Results for the just concluded Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams will be out in two weeks.

According to Education CS George Magoha marking started on Monday.

By Wednesday, day one papers had already been marked.

“If we challenge ourselves, the results will come out within fourteen days,” Magoha said.

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The examination started on Monday with Mathematics, Composition, and English, Kiswahili Lugha, Insha and Science on Tuesday.

He said marking started immediately after the first three papers were submitted.

“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.

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.