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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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| 2018-12-26 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-04-21 | Feng CHEN | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-07 | maryam_torabi | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-15 | brk1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-02 | Navis | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 437.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 118.0 116.580246914 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.70338983051 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.29587325169 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91916879092 1.8723322822 103% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.686440677966 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 138.6 141.574747475 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0514535274797 0.0738818816272 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 118.0 60.3232687746 196% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 47.44 22.9064221017 207% => 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: 41.0 31.1548821549 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.87804878049 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.91521662726 3.18357895611 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.1356097561 1.46810986539 77% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.695932603901 1.01537252472 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 28.6644219978 140% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.54 5.28593714927 180% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2385 0.187982170178 127% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.237324145421 0.154715141812 153% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.54 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.301186440678 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161660711303 0.198589292138 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.23 5.14435465769 82% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.75 2.80480359147 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.44 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05422222222 1.00159221848 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.843170320405 0.637764685501 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.48735244519 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70741989882 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27912211593 2.15290372801 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.306259635593 0.343871460585 89% => 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.