LIFESCI 7A / PIRES, DEBRA B

Cell and Molecular Biology

How LIFESCI 7A grades when PIRES, DEBRA B teaches it. LIFESCI 7A, every instructor PIRES, DEBRA B, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.31adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

2,068 letter grades across 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.51 over 14,529 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.31; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 50.8%; A+, A and A minus out of 2068 letter grades.
D, F or W: 2.9%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 0.6%; 11 of 13 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Some of these grades are shared. 475 letter grades in 2 sections also count under MCEVOY, MEGAN MARIE and LAZAZZERA, BETH ANN. The source does not split grades between co-teachers. Do not add instructor totals together.

Grade distribution

A+12 / 0.6%
A675 / 32.6%
A-364 / 17.6%
B+286 / 13.8%
B286 / 13.8%
B-142 / 6.9%
C+97 / 4.7%
C147 / 7.1%
C-0 / 0%
D+16 / 0.8%
D26 / 1.3%
D-3 / 0.1%
F14 / 0.7%
I2 of 2,085
NP2 of 2,085
P11 of 2,085
S1 of 2,085
U1 of 2,085

Percentages are of the 2,068 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), 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, 3.51.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20213.15347 letter grades.

Fall 20223.28297 letter grades.

Fall 20233.34664 letter grades.

Fall 20243.43379 letter grades; 379 shared with MCEVOY, MEGAN MARIE.

Summer Session A 20253.0996 letter grades; 96 shared with LAZAZZERA, BETH ANN.

Fall 20253.38285 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 2026

Section

Lec 1

TR 9:30am-10:45am

Seats

Closed by the department

336 enrolled

Seat risk

no history

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (14)

Dis 1EM 5:00pm-6:15pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1JW 8:00am-9:15amclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1NF 3:30pm-4:45pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1GT 11:00am-12:15pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1IT 5:00pm-6:15pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1HT 3:30pm-4:45pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1KR 8:00am-9:15amclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1MR 3:30pm-4:45pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1AM 8:00am-9:15amclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1CM 9:30am-10:45amclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1DM 11:00am-12:15pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1BM 9:30am-10:45amclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1FT 8:00am-9:15amclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Dis 1LR 2:00pm-3:15pmclosed by the department: 24 enrolled

Every LIFESCI 7A 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.

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