MATH 61
Introduction to Discrete Structures
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 175 · 6.0%
- A 790 · 27.0%
- A- 379 · 13.0%
- B+ 358 · 12.2%
- B 362 · 12.4%
- B- 199 · 6.8%
- C+ 156 · 5.3%
- C 181 · 6.2%
- C- 127 · 4.3%
- D+ 68 · 2.3%
- D 50 · 1.7%
- D- 22 · 0.8%
- F 57 · 1.9%
- P 47 of 2,991
- NP 8 of 2,991
- S 1 of 2,991
- U 1 of 2,991
- I 9 of 2,991
- R 1 of 2,991
Percentages are of the 2,924 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), incompletes (I), and repeats (R).
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 | Winter 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% | - | not teaching it |
| 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.
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, 1 mention in past reviews
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, 10 mentions in past reviews
Based on 328 reviews; source checked 6 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 3 courses long before MATH 61. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MATH 61 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. 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 Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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