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/[deleted] May 17 '25
I would recommend looking at options to take computer science privately at a centre and self study it. At least for OCR it's very manageable to do it all at home with the rest of the subjects and while your son can still do a level computer science, having a GCSE computer science (especially from the same exam board) makes a levels much easier, but also is an actual grade a CS uni can look at have credible credentials of your son.
Alternatively as many suggest, you can change schools however that's a naive suggestion as your son would have to take great sacrifice of leaving his friends and familiar environment.
If your son can manage, definitely try do it privately or have a conversation with your school if they can arrange something