MBBS notes · Prof I to Final Year
Stop chewing through hour-long lectures, PDF dumps and 1,500-page textbooks. We've done the chewing. You just swallow.
Try this tonight
That wasn't an hour of studying. It was an hour of watching someone else study.
Energy is conserved. Knowledge isn't.
Not our opinion
Felt more.
Learned less.
Students sat through a smooth, polished lecture, while another group worked through the same material themselves. The lecture group said they'd learned more. Then the test results came in, and they'd scored lower.
Deslauriers et al. · Harvard · PNAS, 20190 extra marks
for a better teacher.
The same content was given by a fluent, confident speaker and by an awkward one. Students rated the smooth speaker far higher and believed they'd remember more. Their actual recall was the same.
Carpenter, Wilford, Kornell & Mullaney · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20132× more
mind-wandering.
During a recorded lecture, students who simply watched drifted off about twice as often as students who were quizzed between segments. They also took fewer notes and remembered less at the end.
Szpunar, Khan & Schacter · Harvard · PNAS, 201361% vs 40%
A week later, students who read once and then tested themselves three times remembered 61%. Students who went over the same material four times remembered just 40%. Pulling it out beats pouring it in.
Roediger & Karpicke · Psychological Science, 2006Learning happens when you pull something out of your head, not when someone pours it in. So every Bolus page is built for recall: read it, close it, redraw the diagram, check yourself. Ten minutes. Then the next page.
Sound familiar?
Every "complete notes" Drive link and Telegram channel a senior ever shared. Downloaded all of it. Opened almost none.
Paid for the full course. Finished the first module, twice. The exam came before module four did.
Started with brachial plexus. Three hours of autoplay later, we were watching someone else's exam strategy.
Seven highlighters, two hours, one beautiful page. We never opened it again before the exam.
It sounded very confident. The examiner wasn't impressed.
Then the exam came.
We failed.
Who we are
Failing wasn't the worst part. The worst part was realising we'd been busy for months without actually learning. So we stopped hunting for shortcuts and did the slow, boring work ourselves.
We read the standard books cover to cover. We collected papers from universities across the country. We cut every topic down to what examiners actually ask, and rewrote it so simply that a first-time reader gets it in one go.
All of that became Bolus.
“I failed,
so that you can pass.”
bo·lus /ˈbəʊləs/ · noun, physiology
Food that has already been chewed, softened and shaped so it can be swallowed in one go.
That's exactly what we do with your syllabus. We've done the chewing. You just swallow.
What Bolus actually is
Previous year questions and question banks from universities across India, all gathered in one place.
The hot, high-yield concepts examiners repeat year after year, pulled out of thousands of questions.
Explained so simply a first read is enough, with a diagram you can redraw in the exam hall.
Here's what that looks like
Two columns of dense paragraphs, a dissection figure, a branch table and the clinical box. All of it important, none of it easy to recall in an exam hall.
The same topic on one hand-made page. Definition, location, the full roots-to-branches diagram, clinical lines and a one-line summary you can say out loud.
Scroll or drag the handle
same exam marks,
a fraction of the reading
Why Bolus
We matched the exam papers against Bolus, line by line. 88% of the questions were answered directly in our pages. The notes students used before us managed 70%.
Open a topic and the whole thing is in front of you: what it is, where it is, how it works, the diagram, clinical correlation and MCQs. Nothing spills onto the next page, so you never lose the thread mid-revision.
every topic,
start to finish ↓
Every diagram in Bolus is drawn by hand, the way you'd draw it on your answer sheet. Simple lines, clear labels, no artistic shading you can't reproduce. Look once, draw it twice, and it's yours for the paper.
Short does not mean partial. Every topic in your university syllabus is covered, so you never walk into the exam hoping a question doesn't come.
"Keep an Eye" tracks every topic you've read and every round of revision, so you always know what's done and what's still waiting.
No prior knowledge needed. Each page starts from zero and builds up, so you understand the concept fast and then revise it again and again.
Only in Bolus
Why read the whole book when you could read it the way your examiner does? Bolus Lens puts every topic under one filter: what carries marks.
Less noise. More marks.
Explore notes
Choose your prof, open a subject and read a few demo pages. These are exactly the notes you get — nothing polished for the website.
Want a demo for a different chapter? Ask us on WhatsApp and we'll send it.
First year and lost in the big books? Start with one page a day.
Prof in two weeks? Revise a whole subject in the time a chapter used to take.
Clinical years? Medicine, Surgery, OBG, Paeds, Eye and ENT in the same simple format.
Get the app
Read on the bus to college, between ward postings or the night before the viva. Download the Bolus app, or message us on WhatsApp for the price and we'll set you up.
iPhone users: your org code
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FAQ
Message us on WhatsApp at +91 91874 57293. We'll share the current price for your prof and help you get access in the app.
Yes. Every subject above has real demo pages you can read right now. If you want a specific chapter, ask on WhatsApp and we'll send a sample.
Prof I: Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry. Prof II: Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology. Prof III Part 1: Forensic Medicine and Community Medicine. Prof III Part 2: Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT and Orthopaedics.
Because watching feels like learning but doesn't stick. Studies from Harvard and others show that passive lectures make students feel they've learned more while they actually remember less, and that testing yourself beats re-watching by a wide margin. Bolus is built for that: one page, then recall.
When we compared the exam papers with our notes, 88% of the questions asked were directly answered in Bolus. The notes students used before managed about 70%.
On iOS, Bolus runs inside the MyInstitute app. After installing, enter the organisation code to find us.
That's exactly who it's written for. Every page starts from the basics, explains it in plain words, then gives you the exam points. First read to final revision, one page.
Important · read before you install
On iPhone, Bolus lives inside the MyInstitute app. Right after installing, it will ask for an organisation code. Without it you won't find Bolus.
