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Your friend is studying chemistry and is required to take a non-science course. What course would you rcommend she take and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-16 | xnana | 57.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-31 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user jags3184
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- More and more people are buying items on the Internet and from magazines or catalogs. Other people prefer shopping in a store. Which do you prefer and why? 70
- Describe a piece of news or a story you concern recently. Explain why it gets your attention. Include reasons and details in your response. 66
- Some people watch the news on TV. Other prefer to read the news in a newspaper. Still others use their computers to get the news. How do you prefer to be informed and why. Use reasons and examples. 80
- Some students prefer to choose a career before getting into college. Other students prefer to choose a career after taking some university courses. Which one do you prefer and why? Please use specific reasons and examples to support your response 66
- Do you prefer to get advice from family and friends, or learning through personal experience? 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 492.0 444.711560045 111% => OK
No of words: 125.0 116.580246914 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.936 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.34370152488 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92143279872 1.8723322822 103% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 76.076318743 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.688 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 158.4 141.574747475 112% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.157526924434 0.0738818816272 213% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 62.5 60.3232687746 104% => OK
STD paragraph length: 21.5 17.3634065801 124% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.715 22.9064221017 104% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 10.775 6.49597621602 166% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.78787878788 4.0588447711 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.80429946697 3.18357895611 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.40242424242 1.46810986539 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.02393486507 1.01537252472 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 28.6644219978 119% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.4 5.28593714927 140% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.217647058824 0.187982170178 116% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.163402405187 0.154715141812 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.6 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3008 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161188585204 0.198589292138 81% => 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: 3.12 5.14435465769 61% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.82 2.80480359147 29% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.43 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.054 1.00159221848 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.716845878136 0.637764685501 112% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.63546278727 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81319839764 1.68816559523 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28723404255 2.15290372801 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.313021112 0.343871460585 91% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.