IXL

This whole thing is rigged. Even the point system.It is terrible, it causes stress for my kids, me, and the points go down because of that? It's "smart score" is terrible.The point system is terrible.My kids come crying or stressed out.The whole website should be taken down.

As a student this is horrible. Personally I would never recommend this to anyone, it makes me and others stressed. I wish my teachers knew the pain and tears we go through, but if we complain they will just say you're fine. Once we started using this horrible "learning" tool my grade has dropped significantly!

IXL could be a great site but it needs major improvements in the systems. The scoring, when you get to a high score, is completely devastating and time wasting. One question wrong? BOOM now you are 8-10 points lower. As a teen who has to get 300 points per section I can say sometimes this is extremely frustrating and it has brought me to tears more then once. Next the "rewards"... I simply hate that they are called this. Nothing is more rewarding then a digital picture right? This along with the horrid scoring system makes this site pointless. But wait theirs more! Their are tons of glitches that kill your score and frustrate everyone. Also the "explanations" are often wrong or offer no learning at all. Several that i have seen just had the problem and a quick and pointless explanation of the processes and when I followed the steps on the next question it was wrong. Overall i be-leave this site has some potential but it needs lots of fixes and revisions to it.

I am personally 10, in 4th grade. I have had to use IXL multiple times. I absolutely hate it. I would delete the website with no extra thought. IXL can be extremely hard and unforgiving. Let's say you're at 99.3 questions later, 80. Then this process can repeat a few times. You can probably see my point. If you are a teacher, I would not recommend IXL.

IXL's point system is painful. In the later stages of tasks, when you get a question right your 'smartscore' (which I think is a pretty stupid name. It suggests that your intelligence revolves around this one revolutionary task that you'll forget about in 5 minutes) Increases by 1 or 2, but if you get a question wrong it decreases by 7 or 8, putting you back as much as 8 questions. I hate it. Do not recommend. If your teacher is putting you through this, file a court case for child abuse. I send my prayers.

This site wastes a lot of your time and takes up your patience. Also, at the same time, ixl is not the most efficient for learning. Teachers just use it because they don't want to manually grade an assignment or make one. Ixl is really just doesn't benefit anyone whatsoever. Students might also feel anxiety and anger (which creates hate to the teachers that assigned it). I personally think that this site is complete torture (mental breakdown). IXL should disband for the good of everyone.

I have seen so many children hate this. They say it does not help, it just cements it into their brain and doesn't make a difference. For the districts, you are paying for something kids aren't doing, so why bother? Little origami swans won't motivate children, so why are you giving these awards? They are only good for flexing them, and NO child will do that. This is beyond horrible, to make it fun, you must redo it!
Goodbye, Gummy

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

It angers my child and she gets very sad. Me and my wife are trying to calm her down and it is very hard to. We feel IXL should never be used in schools. We have tried to help our daughter by using a calculator but it still tells us we are wrong. Horrible app, teachers if you are reading this don't even consider this for your schools
- Luna Smith

Seriously this stupid website is so dumb and unhelpful. The only thing it's good at is torturing you. I was on 97 and I got one wrong I REPEAT ONE and I led me back to 87. And also this website is terrible. 18 divided by five is 3.6 not 2.8.?! If you find this site do not download it on you phone.

The program sucks. When you get an answer wrong, the explanation doesn't help what so ever. Answering questions are extremely stressful because you know that if you get a single question wrong you lose 20 points and getting an answer right only gives you 2. The timer on the side makes kids feel timed. Please do not use this program anything else is better.

My teacher assigned us like 100 of these a week and it's stressful. It takes too long and by the way, if you have a question correct it gives you like 4 but its like 2 on the challenge zone. If you get it wrong it decreases your score and takes it away by 10 8 or 9. As you can see by the picture my grades are either F or B. Also thank you ixl for making my parents force me to stop sleeping to do the work

Study Island may be fun, but IXL tries to spice things up by giving you awards.
But I had to struggle on one lesson and answer 55 questions. I mean, can't you at least give a hint, or something?
Although when you start, you gain 20 but when it is time for the challenge, you gain 1 or 2 points, but if you get ONE wrong, landslide back 10 or 11 or 12.

IXL is too much homework, stress, and many other things. Overall everything about it sucks. The fact that teachers give students work like this is disgusting. It also has a lot of stereotypes about teens and what they do. I hate IXL my parents do and overall it's just bad. As a middle school stude, I think IXL should be banned because it's a bad app, causes stress, bad education, too much homework, horrible learning, wasted time, annoying, bad point system, and so much more.

IXL is horrible because one wrong answer during the "challenge zone" will take you back so far that you have to redo the entire thing. Schools should not be using this because it is useless! Go use Get More Math for god sake. It is too much of a challenge and it is not fun and kids rage over it.

Who likes IXL? NO ONE! So if you said that then your right. If you said that you do or that anyone else does you are wrong and/or insane. It's just a app to torture people. Everyone I know hates it, besides teachers. The amount of time I spent on IXL stressing and trying to get it done one time. When I could've been having fun hanging out with people. Not crying and having mental breakdowns. Then they start assigning more and you haven't finisher the others and start getting bad grades. It's like you're drowning in homework and school. This is just my opinion and probably a lot of other's opinions too.

This site causes students much more stress than needed. It also doesn't teach it only tests. The point system is unfair and will make students complete an extra 7-10 questions if they get one wrong. This site has been the reason for multiple friends of mines depression and has been the reason for a close friend of mine to attempt suicide. This site his hated by almost every student and most all parents disagree with the site yet somehow it is the most popular online learning tool across the nation for math. This site needs to me either completely overhauled or shut down to help our nation create citizens that are able to help their nation without the trauma of simply going though school because the learning tools degraded their will to leave and work and make progress. This site and others like it will be the reason for the downfall of the next generation.

Paul Mishkin got me pregnant and he wanted to see my wiener this is very frustrating and I am now traumatized please help me I'm making this review from his basement please help I had a 100 and It sent me back 46 points I now went to eat your mom and I want to get a refund! 1

First of all, the examples make no sense and don't help you understand the exercise at all. Second of all, I get a question right, I get bumped up 2 points, when I get one wrong, I'm down 7 points. Their logic makes no sense. There are so many other learning websites and books you could use so please, don't use this one. Every single time you use ixl, it is almost guaranteed you will shed a tear. Like 40% of my mental breakdowns are caused by ixl.

I'll has caused me so much anxiety. The smartphone system is so stupid, just building a child up just to knock them down again. I spend 5 hours on one little practice because of the point system being so rigged. My mind gets so fuzzy after a while and I can't focus on this crap. It's so harsh on students.

Tips for educators and parents: do not buy this! Has given my friends severe depression and aanxiety.makes me so mad at this app for giving me so much anxiety from this

-a middle school student

I do not enjoy IXL. I will get the correct answer and it will boost me up 1-5 points. If I get one wrong, my points will decrease by 5-7 points. This makes absolutely no sense. Why not make the points equal? This does not boost anyone's confidence. I had an exact situation when I was making a good score, then I miss one question and it goes from 94 to 79. This is unbelievable, I get so frustrated and this just piles up on my stress for school. This doesn't go only to me, this goes to all the other students who get stressed up and frustrated. I highly recommend not requiring kids to do this.

I'm a student and my teachers force this website on students and think it's helping. There are so many students that have their grades down to low Fs. If you are a teacher, I would not recommend relying on this website to help students. It has gotten me bawling on my bed while the questions are sitting in front of me and the smart score is totally messed up and has students failing classes. 100% absolutely do not recommend.

IXL is very boring and its so-called "Challenge zone" doesn't let you stay in it! The aesthetic get's very boring after a while and the tutorial videos are not helpful at all! The explanations of why you got the question wrong are also very unhelpful. 1 star!