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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 4372nd 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 lexir32
North Carolina
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January 6th, 2022

The point system goes up by 3 or 4 points when you get it right but when you get it wrong it takes you down 15-20 points Ixl is rigged and it gives me a lot of stress

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DONt USE IXL!!!

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Florida
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March 25th, 2023

I have ended falling under immense stress and ended up failing a quarter 3 of my algebra 1 class because i couldnt get pass the 90 mark because i would get 99 out of 100 get 1 wrong them drop to 88 or sometimes 80 LIKE WHAT.IT sucks and im having to work my $#*! OFF and my teacher likes to be $#*! ABOUT IT AND I CANT STRESS ENOUGH IM TIRED OF IT MY CONFIDENCE IS LOW AND SEEM TO BRING MYSELF TO DO ANYTHING ANYMORE I DONT WANT TO DO IT I JUST WANT TO PASS MY ALGEBRA 1 CLASS but i barely hanging on and my teacher just gives me 0s whenever i dont finish it even if i get 80 out of 100 or 90 out of 100.For all kids if your teachers uses this website dont be scared to switch out of that class or go to a different school if you were changing schools anyway.

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Don't use this site!!

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Thumbnail of user 28cmcgoey
Louisiana
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January 24th, 2024

If you get one question wrong when you're about to finish, it will take away almost half of your score and you will have to do it all over again.

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Maryland
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July 18th, 2020

THIS WEBSITE MAKES YOU GO THROUGH HELL AND BACK! ONE SESSION OF THAT AND YOUR SHIRST WILL BE DAMP WITH THE AMOUNT OF TEARS YOU WILL LET OUT! NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IF YOU MESS UP ONCE YOU GABILLION POINTS AND TRUST ME YOU WILL CRY! CRY CRY CRY AND CRY! ITS A WASTE OF TIME AND A PIECE OF CRAP! YOU WILL BUST YOUR BUTT JUST TRYING TO GET ONE ANSWER RIGHT! THIS WEBSITE IS A ABSOLUTE $#! T AND CAN GO DIE IN A HOLE FOR ALL I CARE! WHO EVER MADE THIS IS THE DEVIL HIM OR HER SELF!

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Texas
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November 16th, 2023

My family was living happily till my daughter came across Ixl I thought it was normal till she got abducted by Ixl's alien agents and I haven't seen my little sence
Then my son found Ixl and he got abducted by Ixl and now all he wants to do is Ixl so I threw my dad at him so he stopped playing but now I'm abducted by it

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Viet Nam
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September 4th, 2021

Because of your hardcore of the work, you have waste my time with family, I missed my little brother celebration. It give me more and more stress for your waste of time!

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October 7th, 2023

Hey yall wassup. Its Jeffery from Alabama. (68-year-old male) My cousin divorced me last week and now I'm left homeless and living in the ghetto. Unfortunately, I do not have the funds or money to send my child Telemachus to public school, but somehow, I have an iPhone 15 to give him IXL on (Yes, I feed him). Every day I force him to get off his lazy a#$ and do the different variations of the quizzes in this app, and it's going great! Telemachus's mental health is deteriorating, but that's alright. As long as he knows how to solve for x. He is continuously learning how to say new words while practicing IXL, like f%$#*, b!tc$,@4s, and p*$$#. I'm so proud of him! The only complaint I have is that whenever I get my phone back to go on t!nder, there are always new cracks and punch marks on it, but I'm sure it's just a glitch! Telemachus lets out shrieks of joy similar to a hyena whenever he loses points! I'm so glad to see him having fun while learning.
Overall, IXL is a great app! 10/10 recommend if you are a homeless, 68-year-old man living in Alabama.
(Please don't cancel me.)

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Live, Laugh, Love, IXL.

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Illinois
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July 28th, 2021

Ixl is RIGGED and it is a SCAM DO NOT GET! Trust me it is not worth it! I am student and I went on the website so I did not buy this $80 thing. This is just my honest opinion and I also do not believe this makes kids smarter, It just causes stress to kids!

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DO NOT BUY OR GET

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New Zealand
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November 6th, 2022

This website sucks more than a website made by a four-year-old child. This website keeps me awake at night hoping to god i don't get assigned any more work.

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DON'T EVER USE THIS SITE

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New York
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May 1st, 2023

I would go on IXL for homework and IT WOULD SUCK! LIke, I would go on IXL to study and I would get Instant Depression. Also IXL IS RIGGED! THIS SORRY EXCUSE OF AN ¨EDUCATIONAL APP¨ IS TRASH. SPARE YOUR HAPPINESS AND DON'T GET THIS APP

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Louisiana
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January 5th, 2022

Ixl is ubfair because it takes away ur free time and its not like it is just a one minute thing, I mean it can be but if you get one wrong it goes down sm and then when u get it right its barley any.

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Indonesia
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May 25th, 2023

There isn't just smartscore. Oh no people. There are skills that FORCE you to get 4/5 correct IN THREE ROUNDS IN A ROW and worse, skills that FORCE you to get 5 correct in a row THREE ROUNDS IN A ROW and in that in a row there are parts where they send you back to the previous round if you get it wrong and it can't get worse right? WRONG i follow the directions, and BOOM it tells me i'm wrong so in summary IT'S BAD

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Thumbnail of user ixlbadr
Texas
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December 7th, 2021

Ixl is bad I hate the site it sometimes says that you got it wrong sometimes when it admits that it said you answer wrong other times it will make the "correct answer" completely incorrect

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South Carolina
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November 16th, 2021

I spent 16 hours on one thing and finished it a day later i started it on 11/9/21 and it didn't help still and i still failed the test wouldn't $#*!ing try it.

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go to hell ixl

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California
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June 28th, 2023

It is so boring and half the questions are so hard if you get 1 question wrong it takes you back 10 points and if you get 1 question right it only gives you one

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Thumbnail of user tinas271
Virginia
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December 16th, 2018

I hate this website so much. When you get something right you get one point. When you get one wrong you loose like 10 points... it just causes to much stress it makes me flip..

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South Dakota
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March 2nd, 2021

Its not worth 79 Bucks. The testimonals are fake. They give u five points each question and take away ten points. And if u would like students not to hate u? DONT GET IT

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dont get it. just dont.

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Thumbnail of user hamzaj13
Egypt
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January 11th, 2022

Ixl is a learning website but in my opinon ixl is a false advertiment its not even ready to be uploaded their is bugs and wrong answers and makes answer up and ruines kids enjoiment and causing depression and myself cant deal with their nonsense and the supscription is bull so if you are seeing this please contact ixl and let the clan begain

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Thumbnail of user jaydeno14
Texas
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March 27th, 2023

I do not recommend IXL because, its smartscore system is trash, it takes away a ton of points when you get 1 question wrong and it makes it so hard for its users.

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Florida
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March 3rd, 2022

IXL has managed to be so incredibly bad that it causes tears, broken devices, and in some cases can help with fuel depression. They also manage to steal time and sleep from kids and money their parents and schools. IXL doesn't help with anything except make kids hate school even more. IXL has caused me to stay up very late doing homework which is not good and IXL creators know this (picture below with proof) yet they make it incredibly hard to progress. When you reach the nineties range the questions become harder and you gain 2 points for each correct answer and lose 7 for each wrong answer, they even intentualy made the point loss 7 and not 6 so that if you made it to 98 (one away from finishing) and got one wrong, you would go to 91, after you brought yourself up you would be at 99 which means that because you lost 7 and not 6 you would have to do one extra question to get to 100, which means one more chance you have of going 7 back and raging. I checked my stats on IXL and I've spent 46 hours in the past 30 days on IXL, almost 2 whole days, meaning in 2 years I would spend about a month doing IXL. So in conclusion IXL is evil, they know they're evil, and they waste away kid's lives.

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Missouri
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November 15th, 2022

One time, I was practicing IXL on my chrome book, and I was at 70%, then, I got 1 question wrong, and it brought me back to 64%, and then, I got a question right, and the smart score went up 2%! I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT

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Florida
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November 16th, 2023

IXL IS SO BAD BEACUSE IT MAKES ME CRY GET ANGRY AND GRUMPY so i will probably need therapy AND I HAVE TO SAY UP LATE JUST TO FINISH ONE LESSON AND YOU KNOW WHATS WORSE U HAVE TO IXLS ONE FOR HOME AND SCHOOL BOTH MAKE ME RAGE AND HIT MY COMPUTER moral of the story: NEVER USE IXL EVEN IF YOU WILL GET AN FFFFFFF

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California
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November 1st, 2021

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Florida
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February 17th, 2023

Okay, so im a 5th grader with bad grades, with 60%'s and below. And my grandparents force me to go to this webstie or sort. It's very hard and made me cry a few times. My teacher knows that i use IXL since my grandma told my teacher that, but the point is what im making is IXL is an SCAM! And can make your kids cry or such. If your an parent and reading this, DO.NOT.BUY.IXL! And when i use IXL, it didnt boost my grade. I hate this website. (background:i used IXL since 2nd grade, and it made me angry and sad alot of times, i used to be an A+ stundent not because of IXL its because of my father. But now im stuck with this IXL webstie for everday to use.)

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P.S: If you want to buy this for your kids, please dont its only gonna cause anger and sadness.

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Thumbnail of user personali25
Texas
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February 6th, 2024

The idea is, you get a question you get it right +____ points wrong -____ points, but as you continue you lose more points, and gain less points.

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