• Identify your interests and potential career aspirations.
• Select one of the three pathways: STEM, Social Sciences, or Arts & Sports Science.
• Confirm your choice to proceed with the pathway.

• The portal will provide you with a list of subject combinations available within your chosen pathway.
• Choose three subject combinations that align with your interests and strengths.

• For each subject combination, select four schools from the available clusters.
• This ensures a diverse range of options and equal representation from different categories of schools.
• A total of 12 schools will be selected: 4 for the first subject combination, 4 for the second, and 4 for the third.

TSC List of Approved TSC Teaching Subject Combinations for Secondary Schools

Science Combinations

• Chemistry & Biology
• Chemistry & Physics
• Agriculture & Geography
• Biology & Geography
• Home Science & Biology
• Physics & Computer
• Agriculture & Biology
• Agriculture & Chemistry

Language Combinations

• English & Literature
• Kiswahili & CRE (Christian Religious Education)
• Kiswahili & History
• Kiswahili & Geography
• German & Geography
• German & CRE
• Kiswahili & IRE (Islamic Religious Education)
• Kiswahili & Home Science
• Kiswahili & P.E. (Physical Education)
• French & Geography
• French & Business Studies
• French & CRE
• French & History
• Arabic & IRE
• German & History

Mathematics Combinations

• Mathematics & Business Studies
• Mathematics & Geography
• Mathematics & Computer
• Mathematics & Chemistry
• Mathematics & Biology
• Mathematics & Physics

Humanities Combinations

• Geography & CRE
• History & CRE
• Geography & History
• Geography & IRE
• History & IRE
• History & P.E.
• Geography & P.E.
• Geography & Business Studies
• Home Science & History
• Home Science & CRE
• SNE & P.E.
• Music & P.E.

Technical Combinations

• Metal Work & Mathematics
• Metal Work & Physics
• Woodwork & Mathematics
• Woodwork & Physics
• Electricity & Mathematics
• Electricity & Physics
• Fine Arts & History (Fine)
• Art & Geography
• Art & Design & History
• Art & Design & Geography
• Kiswahili & Home Science
• Kiswahili & P.E.

SELECTION OF PATHWAYS AND SENIOR SCHOOLS

• Determination of pathways per senior school
• Determination of vacancies for boarding and day schooling in senior schools
• Selection of pathways, subjects’ combination and schools by grade 9 learners Selection based on pathway

The learner will select 12 schools for their chosen pathway as follows.
– Four 4 schools in first choice track and subject combination
– Four (4) schools in second choice subject combination
– Four (4) schools in third choice subject combination (Total 12 schools) Selection based on accommodation

Out of the 12 schools selected based on pathway;

• 9 will be boarding schools; 3 from the learners’ home county, 6 from outside their home county/county of residence.
• Three (3) day schools in their home sub county/sub county of residence. (Total 12 schools)
  Pre selection – A school that does not allow open placement can apply to be pre-select if it meets the criteria defined by the Ministry of Education.

How Placement of learners to Senior Schools (SS) at Grade 10 will be done

It will be based on:

• Top 6 learners per gender in each STEM track per sub-county will be placed for Boarding in  schools of choice
• Top 3 learners per gender in each Social Science track per sub-county will be placed for Boarding in schools of choice
• Top 2 learners per gender in each Arts and Sports Science track per sub-county be placed to Boarding schools of their choice
• Placement of Candidates with Achievement Level of averaging 7 and 8 per track to boarding schools of their choice

Admission and replacement process

• Placement results will show where learners have been placed
• Admission letters/joining instructions shall be accessed online using the learner’s assessment Number.
• All schools, both public and private shall admit Grade 10 through KEMIS
• Leaners will be entered to the KEMIS System only after reporting physically to the school.
•  Daily online reporting shall be monitored through KEMIS

Replacements

•  Schools with vacancies will declare through their respective county directors of education
•  Learners who wish to change schools will make requests through the heads of junior schools at least 2 weeks before the official grade 10 reporting date
• Priority shall be given to those who had earlier selected the schools they are requesting for  Approvals by MoE shall be based on senior schools’ documented capacity
• Upon a request’s approval, the joining instructions shall be accessed online; at no time shall a school issue printed letters for replacement cases
• Replacement will be done once and shall be irreversible