**2.4 Eligibility criteria**

Participants were records pertaining to the admission criteria of various HEI Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Biokinetics academic programmes. Pertinent themes which emerged: national senior certificate with bachelor degree endorsement, perquisite secondary schooling subjects, minimum admission point score (APS) and national benchmark test.

#### **2.5 Research questions**

The identified themes evolved research questions:

