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New Jersey
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Where is my Grave?
March 30, 2020

This website is probably the most stressful website ever. In math when you do a problem you only get a point but if you get it wrong, it deducts 7 points. Sometimes they say that there are negative numbers to the equation but its so hard to have a visual on that symbol..

Date of experience: March 30, 2020
Botswana
1 review
10 helpful votes
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$#*! you ixl
August 31, 2022

You guys are a bad workers this is why people give you a review like this $#*! off and just delete ixl give people refund who bought it so $#*! off if you dont delete the system when you get it wrong the smart score goes down delete that. $#*! off!

Date of experience: August 31, 2022
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
52 helpful votes
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The point system is so rigged it makes me want to cry. Like seriously, "I got 2 points for a right question!" If you get one wrong it takes 15 points. It's pretty terrible, but it is still better than IReady. Unlike IReady, this doesn't have annoying lessons that take 30 minutes to complete. All in all, it's not all that terrible, but it sure is bad!

Date of experience: October 3, 2022
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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IXL Sucks
March 23, 2022

IXL is stupid, and when you start getting to a high score like 90, you get one wrong and it drops you back down to 80. Then when you get it right it goes up by 2. This cycle continues until you are worse off then where you started. Also there should be a 0 star rating

Date of experience: March 23, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Couldn't get worse.
January 4, 2022

There is many ways that this is a must-not app. The scoring is horrible. You miss way more points than you make with one correct answer. Take a look at how bad the app instructions are as well. They make things way more complicated than they are. For crying out loud they might as well turn counting numbers into hard algebra.

Date of experience: January 4, 2022
Alaska
2 reviews
20 helpful votes
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I can see this site's potential, but it doesn't really live up to it. Some kids may enjoy it, but I sure didn't. It's mechanic which discourages you instead of encouraging you to learn is unnecessary. It's slogan is "practice that feels like play". That only applies to the small group of students who enjoy it. Overall, It's better than sites like Aleks.

Date of experience: May 24, 2019
Oklahoma
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If I could give IXL negative stars, I would. IXL is for lazy teachers. It teaches kids nothing. You can't see how they got to their answer and they have to get paper out to work it out separately. The examples are often confusing. If you could print out a worksheet of the questions, it might be better. But this is a horrible platform. My son is in 8th grade and I have complained about this for 5 years now and it is no better. Causes undue stress and anxiety. My other son goes to a different school and they do worksheets and he loves math. This program should be banned.

Date of experience: September 12, 2022
Washington
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Okay, one thing about IXL, the point system is rigged. It's annoying when you get to say 91 and you're in the challenge zone which gives more stress. Let's say you have 98 smart-score points, you get one question wrong and it feels like you got knocked back to 11. IXL gives more anxiety and stress.

Should you use it?: Hell no.
Service: Terrible
Overall Review: ZERO STARS

Date of experience: March 24, 2023
Florida
7 reviews
23 helpful votes
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In my opinion I think that IXL is a great website for reviewing and quizzing, preparing for tests. Except, this website is not good for learning new things, more for reviewing and quizzing. This website is not terrible, but I think this website does need some new improvements. Sometimes this website can get a little frustrating. This is a good website for reviewing and you should use another website for learning. But this website does help with my math skills. So this website can be pretty useful.

Date of experience: March 1, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Sucks
April 17, 2023

Ixl is the worst website I ever have done. I would rather be on any other website than ixl. But my stupid teacher gives me 3 so I got to 80 on one stopped, and the second one is basically the same one. Ixl, I hope you die out. I hope a hacker puts inappropriate content so It gets banned on my school Chromebook.

Date of experience: April 17, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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IXL is really helpful but sometimes it confuses the student. They do this by giving you an answer simplified even though it says not to simplify. Also when you finally simplify the answer it marks it wrong. Besides this helping me it gave me and my friends more stress.

Date of experience: May 18, 2022
GB
8 reviews
43 helpful votes
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Doesn't help anyone
August 19, 2020

I had to do IXL everyday before since my parents told me to. It's really not good - I doubt it helps you progress.
I mean they give questions to answer so maybe if you do it for 5 minutes you can recap a few things. But if you want to improve, then it's really not worth it. Try other websites.

Date of experience: August 19, 2020
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very agonizing
April 11, 2023

This app gives some kids anxiety and/or depression.Me,a person who does use it has a lot of challenges with it.When you get one write you get about 1 or 2 points but when you get one wrong you get 7 points taken.This app should have never been a thing.

Date of experience: April 11, 2023
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This site is terrible and causes stress to lots of kids like me. The smart score is stupid and always makes you go down more than going up more. This does not help me and causes stress to the point I just quit and accept my fate. If you are an educator I would not recommend this app if you want your students to be happy.

Date of experience: March 17, 2022
Missouri
1 review
27 helpful votes
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All I can say is WOW. This stupid website that I'm forced into using EVERY DAY is the cause of every single second wasted in my lifetime. The precious seconds which I could be spending with my friends and family, or doing something nice for myself. Isn't is just so unfortunate that I'm instead learning to calculate 3+2 in the 5th grade? Don't I deserve to learn something new, just for once? The little amount of time left before my childhood ends is very special, and I simply wish I could be spending it on something better than this worthless site.

Date of experience: January 19, 2023
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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IXL is just bad, your kids and you will be mad. I have seen many kids in tears from IXL, they are upset because after all of their success then they get a question wrong and they lose their progress. There are many things wrong with this program, I will NOT use it in the future. The kids are upset by it and it is just frustrating overall I am glad I stopped using it. So take my advice and stay clear.

Date of experience: February 22, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I hate IxL
January 27, 2021

I hate IxL because I know the subject, but the teacher doesn't think so because I make a minor mistake, and its sets me so far back, and it causes me to mess up more. It is rigged and causes more harm than it helps, there are many study on this If you want to look it up. Thanks

Date of experience: January 27, 2021
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bad for children
January 19, 2022

IXL causes my child to be stressed about his school and home life he doesnt struggle in class at all but ixl adds extra stress when he could have free time after school since he is caught up with all his work

Date of experience: January 19, 2022
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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JUST DONT
April 13, 2023

Just don't even waste your time on IXL. You learn nothing and I have wasted 81 hours of my life because of it. It is 75$ per student( and that is to be payed yearly) So in a school with 350 kids, that is 26,250 dollars per year. That money could go into things that could actually HELP kids, not make them feel stupid and angers because of the unfair IXL grading system.

Date of experience: April 13, 2023
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Horrible
April 28, 2022

This site is horrible. The point system is horrible in the way how you have to get so many problems right in a row. Another horrible point system is the smart score counter in the math assignments. You can get ten problems right but one wrong one will set you all of the way back. Personally I believe that teachers use this sight so they don't have to do the grading or do work.

Date of experience: April 28, 2022

Overview

IXL has a rating of 1.1 stars from 668 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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