A-level and AS-level students in Northern Ireland will be awarded the highest grade either predicted by their teacher or awarded officially last week.
Education Minister Peter Weir made the announcement on Monday, hours after announcing GCSEs would be based solely on teacher predictions.
The U-turn follows widespread criticism of the way way A-levels were graded.
The Stormont Assembly will meet on Tuesday to discuss the issue.
About 28,000 pupils across Northern Ireland received their A-level results last Thursday.
Speaking at Stormont on Monday, Mr Weir said CCEA was working to release the revised results to candidates "as quickly as possible".
He said: "My prime concern is to ensure that young people in Northern Ireland are in no way disadvantaged in comparison to their peers elsewhere.
"Portability and comparability of qualifications is critical for students, particularly in Northern Ireland.
"In the challenging situation in which we find ourselves, there are no perfect solutions.
"I hope today's decision will provide a platform for [students] to go forward positively into higher education, employment or training."
A-level and GCSE students in England and Wales will also given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm.
While the proportion of A* to A A-level grades awarded in NI last Thursday rose by 2.3%, 37% of estimated grades were lowered; 5.3% were raised.
Last year, 45.8% of estimated grades provided by schools matched the student's final results.
Schools had been asked to give predicted grades but then other data was used by exams body CCEA to standardise the results.
Standardisation aims to prevent a situation where a school could give all of its pupils unrealistically high marks.
On Tuesday morning, Mr Weir said GCSEs taken with exams body CCEA - which provides about 97% of GCSE exams in Northern Ireland - would be not be subject to standardisation.
CCEA said it welcomed the minister's decision on GCSEs.
"We will work immediately to implement this decision, with GCSE results published on Thursday 20 August 2020," it said.
Following the cancellation of exams in March, CCEA was instructed by Mr Weir to ensure the calculated results in 2020 were broadly in line with performance in recent years.
CCEA asked teachers to give a predicted grade for their pupils and then rank them in order within their class.
It then used other data to standardise the results. For A-levels, the model used pupils' AS-level results and resit data.
By Sunday night, representatives from all parties had signed an SDLP motion, representing Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionists, Alliance, People Before Profit, the Green Party, Traditional Unionist Voice and independent MLAs Claire Sugden, Trevor Lunn and Jim Wells, who no longer holds the DUP whip.
Speaker Alex Maskey agreed the assembly would meet on Tuesday to debate the issue, although this was decided prior to Mr Weir's U-turn.
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