Afficient is a nice platform for kids to learn on their own pace at home! It designs the way to allocate personalized assignments to students each week, and students follow the tasks to either learn n... See more
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Afficient Academy, a leading provider of AI-based K-12 learning programs, offers computerized Math and English programs that greatly improve learning efficiency and quality. Founded in 2014 to help students “Achieve ‘A’ Efficiently,” Silicon Valley-based Afficient Academy has helped over 15,000 students with its market-proven, self-paced learning programs powered by its patented “Afficient Methodology.” After completing a complimentary online diagnostic test, students receive individualized AI-based programs that adapt to their academic level. Intelligent algorithms guide students through learning paths that are highly efficient and optimized to help students reach A/A+. Teachers provide support to help students in their self-learning process. Interactive, fun, and rewarding, Afficient programs motivate students to make persistent progress and achieve excellence. Over 90 percent of Afficient students complete one grade level with an A or A+ in two to four months. Students are empowered to enroll in advanced courses and achieve better grades in school – all with less time and stress. https://afficienta.com.
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Well designed curriculum and ways of reinforcement. Help build a solid foundation for kid's learning, highly recommend. Also self paced, allowing self propellers to get ahead of the curve.

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Afficient has been a great tool for my kid. It help and improve my daughter’s reading and vocabulary.
She is very enjoyed learning every day.

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Afficient has motivated my child to stay on track with school curricula and reinforce what she has learned. It has been particularly helpful in encouraging daily practice in math and English. I'm happy to see my kid's progress. I would recommend the program to other parents!

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Afficient Academy has been a transformative tool for our family. Our son, who struggled with math in 4th grade due to learning loss during COVID-19, showed significant improvement after practicing with Afficient Math. Encouraged by his progress, we enrolled his twin brother, and both have since developed greater confidence in their math abilities. Now, they’re excelling in an accelerated math program in middle school, thanks to their daily exercises on the platform. The self-paced, self-learning approach is ideal for busy parents, as it allows children to advance independently without constant supervision. We highly recommend Afficient Academy to any parent seeking to enhance their children’s math skills.

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Afficient is an excellent online learning platform, especially for helping my child develop accuracy and patience in learning English. Its intelligent learning system provides personalized exercises and feedback based on the child's level, ensuring they master each concept step by step. For non-native speakers, this gradual approach is particularly important, allowing children to progress with understanding rather than feeling frustrated by a pace that’s too fast. Afficient helps improve English skills and fosters self-discipline and good study habits.

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Afficient has been a great resource to my education. It’s a good review before a test and I could have a chance of being ahead of others in math.

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My daughter is a 10th grade student. She has studied the Afficient for three years. She feels that help to make up for her shortcomings in school and improved her academic performance. We are very satisfied.

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This has been a life changer as it changed my grade completely. It is not only able to increase the knowledge of math and english quickly but allows you to quickly adapt to fast thinking in order to finish tests as fast as possible.

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Afficient is the great online resource for kids to improve their learning skills for English and math. My son has been with Afficient since he was a fifth grader, his vocabulary/ reading /math skills was improved a lot after 6 months. Thanks Afficient! Special thanks to Nathan, he is very supportive and always reply to me promptly, I am so happy with him.

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Honestly, it's fine but I think it can be better! I think the demos could be more clear and in child language but other than that it's really fine.

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Thank you Afficient! My daughter has been going into classes outside of school and she said she didn't quite like them, so I thought of finding an app online for her to work on. I found Afficient, Nathan who helped me get through the steps of creating an account, and told me what my daughter needed to approve in. Afficient and Nathan both are very supportive in my situation and I am very thankful for them.

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It's very helpful for studying. When I first stared , I was a bit angry because it was kind of hard. I started at grade 3 and now I'm grade 4 but I'm doing grade 6 math!!! I'm truly sorry for being angry at the program because now, I like it!!!

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The courses are well organized,and helpful to the boy coming to the United States without enough English training. He started hard and got used to do it everyday, and he loves the challenge day by day. This study also helped his ENL study in the school. Thus he wants to continue.

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I want to share my amazing experience of Afficient. I’ve heard about it for quite long time but only tried it recently after getting not very ideal outcome from many other programs.
I would say the weekly progress bar, tokens, and ladder board really motivate kids to learn. It’s much better than me yelling at them.
The “helping mode” can help parents save ton of time teaching kids by ourselves. The steps are so well illustrated and the kids can easily follow by themselves alone.
The course consultant Derrick is also great. He not only cares about the kids progression speed but also pays attention to establishing a good learning habit.
So far this program is the one with least effort from parents and best learning result. Up vote with a million stars!

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This is from someone who's been using Afficient for 3+ years. While it works and has helped me a bit (hence 2 stars instead of 1), there are some big issues. Afficient uses deceptive advertising and has poor demos/instruction. When you see an ad for Afficient the first thing that it says is "Artificial Learning". There is no artificial learning. I confronted one of the Afficient executives about this and told me that there is AI. No there is not, it's just a simple algorithm. It could barely classify as "machine learning". I can literally draw a picture of how progression and regression of this program works. I can quite literally state it right here, when you join Afficient your child will take a diagnostic test which will test a few skills from each chapter (Afficient structures itself with lessons => chapters => grades) and then depending on whether they answered/answered it on time will they get a check for that. Afficient will then see what skills the child is lacking and then begin their learning there. However this is way worse and slower than an actual teacher as here it's just an algorithm, there are causes for error and the child can easily misclick or misinterpret instructions. After the diagnostic your child will do problems. There are 4 levels but the first one is the learning stage. This is where they will read a "demo" that is not very easy to understand especially in the higher levels. Then it will be the assisted exercise which to be honest I don't think many people actually do, as it's the same thing as the demo and you don't get points for it. Then it is the actual problems. You have to get 5/6 or 3/4 depending on the skill. You can fail as many times as you want as long as you still get 5/6 or 3/4. You cannot move below this level. Then it's proficiency, which has levels 1,2,3 and proficient. This is basically you do 2 review questions (one from this grade, one from a previous one) and 4 questions from the lessons in the chapter in order (and you cannot skip the order or gain proficiency in a specific lesson). If you get it wrong it used to go to learning immediately but they realized that it was horrible for learning and not efficient, they added a "level 1- make up level", which if you do will go to level 2. This goes on until level 3 which is timed. You can always go down even from doing review questions and after you complete all the lessons to proficient do you move on to the next lesson. Now that I've laid it all out, you realize it's not actually AI. You could probably code this in Scratch. There's no LLMs, it's not training a model for each student that can see where they can improve. It's just a script (no pun intended) that tells you what (out of the predefined skills) are you not "proficient" in. Now moving on to demos, they are a giant paragraph that "explain" the concept but don't do it well. You have to read it over a few times as it's such a big chunk of text for some chapters. Afficient doesn't take in mind that some people learn by watching a video. When kids need help they need to connect to a Zoom advisor or in person, but at this point why not just go to an in person math class that gives homework? They should at least put an real AI powered chat bot, but I guess they're pretending their algorithm is AI. But to be honest, your child will still learn the skill, just not as easily and happily as advertised. I've seen many kids get very frustrated as the demos don't explain anything and the help button for the questions don't tell them how to fix their mistake, just how to do it, and sometimes that doesn't actually help them learn. Overall I think Afficient needs a major restructuring on their program, UI overhaul, fix their advertising or actually add AI elements. So just get a tutor, or wait until Afficient fixes something.

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Afficient is literally the worst thing you could possibly do. I bet its made up of some chinese guy who wants to ruin kids' interest in math. Whenever there are conplaints, instead of the people who work for afficient saying : sorry we can improve, they are like: thats our purpose, you just gotta do it right, deal with it. LIKE WTF. AND PLUS, THE DEMOS SUCK THEY DONT EXPLAIN AT ALL. I NEED A REFUND.

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It could be better. Like maybe the demos. You should make it more clear. You should create Afficient games! And for the %s you should make it for when you get a question wrong, you should not make it drop so much! Like one time, it dropped from 72% to 26%. That is way too much!

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It could be better... Maybe make the Demos more clear and in kid language you know. Like a little more clearer. But it is actually not that bad! It's really helpful to learn!

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My daughter just started and she wanted to continue when I wanted to cancel. She likes the program as it teaches her first then do assisted or self-checking problems. We hope to gain more benefits in the long run. I also hope they have other subjects.

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My daughter has been taking Afficient for a few years. Very helpful. Recommend.

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