LIFESCI 7A
Cell and Molecular Biology
Lecture and discussion.
Spring 2027: 2 lectures and 16 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.51
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 7A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
66%
of the 14,529 letter grades
D, F or W
2.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
84% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 14,529 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.11 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 423 · 2.9%
- A 6,919 · 47.6%
- A- 2,215 · 15.2%
- B+ 1,540 · 10.6%
- B 1,366 · 9.4%
- B- 692 · 4.8%
- C+ 435 · 3.0%
- C 524 · 3.6%
- C- 53 · 0.4%
- D+ 69 · 0.5%
- D 141 · 1.0%
- D- 18 · 0.1%
- F 134 · 0.9%
- P 72 of 14,635
- NP 14 of 14,635
- S 1 of 14,635
- U 1 of 14,635
- I 17 of 14,635
- DR 1 of 14,635
Percentages are of the 14,529 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
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| MALOY, JEFFREY P reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.59 | 3,203 | 7 | 71% | light | not teaching it |
| KO, JULIE reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 2,661 | 8 | 65% | light | not teaching it |
| PHAM, HUNG DINH reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.54 | 2,239 | 6 | 67% | light | not teaching it |
| PIRES, DEBRA B reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.31 | 2,068 | 6 | 51% | average | not teaching it |
| BRAYBROOK, SIOBHAN reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.64 | 1,629 | 3 | 78% | average | not teaching it |
| LAZAZZERA, BETH ANN reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.52 | 1,537 | 7 | 65% | average | not teaching it |
| CHEN, YVONNE YU-HSUAN reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.46 | 928 | 3 | 62% | average | not teaching it |
| MCEVOY, MEGAN MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.35 | 3.35 | 733 | 2 | 52% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BOUKLAS, TEJAS ASHOK reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.67 | 423 | 3 | 78% | very light | not teaching it |
| BURTON, ANDREA reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.75 | 382 | 1 | 82% | light | not teaching it |
| SIEKHAUS, DARIA reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.56 | 338 | 1 | 66% | light | not teaching it |
| KHANKAN, RANA RACHAD reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.55 | 286 | 1 | 66% | average | not teaching it |
| CAMPBELL, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.74 | 279 | 1 | 80% | average | not teaching it |
| ZAMUDIO, JESSE RAY reviews ↗ | 3.28 | 3.26 | 228 | 1 | 55% | average | not teaching it |
| COOK, EMONI reviews ↗ | 3.11 | 3.04 | 105 | 1 | 42% | - | not teaching it |
| MULJI, ALY KARIM reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.81 | 48 | 1 | 88% | average | not teaching it |
| BANERJEE, NAVONIL reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.32 | 43 | 1 | 56% | - | not teaching it |
| DAVATOLHAGH, MARIEXCEL FELICIA reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.72 | 32 | 1 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 3 exams, 1 mention in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- No presentations, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 268 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, 75 minutes. Introduction to basic principles of cell structure and cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 18 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 157 and 376 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 331 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
Seats over time in Spring 2027
Read once so far, so there is no line to draw yet.
What turns this into a chart
A second reading is what turns this into a chart: courses come round within about three hours, and a lecture somebody is watching goes to the front of the pass. Watching is on the lecture's own page, not this one.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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