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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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| 2016-08-03 | minaaminaa33 | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-14 | hipax | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-12 | chandr | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-27 | vhb | 93.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2022-08-12 | sisbr7963 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 481.0 444.711560045 108% => OK
No of words: 126.0 116.580246914 108% => OK
Chars per words: 3.81746031746 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35036895883 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18726760634 1.8723322822 117% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650793650794 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 161.1 141.574747475 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0989838284074 0.0738818816272 134% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 63.0 60.3232687746 104% => OK
STD paragraph length: 52.0 17.3634065801 299% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.8 22.9064221017 100% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 17.97 6.49597621602 277% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.0 4.0588447711 148% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.585685828 3.18357895611 113% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.04523809524 1.46810986539 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.963429484644 1.01537252472 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 28.6644219978 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.2 5.28593714927 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.216666666667 0.187982170178 115% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.154209453522 0.154715141812 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.45 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297222222222 0.306236595465 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.156345358908 0.198589292138 79% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.8 5.14435465769 93% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.41 2.80480359147 50% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.6 45.0716498316 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01333333333 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.526315789474 0.637764685501 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.76315789474 2.58495923209 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.79824561404 1.68816559523 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18958611482 2.15290372801 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.473689849206 0.343871460585 138% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.