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I decided to revisit this... thing since my last review was awful. Where to start. The placement tests literally ruined the rest of the school year. They give you these easy questions and then $#@8 you over since they put you so far ahead. In my case... IT SENT ME A FEW MONTHS AHEAD WITH LESSONS I HAVE NEVER COVERED. I found myself doing topics in november with concepts taught in like january december and february. You may be thinking aleks has explanations, but they are garbage and its not like it matters, usually aleks will give you the explanation and in the next problem completely change the rules and its a completely different type of problem. ITS A PIECE OF S#!^! ITS A BUNCH OF F#@KING CRAP. And the problems themselves, since when was mastery type learning a good thing. It encourages you to cheat rather then to learn since its so frustrating losing progress that you might as well cheat to get this diarrhea mess over with. And who came up with kicking you out of a topic when you get a lot wrong? Not to mention LOSING your point when you get a question wrong. This causes a cycle of $#% where you get 1 right, then get the next wrong and lose your point. HOW DOES THAT ENCOURAGE YOU TO LEARN THE MATERIAL. This is god awful this is a$$. Its even worse then i remember. Id rather eat snotted diarrhea vomited out of a buffalos d###. Id rather play doom on atari. Id rather play halo on a tiger electronic wrist game. I've had more fun picking up the dog $#IT outside. Id rather be impaled by a pi$$ icicle then do 1 more topic. Its so bad it sucks. Its so bad it f###s. It so f###ing f### it sucks. Id rather drown in the toilet bowl after i eat spaghetti and take an explosive $#IT. I HAD TO DO 19 TOPICS A WEEK! To hell with this bull$#%. Thanks for considering my review. This program sucks

ALEKS IS SO BAD I WANT TO DIE! THIS IS SO BAD IVE NEVER WANTED TO SLAM MY HEAD INTO A BRICK WALL SO BAD!

Everytime i get an answer right it always flips it to get it wrong so i have to redo the ENTIRE thing

I've had to use ALEKS, and it is extremely frustrating to use most of the time.

How it sees the user as 'learning' is inherently flawed. When you work on a topic, you need to get a certain amount of questions correct to progress. When you get a question right, you gain points and if you get multiple questions in a row correct, you get double the points. I wouldn't have many issues with this if it weren't for one fatal flaw: it takes away points when you get something wrong. The website punishes you for not understanding a question or making an error. To make matters worse, it doesn't tell you immediately what you specifically did wrong; it simply tells you you were wrong. You do have the option for an explanation, but it has nothing to do with your performance or what you did specifically. Of course, when you get all the points needed to progress, the website believes you have learned that topic and moves on. How much you've actually learned doesn't matter, but how many questions you get right does.

ALEKS also has a tendency to explain the topics it wants you to learn poorly. You're usually only given one (or two, on the rare occasion) way to go about solving a problem. If that particular way is confusing or inefficient for you, ALEKS doesn't do much else to help you. Sometimes its explanations are confusing in of itself, usually vague or only applying to one particular kind of problem that they may or may not give you. On many occasions, I've had to go to outside resources to properly understand what I'm supposed to be learning.

Another issue is that when you get a topic wrong one too many times, it tells you to stop and take a break and gives you another topic to try. The problem with that is if you only have so many topics, and you have trouble with all of them, you'll end up in a loop of failure over and over again. Apparently other people have had this issue as well. It's not as frequent as the other ones, but this one frustrates me to no end.

I'm sure the developers and everyone who works on ALEKS has good intentions, but this website does not encourage users like they think it does. It frustrates, it confuses, and it hardly does anything to actually help you learn math. I started online school a while ago and while I'm glad I don't have to deal with public school, ALEKS has me yearning for the days of a physical classroom.

ALEKS creates a learning path based on things that you know, it does this by giving you an initial knowledge test from the content that's going to be discussed and learned in your course. If you don't know the content then it will give you problem sets so that you catch up to where you need to be, is that really a bad thing? If anything it's helpful because if you just learn the content that's required, do you really understand it?
For my specific case, during the initial knowledge test I just clicked on "Do Not Know" all the way through, for my course in calculus it left me with 150 topics to learn for 8 weeks. Since I have my finals in the last week, ALEKS wants me to complete 25 topics over 7 weeks.
The reviews about ALEKS marking correct answers wrong is false comments, them reviewers are probably just really sour about forgetting to put a negative in front of their answer or rounding the the nearest tenth or hundredth and the program marked it wrong because, well, it was wrong. And honestly, when it marks my answer wrong I look at it and think the same thing, like "Well that's what I put!" but really I see my mistake because on paper I see that I briefly forgot that it was a negative or positive answer or forgot my decimal count and by rereading the problem I see that I didn't read it completely when I should have.
Sometimes I have a hard time understanding how to get to the answer that they want, but they have an explanation tab and if you don't understand that explanation they have a second explanation available. There are definitions included for math terms and it includes related terms to them terms. There is an ebook attached to it for your weekly assignments, if you read, try to understand what you don't know then there is no problems.
If you get wrong answers, then there is a problem with the understanding of the content, that's why the program will not let you continue when you don't understand the problem sets. If it did, the program would be lying and give you a grade you do not deserve.
There is a pie involved with ALEKS, it shows you what you need to know with how many topics for the course, there is also a timeline and you can use this to plan out your learning path through the week, not selecting your path but how many problems you need to do per week.
The only reason I had thought to leave a review was because I saw all the negative reviews and was in disagreement to mostly all of them. Just sounds like they want a trophy for wrong answers rather than the right answers and I hate math and I'm terrible at it.
I had gotten F's K-10 in math, had a teacher that believed more in one on one teaching my junior and senior years, this is the first time I have gotten A's in math besides my junior and senior years.
Overall, the program is easy to use and honestly not as bad as what everyone else is saying.

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Aleks is the worst website on this fking planet because its not good...

Im in 6th grade and this program makes me constantly stressed than ever before, seriously..

Program breaks down equations in examples without fully explaining what's being done in the steps, not a good way of teaching.

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