Some universities expect students to choose a major field of study when they enter the school; while other universities wait until the second or third year before students decide to choose a field of study. Which do you prefer? why?

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Some universities expect students to choose a major field of study when they enter the school; while other universities wait until the second or third year before students decide to choose a field of study. Which do you prefer? why?

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2017-08-28 fereshtehRR 66.00 Check this speaking
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 522.0 444.711560045 117% => OK
No of words: 141.0 116.580246914 121% => OK
Chars per words: 3.70212765957 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.44591672665 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.62316860619 1.8723322822 87% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.617021276596 0.655143326166 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 169.2 141.574747475 120% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0462536616888 0.0738818816272 63% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 141.0 60.3232687746 234% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.36 22.9064221017 202% => 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: 18.0 31.1548821549 58% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.83333333333 4.0588447711 193% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.46572158042 3.18357895611 203% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.55166666667 1.46810986539 174% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.20311458823 1.01537252472 217% => The duration of acoustic sentences changes so often.

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 11.0 28.6644219978 38% => Need to have little pauses between words/sentences.
Total acoustic silence duration: 1.39 5.28593714927 26% => Still need a very little pause between two words.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.126363636364 0.187982170178 67% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.109981215526 0.154715141812 71% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.44 35.408047138 117% => OK
Average word duration: 0.29390070922 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161569312134 0.198589292138 81% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.82 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.94 2.80480359147 69% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.36 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03022222222 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.237273511648 0.637764685501 37% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.04141501294 2.58495923209 118% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.87661777394 1.68816559523 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.09942084942 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.257842574468 0.343871460585 75% => OK

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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
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.