Does anyone have experience of their DC successfully getting a place at a good uni when they took their GCSE Maths early?
DS school (state) would like to put him in for GCSE Maths and Numeracy this summer at end of Year 9. They moved him up to take classes with the Year 11s in Sept and he got 9 / A* in the mocks before Christmas.
Plan was for him then to do AS in Year 10. We were reluctant at first but then saw how much happier he was with the harder work.
However, recently lots of people have been telling us we could seriously jepordise his future as top unis discount any GCSEs taken early. And as this is Maths he won't have a core subject needed to apply.
The school are not sure themselves and don't have much experience in this sort of thing.
Can anyone advise?
Many thanks!