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Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
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| 2018-07-31 | Mennatallah | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2017-01-14 | hipax | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2022-08-12 | sisbr7963 | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-10-12 | chandr | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 505.0 444.711560045 114% => OK
No of words: 131.0 116.580246914 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.85496183206 3.81502700369 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86212608278 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664122137405 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 157.5 141.574747475 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.102320848905 0.0738818816272 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 65.5 60.3232687746 109% => OK
STD paragraph length: 38.5 17.3634065801 222% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.62 22.9064221017 99% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.48 6.49597621602 177% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 31.1548821549 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.85294117647 4.0588447711 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.63608837821 3.18357895611 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.26 1.46810986539 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.670465158984 1.01537252472 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 28.6644219978 112% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.59 5.28593714927 87% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1434375 0.187982170178 76% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.149323670574 0.154715141812 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.63 35.408047138 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.271984732824 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175139725451 0.198589292138 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.58 5.14435465769 70% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.26 2.80480359147 116% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.24 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00533333333 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.707338638373 0.637764685501 111% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.89566755084 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92307692308 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.44176255964 2.15290372801 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.22066589313 0.343871460585 64% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.