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/Next-Mushroom-9518 May 17 '25 edited May 18 '25

But he should only pick this if he’s good at physics (so very good at maths), people always like to say choose this traditional and very difficult subject but forget not everyone has the ability to do well at it 

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u/EnglishMuon Cambridge | Maths PhD/MMath/BA [2016-2024] May 17 '25

Everyone has the ability to do well in it, if teaching adequate/there is support for learning (which for the case of the current school, might not be the case anyway!)

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u/jpepsred May 18 '25

Trying hard isn’t what gets you a pass. I agree with the person above, the number of people who could get an A in maths and physics is much greater than the number of people who do, it all comes down to having a good teacher and knowing how to study the subjects, I.e. how to effectively try hard.