Mc graw hillReviews 1,892

Everyone is being so toxic about this, but I wouldn't recommend this at all. It takes forever to just complete four percent of the pie! It's very time consuming and forces you to do more problems in order to pass the topic, rather than explaining it and letting you slide.

$#*! aleks it can suck my pp it annoys me so $#*!ing much. My $#*!ing dog hates it too. Holy $#*! the $#*!ing creators of aleks were $#*!ing high when they thought about creating this $#*!. Nibba this can suck my $#*! hole and my pp like all the kindergarteners do they suck my pp every single day.

We use ALEKS as a Review tool, NOT a primary syllabus, and for that we are extremely happy with it. Our son, who is mildly gifted in math (in 7th grade and just finished 9th Grade Algebra 1a & 1b), LOVES using ALEKS to review what he has already learned. He blasts through ALEKS before his final exam each term, reviewing the entire ALEKS version of the term's curriculum over a 6 or 7 day period. It catches a number of little things he either missed or is rusty on, gives him reinforcement in what he does know, and very clearly improves his performance on the final exam. Considering he's working 2 years above his age, this extra help is important and I would guess that it improves his exam score by 7 to 8 points.

Aleks does nothing but make students frustrated and overwhelmed. There's a difference between homework and a $#*!ing torture session. This is the worst learning platform because it makes you so frustrated to the point where you'd rather quit and fail the class then try another topic for one more second. The person who made this is a sadist and needs to be locked up for causing so much emotional harm to students and their families.

I just started using ALEKS recently in a remedial math course in college, and I can already tell my workload is about to be doubled. Our professor doesn't seem very qualified to teach, and he is putting so much emphasis on the pie and completing dozens of topics in a week, every week. 30, 40, 50, 60, even 70! I already have enough coursework coming my way from other classes, and now I'm expected to slave hours of my time to ALEKS and show my work in a notebook. Also to submit once every week. BULLCRAP! I am going to become a slave to my math class for the next several weeks, and likely do it again next semester! Someone kill this website already!

Basically, to take intro-leve chem at my college, you have to do the ALEKS chemistry modules and get above an 85% (or else you'll be dropped from the class). It's not ALEKS' fault that i'm being forced to do this - but it definitely is their fault for charging so damn much for it. First i took the knowledge check (mind you, I haven't taken a single chem class since freshman year of high school), got 34%, and started working my way up to an 85%. Instead of actually, yknow, teaching me how to do these concepts and then being quizzed on them, i'm being forced to answer questions I don't know how to do, looking this stuff up online, which is the ONLY way to make my score better. And if you make even typos or silly mistakes, the module still counts it as wrong and actually regresses your progress! My biggest amount of beef with this $#*!ty site is that by the time i got 78%, i was asked to do another knowledge check, and got bumped back down to 72%! I cant imagine how mad i'd be if it went any lower. If you're going to be a required thing for college, then do better, this is totally amateur. Dont charge $50 for your modules that dont even do any teaching.

Not only is ALEKS the worst and slowest program to complete, it's also the most unfair when it tests you. I'm trying to get into Math 124, but they ask me pre calculus questions on the damn test? Nothing from the study guide was related to the questions that I was tested on. I'm beyond upset that this program has wasted my time and caused me to go through mental stress and trauma. I can't believe they want me to dump a few more hours into their review to unlock the third test--yeah right--I'm not wasting my time on this bull$#*! just for it to ask me questions beyond the topics I've studied for half a month. What a joke of a program. I'd much rather take 96 and spend money on it now than support this money grab of a corporation.

I myself didn't have any problems with spending six hours on the same problem, but what I did deal with was waiting 40 seconds for another problem to load. Then I spent about 20-30 seconds on it. Then I waited another 40 seconds. You see the problem here. In addition, for each topic, at least in Geo/Trig, Aleks had somewhere around 3 different problems. If you were going through the infinite review, and there were only two topics in there, you would see the same problem every 4-6 problems. That is not good. There needs to be variety.

I had to use this website during a summer program and the other reviews describe this website perfectly.

The points system is very detrimental to the student. When you get a question right, you get a point, but get one wrong and you lose a point. You can get two points if you get two correct in a row. You can also lose two points in a row by getting an answer wrong twice.

There have been times where I have had to do what is basically the same question upwards of 16 times because I kept making small mistakes (usually subtraction sign instead of plus). You have to be perfect, which is not a good learning environment. I have spent hours on a single topic before.

Occasionally you get these things called "Knowledge Checks". 25-30 question quizzes that ask questions on the topics you have learned or mastered If you get a question wrong, you have to do the entire topic again.

You can potentially have to do an entire topic again because you made a sign error. I hate this website. Please do not use it if you value your sanity.