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Being a hard-sciences major, I was forced to do "8" hours of ALEKS topics per week. That number is realistically around 15 hours, given that sometimes it can take a full hour to get one topic correct and I was usually assigned 10-16 topics per week, in addition to my other 4-credit classes. The worst part about ALEKS is if you are off by a thousandth of a decimal place or anything similar, it will take away one of 5 of your progress bars for each topic. Oh but if you get two problems correct in a row, you get a double bar filled, so 2 for 1! But if you mess up the third time, it just takes away what you've spent more than 30+ minutes to gain. What is the point of giving me question after question on a topic that you can't even explain if I press the "Explanation" button? I worked so damn hard to get one stupid progress bar, and then it brings me all the way down or even locks me out after a certain number of attempts. My grade right now is at a D, thanks to ALEKS, considering my Gen Chem professor bases 50% of our grade on ALEKS alone. $#*! you, ALEKS. And don't even get me mentioned on Objective Knowledge Checks. These "checks" take 2 hours to complete, and even if you're damn sure you got 90% of the questions right, it brings your pie progress down 10-15% and now you have to redo 40+ topics just to catch up again. This is so detrimental to both my GPA and my self-esteem, as I know these concepts are easier to understand and way less frustrating and complicated than ALEKS makes them out to be. But I need to get them done in order to barely pass the class, and I'm only a freshman. $#*! you ALEKS.

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!

Where do i start. The creator of ALEKS is literally the reincarnation of adolf hitler. This website makes me want to travel to Auschwitz and snort the ashes. Because of ALEKS, i cant clean my clothes because i drank all the laundry detergent. If you are a math teacher reading this, do the smart choice and teach in person, not with the $#*! attack called ALEKS. Aleks is responsible for all the 800,000 deaths by suicide each year. Thank you for considering my review.

These lessons don't teach you anything. The only thing it was made for was to turn you brain to mush. The is website need a total make over. Get a better layout and whole set of new different classes that are easy to understand. Not only that I regret pay the $25 dollars cause these courses did nothing but give me depression and anxiety. These course make me feel like I don't know $#*!. Like come on, every time I put in the right answer it always wrong. $#*! this website man.

The entire site of ALEKS should be classified as unconstitutional as it is cruel and unusual punishment. Many schools use this website, which is highly unconstitutional. I would even choose IXL over this absolute piece of sh*t. If you are trying to learn math, don't use ALEKS as it will often decrease your math skills and make you highly depressed.

I would greatly appreciate whoever updates this site to stop subtracting points from the bracket you need to move on to the next topic. It frustrates me beyond belief--just because I get something wrong does not necessarily mean I do not understand the concept as a whole. I just want to move on through my objectives easily without being stuck on one for hours on end (because that has happened.) Also, add more detail into the answers explanation because I feel as if ALEKS tries to trick us in order to be stuck on a topic for longer. It does not explain how or way it got the answer as it did, and it just confuses me more. Thank you.

I swear I am going crazy. This BS. I take grade 9 math and I have always been top of my goddamn classes for years and now this is messing it up. PLus my teachers make me write all my work for them to get a grade even if aleks says it. How am i supposed o pass a topic whne i pick an answer and they mark it wrong but then i check their answer and ITS THE SAME F$#cking ANSWER.

ALEKs is the program for my Gen Chem I homework and this site is so disappointing! It takes hours to complete topics due to it 'erasing' your progress if you get one wrong answer, regardless if you understand the topic. And the most frustrating part, is the random knowledge checks that test you on everything you covered. If you dont master a topic on the test you loose all of your progress. These tests take roughly 2 hours to complete by the way. Absolutely terrible format for any class. The only thing ALEKs achieves is frustration and wasted time.

The only reason my school uses it is because they're locked into a contract with it but they still try to pass it off as "a helpful learning tool for our students". No, stop supporting it with bull$#*! data that you pulled out of your $#*! and admit you made a big mistake. What kind of masochistic person would use this willingly?