CHEM 30A
Organic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
Lecture and discussion.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 lecture and 2 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 30 days ago.
Grades
2.95
Average grade awarded in CHEM 30A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
37%
of the 1,515 letter grades
D, F or W
9.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
10 of 17 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,515 grades over 8 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 8 terms ran 2.55 to 3.03.
Historical grades for PHAM, HUNG VIET, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 63 · 8.4%
- A 160 · 21.4%
- A- 88 · 11.8%
- B+ 88 · 11.8%
- B 61 · 8.2%
- B- 63 · 8.4%
- C+ 56 · 7.5%
- C 36 · 4.8%
- C- 35 · 4.7%
- D+ 40 · 5.4%
- D 23 · 3.1%
- D- 17 · 2.3%
- F 17 · 2.3%
- P 8 of 761
- NP 5 of 761
- I 1 of 761
Percentages are of the 747 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, HUNG VIET reviews ↗ | 2.96 | 2.96 | 747 | 4 | 42% | average | Open, 19 seats left |
| REILLY, AMBER reviews ↗ | 3.02 | 3.02 | 284 | 1 | 35% | light | not teaching it |
| HARRAN, PATRICK G reviews ↗ | 2.93 | 2.93 | 241 | 2 | 29% | average | not teaching it |
| OW, FRANKLIN P reviews ↗ | 3.05 | 3.06 | 139 | 1 | 37% | - | not teaching it |
| MAJI, RAJAT reviews ↗ | 2.60 | 2.55 | 104 | 1 | 21% | - | 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
- 3 exams, said by 8 reviewers
- 6 quizzes, said by 2 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 3 reviewers
Read from 202 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before CHEM 30A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 30A in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
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. Enforced requisite: course 20B with grade of C- or better. First term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Covalent bonding, shapes, stereochemistry, and acid/base properties of organic molecules. Properties, synthesis, and reactions of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, and alkynes. SN2, SN1, elimination, and radical reactions. 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 3 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 MWF 10:00am-11:50amOpen2.96predicted, this instructor · 747 grades
19 seats left. 81 of 100 enrolled -
not checked yet2 discussions, all open.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 92 and 228 a term over 7 terms, summer excluded, most recently 113 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 · Pham, H.V. · 81 of 100 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 81 of 100.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.