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THIS IS A PIECE OF ABSOLUTE TRASH. If you have children never make them use this soul sucking, revolting piece of sh*t program. It purposely changes the order where you put answers to attempt to trick you and practice more math you already know how to do, and if your doing any type of complex calculator math you are apparently not allowed to keep your calculator settings for more then one problem. F*ck you ALEKS. I hope whoever made this can see this message and die immediately.

I'm a BIO major, so I'm not an idiot, yet this site makes me question that. I've been forced to use ALEKS far too much in my life. I'm so over it. Same problems, over and over and over again without a clear explanation. I have to YouTube everything. ALEKS will take a whole page to explain something, and I don't understand anything. Then I search it in YouTube and I get it in 30 seconds. So I guess YouTube can thank ALEKS for all of it's math traffic. It's too bad math professors at a university (name withheld) are too lazy to actually teach. They just rely on this math robot to do their work. Not worth the time and insane amount of effort. Aleks has literally become my second job, requiring 18+ hours a week. Yet I cannot hit the topic goals because I spend an hour or more on each topic.

Aleks literally piles you with work and punishes you with more work reviewing topics you already covered and if you do happen to get a few wrong in the periodic review knowledge checks you get even more review work. Along with all the homework already assigned. Idk ab anyone else but I don't have time to spend 5 hours on aleks for 1 classes homework compared to 2 hour doing 5 classes of homework. Overall just a terrible money grab designed to make professors work less and students pay more.

My child attends sandridge school and they use this app. Its laggy and it gets wrong even if your answer is right. It gives confusing explainations. And its not right. Its not accurate. It takes three whole mins just to get to the homescreen. I have never gotten this problem with prodigy. I recommend you let your child play that instead of aleks. It has stupid controls. Everyt time my child tries to click check, she clicks enter. I recomennd that you make sure that your child does not play this app. Because you dont learn anything because all of your right answers are 'wrong' so again, play prodigy instead of aleks. Your child is sure to learn something with that.

This site is often wrong, and takes forever to load. And as for the assignments, they are $#*!craft. It takes about 2 minutes to load between questions, and you can't use a calculator, even when you should. And you often have to use scratch paper on most of them, and it takes a while to copy the problems down. It took 3 hours to do one 22 question assignment! And, instead of AI, it has AUI, Artificial Un-Intelligence. It is just a waste of school's money, which could be used toward an actually good math program.

Imagine you are a college student. You want to go out with the boys but you have Aleks due that night. No big deal, you are pretty good at Math and it in reality shouldn't take longer than 40 minutes to cover around 8 topics. You open your Aleks to do your homework and BOOM you have a random knowledge check to do. Annoyed, you take the knowledge check getting most of the problems right until you you get bored and just don't answer the last few. Over an hour has now passed, but at least you can do your homework now. You are about to finish a topic that gave out moderately difficult questions with little to no assistance in solving them. All you need to do is get one more question right. You answer it to the best of your ability. INCORRECT. Frustrated, you realize the stupid AI accidentally made you place an unnecessary comma. You delete the comma and submit it again. INCORRECT. You look at the correct answer and realize it is exactly what you put, but the AI is too stupid to realize you got the answer right. The question has reset all your previous work and now you need to get three of these annoying questions right all over again, and this is only your first topic. Annoyed, you chug a beer, find any website online that you can write a review, and rant about how bad Aleks is. Seriously it's the worst, and I don't even struggle in math. I can't imagine the pain I would be in if I didn't understand the material, because Aleks doesn't teach anything, and most teachers who use Aleks are even more worthless. I'm sorry if you have to suffer from this modern day torture device.

I would rather be in the middle of $#*! Ing skunkland than be doing Aleks. This $#*! Of a site makes you do so much $#*! Ing math work and just when you get something done, a $#*! Ing knowledge check $#*! S in your mouth and you have to do all of the math again just for another knowledge check to $#*! In your face again. Nobody wants to be agitated by a $#*! Ing math site, especially one that constantly $#*! S in your mouth. So if I were you, I wouldn't want to be $#*! In the mouth now, would you? So go $#*! Aleks!