MATH 115A
Linear Algebra
Grades
3.19
Average grade awarded in MATH 115A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
49%
of the 2,385 letter grades
D, F or W
5.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
80% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 2,385 grades over 16 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 16 terms ran 3.00 to 3.72.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 189 · 7.9%
- A 681 · 28.6%
- A- 294 · 12.3%
- B+ 260 · 10.9%
- B 293 · 12.3%
- B- 177 · 7.4%
- C+ 136 · 5.7%
- C 125 · 5.2%
- C- 98 · 4.1%
- D+ 27 · 1.1%
- D 42 · 1.8%
- D- 12 · 0.5%
- F 51 · 2.1%
- P 20 of 2,436
- NP 5 of 2,436
- S 1 of 2,436
- U 1 of 2,436
- I 24 of 2,436
Percentages are of the 2,385 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), and incompletes (I).
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.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHIN, BRIAN YOUNGHO reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.21 | 296 | 5 | 47% | light | not teaching it |
| DO, KIM TUAN reviews ↗ | 3.08 | 3.07 | 236 | 4 | 44% | light | not teaching it |
| NIENHAUS, JAN reviews ↗ | 3.03 | 3.01 | 219 | 4 | 40% | very light | not teaching it |
| YEONG, WERN YEEN reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.97 | 201 | 4 | 39% | very light | not teaching it |
| OPIE, MORGAN PECK reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.39 | 192 | 3 | 56% | light | not teaching it |
| EBERT, MARK reviews ↗ | 2.99 | 2.97 | 122 | 3 | 41% | light | not teaching it |
| KERANEN, JUKKA PETRI MIKAEL reviews ↗ | 3.33 | 3.35 | 107 | 3 | 62% | very light | not teaching it |
| CONLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.40 | 106 | 2 | 59% | heavy | not teaching it |
| SANCHEZ OCAL, PABLO reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.33 | 103 | 2 | 45% | - | not teaching it |
| GANNON, KYLE ANDREW COX reviews ↗ | 3.57 | 3.64 | 84 | 1 | 74% | very light | not teaching it |
| ROPER, MARCUS LEIGH reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.79 | 84 | 1 | 83% | - | not teaching it |
| KAN, KAI FUNG reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.33 | 83 | 2 | 48% | light | not teaching it |
| MIN, HYUNKI reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.44 | 70 | 1 | 61% | very light | not teaching it |
| LIU, GANG reviews ↗ | 2.77 | 2.63 | 51 | 1 | 31% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| KASUM, OBRAD reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 3.01 | 37 | 1 | 35% | - | not teaching it |
| ENAKOUTSA, KOFFI reviews ↗ | 3.23 | 3.24 | 37 | 1 | 49% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BLASIUS, DON M reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.13 | 37 | 1 | 46% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| MA, SIHAO reviews ↗ | 3.03 | 2.95 | 37 | 1 | 32% | - | not teaching it |
| WONG, RICHARD reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.06 | 35 | 1 | 37% | heavy | not teaching it |
| HIGGINS, VIJAY reviews ↗ | 3.00 | 2.91 | 35 | 1 | 31% | - | not teaching it |
| SHEVCHENKO, OLHA reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.12 | 33 | 1 | 58% | very light | not teaching it |
| VASHAW, KENT reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.30 | 30 | 1 | 53% | - | not teaching it |
| POPA, SORIN reviews ↗ | 3.05 | 2.98 | 29 | 1 | 41% | - | not teaching it |
| SCAVIA, FEDERICO reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.27 | 29 | 1 | 66% | - | not teaching it |
| MORAGA, JOAQUIN reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.22 | 28 | 1 | 64% | - | not teaching it |
| ADKISSON, WILLIAM reviews ↗ | 3.17 | 3.16 | 28 | 1 | 54% | - | not teaching it |
| HU, NICHOLAS reviews ↗ | 2.72 | 2.41 | 26 | 1 | 15% | - | not teaching it |
| JOHNSON, CASEY LYNN reviews ↗ | 3.04 | 2.80 | 10 · | 1 | 40% | - | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 350 reviews 26 days ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MATH 115A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MATH 115A in Summer Session C 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
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; discussion, two hours. Requisite: course 33A. Techniques of proof, abstract vector spaces, linear transformations, and matrices; determinants; inner product spaces; eigenvector theory. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
From the people who took it
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