LIFESCI 30B
Mathematics for Life Scientists
Grades
3.36
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 30B. Not a 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, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.85 to 3.78.
- 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). 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 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENNOUN, STEVE JACK reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.19 | 1,728 | 3 | 48% | - | not teaching it |
| KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.46 | 1,388 | 4 | 69% | - | not teaching it |
| SHEVTSOV, JANE reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.41 | 1,224 | 4 | 63% | - | not teaching it |
| MC CULLY, KRISTIN MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.76 | 483 | 2 | 83% | - | 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% | - | 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% | - | 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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30B, 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
dibs has not read the registrar's description for this course. It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.