Here is my score progression:

5/2/25 – COMSAE 113 – 445

5/23/25 – COMSAE 114 – 440

5/31/25 – COMSAE 110 – 450

6/8/25 – COMSAE 112 – 426

6/8/25 – COMSAE 111 – 429

6/15/25 – COMSAE 107 – 461

6/23/25 – COMSAE 115 – 479

6/26/25 – COMLEX Level 1 – Pass

Trulearn/Combank 150% complete

Uworld 70% complete

So from the 5/23 date until the 6/23 date, my school held mandatory study hall every day for the students who had not attained a 450. This was a tough month of watching content review videos in the morning for about 4 hours and then doing 80-120 practice questions in the afternoon.Because I had scored decent on my COMSAEs I was feeling ok that I would get a 450 0n 6/23 in order to sit for the exam. So I was feeling good, but I just needed to put it all together for the 450. I took the COMSAE the Monday before my COMLEX which was that Thursday. So I was able to pass that COMSAE and feel confident going into the COMLEX. That being said I was probably more worried going into the COMSAE than I was the COMLEX, I remember putting my ear plugs in before the COMSAE and hearing my heart pounding. If I had missed the 450 mark my school would’ve made me take a leave of absence to study and get school approval to take the COMLEX at a later date, which I’ll admit would’ve absolutely rocked me. 

One thing I’ve got to get off my chest is a lot of people look at the pass rates for my school and they likely conclude that the school does a good job of preparing the class, but the numbers they are showing are only the numbers for the people they allow to take the exam. I remember when they had a mandatory meeting and made us listen, they showed the pass rate for the previous year, and then they told us they hadn’t allowed 10% of that class to even sit for it yet. 

Anyways over that last month I watched the Dirty medicine ethics and OMM playlists. I used the OMM green book which I think I under utilized over the first 2 years. I watched sketchy micro over again. Another thing I did was spend a lot of time covering topics that I was weak on in COMSAEs and Truelearn. So in a way I did do a more focused review on material that I was weak on, in spite of that extra effort when I got my score report for the COMLEX it was eerily similar to my other score reports so even though I put the extra effort in on certain subjects, I still struggled with them. 

Looking back on the entire experience of my school mandating in-person and mandating the 450 I was definitely a little edgy about the entire situation, and I wasn’t the only one. I have been thinking about my attitude while going through that month. While I showed up and did the work. I don’t think I had the healthiest mindset going through it. I don’t think I was a positive person, or a grateful person, or a gracious person, while I was going through my dedicated study time. I have been thinking about how I would go about it if I could do it again. I think about how I could be a force for good to those around me instead of being on edge. It makes me think about a Nick Saban clip where he talks about “what is going to break you?” What does it take to “break” me? Was going through something difficult because I wasn’t able to meet the standard going to break me? Ultimately my failures and successes are my own, not my school’s.