Can anyone me help on GCSEs

Thankyou for all the response. Ill digest this all tonight and chat to him tomorrow.
Infact i lie, ill let my partner read this and chat to him tomorrow, shes much better at sorting these things out. ;)
 
Don't quote me but I believe your son would only be restricted if he chose the e-bac and triple science, if you do normal science and e-bac you have flexibility in choosing an option.
 
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Did you hear in the news last week about children who want to be in the games industry/animators are being told to do certain btecs etc when actually they want people with ict and art a levels? I think teachers are too heavily influence by government and you should look at what animating jobs are asking for
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I think jobs that require creativity want portfolios more than anything.
 
Check what the ICT GCSE actually is. Massively depends on the course and exam-board.

We had to do* double ICT GCSE and then I chose** ICT A-Level. Both were complete wastes of time, and the A-Level was just the GCSE 2.0. Wish I chose Further Maths instead of ICT the A-Level!

I kid you not all we did was Word Documents/Excel Spreadsheets/Powerpoint Presentations. Not even any Access or Flash... and this is including A-Level. It was literally writing a storyboard about the evaluation of your plan of your storyboard of your plan etc etc.

The Web-Design bit on A-Level started with "Websites are made in a program called Frontpage and are laid out in tables".... at which point I explain to the teacher what CSS is :rolleyes:.

The people that did best at both the GCSEs and A-Level were the people that liked English/Business Studies. The people that built their own gaming PCs, had their own websites etc only just got Cs.


* - everyone had to take double ICT GCSE. When the school realised a couple of months before the final exam that loads of people weren't going to get a C they sent them all letters suggesting that they might not want to turn up to the exam and withdraw from the two GCSEs having wasted two years doing all the pointless coursework :rolleyes:.

** - I would have-course chosen Computing A-Level instead if my school had offered it. Heck the first week at Uni one of the lecturers said "Anyone got Computing A-Level? That'll come in useful. Anyone got ICT A-Level? That's a complete waste of time."
 
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In my possibly misinformed opinion (knowing little about animation) the best option would probably be to follow the 'traditional' academic route until university, but in the meanwhile let him play around with some animation packages so he has a chance to see if he really enjoys it and also so he can start to build up a skill set for that good and early.
 
Well I imagine it's down to 10 GCSE's in total some being compulsory.

Maths - compulsory
English - (lit and lang.) compulsory
Science - (often double award incorporating all 3) compulsory

then I'd advise:
ICT
Product design
Art
Media studies (if offered, could be a good foundation for animated advertising)
Wildcard - a language, history or geography
 
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