SparxreaderReviews of sparxreader.com

This app is torture. I just started using this today and the books available are the most boring books ever! I usually love reading but this app takes away all the fun

Of all of the Sparx platforms, Reader has to br the WORST! My teacher told me it woyulkd take me 20 minutes and I am still sat here 1hour later with 58% completion. The questions are ridiculous and over the top, you don't get that much time to answer the questions, and when you EVENTUALLY do get it correct, you get around 12SRP (You need around 300 to finish). It is bot that I an a bad reader - I got a grade 9 in my last assessment for English. You akso don't get that much variety on book choises. Fix EVERYTHING. If I could've given it 0 stars I would've.

TOO STRESSFUL FIRST U HAVE TO READ ALSO THINK OH IS THAT GONNA BE IN THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND IT'S JUST TOO DIFFICULT FOR A STUDENT

very bad dont try

sparx reader is so trash i spent an hour to get like 100 srp and it is just insanely hard. sparxreader shouldn't be allowed in schools because of how long it takes and how hard it is.

I love reading but Sparx reader is a bloody horrible app. Genuinely makes me hate reading. Questions are so stupid. It’ll ask you about the most unimportant thing in the text. And you have to get them all right.

The system here is terrible. I do my best not to leave only hateful feedback online but I can't think of any good qualities of this platform. From the point of view as a student who would normally read a lot and finish all my books, on this platform I have switched out the last 8 books I read as soon as possible. This is because, one, when selecting a book you are given only 4 book options that hardly ever change. While sparx claims that helps students pick I could not disagree more. From other students in my class we all find ourselves messing around with setting and changing our "genre preferences" to try to get a different book option. However the system hardly considers your selected preferences. I'm in a top set class. However despite that on this platform around 60% of people don't even do homework because the process is so painful. Every page your given 3 questions if you screw up you lose countless points, which is a problem as you need points to complete tasks and track reading. Questions range from simple to vocabulary specific niche questions that just feel impossible if reading normally. One quality I would have considered good was a Gold Reader system. This meant if you read a little bit extra you could read your own books and track them for homework. This was a trust system so you had to read a lil extra each week, which felt painful but you could see the gold reader pass getting closer. And once you got it you can read your own book and log it and the teacher can track your progress and all was great! Until this year they removed all of it. "Gold Reader" is a celebratory achievement. You can still log books, but there is no reward in it, and it doesn't contribute to homework, so why would you? Sparx reader claims to support students reading. It doesn't. The system fully replaces their reading with something they'll hate. It makes reading like suffering where you just want to finish your homework task. I am sorry to leave such a hateful comment here. I have never written anything near as hateful as this. But in this scenario I have nothing positive anymore. If your even considering using this in your school for every one of your students sake I beg you to reconsider if you want to promote reading for pleasure this will annihilate any chance for you. I believe this platform is worse then completely unmonitored reading for students and their reading.

Sparx reader is one of the most annoying homework sites I’ve ever used. Not only does it give you 2-10 SPR points for reading a 10 minute long section, but it only gives you a choice of 5 completely random books to choose from. These 5 choices can only be changed to 3 different books a week which means if you don’t like/want to read the book it gives you then you’re stuck with it until the next week, this only makes me want to read it less because I’m not going to sit and read a book I don’t like for almost 3 hours because I don’t get enough spr to finish quicker. I hate sparx reader so much for these reasons.