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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-12-11 | Bobby1987 | 84.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-02 | YijingZhang | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-27 | vhb | 93.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-11 | Bobby1987 | 86.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-31 | Mennatallah | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user hipax
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 532.0 444.711560045 120% => OK
No of words: 121.0 116.580246914 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.39669421488 3.81502700369 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17605047813 1.8723322822 116% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.719008264463 0.655143326166 110% => 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: 0.102371709572 0.0738818816272 139% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 60.5 60.3232687746 100% => OK
STD paragraph length: 4.5 17.3634065801 26% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.665 22.9064221017 103% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.715 6.49597621602 57% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 31.1548821549 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.32142857143 4.0588447711 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.65993516877 3.18357895611 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.62964285714 1.46810986539 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.90694338358 1.01537252472 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.22 5.28593714927 80% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1688 0.187982170178 90% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.119943986927 0.154715141812 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.96 35.408047138 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.321983471074 0.306236595465 105% => OK
STD word duration: 0.174879509097 0.198589292138 88% => 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: 3.8 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.63 2.80480359147 94% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.33 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05177777778 1.00159221848 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.528206211705 0.637764685501 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.55651806465 2.58495923209 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83815761673 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23305954825 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.381077570248 0.343871460585 111% => OK
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.