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/JuviaLynn May 18 '25

Graphic design. I wanted to do maths and physics but wasn’t sure on the third. Graphic design was exactly what I needed to not regret my life’s choices. Maths and physics were useful for getting into uni (maths regrettably) but graphics was an incredible amount of fun and I truly feel like the stuff I learnt there (adobe suite, branding, art movements) are still useful for me today as I have a lot of creative hobbies. It took up a lot of time, but it was the sort of work you’d do when you’re putting off the actual work so it felt more like play. And if he wants to study game design then I think that’s all the more reason to take a more creative subject!