What's new
What's new in July 2026
Everything we shipped to BoardPal in July 2026.
Jul 22 to 31 · 15 improvements
30Jul · Thu
Add mock boards to your study plan
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Early mock sittings now tick their calendar task right away. more ▾less ▴
Mock board tasks on your calendar now tick themselves off even when you sit the mock ahead of its scheduled day — no more waiting for the day to arrive for the checkmark to appear.
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29Jul · Wed
Cleaner references under each rationale
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References now list textbooks, laws, and guidelines only. more ▾less ▴
The References list under a rationale now shows only textbooks, Philippine laws, and official guidelines. Review and Q&A books still sit behind the scenes as part of how we check our work, but they are not what you should be reading to go deeper, so they no longer appear in the list.
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27Jul · Mon
Hematology gets its own topic
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The new topic was added to existing study plans. more ▾less ▴
The new topic has been added to every active study plan, so it turns up on your calendar alongside the rest of NP3. You do not need to rebuild your plan to get it.
A pomodoro timer for study sprints
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The timer hides itself during mock boards and the diagnostic. more ▾less ▴
The timer knows when to stay out of the way: it never appears inside a mock board or the diagnostic, so nothing can chime in the middle of a timed exam.
Why rebuilt topics feel harder, and what it means
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Rebuilt topics now run about 60% first-attempt accuracy, down from about 73%, by design. more ▾less ▴
The topics we have been rebuilding are genuinely harder than they were, and now we can say by how much. On the community health topics rebuilt so far, first-attempt accuracy sits around 60% where the older versions of those same items sat around 73%. That is the rebuild working as intended: the wrong options are now plausible enough that you have to reason rather than spot the odd one out, which is how the real board paper behaves. If your accuracy on a rebuilt topic looks lower than you remember, this is why, and it is not a step backwards.
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Readiness tiers were checked against the harder bank and left unchanged. more ▾less ▴
We also checked what that does to your readiness tiers, because a harder bank could have quietly made everyone look less ready than they are. It does not: the tiers were already set against roughly this level of accuracy, so they have been left exactly as they were. Your readiness number still means what it meant last week.
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26Jul · Sun
A smoother, safer cram-sheet reader
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Ink is smooth while you draw, not just after you lift the pen. more ▾less ▴
Pen and highlighter strokes now draw as smooth curves while your hand is still moving, and on iPad the ink follows the pen tip more closely. Before this, the line looked blocky mid-stroke and only smoothed out after you lifted the pen.
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Scrolling now glides to a stop instead of halting instantly. more ▾less ▴
Scrolling a sheet with two fingers, or with one finger while the pen tools are set to stylus-only, now glides to a stop the way other PDF readers do instead of halting the moment you lift your fingers.
Your streak now understands late-night studying
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Reading a cram sheet now counts as a study day. more ▾less ▴
Reading a cram sheet now counts toward your streak and shows on your progress calendar. Any real study day keeps your streak alive — questions, flashcards, a mock, a diagnostic, or a cram sheet.
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25Jul · Sat
A congratulations email that would have gone to the wrong people
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A student reviewing a year early surfaced it. Setting your real exam date keeps your plan accurate. more ▾less ▴
Thank you to the fourth-year student who spotted this. She had started reviewing a year early and accepted the prefilled date even though her real sitting is in 2027, which is exactly the case that surfaced it. If your exam date is still a placeholder, it costs nothing to leave it, but setting the real one makes your plan and your countdown accurate.
The Practice page now answers "what should I drill next?"
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Practice sections start closed and remember what you opened. more ▾less ▴
The sections no longer force Foundations & Fundamentals open every time you arrive, pushing the other five below the fold. They start closed and remember what you opened, and each section header carries its own progress bar and counts, so a closed page is still a map of where you are weak.
When a topic runs out of new questions
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Practice sets now say when a topic is running low on new questions. more ▾less ▴
If you have already worked through most of a topic, your practice set now says so up front — for example "Only 19 new questions left in this topic" — instead of quietly handing you a shorter set than you asked for. When every question in a topic has been answered at least once, the set tells you it is review rather than new material.
Studying past your exam date, and second rounds
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Nothing in BoardPal closes on your exam date. more ▾less ▴
To spell it out, since it came up: nothing in BoardPal closes on your exam date. Practice questions, flashcards, your Vault, and mock board retakes all stay open, and a new plan covers every topic in the Table of Specifications again while your finished work stays in your history.
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Finished your plan? The reset button now offers you a new round. more ▾less ▴
Once you have ticked off everything in your study plan, the button at the bottom of the page reads "Start another round" instead of "Reset schedule", and it explains what a new round does rather than warning you about what you lose. Finishing a full pass is not a reset.
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23Jul · Thu
You can see which answer you picked
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The answer you pick is now clearly marked. more ▾less ▴
The choice you tap is now clearly marked: it fills with a deeper shade, its outline thickens, and its letter turns into a solid badge. You can confirm your answer at a glance before moving on, even on a small screen or in bright light. This works the same way everywhere you answer questions — practice, mock boards, the diagnostic, and the warm-up.
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Your pick is readable in any theme, color vision aside. more ▾less ▴
The marking never relies on color alone, so it stays readable if you have any difficulty telling colors apart, and it now reads clearly in both Light and Dark mode.
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Practice question boxes now show green for correct, red for missed. more ▾less ▴
In tutor mode, the numbered boxes at the bottom of a practice set now show how you did: green for the ones you got right, red with an X for the ones you missed. You can spot every miss at a glance and tap straight back to it. In exam mode the boxes still only show which questions you have answered, since right and wrong are revealed in the Answer review after you submit.
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22Jul · Wed
Smoother writing in the cram-sheet reader, plus PDF downloads
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Faster, smoother ink on heavily annotated sheets. more ▾less ▴
Long notes and heavily marked pages draw and save much more smoothly, especially on iPad — no more lag or lost marks on sheets with lots of ink.
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Pen ink follows your handwriting more faithfully. more ▾less ▴
The pen now follows your hand more faithfully: sharp corners stay sharp (a "w" no longer rounds into a "u"), small loops keep their shape, and the fountain pen writes like a real calligraphy nib — full downstrokes, fine upstrokes.
Topic search and finish times, from your suggestions
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The Study Plan now explains how it's built. more ▾less ▴
The Study Plan header now explains how your plan is built: every topic comes from the official PNLE Table of Specifications, sequenced so foundations and your weakest areas come first.
Early Bird code now shown at checkout
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The 10% Early Bird code is now shown at checkout. more ▾less ▴
The Early Bird promo code (10% off any plan) is now shown right on the checkout page with a one-tap apply, so you don't have to hunt for it on Telegram. It runs until August 31 or until the 500 codes are used up, whichever comes first.
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