Anyone frustrated with ALEKS?

[Merlin]

When you are signed into Aleks, on the top of your screen, you will see boxes lined up, each of which is one module you will be learning. These boxes will correspond to different sub topics. But you can always manually select boxes of the same topic, until you complete that pie slice. That is how I prefer learning, as it helps me organize my notes better, and also helps me refresh concepts previously learned in that sub topic. I like Aleks too - College Algebra was very good, actually. Trig was too long, but good. The only course I hate is Statistics, because the explanations feel incomplete, and the calculator seems to behave funny at times. So, it was very difficult to get past a 93% mastery.

When I jumped into ALEKS the first time, I started with Beginning Algebra and worked my way up to College Algebra and I found that I really liked it. When I came back years later I discovered that I needed to re-learn almost all of it, but that was because I never had a need to use any of it in my day-to-day life. So I ended up having to do it all again, though this time I used Khan Academy for free instead of paying for multiple months of ALEKS.

I agree with your assessment on Trig and Stats though. I didn't like either of them. Trig was annoying mostly because it included way too much stuff, including a lot of advanced material that wasn't covered in the Khan Academy Trigonometry prep material. That said, I managed to pass with an 87%. I don't recommend anyone take Stats via ALEKS unless they enjoy frustration. I managed to clear a 94% on that, but I also spent close to a month prepping for it.