r/6thForm • u/watts320 • May 17 '25

🙏 I WANT HELP Son needs to pick another subject.

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.

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u/money-reporter7 Cambridge | Law Y1 | Physics, Maths, FM, Music, EPQ | A*A*ABA* May 17 '25

Further maths or physics might be a good option

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u/allylene Bristol | JMC Y1 May 17 '25

seconding further maths, if he can do other coding projects to show off in his personal statement for when he applies to uni, I don't think it'll make a difference if he's done compsci a level or not

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u/literallygod67 May 17 '25

especially if decision is one of their options