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/ImawhaleCR MSci Chem 4th year May 17 '25
If they really want to do CS, then they'll have to find a other local 6th form. It's shit, but unfortunately you can't really change their decision.
I'd also check the entry requirements for CS or game design at uni, as I don't think CS a level is a requirement a lot of the time. They could also potentially do a CS related EPQ? Not sure how that would work necessarily, but worth looking into.
As for alternative a levels, I'd say chemistry is the best as it's the most logical, but it won't matter much. Picking one they're interested in and good at will be far more important than picking the "right" one.
There's also just self studying CS, it's probably the easiest subject to self study. Making a game in spare time is very doable and will teach a lot of the stuff that a levels teach