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aleks.com

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Mc graw hill Reviews Summary

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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Kentucky
1 review
26 helpful votes
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This webiste sucks!
March 27, 2020

These lessons don't teach you anything. The only thing it was made for was to turn you brain to mush. The is website need a total make over. Get a better layout and whole set of new different classes that are easy to understand. Not only that I regret pay the $25 dollars cause these courses did nothing but give me depression and anxiety. These course make me feel like I don't know $#*!. Like come on, every time I put in the right answer it always wrong. $#*! this website man.

Date of experience: March 27, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not good
March 27, 2020

Not good the awnser is write and it is just useless. Why is this even an app why do you have to type 100 word that is dumb

Date of experience: March 27, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Dog $#*!
March 27, 2020

This iece of $#*! is the cause of depression at our school., edieval torture devices weren't as cruel as this. Especially with corona, it make me want to die.

Date of experience: March 27, 2020
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't go to
March 25, 2020

ALEKS is so hard and confusing I just can't stand it, even the login is just as confusing, to be honest in the videos they don't really seem to be happy, plus every time you fail your "pie" goes down, even if you move to a grade your whole "pie" is gone you work hard and ALEKS makes you work harder.

Date of experience: March 25, 2020
Ohio
1 review
4 helpful votes
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The entire site of ALEKS should be classified as unconstitutional as it is cruel and unusual punishment. Many schools use this website, which is highly unconstitutional. I would even choose IXL over this absolute piece of sh*t. If you are trying to learn math, don't use ALEKS as it will often decrease your math skills and make you highly depressed.

Date of experience: March 25, 2020
New York
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Edit your site
March 22, 2020

I would greatly appreciate whoever updates this site to stop subtracting points from the bracket you need to move on to the next topic. It frustrates me beyond belief--just because I get something wrong does not necessarily mean I do not understand the concept as a whole. I just want to move on through my objectives easily without being stuck on one for hours on end (because that has happened.) Also, add more detail into the answers explanation because I feel as if ALEKS tries to trick us in order to be stuck on a topic for longer. It does not explain how or way it got the answer as it did, and it just confuses me more. Thank you.

Date of experience: March 22, 2020
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Pure stupidity
March 19, 2020

I hate this. It's incentive is lousy, its problems are indirect, and it takes an entire year to reach 100 percent! I would recommend Kahn Academy, but not this.

Date of experience: March 19, 2020
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I swear I am going crazy. This BS. I take grade 9 math and I have always been top of my goddamn classes for years and now this is messing it up. PLus my teachers make me write all my work for them to get a grade even if aleks says it. How am i supposed o pass a topic whne i pick an answer and they mark it wrong but then i check their answer and ITS THE SAME F$#cking ANSWER.

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This motherf******g program is a b**** this is supposedly supposed to help my brain grow but it has only filled my brain with thoughts on how to kill myself. One time around it's one answer, the next it is a completely different f****** answer. I have had it with Aleks, take it down or the world population of teenagers is going to go down by one.

Date of experience: March 14, 2020
Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Aleks
March 12, 2020

This is the most bull$#*! i've ever had to use in my life. Our teach makes us do 8 topics a week, and every time you open aleks it's like being in hell. HELL it's even worse, you get a question right bing! You get a point! Get one wrong you lose one!? Who ever made aleks or even supports it dropped out of kindergarten and did drugs 'till the age of 29.

Date of experience: March 12, 2020
Alaska
1 review
15 helpful votes
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ALEKs is the program for my Gen Chem I homework and this site is so disappointing! It takes hours to complete topics due to it 'erasing' your progress if you get one wrong answer, regardless if you understand the topic. And the most frustrating part, is the random knowledge checks that test you on everything you covered. If you dont master a topic on the test you loose all of your progress. These tests take roughly 2 hours to complete by the way. Absolutely terrible format for any class. The only thing ALEKs achieves is frustration and wasted time.

Date of experience: March 12, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My brain as a child
March 12, 2020

I was born 3 months early so my brain takes longer to develop and understand things, and honestly i wish ALEKS could understand that cuz i am tired of being behind people just cuz im slower. This also makes it harder for me to reach my damn goal so i get poorer grades, just give me a break already. Do not reccomend evern if your damn brain is working the right way.

Date of experience: March 12, 2020
Massachusetts
1 review
22 helpful votes
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Corporate shills
March 12, 2020

The only reason my school uses it is because they're locked into a contract with it but they still try to pass it off as "a helpful learning tool for our students". No, stop supporting it with bull$#*! data that you pulled out of your $#*! and admit you made a big mistake. What kind of masochistic person would use this willingly?

Date of experience: March 12, 2020
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Address to the nation
March 12, 2020

I want to die. I was recently diagnosed with major depression and it is because of aleks. I look like my friend trey now because i plucked all of my pubes and i look like a $#*!en sphynx. I forgot to mention i also ate all my pubes because i was stuck in my room the whole night doing aleks. I hope i die

Date of experience: March 12, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Aleks is garbage
March 12, 2020

First of all, this thing makes my head hurt and puts a lot of extra stress and my life just goes crazy and my teacher fricken expects me to do 15 topics each topic is like a whole lesson and it is so boring and tedious this thing belongs in you local junkyard stay away at all costs don't even let children near this demon of a sight.

Date of experience: March 11, 2020
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It suckssssss asss
March 10, 2020

Aleks is trash it dosen, t even help us it just waist our time if i were to rate it 1 throw 10 i will give is a -1.

Date of experience: March 10, 2020
Idaho
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Aleks...
March 9, 2020

Aleks has the WORST explanations that tell you nothing at all. Also its "only 99.99 dollars for six months?" thats a lot of money for something that teaches you NOTHING AT ALL.

Date of experience: March 9, 2020
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Poop sauce
March 6, 2020

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Date of experience: March 6, 2020
Germany
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm taking a Pre-Calculus college course and this program is absolute bs. Its completely unclear on what order you're supposed to work in and (in my instance) the calendar with due dates is full of dates for the WRONG CLASS. I took a required quiz and it said I mastered 28 of the 32 required topics and those four I got wrong i need to review. Sounds pretty good right? Wrong. Somehow that equates to a 52%, displayed without a breakdown of the topics and their weights. It seems like all the work was put into the aesthetics of the site without paying mind to the actual mechanics.

Date of experience: March 6, 2020
Wisconsin
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Curse fate and die
March 6, 2020

Who ever created this site its horrible i can not tell you how much time i spent on this site suffering till 4 am in the $#*!ing morning to get assignments done and when im done they shove a knowledge check up your $#*! and you lose percentage then after you lose percents you get all the topics you hate back so they can come back and mentally skull $#*! you into spending more time to finish $#*! aboslute horror on this site do not recommend as another user said on this site I would rather get butt $#*!ed by bill cosby then do this curse fate and die

Date of experience: March 5, 2020