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- TPO 01 - Question 5 63
- TPO 48 - Question 3 An Airport Bus for School Breaks Many universities have their own art museums, with collections of paintings and sculptures by well-known artists. I think our university should create a similar museum on our own campus. Such a museum 78
- TPO 15 - Question 3 University Should Pave Running Trails The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails woul 77
- 49. Some schools have shorter academic quarters – around 8 weeks – while others are longer – 10 to 20 weeks. Which would you prefer, and why? 80
- Talk about a book you have read that was important to you for some reason. Explain why the book was important to you. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer. 90
Comments
22 in 30
22 in 30
two issues:
1. Better not to say 'I don't think it is a good idea'. We are asked to bring reasons/ideas in the arguments.
2. Even though....but...//this is wrong grammatically. It appears often in your speeches.
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read a sample, it gives a lot of reasons:
http://www.testbig.com/toefl-speaking/q5/tpo-48-question-5-1
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 614.0 599.738853503 102% => OK
No of words: 164.0 158.596602972 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.74390243902 3.77925476217 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.54123138178 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0559905073 1.79916674678 114% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 95.8789808917 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.55487804878 0.607024082132 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 198.9 189.005732484 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0760106916138 0.0831539838537 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.29936305732 70% => OK
Average paragraph length: 54.6666666667 70.8089261375 77% => OK
STD paragraph length: 37.7211994625 23.6022091992 160% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.31 25.9380837976 74% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.9537201864 8.54438981162 152% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 39.0 40.7070063694 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.20512820513 4.24305496596 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.46542991139 3.29867071766 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.43692307692 1.4825078846 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.866798275548 1.02222390891 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 38.0 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.2 7.14643312102 87% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2 0.189447223375 106% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.161963755404 0.156783300276 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.3 46.7170700637 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.276219512195 0.297490414073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153461207014 0.186336302485 82% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.29723991507 55% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.96 5.7916985138 51% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.36 3.38276008493 129% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.93 59.3491295117 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9655 0.989152158528 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.535128603487 0.642608181899 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.83100293458 2.6701766005 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.57086138443 1.61481078811 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.00883002208 2.05366198651 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.42244729878 0.327712499341 129% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Don't repeat words, phrases and sentences. or More unique words wanted.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.