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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 tongq
Brazil
1 review
7 helpful votes
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April 25th, 2020

IXL is supposedly a website for learning by "playing", but honestly it can make you way less motivated and very stressed. One reason is the fact that they don't even explain properly how to do that question. Here is one example:
"Is ******* divisible by 3?"
*gets it wrong*
IXL says "use the divisibility by 3 rule"
WHAT? You didn't even explain to me all the divisibility rules in the first place, and now you're telling me to answer this question without knowing how to do it. How do I understand that topic? By searching it on the web and in Khan Academy! That brings me to the second point: IXL is paid! You could easily learn math from a quick google search, but IXL simply throws questions at you and assume you know them.
This brings me to the last and final point: IXL's scoring system is absolute wack. Why? Well towards the end of the skill, when you get to your 80s and 90s, you get 2 points for getting it right and -10 points for getting it wrong! This not only decreases your motivation to continue but makes you bang your keyboard and perhaps destroy it!
If IXL had a better scoring system (+1 if you get it right and -1, if you get it wrong, would be way better), a better explanation system(include videos and explain everything clearly before throwing random crap at us), and if it was free(although it doesn't really matter), I would have easily given at least a 4-star review. But since that is not true, one star is the maximum of what I am going to give.

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Florida
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April 25th, 2023

Bad and sucks i dont learn nothing. It just rivels up my anger and does not help me learn. It just makes me more angry. This is the worst learning experience i have ever had.

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New York
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December 16th, 2022

You get forced by your parents to use IXL all the time, IT MAKES IT HARDER TO GET 100
I hate IXL because of trauma, to be honest. It is confusing to do what the tutorial does. It has the worst synced smart score (or is rigged).

Thumbnail of user dellaw19
Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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March 7th, 2021

I absolutely do not recommend it. One, lets say you get a question right. WELL IT STRAIGHT UP TELLS YOU THAT YOU ARE WRONG, GIVES YOU THE ANSWER AND SAYS "THIS IS THE ANSWER" AND IT HAS THE SAME ANSWER THE YOU PUT IN THE FIRST PLACE! And then, when you get a question right, it brings you up one point, and then when you get one wrong, IT BRINGS YOU DOWN 10 POINTS. Its almost like they are trying to annoy me. I was at a 90 and i got one question wrong, and it brought me down 40 friggin' points and it turns out the whole time I actually got it right. And the thing is, I can't just quit it, because my teachers take grades on ixl. Thanks a lot.

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Do not use it it is a total waste of your time unless you are like me and your stuck with because your teachers take grades on this piece of garbage.

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Colorado
1 review
7 helpful votes
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November 3rd, 2023

This is horrible, it's dumb, it's so annoying, The worst app ever, i would've liked it better if i dont have to keep going up and down okay bye.

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California
3 reviews
27 helpful votes
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March 27th, 2023

Hello. I am a fifth-graders mom. Anyways, I think IXL is an average learning website to use but it has many downsides. I might've said that IXL was a great website to use, but it actually is getting worse and worse. However, since IXL is semi-decent, I have to give them credit for not making kids cringe. My son actually liked this website and he usually doesn't refuse to use this website but after some time, he started to smash his computer. It is also very easy to use. It contains quite a good amount of skills to learn, unlike Zearn with only one skill, math. Unfortunately, it is very expensive to get unless the district has it for free. (I think) The main problem I am having with this website is that it has a very unfair and questionable diagnostic and "Smartscore" system. It literally took him 2 questions while at 85+ "Smartscore" due to the fact that he loses like 15 - 25 "Smartscore" just from getting one question wrong. My son is very smart so he can get to 1,000 stars in vocabulary and writing strategies in fifth grade. Even though he has lots of stars, he lost 100 stars just because he couldn't log into his account. He has recently reclaimed his title, but he will never use IXL again unless he loses his stars. All in all, I think this website has some potential for being good, but at the same time, not really.

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I think this website is decent, but still not the best.

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Texas
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February 25th, 2021

IXL is overall not very helpful to me. It is very uninteresting and its point system is very outdated. The point system will start at 0, and when I get a problem right, it gives me about, 6-8 points, but if you get a problem wrong, it will take away 10-12 points and it is very frustrating when you need to get it done. It also gives younger kids (and just kids in general) no encouragement! You can't just tell a kindergartener "you haven't mastered any skills"! They think of that sentence as "haha, you're dumb and terrible and counting". It's frustrating me to ridiculous levels! All schools should use Khan Academy because it's way better and offers you actual help with math and many other topics AND it's free! IXL charges you a whopping 80 DOLLARS A MONTH! Teachers are wasting their money on something that isn't even helping us kids! Everyone should use Khan Academy! ( also I accidentally went on IXL's view source page and GUESS WHAT I FOUND!? It says the smart score system is out of date!

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Don't use this website AT ALL! It won't help your kids as Khan Academy will!

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Hong Kong
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September 19th, 2021

The correct answer: 4.20
What i did: 4.2
What is the motherfking difference! ALSO SOMETIMES i did decimal number they say need fraction when it says whole number, fractions and decimals: OOO crzay mothing fking bich Ixl

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Indiana
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August 26th, 2022

Its so bad and stressful when i say it sucks i mean it SUCKS. Its one of the most stressful apps in the world
if i could kill IXL I WOULD but sadly i can, t I DO NOT RECOMMEND. If you are kid its so uncouraging

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North Carolina
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7 helpful votes
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December 15th, 2020

I would put 0 stars if I could! I'm crying when I have to do this. Do not buy. I will happily cus at it! Do not buy! It takes away points when you get a question wrong! I hate it so much

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Kuwait
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May 10th, 2022

So im in one of the best schools in my country and its horrible. I dont know why the best school in the country would make us use the one website tat has 1.2 ratings. BRUH

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Florida
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February 21st, 2023

IXL is way too hard for children. They get close 100 but then ONE QUESTION WRONG, they get bumped back too far. It is not easy for children to be doing it. As an adult, I find it hard to do it as well. Kids in pre-k will get stressed. But why is pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade even on there in the first place? I don't think they would be very happy if I told my kindergarten kids they would have to do IXL. It is easy for an older kid, but it's not suitable for them. I find it funny they put questions that are more suitable for an older grade inside a 5th grade (or under) lesson that is better for 6th or 7th. I let my 5th grader do this for a month and she got tried of doing it so we quit. It is good for a crazy smart kid? Yes, but not an average one. They membership is so expensive! That is enough to buy food! Yes learning is important, but, it's so expensive! My kid couldn't handle it anymore. She would quit through half of a lesson! Which I could understand. I tried it, I couldn't do it myself!

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Illinois
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December 2nd, 2021

Ixl is the worst learning app because when your in your 70s, 80s, 90s you only earn 1 point but when you get a question wrong you lose like 10. So thats why IXL is bad and rigged.

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Texas
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February 25th, 2021

Ixl sucks because i will be at 69 and get one wrong and go down to 51 and i have to waist my not so long time and be so frushtrared at the same time get rid of it!

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dont use this site

Thumbnail of user bobt797
Minnesota
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11 helpful votes
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November 19th, 2021

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PAY SO MUCH MONEY FOR THIS F*CKY SH*TY WEBSITE. IXL IS A WEBSITE MADE BY ADOLF HITLER HIMSELF TO TORTURE THE JEWS AND IS STILL USED TO THIS DAY TO TORTURE KIDS UNTIL THEY DIE. I ONCE SPEN 1 HOUR ON 1 IXL. THE WORST PART IS IF YOU GET A F*CKING QUESTION WRONG YOU LOSE 70 POINTS, (AT LEAST) AND YOU GAIN 0.1 POINTS. (AT MOST) DO NOT USE THIS F*CKING WEBSTIE CUZ IT IS A PEICE OF F*CKY SH*T. MAKE SURE IXL SEES THIS, THEY NEED THIS FEEDBACK FOR THIS F*CKING WEBSITE.

Thumbnail of user charlottem412
Hong Kong
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October 5th, 2021

Imagine that you are on 99 and you are nearly done and you are typing fast and you know that is the right answer, then you type the answer and it did't get the first letter/number and just after that you submit it without looking… you lost 10-15 points and you got SUPER MAD AND IT HAPPENS TO ME ALWAYS. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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California
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September 22nd, 2022

Im 12 years old, this $#*! drives me to tears, when u miss $#*!ING 5 MOTHER $#*!ING QUESTIONS U LOSE LIKE 50 $#*!ING PERCENT, teachers say it alows us to test ourselfs, but testing is not supose to drive me to cry. Man, $#*! ixl

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GB
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April 21st, 2023

I HATE IXL PEOPLE THINK IT IS AMAZING WHOEVER MADE IXL $#*! YOU I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL STUPID UGLY MOTHER TWERKING $#*! UGLY $#*! FACE I HATE YOU UGLY HOE UGLY $#*! STUPID GOOFY $#*! UGLY GO TO HELL YOU MADE MY LIFE PRISON STUPID $#*! UGLY MOTHER$#*!ER UGLY $#*! FACE $#*! child-$#*!er child-$#*!er child-$#*!er child-$#*!er child-$#*!er child-$#*!er child-$#*!er child-$#*!er (to the CEO of IXL)

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Virginia
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February 25th, 2024

BRO WHEN I GET A QUESTION WRONG YOU DONT HAVE TO TAKE AWAY 5 QUESTIONS THAT I GOT RIGHT AND GOT ME STRRESSED IN MANY SITUATION KYS

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Australia
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November 18th, 2021

It does not help with any type of learning, but teachers think it's extremely helpful because on how it punishes you for getting one question wrong.

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Indiana
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3 helpful votes
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December 14th, 2021

It does not help kids learn help get rid of IXL! My kid said he gets questions wrong even when they are correct.

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Louisiana
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October 10th, 2022

Ixl is not the best. It makes you super stressed out if you do too much. I totally recommend Khan Academy instead.

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There are tons of other better non-stressful ways to study.

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Canada
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July 20th, 2022

It caused pain and suffering
Anyone who likes it is proabaly those guys who are alts of ceo
They have a place about positive reviews
Thats only a few out of 13 million users as they claim
Plus they are probaly getting paid
Guess what, in one launguage arts quiz i did 87 questions and then i got it
Normally it takes you like 20

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its bad

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Thumbnail of user jeffm2026
Canada
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December 30th, 2022

Can take FOREVER to complete and has around the worst ratings compared to other learning websites. Causes OUTRAGE and BROKEN COMPUTERS because of kids RAGING over it

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South Africa
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June 16th, 2021

This thing sucks it says answers are wrong than gives you the same answers as the right answer and if you get something wrong it takes you down about 20 point and you have to restart it! DON'T GET!

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