I hate you ALEKS!!!

[JBjunior]

Ok, I've been reading the posts for ALEKS and I agree that I hate it too. I've been plugging away at it and I'm slowly creeping along (urgh!). I've attached my assessment profile where you can see my painfully slow and gradual progress. My question for any ALEKS users--on my assessment chart, do I have to score a 70% on any given assessment or do I have to reach 70% on my assessment chart. Currently, I'm at 55% and I'm growing very tired of taking the assessments, which I found out it's a combo of pre-, intermed and college alegbra. My hope was to finish this course and submit my paperwork to TESC before 7/1 for Oct. graduation. Please someone give me some hope that I will see a light at the end of the tunnel. If I have to score a 70% on an assessment, I will be doing ALEKS for the next 2 months (or more) and I really don't have that kind of time. Also, how would you know that you're finished? The assessment doesn't provide any feedback as to which questions were right or wrong. From time to time, I get an auto-email from ALEKS about the % of what I've mastered, but I wasn't sure. Please help.

Yes, the blue part that is now at 55% has to be at 70%. Since you are talking about feedback for right or wrong questions and I see the frequency of your assessment requests I am not sure you understand the way ALEKS works. If you don't know the material continually doing the assessment isn't going to get you anywhere. If you use ALEKS as designed (not doing the assessments) it will show you step by step how to do the problems that you don't know how to do them. It will give you feedback on what was done wrong or right. Once you go through it a couple of days and learn the work, you can request another assessment and then get those problems right on the assessment. Of course actually learning the material will take time but banging your head against the wall trying to get questions right that you don't know is going to be a never ending battle.