GCSE Choices - Computer Science and?

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I have a little IT nerd at home. Now finishing Y7 but time flies fast! Obviously, he will be taking Computer Science as optional subject.

If you have a similar child, what were his/hers choices? What did the select for EBaccs?

Theres no point comparing sets between schools... your set 2 could be top half of set 1 at another school or Set 3 at a different one.

I used the generic word IT in references to studying IT subjects at Uni hence confusion. There is a whole range of choices. At a secondary school level and A level is only Computer Science

IT was a very dull GCSE that my mate used to teach and hated it, all about how to make a PPt in Microsoft.

CS is an actual science and involves programming and a lot more. Put it this way, I could pass IT GCSE but not CS haha.

Well, it is a Catholic school in top 100 UK state schools when it comes to results at GCSE and A Level, which means there are many grammar schools with entry exams that score worse. They study Further Maths in top sets

Hence why comparison is pointless... no two schools are the same. A good school will push the children to achieve their potential regardless of their set number.

You are right. The school at the end of the road has in top set the kids that were rather average at the primary. Overall level is low

I guess what will be difficult to decide is whether by doing CS gcse he is so bored by it that he resents it.

Are there other options he might want to do at gcse apart from Cs? I realise it's very early to think about it!

Cs a level seems like people don't say it's boring who are IT nerds. My sister did maths and computing at uni and she'd done maths, psychology and CS a levels (not further maths). She didn't do computing gcse.