Next year’s National 5 exams have been cancelled, but Highers and Advanced Highers will go ahead.
Education secretary John Swinney confirmed the move in a speech to MSPs at Holyrood on Wednesday.
Higher and Advanced Higher exams will go ahead, but slightly later than usual from May 13.
Swinney said the later date will allow pupils to gain back the two weeks’ learning they lost before the summer.
Scotland’s school exams were cancelled for the first time ever in 2020, with the country locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In August, Swinney was forced to apologise over the SQA’s controversial moderation system.
This year’s National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher results were originally based on teacher assessments after exams were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Although pass rates were up, the SQA downgraded 124,564 results – affecting around 75,000 pupils – using criteria including schools’ historic performances.
Pupils from the most deprived areas of Scotland had their grades reduced by 15.2% compared with 6.9% in the most affluent parts of the country.
In response, opposition politicians branded the moderation process a “train wreck” as well as “disturbing and grossly unequal”.
Swinney said next year’s awards would not be taken or given away on a statistical model or a school’s historic performance.
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