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Senior Secondary Science is a two-year programme designed for learners who have completed Junior Secondary education. It is designed to provide learners with scientific knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for understanding and responsible participation in society. It also prepares the learners for tertiary education, vocational training, and provides them with foundation skills for employment.

Subjects for the Senior Secondary programme are divided into groups: core and optional. All the Science subjects fall into one optional group: Sciences. There are four categories of Science offered in the group and learners are expected to choose one of these. These are:

Single Science;

Double Science;

Pure Sciences (Biology, Physics, and Chemistry);

Human Social Biology (only offered to private candidates)

The syllabuses have been developed on the assumption that each Science will be allocated 160 minutes per week. The syllabus gives the approximate time allocation in weeks for each module.

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The Science Programme for the two years of senior secondary education is expected to facilitate the holistic development of the learner in a global context. The programme intends to instill a sense of appreciation for science and to make sure that the learners can cope in a technologically changing world. The programme will help learners to explore and apply the scientific knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired to address environmental, social, economic, and political issues in their day-to-day lives. Through this programme learners will get an opportunity to explore and understand the natural world (life processes, physical phenomena, and the nature of substances).

Science is an experimental discipline and its method of inquiry allows learners to appreciate the practical impact of science on their lives and society as a whole. The Science programme will equip learners with skills that will be of long term value and encourage them to participate in lifelong learning. In the process, the learners will exercise their creativity and develop skills such as critical thinking, innovativeness, communication, analysis, observation, recording, drawing conclusions, making judgments, etc.

The syllabuses will also expose learners to the practical applications of Science. This will contribute towards popularising Science and developing an interest in, and positive attitudes towards Science among all learners.

The Senior Secondary Science syllabuses recognize the importance of offering key concepts and principles of Science in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology to provide learners with a more unified view of the Sciences and awareness of the connections among them and technology.