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aleks.com
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I am in general chem and this site has made my life a living hell. I am spending HOURS a day attempting to keep up, and I am an A-B honors college student. This thing makes me want to tear out my hair. I am regularly cursing out my computer. If you can avoid it, don't touch this monster of a program with a ten foot pole.

Date of experience: September 1, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Hate it
November 5, 2019

I dont like it at all. First off, when im rotating shapes on a coordinate graph, it doesnt tell me whether to turn right or left, so i have to make a good guess. Second knowledge checks need to be more often. And the fact that I have to do 3 hours and 20 lessons every week of this is just aggravating. Do betterrrrrr

Date of experience: November 5, 2019
New Hampshire
1 review
5 helpful votes
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ALEKS has to be the worst software I've ever used, and as a computer technician and software developer, I've used quite a bit of software. The most frustrating part of the application is that it deducts a progression point for every one you get wrong, and wrong is arbitrary. You are not allowed to write in decimals, only fractions. I want my money back for this software.

Date of experience: June 12, 2018
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This site is the embodiment of $#*! design. Get one problem wrong, $#*! your progress. Get a few more wrong, and instead of allowing you to continue practicing to improve, this excrement of a service forces you to tAkE a BrEaK. Kind of tells the students trying to practice, "If you're weak on this topic, you suck!"

Date of experience: June 12, 2020
Florida
1 review
10 helpful votes
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This isn't a joke, there are multiple kids in my classes that have serious mental issues from ALEKS. It takes up time, it pushes you back and is a very unhealthy thing to give to your students please if your a teacher think twice before giving your students 100 topics to do by the end of the week. It crashes alot, it creates a negetive space between the people who got a good score on the first test and don't have to do $#*! and the people who have to do so much just to catch up.

Date of experience: February 2, 2023
Maryland
1 review
8 helpful votes
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It's the most painful thing realizing the reason my grades are so low and i can't get into my ideal high school is because of this here website. I would rather go to Alabama to see my weird uncle. This made the devil repent. We're suppose to fear god but i think god fears ALEKS

This is anything but user friendly because apparently i have been unknowingly doing the wrong thing but how the hell was i supposed to know! I would never invite this thing to my minecraft server. 0/420. I would rather play fortnite then do this

Date of experience: February 13, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This is terrifying. Please murder whoever made this crap. Please die. It's a math site that tells you that you have the wrong answer when you have the right answer and then shows you your answer. It ruined my life. I have to do this every other day. End the pain, delete ALEKS

Date of experience: April 28, 2020
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Aweful
January 17, 2020

Only hinders learning. Makes student more and more frustrated and turned off from learning. Instead of actually encouraging and accomplishing anything. I can't imagine educators especially professors ever actually tried using this from the students' perspective.

Date of experience: January 17, 2020
Alabama
1 review
8 helpful votes
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The Future of Education
January 16, 2020

Absolutely awful. We are set down in a class in college, and the professor says "Aleks! Everything Aleks! Aleks improves grades! You can pass!" and that is it. The professor reads the score report and pulls you into the back room selectively for a lesson on the subject. Shouldn't we be lectured every single day? Aleks is an excuse to churn as many students as possible through a course to shove them out into the next money churning activity.
I am a network engineer and spend hours learning coding and taking fun and pride in my work, and now I am legitimately scared this semester that my grades will suffer from this crap.

We are living in a dystopia where professors keep children in front of the computer and rush to help when a robot tells them to. Disgusting. Pearson and other publishers are monopolies on the education system and will walk into any place that hints at the word 'education,' sit down the principal or math department, and buzzword their way into signing a deal.

Date of experience: January 16, 2020
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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0 stars if I could
March 29, 2022

Aleks.com sucks. Here is why. Aleks is supposed to be your perfect math level, but its not most of it is too hard for my child. The ones that aren't to hard are way to easy! Overall this is just a horrible education service. Glad the school payed for it.

Date of experience: March 29, 2022
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Awful.
March 21, 2023

This program is absolutely awful. I'd rather watch paint dry while trying to asphyxiate myself because of the existential dread this program brings to me and countless amounts of other students. Helen Keller herself along with a schizophrenic toddler could provide us with a much finer, flabbergasting program. This so called "Program" is the embodiment of Hell and unspeakable distress not even outclassed by the acts of Hitler and Osama Bin Laden combined together. Would not recommend to anyone less than deranged.

Date of experience: March 20, 2023
Utah
1 review
6 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE
February 3, 2021

I cannot believe that the this is required and used for my child. On many occasions my child has come home telling me that he put in the exact answer and it scored him wrong. I talked to the teacher about this, and she said that some students had complained but she couldn't do anything about this. Would NOT recommend,

Date of experience: February 3, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Absolute garbage
June 14, 2022

I mean overall the fact that it takes away an answer every time you submit a wrong one leading to a string of wasting time is so absolutely $#*! that it makes the site unbearable to use I truly hope whoever thought that feature was a good idea loses their job and ends up addicted to crack on the streets of San Fransisco.

Date of experience: June 14, 2022
Ohio
1 review
8 helpful votes
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This $#*! is the worst After doing the piece of $#*! program that doesn't help with $#*!. The school is $#*!ed for trying Aleks. My dementia riddled grandmother could teach me better than this crippiled website. The people who made this program should have seized to ever exist. They have brought torture to a bunch of students and its time for us to retaliate. Also, the people who force students to do Aleks have a special place in hell alongside the people who created the program. I feel like I'm losing brain cells every time I even open the program. The Explanations might as well not even be on there. They look like they were written by a first-grader on LSD. I can't take any more of this $#*!. This is a literal virtual hell.

Date of experience: February 4, 2020
Wisconsin
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Curse fate and die
March 5, 2020

Who ever created this site its horrible i can not tell you how much time i spent on this site suffering till 4 am in the $#*!ing morning to get assignments done and when im done they shove a knowledge check up your $#*! and you lose percentage then after you lose percents you get all the topics you hate back so they can come back and mentally skull $#*! you into spending more time to finish $#*! aboslute horror on this site do not recommend as another user said on this site I would rather get butt $#*!ed by bill cosby then do this curse fate and die

Date of experience: March 5, 2020
Arizona
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Why?
March 30, 2020

Whenever my teacher can't hep me with a problem at that moment, i try to figure out how to do it by looking at the explanation. Sometimes i understand it and sometimes i don't, which can be a little frustrating, but what turns on my fury the most is when they show you how to do the problem on the explanation and they give you a complete different problem that you solve in a complete different way. Like come on ALEKS! Show me how to do the Mother f***ing problem so i don't brake my computer! I hope all of you who are reading this review are ALEKS workers and can learn how to fix your frickin website! Good day to my fellow students and not to the teachers who make us do this!

Date of experience: March 30, 2020
Utah
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Impractical
April 9, 2019

I don't think it's practical to not let students use a calculator on the math assessment test. We live in a world where we have a calculator every single day where ever we go in our pockets and to see what class we can take to get the best education we have to do the math practically in our heads.

Date of experience: April 9, 2019
Kentucky
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This $#*! makes alexa seem smart. This makes me wanna $#*! my cat. It made me suicidal. I thought about chopping my $#*! off and becoming a furry because of this $#*!ty stuff. Would have rather of watched t series. Pewdiepies content is better than this $#*!

Date of experience: January 18, 2019
Utah
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Some may think I'm dramatic but alek is probably the most boring thing ever, right ahead of prison alek has made me question my sanatity. If you are a math teacher just dont do it please dont make us do it

Date of experience: October 17, 2017
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Stressful
September 19, 2018

A lot of times aleks has helped me learn a topic, but the professors overwhelm students with it. It becomes a ridiculous amount of homework. I remember the anxiety I felt having to do hours of this every week. It was non-stop. It would be more productive to study for the class instead, but you can't because your Professors assigned you hours of hw to do. It would be good if we were given like 5-10 topics a week but I was getting near 50 a week and it was a waste of time.

Date of experience: September 19, 2018

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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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