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aleks.com

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The company's reputation is significantly marred by overwhelmingly negative feedback regarding its educational platform, which customers describe as ineffective and frustrating. Many users express dissatisfaction with the program's design, claiming it induces stress and confusion rather than facilitating learning. Common complaints include poor explanations, a punitive grading system, and a lack of engaging content. Additionally, customer service experiences are often characterized by delays and unprofessionalism, particularly concerning billing issues. Overall, the sentiment reflects a deep frustration with both the product and the support provided, indicating a need for substantial improvements in both areas.

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Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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ABSOULTE $#*!
March 21, 2021

THIS SHI1T IS LEGIT HOT SIMMERING PILE OF APE SHI1T WHY THE HELL DID ANYONE WITH HALF THE SENSE OF A AMEOBA THINK THIS IS A GOOD MATH PROGRAM ALEKS IS A BUNCH OF FU1CK SHI1T GIVE ME MY LIFE BACK YOU UGLY HOBO THEIVES

Date of experience: March 21, 2021
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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If you can even get past the login you are greeted with a jumbled mess that makes no sense. Assignments are hard to and just putting your assignments in a google doc would be more efficient.

Date of experience: March 21, 2021
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My teacher makes me do this crap. I hate it and it makes you lower your self esteem and induces stress. When i think of aleks, i put some soap in my mouth. It also reminds me to take out the trash. This damn website should be taken down.

Date of experience: March 18, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
12 helpful votes
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I was having peace in math class doing Aleks and getting used to it until it $#*!ing went from easy to hard in a $#*!ing day. We went from an easy subject to a $#*!ing, wanting to kill myself $#*! subject, and now it makes me want to despair and $#*!ing leave this pain full $#*! $#*!ing planet. Also my math teacher an $#*! wipe, $#*!ing says solve for X or use explanations when I ask him a question even though I $#*!ing don't learn $#*! from those.
Btw I am serious but I am not gonna actually kill my self and if you thought that Aleks would make me do that you are right because its pain full to everyone but I ain't gonna kill myself because Aleks wont $#*!ing give me time to and I have better plans in $#*!ing life that have already got $#*! on by Aleks.

Date of experience: March 17, 2021
Wisconsin
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I am a student and our district uses aleks. It sucks. There is no freedom, no control and you can only use the answers their way and stuff. It doesnt help learn. It just makes you learn to use the styles that they like.

Date of experience: March 17, 2021
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Horrendous
March 16, 2021

What the $#*! did you just $#*!ing say about me, you little $#*!? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the $#*! out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my $#*!ing words. You think you can get away with saying that $#*! to me over the Internet? Think again, $#*!er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're $#*!ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable $#*! off the face of the continent, you little $#*!. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your $#*!ing tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will $#*! fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're $#*!ing trash, kiddo.

Date of experience: March 16, 2021
Nebraska
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I feel terrible for anyone who has the misfortune to use this website. Its like hell couldnt reach us so it came in the form of this "learning" website. It always glitches so i have do all of my assignments all over again. And it never lets me redo assignments if i get a bad score. I hope this site gets taken down because no one should have to use this website unless they commited a murder and this is the punishment. This site is a worse fate than death. Please teachers/administrators who are reading this, dont make your students have to go through this living hell called Aleks.

Date of experience: March 15, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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DISGUSTING!
March 15, 2021

I cant believe that aleks exists :/ its one of the worst ways to learn! Im a student that uses aleks on a day to day basis, and let me tell you, the explanations arent enough. I have to turn to other sites and sources just to get a good explanation because ALEKS DOESNT PROVIDE ONE!

Date of experience: March 15, 2021
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I cry every single day! Whenever I have to do aleks. Whenever I start a new topic I will usually get one of them right and then the next problem I get wrong and it takes away the The point I earned on the first question. It just goes back-and-forth. It takes me way longer than it should to get one topic done. I hate it so bad I'll literally scream at the computer. It has given me a grade that I didn't want in math just because I didn't reach my "aleks goal" because it takes me so freaking long to do one single topic. I hope Aleks sees this and sees the pain I'm going through. Makes me want to die. Aleks sucks and doesn't help me at all. It makes me feel like crap.

Date of experience: March 13, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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$#*! ALEKS
March 13, 2021

Why do you have to make us waste our mother $#*!ing time. But your lucky that u most likely gett paid since everyone in the world HAS to use ALEKS and now I can never rest without having to spend at least 30 $#*!ING minutes on every topic OR AN HOUR LIKE HOLY$#*! please get rid of your site no one likes it.

Date of experience: March 13, 2021
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am a student in middle school and I just do not understand why my school use such a terrible and glitchy website. No one and I say no one likes using this website and it does not even teach you the topic well. The explanations that they give for the questions make the topic look easy with simple and like even a kindergartener can do it. Then, you have the actual problem which is terrible and do not even compare to the explanation. Then you have it so that if you make one mistake suddenly you have this wave of getting everything wrong until it tells you to go onto another topic. I have to scroll through tons of topics until I am able to get to one that I can actually do. So, please learn from my mistake and please do not buy this product, you will defiantly regret it.

Date of experience: March 10, 2021
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I HATE ALEKS
March 6, 2021

Aleks dose not save what you are working on so if you get lets say 5 % it will take it away it will not save your % i hate aleks i do not recommend using it.

Date of experience: March 6, 2021
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was forced to use ALEKS for my class so I just googled how to do everything since ALEKS can't explain for S***

Date of experience: March 5, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Program breaks down equations in examples without fully explaining what's being done in the steps, not a good way of teaching.

Date of experience: March 4, 2021
Saudi Arabia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Oh, really? You want me to write 100 characters just to submit my review? No way, man. I ain't writing anything.

Date of experience: March 4, 2021
Texas
5 reviews
79 helpful votes
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Still sucks arse
March 2, 2021
Updated review

Here's my update: It still sucks, and you will have a higher chance of sucking your own@!#$ than getting a 100 on a knowledge check. Infact, I got one when i forgot how to do half of 'em thanks to their automatic knowledge check. And i have never felt so depressed in my life before i saw #@!$ing Aleks. It's a scam for your sanity. The Creator looks like old $#*! Adolf. And my math teach is also terrible.

Date of experience: March 1, 2021

Deserves 0 Stars
December 19, 2020
Previous review

Just bad. The only reason i'm using this website is because i'm forced to do it. PARENTS will think you don't want to do your work if you don't do your 10 per week. (Unrealistic. Most likely will do 4-6 to keep their sanity) The only reason why i see you do 10 is if you are forced to do it because of your parents. And btw, the knowledge check is pointless. And the explanation is also not useful, they don't give enough detail at all. I would rather have to sit in an white room for eternity than have to use this website.

Date of experience: December 18, 2020
Oregon
1 review
19 helpful votes
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If you don't know what ALEKS is, it's basically a robot sent from hell to suck the soul out of you and destroy your will to live as it forces you to input the exact answer it wants on problems with multiple, complicated steps, or else it will send you back and make you do even more of those same problems until you by the grace of god finally put a streak of correct answers together and can then move on to the next topic and do it all over again.

Date of experience: March 1, 2021
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes
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ANNOYING ALEKS
March 1, 2021

So you take like 10 mins to fill out a problem and then you enter it in AND YOU GET THAT DREADED RED TRY AGAIN DIALOGUE BOX! AND EVEN WORSE! YOU GO TO THE EXCLAMATION AND THE RIGHT ANSWER IS THE ANSWER YOU PUT! IF YOU NEED TO DO THIS $H! T I FEEL BAD FOR YOU

Date of experience: March 1, 2021
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I feel genuine compassion for anyone who is subjected to aleks for any amount of time. Aleks was a tool created by the man to steal our lives and chain us down to the establishment and indoctrinate us for assimilation into the system. If your school uses aleks for "learning" or any similar service, You can't go to your teachers for help because they are too busy doing nothing while being underpaid and being $#*!ed over by the same group of "School board members" That mandated the man's tools to torture us and deprive us of a meaningful education. Start a petition for aleks to be taken out of your school or district's curriculum. Aleks is intentionally maliciously designed so that you finish the topics that are reasonably possible to finish and then it forces you to fail knowledge checks so you can just finish the weekly grind.
Im not the first person calling aleks out on their $#*!. Just look at every other review on this site.

Aleks made me start counting down the hours until i can retire, And im only in middle school.

Send help.

Date of experience: March 1, 2021
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't mind the one star it actually gets negative 1 stars. I kid you not the reviews you read with people saying they are going crazy is 100% the truth, it's not complaining at all, it's a cry for help. I'm legit sitting here reading these comments laughing and crying and having a got darn full on mental break down, because I know how they feel, i'm going through it now! I took a break to see what others are saying and I just lost it. I cannot get through this program with out breaking something, a pencil, ripping paper, fussing with my laptop. Like this makes me want to drop out of college all together, this makes me want to sue! This garbage needs to get attention and taken care of. Only if news stations could get a hold of this and we could somehow put this to an end. They grab your money and could care less if you could fail... because hey, you'll have to take it again and hand over your money once again.

Update: I tried to see if I can sue Aleks but it didn't work. And I punched my laptop screen and it went all black. Perfect. Well I created a petition to get it taken down. Please sign.

http://chng.it/vxRmdrr4 (Click link please)

Date of experience: February 28, 2021