CHEM 14AE
General Chemistry for Life Scientists I--Enhanced
Grades
3.18
Average grade awarded in CHEM 14AE. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
46%
of the 991 letter grades
D, F or W
4.7%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 991 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.07 to 3.25.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 30 · 3.0%
- A 264 · 26.6%
- A- 162 · 16.3%
- B+ 113 · 11.4%
- B 157 · 15.8%
- B- 80 · 8.1%
- C+ 45 · 4.5%
- C 70 · 7.1%
- C- 23 · 2.3%
- D+ 10 · 1.0%
- D 14 · 1.4%
- D- 8 · 0.8%
- F 15 · 1.5%
- P 2 of 998
- I 5 of 998
Percentages are of the 991 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEWEESE, DORY reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.16 | 619 | 2 | 46% | - | not teaching it |
| CARAM, JUSTIN RYAN reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.22 | 372 | 2 | 47% | 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 2 reviewers
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
- Papers mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 4 reviewers
Read from 26 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 Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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, two hours. 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 14A or 20A. Study of foundations of chemistry. Discussion of foundations of quantum mechanics and how these principles can be used to understand atomic and molecular structure and properties; how molecules interact; and properties of inorganic, organic, and biological acids, bases, and salts. Biological, environmental, and socially-relevant examples are used to illustrate central role that chemistry plays in our world. Emphasis on developing problem-solving skills and collaborative interaction and learning. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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