As reported by BBC News, education secretary Bridget Phillipson calls for GCSE students to keep using formula sheets until 2027, continuing post-Covid exam support
The education secretary has said GCSE students should continue to be given formula and equation sheets to help in their exams. This year had been the final year students were expecting to receive that post-Covid support. But in a letter to England’s exams regulator, Ofqual, Bridget Phillipson said it should continue for at least the next three years.
Last year, the previous, Conservative government said the exam aids would no longer be available to students from 2025, and pre-Covid exam arrangements would return.
Ms Phillipson asked Ofqual to continue providing formula and equation sheets to maths, physics and combined-science students sitting their exams in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
Ofqual has launched a two-week consultation on the plans. Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Pepe Di’Iasio said the move was one his union had “long argued for” and exams “should not be a test of memory but of the ability of students to apply knowledge and learning”.
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