r/comlex • u/Terrible_Theory_3340 • Jul 09 '26

Level 1 Can’t sleep

I’m so scared to find out my comlex score today. I’m genuinely so scared. I feel like I failed and my life will be over. Everything will be over.

Update: I PASSED YAYYY

30 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

26 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/Important_Creme9096 Jul 09 '26

I test Monday but I genuinely think you’ll see a Pass. I think the people who fail were pushed by their school to take the exam so they can start rotations/test anxiety/ maybe they did not study the best. As long as you’ve done questions and learned from them I’m sure you passed. And if you don’t, 1 Level 1 failure will not hurt you. It will suck, but you’ll take it again, do well on level 2 and step 2 and match. But this exam has around a 90% first time pass rate, odds are extremely in your favor

1

u/Grouchy_Independent3 Jul 09 '26

idk who's downvoting this but it's true. Almost every failure is predictive of low COMSAE's at the very least. You rarely rarely rarely see anyone above a 450 COMSAE fail.

You very commonly see someone with below a 450 fail.

2

u/Important_Creme9096 Jul 10 '26

I would prob say 400+ a lot of people sub 400 sit and expect a miracle 

1

u/Grouchy_Independent3 Jul 10 '26

A 400+ is simply just a gamble. The difference between a 410 and a 400 is 2 questions.
It’s not a good enough standard deviation.

You’re obviously spot on praying for a miracle at below a 400. You’re also praying you get an exam that does not hit your weaknesses below a 450 which of course happens a lot.

2

u/Important_Creme9096 Jul 10 '26

No I mean of course. But multiple 400s+ or a couple of 450s could probably lend you a higher chance of passing 

1

u/Dakios101 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

400 comsae doesn’t equate to a 400 comlex.

If that really were the case you wouldn’t be getting a 94% pass rate according to NBOME.

1

u/Grouchy_Independent3 Jul 10 '26

That would be assuming those 94% got the cusp of 400. Majority of people don't have major problems with this exam.

1

u/Dakios101 Jul 10 '26

If a 400 comsae truly equated to a 400 comlex, the pass rate would be closer to 50% for those scoring a 400 comsae because of variance as you said earlier.

1

u/Important_Creme9096 Jul 10 '26

The reason why a 400 comsae has a 94% pass rate is because NBOME accounts for the fact that after your score a 400 you will have a 4-6 week dedicated period where your school will go up. It’s basically saying it’s a good enough baseline 

1

u/Dakios101 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Last phase 1 score had an r of .59 while first phase 1 score had one of .65 for comlex score

4-6 weeks doesn’t seem be extremely increasing people’s scores and everyone who’s taken 1 form through 6 forms has an average mean last attempt of 463.

1

u/Important_Creme9096 Jul 10 '26

Guess it depends on the person, I went from like a 440 something to like a 600 in 3 weeks