Mastering Reviews & Product Details

Mastering contains many videos explaining and visualizing scientific concepts and ideas, which are extremely helpful for students learning difficult subject matters. Additionally, there are many study tools that aid in memory and concept retention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's (almost) too many resources on Mastering, and it's not organized efficiently. It would also be helpful if the content was more customizable to fit the professor's lectures and notes, rather than leaving it up to the student to sift through an overwhelming large amount of material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many choices in terms of supplemental textbooks that students find very helpful when they are struggling with learning the material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The grading options could be more well defined and offer more room to adjust and modify grading policy and procedure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has all the necessary concepts in one place and it can be used for many many subjects like biology, physics, chemistry etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There aren’t really clear instructions for beginners on how to do certain things. I think that’s something they can improve on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is somewhat convenient for instructors to use because it frees them gettin grading homework assignments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extremely frustrating grading system. Highly inconsistent between instructions and the correct answer. For example, in Mastering Chemistry: drawing a molecule correctly, but starting at the wrong end of the molecule, renders the entire answer incorrect with full point deduction.

Similarly, Mastering Physics often displays the correct answer when prompted with a different number of decimal places than the question asked for. Answering the question with the requested number of digits marks the problem incorrect. Our instructors often had to go back and manually check answers to reinstate credit, negating much of the time saving benefits this software intended. The UI is tedious, it is full of broken links and it is hard to open new tabs with a problem rather than a new popup window. The design looks ancient. Objectively worse than similar learning tools such as Sapling. Horribly expensive burden for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love this technology! As an ambassador, I have had the opportunity to advise on the development and user interface that has gone into this product. Personally, I have used this technology (Biology and Chemistry) to advance my academics. The flashcards and quizzes that are offered really help me prepare for my college exams, and untimely held me understand the material that was covered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like the audio component offered -- I am a visual learner so this aspect does not benefit me specifically. Also, I think the voice over person talks to slow/fast at times. Which makes following along with the content difficult at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The number and variety of features and the ease of use of this product is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes can be buggy and slow. The support form Person should improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plenty of resources given to master a subject. Some resources include: quizzes, flashcards, and practice exams. You can even test yourself based on a chapter in the book. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maybe if they had sections for main/key points for each chapter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pearson integrates its learning system with its textbooks. I like that there are a variety of different question types (multiple choice, matching, labeling, interactive widgets). The videos have great production values and the animations are clear and well-made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The textbooks have way too much content and this failure bleeds over into the learning activities. Although the videos are great, the questions following the videos focus on details rather than the main concepts. Interactive activities, likewise, have too much focus on minor points and cannot be edited. Other questions are very oriented on memorization of facts and terms, which is fine for a few questions but not helpful when you need to test higher-level understanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.