EPS SCI 10
Exploring Mars, Red Planet
Grades
3.67
Average grade awarded in EPS SCI 10. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
73%
of the 306 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
9 of 9 students passed
The registrar's own records: 306 grades over 3 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 3 terms ran 3.65 to 3.72.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 33 · 10.8%
- A 151 · 49.3%
- A- 39 · 12.7%
- B+ 36 · 11.8%
- B 25 · 8.2%
- B- 9 · 2.9%
- C+ 4 · 1.3%
- C 3 · 1.0%
- C- 6 · 2.0%
- P 9 of 317
- I 2 of 317
Percentages are of the 306 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAIGE, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.67 | 3.67 | 306 | 3 | 73% | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 6 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 5 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Labs mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 22 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
In Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
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. History and future of Mars exploration, origin of planet, surface materials, and atmosphere. History of climate. Questions regarding water and life. Scientific and practical issues in mission design. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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