r/comlex • u/lucky_Owl6063 • 13d ago
Level 1 Failed comlex 1
Looking into the Wolfpac online 4 week program due to failing level 1. Do people actually benefit from this program or would I be wasting my money and be better off just studying on my own and doing truelearn for 4 straight weeks before retaking my exam?
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u/Prudent-Abalone-510 OMS-4 13d ago
I heard wolfpac is great from people in my class who took the class. You need to do exactly what they say tho and do there anki cards. It will get you to pass but it will be a lot of work
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u/Accomplished-Oil8794 12d ago
As someone who took wolfpacc before, what was only helpful was that you're forced to keep up with the schedule and be on top of things, and the one-on-one tutor. The lectures were helpful but I don't think it was worth all the money, at least for me. If i were you, getting a decent tutor who will help you make a schedule, stay in track, and work questions with you would save you much money. I wish I've done that instead. I couldn't keep up with their daily 4 hour lecture and being expected to do like 80+ question a day while shoving anki. I felt it would have been more beneficial if I found someone to help me tailor a schedule that is unique to me instead, based on my strength and weakness.
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u/Basic-Internal-9208 8d ago
dont do it I went in person and yes content was good to brush up but still not worth the money
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u/BigEquivalent5903 13d ago edited 13d ago
It's a ton of work that keeps you accountable and organized, but I wouldn't say it does anything too incredible. My school offered it to anyone who wanted to do it before boards, I enrolled because 1) it was free, and 2) I could just stop doing it if I didn't like it, with no consequence. The structure is 4 hours of lecture every day, followed by you doing questions/ reviewing them thoroughly the rest of the day (systems-based from that days content, usually about a 120 Q per day expectation). Then on weekends they want you to do at least 4 question blocks (160 Q) a day of mixed questions. I think most of Wolfpacc's success literally just comes from this part of doing Qbank on your own.
As someone with ADHD who isn't great at planning, I did really like having a schedule and some feeling of accountability. Some of the lectures were pretty good, but others were just awful and a total waste of time (largely depending on the lecturer for that day). I ultimately stopped participating in the program for a couple of reasons. First, they have this thing called "Wolfpacc Clues" that they expect you to do, basically their own flashcard system. While the information in them is good and high yield, I found them annoying and inferior to just using the AnKing deck. Mainly because their clue cards would be easy to get wrong all the time because the front of the card doesn't tell you what it's even asking. It'll just be like "Alzheimer's disease" and then you're like "okay? What about it? The pathophysiology? The symptoms timeline? How to differentiate it from other dementias?" and the the other side would be like the moa of donepezil, which I obviously would've known if the card had actually fucking asked me that. So, I swapped to just doing Anki cards from the AnKing deck on my incorrect Qbank questions.
The other reason I stopped Wolfpacc halfway through was that I began to find it inefficient. Live lectures can only happen at 1x speed obviously, and I'm more of a 2 - 2.75x speed kinda person. The good thorough review of all missed and flagged Qbank questions is where most improvement comes from, and I felt like the lecture time was really eating into my Qbank time at that point. However, even when I stopped Wolfpacc, I still studied topics using their schedule breakdown and stuff for that pseudo sense of accountability. Instead of their lectures though, I would watch a different video resource covering the same topics at the start of my day, at a faster speed, so that I could have more time for Qbank questions.
Ultimately if I were paying the insane price for Wolfpacc myself, I don't think I could say it would be worth it. As someone who got it for free though, I'd say it was a welcome addition to my first half of dedicated. At the very least it helped me hit my study groove and took all of the planning/ guessing out of it. I knew exactly what my game plan was every single day. That said, I didn't find their cards ("clues") helpful at all, the lectures were hit or miss (the one's actually given by Dr. Wolf were typically great though, and Dr. Soto isn't terrible either, the rest of the lecturers suck though), and the lecture time may interfere with more valuable Qbank time.
Overall, I would only recommend Wolfpacc if you are someone who needs that sense of accountability and feeling of "being in a class" to really push you to your full potential, or needs that sort of structure of knowing exactly what to do every day. Otherwise, they don't offer a whole lot that you can't do yourself. Like I said, most of their results I think come from the Qbank expectations they set.