**2.2 Registration**

This review protocol was not registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews.

#### **2.3 Search strategy and literature sources**

The admission criteria for the disciplines of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Biokinetics at South African HEIs were surveyed through the examination of HEI online study prospectuses which are readily found via the Google search engine. Only HEIs offering four-year professional degrees in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Biokinetics were considered. While 19 HEIs in South Africa offer advanced educational qualifications, not all of them offer professional four-year academic programmes. Eight HEIs offered degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, but only six offered degrees in Biokinetics; this chapter is thus concerned with the review of the prerequisite admission criteria of the latter sic institutions. The review of the prerequisite admission criteria reviewed 2020 HEIs admission criteria. The primary keywords in the literature search were: admission criteria, thereafter subsequent words such as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Biokinetics and South Africa were added. The selection criteria of literature was the prospectus of various South African Higher Education Institutes (HEI) that offer Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Biokinetics four-year professional academic programmes.

A second electronic search was instituted to determine the academic success of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Biokinetics among South African HEIs in the search engine of Google.
