A friend of yours wants to go to university next year but cannot decide on a major field of study. What advice would you give your friend to help make this decision?

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A friend of yours wants to go to university next year but cannot decide on a major field of study. What advice would you give your friend to help make this decision?

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Speakings by user soodabeh :

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 329.0 444.711560045 74% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 87.0 116.580246914 75% => 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: 3.7816091954 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.05407580998 3.28032121604 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.54938094687 1.8723322822 83% => OK
Unique words: 61.0 76.076318743 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.701149425287 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 105.3 141.574747475 74% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.173487477107 0.0738818816272 235% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 8.7 60.3232687746 14% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 3.71618083521 17.3634065801 21% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.181 22.9064221017 18% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 1.82774423813 6.49597621602 28% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 31.1548821549 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.10714285714 4.0588447711 77% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.19315958826 3.18357895611 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3425 1.46810986539 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.68288581455 1.01537252472 67% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 28.6644219978 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.32 5.28593714927 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.241818181818 0.187982170178 129% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.152035772215 0.154715141812 98% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.61 35.408047138 89% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.363333333333 0.306236595465 119% => OK
STD word duration: 0.182534308957 0.198589292138 92% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 6.3164983165 190% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.3 5.14435465769 161% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.67 2.80480359147 131% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 41.81 45.0716498316 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.929111111111 1.00159221848 93% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.526189906721 0.637764685501 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.08084190385 2.58495923209 80% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.458981105 1.68816559523 86% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.92976906042 2.15290372801 90% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.340876310345 0.343871460585 99% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.