CHEM 30B
Organic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2025: 1 lecture and 9 discussions. 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.22
Average grade awarded in CHEM 30B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
52%
of the 2,170 letter grades
D, F or W
5.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
5 of 15 students passed
The registrar's own records: 2,170 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 13 terms ran 2.78 to 3.70.
Historical grades for PHAM, HUNG VIET, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 63 · 8.6%
- A 148 · 20.3%
- A- 82 · 11.2%
- B+ 91 · 12.5%
- B 59 · 8.1%
- B- 73 · 10.0%
- C+ 51 · 7.0%
- C 45 · 6.2%
- C- 32 · 4.4%
- D+ 36 · 4.9%
- D 14 · 1.9%
- D- 17 · 2.3%
- F 19 · 2.6%
- P 2 of 739
- NP 5 of 739
- I 2 of 739
Percentages are of the 730 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 | Fall 2025 |
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| PHAM, HUNG VIET reviews ↗ | 2.96 | 2.95 | 730 | 4 | 40% | light | Closed |
| OW, FRANKLIN P reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.31 | 727 | 4 | 54% | very light | not teaching it |
| DEIFEL, NICHOLAS reviews ↗ | 3.55 | 3.58 | 228 | 2 | 71% | - | not teaching it |
| REILLY, AMBER reviews ↗ | 3.11 | 3.10 | 221 | 1 | 52% | - | not teaching it |
| RUBIN, YVES F reviews ↗ | 3.66 | 3.70 | 198 | 1 | 74% | average | not teaching it |
| REILLY, AMBER JAYNE reviews ↗ | 2.97 | 2.90 | 66 | 1 | 39% | - | 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.
No assignment details are available in this review summary. Based on 180 reviews; source checked about 1 month ago. Missing details do not mean there are no papers or exams. Check the current syllabus.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before CHEM 30B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 30B in Fall 2025 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.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 30A or 30AH, with grade of C- or better. Second term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Properties, synthesis, and reactions of alcohols, ethers, sulfur compounds, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and carboxylic acid derivatives. Organometallic compounds. Organic spectroscopy, including mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, and proton and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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 10 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 252 of 252 · 5 over enrolled
Seat risk
-9 discussions, 3 open: Dis 1A, T 9:00am-9:50am, Dis 1F, R 10:00am-10:50am, and Dis 1G, R 12:00pm-12:50pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 3 open discussions cannot be reached from here. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 9 discussions
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2 seats left.
27 of 29 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 137 and 257 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 257 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 Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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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. · 252 of 252 · 5 over enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 252 of 252.
How readings and alerts work
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