Tutoring program orientation

Learn together. Reason better. Bring the class with you.

BoardSide is a 42-week tutoring program built around the belief that board preparation works better as a shared class effort. Tutors and coordinators are working with professors to help clarify priorities, strengthen guidance, and turn each Friday into a supportive reasoning session—not just another quiz.

01

A tutoring program built to lift the whole class

The program follows Blocks 1–6 loosely so tutoring can grow alongside the curriculum. Weekly questions give everyone a common starting point; tutors help unpack the reasoning, classmates learn from one another’s questions, and professor guidance helps the team emphasize what matters most.

Guide

Connect tutoring with faculty insight

The tutoring team works with professors for guidance on curricular priorities, difficult concepts, and areas where the class may need added support.

Discuss

Make reasoning visible

Friday sessions create room to ask questions, compare approaches, and explain why an answer is right—not simply reveal which option was correct.

Lift

Turn individual misses into class progress

Common misconceptions help tutors plan follow-up teaching, while shared notes and explanations give everyone another path into the material.

No one has to prepare in isolation.

Come as you are—whether you feel confident, uncertain, or behind. The goal is to identify gaps early, respond with useful guidance, and help the class move forward together.

02

A repeatable weekly rhythm

1

Orient around a shared goal

Open the upcoming week, review its theme and question mix, and identify one or two concepts you want the tutoring session to help clarify.

2

Prepare without studying alone

Use the Weekly Pathway, AnKing, TrueLearn, classmates, and tutor guidance. Prioritize weak areas instead of trying to complete every listed resource.

3

Bring honest questions to Friday

Complete the posted quiz or assigned set when possible, mark uncertainty, and bring the reasoning that confused you—not just a score.

4

Learn from the room and close the loop

Work through the set with tutors and classmates, record useful professor or tutor clarification, and turn unresolved gaps into focused follow-up.

03

How to use each part of the Hub

Schedule

The Friday roadmap

Filter by Block 1–6 or search a topic. Expand a week to see the exact 30-question distribution and its resource focus.

Open schedule →
Resources

The command center

Move between Weekly Pathways, the AnKing course index, and topic-level filters. Searches and filters stay in the URL so useful views can be bookmarked or shared.

Open resources →
Community

The class knowledge base

Share original notes, mnemonics, reviewed study files, questions, and explanations that helped a concept click. Tutor verification and class feedback help the strongest contributions rise.

Open community →
Quiz

A shared starting point for tutoring

The coordinator posts the current assessment with its due date and instructions. Completing it gives the tutoring team a common set of reasoning problems to discuss.

Open quiz area →

On a phone: use the bottom navigation for Week, Resources, Community, and Quiz. On a larger screen, the main navigation stays at the top.

04

Use AnKing and TrueLearn with intention

AnKing

Move from a topic to a focused card set

  1. Choose the course or topic-filter view.
  2. Filter by module, note count, scheduled week, or high-yield availability.
  3. Copy the exact or high-yield Anki Browser search.
  4. Paste it into Anki Browse, inspect the cards, and study or create a filtered deck.

Favorites remain on the current device. The Hub prepares searches; it never changes your Anki collection.

TrueLearn

Turn curated IDs into a practice set

  1. Expand the week’s TrueLearn Practice Set.
  2. Review the IDs grouped by their best-fit discipline.
  3. Use the optional Chrome companion, or select Copy all IDs and Open only.
  4. Verify the Selected tab and click Create Test yourself.

The companion searches one ID at a time, reports missing or ambiguous matches, and never creates or submits a test.

Resource boundaries matter

Commercial platforms remain optional licensed resources. Do not post proprietary question text, explanations, screenshots, or recalled exam content to the Community library.

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What students bring to a strong tutoring community

  • Participation: ask the question someone else may be hesitant to ask and offer your reasoning without fear of being imperfect.
  • Respect: protect a learning environment where uncertainty is normal, explanations are constructive, and classmates can improve openly.
  • Consistency: protect a weekly question-and-review block so tutors and classmates can build on a shared foundation.
  • Honest retrieval: answer before checking notes, mark uncertainty, and let missed concepts guide the conversation.
  • Follow-through: record the clarification, complete the next action, and bring unresolved questions back to the team.
  • Professional sharing: contribute original notes or appropriately shareable links and report anything outdated.
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Common questions

Do I have to use every listed resource?

No. Resource pathways are curated options. Choose the clearest source for your weakness and leave time for questions and review.

What role do professors have in the program?

The tutoring team is working with professors to help guide priorities, clarify difficult curricular concepts, and identify areas where added class support may be useful. Faculty participation may vary by topic and session, so specific involvement will be communicated when scheduled.

What if I feel behind compared with the rest of the class?

Come anyway. The program is designed to surface gaps without judgment and create practical next steps. You do not need to be “caught up” before using tutoring, asking a question, or learning from the group.

What if my school week does not match the pathway exactly?

Use the weekly theme loosely. Search the roadmap for your current topic or jump to the closest matching week, then return to the normal sequence when possible.

Does the Hub replace UWorld, TrueLearn, Bootcamp, or AnKing?

No. The Hub organizes access and prepares focused workflows. Each external platform remains separate and subject to its own account, license, and terms.

Do I need the Chrome companion?

No. It is an optional convenience for selecting weekly TrueLearn IDs. Copy-all and open-only controls remain available as the manual workflow.

Can I share my own notes, files, or quiz?

Yes. Use the Community submission flow for original notes, mnemonics, ZIP, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files, shareable resource links, and student-built HTML quizzes. Submissions are reviewed before publication.

Who should I contact when something is wrong?

Report a community item from its card. For schedule, quiz, or program-wide issues, contact the program coordinator or tutor team.

Ready to begin?

Join this week’s shared learning cycle.

Open the current week, prepare one honest question, and bring it to the group. Small contributions—asked, explained, and shared consistently—help move the whole class forward.

Open the Friday roadmapView weekly pathways →