GCSE students to continue receiving Covid exam help

Oct 4, 2024

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.

Teaching unions welcomed the move and said it would hopefully lead to a permanent change.

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