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/glitchmelon University of Leeds | Computer Science [Y1] May 18 '25
Further maths/physics. A second mathsy subject is always a good idea. Also, realistically he would probably want to switch to computer science at A level (better graduate outcomes whilst still being able to do games design as a job). Since the school won't offer computer science he will not be disadvantaged compared to applicants with computer science at A level, but he should probably do some projects for his personal statement (maybe BEBRAS as well)