Luxembourg's Ministry of Education, Children and Youth has announced the introduction of five measures aimed at providing the safest possible conditions during final-year examinations.

Final-year secondary school exams will begin in Luxembourg on 17 May 2021. In order to ensure that exams retain their value, whilst taking place in the safest possible conditions in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Education Ministry is putting in place the following five types of measures:

- Preventive testing: To avoid possible chains of infection, all final-year students will receive an invitation for a PCR test as part of the Large Scale Testing campaign and a kit of five rapid antigen self-tests which can be carried out at home at any time. These tests remain optional and there is no obligation to produce a negative test result to participate in the exams.

- Exam room set-up: The examination room will be set up in a way that ensures that an interpersonal distance of two metres is always respected. No more than 100 students are allowed in one room. By law, wearing a mask is compulsory for the duration of the exams.

- Students with COVID-19: Infected students will be placed in isolation by order of the Director of Health. As with any other illness, if a student is absent for one exam day, he / she will sit the exam on the provisional date of 3 June 2021; if he / she misses more than one day of exams for this reason, the student is authorised to sit these exams in the autumn session.

- Students in quarantine: Students placed in quarantine can still sit their exams, provided they make a request to the Sanitary Inspectorate, via email: recourse-covid@ms.etat.lu. The students in question should not use public transport to travel to school and they will sit their exams in a separate room to avoid contact with other students. Both students and their supervisors will receive an FFP2 protective mask.

- Distance learning as a precaution: Teaching will be done remotely on the last three days of class, i.e. 10-12 May 2021. Oral exams will still take place at school.