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TPO 02 - Question 2 Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-27 | archimo | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-30 | cgms24 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-02 | kaziass | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-18 | wls1993 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-29 | aceit | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user MHP
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- Some people prefer reading newspapers or magazines to get news; others prefer watching television or listening to radio to get news. Which way do you prefer and why? 60
- Some people like to study in public places where there are other people around. Others prefer to study in places where there are few or no people around. Which kind of place do you prefer ? Explain why. 70
- 23.Some people believe that the best way to succeed is to set goals and work hard to achieve them. Other people think that hard work is not as important as good luck. Which point of view do you think is true and why? 70
- 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. 70
- Some parents educate their own children at home. Others insist that their children should be sent to school. Which way of learning do you think is preferable and why? 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 353.0 444.711560045 79% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 98.0 116.580246914 84% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.60204081633 3.81502700369 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.14634628365 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.58911986883 1.8723322822 85% => OK
Unique words: 76.0 76.076318743 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.775510204082 0.655143326166 118% => OK
Syllable count: 114.3 141.574747475 81% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0883050714391 0.0738818816272 120% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 3.20202020202 281% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 10.8888888889 60.3232687746 18% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.1698447661 17.3634065801 64% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.60666666667 22.9064221017 20% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.50383540256 6.49597621602 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.72222222222 4.0588447711 67% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.12930754408 3.18357895611 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.00805555556 1.46810986539 69% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.694453499941 1.01537252472 68% => 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: 5.88 5.28593714927 111% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.18375 0.187982170178 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.142143193646 0.154715141812 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 30.09 35.408047138 85% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.307040816327 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163658487024 0.198589292138 82% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.75 5.14435465769 73% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.05 2.80480359147 144% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 41.46 45.0716498316 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.921333333333 1.00159221848 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.77182826821 0.637764685501 121% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.36372407139 2.58495923209 91% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.833092137 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.52575606514 2.15290372801 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.307810602041 0.343871460585 90% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.