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MATH 61

Introduction to Discrete Structures

4 units

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.

Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 12 discussions. 1 lecture and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 48 minutes ago.

Grades

3.13

Average grade awarded in MATH 61. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

46%

of the 2,924 letter grades

D, F or W

6.7%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

2%

85% of those passed

The registrar's own records: 2,924 grades over 13 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

2 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 2.73 to 3.64.

Historical grades for KATAY, TAMAS, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

No grade history is available for this professor in this course.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor Predicted GPA Raw n Terms A range Workload Fall 2026
DO, KIM TUAN reviews ↗ 3.26 3.26 556 3 46% very light not teaching it
VICARIA ANGEL, MARIANA reviews ↗ 3.20 3.21 487 3 49% light not teaching it
HAZEL, CHRISTY reviews ↗ 3.57 3.59 410 1 69% light not teaching it
ROBICHAUX, COLLEEN ELIZABETH reviews ↗ 3.02 3.02 342 2 40% average not teaching it
GLEIZER, OLEG reviews ↗ 2.89 2.87 222 2 40% average not teaching it
GEORGE, TERRENCE reviews ↗ 2.96 2.94 197 1 34% very light not teaching it
XU, PETER reviews ↗ 2.94 2.93 176 1 39% - not teaching it
GALASHIN, PAVEL reviews ↗ 2.80 2.77 171 1 35% - not teaching it
SOSKIN, DANIEL reviews ↗ 2.99 2.97 136 1 43% - Waitlist, 4 of 12 places taken
KASUM, OBRAD reviews ↗ 2.82 2.77 127 1 28% - not teaching it
ARANT, TYLER JAMES reviews ↗ 3.18 3.19 100 2 50% - not teaching it
ROPER, MARCUS LEIGH reviews ↗ 3.49 3.64 40 1 68% - 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.

Reviews for MATH 61

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.

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before MATH 61. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

In Falls

Ran in 4 of the last 4 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. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 180 or 184. Discrete structures commonly used in computer science and mathematics, including sets and relations, permutations and combinations, graphs and trees, induction. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 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 14 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 79 and 206 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 136 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking MATH 61 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.

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 · Katay, T. · 205 of 210 enrolled

Filled by 86 over about 1 month

205 of 210 · 5 left in its discussions
18 Aug 18:419 Sep 23:062 Oct 03:30
dibs read 168 of the 174 hours its hourly record covers, 97%, and did not look in 6. dibs had no hourly record before 24 Sep, which is the other 892 of 1066 plotted.205 of 210 enrolled at the newest reading, 48 minutes ago, with 5 left in its discussions. Seats from 18 Aug 18:41 to 2 Oct 03:30, 119 to 205. dibs read 168 of the 174 hours its hourly record here covers, 97%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 6 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 24 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 892 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

Lec 2 · Soskin, D. · 140 of 140 enrolled

Filled by 19 over about 1 month

140 of 140 · no seats left in its discussions
18 Aug 18:419 Sep 23:062 Oct 03:30
dibs read 168 of the 174 hours its hourly record covers, 97%, and did not look in 6. dibs had no hourly record before 24 Sep, which is the other 892 of 1066 plotted.140 of 140 enrolled at the newest reading, 48 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 18 Aug 18:41 to 2 Oct 03:30, 121 to 140. dibs read 168 of the 174 hours its hourly record here covers, 97%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 6 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 24 September at 22:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 892 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
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.