MATH 285J
Seminar: Applied Mathematics
Grades
3.96
Average grade awarded in MATH 285J. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
99%
of the 92 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 92 grades over 7 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 7 terms ran 3.87 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 15 · 16.3%
- A 66 · 71.7%
- A- 10 · 10.9%
- B 1 · 1.1%
- S 4 of 98
- I 2 of 98
Percentages are of the 92 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S) 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERTOZZI, ANDREA reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.91 | 17 · | 1 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| OSHER, STANLEY J reviews ↗ | 3.87 | 3.87 | 16 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| CUCURINGU, MIHAI reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.98 | 14 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| JIANG, CHENFANFU reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 4.00 | 13 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| MONTUFAR CUARTAS, GUIDO FRANCISCO reviews ↗ | 3.93 | 4.00 | 12 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| VESE, LUMINITA AURA reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 4.00 | 11 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| SCHAEFFER, HAYDEN KYLER reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 4.00 | 9 · | 1 | 100% | - | 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 not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Springs
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring 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
Seminar, three hours. No more than two 285 courses may be applied toward MA degree requirements except by prior consent of graduate vice chair. Topics in various branches of mathematics and their applications by means of lectures and informal conferences with staff members. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
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