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You are looking at Summer Session A 2026. That term is over, so these are last term's numbers rather than seats you can take. dibs holds 246 sections for Summer Session A 2026, read 35 hours ago. Separately, it has finished 400 of the 3,481 courses on its own sweep list for this term. Terms nobody is enrolling in are swept one a night in rotation, so a course with nothing here may simply not have been reached yet. Back to Fall 2026

CHEM 14A

General Chemistry for Life Scientists I

4 units Physical Sciences

Lecture and discussion.

Summer Session A 2026: 1 lecture and 8 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 35 hours ago.

Grades

3.28

Average grade awarded in CHEM 14A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

54%

of the 7,658 letter grades

D, F or W

3.5%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

1%

79% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 7,658 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. 2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 2.84 to 3.95.

  • A+ 961 · 12.5%
  • A 1,890 · 24.7%
  • A- 1,315 · 17.2%
  • B+ 875 · 11.4%
  • B 717 · 9.4%
  • B- 526 · 6.9%
  • C+ 391 · 5.1%
  • C 431 · 5.6%
  • C- 286 · 3.7%
  • D+ 19 · 0.2%
  • D 98 · 1.3%
  • D- 28 · 0.4%
  • F 121 · 1.6%
  • P 37 of 7,720
  • NP 10 of 7,720
  • I 15 of 7,720

Percentages are of the 7,658 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). 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 Summer Session A 2026
LAVELLE, LAURENCE reviews ↗ 3.33 3.33 3,028 4 54% average not teaching it
SCERRI, ERIC ROBERT reviews ↗ 3.09 3.09 2,143 4 44% light not teaching it
RESLAN, RANDA reviews ↗ 3.29 3.29 694 2 62% - not teaching it
OW, FRANKLIN P reviews ↗ 3.29 3.29 675 2 56% average not teaching it
CARAM, JUSTIN RYAN reviews ↗ 3.76 3.78 384 1 86% - not teaching it
WU, ERIC C reviews ↗ 3.36 3.36 352 1 65% very light not teaching it
NAVA, MATTHEW J reviews ↗ 3.26 3.26 349 1 54% - not teaching it
RAMACHANDRAN, ROSHINI reviews ↗ 3.72 3.95 33 1 97% - not teaching it

“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.

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Reviews for CHEM 14A

What comes first

dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 14A, so it cannot say what comes before 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

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: high school chemistry or equivalent background and three and one half years of high school mathematics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Life Sciences 30A or Mathematics 3A or 31A or score of 48 or better on Mathematics Diagnostic Test. Not open to students with credit for course 20A. Introduction to physical and general chemistry principles; atomic structure based on quantum mechanics; atomic properties; trends in periodic table; chemical bonding (Lewis structures, VSEPR theory, hybridization, and molecular orbital theory); coordination compounds; properties of inorganic and organic acids, bases, buffers. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Summer Session A 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 243 and 358 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 339 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Summer Session A 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

Lec 1 · Prado, J.R. and Pan, W. · 411 enrolled

Unchanged over 2 minutes

Both readings say 411 seats.

2 Sep 03:052 Sep 03:06
read 1hSeats from 2 Sep 03:05 to 2 Sep 03:06, 411 to 411. No line is drawn, because nothing moved. Across the 1 hour from 2 Sep 03:05 to 2 Sep 03:06, dibs holds a read record for 1 of them. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a flat run here means checked and unchanged.

Across the 1 hour from 2 Sep 03:05 to 2 Sep 03:06, dibs holds a read record for 1 of them. Every hour plotted carries a read, so a flat run here means checked and unchanged.