MIMG 105
Biological Microscopy
Grades
3.31
Average grade awarded in MIMG 105. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
50%
of the 179 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
4%
7 of 8 students passed
The registrar's own records: 179 grades over 5 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 5 terms ran 3.26 to 3.40.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 16 · 8.9%
- A 34 · 19.0%
- A- 40 · 22.3%
- B+ 24 · 13.4%
- B 25 · 14.0%
- B- 15 · 8.4%
- C+ 10 · 5.6%
- C 10 · 5.6%
- C- 4 · 2.2%
- F 1 · 0.6%
- P 7 of 188
- NP 1 of 188
- I 1 of 188
Percentages are of the 179 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 | Winter 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENTOLILA, LAURENT reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.31 | 179 | 5 | 50% | - | not teaching it |
| ZHOU, HONG reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.32 | 113 | 3 | 51% | - | not teaching it |
| STIEG, ADAM Z reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.32 | 113 | 3 | 51% | - | 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
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MIMG 105. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MIMG 105 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 30B and 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.
In Winters
Has not run in Winter in the 4 Winters dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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, four hours; laboratory, three hours (five weeks only). Requisite or corequisite: Physics 1C or 5B or 6C. Introduction to modern microscopy technologies used in biochemistry, medicine, microbiology, and nano research. Basic image formation principles of microscopy, methods for sample preparation, imaging, data acquisitions, and three-dimensional reconstruction and visualization. Fluoresce, confocal, and super-resolution light microscopy; transmission electron microscopy, electron tomography, and three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy; and atomic force and other scanning probe microscopy modalities. Practical experience in research provided through five carefully designed electron microscopy laboratory modules. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
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