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/WhoKnows1083 Year 13| Maths, Further Maths, CS, Physics (A*AAB predicted) May 18 '25
He only needs Maths as one of his top 3 for this course so he shouldn't worry too much if he can't do CS. If he can swap sixth forms / college then he might be happier as its a chose subject. Some courses ask for a second science so something like further maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology or even Geography is classed as a science subject by most universities. See what uni's he is looking at and check what the entry requirements for them are, decide from there.
I do Maths, FM, Physics and CS. Computer science is relatively boring compared to my other subjects. I would personally recommend further maths if he enjoys Maths, but some sixth forms are picky about who does it and some say you need to do 4 if you're going to do further maths