TPO 11 - Question 1 Talk about an interesting book you have read. Explain why you thought the book was interesting. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer. | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Talk about an interesting book you have read. Explain why you thought the book was interesting. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 367.0 444.711560045 83% => 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: 3.56310679612 3.81502700369 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.76079143124 1.8723322822 94% => OK
Unique words: 67.0 76.076318743 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.650485436893 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 122.4 141.574747475 86% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0409808219376 0.0738818816272 55% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 11.0 3.20202020202 344% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 9.72727272727 60.3232687746 16% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 17.3314790277 17.3634065801 100% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.21818181818 22.9064221017 23% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.3315313644 6.49597621602 128% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 50.0 31.1548821549 160% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.06 4.0588447711 51% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.59260792413 3.18357895611 50% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.9244 1.46810986539 63% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.567186600688 1.01537252472 56% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 53.0 28.6644219978 185% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 12.64 5.28593714927 239% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.238490566038 0.187982170178 127% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.210322270476 0.154715141812 136% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.26 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.342330097087 0.306236595465 112% => OK
STD word duration: 0.250320974081 0.198589292138 126% => It may have hesitations.

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.23 5.14435465769 160% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 7.66 2.80480359147 273% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.4 45.0716498316 127% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.27555555556 1.00159221848 127% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.923344947735 0.637764685501 145% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 1.79442508711 2.58495923209 69% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.16724738676 1.68816559523 69% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.90017016449 2.15290372801 88% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.312364126214 0.343871460585 91% => OK

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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

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.