i hate this app the waiting time is to long its laggy lockout time is to long way to many bugs annoying instructer boring lessons no use in this world would never let my kids use this read more

Ray Dass sucks, this guy doesn't know how to teach anything. Half of his lessons give questionable answers and his "teachings" don't teach me how to fix what I'm doing wrong. I just got my account flagged because I got so many question wrong, Ray Dass a bum. read more

Sara by Ray Dass is the worst thing ever.Its so time consuming and it barely explains on how to do a certain problem,the instructor does the easiest problems and gives the student the hardest problems.This app is horrible,I hope schools stop using it soon. read more

This is the worst thing you can do for students. The videos don't help as the instructor does the easiest problems and gives the student the hard ones. Please don't waist your students time by doing this. read more

Sara by Ray Dass is absolutely awful. It's very tedious and time consuming making the student spent an inordinate amount of time crunching numbers and figures without actually teaching them or learning anything. The course is simple enough. You get different sections that are tuned to your scholastic level. So if you're in Algebra 1, you get Algebra 1 and earlier questions going back to arithmetic. If you're in Geometry, you get Geometry and earlier. If you're in Junior English, you get Junior English level stuff and earlier. Whatever level you're in you get your current level and all previous scholastic levels down to the most basic. Sounds like a good review that builds on itself right? Wrong. You get a video at the beginning of each section with some boring white guy who drones on and on and on about the topic. If you want that then Khan Academy is better, much better. Honestly just watching videos is not the best though. As we have seen with online school through the COVID pandemic, it's not that good and even before corona, videos only work for a very motivated student who wants to fill in the gaps on one particular topic they feel they need to enrich and research in the moment not as a general approach. The questions themselves are a lot of work but you spend a lot of time just crunching them and not really learning anything. After having done many different test prep books and even a few online courses for most of the national tests through the years these questions are very generic and cover the topics broadly but don't have the style, personality or signature of any of the national tests ranging from the high school entrance exams to the actual SAT/ACT's as well. What really makes Ray Dass Sara very time inefficient is that there are no answers or explanations to the questions that help the student learn from their mistakes or analyze their approach. If you get just a handful wrong, you have to restart the WHOLE section without even knowing what your mistake might have been. Unfortunately the software never tells you what your mistake was or teaches you so you have to restart from scratch. If you make too many mistakes it "flags your account". So you're spending a lot of time just trying to self analyse your own progress to see what/how you got wrong because the software won't even tell you! This is valuable time you could be using to do more questions. It's so tedious and boring and mind numbing that you could spend 1/2 the time you waste on Ray Dass on any of the reputable books (Barron's, Kaplan, Princeton, Kumon to mention a few) on your test of choice which each cost a pittance on Amazon. That time would be far better spent learning the strategies, question types, approaches and most importantly having answer keys with detailed explanation that help the student gain feedback from their experience so they can raise their score. It's almost as if Ray Dass or whoever owns this designed it around a price or profit point not going the extra mile to make it easy or worthwhile for the student to spend their time or money on it. Agree with the other review that if the schools didn't buy it and force their kids to do it like ours, no one would want this. If you're serious about actually taking a test prep online class the established reputable services cost in the same price range and include far more teaching, realistic tests as well as guided solutions with custom feedback generated based on your score especially where your mistakes are which is something you don't see at all with Sara. The other services' engines can even be programmed by the user in some cases to emphasize certain things over others once you get comfortable or have certain desires or needs. The other services' questions themselves are also better layered and the solution explanations seem to use a lot of the same words or share insights that over time build test taking skill, something that without solutions is completely absent with Sara. We all know what these services are, Kaplan, Barron's, Princeton, Kumon, and others. My personal favorite always was and always will be Kaplan but each has their own flavor and all of them are really good, effective if the student makes the effort, more time efficient and more educational than Sara at a similar pricepoint. At parity of price unless Ray Dass greatly revamps their approach there is no contest with other options currently available on the market because they cost the same or less and are better in every way. But you don't have to be well off to prepare for these tests either because most of the $10-15 books are based on their much more expensive online classes and in a ~500 page book you get 80% of what the internet class gives at a fraction of the price so you can buy large numbers of them and do tons of questions. With so many better options I don't see much of a role for Ray Dass' Sara and would steer a potential buyer towards more efficient uses of their time and money. read more

I agree with all the other reviews. Very frustrating when they do not provide an explanation for answers you get incorrect.

I'm personally a student of this program and i will tell you, this is so bad. I have to spend every week doing 2 courses. Its very difficult when I get a problem wrong and the guy doesn't explain how to do that type of problem so then I'm stuck with these stupid questions and I get very mad and frustrated. So I get flagged and I just don't want to do it more and more and I will get a 0 and my grade will go down exponentially. read more

the website is confusing and repetitive and when questions are answered wrongly, there is no explanation on what is right. sometimes I'll complete a brain and then it will lock me out and erase all my progress. it's a really frustrating process and it causes me to fall behind in classes and get bad grades. I think it would be awesome if this website didn't exist or if it was better developed. I just find it really unreliable. definitely needs to actually listen to the audience and stop tuning them out. so many people hate this website for a reason. the problem should be solved, but it's not. read more

The questions themselves are iffy and some I've noticed phrase things too open-end making it easy to interpret wrongly. It also repeats the same questions too often after so many failures making it super easy to learn nothing and you spend way to long on simple questions. They don't teach you to think for yourself and be boss but how to crunch numbers aka mainly lower level work which is not what I am trying to learn how to do. I want to learn to come up with solutions on my own but in Sara its not like that, they tell you haw to do it the only thing you to do it the actual math. If you wanted to teach kids how to be a calculator then this is perfect course for you. BUT what might be the worst thing about this site might be the fact that it never shows you or tells you why you got a question wrong. It only tells you you got it wrong. Personally I like to know what I am doing wrong and why my answer is wrong. You learn most from your mistakes and that fact that this website does not show you them it almost inhibits me. Also if you look at research in general online learning does very little for the students themselves. read more

This is the worst app I have ever used! It's not helping what so ever! If you get it wrong it doesn't even explain what you did wrong! In math it doesn't explain your mistakes and in reading and grammar the sentence suck! This company is lucky that schools buy this product because if not this company would be out of business. Save your money it's a waist of time and not a help! Screw you Sara! read more