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As an eighth grade student that is actually decent in math, this site has caused me to be more stressed and paranoid about math in general. Whenever I get the wrong answer, I feel like the site is just sitting there, laughing at me, and then forcing me to do the problem over with NO EXPLANATION. Even if they do give you an explanation, it is far from the problem you are doing. Also, whenever you get a section wrong, they just throw you into another section that is more confusing as the last. I could rant all day, but I don't want to waste your time. But please, DO NOT at any point in time, get ALEKS. Watch paint dry or something better than this site.

Unfortunately, I've payed money for this just to have denied access to my class. **** you. Excuse my language. You took my money and I want it back. I had a good amounts of topics but guess what? They added 9 more topics, thank you so much toe infection. This is like a germ that you can't wash off your body, I feel filthy after using this. I had to take shower after writing this. MY mouth has a bad taste from even thinking about ALEKS. The explanations don't work, I have to go somewhere else to learn the material. Whats the point :( I'm disconsolate.

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ALEKS is such a ridiculous platform for "learning" that the target consumer is obvious: lazy, under-qualified teachers/professors that would much rather waste their students' time than actually teach them anything new. This service, much like my class, is utter dog$#*! and you would be much better off learning from Khan Academy.

I knew I was stupid. I mean, who doesn't know division in 6th grade?! Then one day, when I was working on ALEKS, it said the next topic I was going to learn was division. I was immediately frustrated. For at least a year I had tried but failed to learn division. I was sure it was going to happen again. When it gave me the example before the lesson started, I decided to write it down and give division another go. Good thing I did, because that day it all just clicked! I was so excited! After all this time I've learned division! I am smart again!

I was first introduced to this living hell in 6th grade. It's TERRIBLE! You spend SO MUCH TIME ON THE STUPID KNOWLEDGE CHECKS ONLY TO SEE THAT YOU MISSED HALF THE TOPICS. If you like aleks, you're either a teacher who doesn't care about their students, or you just need a lot of therapy. When you do the actual topics, however, it's a different story. If you get it wrong, you have to repeat the same thing AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. It drives me mad, as well as my peers. I have to do this nightmare again, so pray for me please.

You can end up spending an hour or even hours each day just completing topics. ALEKS uses a point system that for each topic you would have to reach that point threshold before moving on to the next topic. You have to answer questions correctly or you'll lose points. An incorrect answer would mean an additional problem to solve, which means even more time being spent just answering problems. This wastes a lot of time and can be frustrating especially if you work on a problem for minutes, get it wrong for even a small error, then have to work on another question that also takes minutes to complete. The system should at least give you an opportunity to correct your answers before you lose a point. That way, you can check yourself to see what errors you made on your final answer so you don't have to spend time working on a completely new question.

The fact that the tutorial is not optional, and you are instead forced to do the entire $#*!ing thing immediately is incredibly $#*!ing frustrating. The way they explain the topics is $#*!ing nonsense, there is nowhere near enough information for it to be helpful. The pretest function is an awesome way to get incredibly frustrated, guess on all the questions to get it over with (Because you're frustrated), and then spend the rest of your life proving you can add single digit numbers to the dumbest $#*!ing robot known to god or man! $#*! this $#*!!