Mc graw hillReviews 1,892

The way ALEKS teaches you to do things is completely wrong. There's no way you can possibly remember how to do anything. They also make it impossible to move forward at all with their constant knowledge checks. The knowledge checks are far too difficult to be just knowledge checks. I'm a college student and this is a trial program here (which should never come back). My grade in the class is a 72 and is slipping. I have to spend hours doing homework on ALEKS when I should be focused on classes that actually pertain to my major. ALEKS is worthless and should be shut down.

I know that its kind of stupid me saying this, but it pushes, to hard. I purposely have been trying to score high on the knowledge check but it just makes it harder. In my classroom you have to do a certain amount of topics a week, but because I score higher then average, I'm running into stuff above my grade level and are super confusing. Want to kill myself, my parents absolutely hate me if I don't do all the required topics for week, even though it barely counts on my grade. Its almost the end of the week, and what I have to do is virtually impossible for one my age. Thanks a lot, Aleks. I want to die actually because of this stupid website making my parents hate hate hate me.

Essentially, ALEKS is one of the worst programs created. There are so many internal problems with the program I don't even know where to start. Professors should not use this program because half the time, there are topics where ALEKS doesn't explain how to do the problem, they simply make assumptions, assuming the user already knows the topics. It has very little use to the class except for giving you some more points in the class as a whole. There are much better programs like myMATHLab that give sufficient explanations, different ways to help the user including textbook links, videos, and explanations as well as example problems. ALEKS utilizes none of these. This is probably one of the worst programs created by an even worse company.

Aleks is a waste of money, the math on here is contradicting and they have no clue how to teach a single subject. Instead of doing it slowly, they will spam random new problems in, what they should have done is three problems with the EXACT SAME rules then three new problems with the EXCAT SAME rules, then merged them later on, but instead they inefficently spam random problems inside the questions and make things infuratingly complex by wording everything like utter garbage, I understand they don't want us to copy and look it up online, but there is such a thing as calculators and auto generators that people use anyway. I already struggle at math, and those who don't struggle at math find Aleks complete and utter trash. Aleks has no consideration for time, no ease of use, no true explaniations, and therefore fails at every single aspect required from learning sites. I have been using Aleks for a full semester now and I am still finding bugs, glitches, problems that make no sense, and formulas that just don't work. The most wasted money I have ever seen, and considering I model with plastic minatures that cost 33 dollars pure 1 figurine that is saying something!

This website is like giving a child a cake on their birthday, then asking them to solve a math problem completely out of their grade level, and if they get it wrong, the cake will be smashed on the floor, stomped on, and burned.

We started using this site in 5th grade. At first, it was fine. We all got the initial knowledge check, and I was like: "Oh, this is pretty neat." Since I'm not the greatest student in the world, I got some wrong. After the knowledge check, I got to the review topics on the questions I got wrong. I got past them with not much of a problem. Then, we never used it again.

Now, I'm in 7th grade. This is where everything starts.

We were told to get on ALEKS. I was like: "Wow, we haven't used this in a while." So I got on, and since I left off at 5th grade, the topics were pretty easy. Then.
THEN.
That's where the unnecessary knowledge checks come in.
When it came up, I was like: "Ok, another one. No big deal."
Then, I got more review topics. So, get-out-of-doing-actual-work-free card, right?
Wrong.
Not only do the knowledge checks count for nothing, the reviews also count for nothing.
Hm? What's that? You're on the last question of the topic? That's great! Let me give you a question that's 50% harder than the other two you just did! Oh? You got it wrong? Wow, you're an IDIOT! Let me just undo your progress! Now you have to do two more problems, loser!
Trust me, this program is not good for your mental health in any way, shape, or form. Before Aleks, I had never thought once about killing myself. Now, I've thought about doing it at LEAST 12 times since the beginning of the school year, and almost did it once (ALMOST killed myself, I didn't actually TRY to kill myself.)

School systems, don't waste your money on this garbage piece of $#*!. Focus the money on more important things.