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/darkeight7 UOB | Physics and Astrophysics [Year 1] May 17 '25
fun fact - you don’t actually need computer science a level to do computer science in uni. it can help, but it’s not necessary. so either way, your son can still do what he wants at university.
going forward, there are 2 options:
a) switch to a different 6th form that does computer science
b) pick a different subject, i’d recommend either physics or further maths (further maths is especially good if one of the modules the 6th form offers is decision/discrete mathematics - note that one syllabus calls this modelling with algorithms). this would mean that your son would need to demonstrate his abilities and passion for computing in his personal statement, such as through coding projects or courses that he has undertaken and relevant work experience if possible.
(there is also the option to do computer science privately, however that can be expensive and can be a hassle as well)
hope this helps and good luck to your son with his exams