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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-31 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-10 | mehrnazsadr | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-27 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-01 | Toefl2016 | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-22 | sheidash | 71.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- The woman expresses her opinion about the university's plan. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion about the plan and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion. 83
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.