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I'm in middle school, and my entire school has to do this 3 hours and 30 topics each week. Seriously, ALEKS? I have NO time for completing this math. If I don't do this math, it'll drop my grade by 30%. I'm forced to do this unless I want a C or D in math. I have an A+ in math and I'm still struggling with this ALEKS crap. Aside from this, it's very horrible and will waste your time. It's likely that you won't remember a single topic, so don't buy this.

I'm not a math person at all. So when I opted to take Intermediate algebra first so I could refresh my brain I was hoping it'd help. But the "teacher" said that Aleks is proven to help you learn things better. Now my college totally screwed me over by not telling me before hand that this certain class is not a traditional class, like it said when signing up for classes. So I was basically forced to take it. And by god it is a pain the the f*cking a*s. They say "oh it's at your own pace, don't worry" but in reality if you go at your own pace you're going to screw yourself over. It penalizes you if you get a question wrong by taking the point away and you have to do a other example. It's A LOT of work to do. Sure you have the freedom to do it at your house. Only if you have no social life. I was told by this so called "teacher" that I have to do Aleks 2 hours EVERY NIGHT. 7 days a week. Screw that. I tried, I seriously tried to work on Aleks 2 hours every night but it was too much! I'm planning on doing as much as I can before the semester ends, but I'm gonna drop it because luckily this class isn't worth anything on my transcript. All it did was cost a few hundred dollars. I think I'm just gonna have to get my extra lessons from Khan Academy. Aleks is the worst thing in existence. I wish colleges/university's would stay away from this bullsh*t program.

Hello my name is heinrich schilman and this website is very fine! Im part of hungarian international school in budapest and we use this website everyday for maths and Statistics. I dont understand why People say aleks is stupid n******r i dont think he is. I rate this 5/5 much better than pakistani sal Khan

Ever since day one, I found about as much use out of this site as a eunuch would a condom. It is simply obnoxious in the fact that it expects you to be a mathematician; it ends up becoming a case of if you are a mathematician you don't need the instruction that it offers, and if you're a student the explanations are so narrow and may omit important information due to the creators lack of foresight that they can become near useless which doesn't compliment the site's demand that you input your answer PERFECTLY, so in short, to quote Daniel Keem "ALEKS is a stupid n***er!"

It punishes you for making mistakes while rewarding those gifted at math. And you have a week to do anywhere from 70 to 100 lessons, which is basically the equivalent of 300+ problems considering each lesson is from 3 to 5 questions or more. And then there's the knowledge check which screws you over even more because if you miss a problem or two, they add even more problems and lessons for you to do that you may have already covered, adding insult to injury. If you manage your time appropriately, you can knock it out and catch up, but you would literally have to put aside everything else. Also it does the most obnoxious thing where if you get one wrong over and over again, it takes points from previous questions that you EARNED from answering the question. So say you're on question 4 out of 5, you could literally get number 4 wrong several times and that would be most of the points you already earned, and that would easily discourage most from wanting to finish, some learned better by using this program and for good reason, but at the same time its extremely tedious and stressful, and it already is a huge part of your grade.

Besides all of the whiny people complaining just because of the work, it's actually a bad site. You spend maybe a few minutes on a topic to learn it and then most people (like me) forget about it later, you do like 500 of these with knowledge checks every once in awhile which can be good or bad. They test you on what you learned, if you don't remember how to do the stuff (and you probably won't) it sends you way back. It's not a "good learning site" it's a chore. It's an add-on to the work students are already doing, it's just another assignment teachers can give to the students and it doesn't help in any way. I didn't even mention the countless number of bugs on the site but other reviews should tell you much about that. Someone please listen to this and take it into consideration. Thanks

The program is flawed it frequently switches the question after you submit and answer and therefore are wrong. Since its a computer program and single mistake in typing results in a 100% incorrect answer and therefore you can spend hours on a topic without making any progress even tho i understand the topic. When you dont understand the topic you probably should google it because aleks gives you crappy feedback and horrible explantions if you dont get it. It is designed for mathmeticians by mathmeticians for mathmeticians to be lazy. Therefore if you are going to struggle with the subject even a little it will only amplify and increase your frustrations without increasing learning. If you can find a way to get the credits without Aleks do iy!

Pathetic excuse for learning, massive work load, horrible explanations for problems, extremely flawed answer submission.
If you get this as a class DROP IT IMMEDIATELY

I absolutely hate aleks it gets so hard at the end of the year i want to kill myself using this website i want to kill this website kill it with fire

Honestly, its the worst website ever invented to use upon college students or any student in general. I never was bad at math but aleks just makes you feel like you're the most dumbest thing ever. If you make the simplest mistake, it doesn't care it will count it as wrong and not tell your mistake. It also has unexpected topics (homework) measurements, 102 topics x 3 per topic is 306 topics in total depending on the amount of topics you have to do, that is so unreasonable for a college student. Us students have other classes, work and it only gives you a week of work to do. You dont learn half the stuff or you forget half the stuff. Plus the time it gives in quizzes and test is unreasonable. Stupidest website ever, who ever invented this garbage, is an F****** A-hole.

As a freshman in college being forced to use ALEKS (for the first time ever) i've never hated math more. It's possibly the worst program for math ever created. I would rather be in a normal math class and use a normal textbook with normal paper tests and quizzes. The program literally makes you feel like you'really the stupidest person on the planet. I've always had a B or C average in my math classes, i've always somewhat struggled in math, but never like this. It has un-realistic requirements. Do your best to avoid ever having to deal with ALEKS.

If your teacher or school is forcing you to use this program, all I can say is sorry. You're going to have the most miserable time of your life trying to solve the BULL$#*! problems this website gives you. Honestly, this program has singlehandedly made me lose faith in today's education system. I rather do repetitive textbook problems than do one more ALEKS problem. Hell, I rather drag my balls through a mile of broken glass than do one more ALEKS problem. STAY AWAY!