SparxscienceReviews of sparxscience.com

I am writing to express my absolute contempt for your dysfunctional flashcard system. Your pedagogical approach is an exercise in incompetence; forcing students to repeat questions immediately after answering them is redundant, psychologically draining, and utterly moronic. This repetitive cycle is asinine and demonstrates a profound lack of respect for our time. Rest assured, I intend to seek legal retribution for this systemic failure.

The buttons are so hard to press on mobile because it’s so small and buggy, usually takes I’m not kidding 20-30 attempts to even press the submit button and the flash cards are so long because if I’m unlucky I have to do 30 questions in one section and that’s if I didn’t get anything wrong and it loves to give questions that you have never done before to make your life miserable and sometimes it doesn’t know what am I taking about because I typed the correct answer multiple times and even use the internet for help and it’s still somehow wrong like what do you mea,there are no spelling mistakes and the I don’t know section is so long it takes more time to read on it than sparx reader it self and sometimes when I press a button on the number pad because it’s so small and buggy it hardly reads on what ami clicking this is the worst educational website and company in general because of how bad it’s designed

i feel like sparx in general is just not a good platform. not only does it pressure children into doing more work than they already do at school, its so un-motivational i find it hard to give myself any to do it. i just end up gettig detention

As if sparx maths wasn't shit enough, sparx science makes it even worse and puts it in green instead of blue. To put some of the problems with this nightmare fuel in short form, the checking system on typed out answers will flag the correct answer as wrong because it dosen't have the keywords the system wants, and on certain questions, if you get the answer wrong, the question will split off into usually 3 or more smaller questions which can be a highly annoying and unnecessary waste of time. Overall the experience is painfully tedious and slow, even with an assistant such as Gauth.

I don't disagree with homework, it can be useful for keeping topics fresh in you mind and can be done right, but sparx is nowhere near right, literally. Just for example, I got a question something like "What is found in plant meristems" Obviously I answered with "stem cells" Their trash ai says it's wrong then forces me to 'learn' it, the answer was correct when I checked on the second try thing where it mixes up the question, and it's all because of their ai

The ai constantly marks correct answers wrong I am a top student in science in my school and no matter how hard I try the ai marks me wrong and I spend hours doing “30 minutes “ worth of homework even though my mark has never dropped below 95%

Let me get one thing clear: when I first started using Sparx Science, I somewhat enjoyed it. Crazy, right? I know it is. But I found it easy, and I made sure my answers were worded in such a way that I could get it done as fast as possible while actively trying not to think about how dogshit this website actually is. That was, until, they added flashcards. Suddenly, if you do not answer the question in under what seems like only a second, you are wrong. You are a failure. You are a disgrace. I just don’t get it; why are WE, as CHILDREN/TEENAGERS, being forced to answer WORDED questions with worded answers in such a short amount of time? It makes no sense. I, myself, have to take a few seconds to understand the question properly before answering, so I can ensure I have the right answer. Flashcards completely disregards that factor, instead basing learning off how fast you can answer a question, compared to actually answering it correctly. There are many others out there in the same situation, and we feel completely helpless during this task. We have to repeat questions over, and over, and over again, until we can finally memorise the beginning of that question to answer it correctly. Not LEARN, but memorise it. Those two are not the same things, let me make clear. I have not learned anything from flashcards, nor will I ever. Nobody I know has ever learned anything from them either, so I see a good opportunity to take the entire thing down. Or, better yet, simply delete the website. I’m sure the millions of pre-teens and teens in the UK would love to see the end of such a horrible, sloppy, cruel website. As of writing this, I’m currently in the middle of a flashcards task. How horrible must this website be for me to stop in the middle of rapid-fire questions to write a 1-star review about how awful it is? I do not wish for any more students to have to go through this waste of time. However, as we are not adults, we do not get any say at all, as there are more adults who believe that teenagers’ autonomies are threatening or non-existent. I wish you all the worst.

i hate it i have to get everything right i always am brung to tears over homework