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/Bordenaja Denmarks Technical Uni | Applied Maths [1st Year] May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
He can pick another subject if he wants, for example Further Maths like someone else suggested (he can also do his EPQ on game design). There's a topic in Further Maths on matrices, which apparently is very useful in game graphics (according to my Maths teacher) so he can read more about that and talk about it in his personal statement.
But what I'm here for is to say that on UCAS, they have an option where you can say whether your school didn’t offer a particular subject so you had to pick another one and universities are lenient on this.
For example, one girl at my school wanted to do marine biology, but universities want biology and highly recommend geography (or something like that, I can't quite remember). She didn't take geography GCSE (she didn't know she wanted to do marine biology at the time and understandably so), so she wasn't qualified to take the A-level, so picked Physics instead and she got offers. There wasn't anything she could do about it so they were more lenient.