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State education officials announced Tuesday that students won’t have to take Regents exams to graduate this year due to the coronavirus crisis.

Normally, kids must pass five of the exams in core subjects to earn diplomas.

But the New York State Education Department canceled the tests on Monday and nixed the requirement entirely on Tuesday.

Instead, students in this virus-ravaged year will simply have to pass the courses associated with their Regents exams in order to graduate from high school.

“In times of crisis difficult decisions must be made, and the Board of Regents knows these are ultimately the right ones for New York’s students,” Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said in a statement. “These are extraordinary decisions for an unprecedented time, and we thank our school communities for their support and continuing dedication during the statewide school closure.”

Officials were concerned that the hobbled school year would leave students unprepared for the exams and jeopardize their graduation. The students had been expected to take the exams in June.

NYSED also announced Tuesday that a revamp of the Regents format would be delayed by a year because of coronavirus complications.

While graduation rates have risen across the state and city in recent years, critics argue that standards have been diluted.

Officials have added alternative pathways to graduation and expanded the appeals process for students who didn’t pass their Regents.

The tests are just the latest casualty in what many consider to be a lost school year.

The state previously announced the scrapping of math and English evaluation exams given to kids in grades 3-8.

The city’s graduation rate hit 77 percent last year, ticking up by 1.4 percent over the previous year.

For students who began high school in 2015, 88.2 percent of Asian students graduated, followed by whites at 85 percent, blacks at 73.7 percent and Hispanics at 72 percent, according to the figures.

City graduation rates have continued to go up across the board since 2005, when less than half of New York students managed to get a diploma.

Statewide, graduation rates for students that began in 2015 rose by 0.8 percent to 83.4 percent. The city’s dropout rate ticked up slightly, going from 7.5 percent to 7.8 percent.