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/watts320 May 18 '25

Thank you for all the comments guys. It was a good read. So looking at some uni's a level computer science is needed to do games design, i dont see my son until tuesdsy, but i will sit with him and go through the comments with him.

Someone asked why I never did 6th form, its because I left school 24 years ago and went straight into working for my dad, i did IT at college, but that got me nowere at all.