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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 ihatei
Nebraska
1 review
52 helpful votes
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March 31st, 2020

Ixl places stress on students. Also when you get to 90% the challenge zone you go up by one for each one you get right. Then if your at 99% and get on wrong your basically back at like an 88% and have to answer 10 questions to get back to 99%. IXL is frustrating annoying and very rage educing. Everyone in my grade hates IXL as do I

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North Carolina
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March 14th, 2024

This app makes no sense makes it so boring no fun in it and it causes anxitey I cant do it anymore fr

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Illinois
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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December 3rd, 2022

If you saw any other reviews, you should know many reasons. One of my 4 main reasons is that first of all, it's expensive! If you want to learn all 4 main school subjects, you have to pay 19 $ a month! The worst part of that is ixl isn't even good! Now although it has many options for learning stuff, that's also one of its many downfalls. When there are so many options, it feels like you have to do all of them to be up to standard! Also, the diagnostic is pretty bad. I have taken many other standardized tests, and none of my scores match up to my ixl levels! Also, the awards are very bad. All you get for the torturous hours of pain you sometimes have to go through to get one thing done is not worth a dumb stamp or a book cover or an ice cream icon! Overall ixl is a piece of $#*!.

Tip for consumers:
do not use ixl. and if you are a teacher and you make your students use ixl you are an evil person.

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Singapore
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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August 4th, 2022

I hate It. It is so so stressful Yuo get only 3 points when you are are correct and lose 10 points when you are wrong, you can have 99 points at one time but get one wrong and back to 70 points, and I think that is not fair

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that it should be banned

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North Carolina
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August 10th, 2023

It not helpful teachers thinks it good place to learn. It takes to much points and it give Stress,Anxiety and it gave me hard time and it not good website and it to much and you should be paying for it

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Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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January 22nd, 2023

I would give this a 0 but I can't so I give it a 1. This is my worst nightmare and I want it to be over. I hate this so much. This causes so much stress. I've learned nothing from this. I want it to not exist anymore.

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Don't

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Nothing. This is useless

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Nebraska
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 28th, 2022

This website is very educational and rewarding to those who take their time and actually try on each question and after all it is radical dude. Like bruh, who would not use this program. It is the best in the whole wide radicaaal world! I do not know why this is not rated the best website west (and somewhat north) of the Australian current. I can not express in words how radical it is! And one time they asked me how many dinosaurs there were and I answered three and it said it was correct! I could not be more satisfied and amazed with this radical program.

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USE KNOWLEDGE

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Alabama
2 reviews
18 helpful votes
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September 3rd, 2019

This website gives me so many bad memories. I remember that I would literally cry over this. And I lost more points than I gained. Whoever made this website really enjoys making people cry and making them miserable. Honestly, just delete this website. And teachers, school people, school board, etc... if you see this... please for the love of God don't use this application in schools. This is the reason we fall asleep during class. This is the reason we are up late at night. I had to stay up till 3 in the morning one time doing this crap. But would I would majorly change is the point system. Make it to where you don't loose points if you get it wrong!

Thumbnail of user jordanx14
Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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April 5th, 2021

I tried grade one in this ixl learning website and guess what I found. When it asked me how many cars are in the picture... It clearly said 8 but the right answer said 9. Like wtf on earth is this. Some tim hortons learning app? Why pay money for this... Maybe your mom would.
Go use prodigy. Its much more funner expect the stupid membership thing but its not that stressfull.

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Indonesia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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March 29th, 2023

IXL literally made me shed tears. I've been doing this Math work for over 3 hours and I keep getting the last question wrong. These questions are not made for kids. This is the cause of mental health problems. IXL is haunting kid's lives. You even killed student's will to be successful. Like literally 13 million kids are suffering right now. Please I DO NOT RECCOMEND IXL.

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Massachusetts
1 review
8 helpful votes
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June 22nd, 2020

I got 10 queston wrong and he was back to 76 this is exacly why people are hating on the school system please fix your ways but for now it is the worst app ever paul mishkin baldi basics is better then this in education and that says alot

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New Jersey
1 review
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January 26th, 2021

IXL is so bad that when you get something right, it only gives you 1 point. But when you get something wrong, it is like "haha, you are dumb, time to take away 10 points" like, dude, this system is very unbalanced. I remember back in 3rd grade when I had some ixl for homework, and I stayed up until like mid night doing it. 1 star.

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Thumbnail of user johne1235
Indiana
1 review
11 helpful votes
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December 2nd, 2020

Don't do it, at all. I have to cheat because they have to make the problem explanation so complicated. My teacher decides hmm, how about we teach them something then do IXL even though what I taught them is not in IXL AT ALL. She doesn't test it, she just gives it to us and runs.

Thumbnail of user roselyn122421
Maryland
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September 25th, 2023

As it is understandable why teachers may like ixl as its a way for students to learn and make progress. It is very frustrating from a Students POV as I get the questions correct and get 1-2 points but when I get a question wrong it drops my score drastically which is the frustrating part. Also for some questions I put a space or write it differently but still equals the same, it still marks me wrong. This app is amazing for improving your academic goal but it is very frustrating. This app has many potential but it needs some improvement to make the experience better.

This app respectfully makes me want to throw myself down the stairs and cry myself to sleep.

Thumbnail of user lramos172011
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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March 4th, 2024

IXL makes no fvcklng sense it should get a life and its dumb $#*! and go fvcklng hang yourself on a ceiling fan.

Thumbnail of user jordanj99
Ohio
1 review
10 helpful votes
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October 1st, 2020

Don't use this unless you HAVE to. All it does is frustrate you, and the SmartScore system is even more corrupt! So if you have to use this in the future, your gonna know what absolute hell feels like. If you already use this, you know how the rest of us feel. This website is nothing but pathetic, useless, bull$#*!.

Thumbnail of user lanceh46
Kentucky
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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August 22nd, 2019

This doesn't help at all! My daughter is being forced in school to do this. She's a 5th grader and it automatically thinks she knows how to do a topic that has never been taught in class. It doesn't teach whatsoever. It is supposed to teach so the child knows how to do it, but instead, expects him/her to know how to do it without teaching them. Just homesschool your kids, guys. Whoever made this is insane. I'm glad I live in America so I have a right to homeschool my kids without making them do this. Really cruel

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Canada
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March 5th, 2024

Not worth its rigged. U go up so little points but go down so much points its a rage factory it sucks waste of time

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New York
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March 4th, 2022

Ixl is super bad. Every time i need to do it i end up really mad because like, you get to 80 and then you get 1 wrong and your back to seventy. It also doesnt provide things like rulers and that stuff.

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If you want to torture someone, perfect site.

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Texas
1 review
16 helpful votes
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February 1st, 2023

If I could give this a 0 star review I WOULD. IXL Is very very stressful. It is just hurtful and this point. I dont learn anything but depression from IXL anymore. Whenever my teachers assign IXL I have to restrain myself from bursting out into tears. My father is a teacher and he thinks that IXL is absolutely horrible as well. Please, everyone who has had to deal with the utter stress and dismay of IXL, please we need to come together as a people, to shut down IXL.

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Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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January 26th, 2023

As a student, I find IXL as an extremely stress filled "lessons" and we get assigned like three per classtime! The points system makes SURE that you lose ~25 points every time you gain 30. IXL is the very definition of one step forward, two steps back.

Thumbnail of user abdula151
Hawaii
1 review
21 helpful votes
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February 16th, 2021

It stresses me out so much and its so riggged and confusing i once spent 50 mins on not even half way and i almost smashed my laptop doing ixl dont try getting member ship its a waste of money and it makes ur child cry and id rather stay with a abuser for 1000 years in hell then this fuking waste of time ixl drin my $#*!

Thumbnail of user masonj144
California
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July 16th, 2023

I wouldn't even want to rate this but the lowest I can go is a one. They make it very so you are very nervous because they do a points system. For example let's say you have 93 points and are about to finish and, you mess up a question you go down to a 76. The worst part about it that is you go up by four max at the end of it. It made my friends very agitated and not in a great mood like they usually are. The help part of it is a joke the videos show a different part of the topic then you are on. The learn with example is also on a different topic. Please parents and teachers don't put your kids through this and save your money. It will only make your kids dislike learning.

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Thumbnail of user kaileyd7
California
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May 23rd, 2021

I've been doing IXL since kinder and I'm in 8th right now. This website didn't even teach me anything! I stressed, had break downs, and I just wanted to give up so bad! IXL really depended on my grade so I had to work for ages just to get it done. I also spent my entire weekend sitting and staring at the screen so I could get a good grade TWICE. IXL really doesn't teach you anything and I'm glad I wont have to do it anymore.

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Alabama
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January 31st, 2023

I've used this so many times in math. And the prizes they give out IF you succeed are just Japanese paper folding. What can you do with paper?! Considering that it's a school program is unreal. I cried too many times trying to get a 100, but even if I did, I still wouldn't be motivated to learn. And get this, the challenge zone is just for a sick joke. It basically forces you to use a calculator. And the SmartScore? Horrible, broken, and RIGGED. I could go into the Challenge Zone and get 1 or 2 points earned, but if I get a question wrong I get 10+ points taken off my SmartScore. I think that the people who wrote the good reviews are forced to do this because the program told them to because is it that good? Nope. Read this review I found from a site. It says IXL is an "excellent" practice tool that is best used to "supplement learning". Don't you mean terrible and make kids break their school computers? My advice? Use iReady. It was better than the garbage that is IXL.

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Never ever buy this. Use iReady.

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