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Some students prefer to choose a career before getting into college. Other students prefer to choose a career after taking some university courses. Which one do you prefer and why? Please use specific reasons and examples to support your response
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-21 | Laura123 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-26 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-29 | Christine hanna | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-07 | maryam_torabi | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-15 | brk1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user jags3184
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 494.0 444.711560045 111% => OK
No of words: 123.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0162601626 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33024571262 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16769984061 1.8723322822 116% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 157.5 141.574747475 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0347939255826 0.0738818816272 47% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 123.0 60.3232687746 204% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.97 22.9064221017 205% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.41666666667 4.0588447711 84% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.94745653064 3.18357895611 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.27888888889 1.46810986539 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.908477902189 1.01537252472 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 28.6644219978 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.07 5.28593714927 115% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168611111111 0.187982170178 90% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.126010422359 0.154715141812 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.51 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.313089430894 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173158746102 0.198589292138 87% => 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: 6.4 5.14435465769 124% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.79 2.80480359147 28% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.97 45.0716498316 104% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.04377777778 1.00159221848 104% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.766446668086 0.637764685501 120% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.61869278263 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74579518842 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1293170605 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.387671560976 0.343871460585 113% => 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.