Which do you think is the biggest challenge new students in university face: being away from family, busy study or making new friends? Please use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.

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Which do you think is the biggest challenge new students in university face: being away from family, busy study or making new friends? Please use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 656.0 444.711560045 148% => OK
No of words: 180.0 116.580246914 154% => OK
Chars per words: 3.64444444444 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66284150148 3.28032121604 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85479026134 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 76.076318743 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566666666667 0.655143326166 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 207.9 141.574747475 147% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.151266225675 0.0738818816272 205% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 45.25 60.3232687746 75% => OK
STD paragraph length: 72.0568352067 17.3634065801 415% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.1925 22.9064221017 88% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 24.5166732806 6.49597621602 377% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 50.0 31.1548821549 160% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.6 4.0588447711 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.82842712475 3.18357895611 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3696 1.46810986539 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.862992375401 1.01537252472 85% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 50.0 28.6644219978 174% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 16.91 5.28593714927 320% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.3382 0.187982170178 180% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.533968875497 0.154715141812 345% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 54.1 35.408047138 153% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.300555555556 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.192156539838 0.198589292138 97% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 17.0 6.3164983165 269% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 12.53 5.14435465769 244% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 7.4 2.80480359147 264% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 80.77 45.0716498316 179% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.79488888889 1.00159221848 179% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.619041723412 0.637764685501 97% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.22855020428 2.58495923209 86% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.26284511576 1.68816559523 75% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.8853974122 2.15290372801 88% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.311221838889 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.