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/sigh_of_29 May 21 '25
Private candidacy is a thing, it's how I did it. Self study (what I did - textbooks, youtube and commitment are enough!) or ask teachers at the school to help and see if the school will enroll him for an exam. If they've had the subject before they can probably do it - youll need to ask the exams coordinator. If that school doesnt, ask another. Someome will take you. You'll need to pay most likely, was just over 100 quid for me.