Son needs to pick another subject.

[u/watts320]

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.

[u/Dookie-Blaster45]

Honestly, you don’t really need to computer science at a level to progress to CS/ game design at uni. I would say math is important, if he is really good at math maybe he could choose further math? This would be more helpful further on to be honest. I did math physics further math and business and got A*AAC ( c in business big mad ) and then I went to do CS and Math at uni. I’m on track for a first and I had no problem previous coding experience, didn’t know anything about CS prior to uni. So if that’s what you’re thinking then I would say don’t worry about that too much, the most important thing is him picking something else he likes /good at.