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ASTR 4 / MALKAN, MATTHEW ARNOLD

Black Holes and Cosmic Catastrophes

How ASTR 4 grades when MALKAN, MATTHEW ARNOLD teaches it. ASTR 4, every instructor MALKAN, MATTHEW ARNOLD, every course

Grades, this instructor

2.87adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

66 letter grades across 2 terms, Fall 2022 to Fall 2023. The course pools every instructor at 3.18 over 313 letter grades.

Raw average: 2.79; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 36.4%; A+, A and A minus out of 66 letter grades.
D, F or W: 13.6%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 13.2%; 5 of 10 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+3 / 4.5%
A9 / 13.6%
A-12 / 18.2%
B+4 / 6.1%
B6 / 9.1%
B-9 / 13.6%
C+5 / 7.6%
C3 / 4.5%
C-6 / 9.1%
D+4 / 6.1%
D1 / 1.5%
D-3 / 4.5%
F1 / 1.5%
I3 of 79
NP5 of 79
P5 of 79

Percentages are of the 66 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from GPA.

Term by term

Raw averages for the terms in this record. A missing term does not establish that this instructor did not teach it. Summer sessions are included when present.

Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.18.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20223.0327 letter grades.

Fall 20232.6239 letter grades.

Is one term a guide to the next?

Across the measured corpus, the same course and instructor's term averages were strongly correlated, including terms several years apart. That is why the adjustment does not weight recent terms more heavily. This is a dataset-wide pattern, not a promise about this instructor's next class.

Teaching it in Fall 2025

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Every ASTR 4 section and instructor

Reading these figures

Raw is the mean of the recorded letter grades. The adjusted historical GPA pulls an instructor's average toward the course's adjusted average, which itself uses a department prior. It is a comparison aid, not a calibrated prediction or a student rating. Small samples carry more uncertainty. All recorded instructor roles are included, and a section is counted only once for this instructor. Grades cannot establish workload or explain why outcomes differed.

What students say

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Reviews for MALKAN, MATTHEW ARNOLD in ASTR 4