Err... SPM IT Candidates learn VB6 and HTML since form 4 when I was in school 12 years ago. I was one of them. Pretty sure they are learning more these days.
Maybe you should've enrolled in school that actually offer IT classes.

P.s. Proficiency in IT is more about logical thinking and problem solving. One may be superly good at math, doesn't mean he can easily master programming while a master programmer not really need to be good in math as the machines will do the calculations for them.