CHEM 20A
Chemical Structure
Lecture and discussion.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.51
Average grade awarded in CHEM 20A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
69%
of the 4,457 letter grades
D, F or W
2.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
9 of 15 students passed
The registrar's own records: 4,457 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 3.08 to 3.85.
Historical grades for RESLAN, RANDA, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAVNER, ABBY reviews ↗ | 3.70 | 3.71 | 1,625 | 3 | 81% | light | not teaching it |
| SHAO, HUILING reviews ↗ | 3.54 | 3.54 | 1,031 | 3 | 68% | light | not teaching it |
| WU, ERIC C reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.37 | 784 | 1 | 64% | - | not teaching it |
| DEIFEL, NICHOLAS reviews ↗ | 3.65 | 3.65 | 350 | 2 | 83% | very light | not teaching it |
| OW, FRANKLIN P reviews ↗ | 3.28 | 3.26 | 336 | 3 | 53% | very light | not teaching it |
| SCERRI, ERIC ROBERT reviews ↗ | 2.88 | 2.85 | 331 | 1 | 28% | average | 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, 11 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 3 mentions in past reviews
- Papers mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 5 mentions in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 336 reviews; source checked about 2 months ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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. Recommended preparation: high school physics. Requisite: completion of Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 31A. Not open to students with credit for course 14A. First term of general chemistry. Survey of chemical processes, quantum chemistry, atomic and molecular structure and bonding, molecular spectroscopy. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Open9 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 91 of 100 enrolled
Instructor
3.51Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 4,457 letter gradesSeat risk
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 214 and 392 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 392 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 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.
Lec 1 · Reslan, R. · 91 of 100 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 91 of 100.
How readings and alerts work
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