Formulae and equation sheets for assessments in 2025, 2026 and 2027
04 December 2024
Following a public consultation, the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual have confirmed formulae and equation sheets will be provided for GCSE Mathematics, GCSE Physics, and GCSE Combined Science exams in 2025, 2026 and 2027. An extra formulae sheet will also be provided in the exam for our Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Mathematics qualification in these assessment years.
Formulae and equation sheets for the 2025 exams are available to use with your students now.
Formulae and equation sheets for the 2026 and 2027 exams will be published on or before 1 September 2025 and 1 September 2026 respectively.
We've provided further details below.
GCSE Mathematics J560
For GCSE Mathematics, students will be given a formulae sheet alongside each of the question papers in both the June and November exams taking place in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
Separate formulae sheets will be provided to Foundation tier and Higher tier students, as appropriate. The Higher tier formulae sheet includes additional formulae.
June 2025 and November 2025 series
You can view and download the Foundation tier formulae sheet and the Higher tier formulae sheet to be used in the June 2025 and November 2025 exams from:
To make sure students are familiar with the appropriate sheet for their tier prior to the exams, teachers can use the formulae sheets now for teaching and mock assessments.
Students will be provided with clean printed copies for each exam.
Formulae that have been provided in questions in previous years (eg curved surface area of a cone, surface area of a sphere, volume of a cone, volume of a sphere and kinematics formulae) will continue to be provided, as required, in questions on our GCSE Mathematics question papers in 2025, 2026 and 2027. This means you can use our GCSE Mathematics past papers, alternative papers and practice papers with the 2025 formulae sheet, to give current students a mock exam consistent with the question paper approach to be used in 2025.
Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Mathematics 6993
In the June 2025, 2026 and 2027 exams for Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Mathematics, students will be given an extra formulae sheet alongside the question paper.
June 2025 series
You can view and download the extra formulae sheet to be used in the June 2025 exams from:
- the Assessment > Question papers, mark schemes and reports > 2025 June series > Other links section of the Level 3 FSMQ qualification page on our website.
- the Assessment > Exams > Question papers and mark schemes section on Teach Cambridge.
To make sure students are familiar with the extra formulae sheet prior to their exam, teachers can use it now for teaching and mock assessments.
Students will be provided with a clean printed copy for each exam.
The formulae that are provided as standard for Level 3 FSMQ (eg expansion of the binomial series, binomial distribution, trapezium rule and the kinematics formulae for variable and constant acceleration) will still be provided at the front of the question paper in 2025, 2026 and 2027. This means you can use our practice papers and past papers, with the 2025 extra formulae sheet, to give students a mock exam consistent with the question paper approach to be used in 2025.
The formulae included on the 2025 extra formulae sheet are the same as those on the formulae sheet that will be provided to Higher tier students in the 2025 GCSE Mathematics exams.
GCSE Physics J249, J259 and GCSE Combined Science J250, J260
In the June 2025, 2026 and 2027 exams for GCSE Physics and GCSE Combined Science, students will be given a revised data/equation sheet as an insert in the question paper. The sheet will include all of the physics equations from the specification.
You can view and download the sheets for the June 2025 series below:
GCSE Gateway Science Suite
GCSE Twenty First Century Science Suite
You can also view and download the June 2025 sheets from:
- the Assessment > Question papers, mark schemes and reports > 2025 June series > Other links section of each GCSE science qualification page listed below.
- the Assessment > Exams > Question papers and mark schemes sections on Teach Cambridge.
To make sure students are familiar with the data/equation sheets prior to the exam, teachers can use them now for teaching and mock assessments.
Students will be provided with clean printed copies for each exam.
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