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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
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| 2016-04-21 | Feng CHEN | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2019-09-02 | Navis | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 16 - Question 4 50
- Do you prefer study with a group or study alone? 73
- 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
- Choose one of the following transportation vehicles and explain why you think it has changed people’s lives. automobiles or bicycles or airplanesUse specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 66
- Tpo 39Students who live off-campus often get to campus by car. I propose that the university create a student ride-sharing program, where students who live in the same area would form groups of four with each group driving to campus together in one car. T 50
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 437.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 118.0 116.580246914 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.70338983051 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.29587325169 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91916879092 1.8723322822 103% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.686440677966 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 138.6 141.574747475 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0514535274797 0.0738818816272 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 118.0 60.3232687746 196% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 47.44 22.9064221017 207% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 31.1548821549 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.87804878049 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.91521662726 3.18357895611 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.1356097561 1.46810986539 77% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.695932603901 1.01537252472 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 28.6644219978 140% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.54 5.28593714927 180% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2385 0.187982170178 127% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.237324145421 0.154715141812 153% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.54 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.301186440678 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161660711303 0.198589292138 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.23 5.14435465769 82% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.75 2.80480359147 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.44 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05422222222 1.00159221848 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.843170320405 0.637764685501 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.48735244519 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70741989882 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27912211593 2.15290372801 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.306259635593 0.343871460585 89% => 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.