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Some students prefer to choose a career before getting into college. Other students prefer to choose a career after taking some university courses. Which one do you prefer and why? Please use specific reasons and examples to support your response
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-26 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-07 | maryam_torabi | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-04-21 | Feng CHEN | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-05-21 | Laura123 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-29 | Christine hanna | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user jags3184
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- Should school add Sport courses for generic students? 78
- People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 60
- Experience of asking help from others. How do the others help you? 76
- 1. Talk about a specific time when you did something obsessively. For example, didyou “go to extremes” playing video games, worrying about an exam, or practicing asport or music? What did you do? What were the good and bad results? Explain. 90
- Some students prefer to study or work on difficult class assignments early in the morning. Other students prefer to do this type of work in the evening. Which do you prefer and why? 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 494.0 444.711560045 111% => OK
No of words: 123.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0162601626 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33024571262 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16769984061 1.8723322822 116% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 157.5 141.574747475 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0347939255826 0.0738818816272 47% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 123.0 60.3232687746 204% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.97 22.9064221017 205% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.41666666667 4.0588447711 84% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.94745653064 3.18357895611 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.27888888889 1.46810986539 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.908477902189 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: 36.0 28.6644219978 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.07 5.28593714927 115% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168611111111 0.187982170178 90% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.126010422359 0.154715141812 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.51 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.313089430894 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173158746102 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 6.3164983165 142% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.4 5.14435465769 124% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.79 2.80480359147 28% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.97 45.0716498316 104% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.04377777778 1.00159221848 104% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.766446668086 0.637764685501 120% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.61869278263 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74579518842 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1293170605 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.387671560976 0.343871460585 113% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.