CHEM 14A
General Chemistry for Life Scientists I
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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 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.
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What comes first
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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.