What's new in August 2026

Aug 1 to 7 · 6 improvements

1. 7Aug · Fri

   A cleaner question grid

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     Missed boxes in the question grid now show just the number. more ▾less ▴

     In the numbered question grid you use to jump around a set, the boxes for questions you missed showed a small cross next to the number. On a phone the two crowded each other, and the red fill already tells you the same thing, so the box now shows the number alone.

   Six cram sheets rebuilt — easier to scan, and a lot more in them

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     Six sheets rebuilt: scannable boxes, readable diagram labels, and more content. more ▾less ▴

     Lab Values, Pharmacology Core, Dosage Calculation, Communicable Diseases, Cardiovascular and Metabolism & Endocrine have all been rebuilt. The dense paragraph boxes are broken into a label down the side with short WHY / DO / warning lines, so you can find the one line you need instead of reading the whole block. The labels on the illustrations are readable now instead of tiny. Every one of the six also got longer: Cardiovascular went from 10 pages to 16, Communicable Diseases and Pharmacology Core from 12 to 15.

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     Philippine guidelines, laws and food added to four of the six sheets. more ▾less ▴

     Four of the six had no Philippine content at all before. They now carry the ASIN Law and newborn screening, the Philippine blood-pressure threshold of 140/90 and what that means next to the American chart, discharge teaching written around Filipino food, kutsara and kutsarita measurements with a warning about using a kitchen spoon for medicine, potassium-rich Filipino foods, and the DOH National TB Control Program.

2. 6Aug · Thu

   Resumed sessions, mock reviews, and a Terms page promise

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     "View answers" on a finished mock section is now a visible button. more ▾less ▴

     On the mock board page, "View answers" for a finished section is now a proper button instead of quiet text, so it is obvious that a section you have submitted can be reviewed.

3. 4Aug · Tue

   Integrated Management of Childhood Illness gets its own topic

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     IMCI was added to existing study plans automatically. more ▾less ▴

     The topic was added to every active study plan, so it appears on your calendar alongside the rest of NP1. You do not need to rebuild your plan to get it.

4. 3Aug · Mon

   Fourteen new cram sheets — the library tripled

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     The new sheets flag where current guidance differs from older reviewers. more ▾less ▴

     Both of the new community health sheets point out the places where current Philippine guidance has moved on from what older review material still teaches, and give you both versions with the current one marked, so you are not left guessing which answer an examiner wants.

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     The NCD sheet now shows what a stroke facial droop really looks like. more ▾less ▴

     The new Non-Communicable Diseases sheet also shows you what a drooping face in stroke actually looks like, with an illustration and the one detail that separates a stroke from Bell's palsy: in a stroke the forehead is spared, so the person can still raise both eyebrows and close both eyes, and only the lower half of the face fails. It adds a case-finding section too, on who to look for in your barangay for cancer, chronic lung disease and kidney disease.

5. 2Aug · Sun

   Personal notes on questions, and more ways to go deeper

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     Mock reviews now link to cram sheets under each rationale. more ▾less ▴

     Mock board answer reviews now carry the same "Go deeper" links as practice: jump straight from a rationale to the cram sheet covering that topic, or start a fresh drill on it.

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     The study-timer button is now labeled "Timer". more ▾less ▴

     The floating study-timer button is now labeled "Timer" instead of "Pomodoro", so the stopwatch mode inside it is easier to find.

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     A visible "Change dates" link on the Study Plan. more ▾less ▴

     Changing your exam date is easier to find: your Study Plan header now has a "Change dates" link, and the plan setup form explains that a longer runway means lighter days.

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     The stopwatch now asks whether to keep time you spent away. more ▾less ▴

     If the stopwatch keeps running while your phone is locked or BoardPal sits in the background for more than a few minutes, it now asks when you come back whether to keep that time on the clock or take it off. Nothing pauses on its own — studying from a book with your phone dark still counts exactly as before — but a stopwatch you forgot about no longer quietly inflates your study hours.