CHEM C172
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Grades
3.36
Average grade awarded in CHEM C172. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
52%
of the 251 letter grades
D, F or W
3.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 251 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.13 to 3.55.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 43 · 17.1%
- A 45 · 17.9%
- A- 43 · 17.1%
- B+ 43 · 17.1%
- B 36 · 14.3%
- B- 16 · 6.4%
- C+ 6 · 2.4%
- C 8 · 3.2%
- C- 2 · 0.8%
- D+ 4 · 1.6%
- D 1 · 0.4%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 3 · 1.2%
- P 3 of 254
Percentages are of the 251 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, CHONG reviews ↗ | 3.50 | 3.51 | 139 | 2 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| NAVA, MATTHEW J reviews ↗ | 3.20 | 3.18 | 112 | 2 | 32% | - | 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.
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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
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Has not run in Fall in the 4 Falls dibs holds records for, back to Spring 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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. Requisite: course 171 with grade of C- or better. Systematic approach to modern inorganic chemistry, structure and bonding of inorganic molecules and solids, structure/reactivity relationships, vibrational spectra of complexes, electronic structure and ligand-field theory, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, bonding and spectroscopy of organometallic compounds, transition metals in catalysis and biology. Concurrently scheduled with course C272. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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