Mc graw hillReviews 1,892

I didn't learn $#*!. This program made me want to chuck my mac book pro out the $#*!ing window. I also needed counseling after the course, due to all my suicidal thoughts and almost following my computer out the window. I still have nightmares. This is worse than when my sister gave me sugar-free gummy bears. Each week brought on a new horror. To this day (still in the course) I feel my IQ slowly draining out with my tears as I cry about the fact that I paid 125$ for this $#*!. Sometimes I wish I dropped out of college just because of this program. Chick-fil-a might be my carreer. Because it is less traumatizing than this steaming $#*! of program.

I have a life outside of school I can't spend hours and hours on this stupid website. My weekends consist of math math and more math hours and hours and hours. I am over it. Then we you get something wrong you on problems for ever. I have a lot more to say, but you suck who ever invented this system you spend the time doing this stupid math. Way to much crap to learn and really doesn't explain how to solve some of the stupid problems

Hey, do you like to screw your students over? Do you want to be a pain in the $#*!? Then Aleks is for you!

Literally the most annoying trashy website ever.The main problem is the "knowledge check". You can't skip them. They contain a random assortment of math problems. The point of them is to check your knowledge every once in a while. Seems fair right? No it's not. If you even get one problem wrong, you'll have to do 2-3 topics over again. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually miss IXL. The explanations are $#*!, and if you get even one question wrong you will be starting over..

It's me, Squidward Tentacles, back with another angry review for Satan's armpit- I mean ALEKS. Guess what? My teacher has assigned yet another long assignment for me and my classmates to kill ourselves over. This time I got a question correct, but of course, ALEKS counts it as incorrect, and takes off all my points. I nearly split my Chromebook in half because of this. Also I barely understand about 50% of the topics because of the bad explanations, and when I finally understand, ALEKS switches everything up, causing me to screw up. Looking to frustrate your students, teachers? Well ALEKS is the perfect program for you heh.

This program is absolutely horrible. As some have already said, teachers who utilize ALEKS are simply in need of a crutch. My math teacher at Orange Coast Community college can't speak English and this online course makes her class just THAT much more unbearable. The examples are weak, they don't teach you. They purposefully try to trick you by switching around answer slots. They strip your progress from you after you make a mistake. I am not learning. I'm using other sites to help me with solutions that SHOULD be explained to me in this expensive course. If your teacher tells you that you have to pay for aleks, DROP THE CLASS.

This is such a waste of time, it easily drops me down a letter grade in each course that I have it in. You're so damn focused on getting the correct answer each time, that you don't even learn. Oh, you missed a problem? Well lets set you back about 4 more just to screw you over! I have 12+ hours of this each week on top of the regular homework and studying for the test. All this website ends up being is a giant chunk of time where you focus so much on getting the answer correct and fail to learn a single thing. The only other thing I think of while taking this course is that I still have homework and studying to do!

The explanations give no insight on how the problems should actually be done and if there is its usually something with a bunch of extra work. Also as much as it's great to master something mastering 248 lessons isn't doable. Every week I end up doing countless hours of the same problems that I understand conceptually because I can't get 3+ correctly in a row. Then the knowledge checks take things away from my pie leaving me with even more work to redo. I get it I need to know how to do something but this isn't the way to learn. Even my chem professor questions some of the way alecks attempts to teach a lesson (yet we continue to use the program). All this program is causing me is stress and hatred towards my chem class. It's too much work in too little time on top of the rest of the things I have to get done. The program has helped me very little in comparison to how many times I've wanted to punch my computer. I don't recommend for anybody to use this.

I've only been forced into this for a few weeks, but already I absolutely hate it. You start off with a knowledge check with things ridiculously difficult, then the actual review is like it's for 5th graders. I'm a sophomore in high school. It feels like ALEKS is an excuse for teachers to do nothing. I never felt like I learned, especially since according to ALEKS, 'mastering' a topic is just answering 2 questions. If you fail enough, they either solve it for you which does nothing, or just makes you give up on the entire topic. None of it is for older students, and I was just incredibly BORED with it.

I actually used to enjoy math. It does not always come easy to me but learning the concepts and getting stuff right is rewarding. My university now uses this as a crutch, hiring $#*!ty foreign professors who can barely speak english and making us buy this. ALEKS is now my math professor, my physical professors are just there so the school can point at them when I ask what I'm paying for (because you know... ALEKS is a seperate charge). I would literally pay extra money to take a course that does NOT use this program, even if it meant more class hours or homework. That is how much I hate this program.

This is honestly a tremendous waste of time. Not only does it doesnt give any detailed or explanation of how to do the problems. But it actually punishes you if you get it wrong. If you do the topics and get two questions right but one wrong, it actually erases youre effort and you have to do it again. Then there is the interim assessments which tests you on past knowledge. This can result in erasing hours of work since most people don't remember concepts. Then after you finish everything you have to do a final assesment which tests you on the entire topics. The problem is that if you don't get it all right 100%. You have to do it all over again! This can result in an endless loop where you can never get it done.

Had to use this at Penn State. They use your knowledge test score to place you in math classes. Once I transferred I thought I got rid of it for good, what a horrible headache it was. Boy was I wrong. My new school started using it as a review for Calculus 1 and we have to complete 70 % of the topics we don't know. They absolutely SUCK at reviewing material and helping you understand it. It is HELL! Don't ever put anyone through this.