The content is fun to work though and the range of courses is excellent. I had a bit of an issue with almost getting charged for a year subscription, but after a quick email it was resolved. I only ga... See more
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Brilliant helps learners achieve much higher levels of ability in STEM, in less time, with more purpose and joy. Its content spans algebra, programming, and other quantitative problem solving across math and computer science. Brilliant’s lessons prioritize visual representations and active learning. Lessons build intuition with visual explanations, hands-on manipulation, and concrete computation. Brilliant doesn’t teach how to do something before asking questions—instead, it lets learners try to find a solution before learning the procedure. Every lesson has associated practice sets. For personalized practice, Brilliant predicts the optimal next problem to ask, so that learners are adequately prepared to answer future questions. This includes spaced repetition in weak areas and mixing practice problems from different concepts, so that learners must identify what approach to use to solve each problem, rather than just applying the same procedure to every problem. Brilliant’s courses are crafted by multiple IMO medalists and PhDs from MIT, Caltech, Stanford, and Harvard. Brilliant serves people who take pride in having a well-trained mind—students seeking to excel in STEM, professionals learning new skills or refreshing dormant ones, and lifelong learners staying sharp. Brilliant’s optimized learning experience is not only effective, interactive, and adaptive—it’s also fun. The gamification layer provides scaffolding for motivation and habit formation. This provides another tool to help learners stick with learning even in the absence of tutors or parents who help foster motivation. The content itself is also designed to feel fun—from the pedagogical design of the interactives and problem progression, to the types of sounds, feedback, and haptics as learners interact and progress through levels of progressively more difficult problem solving in a topic.
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Engaging material, good customer service. Some confusion regarding group vs family plans.
Excellent material, interesting and engaging even for kids. In the science section maybe it would be nice to have something also related to biology/life sciences.
I can only complain about some confusion between offers for group and family plans. I seemed to be offered only group plans initially, depending on accessing from a sponsor link or not. Eventually I was offered a family plan, which was much more convenient than the group plan. I had an issue about mistakenly subscribing from my kid's account and customer service promptly helped to fix the issue.

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Best costumer service
Best costumer service!
Helped me with my special request immediately and were super nice too.
My Experience - It's too elementary and their refund policy is awful!
I signed up for this because I believe in supporting non-profit work. In addition, I assumed that it would be a great way to learn Python. I was wrong!
To get the benefit of the learning path, you're encouraged to subscribe to their premium plan, but you do have the option to cancel.
I tried it out, and it was too "gamey". It felt like something my kids would like, and not an adult. I was very disappointed. During the time I subscribed, I had a loss in my family and was responsible for planning the funeral. I simply forgot to cancel and received a notification that I was being charged the fee.
In a panic, I went to cancel, but per their policy, they don't give refunds, even in extenuating circumstances such as mine. I offered to provide an obituary and was told, "Sorry for your loss, but we can't cancel per the policy".
Again, if you're an adult using this platform to learn, don't do it, and beware of their policy.

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Exceeded My Expectations
I started using Brilliant because I recognized that I needed to refresh on, shore up, and strengthen my foundational skills in math and computer science. I did have high expectations but did not believe they would be exceeded. The content and its visual presentation has truly helped deepen and extend my understanding and insight into these fundamentals. I look forward to every session and, given all of the other interesting topics, to all of the future understanding the platform will help me unlock. If you need to shake off the rust, fill in holes, deepen your understanding, and expand your foundational knowledge base, you have to give Brilliant a try.
Last thing, in an era where customer service is hit or miss, their’s is a definite hit—pleasant and responsive.

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I would give it a negative rating if I…
I would give it a negative rating if I could.
I canceled after 3 days because the lessons were unhelpful too simple.
They refused a refund citing their terms of use policy.
I would be very careful about this site, also there is no one to answer the phone posted on their website.
Seems like a scam!
Winston

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I was very impressed the customer…
I was very impressed the customer service. I felt they went beyond what was expected and provided outstanding service.
The app itself works great and is a boon for visual learners.
Great place to start when learning from…
Great place to start when learning from start
the little 'gamified exercises' helps to learn quickly too

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Awesome service!
Great Math Resource
I enjoyed my time using the site to explore new ideas to engage myself and my students in secondary and post secondary mathematics education.
Unsubscribed to them week ago
Unsubscribed to them week ago, and deleted my account, still get billed in my credit card, stay away people

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My son used Brilliant for senior school…
My son used Brilliant for senior school and onwards into undergraduate and found it a great service.
Also, support team were v helpful in tracking down account and subscription details when required. Generally a thumbs up!

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Fantastic customer service
Fantastic customer service! I sent an email and, within 20 minutes, received a reply that addressed my issue. No AI, no case #, no link to pages that had nothing to do with my issue. I'm really amazed -- and happy!

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Fantastic
Fantastic: it helped me learn concepts with ease. Best learning app I have used.

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Reactivation.
I thought I forgot my password, but I had accidently deactivated my account a while ago. I contacted the customer service (Sandy), who manged to restore my account for me.

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Very good customer service
Very good customer service, quick to respond, i was late to cancel my subscribtion which i haven't used. they refunded me when i mailed customer service anyways.
Horrible customer service
Horrible customer service. Refunds are impossible besides under some super exceptional circumstance.
The courses are also super basic, pick up any elementary book and you will learn much more.

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Avoid Brilliant.org - it’s a money driven scam
Like several others who’ve had the misfortune of subscribing to this service, I followed their instructions to the letter when I attempted to cancel their annual membership. So far, they’ve made a total of 11 attempts to bill my credit card even after I cancelled my subscription. This organization cannot be trusted and I see no value in ever doing business with them ever again. My advice - avoid brilliant.org like the plague!! As for my next steps, I’m going to the BBB!

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Scammy
The learning method is useless you can just watch a 15 minute youtube video and learn what it takes them an hour to teach theyre method if charging is scammy they refuse to let me cancle my subscription had to get a new card and report mine as stolen because they kept charging 100$ constantly and costomer support was not avalable I couldnt even open the page for it because of how they set it up

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Shady subscriptoin renew
Brilliant.org charged me for annual subscription without notice, and refused a refund. And even canceled our subscription. Support won’t help. Shady behavior. Never buy annual subscription”

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Complete scam and waste of money
Complete scam and waste of money. I can for sure do a reclaim on my card. They accept credit cards and there is no way to cancel (emails are conveniently not adhered to). Here's what I would do: contact the bank, show them that I cancelled and ask for a reclamation. Waste of time, and additional effort.
That being said, this is an "educational" platforms with pathetic morals - why and what would I trust them to teach? Nope!

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