PBR Weekly Update — Week Ending July 13, 2026

PBR Weekly Update: More Practice Control, Clearer Progress, and Smoother Study Sessions

This week’s Philippine Bar Reviewer updates give you finer control over practice questions, make flashcards and Mock Bar sessions smoother, and add a privacy-conscious way to understand your Bar 2026 readiness.

Highlights

• Filter practice by source and question type: You can focus on jurisprudence-based questions across Flashcards, Quizzes, and Mock Bar, while Flashcards also lets you switch between Essay and Multiple Choice practice.
• Turn Reader support on or off in Microsoft Edge: Edge users now have a clear Reader ON/OFF control when reader features are available.
• Clearer breadcrumbs and more readable questions: Flashcard topic trails are easier to understand and see, while question text uses a more comfortable scale.
• Faster page delivery: Flashcards and shared pages should begin responding sooner and load optimized runtime assets.
• Stay focused when moving to the next card: The next-card action no longer waits indefinitely for background work, and the following question is positioned where you can resume reading immediately.
• Review checkout terms before choosing payment: The terms agreement now appears before payment methods, and PayPal remains gated until the agreement is accepted.
• A lighter, more direct homepage: The main review actions appear in a clearer order, and the oversized hero video no longer weighs down the opening experience.
• See your Bar 2026 readiness in context: Signed-in students can compare their readiness through a leaderboard that uses private peer nicknames and does not expose answers, attempts, or detailed study history.
• Clara is available across more of the study experience: Clara can help with test-preparation questions and site guidance from more pages, with usage measured against the applicable weekly allowance.
• Start and submit before the grading access check: You can enter a Mock Bar exam and complete your answers before the plan check that precedes AI grading.

What changed

Choose the practice you need

Filter practice by source and question type

You can focus on jurisprudence-based questions across Flashcards, Quizzes, and Mock Bar, while Flashcards also lets you switch between Essay and Multiple Choice practice.

The shared source controls were stabilized so they remain useful even when a filtered set is empty, and the Flashcards question-type control keeps the two main practice formats easy to reach.

Turn Reader support on or off in Microsoft Edge

Edge users now have a clear Reader ON/OFF control when reader features are available.

The browser-gated control makes the reading aid explicit without showing an unavailable option in other browsers.

A smoother Flashcards experience

Clearer breadcrumbs and more readable questions

Flashcard topic trails are easier to understand and see, while question text uses a more comfortable scale.

Breadcrumb hover tooltips, stronger hover contrast, and two measured type-size refinements improve orientation without changing the study flow.

Clearer choices before you continue

Review checkout terms before choosing payment

The terms agreement now appears before payment methods, and PayPal remains gated until the agreement is accepted.

A stronger warning state points back to the terms control when action is needed, making the order of checkout decisions clearer.

Understand your progress and get study support

See your Bar 2026 readiness in context

Signed-in students can compare their readiness through a leaderboard that uses private peer nicknames and does not expose answers, attempts, or detailed study history.

Scores are shown to two decimal places, the rank card uses the full registered-student population, and the surrounding copy explains the comparison and privacy model in student-friendly language.

Clara is available across more of the study experience

Clara can help with test-preparation questions and site guidance from more pages, with usage measured against the applicable weekly allowance.

The assistant now uses a dedicated study-support path with a deterministic fallback, and the chat remains reachable across authentication and focused study layouts.

A more continuous Mock Bar flow

Start and submit before the grading access check

You can enter a Mock Bar exam and complete your answers before the plan check that precedes AI grading.

Submission is now saved as a distinct step before grading begins, and the exam workspace received a focused visual refinement for writing and review.

Fixes and performance

Faster page delivery

Flashcards and shared pages should begin responding sooner and load optimized runtime assets.

Navigation work was streamlined, shared notification work was reduced, minified runtime assets were introduced, and deployment cache warming was added.

Stay focused when moving to the next card

The next-card action no longer waits indefinitely for background work, and the following question is positioned where you can resume reading immediately.

Flashcards also carry a visible red Hot badge in shared navigation, making the practice area easier to spot.

A lighter, more direct homepage

The main review actions appear in a clearer order, and the oversized hero video no longer weighs down the opening experience.

The homepage keeps its visual introduction while using a smaller media path designed to improve initial loading.

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Release window: July 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM to July 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM, Asia/Manila. This digest reflects production deployments completed during the release window.