Attain for Students

I think this a really good app idea and is pretty good so far. Just some improvements would make it excellent. One should be to have the option to end the week on Sunday instead of beginning on Sunday. My classes treat Monday as the first day of the week and Sunday as the last. The app starts on Sunday so it always puts my Sunday assignments on the next week instead of the week they were actually due. Also the calculation for study times is fantastic, however I would make it so you can set your own study goal. With my number of credits and goal GPA, the app planned a large number of study hours, but with work and my social life I cannot commit to that amount. The amount I do already is plenty, but I can’t change the goal in the app without changing my goal GPA or credit hours. Other than a few tweaks, I really like the app, I think it’s pretty revolutionary.

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I love this app, the one issue I kept having with my school work is I never had enough space in my planner to write down every single assignment/reading/and exam, it would just look too crowded. But having everything on my phone in addition to my wall calendar and my planner helps immensely! The reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was because I wish there was a way for the app to differentiate between exam days and lecture days. Classes take up lecture times to complete an exam, so those days I don’t have lecture but I still have the class technically. Also, I think there is a bug with the times. A lot of times I go in to check something and the app will have changed my class time to an hour earlier. Or if an assignment is due at the beginning of class, I usually set it to class time, but it keeps changing it to an hour earlier. I wish there was a feature where you could add in something that is due during class time. Otherwise, it’s a great app, and being able to check off that I went to class really helps me stay motivated to go to class. Also, I love the study timer, it helps me decided when I should take breaks, and break up my studying into subjects rather than just doing everything at once.

Just got this app today as I started planning for the spring semester, and I honestly love it. I always do better in school grades-/attendance-wise when I stay organized, and this is the perfect way to do so electronically. The ability to log assignments and study sessions are what makes this app different from other organization apps; it’s definitely made for school. My favorite part is that it tells you about how many hours you should study per week to achieve your semester GPA goal based on the number of credit hours you’re taking. On top of all that, they are constantly updating and improving the app to make it closer to what students need. My only criticism is that the app’s calendar doesn’t really seem account for the fact that students will usually have other activities as well. In addition to my classes, I also have work, sorority events, and volunteer work, and I know many students are on the same boat there. That’d be a cool thing to incorporate into the next update if possible. It could be like an electronic planner!

I absolutely love this app. It does everything I need it to - but there are a ton of bizarre bugs. I just updated today hoping the “ghost class” problem would be fixed (for example, if I have 10 class meetings in a week, it will say there are 11, preventing me from actually marking all my classes as attended). Instead it added another very confusing bug with the import of Apple calendars: events that do not exist in ANY of my calendars, but once existed many many years ago in calendars I have since deleted (not hidden, but actually deleted, clearing all events within said calendar), are showing up on my schedule and I can’t get rid of them. I can’t even delete them from the Apple calendar end because... they don’t exist on the Apple calendar end. Totally a 5-star app, but these bugs do end up diminishing its usefulness.

I love the way that you can organize your classes and stuff better than other apps I've tried. I especially love that you have a way to physically tick off whenever you've completed something, its so motivating. I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't just for classes. If you could incorporate the same system for jobs, internships, volunteering, personal stuff, etc, it would be perfect. I think the same system that helps motivate me to do homework would also motivate me to volunteer or clean when I plan to. Also, I wish I could change the suggested study hours. While the suggestion is nice to know, Ive been a student for a long time, and I know about how much I need to study per week. Right now I've just changed my goal gpa so that the number is more accurate, but it would be better if I could just change it myself.