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15460 Laguna Canyon Road
Irvine, CA 92618, US
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hjvfyuysdhgm
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/20/18

Honestly this website completely garbage because it's $#*!ing ridiculous. I put in the right answer just for it to tell me that I'm wrong, I AM DISGUSTED!!! ITS HONESTLY ITS AUTISTIC AND ITS $#*!ING TREYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So in conclusion aleks can suck my ass (no homo).

santac28
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/19/18

aleks is the worst thing on earth and my wife divorced me because of it and it gave me crippling depression

ee34
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
12/19/18

ALEKS is extremely stupid. There. I said it. Its math is about .1% accurate, and I don't need to know math to figure that out. Its problems are always inaccurate, wrong answers are the correct answers, and there is absolutely no learning or time-worth interactivity. All parents viewing this, KEEP YOUR KIDS AWAY FROM ALEKS! HIDE YOUR KIDS, HIDE YOUR WIFE/HUSBAND! ALEKS IS HERE!

Tip for consumers: DON'T USE IT! HIDE YOUR KIDS, YOUR WIFE/HUSBAND! ALEKS IS HERE! THE DAY OF RECKONING HAS ARRIVED! GOD FROWNS UPON US! JESUS SAVE US!

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chaunceyg8
1 review
8 helpful votes
12/18/18
• Updated review

WBC MAKE THIS WEBSITE TO THEIR HATERS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE MONEY OUT OF IT AND ALSO THEY $#*! ASS AINT BRAVE

“If I had the infinity gauntlet like thanos I would snap my fingers to remove Aleks”
11/6/18
• Previous review

Back it again with this faggot ass site plus I would be thanos and snap it away from existence and I $#*!ing hate this website and die ALEKS rot in hell and go suck satan's $#*!/$#*! ALEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

epicgamerm
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/18/18

this website made the wife take the kids and i was left all alone in a ditch. i then decided to take my car, and go zoom off the bridge. this aleks thing literally made the gnome appear in my bedroom. i cant believe hw big sad this is. ;( this wesbite is run by furries, and us gamers can NOT ALLOW IT. thank you gamers, and rise up. PS. there has been an outbreak of ligma after using this application. ty then the owner call my obese mom FAT, which she is, but it is more of VERY OBESE. oops, got to go beat my wife gamers!

np66
1 review
0 helpful votes
12/17/18

This is the worst. My entire algebra class was structured around this terrible software. This is the bane of all students existences. I can't stress how bad this program is. I'm lucky I got out with a B.TERRIBLE.

aleksl8
1 review
0 helpful votes
12/17/18

it is so bad. i hate it. i hate it. i swear to god i hate this - this is the worst website. it literally makes me want to die. what piss me off SO MUCH are the locked topic. THEY DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO THEY SAY DO MORE TOPICS LIKE BRUH IM NOT GONNA DO ALL OF EM SMHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. DONT USE THIS ITS SO BAD AND TRASH IT PISSES ME OFFFFFF

lolom4
1 review
0 helpful votes
12/17/18

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davidj631
1 review
3 helpful votes
12/16/18

ALEKS is the product of EVIL and I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the $#*! out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my $#*!ing words. You think you can get away with saying that $#*! to me over the Internet? Think again, $#*!er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life.

alekss22
1 review
2 helpful votes
12/16/18

I think id rather die than use aleks. You get two right and then you get one wrong and you have to restart. It makes you do 30 question knowledge checks all the time and its mostly busy work. Ive wasted valuable hours of my life on the sad website.

janed450
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/16/18

Okay, so I get to the first day of math class at my community college, and there's this chick talking up how great Aleks is and how much we're all going to love it. Now, I may be a remedial math student in a community college, but I'm certainly not as dense as the people at Aleks seem to think I am. Whenever you have to send a representative to tell me how GREAT and FANSTSTIC your learning product is, its usually a bad sign. My suspicions were confirmed as soon as I took the placement test. The program treats its users like they're idiots and the overall interface is laughable. It was telling me how great I'm doing by sending me pictures of beach balls. I'm not 5 years old! Not to mention I had to pay to take the class AND pay for a stupid ALEKS access code.

Over the course of the semester, my fellow ALEKS students dropped out of the class like flies.They were good people, completely undeserving of the torture ALEKS put them through. I thought about quitting many times, but I really wanted to move forward with my degree, so I stuck it out and barely ended up with a C in the class. I was grateful to escape with my life. Some of us weren't so lucky...

Okay, that was a bit dramatic, but in all seriousness, programs like ALEKS pose a major threat to our education system. It allows teachers and professors to be lazy and out of touch with their student's needs. Humans cannot, I repeat, CANNOT learn strictly by repetition on a computer. Memorize? Sure! Learn and Apply? Not a chance. There's a difference between cramming a bunch of facts and methods into your head like ALEKS teaches and truly working from the ground up to understand a concept. There's a reason a majority of the reviews for this product are one star.

If anyone who works at ALEKS is reading this, or maybe even a dean at a college who inflicts this program on students, please do something about this horrible system. It should really be a no-brainer that this isn't working.

stevent177
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/15/18

I $#*!ing absolutely hope the mother$#*!er who runs this $#*!ing $#*! burns in $#*!ing hell and does a $#*!ing back flip off his mansion from the all the money he's making off children getting their minds $#*!ed in the ass and i hope you $#*! falls off faggot.

jeffd243
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/15/18

Your $#*! has the best bugs and service available for the low low price of fuking expensive as $#*!. unironically fuking kys end yourselves you $#*!s.

bradb183
1 review
3 helpful votes
12/14/18

When I was only 8 she took the kids and left me with nothing but a bundle of rocks to kill my self with but I shoved them up my bum and spent all my cash on ALEX and after the eviction I set out to be the manager for such a good program known as ALEX so I beat the old owner to death with my rocks and took over the program and now I'm a successful $#*! since I'm making all the children In school get no more head but instead to learn on ALEX.So thank you ALEX for my new mansion and my new punching bag I mean wife and also my beautiful children.

ashleyl198
1 review
0 helpful votes
12/14/18

THIS PROGRAM needs to be shut down I still dont know why so many schools are using it. I HATE HATE HATE ALEKS. please WHOEVER RUNS THIS PROGRAM A HUGE &(*^&^(&^)&^* LITERALLY.

tommyh75
1 review
3 helpful votes
12/12/18

The absolute worst program I have used in my life. I dropped my pre-calc class because of this program. I think I could have passed the class easily if it were not for this program, but in order to pass the class completing the work on the program was necessary. The smallest mistake, such as forgetting a comma will mark a question wrong and your progress will be lost. In the end your goal is to get through the program, not learn the material. I did not have the time or the patience to deal with this program. Colleges and school systems must not do much research into these programs before implementing them into their curilliculm, just reading a couple pages of reviews on this site should say everything you need to know.

Words of advice, if at all possible, take a course that does not use this program, and if you have no other choice, be prepared for quite a painful ordeal.

fucky110
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/12/18

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sarahl445
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/12/18

This program is such a waste of time and money. It literally does not let you move forward until you get the lesson all finished. I'm in college and this $#*! is wasting my time. I have other homework to work on than to keep getting a point taken away if I make a small mistake. This will NOT help me in my life, and instead, is really testing my patience. Aleks is the biggest joke ever and should not be given to students. The traditional book and questions are much more helpful than this piece of trash. All of my classmates are struggling to get this stupid homework finished, and my professor had to call their support system to lower the proficiency because Aleks sets it at 100%. Mind you, my math professor changed it to 30%, that is how much people are stressing out over this non-helpful academic tool. Makers of Aleks, I wasted a LOT of time on this so thanks for nothing. By the looks of all the other reviews on here, take some advice, and shut it down. I feel bad for future students if my math program continues to give this $#*!ty website a chance. My course was the first year to have this and it is NOT helpful nor helping me with math, but instead, making me even more frustrated and hating the subject more so than before.

jordanh126
1 review
2 helpful votes
12/11/18

The program is very useless and frustrating to work with. It does not explain all possible exceptions on how to work the problem. You cant move on to other topics either so if you are stuck on a topic, oh well, you cant move on. I HATE THIS PROGRAM!! It makes me want to throw my laptop across the room. I am a straight A student until this class. VCU needs to get rid of the program.

ummmmmm
1 review
1 helpful vote
12/11/18

Never Get Aleks. Aleks go frick yourself you dumb dumb doo doo head stupid mother frickering hecker oofer. I d rather hit myself in the nuts with a brik than use this.

shannonw120
1 review
5 helpful votes
12/9/18

Was trying to actually learn Chemistry 3A but instead I spent over 125 hours doing Aleks online homework and learned nothing except how to figure out the ins and outs of Aleks. The work was tedious, the explanations were terrible and because all i could do was focus on trying to get my HW points I fell behind on studying for tests and actually LEARNING THE MATERIAL.(Which I thought was the purpose of going to college.)

barackh
1 review
2 helpful votes
12/8/18

Terrible, laggy and frustrating. Does not educate but rather teaches kids to learn a pattern and then repeat. Not to mention software is unsophisticated, ugly and extremely unresponsive. A no-go for anyone who truly cares about their experience.

chemu
1 review
5 helpful votes
12/8/18

We are university students taking Chemistry, if that sounds bad ALEKS makes it 1000x worse! It complains if things are correct, and marks you wrong (deducting a point), when it is not clear as to what it wants. If you click on the explanation, points will also be deducted. DO NOT USE!!

Tip for consumers: Don't use it.

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dakotaf4
1 review
4 helpful votes
12/7/18

I am a sixth grade math student and my math teacher believes this garbage can help us. Well she is wrong! Every time you get an answer right it gives you a point then when you get one wrong it takes the point away and this can be very frustrating to students and it can leave you in the dust! If you use the quick tables it is trash!!! I took the knowledge test and only got 6 problems wrong and now it says I know 34% of the fact. It ticked me off! there was over 100 problems!!!! It never explains how to do things well and I get almost every question wrong!!! I am an all A student and this makes a big dent in my grade I have a C-in math write now and MATH IS MY FAVORITE SUBJECT!!!

colinb134
1 review
4 helpful votes
12/5/18

This program is crap, I put in an easy problem that I double checked and it came up as wrong. Then I checked it again and the answer I put in was the answer that they said was correct but still marked me wrong. They have the worst explanations in the world and I am now failing because of it. I am want to beat my head in with a baseball bat every time I log on.

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Unless you are gifted in math, DO NOT take a course with ALEKS offered. Seriously. Unless you have all the free time in the world and the patience of a saint, this demonic program will make you hate your life. When you first start ALEKS, you will be given an initial knowledge check, which if you get anything wrong on it, you will be forced to do them as "review". Note that these "review" topics will be utterly useless to the subject/homework you will be learning and will just take up all your time. But that's not even worst part, you HAVE to do them just to get to your homework. Aleks, being the piece of satanic s**t is, will LOCK you out of doing your assigned homework unless you finished the 30-50 review topics. A 14 topic assignment from teacher can easily become a 60 topic assignment if you got a lot wrong on the initial check. None of the "review" topics are remotely useful and are just annoying, frustrating busywork delaying you from getting to your actual homework. But that's not all. When doing ALEKS homework, if you get one question wrong (even by the slightest marginal error) it will be considered wrong. Now, since it's a computer program and not a human, I understand that. But this is the hellspawn that is ALEKS. You won't just merely get a wrong answer, oh no, no, no! ALEKS will TAKE AWAY the last answer you got right. That's right. You get PUNISHED for a wrong answer. So unless you are 100% perfect on every topic, it can take an hour or more to finish a topic. Add that to a whole bunch of useless review problems not a assigned by the professor, and you've got a recipe for a failed class. But I'm not done yet! You will still have to take periodic knowledge checks! Which are totally useless and take up your time! And if you get anything wrong you have to do that same s**t ALL. OVER. AGAIN. Let's be realistic, people often forget concepts after they don't need them anymore, but with ALEKS you need to have the memory of a godd*mn elephant. Or forever be stuck in the Hell that is review topics. There's no way to do this program well without "cheating" (and by that I mean, using online calculators, mathway, desmos, mathpapa, google the problem etc) or just being a natural genius at math. If you try to attempt this clean, you will want to commit suicide. The person who created ALEKS deserves to be skinned alive and have every part of his body slowly set on fire while his eyes are being scooped out with a rusty fork as his family is forced to watch.

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Obviously.

By Jason W.
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I don't think so but believe me a class action suit would be an improvement

By Damian P.
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I realize this reply is very late but in case for anyone who needs it: -Let's say you're learning how to use long division. They have 3 questions in it. You master the first one, then go on to the next one. You get the second one wrong, guess what? They punish you and take back your first answer so now you have to answer it again. -How fun! And don't forget the useless knowledge checks!

By Sarah M.
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It isn't. It's physical and mental torture.

By Carter R.
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no i do not think the website owner has issued one but I think the feelings for aleks would be "down the toilet"

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One Billion

By Sean R.
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because it is aleks

By oof o.
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There is a website called mathway.com. It is great. Use it.

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Only if the teacher cares about all the dumbasses running around her classroom. I don't see why she would, all year they've been $#*!ting on the floor and spitting in her coffee.

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