CHEM 30BL
Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
Grades
3.69
Average grade awarded in CHEM 30BL. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
76%
of the 1,001 letter grades
D, F or W
0.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
4 of 4 students passed
The registrar's own records: 1,001 grades over 13 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 13 terms ran 3.35 to 3.94.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 59 · 5.9%
- A 482 · 48.2%
- A- 221 · 22.1%
- B+ 120 · 12.0%
- B 73 · 7.3%
- B- 20 · 2.0%
- C+ 14 · 1.4%
- C 3 · 0.3%
- C- 3 · 0.3%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 5 · 0.5%
- P 4 of 1,015
- I 10 of 1,015
Percentages are of the 1,001 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEIFEL, NICHOLAS reviews ↗ | 3.81 | 3.82 | 442 | 6 | 91% | very light | not teaching it |
| NASRALLAH, DANIEL J reviews ↗ | 3.64 | 3.64 | 342 | 4 | 69% | average | not teaching it |
| PHAM, HUNG VIET reviews ↗ | 3.71 | 3.72 | 84 | 1 | 76% | - | not teaching it |
| REILLY, AMBER JAYNE reviews ↗ | 3.45 | 3.39 | 71 | 1 | 46% | average | not teaching it |
| SPOKOYNY, ALEXANDER MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.43 | 3.35 | 62 | 1 | 39% | - | not teaching it |
| CASAS, ANNEKA MILLER reviews ↗ | 3.89 | 3.94 | 58 | 1 | 100% | - | 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
- No exams, 9 mentions in past reviews
- Quizzes mentioned, no number given, 5 mentions in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 4 mentions in past reviews
- Labs mentioned, no number given, 8 mentions in past reviews
Based on 100 reviews; source checked 7 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
dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 30BL in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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, one hour; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 30A (or 30AH), 30AL and 30B, with grades of C- or better. Basic experimental techniques in organic synthesis (performing reactions, monitoring reactions, and conducting purifications) and spectroscopy (IR, NMR, mass spectrometry). Synthesis of known organic molecules on microscale level with focus on societal applications. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
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