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The company's reputation is significantly marred by overwhelmingly negative feedback regarding its educational platform, which customers describe as ineffective and frustrating. Many users express dissatisfaction with the program's design, claiming it induces stress and confusion rather than facilitating learning. Common complaints include poor explanations, a punitive grading system, and a lack of engaging content. Additionally, customer service experiences are often characterized by delays and unprofessionalism, particularly concerning billing issues. Overall, the sentiment reflects a deep frustration with both the product and the support provided, indicating a need for substantial improvements in both areas.

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Virginia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Dear Aleks,
You're unhelpful and bovine obsession of a "math program" is causing several students suicidal deaths and brains full of dust. Minecraft gives more knowledge to kids than ALEKS! I curse you with all curses and dub you the worst and moronically lamest idiotic and badly created child abuse intended cyber terrorist that makes me want to throw up badly worded math problems that I've ever had to go through! This is ruining my childhood you evil corporation! Once I find out who invented this stupid website I'm going to sue them!
-You're very mad and slowly losing intelligence hater=)

Date of experience: May 31, 2017
Thailand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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HOLY $#*!IN $#*! THIS STRESS ME OUT SOO MUCH SINCE GRADE 4. THERE ARE A LOT OF BAD REVIEWS ALREADY, YET THE SCHOOL STILL USE THIS USLESS PIECE OF $#*! PROGRAM

Date of experience: May 29, 2017
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Congrats to the people who made this. You indeed need a lot of inspiration to make the worst, most stupid program ever.

Date of experience: May 23, 2017
Georgia
1 review
17 helpful votes
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A curse of black hatred and unholy fury upon the ALEKS corporation,
A pestilence, plague, and pox upon your house. In the names of Mannon and of Beelzebub do I curse thee. May wealth begat of falsehood and deceit bring ruin to your kingdom, your fields fallow and left to rot, your cattle born disfigured, the manhood of your programmers become shriveled and desiccated as the claw of a sea-hag. May your wives and daughters ride at night upon the backs of pigs to secret covens, to lay with sorcerers and unholy beasts called forth from caverns below the earth. May a bevy of toads, baptized in the names of your creators and wrapped with hair, be interred beneath your threshold, and your footprints gouged with coffin nails. May ye be kept awake till death by the suffering cries of those yet trapped in the nightmare realm of the routine Knowledge Check. And when death does come to claim thee, may your head be severed from your spine and buried betwixt your hindparts and the cold earth piled over you without ceremony or lamentation. And so may it be, that when you reach that dark shore, all the renewal fees thou did'st charge in this life shall the boatman demand before leaving you bereft of coin on the far bank of the Acheron.

Date of experience: May 19, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This program started out nice but now, I am stressing like crazy and can't get a break. The deadline my teachers set for us is impossible. Here I am sitting at my desk for 3 hours doing 20 topics. It discourages us to try. Every time you git something wrong it moves you back. I have been stuck at 88% for a week! DONT GET IT!

Date of experience: May 17, 2017
California
1 review
79 helpful votes
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I feel that all of the people posting negative reviews of ALEKS do not appreciate how useful ALEKS really is. First of all, the purpose of ALEKS is not to help students learn (research has shown that students would learn more by playing Minecraft in class than by using ALEKS). The real purpose behind ALEKS is to give parents the feeling that their children have learned something when they actually haven't. Whenever a student "masters" or "learns" something on ALEKS, they never really learn it. In fact, they forget it in a matter of hours. But of course, that's not the point. For its original purpose, ALEKS works perfectly.

As a teacher, I cannot express in words how helpful ALEKS has been to me. This program was such a useful tool for my students! Instead of having to spend time and effort to teach, all I have to do is give my students this website. Now I no longer have to try and pretend like I understand what I am teaching.

Date of experience: May 14, 2017
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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KNOWLEDGE CHECKS MAKE ME WANT TO DRINK BLEACH. NEW TOPICS MAKE ME WANT TO JUMP OFF A CLIFF. THE SITE THINKS IM DUMB, BUT THEY CANT EVEN SPELL "ALEKS" RIGHT! AT LEAST SPELL IT RIGHT. DUMB PIECE OF GARBAGE! THIS IS CYBER TERRORISM!

Date of experience: May 14, 2017
Maryland
1 review
9 helpful votes
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SATANIC
May 9, 2017

I WISH ALL THE WORST TO ALEKS
I TRULY HOPE THIS STATANIC, WORTHLESS, TIMEWASTING TRASH HEAP WILL GO BANKRUPT IN NO TIME
TERRIBLE!

Date of experience: May 9, 2017
Illinois
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Love it!
May 5, 2017

All these negative reviews? I enjoyed ALEKS. It takes time to master certain problems but I enjoyed using it and ended up with 100% on every quiz (it let's you take the quiz 3 times). Love it.

Date of experience: May 5, 2017
Utah
1 review
7 helpful votes
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This site is absolutly the stupidest site ever id rather do somthing from collage than do this. Seriously its so dumb thats why im having lavarige students sign a patition to get rid of aleks

Date of experience: May 4, 2017
Massachusetts
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Words in the english language cannot express how pathetic this program is.

It is glaringly evident that not much thought went into the student experience, or the learning aspects.

Date of experience: May 3, 2017
Iowa
1 review
6 helpful votes
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There is nothing more i hate than this website, im nearly done using it for school but after just one semester my anxiety surrounding it was so severe my mom made me go back into therapy.

Ive been out of therapy for over a year.

Literally every time i even think about working on it i have a breakdown, i would have a B in math at the least had aleks not existed, but since it does I have a C and it just keeps falling, even my teacher hates it but we have to do it since the school paid money for it.

If youre a teacher or parent and are considering subjecting your child to the torture that is this website, don't do it, it's actually child abuse.

Date of experience: May 2, 2017
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This program made me stressed and hate math even more, SINCE I HAVE TO DO 3 F@#KING HOURS OF TIME-CONSUMING ON THIS SITE! EVERYTIME I GET A F__KING ANSWER WRONG, IT RESETS. DROP THE CLASS RIGHT AWAY WHEN YOUR TEACHER TELLS YOU TO DO IT, IT'S LIKE BEING IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP. EVEN WORSE, WHEN YOU DO THE SO-CALLED "KNOWAGE" CHECKS AND GET SOME WRONG, YOU HAVE TO F@#KING REVIEW THE TOPIC UNTIL YOU FINALLY UNDERSTAND. BULLSH%#T!

Date of experience: May 1, 2017
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Complete $#*!
April 29, 2017

Aleks is the worst experience of my life. I used to love chem but this $#*! completely ruined it for me. Its a huge pain sitting for hours redoing topics because of stupid $#*! like significant digits. Every time you get one wrong you have to redo a ton... I hate aleks ruined my college experience terrible program. Just frustrating and a huge waste of time.

Date of experience: April 29, 2017
Connecticut
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have a daughter who is on her 3rd year of alex the has already done algerbra 1 in 9th grade Algerbra 2 in 10th grade and she is going geometry now as of march 31st she has mastered 149 topics out of 202. The math teacher put on her report card " using ALEKS program at home less than the required amount of time." she has a 98.38 grade point average and she is on task with this program. Is that a fair statement to be writing on a report card from this program

Date of experience: April 20, 2017
Missouri
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Aleks gives you the worst explanations and doesn't help you by giving you knoweledge checks that don't even tell you if you got the question right or not! Aleks is a waste of time and I don't know why they make students use them in schools! Again, knoweledge checks leave you wondering if you got the question right, so you don't know what you need to improve on! I hate Aleks and you should, too! Thank you for listening, and don't forget, "Aleks is stupid!"

Date of experience: April 17, 2017
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Frequently gives vague or even skips steps. Also one small mistake resets your topic progress. Can't think of a slower way to learn math

Date of experience: April 16, 2017
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Aleks is efficient in its own sense, but does not acknowledge the removement of relational advantages with peers as well as your own professor/teacher. Why learn from a computer program when you have teachers? Periodic knowledge checks take up an unexpected amount of time I need to complete other class work.

Date of experience: April 15, 2017
Georgia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Horrible
April 9, 2017

Aleks does not give clear directions, and shouldnt be used without a teacher actually teaching before using this website.

Date of experience: April 9, 2017
Arkansas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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ALEKS IS DEAD TO ME
April 7, 2017

" ALEKS is a ground-breaking technology". Ya right. It should say something more like this: Aleks is a online child abuser that makes kids mad. It is my worst enemy. I want to give it a 0 star rating. It is so bad! The have to shut it down. NOW!

Date of experience: April 7, 2017

About the business

Provides a complete web based educational environment for K-12 and Higher-Education mathematics, accounting, statistics, and chemistry.


aleks.com
Founded in 1916
Irvine, CA, United States
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