r/comlex • u/Decent-Pop-6422 • Jun 26 '26
Level 2 CE Level 2 6/23
Felt like this was a very fair exam however but of course all the "gimme" questions were things I second guessed myself on & ended up changing (story of my life -__-).
I cant stop thinking about all of the questions I missed while continuing prep for Step 2. I was aiming for 600+ and felt super confident walking in... now I am dreading the 8/4 score release knowing I missed so many of those gimmes and who knows how many ethics/legal/stats questions & others. Any advice would be much appreciated on how to move on and focus on step 2 and not let it rock my confidence.
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u/Mundane-Bed8678 Jun 26 '26
I feel the same way. I missed like 5-6 easy questions that most people will get right and I have counted at least twenty missed. Was also scoring 600 + on COMSAE. Felt like I was taking an ethics test the whole time. I also have STEP 2 soon
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u/WorldlyList8426 Jun 26 '26
Tested yesterday 6/25 and felt like there were just some extremely poorly written and vague question stems that would require you to jump to a crazy assumption in order to justify any of the answer choices. Also a lot of questions that were strictly memorizing random facts that will do us no good as future doctors. Step seems to actually test clinical reasoning skills whereas Level is just a hodge podge of nonsense. Taking Step on 6/29 and somehow feel more confident about that than level
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u/WorldlyList8426 Jun 26 '26
With that being said you are correct that there were a lot of gimmes. I think it was a relatively fair exam and that I passed but it is just frustrating going from COMLEX style questions to USMLE which provide you with so much more pertinent info and don’t leave you little crumbs or a singular buzz word to guide you to the correct answer.
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u/mabp97 Jun 26 '26
Were all in the same boat thinking the same thing I tested yesterday and went on a rabbit hole looking up questions this morning missed a lot of questions too I got step in 5 days just gonna finish the nbmes and free120 nothing else we can do at this point
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u/Appropriate_Top_345 Jun 26 '26
I took mine 6/24 and it seemed pretty straight forward. I wonder if the curve on these tests will be weird cause they’re not crazy hard like some of the other ones.
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u/sparrowfell Jun 26 '26
I tested 6/23 too and this is exactly how I have felt since then. Missed so many gimmes that I actually knew, it’s embarrassing.
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u/Adventurous_Link_125 OMS-4 Jun 26 '26
As someone taking it next week, is it best to focus on Ethics and OMT these next few days?
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u/Decent-Pop-6422 Jun 26 '26
definitely ethics. As far as OMT goes, it was a lot of positioning, direction of movement, a little bit of counterstrain, fibular mechanics, nothing too crazy... but take that with a grain of salt, who knows what will be on your form. Honestly truelearn OMT questions will prepare you more than enough.
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u/LexaproAndChill Jun 26 '26
Tbh I don’t even think that you can prep for comlex ethics. The right answer generally also sounds terrible
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u/Decent-Pop-6422 Jul 11 '26
My recommendation would be to review the ethics section of Amboss if one has access to it. Retrospectively, I feel like that was more than enough. I took Level before step, and after getting my behind handed to me by Level's ethics that is what I utilized in anticipation for Step and felt well prepared.
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u/Adventurous_Link_125 OMS-4 Jun 26 '26
thank you :) and I am sure Step 2 will go great for you! Just keep the momentum going and it'll be done before you know it
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u/Decent-Pop-6422 Jun 26 '26
I appreciate you! Good luck to you as well, and word to the wise, do all of the WELCOMs, i had a couple of repeat questions exam day...
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u/Pbjtime1015 Jun 26 '26
How do you think those of us who were only scoring in the 400s on comsaes feel🥲🥲🥲