LIFESCI 30B
Mathematics for Life Scientists
Grades
3.36
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 30B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
60%
of the 5,688 letter grades
D, F or W
5.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 5,688 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.85 to 3.78.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 931 · 16.4%
- A 1,781 · 31.3%
- A- 716 · 12.6%
- B+ 537 · 9.4%
- B 503 · 8.8%
- B- 310 · 5.5%
- C+ 230 · 4.0%
- C 269 · 4.7%
- C- 128 · 2.3%
- D+ 81 · 1.4%
- D 94 · 1.7%
- D- 48 · 0.8%
- F 60 · 1.1%
- P 2 of 5,731
- I 36 of 5,731
- DR 5 of 5,731
Percentages are of the 5,688 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENNOUN, STEVE JACK reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.19 | 1,728 | 3 | 48% | light | not teaching it |
| KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.46 | 1,388 | 4 | 69% | light | not teaching it |
| SHEVTSOV, JANE reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.41 | 1,224 | 4 | 63% | average | not teaching it |
| MC CULLY, KRISTIN MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.76 | 483 | 2 | 83% | light | not teaching it |
| CONLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.20 | 356 | 1 | 54% | - | not teaching it |
| MCCULLY, KRISTIN MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.29 | 3.28 | 267 | 1 | 55% | average | not teaching it |
| WANG, WEIQI reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.30 | 100 | 1 | 49% | - | not teaching it |
| VINET, MICAH reviews ↗ | 3.34 | 3.34 | 97 | 1 | 57% | - | not teaching it |
| VENUGOPAL, SHARMILA reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.78 | 45 | 1 | 87% | light | 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
- 1 exam, 29 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 15 mentions in past reviews
- Projects mentioned, no number given, 5 mentions in past reviews
- Labs mentioned, no number given, 14 mentions in past reviews
Based on 162 reviews; source checked 7 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30B in any term it holds, 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.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably.
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; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 30A. Introduction to concept of matrices and linear transformations to equip students with some basic tools to understand dynamics of multivariable nonlinear systems. Examples from ecological, physiological, chemical, and other systems. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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