Middle School Advantage 2007

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $5.98

Customer Reviews:

Worst program I have ever purchased [Posted on 2006-06-25]
Great packaging. Ridiculously bad content.

I'm a techie and this is the single worst educational program I have ever purchased. This is a hodgepodge of programs they must have purchased from others. The tech is extremely old and
provides no guidance or instruction. Several of the programs don't work on XP. There are postings in users forums indicating that several people have the same problem but no answers. My guess is that most of these programs (at least the one that worked) are from the 1980's. Avoid at all costs. What a letdown compared to the packaging!

Software is horrible [Posted on 2007-03-23]
This software requires you uninstall your current version of windows media player install the Math Advantage software with an old version of Windows Media Player. This information came from the support forum after doing a search to help my problem

After I initially installed the program I tried to run one of the applications, I received an MPlayer2 error. This software is marked 2007, it should be able to run with more recent Media players

inconsistent [Posted on 2007-05-15]
I agree that this is just hodge-podge of unrelated programs. Some are much better than others. I did not have the installation issues mentioned by others. It even runs on NT. The biggest nuisance is the quality of the math program. It has bugs and is very, very poor quality instruction. My goodness, if your student struggles with math, poor instruction is the last thing he needs! The vocab and grammar programs are cute. A good review for a 6th grader, not higher. The foreign language program is basically flashcards. Good review, but zero instruction. I picked it up for my kids to use over the summer for something to do to and as a review. They are both middle school students. They found the math very confusing and the rest pretty easy. I got it at a discounted price. Probably worth it. NOT worth the list price (hence only 2 stars).

If I could give this product negative stars I would [Posted on 2008-02-13]
I agree with the other reviews. I purchased this product outside of Amazon but came here later to see what others thought about AFTER I ran into a host of issues. The applications are outdated, riddled with bugs and support for the application is lackluster. The packaging advertises quizzes and tests to track progress but there is only one sample quiz of one question per section and no way to track my child's progress. A BIG Let down.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!!! You'd do better letting your child sit in front of the TV watching public television. They'd get about the same out of it and its free.

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