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Florida
1 review
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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
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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
North Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Student to ixl
August 16, 2022

Honestly as one of ixl's students am very happy with ixl. It really does help me get better. I understand some kids don't like the fact it bumps you down ten points when you get a question wrong but I honestly love it, as it helps me try harder so I won't be bumped down which helps me get better grades because it makes me try harder on other things too and I love the fact that it repeats questions gives me a chance to reanswer the ones I got wrong and remember the ones I got right.

Date of experience: August 15, 2022
North Carolina
2 reviews
40 helpful votes
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IXL is a good website, despite sometimes not grasping the formulas we are taught in class, and it makes me and a lot of other people angry that it bumps you down 10 points. Despite that, it's a GOOD thing. It's training your brain to get questions correct so the SmartScore can go up to 100. Despite all of the criticizing reviews, I believe that IXL is GOOD. At least you're not doing iReady (ugh).

I have added screenshots that show IXL can grab from what you've done.

Date of experience: December 14, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Ixl is bad
October 23, 2022

My name is Owen, I'm a ms student, our teacher is fourcing us to use ixl. Ixl is completely trash, no encourging, and the question is very stupid, there's no points of it, and I hope that education center delete ixl from the system.

In the pic below, I've read the question and i've tried 94 question and it still don't let me pass, what I like about mathia is that they'll give us hint.

Date of experience: October 23, 2022
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Better then Aleks
October 8, 2017

11/10 Compared to aleks this website is the pinnicle of human achievement. Compared to that hellish monstrosity this website is like god's gift to humankind. Never would I have though I would say this but, I actually MISS ixl. R. I. P me

Date of experience: October 7, 2017
Georgia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I have had IXL for a day. I hate it. I had it in 3rd grade and I remember it being really bad. The fact the developers haven't done anything in 6 years to change it shows how crap this app is and how little it is cared for by people that don't need to use it. If I was in a room with Stalin, Hitler and the creator of IXL, and a gun with 2 bullets. I would shoot the creator of IXL twice. Thank you for your time. If I could give 0 stars I would.

Date of experience: October 14, 2021
Wyoming
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Ixl is crap
August 28, 2022

It is so fricken stressful when you get to 99 get one wrong and it brings you back to 79, and then it gives you 2 points for each you get right. It is sometimes wrong and gives you bs answers. I have so much ixl I have to do 62 ixl to do and that is just for one part out of five. Overall super stressful and more infuriating rather than making you smart.

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My name is Brian Jiang, and as a middle school student in FMS, I have realized that the harder the IXL question, the fewer points you get. This, along with the fact that the IXL smart score guidelines say they factor in the difficulty of the problems, is troubling. Also, IXL has a consistent number of points lost when you get things wrong. IXL is a good company with nice ideas, but, sad to say, they are poorly done and no one would want to do it except when asked to.

Date of experience: February 10, 2022
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Ixl hurts me
July 7, 2020

I loved math but now i hate it thanks to ixl for that my teacher thinks it's good for my class but most of my class hates it
I do it at home and when i get it wrong i HURT myself i all most broke my arm cuz of ixl.

If i was you i will not do ixl for your kids.

Good bye

Date of experience: July 7, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This $#*! is $#*!ing $#*!. I hope whoever made this dies in a $#*!ing fire. Yeah. I'm looking at you Paul $#*!ing Mishkin. Ugly bastard. You clearly hate kids, and decided to make this bull$#*!ting "educational" "teaching" website. I really hope the $#*!ing worst from you. You only get 2-3 points up, but when you get a question wrong it goes down by like $#*!ing 6. I really hope you $#*!ing die you ugly bastard. Because of your dirty $#*! website, I'm probably gonna get a bad grade. Happy? $#*!ing dirty $#*!. I really hope you $#*!ing die. And any teachers reading this, shame on you $#*!. You already know students hate this $#*!ing website, yet you still assign 4 ixls that need to be completed in one $#*!ing night? I hope you get the same fate as "Paul Mishkin" ugly $#*!. I really hate anyone who loves this website, I hate anyone who assigns this to students, and I hate Paul Mishkin for making this disgusting website. I wish I can give this dirty $#*! a 0 but I cant.

Date of experience: March 6, 2022
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Honestly I would eat dog poop rather then doing this.

1. Ixl causes LOTS OF STRESS.
2. people can cry over it ((guess what CUZ OF STRESS!)
3. ITS SYSTEM is rigged, (ex I got to 98 and it brought me down to 81 ixl this your program?)
4. Its stupid little lEarNINg this are terrible and barley make sense half of the time.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible makes kids cry
January 28, 2025

I have read that this app should be banned from the world and I am here to protect you from this stupid app. At home it makes your parents feel dumb and you will want to bribe the principal of your school to get a ban on this stupid app. My experience with it has always been negative but I am trying to control my tears. 2 students switched to home school in Sebastian middle school so that they wouldn't have to get IXLs ever again. Please stop students from getting IXL homework and teachers from assigning them. Some even passed away and probably broke the law. So I'm pleased to let you know that IXL is almost banned all we have to do is sign all of the pitons to ban this stupid app and then 1 person should go to sue the founders of IXL all the way to the top of the court system. I just notified them about negative reviews and gave them a last chance to fix by June or may. Comment below if they haven't made it yet. It looks like they won't fix their mistakes. Also if your teachers give you IXLs and they yell at you for not doing them tell them you're protesting because this app should be illegal from the entire country.
Here's a link to a thing
https://chng.it/fvWqrhWqQG

Date of experience: August 20, 24
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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IXL is 100% trash
June 24, 2022

Ixl is trash its score system is trash everything about it is so trash and i just want to say that i cry every time I do ixl it doesn't help me the only thing it does is make my life even trash and my life is already trash I don't understand why they make there point system like this just improve it and people will like your app more yet you are like in slaving millions of kids doing this sad depressing dumb saying its helping but its just trash and so is its trash owner Paul that doesn't understand us and i would give you a 0 review ratting but i cant so fix that to.

Date of experience: June 24, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
33 helpful votes
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IXL.
April 16, 2021

So let me just say IXL is the greatest website ever FOR TORTURING STUDENTS! I SAW ONE KID IN MY CLASS BANG HER HEAD ON A BOOK WHILE SOBBING BECAUSE OF IXL AND I KEPT GETTING THEM WRONG AND THEY WOULD SET ME BACK 10 POINTS! ITS LIKE STUDY ISLAND BUT WORSE! ALSO WHY DO WE HAVE TO GIVE IT ONE STAR IT SHOULD HAVE ZERO STARS

Date of experience: April 16, 2021
California
4 reviews
46 helpful votes
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Apparently teachers still do not understand that THIS SITE IS NOT GOOD AND SHOULD NEVER EVER< EVER BE USED! I am assigned 3 topics a week, and even that's extremely annoying. IXL takes away so many points any time you get one question wrong. In the challenge zone (90 points and up) it will give only one point for every question correct, and then has a fun time bringing you down to like 84 points when you get one wrong. If I could give this horrible, awful, annoying, and terrible website zero stars, definitely would. If a teacher is reading this DO NOT MAKE YOUR STUDENTS GO THROUGH THE PAIN OF DOING EVEN ONE TOPIC A WEEK!

Date of experience: February 17, 2021
New Hampshire
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Garbage
May 3, 2022

IXL is completely garbage. It makes me get brain cancer and the Smart score system is SO rigged. I get 3 points for getting a question write, hooray! But I get 8 points taken off because I get ONE QUESTION WRONG. IXL should be BANNED. Everybody in my school agrees with me as well. I have been doing this for 4 months for math class, and it truly sucks. I sometimes have to spend 1 whole DAMN HOUR just to get one item done.

Date of experience: May 3, 2022
Mississippi
1 review
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Pathetic Website
February 15, 2022

Ixl is a perfect example of what not to do when making a learning website. It punishes you too much for messing up once. It takes ages to get a single skill done let alone multiple, and it gets extrememly hard in the 90s and you go down more. There was once a time I spent over 1 hour on a single skill and over 100 questions. Even using google didn't help, and I am no idiot. I am quite smart., but that does not matter when it is designed in a way to torture people. It should either, give you multiple chances, or give you a redemption question thats different than the original. Not bump you from 93 to 78 from one question (that has happened to me). It has not helped me at all learn anything. All it has done is put me through hell and tell me that I have to do that again, and once I do it again they scream "Oncore."

Date of experience: February 15, 2022
Virginia
1 review
12 helpful votes
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IXL is the worst
June 13, 2023

IXL is honestly great... IF YOU WANT TO FIND A WAY TO TORTURE YOUR KIDS!

1) Videos don't go into depth about what you're learning
2) You lose too many points when you make a mistake
3) The explanation of why I got a question wrong is not clear to me
4) Lack of fun or interaction while doing the skills. (It feels more like you're doing problem after problem to just finish instead of trying to learn.)

Don't use IXL because of these reasons!

Date of experience: June 13, 2023

Overview

IXL has a rating of 1.1 stars from 661 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 4086th among Education sites.

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