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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 marleyw13
Louisiana
1 review
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December 6th, 2022

THIS DOES NOT BENEFIT TO MY EDUCATION LETS BAN SO WE DON'T GET MIS INFO. IT LEAD MY 18 YEAR OLD create a eating disorder they have to go therapy 6 times a week. DO you need your child to go through the things my child went through! LET'S REBEL!

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Maryland
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February 16th, 2022

It causes WAY to much stress and for an example, I got one correct it went up by 2. But if I got one wrong, it takes me at least 5 or 7 down. IXL should most defiantly be banned!

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Florida
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October 24th, 2023

I hate it I have spent over 150 hours on it and 12,000 questions. It's the worst way to learn I think it straight tortured. I could use the 150 hour to go on a $#*!ing Vacation. It turn me green.

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Alabama
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December 15th, 2020

This is the worst online learning program ever and there isn't much else to say about it this app is so bad. Also who ever says that it is amazing you need your brain checked for damage!

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Texas
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July 1st, 2023

The exercises in IXL do not help my child learn anything new. They even give the wrong answers to the questions we searched up together. I do not recommend this site at all.

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Tennessee
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November 16th, 2021

As a student and son, I was failing, A's and B's drop to C's and D's so my dad hooks me up with IXL, I tried a few questions and started crying, i was trying my best but it kicked me down to the ground, negating points by ten and increasing the time it took to even complete the singular lesson, the worst part was my father kept stacking more lessons on me, making me do more and more. Honestly if I could, I would give it a quarter of a star.

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Texas
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August 21st, 2023

You have to do all this work and then the unfair point system takes it all away! For some reason, teachers love it, but I haven't learned a single thing from it but to expect disappointment.

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Maryland
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May 28th, 2020

When it says incomplete answer and you accidentally don't add the zero, they count it against you. No chance to go back and fix without score going down.

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Canada
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October 25th, 2023

The reason it is so bad is because it stresses students and makes them angry and can cause sadness anger and it eats all the ram on your computer. Dont recommend no school board should use this

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California
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October 24th, 2022

You ruined my life, i dont think ive cried this much over school. I hate evrything about it. I want to rott. I see ixl on my homework and ill i think is how bad i want to rott and die. Im extremmly depressed. Delete this neow

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Virginia
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March 5th, 2021

Oh god, where can I even begin with this website. If you get the first question right it gives you 10 points, then 9, and it keeps going until you get 2 points for each question, so it is impossible to get to 100 points in under a hour. It also removes 10 points for very incorrect answer. So in a way, it actually punishes you for getting right answers. And in return the only thing you get is a picture of a dragonfly and a sense of accomplishment. It is also very expensive, like, 200 bucks a year expensive. If you are a teacher reading this, HAVE YOUR KIDS DO KHAN ACADAMY INSTEAD. Khan academy is free and actually good.

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New Jersey
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August 24th, 2022

I will tell reasons why i hate this stupid ahh program.
1. Rigged and f****** up smart score. Who would come up with this dumb idea to add this s***?
2. Overpriced as f*****
3. Kids getting tortured. The more they get it wrong, the sooner they throw their laptop and send their butts to the principals office and get punished by your parents and make them pay for it.
4. It takes forever to get these done.
DISHONORABLE MENTIONS

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IT
IS
BECOME
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RIGGED SITE
WITH
F******
UP
VISUALS
AND
MORE!
I would like to speak to the owner...
Pretty please.
SO I CAN KILL HIM FOR LIFE FOR CREATING THIS F****** UP WEBSITE

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California
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May 25th, 2021

IXL is not good because it stresses me out and it is super boring. It takes me 40 minutes to get 10 minutes. Do not waste your money on this terrible app.

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Texas
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March 12th, 2021

Ixl is the worst website for learning the rigged answer system and you lose way too much points and on science you have to answer correctly in a row and i absolutely despise this website/app

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New Jersey
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May 7th, 2022

SO ENTITLED!

Ixl acts like an entitled Karen
When we answer a question incorrectly. The score drops by 6-10+ even if we make the slightest littlest mistake which is WAY! TOO MUCH! AND UTTERLY UNFAIR. It would be better if the score dropped by 2-6 or less and it only increased by 2-5 or more. The explanation barely explains how to get the correct answer. IT TAKES FOREVER TO GET TO 100! Ixl jump off a cliff. SUCH AN ENTITLED KAREN NO ONE LIKES YOU. Hope this website takes TAKEN DOWN for eternity till the sun explodes and the moon and sun collide with each other. This math practice site can burn in a fire and hope it gets taken till the end of the era and the sun disappears. Ughh this site is so outrageously, utterly, ridiculously, catastrophically devastating making students want to cry with extreme amounts of inflaming rage with tons of salt. I have never seen an entitled math website in my life. Good riddance and grief it's so depressing.

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California
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6 helpful votes
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April 10th, 2021

This progam sux. It F8cking sux. The sign in system sux, the explaining sux. The skills are too much and its expensive. Do Khan Academy. Its free and easy to do. The videos teach us more and it wont make us cry. I had to skip my tennis class for this sh7tty program. Takes me 1 hour and 30 minutes to do 1 skill. My mom forces me to do this and it pressures me SO MUCH. Please delete and ban this F*cking sh*itty program. We're all to cool for it

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Michigan
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January 19th, 2022

This is terrible. You get one right towards the end and it only goes up like 2. When you get one wrong it brings you down by atleast 7 or 8. It's STUPID. Also, really big waste of time.

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Louisiana
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March 2nd, 2023

IXL sucks, No other words it's sucks it's bad for mental health I have spent (at the time of this review) 61 Hours and 53 Minutes and answered 7,163 Questions it sucks and needs to be banned from the US School system and any other country that certifies this "Learning site" and it also is bad for children's mental health (In 8th Grade in the time of this review) Overall it's bad, deserves to be banned and I would go back in time and find the owner and change history if I could.

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Don't use this or Moby Max don't use it!

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Florida
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January 9th, 2023
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I am a student and I hate it and I spend it is 17 hours. You could never get any question right? My friends are saying that this is $#*!ed and Rigged

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Connecticut
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October 19th, 2022

The smart score system in infuriating, if you ara at a high level a singe question will know you down by about 20! Making you have to do atleast two extra problems and now the stress of having to do more work sets in and you make more mistakes! SCHOOLS.

STOP
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Wyoming
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September 11th, 2023

Can't even stand the word ixl it's not a good website for children to learn and grow. Most of the "lessons" don't even relate to what the kids are learning.

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Kentucky
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April 18th, 2023

All of the questions are repetitive. There is a point system IXL uses that is called SmartScore. When you get a question correct, your SmartScore goes up by a number determined by how many questions you have answered. Ex: I have done 1 question so the score will go up by 9. I have done 4 question so the score will go up by 5. When you get a question wrong, the score goes down by A LOT. If you went up by 3, you will go DOWN by SIXTEEN. All of my friends hate it and get extremely stressed by it. DO NOT RECOMEND

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Connecticut
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May 7th, 2021

Are teacher gives us over 20 skills like bruh and she thinks that were gonna do all them when only 1 did like are like are teachers stupid or something like its so freaking stressful you learn nothing and like the teacher tells us to go on the computer for stupid IXL then i don't even do it cause it so freaking annoying to do. Also, we have to do it for summer work like b- your dumb like they say "yOu shOuld dO iT iNsTeaD oF nOt dOinG iT" obviously i dont do it just tell your kids that we should take a test if you like ixl or not and some people in my class last year loved IXL like they're dumb anyways IXL go sit in a hole of mud and rethink about your life decision - ps ur local hater :)

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New York
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4 helpful votes
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March 25th, 2022

I AM NOT LYING IXL HAS SO MANY QUESTIONS INCORRECT IXL MORE LIKE NO XL IXL NEEDS TO BE BANNED IT IS FRUSTRATING AND YOU GO FFROM 95 TO 42 POINTS IF YOU GET ONE WRONG IN THE "CHALLENGE ZONE" MORE LIKE THE HACKER ZONE

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Thumbnail of user gabbys44
New Jersey
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April 14th, 2022

This website made me go into a fit of crying and screaming for no reason it's math program SUCKS! This is a horrible website never use

Im in 5th grade and one time i got one right, so good right, yeah EXCEPT I GOT NO POINTS
Never use or buy it SUCKS

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