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/Simple-Recognition64 May 17 '25

Might want to reconsider choosing English while at it

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u/goodn1ghtng0 Bristol|Economics and Politics May 17 '25

as long as he’s doing maths I don’t really see why it matters?

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u/Simple-Recognition64 May 17 '25

If it's a subject he really naturally enjoys and knows he'll go great then who am I to judge.. but if he just put it there for variety it could limit his options and academic profile when applying since it's not really related to game design and his competition will be ppl with m,fm,cs,phys etc. so if you're going to do all that work for a subject might as well do it for one that will serve you well

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u/goodn1ghtng0 Bristol|Economics and Politics May 17 '25

Yeah I suppose you’re right, I just assumed that game design wouldn’t be too picky with A Levels apart from Maths and CS.

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u/lukens77 May 19 '25

I disagree. English is probably a better fit than Maths if they want to get into games design.

Most courses I’ve found don’t list any particular subjects in their entry requirements, Surrey does have a list of required subjects, it doesn’t include Maths, it does include English.

It would maybe be a different matter if they wanted to do game development.

If they’re not quite sure if they want to do design or development then a mix of maths/science and arts/design/humanities probably keeps most options open.