exam candidates will be told in advance

How this news will play out for private candidates we will have to wait and see. What we hope is that exam candidates who are not in a school environment still have full access to the exam data, the same as their school candidates.

Exam candidates will be told in advance what topics will be on exam papers next summer to make up for the “considerable disruption” to their schooling, under official plans.

GCSE and A-level subjects – including mathematics, modern languages and sciences – exam canddiates will be advised by their teachers which topics they will be examined on during the summer.

Proposals published by the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual, exam candidates will also be able to choose which questions to answer in certain GCSE subjects.

This is to “free up teaching time” and “reduce pressure” on exam candidates. the exam regulator has recommended that exam candidates would not need to answer the full suite of exam questions for GCSEs in history, ancient history, English literature and geography.

Geography GCSE exam candidate in Edexcel would usually need to answer questions on three different topics in one of the papers. Changing cities, global development and resource management. The change will mean they will need to answer a question on changing cities, then either one on global development or one on resource management.

exam candidates taking this paper would need to review only two topics rather than all three.

__Maths GCSE - Formulas can be brought in. __

A formula sheet with them to maths GCSE and an expanded equation sheetin physics along combined science exams.

__Science Praticals dropped! __ The science GCSE and A Level requirement for exam candidates to carry out practical experiments in science GCSEs and A-levels would be dropped.

Instead the exam candidats would just have to watch a demonstration by teachers.