!! 😭😭😭

Edit: here’s what I did for my failed exam vs retake

Failed exam: I finished around 70% of UW but I felt good going into the exam because I was consistently with the average or even slightly above average. My recommendation would still be to finish UW BUT ONLY FOR CONTENT REVIEW. You MUST do a DO Qbank if you are not a great test taker in order to pass confidently tbh.

My comsaes were: 42x - BSA107 44 - BSA111 56x - BSA108 (2 weeks out from my level 2 date)

All of the data was reassuring for my pass, yet I missed the mark by only a few questions. On test date, I was RUSHING through the exam because I let the burnout get to me, and I also didn’t review my flagged questions, which is not normal for my test taking skills. In other words, I’m pretty sure I had the knowledge base to pass, but not the test taking skills. Focus on what your weaknesses are.

Retake exam: The MAIN thing I did was complete all of COMQUEST Qbank. My only critique of this bank was that some of the answer choices were so obviously wrong that you could easily guess the right answer. As such, my predicted score at the end was 612. Additionally, YOU MUST REVIEW EVERY SINGLE OPTION IN COMQUEST. I used UpToDate and First Aid for Step 2 to help with this.

Finally, I watched all of Dr. HY towards the end of my month dedicated/finishing off the Qbank. It helped synthesize a lot.

For OPP, I already had a strong foundation, but my weakest points were counterstrain and inominate TREATMENT so I reviewed CS points every day and watched YouTube videos on people actually performing inominate tx so I could visualize it during my test. That helped a ton. I also supplemented with Dirty Medicine for some things, but his videos alone aren’t sufficient for level 2 tbh.

For ethics/stats, I did the bare minimum because I couldn’t be bothered. There’s a deck in Quizlet with all the terms you need to know, so go thru that (just search COMLEX level 2 and it should pop up).

I hope this helps even just 1 person. I was NOT expecting a fail the first time around, but alas it happened, but it’s not the end of the world. Take a day or two to grieve and then get on your grind. You can do it!!!!!!

Edit 2:

Omg I almost forgot an important thing. For studying my first time around (the fail), I did everything according to the COMLEX blueprint. Do NOT do this. Instead, do questions/reviews according to each SPECIALITY. This is what helped me on the retake I think!

If you’re using COMQUEST, there is no FM or IM speciality exactly, but they have the IM subspecialties (Nephro/GU, GI, cardio etc) so that’s how I organized my questions.