Education Cs Dr Fred Matiang'i has insisted that marking of exams will be strict just as the supervision of exams.
Speaking in Bungoma when he witnessed the distribution of KCSE exams on Thursday morning , Matiang'i said that the marking process will be strict without favoring any school.
"We should encourage our children to work hard. Not let them value grades that they have not worked for. It’s not business as usual in exams in Kenya," he said as quoted by the Nation.
He argued that school heads and supervisors during the administration of exams have sacrificed their time to invigilate the exams and that should not be undone at the marking stage.
"I am warning those who will be involved in the marking not to drop the ball on the exercise. We will not let the sacrifice made to go to waste," he added.
"We will use the strictest methods to conduct the marking of exams and this will bring confidence to our new system of managing exams," posed Matiang'i.
He assured that exams will be concluded without a hitch.