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Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Don't use it
April 5, 2021

I tried grade one in this ixl learning website and guess what I found. When it asked me how many cars are in the picture... It clearly said 8 but the right answer said 9. Like wtf on earth is this. Some tim hortons learning app? Why pay money for this... Maybe your mom would.
Go use prodigy. Its much more funner expect the stupid membership thing but its not that stressfull.

Date of experience: April 5, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Dude I cant even
January 26, 2021

IXL is so bad that when you get something right, it only gives you 1 point. But when you get something wrong, it is like "haha, you are dumb, time to take away 10 points" like, dude, this system is very unbalanced. I remember back in 3rd grade when I had some ixl for homework, and I stayed up until like mid night doing it. 1 star.

Date of experience: January 26, 2021
Indiana
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Don't do it, at all. I have to cheat because they have to make the problem explanation so complicated. My teacher decides hmm, how about we teach them something then do IXL even though what I taught them is not in IXL AT ALL. She doesn't test it, she just gives it to us and runs.

Date of experience: December 2, 2020
Ohio
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Don't use this unless you HAVE to. All it does is frustrate you, and the SmartScore system is even more corrupt! So if you have to use this in the future, your gonna know what absolute hell feels like. If you already use this, you know how the rest of us feel. This website is nothing but pathetic, useless, bull$#*!.

Date of experience: October 1, 2020
Kentucky
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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This doesn't help at all! My daughter is being forced in school to do this. She's a 5th grader and it automatically thinks she knows how to do a topic that has never been taught in class. It doesn't teach whatsoever. It is supposed to teach so the child knows how to do it, but instead, expects him/her to know how to do it without teaching them. Just homesschool your kids, guys. Whoever made this is insane. I'm glad I live in America so I have a right to homeschool my kids without making them do this. Really cruel

Date of experience: August 22, 2019
Indiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Geared for monatary Gain
February 24, 2024

IXL is geared to make money. IXL has no programs for low income. Thus, Creating a barrier for the low income families. How do we make AMERICA great again when we roadblock a child's ability to learn? Who thinks this is OK?

Date of experience: February 24, 2024
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Disappointed User
September 25, 2023

As it is understandable why teachers may like ixl as its a way for students to learn and make progress. It is very frustrating from a Students POV as I get the questions correct and get 1-2 points but when I get a question wrong it drops my score drastically which is the frustrating part. Also for some questions I put a space or write it differently but still equals the same, it still marks me wrong. This app is amazing for improving your academic goal but it is very frustrating. This app has many potential but it needs some improvement to make the experience better.

This app respectfully makes me want to throw myself down the stairs and cry myself to sleep.

Date of experience: September 25, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I HATE IXL
March 4, 2022

Ixl is super bad. Every time i need to do it i end up really mad because like, you get to 80 and then you get 1 wrong and your back to seventy. It also doesnt provide things like rulers and that stuff.

Date of experience: March 4, 2022
Texas
1 review
16 helpful votes
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IXL=HELL
February 1, 2023

If I could give this a 0 star review I WOULD. IXL Is very very stressful. It is just hurtful and this point. I dont learn anything but depression from IXL anymore. Whenever my teachers assign IXL I have to restrain myself from bursting out into tears. My father is a teacher and he thinks that IXL is absolutely horrible as well. Please, everyone who has had to deal with the utter stress and dismay of IXL, please we need to come together as a people, to shut down IXL.

Date of experience: February 1, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Very Very Stressful!
January 26, 2023

As a student, I find IXL as an extremely stress filled "lessons" and we get assigned like three per classtime! The points system makes SURE that you lose ~25 points every time you gain 30. IXL is the very definition of one step forward, two steps back.

Date of experience: January 26, 2023
Hawaii
1 review
21 helpful votes
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It stresses me out so much and its so riggged and confusing i once spent 50 mins on not even half way and i almost smashed my laptop doing ixl dont try getting member ship its a waste of money and it makes ur child cry and id rather stay with a abuser for 1000 years in hell then this fuking waste of time ixl drin my $#*!

Date of experience: February 16, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I wouldn't even want to rate this but the lowest I can go is a one. They make it very so you are very nervous because they do a points system. For example let's say you have 93 points and are about to finish and, you mess up a question you go down to a 76. The worst part about it that is you go up by four max at the end of it. It made my friends very agitated and not in a great mood like they usually are. The help part of it is a joke the videos show a different part of the topic then you are on. The learn with example is also on a different topic. Please parents and teachers don't put your kids through this and save your money. It will only make your kids dislike learning.

Date of experience: July 16, 2023
California
1 review
18 helpful votes
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IXL SUCKS
May 23, 2021

I've been doing IXL since kinder and I'm in 8th right now. This website didn't even teach me anything! I stressed, had break downs, and I just wanted to give up so bad! IXL really depended on my grade so I had to work for ages just to get it done. I also spent my entire weekend sitting and staring at the screen so I could get a good grade TWICE. IXL really doesn't teach you anything and I'm glad I wont have to do it anymore.

Date of experience: May 23, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Sucks
January 29, 2024

The only reason why I didn't put 1 star is because the only thing IXL is good for is a good reason to give out prizes. My teachers give prizes to the top 3 people on the leaderboards. I found this cracked strat called HP.14. Search hp.14 in the bar. It will give you so many correct questions for math IXL leaderboards. Watch the video for guidance. (By the way, I did not buy it. The school district did.) [6th grade]

Date of experience: January 29, 2024
Alabama
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I've used this so many times in math. And the prizes they give out IF you succeed are just Japanese paper folding. What can you do with paper?! Considering that it's a school program is unreal. I cried too many times trying to get a 100, but even if I did, I still wouldn't be motivated to learn. And get this, the challenge zone is just for a sick joke. It basically forces you to use a calculator. And the SmartScore? Horrible, broken, and RIGGED. I could go into the Challenge Zone and get 1 or 2 points earned, but if I get a question wrong I get 10+ points taken off my SmartScore. I think that the people who wrote the good reviews are forced to do this because the program told them to because is it that good? Nope. Read this review I found from a site. It says IXL is an "excellent" practice tool that is best used to "supplement learning". Don't you mean terrible and make kids break their school computers? My advice? Use iReady. It was better than the garbage that is IXL.

Date of experience: January 31, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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IXL IS TERRIBLE!
September 28, 2021

As a student, all I can say is THIS SITE/APP is TERRIBLE. It always explains things in the most complicated way! Most of the time, it makes ZERO sense! You don't know how many people I've seen have major breakdowns. Teachers and parents honestly don't know how stressful this torcher device some people call a 'Fun Math Learning Website' is. If you are a teacher or parent, PLEASE: Do NOT use this site/app. It is expensive, not worth it, and just terrible. It doesn't help you learn. If you get some stuff right, you get a stupid new profile picture. If you get even ONE THING wrong, you go back ten spaces!
As you can see from most reviews, this is terrible. Absolutely terrible. Some of you may think, "Oh, this person is just saying this because they don't want to do work", well NO. That's NOT what it's like. It gives you extreme stress, as I mentioned earlier. I would give ixl zero stars if I could.
So to put it shortly, DON'T USE IXL

Date of experience: September 28, 2021
Ohio
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Why ixl sucks
May 11, 2022

Ixl sucks because I had 99 and I got one wrong then I got bumped down to a 86! And when you go to the "Challenge zone" it's only challenging because you only get 1 point! I have become depressed and frustrated because of this website. AND I'M ONLY TEN! (And I don't have proof but I think this is good enough.

Date of experience: May 11, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I HATE IXL
May 5, 2023

Teachers will think ixl is so good to teach students but it is the opposite. Getting a question right might give you some points but getting 1 question wrong and your down 15 points. Once i used ixl and beacuse of the points system i answered over 100 questions and still was at a 57 smartscore.

Date of experience: May 5, 2023
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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THIS SUCKS
March 22, 2022

Ok so i have report card today buti think ixl might ruin it it could probaly be a oe b and all c i am scared if it wasnt for this program i could have been a top student considering I am in private school and i have to do this ixl every day i sneak this on splitscreen to show my feelings about ixl i have got new account soo closse to all nesting dolls and every time i et so close to 60 getting only 2 points per question i get one wrong back to 52 yay if you dont belive me look at this

Date of experience: March 22, 2022
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bad
January 31, 2023

Ixl do too much it makes u go back so far when u miss one answer and if u at 95 its pushes u back to 83 it make me mad cause i been working on ixl forn 2 hrs they need to be banned or re make this betta when u at 93 it pushes u back to 85 thats just not right

Date of experience: January 31, 2023

Overview

IXL has a rating of 1.1 stars from 669 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with IXL most frequently mention smart score, point system and challenge zone. IXL ranks 4084th among Education sites.

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