IXL LearningReviews of ixl.com

this company sucks because I almost broke my Chromebook and I have to stay up till 4 am but I should be asleep instead of doing ixl tbh and my teacher gave us a week of work but we didnt do shit.

Lessons expect prior knowledge and do not teach new concepts. Missed questions lack useful information to improve such as repeating basic information on the incorrect screen and sharing confusing and sometimes conflicting information

IXL is the worst learning app on the face of this planet. If you are doing a skill and you think you are on on your last problem, think again. Because first of all, if you have like a smartscore of, say, 98, and you get it wrong, IT TAKES YOU BACK TO 85. that could have been your last problem, but no. If you get a problem wrong, it takes you back like 10 or 15 points. But if you get one right, it gives you 1 to 2 back!! and for the price of a membership, it is not worth it to pay a bag for a "learning app" and watch you child suffer. Parents, just dont do it.

Anybody who rates this app 5 stars is either lying or is a teacher who loves IXL for its only positive value: the analytics. In my opinion, my sanity as a student is more valuable than analytics. IXL uses the SmartScore to track your progress, but it is not rewarding at all. By the time you get to 90 and above one single typo could send you to a 70 and have you spend 20 minutes getting one point per question up to 90 again. One personal thing I hate is the fact that I am timed. It literally tells you how much time you have spent. I spent almost 2hrs and was on the verge of tears before I completed some skills. Most teachers way over assign it and it does nothing but add stress. I seriously don’t care anymore about learning. I just want to get this torture labeled as “education” over with. IXL is a filthy lying platform that has caused me more stress than anything and I can’t even remember the last thing I learned.

I DID SOMETHING LAST YEAR AND I NEVER FINISHED FOR SMARTSCORE. I MADE HIGH SCIRE BUT ONE MISTAKE IS OOPS NOPE BACK TO 0 AMD THE GAMES ARE KIDDIE

THIS APP Is Soooo Bad ... I LITTERY want to punch my computer PEALSE dont use it if you can, also I actually have 65! Fricken IXLS WHICH ARE UNDONE! (ps. sorry for spelling Im mad)

I have experienced IXL for 5+ years, and I can say that it sucks. To give them some credit they do seem to have correct answers, at least from my experience. From other’s comments it seems to be inaccurate sometimes, so they might not even get credit there. Anyway, they are long, boring, and frustrating. They range from a minute for every other subject and twenty minutes for math assuming you get them all correct, which, most of the time, you won’t get them all correct. If you get even some wrong it can take upwards of 30 minutes. 30 minutes is also just the bear minimum, typically they are way longer. Kids do not have the patience to sit through this. Nor do they have the patience to get things wrong and get sent back. From experience, I can say they may take so long because children who don’t want to do IXLs get frustrated, then start going faster, get questions wrong because they stopped thinking clearly, and the cycle repeats until they give up, start cheating, or, by some stroke of luck, finish the IXL. I don’t blame kids for using AI, Calculators, and the internet for answers just to ease their lives and anxiety. On a side note, The time these things take can take until midnight to finish which doesn’t help. Being tired can cause some problems which don’t make the kid any better at answering questions. Also, there is the whole other can of worms that is tried to function off of less than 6 hours of sleep. On a related note, IXL does provide reasons on why you got the answer wrong, but those are typically long winded and terrible at explaining and kids are so enraged that they got one wrong that they don’t pay attention to it. Now, this is not just one thing once in a while, this is something I get several of that are due by the end of the week. This is also for six weeks in a row after first starting a quarter. Also, all of this is math, which take the longest. This is also due along with projects and homework assignments. Also, those homework assignments can be math, which then brings up the question: what is the point of IXLs when math homework can accomplish the same thing? Anyways, I don’t think that IXLs are going away anytime soon, so here are ways to make your life easier: Calculators (good for math. Especially Desmos which can do most math) Internet (especially useful for Social Studies and Science) Use AI (you can type in or upload images of questions and get correct answers. It gets all subjects) Don’t do them (if they’re a low enough part of degree. I did this in the fifth grade and I still got As)

O IXL, titan of tabs and torment untold, Spreadsheet monarch with a heart of cold, You promise “practice” in gentle disguise, Then drop twenty questions like meteor skies. Your SmartScore climbs like a mountain of ice, One slip—and you tumble down… not once, but twice. Ninety-nine glory within student sight, One decimal wrong—goodbye to the height. You whisper “adaptive,” but students all know That means “harder questions the moment you grow.” You lure us in with a cheerful green check, Then shove us backwards for one tiny speck. Oh ruler of retries, emperor of grind, You test not math but strength of mind. Fractions repeat like an echoing cave, Each one more confusing, each one less brave. “Find the slope,” you chant again and again, Numbers reshuffled, same headache, same pain. X disappears, Y runs wild, Algebra turns savage, logic turns mild. Your hints cost points like a toll on a road, Three points vanish for knowledge bestowed. “Consider the pattern,” you vaguely declare, While confidence evaporates into air. IXL, scoreboard tyrant, calculator king, You make wrong answers a dramatic thing. One misclick, one rounding mistake, And suddenly everything’s at stake. Your progress bar crawls with theatrical flair, Two percent gained after ten minutes of stare. Victory tastes like cardboard dust, Perfection demanded, or back you must. You are the pop quiz that never ends, The loading wheel that never bends. Students stare in silent dread, Watching SmartScores drop instead. Ninety-eight… ninety-five… ninety-two… fall, Each mistake echoing through the hall. “Almost there!” your cheerful cry, Then subtract five points… why, oh why? Two trains leave stations, here we go again, One goes north, one through my brain. Word problems march like an endless parade, Logic dissolves, confidence fades. Oh IXL, endless treadmill of doom, Digital dungeon of fluorescent gloom, Yet still we return, assignment in hand, Bound by homework across the land.