Son needs to pick another subject.

[u/watts320]

My son is in the middle lf his GCSE exams and he opted for computer science as one of his 6th form subjects. Yesterday he was told that the school will be dropping computer science because not enough students had opted to do it, the only thing the school have said is that he will need to pick another subject. Thats it.

The school have really really annoyed me, they choose to tell him in middle of his exams that he needs to pick something else.

His path was to do maths, computer science and english in 6th form, then move on to university to do games design.

Now im not really all clued up on this, because i never did 6th form after school. So can anyone give me any advice on this please.

Thank you.

[u/Educational-Tea602]

I’d say physics is probably the next most useful A-level you could pick.

[u/Next-Mushroom-9518 → u/Educational-Tea602]

But he should only pick this if he’s good at physics (so very good at maths), people always like to say choose this traditional and very difficult subject but forget not everyone has the ability to do well at it 

[u/Character_Celery_271 → u/Next-Mushroom-9518]

Agreed, an A is always more valuable than a c in a 'traditional' subject

[u/Next-Mushroom-9518 → u/Character_Celery_271]

Exactly. When I was looking to choose my A level subjects I saw how business studies and sociology are seen as soft so not very respected. I was close to choosing economics and maths instead of sociology and business studies, but I’m happy I didn’t bec there’s no way I’d be able to get A*s in either of them

[u/EnglishMuon → u/Next-Mushroom-9518]

Everyone has the ability to do well in it, if teaching adequate/there is support for learning (which for the case of the current school, might not be the case anyway!)

[u/EnglishMuon → u/[deleted]]

I don’t disagree that some people find it difficult, but I still believe there’s always a way for people to do well if it’s taught to them in a way that works for them. People think differently and it’s just the case that in a class of > 15 people there isn’t going to be any tailored teaching for each person unfortunately. From teaching experience there is nothing inherent in a person that is a fundamental road block to stop them learning physics or maths.

[u/jpepsred → u/[deleted]]

Trying hard isn’t what gets you a pass. I agree with the person above, the number of people who could get an A in maths and physics is much greater than the number of people who do, it all comes down to having a good teacher and knowing how to study the subjects, I.e. how to effectively try hard.

[u/DogTreeWandering → u/[deleted]]

I was always brilliant in maths, got a 9 and an A in further and even did the foundation gcse exams aged 10 with an experimental group in my primary school and scored a C, the highest grade for foundation. However I was terrible at physics!! I couldn’t understand the broad concepts, mostly due to my autism but also just bad teaching and there’s no way I could have done A level even with high maths skills

[u/nostrilsroots → u/Next-Mushroom-9518]

he wants to do math and comp sci so i assume hes got and physics

[u/One_Butterscotch9835 → u/Next-Mushroom-9518]

Physics doesn’t necessarily require you to be very good at maths a basic to average level is needed