What's new
What's new in July 2026
Everything we shipped to BoardPal in July 2026.
Jul 1 to 7 · 11 updates
7Jul · Tue
Move the cross-out button to your left hand
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Choose which side the ✕ cross-out button sits on — handy for lefties. more ▾less ▴
You can now choose which side the ✕ cross-out button sits on. Left-handed? Move it to the left so your hand doesn't cover the other choices while you rule options out with a pen. Set your default in Profile → Study preferences, or switch it any time right on the exam screen, next to the highlighter. It stays on the right unless you change it. Thank you to the left-handed student who suggested it!
- New
6Jul · Mon
Flashcards for everyone & a clearer Flashcards page
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Free plan: 5 flashcards a day, personalized to your weak spots. more ▾less ▴
The free plan now includes 5 flashcards a day — cards due for review come first, then new ones from the topics your practice shows you're weakest in. Beta unlocks all 3,366 cards with a goal you set yourself.
- Improved
A simpler Flashcards page with one clear starting point. more ▾less ▴
The Flashcards page now leads with one clear action — “Start today's session” — with your goal progress right above it. Reviewing by subject and browsing individual decks are still there, just quieter.
- Improved
Cards are labeled Due or New, and you see when the due pile clears. more ▾less ▴
During review, each card is labeled Due or New, and you'll see the moment your due pile is cleared — so it's always obvious that scheduled reviews come first.
- Fixed
The home screen flashcards task opens the same session as the calendar. more ▾less ▴
The flashcards task in Today's Plan on your home screen now opens the same weak-spot session as the Study Plan calendar.
Random practice from one whole section
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Random practice sets from one whole NP section. more ▾less ▴
You can now start a random practice set from one whole NP section — every topic in that component, shuffled together — instead of choosing between a single topic and the all-section mix. Open Practice and tap the “Random set” button beside a section's name. The usual choices (how many questions, new or missed, Practice or Exam mode) all work with it, and the set draws evenly across the section's topics. Thank you to the student who suggested it!
- New
5Jul · Sun
The mock exam clock stays in sight
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The mock exam timer now stays visible while you answer. more ▾less ▴
During mock exams, the timer and progress bar now stay pinned to the very top of your screen the whole time you're answering — before, the navigation bar covered them as soon as you scrolled into the questions. The 30, 10, and 5-minutes-left alerts appear in that pinned bar too, so you'll see them no matter where you are in the section. Thank you to the student who suggested it!
Flashcards: your goal, your pace
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Set your own daily flashcard goal in Profile. more ▾less ▴
You can now set your own daily flashcard goal — anywhere from 5 to 100 cards — in Profile → Study preferences (or tap Adjust next to the meter on your Decks page).
- Improved
No more daily flashcard cap — keep going past your goal any time. more ▾less ▴
The old 20-new-cards-a-day ceiling is gone. Your goal is a target to reach, not a wall: finish a session and tap “Keep going” for another set, for as long as you want to study.
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Scheduled flashcards now start with your weakest topics. more ▾less ▴
Flashcard sessions opened from your study plan now lead with the topics your practice shows you're weakest in. Cards you've already started keep their exact spacing — only the order new cards arrive in is personalized.
Deeper readiness insights & a faster app
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Richer Performance insights: a likely range, recent form, and how you compare. more ▾less ▴
Your Performance page goes deeper on where you stand: a likely score range instead of a single number, your recent form over the last two weeks (with trend arrows), how consistent your mock scores are, and how you compare to other takers by percentile — an honest, fuller picture of your readiness.
- Improved
Faster leaderboards and pages. more ▾less ▴
Leaderboards and several pages now load much faster.
- Fixed
Foundations & Fundamentals readiness now reflects your answers. more ▾less ▴
Your Foundations & Fundamentals subject readiness now fills in properly — answers on Foundations topics are credited to the right subtopics, so that row is no longer stuck empty.
- Improved
The official PNLE exam date is pre-filled when you set up your plan. more ▾less ▴
When you set up or adjust your study plan, the official PNLE exam date is now pre-filled for you — verified against PRC's announcement.
- New
The diagnostic autosaves, and finished ones appear in History. more ▾less ▴
Your diagnostic now autosaves as you go, so stepping away won't lose your progress — and finished diagnostics now appear in your History alongside your practice sets and mock boards.
- Improved
Faster ways into practice, and a calmer upgrade flow. more ▾less ▴
Quicker ways to jump straight into practice from your home screen, and a clearer, calmer flow when you upgrade — including how to send your payment and when to expect approval.
- Fixed
Signing up with an existing email now guides you to log in. more ▾less ▴
Signing up with an email that already has an account no longer gets stuck retrying — you're guided to log in instead.
Your mock board rank, right on your home page
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Your mock board rank now shows on your home page. more ▾less ▴
Your home page now shows your mock board standing beside your practice rank — your place on the latest mock you've taken. On the public leaderboard, that's your rank (like #4 of 31). Staying private? You still get your own Top X% among everyone who's taken that board — visible only to you. Thanks to the student who suggested this!
- Improved
Each home-page standing tile now opens the right leaderboard. more ▾less ▴
Both standing tiles on your home page now land you on the right board — the practice tile opens the weekly practice rankings, and the mock tile opens that mock's all-time topnotchers.
- Fixed
Reviews of since-revised questions no longer look contradictory. more ▾less ▴
Reviewing a question we've revised since you answered it no longer looks contradictory — the review now says plainly that the choices changed and whether your recorded answer was right.
- Fixed
2Jul · Thu
Clearer names, clearer numbers
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Nav names now match the pages they open. more ▾less ▴
One name per feature, everywhere: the nav item that opens your Vault now says Vault, and your schedule page is titled Study Plan to match the menu — no more clicking "Review" and landing on a page called something else.
- Improved
Your projected rating now matches on every page. more ▾less ▴
Your projected rating now tells one story across the app: the dashboard, Performance, and Profile all unlock it at the same point and show the same number — and while it's locked, they tell you exactly how many answers away you are.
- Improved
The Vault now opens with a summary, not a live question. more ▾less ▴
The Vault now opens with a summary of what's due and how clearing works — you start the run when you're ready, instead of landing inside Question 1.
- Improved
Mock Boards now show your progress on each board. more ▾less ▴
Mock Boards now show where each board stands — Not started, In progress (with which day and section you're on, and a Continue button), or your scores.
- Improved
Ticking off a mock task explains that only taking the mock records a score. more ▾less ▴
Ticking a mock task off your study plan now explains that scores are recorded only by taking the mock — so your mock counters never look like they lost an attempt.
- Improved
A clearer jump grid, clearer resuming, and the star renamed "Save to Vault". more ▾less ▴
In practice sessions, answered questions in the jump grid are now clearly filled in, resuming tells you it opened your first unanswered question, and the post-answer star is now called "Save to Vault" so it can't be confused with the flag.
- New
A show-password toggle, plus our published Terms and Privacy Policy. more ▾less ▴
The login page now has a show-password toggle, and our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are published — linked from the sign-up page and the site footer.
- Fixed
A past mock reopens graded exactly as it was when you took it. more ▾less ▴
Reopening a past mock board or diagnostic now grades it exactly as it was when you took it — so if a question is corrected later, your recorded score and review stay as they were.
- Improved
Tied scores share a rank, and each score shows the date it was set. more ▾less ▴
On the Mock Boards leaderboard, tied scores now share the same rank (PRC-style), each score shows the date it was set instead of an item count, and you can see your standing as #X of N.
Smoother schedule editing
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Moved schedule tasks now land where you can see them. more ▾less ▴
Moving a task to another day now drops it at the bottom of that day — right where you're looking — with a brief highlight so you never lose track of it.
- New
Undo a schedule move with one tap. more ▾less ▴
After you move a task, a small confirmation appears with one-tap Undo — plus a gentle heads-up if that day is getting heavy or falls on one of your rest days.
- Improved
Rebalance now balances by study time. more ▾less ▴
Rebalance now spreads your remaining topics by estimated study time instead of task count, so every day carries a similar amount of work — and your final-review days stay protected at the end of your plan.
- Fixed
Two-day mock boards can no longer be scheduled out of order. more ▾less ▴
Two-day mock boards now stay in order — Day 2 can no longer be scheduled before its Day 1.
More of your study counts, plus tidier situations
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Mock boards and the diagnostic now count as studying on your Progress. more ▾less ▴
Mock boards and the diagnostic exam now both count as a studied day on your Progress calendar and weekly summary — matching your home-screen streak — so a day you spent on either no longer looks like a missed day.
- New
Tap Hide on a mock situation to stop it repeating on every question. more ▾less ▴
In mock boards, you can now tap Hide on the situation box so it stops repeating in full on every question of a case. It collapses to a single line on the follow-up questions — and always shows in full on the first question of each new case. Tap Show anytime to bring it back.
- Improved
Hardened hundreds more too-easy questions across 18 topics. more ▾less ▴
Hardened hundreds more too-easy questions across 18 topics, tightening the answer choices so they better match the real PNLE — part of our ongoing question-quality review.
- Improved
1Jul · Wed
Cleaner select-all-that-apply questions
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Hundreds of select-all-that-apply questions made less predictable. more ▾less ▴
Improved hundreds of select-all-that-apply questions across the bank: the answer combinations are less predictable, the number of correct statements varies more naturally, and the formatting reads cleaner — part of our ongoing question-quality review.
- Improved