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IXL Reviews Summary

IXL has a rating of 1.4 stars from 681 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 4076th among Education sites.

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North Dakota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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$#*! it. I just hate it. Every time you get something wrong, I mean, you guys get 10-5 points taken away. BUT ME, MY DAD BOUGHT IT, AND EVERY SINGLE TIME, I GET 20 POINTS TAKEN AWAY. KHAN ACADEMY IS BETTER.
Do not waste your time on this son of a b! T¢h.

Date of experience: December 4, 2020
Indiana
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Don't do it, at all. I have to cheat because they have to make the problem explanation so complicated. My teacher decides hmm, how about we teach them something then do IXL even though what I taught them is not in IXL AT ALL. She doesn't test it, she just gives it to us and runs.

Date of experience: December 2, 2020
New York
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Ixl makes kids mad.
November 30, 2020

If you get one question wrong it literally takes you back 10 points but if you get one question correct you get only one point. When I was at my friends house he was so mad and stressed because of this app and I saved him from breaking his laptop. I suggest you don't get this dumb app.

Date of experience: November 30, 2020
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Learning Website
November 29, 2020

The Real-time diagnostic is a great feature that helps students to know their weakness; however, it can be stressful for students. In my opinion, students can grow faster to gain an excellent result, but I would suggest using Beestar. It is another learning website that provides reasonable problems and worksheets each week to help students to gain more experience on study to build a great foundation to challenge other high level exercises.

Date of experience: November 28, 2020
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Its horrible
November 14, 2020

Ixl, well what can we say about it. Oh, its trash is one, and more and more and more
Teachers obviously haven't tried ixl, because they constantly assign it. The teachers are just to lazy to assign anything else that requires them to do effort. Also, it doesn't help believe it or not, because when you get one right in the 70's up, you get 1-4 points. Get one wrong, and you go down bout 10 points. You then have to do another 5 minutes of grind to get back to where you were. Im in 7th grade, and ixl makes me freaking depressed. I rage every afternoon when I get home from school. There is no limit of questions, there is no time limit, and the teachers could care less if I spent 2 hours or more on one ixl lesson, trying to get a better grade on it so I don't fail the class.

And I remember my class constantly asking my teacher if we could do something besides ixl, an he always says that he thinks that the punishing system of ixl is good. I hate him. I not only rage, and frick my chromebook, I also cry, and feel depressed, because every night I go to bed, knowing that I am gonna get more ixls the next day, and then I will have to do it all over again. What kind of teacher who gives a s*** about there students would use this app? Look at the reviews, the parent ones, and the student ones. 90% of them are 1 star. And yet teachers dont care. I hate ixl, I hate my homework, I hate studying, I would rather do anything else for homework than this crap. There is also no reward system in this crap education app. You get mastery over a skill, and you get a crappy achievement that you can do nothing with. When you get a question right, then you only get 1 point, knowing you just lost 10. And then you realize that your making zero progress. I would give nearly anything to get a hack for this website, or better yet, it going away. At this moment, 10 minutes ago I was doing ixl, and I am stuck at a 79 with a time spent on it of 2 hours and 30 minutes. I have to get a 100, and I ask the teacher for a time limit so I can stop at a certain point, but of course she says no. Damn this app. Damn it. I hate it so much, and its hell, and it makes me feel like a piece of $#*!.

Date of experience: November 14, 2020
Kentucky
1 review
33 helpful votes
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NOTHING about this helped me. I fear this is stunting my education as a whole, and preventing me from getting any smarter. It brings me so much stress, confuses me so much. I enjoy that there is a ¨Learn with an example¨ button. But when you answer one question, even if you get it wrong, you can not click it again. Even my parents struggle with this. This must be some alien way of teaching kids. Why do teachers use this god awful site? That is an excellent question. Why? If you look at the reviews, the average is 1.6 stars. Yet despite this, every single god forsaken school I see uses this site. This has to be some buisness trick. This is dirty. I literally have to decide between by grades or my sanity. I choose my sanity. You should choose yours.

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
Ohio
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I feel like they should lower the points they take away because when I do IXL when I get a question wrong the points get down by 5 or more normally it would not be a problem but when I get another question wrong it increaes by two I mean it will take a long time. I am not saying its bad but it is really stressful and I think they should lower the points they take away when I get wrong if you do that I will probally change my opinion

Date of experience: October 19, 2020
North Dakota
1 review
9 helpful votes
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DISGUSTING!
October 15, 2020

So, I am a 10 year old, and my dad makes me do IXL. He says that cartoons will waste my time, but I don't think that's true. But this thing is $30.00 a month! SCAMMERS!

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Kentucky
1 review
4 helpful votes
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When you want to cancel IXL after 30 days they will not give you your money back. So be aware. They will steal from you.

Date of experience: October 3, 2020
Ohio
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Don't use this unless you HAVE to. All it does is frustrate you, and the SmartScore system is even more corrupt! So if you have to use this in the future, your gonna know what absolute hell feels like. If you already use this, you know how the rest of us feel. This website is nothing but pathetic, useless, bull$#*!.

Date of experience: October 1, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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IXL is Dum
September 24, 2020

I was doing IXL and I knew I got my answers correct but DUM IXL said I got it wrong. Who had to pay for this trash I feel sorry for. Banned IXL!

Date of experience: September 24, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst thing ever
September 23, 2020

The print is so small that whenever you try to do a problem you can't read the numbers. Plus if you make a mistake it takes to the beginning. DO NOT GET THIS APP!

Date of experience: September 22, 2020
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is pure hell.
September 21, 2020

I actually hate IXL so much that I would say my teacher, "Can we please get other programs other than IXL?" and she would say, "No". I personally believe that IXL is pure [CENSORED] and [CENSORED] because of its corrupted Smart Score system. Khan Academy and others are so much better than this piece of [CENSORED]. I wonder who made IXL for. Did they make it hell on purpose? Or are they stupid and don't know how to make a good learning program? [CENSORED] this piece of [CENSORED]. I just hope the teachers who don't assign IXL because it is a piece of [CENSORED] are the teachers who don't want to make school hell for them. I want to [CENSORED] this learning program because it makes kids cry and their moms get angry at the teacher for making their lives horrible and making people smash their computers over IXL's mind-controlling Smart Score. Please, please stay away from this program. It is a very bad thing for kids that are young. Some people commited suicide over IXL. I salute the people who don't use this piece of [CENSORED].

Date of experience: September 21, 2020
Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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REFUND
September 7, 2020

I've tried to reach IXL for 2 days to get a refund and they have not reached back sense, I wasted $24 on this website. I got a 2 account membership reduced it to 1 that same day and the next day they said my member ship expired and I didn't even get my money back. LACK OF COMMUNICATION WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS IS A DEFINITE NO FOR ME.

Date of experience: September 7, 2020
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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How damb bad it is
September 1, 2020

It isss sooo damb bad becuse wene i get things right it markes it wrong wene i search thee awneser up it says what i put down this is bad so for bad servise it is one star... <(

Date of experience: September 1, 2020
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
Canada
1 review
114 helpful votes
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Have to do 5 skills a day before I get ANY screen time, this screen time is also taken from my singing lessons. This awful app made me cry and a skill takes like 1 hour to do if you're good at it. Doesn't teach you anything because it explains in the most confusing way possible! Please stay away unless you want your students or parents to hate you.

Date of experience: August 18, 2020
New York
1 review
50 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE
August 13, 2020

Horrible experience. Found numerous mistakes. They had a contest, accidentally deleted hundreds of our answers, admitted it, but said nothing they can do and refused to correct their data. Waste of money and time.

Date of experience: August 13, 2020
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This is child abuse
August 13, 2020

Ixl ishe WORST site. Ixl made me almost SMASH my laptop its a big waist of money, also theres a thing called smart score its sooo bad for example ur got 99 smartscore oops got one wrong, sorry ixl has to torture so we will put u down to 81 smartscore if u get one right you only get 2-3 smartscore it makes me lose confedince and feel negative but its to late if u kids get it because i tried telling my mom and my friends mom but they didnt believe me this is child abuse it made my friend cry buy ur kid a new bike not this rubbish it made me feel bad about my self its a waist of money i could do my homework and just relax ur only getting the to have a bad child if u didnt know i should stop writing because im supose to be doing my ixl

Date of experience: August 13, 2020
Indiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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ACK
August 11, 2020

THIS APP MAKES YOU RAGE QUIT LIKE HECK! I RATHER GO BACK TO SCHOOL THAN RAGE! NEVER USE THIS APP IT MAKES YOU RAGE

Date of experience: August 11, 2020