Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why.

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Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 436.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 116.0 116.580246914 100% => 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: 3.75862068966 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28181803491 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.8223738292 1.8723322822 97% => OK
Unique words: 76.0 76.076318743 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.655172413793 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 134.1 141.574747475 95% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0731993178804 0.0738818816272 99% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 58.0 60.3232687746 96% => OK
STD paragraph length: 34.0 17.3634065801 196% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.21 22.9064221017 97% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.62 6.49597621602 179% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 20.0 31.1548821549 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.8 4.0588447711 143% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.15594676761 3.18357895611 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.1615 1.46810986539 147% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.0920223212 1.01537252472 108% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 28.6644219978 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.54 5.28593714927 86% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.267058823529 0.187982170178 142% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.231713938901 0.154715141812 150% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.17 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.320431034483 0.306236595465 105% => OK
STD word duration: 0.18615155228 0.198589292138 94% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.55 5.14435465769 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.34 2.80480359147 48% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.42 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.987111111111 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.38271049077 0.637764685501 60% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.61143628996 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71094101756 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04465967178 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.356674543103 0.343871460585 104% => OK

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.