LIFESCI 7L
Introduction to Laboratory and Scientific Methodology
Grades
3.89
Average grade awarded in LIFESCI 7L. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 2,893 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 2,893 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.87 to 3.91.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 270 · 9.3%
- A 2,170 · 75.0%
- A- 220 · 7.6%
- B+ 108 · 3.7%
- B 67 · 2.3%
- B- 22 · 0.8%
- C+ 7 · 0.2%
- C 15 · 0.5%
- D 5 · 0.2%
- F 9 · 0.3%
- I 2 of 2,895
Percentages are of the 2,893 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFLUEGL, GASTON MATTHIAS UDO reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.89 | 2,893 | 5 | 92% | very light | 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.
What the work looks like
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 2 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before LIFESCI 7L. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for LIFESCI 7L 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.
From the registrar's catalog
(Formerly numbered 23L.) Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Requisite: course 7B. Recommended to be taken concurrently with course 7C. Introductory life sciences laboratory designed for undergraduate students. Opportunity to conduct wet-laboratory and cutting-edge bioinformatics laboratory experiments. Students work in groups of three conducting experiments in areas of physiology, metabolism, cell biology, molecular biology, genotyping, and bioinformatics. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
From the people who took it
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