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IXL has a rating of 1.2 stars from 620 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about IXL most frequently mention smart score, point system, and challenge zone problems. IXL ranks 4078th among Education sites.

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Top Positive Review

“It's not SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad”

SLAY Q.
5/27/23

I understand peoples pain! Boy! It huts so much when the smart score goes down. But it teaches you a lot. Many people are so over dramatic. I use it quite often!* Thanks to ixl i did get a very good score in my test. But if i use it for to long it can get depressing...I struggle with maths and my class never lets me learn english (trouble maker) But still it teaches me a lot...Hopefully this show that it is not bad but not amazing<3 *not in an npc by the way

Date of experience: 5/25/23
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Top Critical Review

“Punishes mistakes harshly and costs money”

no o.
12/18/24

So at the start of this year my school got IXL. I heard they paid money for this horrible program. We're required to do 30 minutes per week at my school, which isn't bad but that's not the point. It punishes mistakes very harshly the better you do. Earlier today I was doing something about stuff in ads and I literally forgot what the 3 options and how they work are now, and I got into the "challenge zone" and then made a few mistakes and my smart score dropped drastically, this would continue for a good while until i got so frustrated that I spent almost ~20 minutes on a single IXL, and my puberty brain lashed out and purposely made mistakes until the smart score was at 0, then I exited out of IXL and my mood was absolutely obliterated. I can't imagine, this costed money, im not sure how much, but if you're considering getting IXL for your school or self, don't, I'll save you the money and frustration.

Date of experience: 12/18/24
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Thumbnail of user noo101
Massachusetts
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December 18th, 2024

So at the start of this year my school got IXL. I heard they paid money for this horrible program. We're required to do 30 minutes per week at my school, which isn't bad but that's not the point. It punishes mistakes very harshly the better you do. Earlier today I was doing something about stuff in ads and I literally forgot what the 3 options and how they work are now, and I got into the "challenge zone" and then made a few mistakes and my smart score dropped drastically, this would continue for a good while until i got so frustrated that I spent almost ~20 minutes on a single IXL, and my puberty brain lashed out and purposely made mistakes until the smart score was at 0, then I exited out of IXL and my mood was absolutely obliterated. I can't imagine, this costed money, im not sure how much, but if you're considering getting IXL for your school or self, don't, I'll save you the money and frustration.

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Math 7th Grade, ELA 7th Grade

Date of experience: December 18, 2024

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Florida
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November 24th, 2024

Its so frustrating to have to do IXL inside and outside school, its so time consuming and basically useless. The only thing IXL has ever taught me is how to cheat better. Second,It makes no sense! Not just the material there teaching you its the overall website. When you get a question right or wrong it will give/take away points.But the part that I have the most problems with is why it takes away more points then it gives points,and i would spend hours trying to complete a skill. It's honestly just a big waste of time for everyone.

Date of experience: November 24, 2024

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Minnesota
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December 2nd, 2024

Who ever created IXL is the most $#*!ed f#ck on the planet ever. They are a piece of Sh!t like there company. They are an absolute B!cth. They should ban it all around the world or I will jump of a bridge

Date of experience: December 2, 2024

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Missouri
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December 6th, 2024

I have spent over an hour today on my homework on this, I am doing math IXL 8th grade L.2 L.4. I have lost many points because I forgot to put a variable in the answer but more than that, when I do get it wrong, It always tries to show how I was in the wrong but it does not ACTUALLY tell you why you got it wrong it just tells you the correct answer to said problem

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Date of experience: December 6, 2024

Thumbnail of user afarrukhi
Washington
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December 24th, 2024

IXL IS JUST A PIECE OF JUNK AND NOBODY IN MYT SCHOOL LIKES IXL BECAUSE THE SCORE SYSTEM IS RIGGED!😭😤 IT DOES NOT HELP ME LEARN IT GIVES ME STRESS AND DEPRESSION AND TO MAKE IT WORSE WE HAVE AN IXL COMP! IXL SHOULD BE BANNED FOREVER. IT BRING YOU 3 UP AND LIKE 5 TO 10 DOWN LIKE... SRSLY IXL?!

Date of experience: September 12, 2020

Thumbnail of user michaelb17827
California
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December 12th, 2024

Ixl is bad! All the time, when you get it wrong it pulls you down! On 90, if you get to 97, it will pull you like 20 points off. Ixl is bad for your mental health.

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I hate IXL!

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Date of experience: December 12, 2024

Thumbnail of user evanm554
California
1 review
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October 28th, 2024

I am a student and who is forced to do IXL for school assignments. Luckily enough, I did not need to buy a subscription for this app, the school has me covered. Frequently I throw down the keyboard because I got one question wrong and it set me back five questions. Sometimes I sit for thirty minutes and I still did not get a score of eighty required by my teachers. I am no slacker in math, even though I am still in seventh grade I do eighth grade level assignments.

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SO STUPID

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Math, science.

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Date of experience: October 28, 2024

Thumbnail of user michaels13838
Pennsylvania
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October 21st, 2024

Worst thing ever it's bad, its unfair, get one wrong and your at like -27 (hyperbole) its just bad don't use it, it will destroy your students mental health and pysical health is some cases, it also makes you forget everything directly after because how boring in this. Please schools don't use this

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horable

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Date of experience: October 21, 2024

Thumbnail of user ksrs1
New Jersey
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December 3rd, 2024

They dont put some point when my son answers the questions. And he gets one part correct. So please add some better stuff

Date of experience: December 3, 2024

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Michigan
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November 4th, 2024

This is so bad like it just is the worst ever the Ixl ceo took my family hostage set them on fire and touched them just because I don't know what 3x-4=8 bruh like if I ever find the creator in hell I will set his balls on fire and beat him over the head with a golf club from china

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Ixl blows pp

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Ixl sucks

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Date of experience: November 4, 2024

Thumbnail of user sareefathulrafia
Texas
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December 9th, 2024

IXL is bad because kids have to learn so much if you get combo pack you might have to do 4 everyday or 1 or 6 and if you get the core pack 2,4,6,8.

Date of experience: November 6, 2024

Thumbnail of user ericak354
Florida
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November 2nd, 2024

This is app will only make you mad, depressed, stressed, and make you cry.
First, I'd like to say how bad the scoring system is, when you get a question right you earn about 8-18 points and get deducted about 6-10 points, but once you get up to 80 it starts deducting 10's and 18's and when you get to 90 you only gain 2 points and lose 15-20 points.
Second, I'd also like to talk about what happens when you get a question wrong. When you get a question wrong it tells you why you got it wrong and gives a very long wordy explanation, which is sometimes very confusing and no help at all.
When your doing it for extended periods of time all it does is just make you mad and cry.
And for science it's even worse, if you get a single, SINGLE question wrong it resets all your progress, and if you keep getting it wrong you'll get moved back to the previous stage. I had a experience with that, I was stuck on it for a entire hour and answered over +400 questions, and when I finished, what was I rewarded with? A sticker for my profile and even longer and harder work. Please do not use this app it will turn you into a whole different person.

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Never use

Date of experience: November 2, 2024

Thumbnail of user cherishlee30
Florida
3 reviews
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December 23rd, 2024

This app has literally made me cry multiple times. Please schools, don't ever use this "learning" app. First, The scoring system is terrible and rigged. Why? First, When you get ONE question wrong, your score gets deducted by 10-20 points, but when you actually do get one right, you get 2-4 added to your score. This is just unfair tbh. Once, I stayed up until 3 AM just on a few IXL lessons. Plus, this doesn't even help me at all, and it's incredibly boring. This shouldn't even be considered as a "learning app." I think that this is just as bad as I-Ready. Although there are explanations, they don't help, as they are too long to read at 3am, and sometimes aren't even related to the question. It usually takes me at least an hour to complete a single one. My entire class despises this "learning" app. It's also so overwhelming because they usually assign 3+ of these, usually more. They take at least about an hour each. When I was in 1st grade, I literally broke the tablet screen because of this app. Next the "ReWaRdS!"... I hate that they are called this. NOTHING is more rewarding then a digital picture or sticker, am I right? Also, the explanations sometimes don't even make sense or don't even help a TINY bit. I don't understand why teachers love it so much, even if it clearly doesn't help at all, but what I think is that IXL is simply an excuse for teachers to not have to manually print paper, assign it, and then grade it. My teachers already assign enough homework, but now I have to deal with this every week? None of their subjects are even mildly interesting and it just stresses kids out. I've seen multiple kids throw their devices and rage over a wannabe "learning" app. Teachers, if you wanna see your students cry and throw their devices, this is PERFECT FOR YOU! Otherwise, stay far away.

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Teachers and students, PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP.

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Date of experience: December 23, 2024

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South Dakota
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November 19th, 2024

You shouldn't have to go back if you get a question wrong. It also makes it go up slower and slower as you get more correct. Absurd.

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Date of experience: November 19, 2024

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Florida
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September 28th, 2024

In my elementary school I was assigned to do IXL. Those were the worst days of my life! Literally! I hate it! I broke my iPad because of it. If you're a parent, never download IXL! It so hard and it take all of my sainity to do one skill. IXL is an app that i want to stab a knife through.

Date of experience: September 28, 2024

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Missouri
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November 13th, 2024

IXL sacrificed me to the devil and then left my dead, naked body in a diddy party. I was forced to watch Diddy and Drake molest my dead body in the diddy freak offs for hours and hours. After this, I was resurrected with severe pain in my butt and it hurt a lot because of drakes big long meat. After I got resurrected, my mom made me go to school because she says I cant miss a day. When I got to school, I found out that I'd missed out on 17 hours worth of IXL that my teacher said was due by 3:00 PM yesterday. When she asked me if I'd done it, I said no and then my whole class laughed at me and dumped the class trash can on me. After that, I smelled so bad that people stopped talking to me for a week straight. When I tried to talk to my friend after that, he acted like he didn't know me and called the rest of the school to beat the $#*! out of me. After they broke all of the bones and ligaments in my body, they took potato peelers and skinned me alive, then poured a tub of salt on me. After all of this abuse, I ended up crying a singular tear which made them notice that I had felt pain. They got so mad at this that they burned my corpse alive and then called Diddy back onto me, who brought his whole gang of Freaksters and bodyguards to kill and molest me at the same time. The bodyguards shot me into swiss cheese with shotguns and AR-15s while his freaksters touched me. They then threw me into wet concrete, and my body would then become trapped in a sidewalk. They then $#*! all over the part of the sidewalk that my body was trapped in, and then proceeded to bring all of my family members and send them into outer space one by one, while my consciousness still remained, trapped in the street, forcing me to listen to this happen. When I finally died inside of that sidewalk, I went to hell, because IXL sold my soul, and I was forced to do thousands of IXL problems for the rest of eternity while never getting the satisfaction of completing a lesson.

Tip for consumers:
$#*! IXL DONT USE IT $#*! YOU $#*! YOU AAAA

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Date of experience: November 13, 2024

Thumbnail of user airazp
Tennessee
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August 30th, 2024

IXL would have been great but, it makes no effort to actually improve the students that are using it. Unlike Khan Academy it does not have real time help options and a lot of time the explanations do not make sense. It has an extremely harsh points system that only gives about 3-4 points for correctness but takes close to 6 for a question input wrong. I have seen students have nearly 200 questions answered 2+ hours of time trying to pass and still give up at an 80. IXL causes more harm than good and has negative effects on the mental health of students. The image shown shows how long it took for a student to get to a 100 on their IXL through all 6 sessions

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Date of experience: August 30, 2024

Thumbnail of user ixlistrashi
Canada
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September 22nd, 2024

I regret letting my parents download IXL for me and my brother to use as a learning tool. It's a complete waste of time and money. IXL is an anxiety/stress jail. Once you step in, you can't go out without throwing your device ACROSS THE ROOM. Sadly, I can't take my angry on IXL personally, so this review is basically summarizing WHY I AM ANGRY. Today when I was using IXL, I got a question wrong. Whenever you get a question incorrectly, it decreases by a HUGE AMOUNT. And whenever I get a question correctly, it increases a little bit. This is unfair and stupid. IXL needs to do better. IXL sucks. It's a waste of time and money. Don't bother mention this to your parents, they might download this painful, idiotic app. I RECOMMEND YOU NOT TO GET THIS FRICKING USELESS APP.

Date of experience: September 22, 2024

Thumbnail of user venez.cameron
Missouri
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September 30th, 2024

THIS $#*!ING IXL TOOK SIX POINTS OF MY CHILD"S GRADE THIS $#*!ING LEARNING COMPANY BETTER FIX IT OR I WILL SHUT THIS COMPANY DOWN SO YOU BETTER FIX.YOU $#*!ING $#*! YOU HEAR ME.

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IXL is a $#*!ING $#*!.

Date of experience: September 30, 2024

Thumbnail of user aidanl53
California
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September 12th, 2024

I'm a 6th grader and I have this for homework all day every time I always think it is rigged and it is because they always make it hard for us in 82-100 in our smart score IXL I$#*!ing hate you and this should never exist

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Date of experience: September 12, 2024

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California
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August 14th, 2024

Ive been forced to use this site since third grade and its absolute $#*!. The smartscores are unfair, some of the questions awnsers are wrong, and its a stress factory! AT ALL COSTS, STAY AWAY FROM IXL!

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the reading and math portions, its $#*!

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Date of experience: August 14, 2024

Thumbnail of user corbincat2000
North Carolina
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October 10th, 2023

IXL works fine as a PRACTICE platform. IXL does it's job, except when teachers have the ability to assign multiple extremely easily. I do find the Smart Score function to be quite interesting on paper, but rather ends up being a nuisance. A suggestion is to add checkpoints to prevent someone from losing all their progress from not getting enough sleep. Other than that the platform is more than mid, it does the job. Thanks for reading my review!

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Entirely Online education service student side.

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Date of experience: October 9, 2023

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Louisiana
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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February 7th, 2024

OK, I'm gonna be honest, this site would not be so GODAWFUL if they changed the question format and gave us a 'Dark mode' setting. I mean, you're gonna see the same damn question like 400 times if you get it wrong ONCE. And there is no setting for disabled people like a line reader or anything. Only a stupid little piece of sh*t they call the 'Drawing tool.' I mean, come on. No one actually uses that except when they're bored of being on IXL, which is a little ironic. So, some tips: don't use. Boring as watching paint f*cking dry.

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Don't use. It's boring as f*ck.

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Well, really only the drawing tool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Date of experience: February 7, 2024

Thumbnail of user stlbaldridge1
Pennsylvania
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April 27th, 2023

Ixl needs more improvements the worst thing to do when you do ixl is when your smart score goes down. Sometimes my teacher asks why I take so long to do this ixl and I say it's because of the smart score
But they don't believe me. But overall it's a nice app to use am happy that we don't have to get homework anymore and thank you for reading this.

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Date of experience: April 26, 2023

Thumbnail of user asaanb1
Mississippi
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January 25th, 2023

I guess it is ok, it barely grasps on the learning side tho, yes you learn some that's the entire point of the website but it doesn't grasp on learning on the fun bit it was created for children to have fun while learning and they have overly terrible on that, wouldn't recommend to your child unless they wanna just learn basic things.

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It is extremely boring.

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Date of experience: January 25, 2023

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