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aleks.com
Ohio
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Didn't teach me anything, made me cry on multiple occasions, and constantly guarantees a bad grade of my peers because the topics are just too difficult to finish, resulting in a horrible completion grade. Not at the correct pace of classes, so I had to rely on Google for the past two semesters. -A (very tired) Student.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Gave me $#*! cancer
December 13, 2021

This site is absolutely $#*!ING absurd. Its litteraly the cause of cancer and causes aids, bipolar, chlamydia, explosive $#*!ting, arson, itchy balls, suicidal thoughts, in grown toenails, the loss of loved ones, and blindness of the eyes, nose, and mouth, and large odd shaped bumps on your $#*!. I hope the dollar general adolf dies because someone got the sense and shoved a screw driver up that man, no cancer cells $#*!.

$#*! you, greg <3

Date of experience: December 13, 2021
Missouri
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Huge waste of time. Punishes you for wrong answers by taking away the points you got for the right answers. One simple error on a complex, multistep problem will blow the whole thing. I hate this program, I am starting to hate chemistry, and I feel like I have no real time to study it or read my text book because there is always some Aleks modules due. Very counterproductive, great way to make students hate you an your class.

Date of experience: February 3, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have used many different online learning programs in college but this takes home the bacon for being the worst. My first section I had to do well over 400 math problems that many I already knew how to do, because the intial knowledge check shut off and didn't let me try the last half of the test. Welcome to a semester of hell, I would recommend doing your homework in public bc this will make you look like a crazy person from being so defeated.

Date of experience: January 21, 2019
Florida
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Not for learning
February 15, 2018

I feel every time my teacher assigns Aleks, I slowly feel my brain cells rotting and murdering themselves. This site needs to be only for homeschooled students because it's a sloppy program for lazy teachers. I sit on this program wondering why any school thinks it's amazing. Colleges and schools need to get this god awful program away from Math. Its entire purpose is to make kids feel great about their learning accomplishments, but when they take your progress away over some silly mistake, I want to find something to throw out the window.

Date of experience: February 15, 2018
Nevada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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It's so difficult, man.
November 10, 2017

I seriously can not stress the dread this program will give you. I can't even look at a math problem without feeling like I want to burst into tears. Every time I start a new topic I want to roll on the floor with tears of sadness because they take so long to finish. If a teacher decides to make ALEKS into a grade for you, I would suggest switching classes.

Date of experience: November 10, 2017
Wisconsin
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Been using this program during my school year and god knows why but it's a grade, it's actually the reason i can't pass! But it can't even use itself, it needs you to follow everything exactly. And it's "examples" are extremely long and more complicated than it needs to be, don't get me started on the poor mechanics and downright dastardly layout.
The maker clearly has no clue how students effectively learn, and this program is another crystal clear reason why teachers shouldn't be paid as much as they are. This website is an excuse for teachers to not do their jobs and TEACH their students instead of forcing them to work on some bat$#*! insane site.
I hope the creator of this horrible site goes to hell

Date of experience: June 7, 2022
Nebraska
1 review
13 helpful votes
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This is by far the least efficient online homework program I have used in college. And "least efficient" is a euphemism for no efficiency at all. The bit about how it gives questions based on what you know is marketing BS. Knowledge Checks are indiscriminate and take several hours to complete (depending on the subject you're using the program for), and the homework itself consists of several topics, each requires two or three sequential correct answers with no leeway for minor algebraic errors or missed units. And the explanations to aid in solving problems seem to have been written by someone entirely unfamiliar with the topic or an AI coded by a 3rd grader. This program is absolutely $#*!ed.

Date of experience: January 31, 2020
Idaho
1 review
86 helpful votes
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The amount of anger and stress this damn program has caused me is not measurable. It has sucked my time away and it was all for nothing when it forced me to take another knowledge test in the middle of my assignment I was working on for 6 hours. It killed my progress, my grade and made me take a thousands steps backwards. This program only exists to suck the living life force out of you and the green out of your wallet. I will never pay for this $#*! again.

Date of experience: February 6, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
2 helpful votes
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So, I am enrolled in a math class under the aleks programs. AND IT IS HELL. Enroll a whole group of people in it then watch as you get compared to Hitler, because you are Hitler! I see that square mustache. Oh it also doesn't help when the tutor is not smart at all! I'm behind 8 percent and i cant get back up because the tutor ain't worth shiznit and my parents cant help. I would transfer to another school but god damn there's too many strings keeping me connected. When you pass the class by Sheer $#*!ING miracle, you will come out looking like you just fought in a war, because you just did, a war against the profit aimed school system, that turned to aleks because they saw it was cheaper. You are a survivor. And if you didn't pass? Well your $#*!ed, hope you enjoy having no summer because these robo bastards are on a mission to assassinate you. Oh by the way every teacher ive had could teach math better than this $#*!.

Date of experience: February 17, 2022
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This is less than garbage. At least manure fertilizes the soil. There is no help desk. The messages you can send always notify teacher which in my case is foreign and sounds like she is speaking some slang African dialect. It did not work when i had plenty of time for the due date of an assigntment for i don't know what reason. Prepare for this piece of work if you are unfortunate enough to use it. U would put 0 for rating but it does not allow it

Date of experience: August 23, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Extremely time consuming.
September 25, 2023

Parent here. This website is absolute garbage. The knowledge checks and topics are poorly explained, and my 3 year old toddler just solves all problems with addition and recognizing patterns. He doesn't learn any real life things at all, and just trys to rush through it. Definitely stick to Khan Academy.

Date of experience: September 25, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Stress
June 7, 2021

This website gives you stress. All it does is push you to learn and sometimes never works? Plus it makes kids do things they don't want to do. It gives my kid a headache when he has to do Aleks in class.

Date of experience: June 7, 2021
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst service ever
June 10, 2022

My friend nearly killed themself because of aleks. He got banned from his championship for not doing his knowledge check. I myself have been thinkin about giving up and i've come to the conclusion that its from aleks. Our wrists are scared from the pain caused by this heinous app and I warn anyone who tries this app. You will never be mentally stable after your third knowledge check.

Date of experience: June 10, 2022
Ohio
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Well now it can be done for the low low price of $35 a semester! Watch as you enter the correct answer and aleks recognizes it as wrong, restarting your progress on the topic. But buy now, and aleks comes with a a guarantee you'll learn nothing! Thats right, nothing! Or your money back*

Actual money will not be refunded* terms and conditions may apply

Date of experience: April 28, 2018
Maryland
1 review
80 helpful votes
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@#*&
September 1, 2017

Aleks has an amazing reward system built into, and i couldn't stop working on the assignments (literally!). Basically how it works is if you get a question right then you're overjoyed to find that the system doesn't believe your right and you get to go back and do the question all over again! But my fav part is if you answer so many questions wrong at one time, then the system blocks you out completely allowing you to go jump off a bridge, hang yourself, or get creative with any power tools in reach. I f*****g love this program!

Date of experience: September 1, 2017
Connecticut
1 review
18 helpful votes
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All my years ive never been an A student in math but i can almost make it to B's. I have always gotten past math pretty okay, until Aleks came into the picture. This is such a terrible way of learning and such a huge waste of time. The teacher doesn't do anything other than watch us work on the computer while they get paid. We must start a campaign to delete Aleks and get rid of it because it has dropped my grades from 70's and 80's to 40's and 30's. It's seriously the worst learning cite i have ever seen. It is affecting many students and the only ones that don't have a problem with it are those really smart kids that don't have scial lives and just sit at home with enough time to go on Aleks as much as they want. We want the old ways of teaching back. Every review about Aleks is terrible. Take it down.

Date of experience: January 6, 2016
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Only used by teachers who can't properly do their jobs and expect students to teach themselves not to mention the practice math is almost always incorrect compared to the real questions, I wish my school cared enough to do away with it but sadly they wern't

Date of experience: September 21, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Worst thing ever
September 6, 2018

This website doesn't help us learn and is the worst teaching tool ever. It also makes you pay to use it after your free trial which I think is a waste of money since there aren't very many features to use.

Date of experience: September 6, 2018
Missouri
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Didn't Help at All
March 21, 2018

I had to take Aleks in Middle School. I thought it was pretty easy at first, but as soon as I started getting into more "challenging" topics, I realized how wrong I was. The explanations often didn't help, as they were often incomplete. I struggled a lot on topics before my teacher taught them, and aced them after she did. That shows just how inefficient this program is for teaching students. If you want an math program, I recommend Khan Academy as it is easier and actually feels more rewarding than Aleks

Date of experience: March 21, 2018

Overview

Mc graw hill has a rating of 1.4 stars from 1,892 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Mc graw hill most frequently mention knowledge checks, math class and high school. Mc graw hill ranks 459th among Tutor sites.

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