Well i thought i would update this as i did indeed take the course and i am 4 months in nearly now. It has so far been very basic to me eg learning computer hardware etc but i have been assured it gets better
I know its way too early to think about but i am now starting to look towards what i can do as a career.
I am really enjoying web design and i have carried on from what i learnt myself before college.
Is this still a career worth going? a tutor i spoke to at school doesn't think so.
What sort of areas of IT are the "future" ones?
I know it is hard to say but a little bit of guidance would be good
Like you, I used to love dabbling around with web development when I was younger (talking GCSE time - 4 or so years ago now) and really loved it, and would have loved to do it as a job at the time. But in my own opinion, you can't really take web development as a job unless you meet some very strict criteria - i.e. you're pretty damn awesome at it. You could always do some freelance work, but I wouldn't think you'd be able to make enough money to get by on unless you can attract the attention of some pretty big clients.
I ended up taking IT (along with Maths, Chemistry, Physics and 3D Product Design) at AS and A2, but wasn't sure enough on what I wanted to do to warrant going to uni. This made my grades drop (a lot of other factors came in that ripped my life apart a fair bit) and really did push uni out of my reach at the time.
I worked my arse off at a big retailer for over a year during 6th form and when I left went full time. I got to know the system techs quite a bit and organised some "placements" with the relative managers so that I could see what their job was like as I had no first hand experience of "real world" IT work - just a couple of website designs I sold and that was it.
I'm now 20 (as of last month) and working for a part of the NHS (East of England Ambulance Service Trust) doing general 1st and 2nd line desktop support. I didn't get the job because I had amazing qualifications or years of experience - in my mind I lacked in both areas! - I got the job because I made myself come across as a nice chap with a real hunger to do well and to work my way in to the industry. And that's the only way I would ever suggest someone to get in to IT unless they go to uni to get a specialised course, which will plonk them in a position or two "higher" than me. But on the other hand, in the 3+ years they're still learning, I'm earning money, learning more "real world" IT practices and have the potential to leap frog them in terms of hierarchy.
As for career paths for the future - it depends what are of IT interests you the most.
Personally I would say if you want to be intuitive, on the ball, "new era" etc, then have a look at cloud computing and networking - that's where a lot of the big IT players will be heading in the foreseeable future in my mind - and that's what I would have gotten in to doing at uni if I could go now. The world's your oyster when it comes to IT - and the good thing is that it's very easy to learn a new aspect of it and potentially swap career paths if what you are doing doesn't satisfy you!
All the best with the course as well, and congrats on getting in!
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and that knocked my overall to a D. I have resat that exam so fingers crossed it is a pass and i can get a C overall! 
