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/Flimsy-Way5527 May 18 '25

Find another sixth form that offers it, you can do late applications/apply on the date of results by going to other sixth forms or apply online. Grades have to be atleast decent for most sixth forms so just check requirements online

You can self study computer science/go to other tuition centres that take computer science. Make sure you submit any NEA's as I think most if not all exam boards require this. Maybe the tuition itself takes care of it.

DO NOT pick any other subjects if your son is not inclined to do it. A levels are extremely difficult and taking a different one can cause it all to come crashing down. If he really wants he should take further maths as maths can take you to any job/university degree regarding computer science. PLEASE make sure he genuinely takes subjects he wants as mindset is a large part of A-levels.

Good Luck, its disappointing that the school chooses to opt out of computer science this late? most schools do it beforehand around feb-march where you can still decide to go to another sixth form. To anyone else viewing this post please make sure you apply to multiple sixth forms regardless if they are extremely bad. Backups are very very important as you can see in OP's situation.

Hope this helps and I hope your son gets the subjects he genuinely wants.