Covid: How might GCSE and A-levels work this summer?

A-levels and GCSEs in England are due to go ahead next summer, with the exam season starting three weeks later than usual.

Plans for how to manage them in a pandemic are expected to be published later this week.

So what are the options for making exams fair when many teenagers have missed out on schooling due to the Covid-19 pandemic?

Socially distanced exams have already had a trial run with GCSE resits in further education colleges in England in November.

It was a big task, with colleges emptying out their buildings so they had enough space to set out for the exams.

While tens of thousands of students were resitting maths and English exams, the summer exams are taken…