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UpLearn for math, physics and chem (rant+warning)

Posting here to warn people to please never pay for UpLearn. If you're considering getting it, don't. It's not worth it. My school uses it for homework in math, physics and chemistry and it is truly one of the worst homework websites that I have ever seen. The content, delivery, functionality are genuinely so awful. They also use more analytics cookies than they advertise on the cookies consent page so their 'money back guarantee if you complete more than 90% of the course' is probably just so that they've sold enough of your data that they're making a profit regardless of if they give you your money back. They ignore all feedback and use probably underpaid workers in India to respond to their chat service. In terms of content and delivery it is painfully slow and extremely basic. Also for CIE Math it is missing over half of the stats content and includes content that is not studied in the spec. The website takes minutes to load between exercises, it marks questions incorrectly, it teaches you methods that you'll never use in an actual exam because they're so time consuming and excessively bad. Save yourself the money, get some good textbooks, find a decent youtube channel and pay attention in class it will get you infinitely further than UpLearn. I hate this stupid website so much, it's not worth the suffering.
Original post by F!n411Yv!C!0u51Y
Posting here to warn people to please never pay for UpLearn. If you're considering getting it, don't. It's not worth it. My school uses it for homework in math, physics and chemistry and it is truly one of the worst homework websites that I have ever seen. The content, delivery, functionality are genuinely so awful. They also use more analytics cookies than they advertise on the cookies consent page so their 'money back guarantee if you complete more than 90% of the course' is probably just so that they've sold enough of your data that they're making a profit regardless of if they give you your money back. They ignore all feedback and use probably underpaid workers in India to respond to their chat service. In terms of content and delivery it is painfully slow and extremely basic. Also for CIE Math it is missing over half of the stats content and includes content that is not studied in the spec. The website takes minutes to load between exercises, it marks questions incorrectly, it teaches you methods that you'll never use in an actual exam because they're so time consuming and excessively bad. Save yourself the money, get some good textbooks, find a decent youtube channel and pay attention in class it will get you infinitely further than UpLearn. I hate this stupid website so much, it's not worth the suffering.

alright, i wont get uplearn. they dont even cover my exam board for psychology anyways.
Original post by F!n411Yv!C!0u51Y
Posting here to warn people to please never pay for UpLearn. If you're considering getting it, don't. It's not worth it. My school uses it for homework in math, physics and chemistry and it is truly one of the worst homework websites that I have ever seen. The content, delivery, functionality are genuinely so awful. They also use more analytics cookies than they advertise on the cookies consent page so their 'money back guarantee if you complete more than 90% of the course' is probably just so that they've sold enough of your data that they're making a profit regardless of if they give you your money back. They ignore all feedback and use probably underpaid workers in India to respond to their chat service. In terms of content and delivery it is painfully slow and extremely basic. Also for CIE Math it is missing over half of the stats content and includes content that is not studied in the spec. The website takes minutes to load between exercises, it marks questions incorrectly, it teaches you methods that you'll never use in an actual exam because they're so time consuming and excessively bad. Save yourself the money, get some good textbooks, find a decent youtube channel and pay attention in class it will get you infinitely further than UpLearn. I hate this stupid website so much, it's not worth the suffering.

My school uses UpLearn for homework too and I personally don't think it's that bad. I don't think I've ever had any questions marked incorrectly and I haven't found it slow at all really. However they don't have videos for the majority of the biology topics as they're apparently too easy which is really annoying. I found it useful for chemistry though. I don't know how much it costs but it's not a super bad website imo. Good textbooks are probably better though.

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