MATH 170E
Introduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
Grades
3.23
Average grade awarded in MATH 170E. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
53%
of the 2,432 letter grades
D, F or W
5.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
6 of 11 students passed
The registrar's own records: 2,432 grades over 15 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 15 terms ran 2.80 to 3.80.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 160 · 6.6%
- A 798 · 32.8%
- A- 326 · 13.4%
- B+ 206 · 8.5%
- B 308 · 12.7%
- B- 150 · 6.2%
- C+ 121 · 5.0%
- C 143 · 5.9%
- C- 99 · 4.1%
- D+ 25 · 1.0%
- D 35 · 1.4%
- D- 12 · 0.5%
- F 49 · 2.0%
- P 6 of 2,466
- NP 5 of 2,466
- I 23 of 2,466
Percentages are of the 2,432 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JEONG, HALYUN reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.65 | 336 | 2 | 77% | very light | not teaching it |
| BAEUMLER, JOHANNES reviews ↗ | 3.24 | 3.24 | 271 | 3 | 50% | - | not teaching it |
| FAROLFI, GIULIO reviews ↗ | 3.58 | 3.60 | 264 | 3 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| ROPER, MARCUS LEIGH reviews ↗ | 2.92 | 2.89 | 223 | 1 | 34% | light | not teaching it |
| ZHANG, ZHAOYU reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.20 | 209 | 3 | 48% | - | not teaching it |
| ARANT, TYLER JAMES reviews ↗ | 2.98 | 2.95 | 179 | 3 | 40% | average | not teaching it |
| BUTSON, DYLAN reviews ↗ | 3.18 | 3.18 | 131 | 1 | 39% | light | not teaching it |
| NEEDELL, DEANNA reviews ↗ | 3.15 | 3.14 | 117 | 3 | 56% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| NGUYEN, TUNG reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.19 | 84 | 1 | 48% | - | not teaching it |
| YIN, JUN reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.22 | 80 | 1 | 51% | - | not teaching it |
| GURDOGAN, HUBEYB USAME reviews ↗ | 2.91 | 2.84 | 80 | 1 | 38% | - | not teaching it |
| GU, HAOTIAN reviews ↗ | 3.02 | 2.98 | 78 | 1 | 41% | - | not teaching it |
| LOPEZ RIVERA, PABLO IGNACIO reviews ↗ | 2.81 | 2.71 | 73 | 1 | 33% | - | not teaching it |
| PALMER, AARON ZEFF reviews ↗ | 3.13 | 3.11 | 71 | 1 | 41% | - | not teaching it |
| CONLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.08 | 3.02 | 43 | 1 | 35% | - | not teaching it |
| ENAKOUTSA, KOFFI reviews ↗ | 3.46 | 3.55 | 42 | 1 | 67% | - | not teaching it |
| PALMER, AARON Z reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 4.00 | 41 | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| ODHIAMBO, COLLINS OJWANG reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.50 | 41 | 1 | 56% | - | not teaching it |
| FORLANO, JUSTIN AMEDEO reviews ↗ | 2.69 | 2.43 | 36 | 1 | 17% | heavy | not teaching it |
| NGUYEN, HUNG DANG reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 2.97 | 33 | 1 | 36% | very heavy | 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.
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Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 120 reviews; source checked about 1 month ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MATH 170E. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MATH 170E in Fall 2025 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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, one hour. Requisite: course 32B. Highly recommended: course 61 or 70. Not open to students with credit for course 170A, Electrical and Computer Engineering 131A, or Statistics 100A. Introduction to probability theory with emphasis on topics relevant to applications. Topics include discrete (binomial, Poisson, etc.) and continuous (exponential, gamma, chi-square, normal) distributions, bivariate distributions, distributions of functions of random variables (including moment generating functions and central limit theorem). P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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