GCSE and A-level exams in England will go ahead next summer, but "most" of them will be delayed by three weeks, the education secretary has announced.
Gavin Williamson said the move would "give students more time to prepare and a chance to catch up on education lost due to COVID-19".
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"We know that exams are the fairest way of measuring a student's abilities and accomplishments, including the most disadvantaged," he said.
"We want to give our young people the opportunity next summer to demonstrate what they know and can do."
The main set of exams will start on 7 June and run until 2 July, apart from the English and Maths GCSEs, which will be held before the May half-term.
Some AS-levels and A-levels with small numbers of students will also take place before half-term.
Results days for A-levels and GCSEs will fall on 24 and 27 August respectively.
On the prospect of exams being disrupted by coronavirus, Mr Williamson said schools and colleges "have shown exams can be held, even in areas of local restriction" during the current set of autumn exams.
"Exams next year will be supported by contingencies for all scenarios," he added.
"Today I have written to Ofqual to ask the regulator to support government in developing these arrangements, engaging closely with the school and further education leaders, teachers, exam boards, unions and the higher education sector.
"The results of this planning and ongoing discussions with the sector will be published later in the autumn."
Reacting to the announcement, school leaders' union NAHT said it was "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the planning that now needs to be done".
General secretary Paul Whiteman said: "This step does not address the disparity between different student's different levels of disruption to learning; much more needs to be done to ensure that the qualification system takes account of this so that students can have confidence that the grades they are awarded in 2021 are fair."
The education secretary came under pressure to resign this summer over a controversial algorithm used to grade pupils whose exams were cancelled due to the pandemic.
It was eventually scrapped in favour of teacher-assessed grades, after nearly 40% of A-Level marks were downgraded.
Mr Williamson said he was "incredibly sorry for the distress" the row caused to students and that when "it became clear there were anomalies", the government changed course.
The head of Ofqual told MPs that it was a "fundamental mistake" to believe the algorithm would "ever be acceptable to the public".
Roger Taylor also told the Education Select Committee that the body advised the government against cancelling this summer's exams because of coronavirus.
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