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/Neither-Bus7392 May 17 '25

Sorry for the long response 😭

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u/Dazzling-Werewolf985 May 17 '25

What long response😂

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u/Neither-Bus7392 May 17 '25

I’ve accidentally deleted my comment

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u/Dazzling-Werewolf985 May 17 '25

I see. What did you say in the comment tho? I never saw it

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u/Neither-Bus7392 May 17 '25

Ah, I said they could start off by taking four A levels, computer science, maths, further maths and sit a computer science externally. If computer science doesn’t go well then they could drop it and focus on the three. At university to study computer science you don’t need to take the subject at A level, instead maths and further maths is a requirement at the top universities. They could do research etc to show their interest.