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aleks.com
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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GArbage
February 23, 2019

U tryna find the surface area with google? Good luck, Alek's answer are messed up, they aren't correct. I mean the surface area of 2, 3, 6 in a rectangular prism is 72. (According to google) but aleks will probably say its 70 or something. Its $#*!ing autistic.

Date of experience: February 23, 2019
New Jersey
1 review
20 helpful votes
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So good website!
November 8, 2016

Hello my name is heinrich schilman and this website is very fine! Im part of hungarian international school in budapest and we use this website everyday for maths and Statistics. I dont understand why People say aleks is stupid n******r i dont think he is. I rate this 5/5 much better than pakistani sal Khan

Date of experience: November 7, 2016
France
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I'm in collage at NOVA. During the placement test for this program I placed half way through all of my classes homework modules. So in other words i was half way through the class. This is bad in this program because now i have to complete modules that will be on the third test from now and study for an upcoming test. So basically i'm studding the first half of my class and doing homework for the last half of my class. The reason for this is because you have a quota to do (x) modules pre week no matter the subject is. I am studding as a programmer and I could make a better soft ware than this in all respects but their grafts.

Date of experience: October 13, 2019
Oregon
1 review
17 helpful votes
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I want to die
January 27, 2018

I see what ALEKS is trying to do but I hate it. I spend so much time on it that I no longer have time to do anything fun. I hate how it takes points away if you get it wrong. I have anxiety every time I click check. I have to get a certain amount of topics done in a week or else it will affect my grade. I feel like I'm more focused on finishing it rather than learning it... this makes me hate math... I have lost sleep because of this... I have had nightmares... I am depressed. I hate it...: ( Well back to working on ALEKS and its almost midnight...

Date of experience: January 27, 2018
Alabama
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrendous
March 4, 2020

When pandora opened the box of all the awful things that would plague humanity for the rest of eternity one of the things that came out was this program. Im reading all these reviews and everyone is $#*!ing about struggling with math on this website but brother, try chemistry. On top of being one of the most miserable subjects known to mankind this program blows up that miserable aspect and makes you hate the subject more and lose confidence. The explanations are horrible and the margin for error is literally nonexistent. If mankind wants to move foward as a species step one in doing so is wiping this program off the face of the earth

Date of experience: March 4, 2020
Utah
7 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Aleks is the worst part of math, It has terrible quality and is the reason why smart people get bad grades. I tell you from experience, and if you have to do aleks for school, I will be praying for you.

Date of experience: September 7, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Aleks claims to help explain and teach topics that aren't covered in class and catch everyone up, but that simply isn't true. The explanations given are weak and do not give the information you need to solve the problems like specific formulas. My school uses iPads, and the website formatting is not compatible. When you attempt to drag an item to indicate a value, such as assigning a value to a bar graph, either the entire website freezes and needs to be restarted, or the website doesn't acknowledge that you changing the graph rather than scrolling. In the end, I cannot submit these types of problems and have had to skip all problems with graphs for answers. My teacher has substituted regular homework for this, and I can't even answer questions because of how bad the web design is. It's not a matter of lazy students, but rather an awful teacher/explanation.

Date of experience: June 10, 2020
Montana
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Terrible, just terrible
February 7, 2024

I was forced to use this program in my college for chemistry and oh my God, I can't think of a worse program a college forces you to work with. I could ramble on and on about this program, but it will belittle you for the littlest things. Like, you could get an answer correct, but it will mark you as incorrect just because you wrote 3 instead of 3.00. Terrible.

Date of experience: February 7, 2024
Connecticut
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I am the mother of a student who excelled in math all through grade school. We are now at a school that has Implemented ALEKS. My son who was in honor math classes until now is unable to succeed with this program. I am now making it my personal mission To do all that I can to make this right. I also have a niece who's school uses this program. There are several seniors in the school that may not graduate due to this program and this program alone. Yet the program is still being used dispite it's many short comings. I have also found that schools using this program show less than 18% rates of math Proficiency. It's time for change.

Date of experience: September 6, 2018
Idaho
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Alexs is awful
October 20, 2020

College student here, my teacher uses this trash. I've never been good in math, hell I failed modeling and algebra in highschool. The amount of time I have to re do lessons or waste time on stupid knowledge checks is infuriating. Not to mention ALEXS likes to play "tricks" Yeah. They'll straight up show you how to do problems, then right after give you a question with a construction they didn't discuss. I. e lets put a negative in this polynomial. I know we didn't discuss what to do if its a negative. But hey, hope you guess right or your losing progress. I hate Aleks. I DREAD having to sit through it. And the knowledge checks, are so longs and just infuriating. And if you make a mistake, it gives you additional lessons to redo! Its Awful! Avoid this awful program like the plague it is infuriating! Not in my all my years have I never spent so much time doing a single class. I spent less time in AP or even IT!

Date of experience: October 20, 2020
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Stay away from this app
November 12, 2019

I don't recommend this bag of garbage excuse for an app, I spend too much time on it and learn barely anything. And the knowledge checks are plain out useless, don't waste your time on this app. It will make you want to throw up because it is just that bad I rater do a 5K race than do a topic on this app.

Date of experience: November 12, 2019
Maryland
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Ok lets get this straight... So you get a question wrong and it bumps you back to reset you. So you click the explanation bar (Like any other Human would do.) Then you start getting the hang of the how to do and you continue to practice. So meanwhile you use the advice it gave you from the previous question and you submit the answer, "BUT" wait you got it wrong... How? So you look back into the explanation and this you are supposed to a different way then it was previously (which kind of sucks) I hate when this happens especially to me it really ticks me off. Anyways Aleks is Borderline suicidal...

Date of experience: January 24, 2018
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Beyond annoying
November 16, 2019

I was forced to use ALEKS by my school in order to access my textbook but the website is infuriating to use. After 30 minutes of using the textbook it automatically logs you out blocking you from even turning the page in the book.

Date of experience: November 16, 2019
Indiana
1 review
3 helpful votes
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A SCAM!
January 5, 2020

It's F***ING S***! Don't waste time, money and life on this. Trust me and all other negative reviews. The five stars are either sarcastic or the company itself (exaggerated). That is how bad it is. It is sad >o<

Date of experience: January 5, 2020
Ohio
1 review
15 helpful votes
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After repeatedly smashing things in my room out of frustration of a program in which i can type in the right answer, get the answer wrong, and then have to move back to waste more of my time that I could be doing other hw. Math hw has become a marathon with this pos, and I have shin splints through my psyche that may never go away, I mean if I have to enter a number ever again in a computer I may irrationally lash out at someone near me, and for that ALEKS, I thank you. You're now causing danger to others around me, and quite possibly making tax season the most life-threatening task someone around me may ever face. Pray for me, but most of all, pray for yourselves, because clearly you are satan incarnate

Date of experience: November 3, 2015
Idaho
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Aleks does not work
February 27, 2023

When I put the answer in it does not work all the time and it is very annoying. The examples do not help so in trying to understand you have to guess the answer. Most teachers who use Aleks do not want to teach kids so they put us in front of Aleks
( sorry if it was bad)

Date of experience: February 27, 2023
Arizona
1 review
11 helpful votes
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ALEKS
June 29, 2016

First of all, it is nearly impossible to finish this class. Between the knowledge checks and the insane amounts of work one will have extreme difficulty advancing in this class. The knowledge checks cause nothing but issues. All it does is set you back and hinders your progress in the class. Next, there is so much work that if you don't have 2+ hours every day to spend on ALEKS you will not finish. The explanations they give you on how to solve problems are vague and useless. Want to review for an exam? Good Luck! The review is just as useless as the explanations. I have spent countless hours on ALEKS, and it pains me to to say that I have many more hours ahead of me.

Date of experience: June 29, 2016
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Aleks is a piece of crap
December 11, 2021

I have lost my sanity to this site. I do not need to say anything else. The other reviews say it all. Btw the reason it does not show that am verified is because my school got it for us and I did not get the verification email so I can not verify that I have purchased it.

Date of experience: December 11, 2021
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My experience with Aleks
February 8, 2022

This website is a f*cking piece of sh*t. For one thing, most of the lessons either say you got it wrong and then show you exactly what you did, or teleport your cursor to random places so you can't complete the lesson. I have learned NOTHING from this program. It pushes you to get the right answers and punishes you when you don't, and the only people who submit 5-star reviews are $#*!-kissing teachers.

Date of experience: February 8, 2022
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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As a 9th grader who's been using ALEKS since 6th grade, I have to say that it is a horrible program. I'm working hours and hours on problems. The knowledge checks they give are also incredibly stupid! When you get one of them wrong, it adds to the massive amount of problems you need done. Giving you MORE problems! It is very stressful. If I can already go back and review older topics, why do I need the knowledge check to just give me more work? Also when you get a problem wrong in ALEKS it takes away the ones you've done right and you're forced to start over. I hope the creators of ALEKS see this and know that I sincerely hate their program, and do not encourage others to use it.

Date of experience: April 3, 2017

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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