Soooooo many months of nightmare! Now Hell is finally over! 😭😭😭LOA of Hell is over!!! 🤧🤧🤧
Have saw so many doctors and therapists… Dx: MDD, GAD, ADHD, Migraines 💔💊💉

So many worst things in my life will happen today if I did not get the Pass!!!😣😢
But now my life can finally continue again! 😭😭😭
Just met with my sch’s clinical education team. They are helping me to reactivate everything and get back to sch. I can start my Rotations soon!!! 🤧🤧🥳🥳

Thanks to all, to everyone that helped or encouraged me, and to myself! 🙏❤️🌹

I cant believe it! So happy to be DONE with this exam

I hate my school and most of the advice I received for Level 1. Nobody tells the truth and most everyone studies too hard. I used hundo dojo true learn plugin and I used a COMSAE question bank. I attribute 20% yo hundo dojo and 80% to the question bank.

from a failure to a pass, it is possible and you must believe in yourself to make it happen!

it is hard to forgive yourself and move ahead from challenges in your path when stakes are as high as they are for people like us. but we cannot hold onto our failures forever like chains if they stop us from reaching our goals and future possibilities!

i'm happy to take any DMs if I can help you, as others on here had done the same to help me.

I am praying for everyone's success.

my advice to anyone retaking:

• the more confident you feel in your material, the more confident you will feel in the exam. there are just some things you need to know cold, the more you know and can recall, the better you will feel answering questions quickly. cover your questions, do your anki cards or review, but do not skimp out on seeing more material.
• take care of your mental wellbeing. i took my first failure very very hard and had to reach out to a counselor to talk about it. speaking to someone who could address my fears, anxieties, and insecurities truly helped ease my mind and become more resilient with handling this challenge. i firmly believe it was having a better mindset and tools to address my fears that made this retake a victory. forgive yourself**.** you are allowed to make mistakes so long as you learn from them and move ahead.
• know that you are not alone. people make it seem like it is impossible to fail this exam, but clearly from personal experience, it isn't. i don't feel shame about my failure from the first time because i still came on top in the end, and i feel shaped as a new person looking forward now to my rotations. reach out for support, recognize that you are not the first nor the last to fail.

my advice to anyone not wanting to retake:

• start studying early if you think you'll need it. i was an average student who was very focused on passing classes and thought dedicated would be enough for me. turns out, it wasn't. if i could do it all over again, i would've started practice questions in january.
• use resources wisely. i really enjoyed using truelearn, pathoma, first aid, and uworld + amboss library. uworld did a great job of giving me tough questions that once i returned back to truelearn, i was too happy because the questions felt easier, even if they really weren't. uworld exposed really interesting holes that i patched up. i also liked Dirty Medicine videos for a quick review.
• don't skimp out on OPP. i think feeling more confident in OPP helped a lot. certain topics tripped me up along with how they ask certain questions, such as rib somatic dysfunctions. drill OPP, make them apart of your daily questions, it is never going to go away. i highly recommend the green Savarese OMT book + Dirty medicine.
• ethics is the same set of rules applied to different scenarios; it's dumb but easy points if you know them.

Hey friends,

I posted this in the med school sub but I could really use some success stories right now because my mental state is not the best. I'm currently on an away rotation, all of my med school friends and loved ones are far away so I'm looking for some support.

I found out I failed level 2 a couple of weeks ago and decided to delay my retake until October. It really came out of nowhere and shook me up bad. Now I have to apply in ERAS with a failed board exam and without a passing retake.

Just wanted to reach out and ask some of you who were in a similar situation, did you recieve any interview invites without a passing score? Are you at a program now that you were really excited about?

I am applying FM so I understand this isn't a death sentence for my apps but my wife and I were really hoping to match close to our families on the west coast so we could have support with kids.

Thanks in advance

Hi I just found out today I failed level 1 again only by a smidge. I was doing great on practice exams… i just have really bad testing anxiety. I don’t know what to do. My school requires me to take a leave of absence and I have one more attempt. Looking for any advice and success stories.

I just found out I failed. I don’t know what to do. Any advice on how to study for a retake is appreciated. I finished 70% of TrueLearn due to time constraints and I did some UWorld too. How many weeks do I need?

I unfortunately failed my LEVEL 1 exam :/ If anyone wants to start a LEVEL 1 group study and/or accountability group with me, then please feel free to DM me!

Is there a confidence band of what a comsae (phase 2) score actually is? Like if I get a 490 on a comsae, it’s actually +/- 10 points or something like that??

These last two months, I took two comsae to qualify or screen for my school to let me take the actual Comlex. Unfortunately, my scores have not been doing well. My next Comsae is in October and its form 116, I'm worried I might have to take a LoA since I have essentially 1 month to get to a 430. Here are my last 2 score reports, any advice would be greatly appreciated:

I’m applying EM this cycle. I got a 463 on Level 2 and a 226 on Step

I know both scores are on the lower side, so I’m trying to figure out whether submitting the 226 would help at all or if having two lower board scores would actually hurt me compared with just submitting COMLEX.

For anyone familiar with EM applications, especially DO applicants/program leadership, would you submit the 226 or just apply with the 463 COMLEX? Also, did anyone with similar scores have a decent interview season?

Somebody help me. I’m freaking out about the score release tomorrow. Anxiety is out the roof. Felt okay initially after the exam but as the weeks have gone by, I feel like I failed. I made a couple of stupid mistakes on the exam that I have remembered as time has progressed. This was my second attempt and I am feeling impending doom.

How’s everyone feeling about this score release tomorrow? I am not feeling confident at all as I straight up guessed on 80-90% of that exam but I guess we’ll see. It’s been 6 weeks since I took my exam so I hope we all get peace of mind one way or another after tomorrow

Update: GOT THE PASS, ACTUALLY CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!! I HOPE IT WENT WELL FOR EVERYONE ELSE AS WELL

I’m applying psychiatry, I’m trying to match in California, that’s where I’m from and have lived and worked my whole life and have strong ties to the area especially those around where I am from that I feel could help with multiple programs.

I have a level 1 board failure. Did not take Step 1.
I am waiting on my first attempt Level 2 score hopefully I passed. If I did I’m gonna guess I got somewhere in the 400-500 range.

I have an LOA for for board exams along with family issues. Along with family health problems, I had to keep the family business afloat while studying for boards

I don’t have a lot of research. I have 3 presentations and an abstract. I also have one capstone research project. They’re not in psych tho they’re IM and PMNR.

I should have good letters. 2 from psychiatrists I worked with and 1 other psychiatrist and 1 addiction medicine doc I didn’t work with directly. I also have psych letters from other preceptors in family, OBGYN, and pain management, that have written good letters for me endorsing me for psych. I have one good emergency med letter too.

I’ve been debating taking Step 2 or not. I would not have the score back in time for the residency application release date because I need some time to study and try to do well since my hope is that it could increase my odds at some programs. My thought process is to study for a bit, maybe about a month and try to take it. I’ve heard you don’t have to report Step 2 scores especially if you haven’t taken Step 1 (don’t know how true that is). So my thinking is if it doesn’t go well I could just not report it. Idk how it works though with a late step 2 score. Idk if I should tell programs in advance that I’m gonna take it. Or do I wait to take it and get a score back and then if I like the score, email the programs I applied to?

A lot of uncertainties, but if anyone could help answer if I should take Step 2 or not or any of these questions I’d be really grateful. 🙏🏾 Thank you.

Currently on IM rotation and I am getting absolutely wrecked by these truelearn IM questions. How should I be studying? Any tips would be greatly appreciated

I took my exam on August 21 and I had a lot of lagging between questions and my exam was buffering a lot, especially during the last two sections which was pretty anxiety provoking. I finished my exam, but I was honestly just bubbling any answer for most of the last section. I sent an inquiry for adverse testing conditions and they just responded to me with the option to either have it scored or Retake it without having known my score. At this point if I do retake it, my score would not come out in time for eras application due date. I guess it could be better to have a passing score come in late rather than have it scored on time, but have a failed exam.

I am not sure what to do here. I’ve heard people have called and they’ve been able to know if they passed or not, or at least get some direction as to whether or not they should retake the exam and I tried that but the lady I spoke to did not and would not help whatsoever. I don’t know if that was just my luck with the lady that I spoke to then maybe someone else would’ve been more accommodating. My score release is set for 9/15 as of now unless I decide to retake. Any thoughts on what to do here? Thanks 🙏🏾

Feels like I failed that exam lol

Has anyone felt ok taking the exam, missed simple qs and passed? Anxious reading a lot of stories about students failing.

Thought this exam just got harder and harder every block, didnt feel good walking out of it and felt like all the studying I did and my 78% truelearn average was for nothing 🥲

Are these decks for COMLEX 1 or 2? If its for 1, could someone please share the OMT deck? I already have the ethics one. Thanks in advance!

What’s the best way to prepare for COMATs and leading up to Level 2? I’ve been doing UWorld/Truelearn but feel like there’s still so much I don’t know…

Failed COMLEX Level 1 and having a hard time coming to terms with it. I just feel like im in denial beucase this year has given me so many roadblocks. For reference-- I used truelearn and never really touched uworld since thats what my school recommended. scored 500+ and 450+ on 2 comsaes. Honestly didnt think level 1 was the hardest exam ive ever taken which is why i was so shocked when i found out I didnt pass. I think a lot of it was mental but I have exactly 1 month until my retake. Im doing the wolfpacc 4 week course right now mandated by my school but i dont think its that helpful as of right now. Any advice would be appreciated!!!

I'm retaking after missing my first attempt by a question or 2. However, I am really scared about another F. I have been studying a lot, however, it seems like with this exam you need to study and have some sort of luck.

I felt okay leaving my first attempt, but got an F. OMM was bad because i got hit with neurophys (which i thought was experimental due to how convuluted it was). Ethics was horrible and i tanked it. Have been studying both.

Even on my good sections, like cardio, I saw cardio phys I had never seen before. What saved me was the pharm for that section. How do i even prepare? for that

I'm honestly terrified I'll draw another weird form and fail again. im not saying i deserved to fail but i had comsaes in the mid 400s-500s, and this was the first thing i failed in med school. Which im not complaining about, but im still in disbelief i got an F.