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Mc graw hill has a rating of 1.37 stars from 1,874 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Mc graw hill most frequently mention knowledge checks, math class, and high school problems. Mc graw hill ranks 512th among Tutor sites.

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  • The explanations are garbage and $#*! the knowledge checks.
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Top Positive Review

“Absolutely great it ruined my mental health”

Rachapak T-O T.
9/13/23

When ido it i felt like i wanna die and bang my head to a f***ing toilet seat.The fact that you spent 1 hour doing 2 topics and the next day a knowledge check pop up and i lost 15 f***ing topic in the f***ing process Very great,and when i went off the website for 3 god dam second and when i hop back on it says session time out and i have to login again i felt like i need to stuck my head into a trash can and blow up. That you aleks for RUINING MY MENTAL STATES

Top Critical Review

“Mental torture”

Louie G.
3/10/24

This website is an absolute nightmare. It is ruining my mental health. I spend hours every day doing aleks topics. The fact that it makes you start over if you get a problem wrong makes me want to just bang my head against the wall. The explanations dont even make any sense and there is just so many topics due in such short time. My teachers are saying they care about my mental health while they are making us do this website every night. Whoever made this website burn in hell

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1 review
52 helpful votes
February 12th, 2021

Thanks Aleks!
Thanks to Aleks, I failed school and now I can drop out and be like my uncle! Love you aleks for ruining my school life :D

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27 helpful votes
September 13th, 2023

When ido it i felt like i wanna die and bang my head to a f***ing toilet seat.The fact that you spent 1 hour doing 2 topics and the next day a knowledge check pop up and i lost 15 f***ing topic in the f***ing process
Very great,and when i went off the website for 3 god dam second and when i hop back on it says session time out and i have to login again i felt like i need to stuck my head into a trash can and blow up.
That you aleks for RUINING MY MENTAL STATES

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1 review
14 helpful votes
November 14th, 2023

After I use this app every day i want to pour bleach in my eyes and rip them out and then jump into a bullet ant pit and then peel all of my natural fingernails off. It brings sadness and anger out of everyone. The ALEKS developerss should delete the app from existence and then kill themselves. I want to tie a noose if this doesn't work then I will light myself ablaze. God $#*!ing dammit. I want to kill people after this. (The murder part is not real, but it is the worst app ever, don't buy it) THANKS, ALEKS!

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1 review
37 helpful votes
April 17th, 2023

ALEKS is the best math program on the market! It takes students hours to complete, as well as making students want to k*ll themselves. If you want to die, just log on and do a few topics. This will greatly increase your willingness to jump off a bridge. It also cured my happiness! I love how the creators of ALEKS were trying to simulate Auschw*tz for kids!

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1 review
65 helpful votes
April 24th, 2020

I never knew I had algolagnia (pain fetish) until I met aleks. The feeling of working on a problem for an hour, to finally get the right answer and then to have aleks bealive you're wrong, there is nothing like it. Even my dad leaveing me when I was 5 does not even compear to the pain I feel when I see the demonic orange text "Try Again". I bealive aleks was created by the dark lord, becuase I have only seen the dark lord twice. Once when I was on mushrooms and the other time was when I spent an entire day working on one section of aleks.

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1 review
7 helpful votes
November 6th, 2023

After doing work on Aleks i immediately wanted to kill myself and blow up América this is a better material to learn Spanish's then math

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1 review
13 helpful votes
October 5th, 2021

I feel that aleks is the answer to all my problems! No homework to assign that day? Aleks! No other classes that also feel that you dont have enough homework? Aleks! No 13th reason to off yourself? F^&K! NG ALEKS! SO FUN! Instead of learning division for the 14th time I have dropped ut of school to help my uncle with his magician buffet! I've really taken a new path in life, aleks has found me my purpose. Now I can pull plates out of a hat and divide the number of years I have eft on my life by an exponational amount every time! I'm down to 4 hours, just enough to say my goodbyes and tie off the noose. How many gallons of juice are in the jug! Y=kx! Easy RIGHT? NO BECAUSE THE ONE TIME I DECIDE TO FRICKING WRITE THE RIGHT ANSWER IN THE RIGHT FORMAT THE EXACT WAY THEY ASKED ME TO THEY MARK IT AS WRONG! SO FUN! My screen time has Aleks as a whopping 67%! My favorite pasttime.
Lets talk about the Knowledge checks! (plural) Rat poison is a great snack.
The business is run by hitler and my school is run by the Gulėn Movement

TL; DR: It takes 3ml of bleach to off someone and Aleks sucks.

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2 helpful votes
December 10th, 2020

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1 review
78 helpful votes
May 19th, 2020

ALEKS is the best way to ACTUALLY learn math. It gives no multiple choice options, making you do your own work instead of leaning on order of magnitude guesses. It does not let you move on unless you really understand a concept and can solve problems. You only have to get three problems right to move past a section. Guess what? If you can't get three measly problems right, you SHOULDN'T be moving on! This is for students who want to actually learn and use math. You will learn how to check your work and be a thorough problem solver. If you don't like the concept explanation given in ALEKS, guess what? Youtube and Google exist. Lazy students act like they don't have the capability of looking up an alternative explanation or supplemental material. That's what learning is. Get a working explanation for you, then come back and solve problems. Math is learned by doing and ALEKS is excellent at assessing your ability to handle each concept and moves the student forward in a very straightforward, logical way, with easier concepts building up to more difficult ones. You can go back and review at any time and there is a lot of supplemental material to take notes from. I used it in one online course and then got a subscription and used it as a supplement to ALL of my college courses and it allowed me to ALWAYS be ahead of the curve. I LOVE this program!

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1 review
27 helpful votes
March 4th, 2020

Aleks is for people who want to put a band-aid to fix a problem if you want to learn math hire real teachers and not this fake internet math.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
October 15th, 2023

Hello, I am a student at a school with an option to take a course called "math pathways" based on the "ALEKS" program, I've been in this class for 2 days, (traditional math was not working out for me this year) And I absolutely LOVE this program-hear me out before you come for me, I just started (2 days ago) so I don't know for sure but I have become so much more motivated, sure it has its moments. However I have improved my quality of work after starting this class. I would like to add i have Attention Deficite hyperactive disorder (ADHD) so that could influence my opinion, my pie below.

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1 review
64 helpful votes
November 23rd, 2018

My wife left me, she took the kids, i got demoted to janitor, got evicted from my house, and my pp shrunk 27%. My healthcare provider is gone. But when I found ALEKS, everything has changed. I got fired but found a new job and make 13 million a year, my wife loves me. I got another kid, my kids love me, i use luxury healthcare providers for my cool guy syndrome (luxury adderal), i have a mansoin, an my pp grew 37 feet longer. Thank you, ALEKS!

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21 helpful votes
January 26th, 2021

I'm a college student, taking Gen Chem which I needed ALEKS for. ALEKS is supposed to gague your intelligence in topics but the only thing it gagued whats how much rope I needed to make a noose. Ask your self, whats more important-Your sanity? Or spending 20 min on a problem to count it wrong because you abbreviated the word "hour" with "hr" instead of "h". THATS RIGHT SAY GOODBYE TO SANITY. I'm having my nurse type this for me since I literally gouged both my eyes out with my pens. I'd rather doggy-scoot 50 miles through shards of broken glass and $#! Then sit in a nice bath of bleach at the end of it than use this terrible program again.

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1 review
2 helpful votes
November 30th, 2020

I like this and its cool coolcoolcool well i am ackshatoofboy and i like aleks a lot it my fav game aool

Thumbnail of user taylors598
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9 helpful votes
December 10th, 2021

ALEKS is an educational math site led by the company, McGraw-Hill. It for some reason has been used by many schools in America and other countries, but ALEKS and its parent company have problems that I will discuss. So, in this essay, I will bring up the argument that ALEKS should be abolished from the Clermont northeastern school system or should be modified/ replaced with a better substitute. My reasons are that ALEKS spies on students to steal private information to grow their artificial intelligence that uses machine learning, McGraw-Hill has done controversial/ problematic things, and other sites like Khan Academy are better at teaching than ALEKS.

ALEKS spies on students. For example, this FAQ (frequently asked questions) document from ALEKS customer support states "Respondus Monitor is an automated "remote proctoring" companion application for LockDown Browser that uses webcam and video technology to record students... " (ALEKS customer support pg. 1). This means that ALEKS uses an application that records students. This evidence shows that ALEKS spies on students to steal private information to grow their artificial intelligence that uses machine learning because they admitted that they use webcam technology to record students. So, ALEKS and its parent company McGraw-Hill have done this but that's not the only shady thing McGraw-Hill has done.

McGraw-Hill has done controversial/problematic things. For example, McGraw-Hill sued the estate of essayist James Baldwin because he died before he could finish his book "remember this house" and pay back the $200,000 advance that McGraw-Hill gave him. The New York Times states "Several publishing executives said they had never encountered a case of a publisher pursuing the estate of a dead author to recover an advance." (Roger Cohen, 1990). This means that publishing executives said that a case like the McGraw-hill v. James Baldwin estate lawsuit is a very rare one. This evidence relates to the idea that the McGraw-Hill company has done controversial things because many lawyers, publishing executives, and regular citizens did not like this decision which is the meaning of controversial. A problematic thing McGraw-Hill has done is revise history. For example, CNN states "... to vent her frustration over the wording of a passage in her son's "World Geography" textbook that calls African slaves "workers" and "immigrants."(McAfee). This means that McGraw-hill called kidnapped slaves "workers and immigrants" when they were clearly not. This evidence relates back to the idea that McGraw-hill has done problematic things because falsifying history is an incredibly problematic concept. Since ALEKS has done problematic things I think it's time for a substitute.

Khan Academy is better than ALEKS. For example review site "Site Jabber" says "ALEKS has a consumer rating of 1.24 stars from 1,493 reviews indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. ALEKS ranks 196th among tutor sites…positive reviews (last 12 months): 6.5%" (sitejabber.com) while the overview for Khan academy is "Khan Academy has a consumer rating of 3.71 stars from 63 reviews indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Consumers satisfied with Khan Academy most frequently mention high school. Khan Academy ranks 10th among math sites… positive reviews (last 12 months): 83.3%" (sitejabber.com). This means that people (teachers and students) like khan academy more than ALEKS. This evidence relates to the point that other sites are better than ALEKS because people on average enjoy khan academy's teachings better than ALEKS. Another piece of evidence is that Khan Academy support says "Our Website. With thousands of videos, it is easily the most exhaustive collection of instruction on the Internet allowing learners to know that they can fill in almost any of their "gaps" with the content on this site." (khan academy). This means that Khan academy has more material to help students than Aleks. This evidence supports the idea that khan academy is better than ALEKS because Khan academy has materials to actually teach and help students. Khan academy is, in my humble opinion, better than ALEKS.

So in conclusion, ALEKS should be abolished from the Clermont northeastern school system or should be modified/ replaced with a better substitute because ALEKS spies on students to steal private information to grow their artificial intelligence that uses machine learning, McGraw-Hill has done controversial/ problematic things, and other sites like Khan Academy are better at teaching than ALEKS. Just in my personal opinion as a student, keeping it as the main website for math in this district is worse for students and teachers who use ALEKS as a resource.

Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/19/books/mcgraw-hill-drops-baldwin-suit.html
https://www.aleks.com/support/Respondus_Lockdown_Browser_ALEKS.pdf
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/living/mcgraw-hill-slavery-textbook-mom-complaint-feat/
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/aleks.com
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/khanacademy.org
https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/*******-How-is-Khan-Academy-effective-and-different-from-other-resources-

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if your teacher starts to use ALEKS jump off your nearest cliff

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1 review
15 helpful votes
November 5th, 2019

It works well, and is amazing! It really helped boost my math grades, and I even excelled into a new level beyond school!

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1 helpful vote
March 20th, 2024
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I LOVE ALEKS IT HELPS SO MUCH WITH MY MATH
I dont know what everyone is talking about aleks is the best

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Why aleks belong in the sewer
June 5th, 2023
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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 $#*!ed 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.

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1 review
6 helpful votes
November 6th, 2023

I HATE this app it is a living nightmare to me and it helped my suicidal thoughts and my intrusive thoughts rise through the roof 10/10

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63 helpful votes
April 28th, 2019

I'm a boy and Aleks stressed me out so badly that it made me have to wear a tampon, ever since I first started trying ALEKS I've gone mentally insane and started wearing little girls dresses and dancing around in my underwear

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September 30th, 2021

Thus site is awesome I have learned so much on aleks and I love the alien ufo game but besides games this website is super helpful # aleks for life

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1 helpful vote
September 7th, 2023

I noticed how many bad reviews ALEKS was receiving, which doesn't much sense to me due to the fact that it is a great program. Many of the bad reviews are mainly because the only people who actually leave reviews likely have something to complain about. Personally, ALEKS was great for me due to the fact that I can work at my own pace. I've seen multiple reviews complaining about how hard it is, and how it's unfair how hard the topics are. I find this a joke as the longest I've ever taken on a topic was around 10 minutes, and even if I don't know how something works, there's this handy little feature called the "explanation" button, which explains clearly and in detail how to complete the math problem. The way ALEKS is set up, I was able to do 3 years of math in one year, twice in a row. I'm currently in pre-calc, and I'm assuming most of the people in the reviews are not this far in math. It is very easy to progress, in fact, how my school is set up you are required to do 15 ALEKS topics a week, and we have 40 minutes of designated ALEKS time (usually) every day. I have actually been prevented from doing ALEKS due to how far ahead I have gotten, easily getting 45-60 topics per week.

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1 review
37 helpful votes
October 24th, 2020

GATech and Chemical Engineering USF. Two are still in school.
I am so fortunate to have a school system that supports our students with this program.
I do think that an instructor needs to be available and that this program should supplement instruction from a human being. I think it takes a teacher to help young folks to love the logic flow and problem-solving that math is. Bernoulli? Occam's Razor? Fibonacci?
I am concerned about the plethora of negative reviews here. I find Aleks to be the best I could hope for... expecially during CoVid. Geese we had so much to do going into online instruction overnight... Aleks helps students who cannot be in Brick and Mortar. We use this program for traditional classes and online classes.
So why do you need an instructor now that the program can teach everything?
It cannot, humans just have too many variables. Teaching must be interactive and the instructor needs to tap into the passion the student has for the course we are teaching. (Some just do not know that they love math... yet!)
Aleks is a phenomenal tool for isntruction.

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8 helpful votes
June 13th, 2021

This program is an absolute piece of garbage.
World peace will be achieved before anyone learns something from ALEKS. The existence of this program confirms that God is indeed Dead. I would rather fight omni-man and Jesus at the same time than spend another MILLISECOND doing ALEKS. If I showed the founding fathers this piece of trash, they would unfound America and commit suicide. If zombies existed, they would regain humanity if we showed them ALEKS. It stirs an animalistic rage that makes you want to jump out your window, find each and every founder of this god awful program and murder them one by one. You start to do it, but instead you force them to finish… every… single… topic to make them realize what god awful human beings they are. I 100% certifiably guarantee that Hitler and Stalin have caused less death and destruction than this glorified pile of ants.

Now if you think thats bad. We did this every year since the 6th Grade.

When I die, I will personally fight Jesus and God and make them realize that they have abandoned all since if the word Justice by letting this monstrosity go free.

TLDR: ALEKS REALLY REALLY SUCKS

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0 helpful votes
December 15th, 2021

Awleks is pwreety awesome uwu i a can do lots of stuff owoe hwelps me on meth hehe now im gwreat at meth uwu

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2 helpful votes
May 21st, 2023

Golly gee willikers, I find the explanations easy and simple to understand and I get quite "Lost in the sauce" when doing ALEKS ( I lose sense of time and math is the only thing on my mind.) I just understand the content so I may find it easier than others but the UI is easy (for me at least) to navigate, and I find the lessons helpful as you master them to understand the content.

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