Candidates who finished their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams on Wednesday will know their fate in two weeks.
Education CS George Magoha said marking started on Monday, and day one papers have already been marked.
“If we challenge ourselves, the results will come out within fourteen days,” Magoha said.
The pupils started with Mathematics, Composition, and English on Monday, Kiswahili Lugha, Insha and Science on Tuesday.
Magoha said marking started immediately after the first three papers were submitted.
He spoke while supervising the distribution of exams at Kamukunji Deputy County Commissioners Office.
He later visited Eastleigh Primary and Ansaaru Sunna Group of schools in Eastleigh.
“We started marking two days ago, actually on the first day, and going by the progress, we shall spend similar time like we did last year,” Magoha said.
KNEC has initiated a command and call centre that will be used for communication and monitoring of the exams.
The toll-free lines are 0800 724 900 and 0800 721 410.
Knec has also put in place programmes that will guide the assessment of oral exams, distribution of materials during exams and return of answer scripts.
This year the council registered 1,225,507 candidates in 28,316 KCPE examination centres as compared to 1,191,752 candidates in 28,467 centres in 2020.
This reflects an increase of 33,755 representing 2.75 per cent.
KCPE exam centres will be served from 491 distribution centres while KCSE exam centres will be served from 483 distribution centres.
