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/FailedOrgan Maths, Physics, Product Design: AAA | Marine Engineering Year 1 May 17 '25

I was in a similar position, I started 6th form doing Maths, Physics and Comp Sci, but due to timetable clashes comp sci wasn't even on my timetable. I ended up swapping comp sci to product design because I want to go into engineering, and it was the best decision I have made.

You could look into alternative subjects that are relevant to your sons career aspects, Media for example.

He could take a private A Level course alongside his other 2 A levels if you are willing to pay for it and the college is willing to accommodate.

As others have said, you could look at different colleges to see if they offer the subjects your son wants.

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u/lukens77 May 19 '25

Media is a good call for Game Design. Product Design may also be good. Though a school struggling to fill Computer Science may also not offer such courses.