Mc graw hillReviews 1,892

Last semester, I used Aleks and it was wonderful. Well now, Aleks has a RAT on their team and that RAT has gone in and made changes in the software for this semester. I had 29 learned topics. I didn't do so well on the assessment and it took my previous work away from me and sent me to 18 topics and erased my report card, LYING about how many topics I've learned. I've learned 29 and you're changing your mind to say that now I've only learned 18?! I got so mad I voiced my concerns with professor last night. It's almost end of the 8 week semester and I have WAY TOO MUCH going on to play this cat and mouse game with ALEKS. That RAT has got to go. I freaking hate this system now. It used to help me. What a shame! You punish students for scoring badly on the assessments. Schools, if you're considering Aleks, DO NOT USE THEM! RUN FROM THEM!

I'm not good at math and never have been, so I was actually a little excited to use this program to help me in college. Well I can tell you right now that this program is absolute garbage. Instead of teaching me anything, I feel like I'm constantly being punished for not knowing any of the stuff being taught. Every topic consists of 3-5 questions you have to get right in a row. If you miss one then you get a point taken away, sometimes resulting in you starting back over at one.

It's an asinine way of learning. I honestly have no problem with it, because I understand the program wants us to know this stuff before moving on. My problem is that the explanations given are horribly explained and make no sense. It at least takes several minutes just to decipher what they're trying to explain to me, then another 20 minutes just to constantly switch between the problems and explanation. On top of that, every 6-8 hours (within the program) you have to take a knowledge check. Well, if you already feel like you're being held back, here comes another obstacle for you. Knowledge checks takes everything you've been doing since the last knowledge check and makes you do a 25 question quiz/test. At the end of it, it tells you how many topics you've mastered so far, and how many topics you have to go back and relearn. No explanation on what you missed. No opportunity to see how you missed a question or even what question you missed. It doesn't help that you have a time limit within each week to meet, and on top of that you have a certain topics goal every few weeks, and failing to meet that really messes your grade up.

All in all, the program is horrible. It's a terrible way to teach anyone how to do anything. I feel like I'm learning to deal with the constant anxiety and stress of not passing instead of any actual math. If your college says they offer Aleks, do not take it. I'm serious. It's a terrible program and it's made my life very, very stressful. Like everyone else here, I hate this program. I can't wait to have math over with just so I don't have to use it anymore. Aleks is a perfect example of terrible design.

I really like how this program rewards success by deleting it once you have a sign error on the next problem. Repetitive testing really drives home the concepts. Not. If you ask for help in this program, you get points deducted. Makes so much sense to pay out the@$$ for this program to tell you you're wrong. Teachers are so keen on using this program because they rely on it to teach you, but all this does is further the corruption of learning by testing rather than teaching. Question after question, test after test, and for what? Am I supposed to learn something from that? Absolute garbage, and as others have said, if you see a professor is using this program, drop it IMMEDIATELY.

Aleks poisoned my water supply, burned my crops, and delivered a plague into my house. To anyone struggling with aleks, mathway.com is heaven sent.

For real i hate wasting $100 on this site every semester when i don't learn anything from it and i want to die every time i use it.

For the past eight years of my life, I've been searching for ways to empty my soul via inflicting physical and psychological pain upon myself in the most dramatic ways possible. I've tried watching horror movies on acid, sleeping in red ant nests, and sticking my penis in a pencil sharpener, but so far nothing has been as effective as ALEKS! While it didn't seem too exciting at first, the bland formatting, endless questions, and the fact that after a knowledge check I often have to do everything again left me a soulless husk in just two weeks! I strongly recommend this to anyone wanting to rid their life of joy, passion, and emotion. Also great for art professors who don't care about their students education.

Based on the reviews I have seen so far, I'd like to think that everyone agrees aleks sucks. When you're forced to do hours of tedious work on a bland and repetitive website, it makes me want to literally die. This piece of crap website is just an excuse to give students tons of extra stress. Like wtf don't ever assign this as work to people.

A word of advice, if any professor tells you they're going to use this website, drop the class immediately. The only positive experience I've had with this program is reading the reviews. It's a bit reassuring to know there are other people out there who have struggled through this with me.

This website is an absolute scam. You'll be forced to spend over 10 hours a week working on what they call "My Path". In my experience, each of these weekly paths is about 75 topics you have to learn, then complete AT LEAST 2 problems each. I say at least, but wow. Good luck. If you miss one problem, you don't just not get the point. You LOSE progress. I hope whichever absolute $#*!head came up with this system is castrated with a razor. You lose progress for typos, any tiny mistake like flipping a sign, ANYTHING. You don't even get one chance to fix it. Click on the wrong button? Too bad. ALEKS shows no mercy. So, while there are 75 topics, with each being at least 2 questions, usually 3, and with any small mistake requiring you to do an additional 1-2 problems, you'll probably be doing about 400 problems a week. That's almost seven hours of work, assuming each one only takes one minute. If you actually manage to finish the thing, you still aren't done. Don't forget you have another assignment due tomorrow. At this point in the review I can't even be angry. I'm just miserable. Those six five star reviews? Those were all ALEKS staffers.

Thanks to this website I probably won't graduate college, but I'm already in debt.

Why do they take points from the question u already answered? If you get a question right and move to next one but fail it, these stupid $#*!s just take back the point u earned from the previous question. Your hard work was for nothing. They should change it so that if u fail a question no points should be deducted. If they deduct point they are just taking of credit u earned in the other question. Why do they interrupt with this knowledge check? Shouldn't you be able to choose when to do a knowledge check? I hate this filth the more I use it. They don't explain anything or topic well, ugh they are just $#*!ing nuts. They give u an explanation and then they give u an entirely different problem u never came across in the examples while expecting you to suddenly know it.

ALEKS is probably the worst experience I've ever encountered it my entire adult life. The program seems like a good idea in theory, but in reality causes me countless loss of hours and sanity. It's a simple math software that requires you to get 2 or 3 questions correct in a row to pass a lesson. This doesn't seem like much, but once you consider the factor that missing a question, causes you to miss the current question, AND the question you previously answered CORRECTLY, it's very easy to get annoyed. To me, this makes no sense at all, who's brilliant idea was it to say, "Hey, how about if somebody get's a question wrong, lets not only take away the point for that question, lets take away the point from the previous question too!" Anybody who doesn't have the patience of God himself will fall victim to this site's evil trap. The only use for this is for lazy teachers and college professors that don't make their own work.

I am taking the same math class for the third time now at my college and even though i didn't try the as hard as I should have the first two times. Now i have sacrificed work and a great deal of social life not for every class but particularly math but it never changes with this bull$#*! program. My last math teacher even told me behind closed doors that Aleks is just someone making money and it is the most unorganized time consuming thing ill EVER do in college. I am 21 with what i consider a very open personality and a great deal of psychology but Aleks has led me to the point where I've thought about suicide and because i can't pass this monkey $#*! of a program that's supposed to "help me understand math better" whats the point wasting money on a degree? Aleks is literally a trap to catch people who don't comprehend math as well as others and just leave those people like me to burn in hell. Lastly, I finally see why our education system is corrupt and Aleks is just another factor into that equation.

As a student forced to do Aleks, I'll say it straight out. Aleks sucks. I don't know if I can speak for everyone, but most of the teachers in my school use this as the only learning tool. The starter examples they use are easy to do, then they give you a question WAY harder than the example. The explanations are NOT clear. I have to constantly go on Khan Academy for help. Also, my teacher isn't good with computers. My $#*! keeps saying that I can't take quizzes or Knowledge checks because I have "limited access". Wtf, Aleks? Are you that autistic? Can you not at least make it easy for the teachers to grant access to that? All the other students can access theirs.

Lastly, I can speak for everyone here, nobody likes Aleks. Your program sucks. Students don't like it. Literally, every student in my school hates it.

The worst "learning" program to ever come to existence. Unfortunately, my chemistry professor thought it was necessary to remove the old system and replace it with ALEKS. And let me tell you, that was by far the worst mistake he ever made. It's just flat-out tedious, with an endless supply of questions for each topic. And if you make a mistake, rather than being forgiven, you lose a point in your progress bar and start over. Now think about that times 250 or how much you gotta do. That's not even the worst part, either. At some points, you get a "Knowledge Check" which just sends you right back where you left off before wasting your time on learning pointless subjects. You can't avoid this option, either. It's as if the program doesn't want you to succeed. And thanks to this, I'm not succeeding. The deadline is on the rise and I'm forced to set back important matters to finish this, even though it seems impossible at this point. What an incredible waste of money; it doesn't help you learn anything in class, and just adds more weight to your shoulders. Good luck if your professor announces this in class, because you're in for one hell of a ride.