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TPO 31 - Question 2
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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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-16 | shiva1122 | 40.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-10 | toeflibt.ara | 52.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-30 | Christine hanna | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-14 | bijan54 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-27 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Toefl2016
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- TPO 05 - Question 6 80
- TPO 10 - Question 1 Talk about a time when you accomplished something you did not think you could do. What do you accomplish? Why did you think you could not do it? 88
- TPO 11 - Question 2 Some people think that children should be allowed to watch whatever television programs they choose to. Others think that parents should exercise control over the television programs their children watch. Which do you agree with? Expla 83
- TPO 16 - Question 1 If you could have any job or career you wanted, which would you choose and why? Give specific details to explain your response. 90
- TPO 28 - Question 2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To protect the health of young children, advertisements for candy and junk food should not be shown on television. Use specific reasons and details in your response. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 373.0 444.711560045 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 103.0 116.580246914 88% => 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: 3.6213592233 3.81502700369 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84925335158 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 71.0 76.076318743 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.68932038835 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 120.6 141.574747475 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0614139656343 0.0738818816272 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.1666666667 60.3232687746 28% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.6675531664 17.3634065801 90% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.36666666667 22.9064221017 32% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.60239771262 6.49597621602 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 31.1548821549 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.34090909091 4.0588447711 58% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.77024885023 3.18357895611 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.8825 1.46810986539 60% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.615512074322 1.01537252472 61% => 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: 6.45 5.28593714927 122% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.16125 0.187982170178 86% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.154194479473 0.154715141812 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.91 35.408047138 84% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.290388349515 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.156626587844 0.198589292138 79% => 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: 3.81 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.2 2.80480359147 221% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.2 45.0716498316 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.982222222222 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.904977375566 0.637764685501 142% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.33031674208 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.60633484163 1.68816559523 95% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37378803076 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.273330679612 0.343871460585 79% => 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.