SUCKS SO BAD I did 2 hours of aleks and it deleted all of the 2 hours so my teacher gave me an F- in math. :( So terrible do NOT get aleks, it sucks!
I LOVE ALEKS IT HELPS SO MUCH WITH MY MATH
I dont know what everyone is talking about aleks is the best
Why ALEKS Belongs in the Sewer
If you have ever used ALEKS in your lifetime, you could probably compare it to a gangster torturing you by stuffing snails up your butt. Yes, it's actually that bad. I've spent many a night (after finishing my weekly ALEKS homework) going on Google, and searching for blog posts and videos of people raging about ALEKS (after having my own mini-rage). Here are some reasons why.
First off, ALEKS is a easy tool that teachers use because it is simple-it requires little to no effort to set up and control. Have you seen the supposed quotes from the teachers kissing ALEKS's butt? "Obviously, that's an exaggeration, but all of the supposed quotes have one thing in common: ALEKS is doing all the work. That would be fine, except the teaching style is the same for everybody. Give an explanation, do some problems, then throw in a 40-question Knowledge Check at the end. Have they considered that not everybody in the universe is as stupid as ALEKS perceives them to be? You don't need a topic about word problems with addition, then a topic about word problems, but hey, let's make it about subtraction this time! (My sister actually experienced this recently.)
Secondly, they have the Knowledge Checks every week or so. For me, this is usually about 40 or so problems, which would be fine, but ALEKS always seems to make each of the problems have multiple parts. This means each Knowledge Check has around 100 problems! Coupled with my other ALEKS homework my teacher assigns, this totals to around 130-150 ALEKS problems each week. Along with my other regular homework, this sums up to 250-275 problems a week. Then, I have the stuff my parents make me do, which pushes that already large number even higher. Think of how much less work someone would have to do if Knowledge Checks didn't exist! Or heck, if ALEKS didn't exist!
-every teacher ever. No sh*t, Sherlock! Of doing extra work would improve your kids' scores. However, what those teachers aren't considering are those other math programs out there are. Of course, about 99% of all math programs seem dedicated to making children's brains slowly dissolve into nothingness. However, I've found that having your parents give you problems is a lot less painless compared to doing some retarded McGraw-Hill computer curriculum that clearly belongs in the toilet.
In general, just ALEKS's way of presenting irritates me, as well has millions of others. "You forgot to include the unit label in your answer." Oh Now because I forgot to put cm next to my answer, I will get eaten by a rabid pig! Pandoraspocks, in the article ALEKS: Why I Hate It, and Why You Should Too, compares ALEKS to a "mean old lady who is constantly trying to pound [things] into your head...". I agree. Additionally, when dealing with graphs and geometry, it has a really inconvenient way to draw stuff. Apparently, ALEKS wants to make sure that you know how to use a ruler, because instead of simply drawing the line, you need to plot points, line up a virtual ruler, then make sure you know how to draw lines. Oh, thank you ALEKS! Now I know how to line up a ruler and draw a straight line. Now, can you teach me how shade things in? I'm really struggling with that.
So how do we defeat this menace that is so bad Satan probably created it? First, when hating on ALEKS, don't just rant on and on likeYou need to be intelligent and clever. The people at McGraw-Hill (who created ALEKS) are probably used to pure, unfiltered hatred (get roasted ALEKS). It's a lot worse for people to send you intelligent, clever hate mail like the aforementioned Pandoraspocks did on Wordpress. Because smart haters are a lot more dangerous that stupid haters. Also, I've discovered that ALEKS send you a survey when you finish a class or something. Take advantage of this! Make everything as negative as you can. When there is the "additional comments" section on the second page, hate on them, but intelligently-like how your Language Arts teacher showed you. Provide evidence. Make it short or long, just make sure it's negative toward ALEKS and McGraw-Hill in general. Together, our combined hate will make this undemocratic atrocity exist no more.
This website is $#*!ing $#*!ed. Seriously $#*! this $#*!. Pile of $#*! > Aleks.
It tells me to do one thing and then it tells me to do another thing.
DO NOT USE THIS SITE MADE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE CONFUSING!
This site can burn i did wut it told me to and i got the question wrong
This site is peepeepoopoo like this site is the quality of a god damn morgz video like jesus if i wanted to feel like im losing chromosomes id just watch 5 minute crafts the topics are dumb idk when the hell im gonna need to plot a point on a numberline to count ELEPHANTS like please just end me or this site like just take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down take it down
Alek is so bad and it loads so slow and there are a lot of too hard topics and I just hate this useless app ALEKS
I WISH ALL THE WORST TO ALEKS
I TRULY HOPE THIS STATANIC, WORTHLESS, TIMEWASTING TRASH HEAP WILL GO BANKRUPT IN NO TIME
TERRIBLE!
This IDIOTIC site drives people CRAAAAAAAZZZYYYYYYY! I HATE ALEKS MOST ANOYING SITE EVER IT EVEN MAKES KIDS CRY! HORRIBLE: (! WAY TOO HARD!
If $#*!ing sucks $#*! SCK MY BALLS FUKCING UASIFASUIFA TRASH $#*!. IT SO GARBAGE GO DRAG GLASS ON BROKEN $#*!
If a pedofile was an app it wold be this app. Makes me want to baith is gas then ligh a ciggaret and blow up. If i was a dev at MIGRAWHILL or migralHELL i wold shut the whole thing doun.
THIS IS THE MOST TORTUREUS THING FOR ME I AM DOING MY PROBLM THEN WHEN I SOLVE IT THE PROBLEM GOES AWAY YOU CAN OBLY MAKE THE PROBLEM GO AWAY BY SOVLING IT AND SUMBUT THE ANSWER OR HIS VIEW EXPLINATION AND MY MOUSE IS ALL THE WAY ON THE ITHER SIDE OF THE COMPUTER AND IT HITS THE VIEW EXPECTATIONS I HATE AND KNOW ELSE I KNOW LIKES IT. I AM DONE WITH IT I FWLL LILE I AM GPING TO KILL SOMEONE WEYN IT GLITCHES. OH YEA TAKE 1/1 and you put that in it will count wrong if u don't put 1
Ahm rly bout to get its pikkle chin ahh. This site is doodoo ahh and as doodoo ahh as ih gehts. Dont evah waist yo moolah on some doodoo ahh site laek theas evr agan.
I use ALEKS for my college chemistry class. I have a weekly quiz in this class and sometimes ALEKS will throw a "knowledge check" at me and keep me on my computer for an hour longer than I originally intended, which is something I don't have time for because I'm a full-time student and have a part-time job on the weekends. The knowledge checks themselves aren't helpful at all either. ALEKS will mark questions wrong for the smallest mistakes, erasing so much progress and forcing me to redo modules that ALEKS already considered "mastered". I am currently on week 14 in my class and ALEKS erased my progress (because of a knowledge check) on a topic from week 1, but somehow that topic is locked. ALEKS locked a topic from week one and won't allow me to do it even though it was already mastered and...is from week one...Not to mention that the only way ALEKS proposes learning is by repetition. It gives you the same problems just with different numbers over and over. Usually repetition is good for learning, but this is done in the wrong way. It's teaching the student that this is the only type of question that can be asked about a topic, which of course isn't the case for ANY topic that you'll learn in any subject. The repetition also wears you out so much that dumb mistakes can be made when answering which, in turn, erases your progress and you need to start again, making you even more worn out. ALEKS also has this fun thing where you can't work on anything else when you're doing a knowledge check. My teacher allows us to do quiz retakes on a certain day of the week, and one day when this day came and I went to do my retake, ALEKS forced me to finish the module check first, before retaking the quiz. ALEKS seems to assume that college students (or high school students) have unlimited time to waste our free time on ALEKS, when this obviously isn't the case. I would also like to mention that I'm extremely proficient in chemistry, so this comment isn't because I'm failing at all, I'm actually ahead of my class and have almost 100% in the class. This comment is coming from pure hatred for the website because it only makes me frustrated and holds me back from doing more important things with my time. The makers of this website are completely oblivious to the way students learn and what is beneficial for a learning environment. Using this website feels more like a chore than a learning experience (coming from someone who usually enjoys doing chemistry).
I HATE IT IT TAKES AWAY THE LAST QUESTION YOU GET RIGHT ALEKS IS TRULY STUPID I DONT LIKE IT
I just realized i was in all caps
PERSON WHO MADE THIS IS THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. $#*! THEM. LET THEM ROT IN THE HELL THEY BUILT THEMSELVES.
LOL. Look at the reviews. The program sucks. $#*! em big time...
I was forced to use ALEKS for my class so I just googled how to do everything since ALEKS can't explain for S***
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Mc graw hill has a rating of 1.1 stars from 1,912 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Mc graw hill most frequently mention knowledge checks, math class and high school. Mc graw hill ranks 459th among Tutor sites.
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