Why most iReady hacks stop working
Search for iready hacks, iready answers, or iready cheat and you'll mostly find GitHub scripts and bookmarklets that promise to skip lessons or auto-complete quizzes. They work by rewriting i-Ready's page code in your browser — which means every i-Ready update can break them, and Curriculum Associates updates often. A script that worked last month frequently dies mid-lesson, leaving the lesson stuck or the quiz unsubmitted.
The other popular hack — deliberately failing the diagnostic so i-Ready assigns easier lessons — is visible by design. The teacher dashboard shows diagnostic placement and growth over time, so a score that suddenly craters stands out, and many schools respond by re-administering the diagnostic under supervision. Neither approach actually gets the work done faster.
Answer help is the approach that doesn't depend on i-Ready's internals. FastSolve reads a screenshot of the question on your screen, works the problem with Claude or GPT-4o, and shows you the answer with steps. You enter it in i-Ready like a normal response — no page modification, nothing for an update to break.
