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It's so frustrating to have to rely on this piece of garbage program for my college trig course. I've gotten so upset because of this website, just the way it tries to explain things gives me a headache. I'll have to end up looking up a YouTube or KhanAcademy video to get a good explanation of the more difficult topics. I've spent hours on single topics just trying to figure out what the hell they are trying to explain. To make it worse, once you're on your last question before passing a topic, they'll throw in a trick question just to back-track you once you get it wrong. Thanks for f****** me over Aleks, explain your topics more thoroughly and not just as if you're only explaining it to Einstein.

I'm not sure how this program was implemented into our school system, but it wasn't a choice. These nonprofit organizations are wasting our tax dollars and sending it straight into their pockets instead of the schools. Why should the students spend time on this program that spits out "knowledge checks" that have nothing to do with the lesson that's actually being taught? Teachers are not in favor of it either, they are just puppets for the government. I am livid with the way our education system is run and hope that someone can help the millions of students suffering from severe depression and anxiety over the wasteful curriculum like ALEKS.

For the way this program works, it should be free! This program sucks especially for its price. It takes up too much time, when you get a problem correct it marks it wrong ALL THE TIME and this is very frustrating because it pushes you back on a problem you never even got wrong. Their system is very jacked up, they should really consider quitting on this program, it is all total bs! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PROGRAM PLEASE LOOK ELSEWHERE! Then when you email them a complaint on why your answer was marked wrong (when it was clearly right), they bull$#*! you and try to make it seem as if YOU were the one that got it wrong and they was right. It hasn't only happened to me, as well as my other friends hate this program, as well as the mass of one star reviews on this program. I wrote this review hoping that one day it will help someone who is thinking of working with Aleks, not want to work with them anymore. Thank you and goodbye.

It might take me 10 minutes to do a problem, and Aleks will count it wrong and subtract my progress points. Thus, it takes me an hour to complete one topic. This has angered me to the point where I don't even want to try. I resort to online calculators to solve my problems, because I'm scared if I get one question wrong, I will lose points and have to start all over again. The e-book doesn't even have the same problems Aleks gives. This makes my whole entire math experience even more confusing. I HATE ALEKS. This website needs to be terminated. If it wasn't for the help of online calculators, I might spend 3 days trying to complete an assignment rather than the 10 hours I usually spend each week. Even worse, you have to do these knowledge checks every week. Miss a problem on that, and you have to repeat the topic. UMMM EXCUSE ME ALEKS... DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE 20 OTHER TOPICS THAT I NEED TO? The knowledge checks add on even more topics. MORE TOPICS=MORE STRESS AND LESS TIME TO DO OTHER THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY

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This program is a waste time. This program is a waste of my f*cking *******@mn time! It can take me up to 3 hours to get just even 10-15 topics done from having to go back and forth seeing what tiny little errors i missed in the question and the continous knowledge checks are ABYSMAL AND MAKE YOU RE DO THE TOPIC AGAIN IF YOU MISS A QUESTION ON IT! I had over 100 topics to do on this crap and had other classes ontop of it with so little time to do this bullsh! T F*CK ALEX AND F*CK THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT

Aleks is just plain bad. Firstly, It takes you hours to find the thing. You cant just go to the website, you have to the math site, log in, click on your book, click on resources and click on the thing on the side. Secondly, the system of pieces. It would be fine if we were just doing problems, but no, we need to do pieces. Pieces are 3 or more problems you have to do, and you can lose them, with basically the devil at this point, KNOWLEDGE CHECKS. Not only do they waste your precious time, they make you lose pieces, which is basically your grade on how many pieses you have, and even if you have some of them, no, it is still ma zero. They give this torture machine to 6th graders expecting them to keep up with their normal assignments in every other class, including math! If you love torturing children, give Aleks to your students.

I had to take Aleks in Middle School. I thought it was pretty easy at first, but as soon as I started getting into more "challenging" topics, I realized how wrong I was. The explanations often didn't help, as they were often incomplete. I struggled a lot on topics before my teacher taught them, and aced them after she did. That shows just how inefficient this program is for teaching students. If you want an math program, I recommend Khan Academy as it is easier and actually feels more rewarding than Aleks

Our teacher assigns us to do 10 topics of aleks per week. Which, is fine at first. Once you get to about 25 topics left in your grade, it gets bad. Most of them are terribly taught in the explanation section. And of course, in aleks if you miss one problem, it sends you back. Ever since the 5th grade, I've been scared to click the check button because who knows what will happen. If you do get a question wrong, it won't give you a hint at what you did wrong. So, you'll try to do the same thing again and get the same answer. Forcing you to have to take one for the team and read the explanation, which won't help. Overall, terrible experience with aleks over the years. Bashing my head on the sidewalk is better than this.

Edit: I'm a straight A student and I struggle BIG TIME with this program.