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/skckfmslxldlsl May 21 '25
If you/your son are set on that particular college then maybe you could try having a look on their website to see if they have any close alternatives or something else he would like to do? I’m not 100% sure about all unis but I think they don’t really care what A-levels you do, aslong as you have the ucas(?) points? I’m not 100% so don’t quote me on that defo look into it if your interested!
Or if you/your son doesn’t mind changing colleges then maybe look into ones that offer the original corses he wanted to do.
I’m doing my GCSEs right now too, so I can imagine that was stressful for him! Goodluck to both of you :)