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Some universities give financial aid in the form of grants, which don’t have to be paid back, whereas others provide financial assistance in the form of loans, which must be paid back. Which option do you think is better and why? Support your decision with reasons and examples.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 544.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 132.0 116.580246914 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.12121212121 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20203178572 1.8723322822 118% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 76.076318743 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.651515151515 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 171.9 141.574747475 121% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0626849221859 0.0738818816272 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 16.5 60.3232687746 27% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.04157066001 17.3634065801 52% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.83375 22.9064221017 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.02656545237 6.49597621602 47% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 31.1548821549 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.55172413793 4.0588447711 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.22261627378 3.18357895611 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.50034482759 1.46810986539 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.970252305468 1.01537252472 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.96 5.28593714927 56% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.155789473684 0.187982170178 83% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.135620049344 0.154715141812 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.23 35.408047138 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.289621212121 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172430949302 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.18 5.14435465769 62% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.84 2.80480359147 137% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.67 45.0716498316 104% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03711111111 1.00159221848 104% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.407113777587 0.637764685501 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.82836940219 2.58495923209 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84272551961 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.24954224431 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.49105405303 0.343871460585 143% => 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.