LIFESCI 30A
Mathematics for Life Scientists
Grades
3.40
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 30A. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
64%
of the 8,226 letter grades
D, F or W
5.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 8,226 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 2.88 to 3.74.
- A+ 1,617 · 19.7%
- A 2,531 · 30.8%
- A- 1,129 · 13.7%
- B+ 618 · 7.5%
- B 643 · 7.8%
- B- 535 · 6.5%
- C+ 292 · 3.5%
- C 277 · 3.4%
- C- 161 · 2.0%
- D+ 58 · 0.7%
- D 114 · 1.4%
- D- 148 · 1.8%
- F 103 · 1.3%
- P 2 of 8,274
- NP 5 of 8,274
- I 36 of 8,274
- DR 5 of 8,274
Percentages are of the 8,226 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR). 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENNOUN, STEVE JACK reviews ↗ | 3.40 | 3.40 | 3,645 | 6 | 64% | light | not teaching it |
| SHEVTSOV, JANE reviews ↗ | 3.36 | 3.36 | 1,586 | 3 | 59% | light | not teaching it |
| DEEDS, ERIC JAMESON reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 947 | 3 | 70% | very light | not teaching it |
| KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ | 3.76 | 3.77 | 734 | 1 | 84% | average | not teaching it |
| SISKAKI, MARIA reviews ↗ | 2.96 | 2.94 | 636 | 1 | 48% | - | not teaching it |
| BOUHADDOU, MEHDI reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.31 | 351 | 1 | 58% | - | not teaching it |
| LANNAN, RYAN reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.91 | 86 | 2 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| HAMMONDS, NAOMI M reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.51 | 82 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| VINET, MICAH reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.48 | 80 | 1 | 59% | - | not teaching it |
| VENUGOPAL, SHARMILA reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.75 | 79 | 1 | 87% | average | not teaching it |
“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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30A, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Preparation: three years of high school mathematics (to algebra II), some basic familiarity with computers. Mathematical modeling as tool for understanding dynamics of biological systems. Fundamental concepts of single-variable calculus and development of single- and multi-variable differential equation models of dynamical processes in ecology, physiology, and other subjects in which quantities change with time. Use of computer programming for problem solving, plotting, and dynamical simulation in laboratory. Letter grading.