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What's new in August 2026
Everything we shipped to BoardPal in August 2026.
Aug 8 to 14 · 27 updates
14Aug · Fri
New Hematology and Oncology sheet, plus report fixes
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New: a 31-page illustrated Hematology and Oncology cram sheet. more ▾less ▴
A Hematology and Oncology cram sheet is now on your Resources shelf under NP3, after several of you asked for it. Thirty-one illustrated pages covering both halves in one place: the anemias sorted by the size of the red cell, bleeding that is a platelet problem against bleeding that is a clotting problem, and blood transfusion from the crossmatch to the first fifteen minutes. Then what makes a cell malignant, what staging is actually measuring, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy with the nursing each one needs, living through treatment, the six oncologic emergencies, and the cancers site by site. It closes with a read the scenario, name the first action table for the last few days before the exam.
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104 more explanations rewritten for clarity. No answer keys changed. more ▾less ▴
Explanations on 104 more questions were rewritten to be easier to read. Each one now opens by saying plainly why the correct answer is correct, then takes the other three options one at a time, so you can find the sentence that answers your own doubt instead of reading a whole paragraph to reach it. No correct answers, questions or answer choices changed, so every result you have already recorded still stands.
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Partograph, antacid timing and leprosy classification corrected. more ▾less ▴
Three facts were corrected across the questions. A partograph question now teaches the four-hour action line. Antacid questions now say to separate an antacid from your other medicines by at least 2 hours rather than 1 to 2 hours, and the explanations now add that levothyroxine and the fluoroquinolone antibiotics need about four hours, which our thyroid questions already taught. A leprosy classification question stated an India programme rule as though it were the World Health Organization rule, and it now states the WHO rule.
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Three cram sheets corrected to match. Your marks are untouched. more ▾less ▴
Three cram sheets were corrected to match. Communicable Diseases now separates the leprosy deformities caused by the bacillus in the skin from the ones caused by nerve damage, instead of calling all of them nerve damage. Nutrition and Gastrointestinal and Pharmacology Core now give the antacid separation as at least 2 hours, and Pharmacology Core adds the four-hour gap for levothyroxine and the fluoroquinolones. Nothing else on any page moved, so your highlights and notes are exactly where you left them.
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Ten reported questions revised. No answer keys changed. more ▾less ▴
Ten practice and mock questions were revised after your reports today. A scenario in a flooded evacuation center said intravenous fluids were limited while its question asked for the right fluid to give, so the shortage line is gone and the question now turns on the assessment findings alone. A dengue question asking which findings show compensated shock now states the blood pressure detail that separates it from decompensated shock, and explains why urine output alone cannot tell the two apart. A question on transfusion consent now says the nurse ensures consent is obtained after an explanation, which matches what you are taught: the physician explains the procedure and obtains the consent, and the nurse witnesses it and confirms the family understood. No correct answers changed anywhere, so every result you have already recorded still stands.
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Explanations no longer argue against the answer they are defending. more ▾less ▴
Several explanations were rewritten where they argued against their own answer. One said a statement was correct as written and then spent a paragraph on what was unusual about it, which read as though it might be wrong after all; each option is now labeled plainly as accurate or as the one needing correction. A tuberculosis question that asked a nurse to review a plan against DOTS now asks plainly whether each part of the plan follows DOTS, since against could be read as the plan opposing it.
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Two flashcards no longer give their answers away on the front. more ▾less ▴
Two flashcards printed their own answers on the front, one showing the examples in brackets right beside the blank you were meant to fill in, the other showing the abbreviation of the answer. Both fronts are now clean, and the examples moved to the back where they reinforce what you recalled instead of replacing it.
Re-read finished decks, honest question counts, steadier mock clock
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Read through any finished deck anytime — without touching your schedule. more ▾less ▴
With full access you can now read through every card of a flashcard deck whenever you like, even when they are all scheduled days away. Open any deck and tap Read through next to Exit (the deck list also shows a Read through button once a deck is caught up) for a reading view of every card, front and back. Reading never changes your review schedule — rated reviews still happen when cards come due, so the spacing you have earned stays intact. Decks you created yourself are always readable on any plan.
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New-questions practice sets now match the promised count. more ▾less ▴
Practice sets built from the New questions pool sometimes came out smaller than the number promised on the setup screen, and could serve questions you had already answered while new ones still existed. The builder now spends its search entirely on questions you have not answered yet, so short sets and surprise repeats only happen when your remaining new pool is genuinely running low.
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Resumed practice sets now say they are resumed, with a fresh-set option. more ▾less ▴
If you come back to an unfinished practice set, the session now says so at the top — with how far you got and a one-tap link to start a fresh set instead of silently reopening the old one.
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The mock timer no longer jumps silently after a pause on a shaky connection. more ▾less ▴
On mock boards, pausing on a shaky connection could leave the timer looking like it restarted or jumped. The clock now re-checks its pause state with the server as you work, and whenever paused time is credited back it says so in a small note next to the timer instead of moving silently. No time was ever taken from anyone by this bug — it only ever gave extra.
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13Aug · Thu
Clearer explanations on 102 practice questions
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Explanations on 102 practice questions now teach the reasoning, not just the answer. more ▾less ▴
We rewrote the explanations on 102 practice questions so they read like a teacher talking you through the answer instead of a summary of it. Each one now says plainly why the correct answer is correct, then takes the other three options one at a time and explains what makes each one wrong. The questions themselves are untouched, the answers are unchanged, and every result you have already recorded still stands.
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Explanations no longer lean on reviewer shorthand. more ▾less ▴
Where an explanation leaned on a phrase only a reviewer would use, such as calling one option the most tempting of the wrong answers, we replaced it with the actual clinical reason. You should not have to decode an explanation in order to learn from it.
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Due date questions now show working that matches the rule. more ▾less ▴
Three questions on estimating a due date showed working that did not add up, even though the answer marked correct was right. The steps now match the rule they teach, and they match the way the same rule is written on the Antepartum cram sheet and the flashcards.
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A leprosy classification explanation now states the rule correctly. more ▾less ▴
One leprosy question described the World Health Organization classification as needing more than five lesions together with a positive smear. Either finding on its own is enough, and the explanation now says so.
Highlights on cram sheets can now straighten themselves
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Cram sheet highlights snap to a clean straight line when you lift. more ▾less ▴
When you highlight a line of text on a cram sheet, the mark now snaps to a clean straight line the moment you lift your finger or pen, as long as your stroke already looked like one. Shaky hands get tidy highlights with no extra effort, and anything you draw on purpose, like waves, circles, or filling in a word with back-and-forth strokes, stays exactly as drawn. If you prefer fully freehand highlights, tap the Auto-straighten button beside the highlighter colors to turn it off. The ruler tool (R) is still there when you want every stroke, pen included, to draw straight.
Seven questions revised from your reports
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Seven reported questions fixed, with clearer explanations. No answer keys changed. more ▾less ▴
Seven practice and mock questions were revised after student reports this week. One had a choice that described the correct habit in a question asking what needs correcting, so that choice now states the misconception the client actually voiced. Two scenarios now state the detail their question depends on, and the explanations were rewritten to be easier to follow, with the arithmetic and schedules written out step by step. No correct answers changed, so every past result stands. Thank you to everyone who files reports; we read and act on every one.
Feeding after pyloric stenosis surgery now agrees
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A pyloric stenosis question no longer contradicts two others about diluting feeds. more ▾less ▴
A question on the first feeding after pyloric stenosis surgery had diluting the formula built into its correct answer, while two other questions marked diluting as wrong. Diluting is not what the textbooks teach, so the wording is gone. The correct answer is unchanged and so is the point of the question, which was always about not laying the baby flat to feed. If you answered it before, your result stands.
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A milestones flashcard now matches the questions on 12 month vocabulary. more ▾less ▴
A milestones flashcard said a 12 month old typically says one to three words besides mama and dada. Two practice questions teach two or three, which is what the textbooks say, so the card now says two or three as well. Pillitteri puts it at two words and Wong's at three to five, and two or three sits between them.
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A pyloric stenosis feeding flashcard no longer contradicts the questions. more ▾less ▴
A flashcard on restarting feeds after pyloric stenosis surgery said to begin with clear or diluted feeds. It now says to start with small frequent feeds of clear fluid and build the volume up, and it names the point that was missing: volume is what you restrict after this operation, not strength.
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On a 12 month language question, the explanation for the option offering four to six words used to just say it overstated the milestone. It now says what is actually wrong with it, which is the word minimum. Four to six overlaps the top of the range the textbooks describe, so the count is not the problem; treating any count as a floor a baby must clear is.
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12Aug · Wed
Three community health topics rewritten
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Three community health topics rewritten, with explanations that name your near miss. more ▾less ▴
Three topics have been rewritten: the health financing and insurance laws, the maternal, child and reproductive health laws, and health education and research use in community health nursing. Ninety seven questions in all. Every explanation now names the option you were most likely torn between and says exactly what separates it from the right answer, instead of just telling you the right answer was right.
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Removed 23 repeated questions from the health financing laws. more ▾less ▴
The health financing law topic was padded and is now much tighter. Forty five questions between them had only fourteen different answers, and one law was the answer to ten of them. Five separate questions asked which law taxed cigarettes and alcohol to fund PhilHealth. Twenty three of those repeats have been removed. The twenty two that remain each teach something the others do not, so a good score there now means you know the laws rather than that you spotted the pattern.
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Health education questions no longer give away their own answers. more ▾less ▴
In health education, most questions were giving away their own answers. One asked which teaching method suits clients who would benefit from sharing experiences and solving problems together, and the answer was group discussion. You did not need to know anything. Thirty four of the forty had a version of that problem and they have been rewritten so the wrong choices are things a careful nurse could genuinely argue for.
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Removed a wording pattern that gave away eight answers in the maternal and child laws. more ▾less ▴
In the maternal and child law topic there was a shortcut nobody intended. Whenever a question used the word issuance rather than law, the answer was never a Republic Act, and that held true in every single case. Eight questions could be answered by noticing one word. The wording has been evened out so the word tells you nothing.
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Corrected explanations that named the wrong law or stated things the law does not say. more ▾less ▴
Several explanations stated things that were simply not true and have been corrected against the laws themselves. One called the Malasakit Centers Act the Rice Tariffication Law, which is a different law entirely. Four said a law had nothing to do with generic prescribing when that law amended the generics law directly. One said a law carries no child labour penalties when it does, and a neighbouring question said the opposite, so the two contradicted each other. One question rested on a rule about PhilHealth membership and passports that is not in the law at all, and it has been removed.
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Early childhood care questions now say plainly which law replaced the old one. more ▾less ▴
Four questions about early childhood care were answering with a law that was repealed back in 2013. Review centres still teach it, so the questions have been kept and now ask which law first set the system up, and each explanation says plainly that a newer law replaced it in 2013 and changed the age brackets. You get the answer your reviewer expects and the current position at the same time.
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Fixed one question with two defensible answers and withdrew another. more ▾less ▴
Two questions had answers that were arguably wrong rather than just badly worded. One asked which health belief a nurse should address for a mother who said she had no time or energy, which describes a barrier, but the marked answer was confidence in her own ability. The scenario now has her say she keeps starting and slipping back, so confidence is clearly the issue. The other asked which question a nurse asks first when appraising a study and marked whether it applies here, when the accepted order checks whether the study is sound first. That one has been withdrawn rather than patched.
Normal Pregnancy rebuilt; four explanations corrected
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Normal Pregnancy rebuilt, with explanations that name the option you were torn between. more ▾less ▴
The Normal Pregnancy topic has been rebuilt to the tighter standard the rest of the bank is moving to. All 90 questions now put the difficulty in the choices rather than in the wording, so you have to reason your way to the answer instead of spotting the odd one out, and every explanation names the option you were most likely torn between and says exactly what separates it from the right one.
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Shorter scenarios, and more of the which is not correct format. more ▾less ▴
The questions in that topic are also shorter and more varied. The scenarios used to run past 60 words on average and the longest was 93. They now sit under 50, with the storytelling trimmed away and every clinical detail kept, so nothing that decides the answer has gone. More of them are now the kind that asks which statement is not correct, a format the board uses often and this topic barely had before.
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The antenatal visits question no longer contradicts the cram sheet rule. more ▾less ▴
One question asked how many antenatal visits are recommended, said the clinic follows the Department of Health programme, and then marked eight contacts as correct. DOH guidance sets four focused visits. Eight is the World Health Organization figure. Both are current, and the rule we teach on the Immunization, MCH and Nutrition cram sheet is to answer four unless the question names WHO. That question now names WHO, so it agrees with the sheet instead of contradicting it. If it confused you, that was our fault and not yours.
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Corrected an explanation that wrongly called a speculum examination dangerous. more ▾less ▴
A question on placenta praevia had an explanation saying that a digital or speculum examination can provoke torrential bleeding. That is not right, and it is the kind of thing you would carry into the ward. A speculum examination is safe when praevia is suspected and is often done first to look for another source of bleeding. It is the digital examination that waits until an ultrasound has settled where the placenta is. The explanation now says so.
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Fixed a nutrition question that had a second arguable answer. more ▾less ▴
A nutrition question described a woman who eats no meat, fish or eggs, and then explained its answer as though she avoided dairy too. With milk and cheese still in her diet she has a reliable source of vitamin B12, which made iron a fair answer as well. The scenario now says she avoids dairy, so B12 is clearly the one that needs attention and there is no second defensible answer.
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Several explanations in that topic had wrong facts and have been corrected. more ▾less ▴
Several explanations in that topic carried facts that were out of date or simply wrong, and have been corrected against current sources. Eggs were credited with heme iron when egg iron is non heme, which mattered because the same explanation ruled out another option for exactly that reason. Cats were said to shed toxoplasma for a week or two and no longer, when the sourced figure is one to three weeks. Neural tube closure was placed around the time a period is missed, when it finishes one to two weeks after. Quickening was given as 16 to 20 weeks in a first pregnancy, which is the figure for a later one.
New Professional Adjustment topic, bigger free sheet
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The free cram sheet is now 15 pages and covers IV fluids, tonicity and IV site problems. more ▾less ▴
The free cram sheet has grown from 11 pages to 15, and it is now called Labs, Fluids and Electrolytes. The new part is about intravenous fluids: what each kind of bag does to a cell, when an isotonic, hypotonic or hypertonic solution is the right choice and when it is dangerous, and a table of the bag names you will actually meet on a Philippine ward, including PNSS, PLRS, D5NSS, D5IMB and D5NM. It also covers fluid volume deficit against fluid volume excess, what daily weight and urine output are really telling you, and the six things that go wrong at an intravenous site, including the difference between an infiltration, which is cool and pale, and a phlebitis, which is warm and red.
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A new closing section on why a lab result can be wrong before it reaches the chart. more ▾less ▴
That same sheet now closes with a section on when a laboratory value is wrong before it ever reaches the chart: blood drawn above a running intravenous line, a tourniquet left on too long, a hemolyzed specimen, the order the tubes are filled in, timing and transport, and what a bedside glucometer can and cannot tell you. It is the answer to a potassium of 6.2 in a patient who looks completely well.
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Marks made on the earlier version of the free sheet are safe, behind the history icon. more ▾less ▴
If you had highlighted or written notes on that sheet before today, none of it has been deleted. Your marks stay on the version you drew them on, exactly where you left them, and you can open that version at any time using the history icon in the reader toolbar. We have also messaged everyone this affects directly.
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Eight questions rewritten after student reports. No scores or answer keys changed. more ▾less ▴
Eight practice questions have been rewritten after students reported them, and in most cases the report was right about the question rather than about the answer. Some carried an option whose wording contradicted the explanation printed underneath it. One described a finding in the scenario and then argued that the finding was not there. One asked you to judge whether a method suited a client without giving you the history you needed to decide. Your answers and your scores are untouched, and not one answer key changed.
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Those questions now name the most tempting wrong option and explain it properly. more ▾less ▴
Those same eight now explain themselves better — each one names the wrong option that was most tempting and says plainly what it gets right before saying where it falls short, instead of leaving you to work out why the choice you made was not the one being asked for.
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The Growth and Development sheet now calls school-age play competitive as well as cooperative. more ▾less ▴
On the Growth and Development cram sheet, the school-age row of the play table now describes that play as organized, with rules, roles and a goal, and increasingly competitive. A new line in the pairs-that-get-swapped table at the back explains why both words are right: Parten's stages stop at cooperative, so competitive describes school-age play rather than naming a further stage. A student asked about this, so thank you. Any notes you have made on that sheet are exactly where you left them.
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The Foundations and Fundamentals row now reads ALL instead of an internal code. more ▾less ▴
The Foundations and Fundamentals row on your Performance page was showing an internal code from our own files instead of a readable label. It now reads ALL, the same as it already did on Home, so the six subject rows match each other wherever you see them. Nothing about your scores or your readiness has changed, only the label.
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New topic: Professional Adjustment and Nursing Jurisprudence, with 80 questions. more ▾less ▴
There is a new topic in the question bank: Professional Adjustment and Nursing Jurisprudence. It is the PALMER ground the bank had almost nothing on, and it now holds 80 questions. It covers the four things a malpractice claim has to prove and how that differs from ordinary negligence, who else can be held answerable for a nurse's act, res ipsa loquitur, the difference between assault, battery, libel and slander, when consent is valid and who may give it for someone else, the three kinds of will, the burden of proof in a criminal case against a civil one, the bioethical principles, confidentiality and the Data Privacy Act, the Code of Ethics, the limits of nursing practice, and which body handles which kind of complaint.
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The new topic appears in Practice and Performance, and in study plans built from today. more ▾less ▴
You will find the new topic under Foundations and Fundamentals in Practice, in Performance, and in the topic list. If you build a new study plan from today it will include the topic. Study plans you already have are unchanged, so nothing you have already scheduled moves or disappears.
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11Aug · Tue
Weak spots days in your study plan
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Plan mistake days now end with a drill of fresh questions from your weakest topics. more ▾less ▴
The recurring mistake-review days in your study plan are now Weak Spots days: clear your Vault mistakes first, then a new button takes you straight into fresh questions from your weakest topics. Redoing a miss teaches you the item; a new question on the same topic proves you closed the gap. Plans built earlier keep their old task name and get the new button all the same.
A cleaner Home dashboard
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One weak-spots card on Home, with the drill button on it. more ▾less ▴
Home now has one Your Weak Spots card that names the exact topics you miss most, with the drill button right on it. Before, the page warned you about the same weak subject in four different places and only one of them had a button.
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Study by Subject on Home: six subjects, progress bars, one tap to practice. more ▾less ▴
A Study by Subject section on Home shows all six exam subjects with a progress bar (green is right on the first try, red is wrong, gray is questions you have not met yet). One tap starts a practice set in that subject.
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Whole-plan progress on Today's Plan, and a shorter page. more ▾less ▴
Today's Plan now also shows your progress across the whole plan, not just today, and the page got shorter: repeated links, repeated text, and a card that duplicated the top menu were removed.
Care of population groups rebuilt, and 14 repeated questions retired
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Care of population groups rebuilt, with explanations that name the choice you were torn between. more ▾less ▴
The community health topic Care of Population Groups with Other Health Priorities has been rebuilt to the tighter standard the rest of the bank is moving to. Every option is now plausible enough that you have to reason rather than spot the odd one out, and the explanation afterwards names the choice you were most likely torn between and says exactly what separates it from the right answer. Before today, 37 of the 40 questions in this topic gave you nothing if you narrowed it down to two and picked the wrong one.
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Fourteen repeated questions retired from that topic. more ▾less ▴
Fourteen questions in that topic have been retired because they were asking the same handful of facts over and over, or were asking something another topic already owns and tests better. Nothing you need to know has gone: every fact they covered is still taught by a question that stayed. The topic is smaller and repeats less.
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Two broken questions in that topic have been retired. more ▾less ▴
Two questions in that topic were genuinely broken and are now gone. One asked which level of prevention a scenario showed, but the answer marked correct was not a level of prevention at all, so anyone reasoning it through properly was marked wrong. The other defined a term as the opposite of what it means. If either of them cost you a mark, that was our fault and not yours.
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Out of date explanations in that topic corrected against current law. more ▾less ▴
Several explanations in that topic were quietly out of date and have been corrected against the current sources: one said a government office issues no identification card when it does issue a temporary one, one ruled out free confinement in a government hospital in terms the Universal Health Care Act has since overtaken, one credited a tax break that the TRAIN law removed, and one still used a Department of Health program name that changed in 2013.
Submit answer will not go dead on you any more
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A pulled question no longer freezes the Submit answer button. more ▾less ▴
If a question was pulled from the bank while it was still sitting in your practice set, tapping Submit answer did nothing at all. No message, no error, the button just went back to how it was. Your answer on that question now saves normally, so the set carries on to the end.
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Exam mode no longer drops those questions from your results. more ▾less ▴
In exam mode the same questions were quietly missing from your results afterwards, because they were skipped rather than graded. They are graded now and appear with the rest.
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An answer that fails to save now tells you so. more ▾less ▴
If an answer ever fails to save for any other reason, you will now be told, instead of being left tapping a button that looks broken. The message says your answer did not save and invites you to try again or move on and come back.
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A report that fails to send now tells you, instead of looking sent. more ▾less ▴
The Report a problem form had the same gap, which mattered more: if your report failed to send, it said nothing, and you would reasonably have assumed it reached us. It now tells you plainly, and your message and photo stay in the box so you can send again. If you have ever written to us and heard nothing back, this may be why, and we are sorry.
Your projected rating now appears when you finish practising
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Practice results now lead with your percentage. more ▾less ▴
Finish a practice set and the big number on the results screen is now your percentage, with the raw count underneath it. Before, the score was shown as 14 out of 20 in large type and the 70 percent sat under it in small grey text, which was easy to miss.
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Your projected PNLE rating now shows at the end of a set. more ▾less ▴
Under the session summary you will also see your projected PNLE rating, with your readiness band and the likely range around it. It is the same number as the one on your dashboard, not a rating for that one set: a set of 20 questions is far too small to rate you on, so this counts every question you have answered for the first time. If you have not answered 40 yet, it tells you how many more will unlock it.
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The same rating appears when you reopen a past session from your History, and at the end of a Vault run. This was a student suggestion, so thank you.
Your Vault no longer stops at 20 questions
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Choose 20, 30 or 50 questions per Vault run. more ▾less ▴
The Vault used to hand out 20 questions per run and there was no way to ask for more. You can now pick 20, 30 or 50 on the Vault screen before you start, and the size you pick is remembered for the rest of the session.
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Keep going straight into the next Vault set. more ▾less ▴
Finish a Vault run and there is now a Keep going button that drops you straight into the next set. If your pile is large you no longer have to walk back to the Vault screen and press Start over and over.
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The Redo buttons now say how many questions they actually serve. more ▾less ▴
On the Vault screen, the red Redo button next to a topic now says exactly how many questions it will serve. If a topic has more misses than one run can hold it reads Redo 50 of 66, instead of promising the full pile and quietly giving you 20.
New Renal cram sheet; select-all explanations rewritten
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A new 24 page cram sheet on renal and urinary nursing. more ▾less ▴
A new cram sheet is on the shelf: Renal and Urinary Elimination, 24 pages, in Resources under NP3. It covers acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease and dialysis, and it goes wider than that: urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis, kidney stones, urinary retention and catheter care, the four types of incontinence, nephrotic versus nephritic side by side, and polycystic kidney disease. It was built because a student asked for it, so thank you.
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Diagrams of the nephron, uremia, and both kinds of dialysis equipment. more ▾less ▴
That sheet is built around its pictures. There is a labeled nephron that follows the filtrate from the glomerulus to the collecting duct, a head to toe map of what long standing kidney failure looks like on a patient, the hemodialysis machine with the blood traced out of the arm and back again, and the peritoneal dialysis setup that shows why the bag hangs high and the drain bag sits on the floor.
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It has a Philippine section as well, covering what PhilHealth actually pays for dialysis and for a kidney transplant, and the food advice that matters at a Filipino table, including why buko juice is not the harmless drink it looks like when your kidneys have stopped clearing potassium.
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400 more select-all questions now explain every statement. more ▾less ▴
Another 400 select-all-that-apply questions now explain every numbered statement one at a time, marked Correct or Wrong with its own reason. That brings the total to 800 of 1,291, and it covers essentially every select-all question students actually open.
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Every select-all question in the bank now explains each statement. more ▾less ▴
Another 489 followed on the same day, which finishes the job: every select-all-that-apply question in the bank now explains each numbered statement on its own line. That is 1,289 of them. The only two left out are questions whose wording lists no numbered statements to explain.
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Many of these were only half converted before: the correct statements had their own lines and the wrong ones stayed buried inside the answer-choice paragraphs. Those now get the same treatment, so the statement you got wrong is the one you can actually look up.
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Exam-writer wording is gone from these explanations. Phrases like "the closest competitor" and "the nearest miss" described how the question was built rather than the nursing, and they have been replaced with the clinical reason a statement is true or false.
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Where an explanation depends on a lab value, the normal range now stays with it, so you can check the number without leaving the question.
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A few explanations carried small factual slips, including a dialysis schedule that did not match the situation and an eye-drop instruction that had the reason the wrong way round. Those are corrected.
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The Critical Care cram sheet is rebuilt and seven pages longer. more ▾less ▴
The Critical Care and Emergency Nursing cram sheet has been rebuilt. It now uses the same layout as the other rebuilt sheets, with a bold label on every block so you can scan for what you need instead of reading through paragraphs, and it has grown from 28 pages to 35.
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Nine new sections in the Critical Care sheet, including transfusion reactions and crush syndrome. more ▾less ▴
Nine sections in that sheet are new: the complications that show up days after a heart attack, what to do with a fast rhythm in a patient who still has a pulse, running vasoactive drips safely, the central line and urinary catheter infection bundles, blood transfusion reactions, crush syndrome, rapid sequence intubation, sedation and delirium in the ICU, and a closing table that gives you a scenario and asks for the first action.
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If you had highlights or notes on the old Critical Care sheet, none of them were deleted. Because every page was re-typeset, your marks may now sit over different words, so open the sheet and tap the clock icon in the top bar to read the previous edition with everything exactly where you drew it.
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The Antepartum cram sheet is rebuilt and seven pages longer. more ▾less ▴
The Antepartum cram sheet has been rebuilt the same way, with a bold label on every block so you can scan for what you need instead of reading through paragraphs, and it has grown from 19 pages to 26.
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The Antepartum diagram labels are readable, and two pointers were aimed wrong. more ▾less ▴
The labels on that sheet's diagrams had been printing at roughly half the size of the body text, which made the pregnancy danger signs, pre-eclampsia, magnesium toxicity and ectopic pictures hard to read. They are sized properly now, and fixing them turned up two pointer lines that were aimed at blank space instead of the thing they named.
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Nine new sections in the Antepartum sheet, including HELLP and growth restriction. more ▾less ▴
Nine sections in the Antepartum sheet are new: dating a pregnancy by ultrasound and the newer screening tests, a baby growing too small or too big, HELLP, what gets checked after repeated miscarriage, caring for placenta previa in the weeks before birth, asthma and epilepsy and thyroid disease and urine infection in pregnancy, how a mother adjusts to being pregnant, and a closing table that hands you a scenario and asks for the first action.
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The same applies to your marks on the Antepartum sheet. Nothing was deleted, and the clock icon in the top bar shows the previous edition with your highlights and notes exactly where you drew them.
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10Aug · Mon
Select-all-that-apply explanations now cover every statement
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Every numbered statement now gets its own Correct or Wrong explanation. more ▾less ▴
On select-all-that-apply questions, the explanation now takes each numbered statement one at a time and marks it Correct or Wrong with its own reason, instead of grouping them under the answer choices. Before, a statement could be explained twice in two different ways, or never explained at all.
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The first 400 select-all-that-apply questions have been rewritten this way, chosen as the ones students open most. The rest of the bank follows.
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9Aug · Sun
Add photos to your own flashcards
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Attach photos to your custom flashcards. more ▾less ▴
Your custom flashcards can now carry a photo on the front and the back: snap a lecture slide, a drug table, or your own handwritten notes, and it shows up right on the card when you review. Open any of your decks, tap Edit, and look for the new photo button. (Feature request from a student — thank you!)
Cram sheets and the home page load faster
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Opening a cram sheet is lighter on your data: the text that powers in-sheet search now downloads only when you actually open Search, instead of arriving with every sheet.
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Your highlights, pen marks and sticky notes on a sheet now load page by page as you read, so heavily annotated sheets open just as fast as clean ones. Everything still saves and syncs exactly as before.
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The home page now loads noticeably faster for visitors.
Your scroll always wins over the automatic glide
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After you tap Submit or Next, the page glides to the next thing to read on its own. If you started scrolling during that glide, the page used to fight your finger and stutter, which could look like a broken screen. Now the moment you scroll, the glide steps aside and the page follows you.
Clearer instructions for paying by QR
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Checkout now explains how to pay the QR code, including what to do when you're paying on the same phone. more ▾less ▴
Checkout now explains how to pay the QR code before it sends you off to do it: open GCash, Maya or your bank app and tap Scan QR, and if you are paying on the same phone, screenshot the code first and use Upload QR in GCash, since you cannot scan your own screen. It also notes that codes expire, so if one stops working you can just come back and start again.
Your diagnostic now tells you how sure it is
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Your diagnostic subject scores now show the honest range, not just a percentage. more ▾less ▴
The By subject bars on your diagnostic results now show how wide the real answer still is. Thirty questions works out to only about six per subject, which is enough to point you in a direction but not enough to score you — so alongside the percentage you now get the honest range, and a one-tap drill for that subject. The range narrows on its own as you practice.
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Diagnostic results now point you to where the precise numbers live. more ▾less ▴
Your diagnostic results now point you to the two places that measure properly: your Performance page, which rebuilds your subject breakdown from every question you answer, and the mock boards, which give you 100 items per subject instead of six.
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A nudge to sit your first mock board once you have the practice behind you. more ▾less ▴
Once you have a few hundred questions behind you, your dashboard and Performance page will remind you if you have not sat a mock board yet. A mock is 500 items in the real exam format, taken one subject at a time, and it is the clearest read you can get on where you actually stand.
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Mock sections now show their score as soon as you submit them. more ▾less ▴
Every mock section now shows its score the moment you submit it. Before, a section's score stayed hidden until you had finished all five, so if you stopped partway you had nothing to show for a 100-item sitting. Your total, readiness tier, and full board breakdown still unlock at the end, just like the real board.
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An unfinished mock board now reminds you which section is left. more ▾less ▴
If you left a mock board partway through, your dashboard and Performance page will now tell you how many sections are done and which one is next. Plenty of people finished four sections and never came back for the fifth, which is the one that unlocks the full result.
Your study plan now bends without breaking
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Change your exam or start date any time, and keep everything you have finished. more ▾less ▴
You can change your exam date or your start date any time, right from your Study Plan — the row of buttons under the dates. Your remaining days rebuild around the new window, everything you have already ticked off stays ticked, and the plan you had before is still there to restore. Until now the only way to move a date was Reset, which started you back at zero.
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Rebalanced by mistake? Undo rebalance puts every task back where it was. more ▾less ▴
Rebalance can be undone. If a respread leaves your days looking nothing like what you wanted, Undo rebalance puts every task back on the day it sat on before, and anything you ticked off in the meantime stays ticked.
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A rebalance that would overload your days now offers to resize the plan instead. more ▾less ▴
If a rebalance would make your days much heavier than the daily study time you chose, BoardPal now says so before you commit, and offers to fit the plan to your time instead — same topics, fewer questions each, so the days stay doable. Rebalance only ever moved work between days; it could never make a day smaller.
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The exam-date field admits when PRC hasn't published a sitting yet. more ▾less ▴
When you build a plan for a sitting PRC hasn't scheduled yet, the exam-date field now says so instead of quietly holding a date. The February 2027 dates aren't out yet, so the field shows a clearly labelled placeholder and invites your best estimate — and since your dates are now editable, correcting it later costs you nothing.
My Notes now holds every note you write
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Your notes on practice questions now show up in My Notes. more ▾less ▴
The notes you leave under a question's explanation now appear in Resources > My Notes. Until today that page only gathered the sticky notes from cram sheets, so if you had written notes on practice questions it told you that you had none. Nothing was ever lost: every note you wrote is there now, grouped by topic. Tap one to reread the question, the choices, and the explanation without leaving the page.
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Sticky notes from an earlier edition of a sheet are listed again. more ▾less ▴
Sticky notes you left on a cram sheet before it was updated are back in My Notes too. When a sheet gets a new edition your notes stay on the pages you wrote them on, and they were dropping off the list instead of showing up. They are listed again, marked as an earlier edition, and tapping one opens the exact page you wrote it on.
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8Aug · Sat
Scrolling a question no longer draws on it
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Scrolling a question with a tool switched on no longer leaves a stray line. more ▾less ▴
With the Highlighter or Pen switched on, swiping up or down to scroll a question could leave a line or a band across the words you swiped over, and the question would not scroll. Scrolling now works normally while a tool is on: swipe down the page as usual, and drag across the words only when you actually want to mark them. Freehand and Eraser still use the whole block, as before.
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Clear marks stays available even after you switch the tool off. more ▾less ▴
The Clear button now stays on the tools row for as long as there is a mark on screen, instead of disappearing the moment you switch the tool off — so a mark you did not mean to make is always one tap away from gone.
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The tools row stays put, and an active tool says it is on. more ▾less ▴
The tools row is tidier and no longer rearranges itself. A tool that is on now says so in words, and its settings sit on their own line underneath instead of pushing the other buttons around.
Four cram sheets rebuilt; highlights survive updates
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Updated sheets keep their previous edition — your highlights stay exactly where you drew them. more ▾less ▴
From today, updating a sheet can no longer scramble your marks. Every sheet we re-lay out keeps its previous edition: open the sheet and tap the small clock icon in the top bar to flip between the new edition and the one you marked up, with every highlight and note exactly where you left it. Marks you make on each edition are saved separately, and the old edition stays available through exam day. If you had marked any of today's four sheets, there's a note on your dashboard with the details.
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Four more sheets rebuilt: Intrapartum, Mental Health, Immunization, Nutrition & GI. more ▾less ▴
Intrapartum, Mental Health Concepts, Immunization MCH & Nutrition, and Nutrition & Gastrointestinal have been rebuilt the same way as the six sheets last week: scannable boxes with short WHY / DO / warning lines instead of dense paragraphs, diagram labels readable at full size, and pages of genuinely new content — Intrapartum grew from 21 pages to 27, Mental Health from 22 to 26, Immunization from 19 to 24, and Nutrition & GI from 31 to 38.
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New high-yield sections across all four sheets. more ▾less ▴
Some of what the new pages cover: Immunization adds the sick-young-infant danger signs, the First 1000 Days, PIMAM, and a table that drills you on naming the first action for a scenario. Nutrition & GI adds achalasia, Mallory-Weiss versus Boerhaave, the milk-and-ulcer myth, and acute mesenteric ischemia. Mental Health adds the neo-Freudians, medical conditions that mimic psychiatric ones, the recovery model, and trauma-informed care.
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A new section on which guideline to answer when the old and new versions disagree. more ▾less ▴
A student wrote in to ask what to do when the old guideline and the new one both turn up in the choices, so Immunization MCH & Nutrition now has a section answering it. The rule: if the stem names an authority, answer that one; if it names none, answer the Philippine one, because this is a Philippine licensure exam; and if it is the same authority with a newer edition, take the newer one. It works through the two that catch people out — dysentery follow-up at 2 or 3 days, and antenatal visits at 4 or 8, which turn out to be two different kinds of disagreement. The sheet is 25 pages now, and its closing number table lists the IMCI follow-up intervals.
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Dysentery follow-up on the Immunization sheet corrected from 2 days to 3. more ▾less ▴
On that same sheet, dysentery follow-up was listed as 2 days. The current IMCI chart booklet puts dysentery and pneumonia both at 3 days — 2 days is the older chart, and that is where the 2-5-5-2-5-2-14-30 mnemonic comes from. The sheet now says 3, with the older number named beside it so you recognize either version if it shows up. The practice questions on this were already correct.
What changed in the question bank this week
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More than 3,200 rationales rewritten to read more plainly. No correct answers changed. more ▾less ▴
More than 3,200 questions already in the bank had their rationales rewritten this week. The aim was to make an explanation read like an explanation: the reason the right answer is right comes first, in short sentences, and then each wrong option is taken in turn and named for what it actually is. None of the correct answers changed — only the wording around them. If a rationale you remember as dense reads more plainly now, that is why.
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Three community health subtopics rebuilt so the wrong options no longer give themselves away. more ▾less ▴
Three community health subtopics — nutrition programs, sanitation and environmental health, and the laws around nursing practice and the health workforce — were rebuilt to the tighter standard the rest of the bank is moving to, where every option is plausible enough that you have to reason rather than spot the odd one out.
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Eleven reported questions repaired this week. more ▾less ▴
Eleven questions you reported were repaired this week. Thank you for flagging them — a report from one student fixes the question for everybody, and it is by far the fastest way we find these.
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Newborn screening law citation corrected on the flashcards. more ▾less ▴
Flashcards that cited the newborn screening law were calling it a Republic Act. It is Act No. 3573, an older form of Philippine legislation, and every card now says so correctly.
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