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TPO 31 - Question 2
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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2018-10-25 | toefl201800 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
2017-05-04 | archimo | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-10-19 | jeffhjz | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-03-29 | kouyou112358 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
2017-04-01 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user fahim135
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 382.0 444.711560045 86% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 103.0 116.580246914 88% => 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: 3.70873786408 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86240823302 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 73.0 76.076318743 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.708737864078 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 124.2 141.574747475 88% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0705428871531 0.0738818816272 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 103.0 60.3232687746 171% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.2 22.9064221017 197% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 43.0 31.1548821549 138% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.39534883721 4.0588447711 59% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.79326303708 3.18357895611 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.03837209302 1.46810986539 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.666779592022 1.01537252472 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 28.6644219978 147% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.81 5.28593714927 148% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.185952380952 0.187982170178 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.139898935014 0.154715141812 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.16 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.341359223301 0.306236595465 111% => OK
STD word duration: 0.180802142266 0.198589292138 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.84 5.14435465769 114% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.74 2.80480359147 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.2 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00444444444 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.929203539823 0.637764685501 146% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.27876106195 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.61504424779 1.68816559523 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07622298066 2.15290372801 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.356300019417 0.343871460585 104% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.