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UNIV ST 10A

ACE UCLA | Critical Strategies to Achieve Undergraduate Excellence (First- and Second-Year Students)

2 units

Sections & times

Seminar.

Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 87 minutes ago.

Grades

Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.

Graded P/NP: 375 records over 13 terms.

In the A range

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no letter grades in the record to count

D, F or W

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no letter grades in the record to count

Taken pass/no pass

100%

99% of those passed

The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.

The table below splits them.

Historical grades for GABRA, MARIAN H, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

  • P 286 of 290
  • NP 4 of 290

Counts are out of 290 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.

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

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
ARAUJO, JASON ALEXANDER reviews ↗ P/NP 14 P/NP 1 - - not teaching it
CHOE, CATHERINE reviews ↗ P/NP 71 P/NP 4 - - not teaching it
ALVARADO, OMAR ISMAEL reviews ↗ P/NP 22 P/NP 1 - - not teaching it
GABRA, MARIAN H reviews ↗ P/NP 290 P/NP 10 - very light Open, 1 seat left
CORTES, AXEL reviews ↗ P/NP 13 P/NP 1 - - not teaching it
COY, RIC ESTABROOK reviews ↗ P/NP 18 P/NP 1 - - not teaching it
WILLIAMS, KEARA L reviews ↗ P/NP 19 P/NP 1 - - 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.

Reviews for UNIV ST 10A

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.

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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

Seminar, two hours. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 10B, 10C, 10D, 10E, 10F, or former course 10. Imparts students with critical strategies to achieve undergraduate excellence at top-tier research institution. Study of research university’s mission, rigors, and expectations of students, as well as its pedagogical implications. Cultivation of formal space on campus where UCLA students learn to engage collaboratively with their diverse community of scholars; to comprehend and apply effective learning strategies and theoretical foundations of college student development; to navigate complex structure of UCLA; to practice resilience and growth mindset; to think critically about diversity and their identity; and to be fully aware of their value to intellectual fabric of institution as contributors to innovative research and scholarship. P/NP grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 13 and 28 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 28 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking UNIV ST 10A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Community guidelines

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Sem 1 · Gabra, M.H. · 44 of 45 enrolled

Filled by 6 over about 1 month

44 of 45 · 1 left
18 Aug 18:409 Sep 19:261 Oct 20:12
dibs read 168 of the 770 hours its hourly record covers, 22%, and did not look in 602. dibs had no hourly record before 30 Aug, which is the other 289 of 1059 plotted.44 of 45 enrolled at the newest reading, 87 minutes ago, with 1 left. Seats from 18 Aug 18:40 to 1 Oct 20:12, 38 to 44. dibs read 168 of the 770 hours its hourly record here covers, 22%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 602 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 30 August at 19:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 289 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.