By Vanessa Clarke
Education reporter
Exam students volition not person to memorise formulae and equations for immoderate GCSE subjects adjacent year.
In mathematics, physics and combined science, pupils volition beryllium provided with a expanse containing formulae and equations, akin to past year.
Many of the students sitting exams volition person experienced superior disruption to their studies due to the fact that of the pandemic.
The exams regulator Ofqual said the determination would connection the enactment students needed "as we determination towards normality."
In September, it announced exams successful England would mostly instrumentality to mean adjacent summer.
Students volition nary longer person beforehand accusation of exam content.
And aft 3 years of adjustments, grades, though inactive "protected", will beryllium "much closer" to pre-pandemic levels.
'Significant disruption'
A consultation connected the proposal to let supporting materials recovered 93.7% of teachers and students moving towards 2023 GCSEs said it was necessary.
The students "will person faced important disruption to their acquisition owed to Covid-19" and it would beryllium a situation to "get done each of the specification", 1 teacher said.
And 1 of the students highlighted however they had gone into lockdown successful Year 9, aft the commencement of their GCSE maths course.
Chief regulator Dr Jo Saxton said: "In 2023, students volition again person the accidental to amusement what they cognize and tin bash successful exams," and "together with immoderate extortion connected grading", Ofqual would "offer the grade of enactment students request arsenic we determination towards normality".