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.

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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.

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2017-11-16 elifyeg 50.00 Check this speaking
2018-12-19 jags3184 60.00 Check this speaking
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 428.0 444.711560045 96% => OK
No of words: 112.0 116.580246914 96% => 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: 3.82142857143 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2531531234 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.09256458218 1.8723322822 112% => OK
Unique words: 73.0 76.076318743 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.651785714286 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 135.9 141.574747475 96% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.118102124088 0.0738818816272 160% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 37.3333333333 60.3232687746 62% => OK
STD paragraph length: 31.678944988 17.3634065801 182% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.2833333333 22.9064221017 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.826344415 6.49597621602 182% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 39.0 31.1548821549 125% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.87179487179 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.79999269485 3.18357895611 57% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.13948717949 1.46810986539 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.661187543579 1.01537252472 65% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 28.6644219978 136% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.29 5.28593714927 138% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186923076923 0.187982170178 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148084415395 0.154715141812 96% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.52 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.317142857143 0.306236595465 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.179241599581 0.198589292138 90% => 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: 6.67 5.14435465769 130% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.5 2.80480359147 53% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.85 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01888888889 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.850599781897 0.637764685501 133% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.4427480916 2.58495923209 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.59214830971 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05518018018 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.429960455357 0.343871460585 125% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.