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Why I despise IXL
Ixl is quite the company, from making it almost impossible to complete your work, to not explaining how to do Better. I swear they couldn't do worse while trying to not explain what you did wrong. All it shows is the question, the answer you put, and another question that you're supposed to learn from? The 'smart' score system is a nightmare to try to succeed with. The points lost for a wrong question and the points gained are contradictory. You gain 10 points and lose 1 on the first question. Then it swaps with almost no gain and taking multiple questions. I've almost maxed out my English levels, but it took me 61 questions to get 72 smart score. I don't even understand how it works. One time you get +5 points to a 60, then you get one wrong. After 2 more questions you are back at a 60, but you only get +4 points? I swear Ixl makes you get a 99 just so that they can be petty, and have you done one more question and risk losing everything to get 1 point. "Maby you are just bad at this topic 🤓🤓🤓" I don't care. You are annoying and only take pride in your 1200 in grammar. You have no skills and have somehow convinced yourself it is the only thing that you need to succeed. You have no friends and even less social skills somehow. The questions also make no sense they ask the most mind bogglingly worded questions with weird kids in the scenarios. One of my math ones said that a kid likes to play educational math games in their free time and made a graph on how many points they had. It's so annoying that they have people come up with the scenarios like this trash. I remember a question scenario from 5ish years ago because of how dumb it was. Here's how it went: "We need to make a math problem that kids like" "Don't they like video games?" "They do! How can we incorporate that into math?" "Let's make them add videogames!" Thats how we have the question; Jake has 5 videogames and buys 7 more videogames. How many Videogames does he have now? I'm sure everyone loved that question. The schools here made me do 20 minutes twice a week of Ixl for both math and English. All it does is make people mad that they gain 2 points and lose 6 at a smart score of 80. The smart score only means how many questions you need to answer for the report to be filled with good looking bar graphs. I don't understand a topic 5% less if I get the 10th question wrong compared to 1% less if I get the first question wrong. It's probably them trying to be accurate because of how your brain is being fried with anger. Thanks for reading my rant. I'm very annoyed rn at Ixl after having to do 2 'learning' assignments. Hope y'all have a good day and purge your mind of Ixl and its annoying nature.