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I-ready Reviews Summary

Positive Highlights

  • No consistent strengths were mentioned in the reviews.

Negative Highlights

  • Lessons are described as boring, repetitive, and time-consuming.
  • Diagnostics are criticized for being inaccurate and stressful.
  • Failing a lesson forces students to repeat it without guidance.
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Nov 11, 2025

I am a student, and holy crap, it is the most time-consuming pile of $#*!ed bull$#*! that has ever taken up my life. Do not ever use this program. The diagnostic is not accurate to anyone and their cognitive abilities. This takes up too much of my life. I have actual $#*! that affects my life I need to work on not this trash. Whoever made it go to hell.

Dec 15, 2025

I-ready sucks HARD. Most of my 5th grade experience has been tainted by this website. The diagnostic is designed to get a 50/50, which doesn't make one lick of sense. How do you track my overall progress by this redundant 50/50 thing.? The lessons are ARDUOUS. Instead of using my time wisely, and learning about something useful, instead i'm stuck doing this. Learning about what the word "because" means for no apparent reason. Some of the articles used in the lesson are straight up sleepworthy.in all, i'd rather play pokemon scarlet/violet than do... THIS. - ambrose oliveira

Nov 9, 2025

I feel compelled to share my experience with the I-Ready app, as it has had a profoundly negative impact on my daughter, Emilya. While I understand the intention behind it is to aid children's learning, my family has faced a heartbreaking situation because of it. Emilya struggled with her math lessons and was disheartened when she received a 50% on an assignment. This seemingly small number contributed to a whirlwind of negative emotions for her. One evening, overwhelmed by the pressure, she attempted to take her own life. Thankfully, she is now in the hospital and slowly recovering, but I can't help but think about how this app played a role in her distress. Education tools should be uplifting and supportive, but in Emilya's case, this app made her feel like a failure. I urge the developers of I-Ready to reevaluate the weight of their assessments and the impact they have on young minds. It's crucial to keep in mind that our children are far more than their scores. I sincerely hope that improvements can be made to ensure that other children do not have to endure the same overwhelming feelings Emilya did. Signed, Liz B

Jan 29, 2026

I'm an eighth grader and I have to use this god forsaken sorry excuse of a website. The diagnostic is long, annoying, boring, and uninteresting. They don't even make it a test because they keep changing the questions and they don't let you change your answers or see your score. The lessons are not much better, as they are also boring and uninteresting but they are also biased and/or don't make sense a lot of the time. Only the hard questions are graded and getting three wrong answers makes you fail the lesson. When you fail a lesson they make you do it all over again with absolutely no guidance at all, like they think you are a robot or something. The lessons are also very slow, and the only questions you can change your answers to are the ungraded questions which takes a really long time as they make you listen to how to get the answer right, meanwhile I figured out the correct answer when the question said my previous answer was wrong. The characters look terrible, have no personality, and they don't have a purpose. They are just there to make your tedious I-Ready experience even worse. I would still say all of this a year ago, but since then I-Ready has gotten rid of the games. These games were fun and were a good break from the grind of the lessons. But now they have been discontinued, replaced by a stupid, boring, and poorly edited breathing video. Now I-Ready is truly just a waste of time and has become a modern form of medieval torture. Curriculum Associates can suck my b**** and those of thousands of angry I-Ready learners. They should be punished for all of the wasted time and suffering that they have caused. They treat children like statistics and don't give accurate data and are just all around a s***** company. Teachers, use Brainpop or Khan Academy or literally anything else. I know that there are some bad learning sites out there and I have used them, but none of them can even come close to the aggravation and suffering that exists as a byproduct of I-Ready.

Mar 7, 2026

I used to love iready when all it was was fun lessons and punch cards for prizes. What happened? The characters weren't everyone's favorite, but I kept wondering when I'd see them again. Then 6th grade hit. Iready pro removed all that I still liked. The diagnostics are long and some of my friends had to stress to complete it. I don't like iready, and I don't think anyone would miss it. This should be on Stewie Griffin's list.

Jan 28, 2026

This app has ruined math and reading for me. It absolutely sucks and I want it gone soon. My child has not learned anything from it and if anything makes it more complicated than its suppose to be.

Mar 6, 2026

Hi, my name is Preston. I am an autistic 5th grade student who lives in California. My teacher wants me to do i-Ready, but i-Ready makes me stressed out. On the subjects of reading and math, I am forced to finish at least 45 minutes with at least 2 lessons. If I do this, I have the ability to get Fun Friday. I sometimes do Fun Friday, despite the fact that my school district has their own very strict firewall. It blocks bypassers, non-managed websites and applications, you name it! But for now, all I want to say is don't use i-Ready. Almost the entire amount of people who use i-Ready hate it, and that includes me. I-Ready is not helpful for education. And, let me just make one blanket statement here. If you support i-Ready, or if you are a member of the i-Ready team, like Kelly Sia, then a lot of people are not going to like you. I-Ready is not educational, they just want your tutoring money. Also, i-Ready spies on minors who get wrong answers. This could mean that i-Ready is being run by scammers. Thank you for reading this, and tell your teacher this review. If you have any questions for me, please contact my email. I hope you have a great day.

Oct 24, 2025

I ready never lets you see the answer to the question so you never learn from your mistakes and the lessons are way to long and if you get 60 percent you have to restart the whole lesson which takes you 30 minutes

Oct 31, 2025

I am a student at Valley View Charter Montessori Middle School and this is what I think of it. I-ready has long lessons and the activities is not fun at all. There are other sites that are more helpful than I-ready because it has something interesting to do. I used one and you could get great rewards from completing lessons. The lessons were also a lot more fun too. Iready is the worst and most time consuming platform ever.

Sep 19, 2025

It is just plain horrible. It takes 30 minutes of a robot speaking to teach you nothing! In the quiz sometimes when you mess up (most of the time caused by the uselessness of i-ready) you fail the lesson and have to wait another 30 minutes of the robot talking.

Mar 3, 2026

This is the worst app ever. At school when I hear my teacher say " get out you chrome books for i-ready" I'm like bro. I swear they make us use this app just to be mean. Like how does even help learn. PLEASE GET THIS APP BAN

Feb 9, 2026

It wants your money. Lessons take to long if you do 3 questions it gives you 4% on the bar thats on 100%. This app takes to long in class u have 1h to do 3 lessons and put your name on the bord no one was on the bord. No one likes iready its a app that ruins kids school. When i was a kid i cried more then once becaus of this app.

Sep 11, 2025

First off, what the actual $#*! is this website and who the $#*! decided to make this. This platform is absolute dog$#*!. For talking about actual concerns, I want to highlight three main points. First, the fact that none of the stupidly boring mind-numbing brain-eating cell-destroying lessons are actually worth anything in the real world. Second, the lessons aren't even close to being personalized. Lastly, whenever you get a question wrong by accident, it treats you like an autistic baby who is high on magic shrooms. To begin, none of the I-Ready lessons teach you anything that will be helpful in any career. They are only available to get good grades, and they fail even at something as $#*!ing simple as that. The lessons only go up to eighth grade on both English and Math, and do nothing that any teacher without dementia or alzheimer's could do. They also give off some of the least dopamine out of any platform in existence. I think I can speak for multiple other groups of people when I say that I would rather watch paint dry for thirty minutes than do another one of those $#*!ing lessons. The voice on the platform sounds like it was recorded by a condescending parent who $#*!ing hates kids and is elongated so much that you can go 30 seconds without answering the actual question because of how slow the voice talks. The questions are repetitive as hell and talk about $#*! you learned like 9 $#*!ing lessons ago. I think I've probably already convinced you of how mind-numbing and nugatory these lessons are. Touching up on my second point, the lessons aren't even personalized at all. Every time I do the $#*!ty diagnostic(I could write an entire reddit thread about how bad that $#*!ing $#*! is), it gives me the most annoying high school type questions, and then places me in $#*!ing eight grade linear equations. Finally, whenever you get just a singular $#*!ing question wrong, even though a misclick, the voice pops up again and says some of the most brain-cell destroying dumbass down syndromic type $#*!. It talks for like 3 of the longest minutes you will ever experience in your life, and then precedes to tell you $#*! that you already know. Every $#*!ing time that happens, I immediately put up my middle finger. In conclusion, I-Ready is some of the worst $#*! ever devised by despicable humans, and should be immediately banned. The CEO should be thrown into the deepest, darkest corners of hell and then burned alive while everyone down there stabbed him with pitchforks.

Feb 16, 2026

It can improve in these ways * Lessons can be shorter time * Create a notebook so kids don't always do math in their head * If you fail a lesson make a easier lesson instead of repeating it *( In play cupcake earn more money and when you want to buy something in that game take out the ahhh sound) *( In play pizza when buying something change it that you have to switch buyers just to earn money instead just do the same buying thing as play cupcake) * ( In play cupcake when you get the wrong order change that it says grow your brain and to much coordinates) and that is how I-Ready can get better

Mar 11, 2026

I am in 7th grade and this app is horrible it is medieval torture I would rather shoot myself than do another lesson on i ready

Jan 11, 2026

I wish I can make this 0 stars but as a kid in 5th grade our math teacher is almost always s**t posting this piece of crap. At least I have a w ELA teacher that doesn't use this. Don't even get me started on the diagnostics. They take ONE HOUR to complete then they might say ur in KINDERGRADEN. They go from 1 + 1 to THE PYAGRETHOM THEROEM they might say u rushed. The lessons have soulless characters, and they yap longer than ur grandma's lifespan. Sometimes when u say 2 + 2 is 4 they say uh oh that's not right it's 4. Like what the f***k. Advice for my school use PRODIGY

Jan 20, 2026

Iready is so rigged it does not teach you anything it yapps for 10 minutes straight it should not be a thing and nothing makes sense

Dec 12, 2025

In every single lesson either math or ela they always yap or talk more then they want to decide to teach.

Oct 5, 2025

Person who signed up for their program here. They have you join in a Zoom meeting with 10 other people. It's extremely stressful and they give you 39 assignments every week. Not only that, the people there were very toxic. Mason, (who glazed 67) kept telling me "SYBAU BOIIIII MANGO MANGO MUSTARD ADRIAN BARBERSHOP" after I spoke up at times. Another person, called Ashley, kept showing off her Labubu collection, her KATSEYE memorabilia, her KPOP DEMON HUNTERS merch, and her Stanley cups. She also told us about Halloween costume ideas that were literally just regular outfits. She also made fun of me. There was also Edgar, the nonchalant emo kid. Every class he would say he was "so emo and broken", and he had one of those sad Bart Simpson profile pictures. He said "youre not stressed, youre faking!" to me. Then there was Mya, the scene kid. She glazed "Regretevator" and "Forsaken". She also had a retroslop avatar and a really colorful profile picture. Mya said I was "not silly > :(" . The teacher wasn't a super nice person either. I'm glad I left it.

Jan 12, 2026

When i was doing i-ready, it said to come to 517 E Martintown Rd, North Augusta, SC *******, i did not come, please arrest him

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I hate i ready
March 12, 2026

I am in 7th grade and this app is horrible it is medieval torture I would rather shoot myself than do another lesson on i ready

Date of experience: March 12, 2026
Michigan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This company should hire more devs
March 11, 2026

I am a 7th grader,

I-ready is a sorry excuse for a website, it is slow, and the website is horrible to navigate, the diagnostic is long and boring but not too bad compared to M-STEP the Michigan standardized testing, and the lessons are horrible quality, I could probably get better education by feeding ChatGPT my test answers and having it teach me the skills i need to know. And in the attached image, my teacher had assigned 2 things prior with no due date, (don't mind the time I have location off and I havent set it yet)

Date of experience: March 10, 2026
1 review
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YAPPING pls make change
March 9, 2026

YAPPING in my face like what's the? For #2 like I already answered that pls make changes so it doesn't have to YAP so much yaps a lot of you fail.

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Date of experience: March 9, 2026
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STOP!
March 9, 2026

Why... You have made my life horrible. I am failing school now. Just leave and go fahh yourselves.

Date of experience: March 9, 2026

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Most annoying grueling experience ever.
March 8, 2026

Im in 5th grade. They started doing this I-ready app for about 1-2 years now I think I dont really know but I hate it. It makes you take a rigged diagnostic in then after that you take more lessons. After I took the diagnostic I had to do lessons. KINDERGARTEN WORK, it had to make me put numbers in order as if I dont know how to count, while doing it I was genuinely so bored I shut my brain off and was just frowning the whole time, if anything my brain felt like it was rotting, hurting doing the same thing repeated and repeated over and over again. Genuinely the worst app I think I have ever seen for schools, not to mention that they also make it look like a cartoon for little children in kindergarten, and if your not on the diagnostic for a couple of days it makes you redo it, and theres no dark mode and it kills your eyes, and if you fail a question it doesnt help you or give you the answer or anything it just says "retry" or something and theres not skip button if you dont know an answer on the diagnostic, and for someone like me where im pretty sure it times your answers as well, someone WITH ADHD, makes it even harder to do because i often find myself just zoning out, forgetting answers, etc,.

Date of experience: March 7, 2026
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Who likes iready?
March 7, 2026

I used to love iready when all it was was fun lessons and punch cards for prizes. What happened? The characters weren't everyone's favorite, but I kept wondering when I'd see them again. Then 6th grade hit. Iready pro removed all that I still liked. The diagnostics are long and some of my friends had to stress to complete it. I don't like iready, and I don't think anyone would miss it. This should be on Stewie Griffin's list.

Date of experience: March 6, 2026
California
1 review
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Don't use i-Ready!
March 7, 2026

Hi, my name is Preston. I am an autistic 5th grade student who lives in California. My teacher wants me to do i-Ready, but i-Ready makes me stressed out. On the subjects of reading and math, I am forced to finish at least 45 minutes with at least 2 lessons. If I do this, I have the ability to get Fun Friday. I sometimes do Fun Friday, despite the fact that my school district has their own very strict firewall. It blocks bypassers, non-managed websites and applications, you name it! But for now, all I want to say is don't use i-Ready. Almost the entire amount of people who use i-Ready hate it, and that includes me. I-Ready is not helpful for education. And, let me just make one blanket statement here. If you support i-Ready, or if you are a member of the i-Ready team, like Kelly Sia, then a lot of people are not going to like you. I-Ready is not educational, they just want your tutoring money. Also, i-Ready spies on minors who get wrong answers. This could mean that i-Ready is being run by scammers. Thank you for reading this, and tell your teacher this review. If you have any questions for me, please contact my email. I hope you have a great day.

Date of experience: March 6, 2026
Illinois
1 review
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DON'T GET THE APP
March 3, 2026

This is the worst app ever. At school when I hear my teacher say " get out you chrome books for i-ready" I'm like bro. I swear they make us use this app just to be mean. Like how does even help learn. PLEASE GET THIS APP BAN

Date of experience: March 3, 2026
California
1 review
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I READY IS A FORM OF CHINESE TORTURE
February 24, 2026

I ready is HELL and I want it to break 200 bones and heal and break 200 more bones over and over without breaks and no painkillers

Date of experience: February 24, 2026
Florida
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Program I- Ready can improve
February 16, 2026

It can improve in these ways
* Lessons can be shorter time
* Create a notebook so kids don't always do math in their head
* If you fail a lesson make a easier lesson instead of repeating it
*( In play cupcake earn more money and when you want to buy something in that game take out the ahhh sound)
*( In play pizza when buying something change it that you have to switch buyers just to earn money instead just do the same buying thing as play cupcake)
* ( In play cupcake when you get the wrong order change that it says grow your brain and to much coordinates) and that is how I-Ready can get better

Date of experience: February 16, 2026
New York
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Waste of life.
February 12, 2026

Do you know what hell of a circus this is? I've sat my my $#*! down for what feels like hours and only got 11 minutes. I needed to gain 50. Plus i was already in a bad mood, as i am really short tempered. (i'm in middle school, of course i am.) bottom line, NEVER USE THIS.

Date of experience: February 12, 2026
Nevada
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Iready is the worst
February 12, 2026

I-ready made p. Diddy oil up my school and made mason 67 and tralalero tralala rizz up my teachers gyatts and made us do the tyla dance. Do not recommend

Date of experience: February 5, 2025
New York
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Boring annoying.
February 10, 2026

I ready is a boring website where you basically read boring texts and answer questions. It is a waste of time! DO NOT USE IT!

Date of experience: January 7, 2025
Ghana
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WORST APP ALERT
February 9, 2026

It wants your money. Lessons take to long if you do 3 questions it gives you 4% on the bar thats on 100%. This app takes to long in class u have 1h to do 3 lessons and put your name on the bord no one was on the bord. No one likes iready its a app that ruins kids school. When i was a kid i cried more then once becaus of this app.

Date of experience: February 9, 2026
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Long and useless
February 6, 2026

I-ready just talks a long time without really helping. It takes up time just to learn barely anything, and they teach the students many different, complicated, long methods for math that are different from school. As a result of those lengthy lessons, it takes a long time to complete them, and some students don't have that time. Some people struggle just complete one lesson and sometimes fail; this results in having to do the WHOLE lesson all over. And just for nothing? Students barely learn anything from that. In addition to that, some lessons from the old I-ready that teachers assign have LONG introductions/practice, then they have a quiz that has 1 question WRONG, it can bring YOUR % DOWN ABOUT 15%-20%. The new I-ready just has a taskbar THAT BARELY MOVES. Sometimes when they try to apply what they learn from the lessons to the FAST, for example, it could be wrong. In conclusion, I-ready is just a waste of time and utterly useless. From my experience of using I-ready every single week, doing 4 lessons, it is just a waste of my time that I could be using to study for my test, hanging out with my friends, or just resting. And some people IN MY CLASS have to do about 4 or 5 lessons for each of the subjects, and sometimes both. So doing about 10 lessons in total for I-ready is just useless when they learn absolutely NOTHING. So again, I-ready is useless and long.

Date of experience: February 5, 2026
New York
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I-Ready is Medieval Torture
January 30, 2026

I'm an eighth grader and I have to use this god forsaken sorry excuse of a website. The diagnostic is long, annoying, boring, and uninteresting. They don't even make it a test because they keep changing the questions and they don't let you change your answers or see your score. The lessons are not much better, as they are also boring and uninteresting but they are also biased and/or don't make sense a lot of the time. Only the hard questions are graded and getting three wrong answers makes you fail the lesson. When you fail a lesson they make you do it all over again with absolutely no guidance at all, like they think you are a robot or something. The lessons are also very slow, and the only questions you can change your answers to are the ungraded questions which takes a really long time as they make you listen to how to get the answer right, meanwhile I figured out the correct answer when the question said my previous answer was wrong. The characters look terrible, have no personality, and they don't have a purpose. They are just there to make your tedious I-Ready experience even worse. I would still say all of this a year ago, but since then I-Ready has gotten rid of the games. These games were fun and were a good break from the grind of the lessons. But now they have been discontinued, replaced by a stupid, boring, and poorly edited breathing video. Now I-Ready is truly just a waste of time and has become a modern form of medieval torture. Curriculum Associates can suck my b**** and those of thousands of angry I-Ready learners. They should be punished for all of the wasted time and suffering that they have caused. They treat children like statistics and don't give accurate data and are just all around a s***** company. Teachers, use Brainpop or Khan Academy or literally anything else. I know that there are some bad learning sites out there and I have used them, but none of them can even come close to the aggravation and suffering that exists as a byproduct of I-Ready.

Date of experience: January 27, 2026
Colorado
1 review
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I Ready sucks and I want it gone
January 28, 2026

This app has ruined math and reading for me. It absolutely sucks and I want it gone soon. My child has not learned anything from it and if anything makes it more complicated than its suppose to be.

Date of experience: January 28, 2026
Michigan
1 review
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DO NOT DO IREADY
January 21, 2026

Iready is so rigged it does not teach you anything it yapps for 10 minutes straight it should not be a thing and nothing makes sense

Date of experience: January 20, 2026
Idaho
2 reviews
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BOO! HISS! I HATE I-READY!
January 18, 2026

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Date of experience: December 29, 2025
New York
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$#*!K IM REVISITING
January 16, 2026

So as it turns out my school wants to make me blacked out like a phantung and make me have a tantrum. The thing is I have had previous experiences with this $#*! $#*! website and the thing is for anybody that sees this I want to to let you know this is not hate just to hate, but because its so tedious. Specifically the parts of the quizzes. After each math or ELA lesson there is a quiz and it does not help at all with this slave like app. After each fail it doesn't even give you advice and if you fail the lesson entirely it restarts you repeatedly until you fail 3 times. After 3 times it moves you on and you essentially learn nothing and you can't go back to previous lessons. Overall, you'll learn nothing from this hellhole and you should boycott Iready.

Date of experience: January 16, 2026