When applying for university or college placement through the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS), Physics is not a compulsory subject for a wide range of marketable and professional courses in Kenya. KUCCPS recognises that learners have different strengths, and as a result, many programmes prioritise subjects such as Mathematics, English, Biology, Geography,
Choosing university courses through the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) can be daunting, especially for students who did not take or performed poorly in Chemistry at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) level. Chemistry is one of the cluster subjects that most of the competitive science, engineering, and medical courses require.
English (or Kiswahili) is commonly part of the compulsory subjects because KCSE candidates must take it as a core subject for placement and cluster point calculation. For degree programmes, English/Kiswahili usually forms part of the minimum four subjects used to compute cluster points and determine eligibility. Some courses explicitly specify English as a compulsory minimum