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IXL has a rating of 1.2 stars from 611 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 4375th among Education sites.

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Top Positive Review

“If you think IXL is bad than you've never done I-Ready.”

Ava K.
2/24/24

There are lots of reviews on here that have one or two stars but those are just kids who hate learning and don't know the Insufferable pain that is I-Ready. IXL has helped me a lot through middle school and to put how helpful IXL is into perspective I learned imaginary numbers in 7th grade. Please do not listen to all these whiny kids who don't like learning.

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Top Critical Review

“IXL is hurting the mental health of students using it.”

Airaz P.
8/30/24

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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Thumbnail of user airazp
Tennessee
1 review
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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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California
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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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Pennsylvania
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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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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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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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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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Hong Kong
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July 21st, 2024

The Grading system produces unfairness and is bias. To complete a stage, I would need to waste my energy on reading the text and answer the questions with pounds of headaches. For example: One day, I was doing all the right math calculations, I submit the correct numbers, but they marked it as wrong. To make matters worse, it was a GET 5 IN A ROW question. I kept inserting the correct digits but they kept implying that I am wrong. It was until the grading system said LAST CHANCE TO STAY IN STAGE 2 that I quiz doing the courses.

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Canada
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August 28th, 2024

I am a 5th grader, and my mom forces me to do IXL and when I get the fu*king question right, I get like 1-3 fu*king points; when I don't do it correctly, it takes away 5-9 points. What the FU*K!

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Missouri
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2 helpful votes
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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 $#*!.

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California
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May 28th, 2024

This app causes anxiety. I am a student and have used ixl as a required part of school curriculum since 3rd grade. It absolutely sucks $#*!. It causes low self esteem and depression with the smart score, and all of my classmates agree categorically that this app should be shut down.

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I think it would've been helpful if there was a way to inform everyone that this app is terrible and to get them to ignore the good reviews.

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May 16th, 2024

The point system is rigged, when you get one wrong it doesn't tell you good enough how to get it right and if you get a lot of questions wrong, they start repeating and it doesn't even feel good when you finally finish it, because most of the time you don't even get any awards, which by the way, they are awful too. But even though IXL is awful, schools still use it for some ungodly reason.
-IXL, ruining childhoods since forever

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Thumbnail of user marcusg295
Virginia
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May 20th, 2024

Its a target in school to help build up missing assighnments. You have to answer an unnecessary amount of questions. If you get one wrong its brings you down a lot and farther than the score most teachers allow (80 or 90). Ixl produces a huge amount of stress for students. My freinds therapist even said there should be a better option instead of ixl.(a liscensed therapist) Ixl should give up on there website and just delete it. Most of the people that work there are to old to be helping in some way to stress out kids.

Thumbnail of user mibreshears
Missouri
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May 21st, 2024

IXL is stupid! It does not knew how to round i put in the right answer it would say it was rong! Also it ALWAYS makes me (as a kid) radge quit! Over all IXL is $#*!ing bull crap!

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New Jersey
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May 3rd, 2024

I think that IXL is really really REALLY dumb. I think this because I am in first grade, and I did the diagnostic. I got into 12 grade math, but they were still giving me volume as a recommendation. Also, when you get a problem wrong, the entire program just crashes, and when I sign back in, I lose 30 points. Lastly, I also think that ixl is dumb because I have severe depresion because of it, and im only in first grade.

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USE IREADY GUYS ITS DEFINITELY BETTER>

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Alabama
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May 8th, 2024

The system only half-works,and is wrong most of the time. The challenge zone is more challenging than most hardcore puzzle games at times, even for the Elementary school levels.

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Thumbnail of user jonathanm1852
Maine
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May 22nd, 2024

Vary not fun I get vary mad when I cant login and not help full In real life and it is a good torchor devise.

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Illinois
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April 4th, 2024

Terrible, I hate this app so much. It helps you with nothing in life AT ALL like don't even try it out. I mean not good who ever decided on making this wasn't thinking right at all like you can tell this is a no brainier. I am a VERY Christian mom and me myself couldn't handle it. One day my 2 beautiful, amazing, majestic, talented, golden children needed help and I had tried to but couldn't. I mean it got to the point I had to go on Facebook and make a post about this nonsense. Unbelievable ban this app ASAP.

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Texas
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May 9th, 2024

Horrible garbage. Destroys your mental health. One smartscore point for a correct question and if yu get it wrong you lose about 20. Bull

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Louisiana
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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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Virginia
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February 24th, 2024
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There are lots of reviews on here that have one or two stars but those are just kids who hate learning and don't know the Insufferable pain that is I-Ready. IXL has helped me a lot through middle school and to put how helpful IXL is into perspective I learned imaginary numbers in 7th grade. Please do not listen to all these whiny kids who don't like learning.

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I actually used my brain on IXL unlike I-Ready.

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IXL is SOOO much better than I-Ready
January 13th, 2024
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Unlike I-ready I actually learn things on IXL. (But unfortunately, my dumb school canceled their subscription to IXL) And also unlike I-ready I get to pick what I want to learn. On I-Ready I have to learn stuff I already know but on IXL if 7th grade math is too easy (Which it is) I can go up to Math 2 at will. Go to https://www.change.org/p/ban-i-ready-from-schools to help destroy the useless, free time extinguisher that is I-ready.

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BURN IN HELL I-READY
(pls renew the IXL subscription Cardinal Charter Academy)

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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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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.

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$#*! IXL DONT USE IT $#*! YOU $#*! YOU AAAA

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