Some students would choose to study a subject because it brings plenty ofjob opportunities. Instead, others would choose to study a subject whichreally interests them, although it probably doesn’t sell well in the jobmarket. Which opinion do you agree w

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Some students would choose to study a subject because it brings plenty of
job opportunities. Instead, others would choose to study a subject which
really interests them, although it probably doesn’t sell well in the job
market. Which opinion do you agree with? Explain why.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 683.0 444.711560045 154% => OK
No of words: 159.0 116.580246914 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.29559748428 3.81502700369 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.28032121604 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.22493999388 1.8723322822 119% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 76.076318743 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.660377358491 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 205.2 141.574747475 145% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0116210335766 0.0738818816272 16% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 159.0 60.3232687746 264% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 58.91 22.9064221017 257% => 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: 35.0 31.1548821549 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.54285714286 4.0588447711 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.47432585277 3.18357895611 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.64742857143 1.46810986539 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.26995465129 1.01537252472 125% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 28.6644219978 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.37 5.28593714927 64% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.140416666667 0.187982170178 75% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.14219936611 0.154715141812 92% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.99 35.408047138 138% => OK
Average word duration: 0.308113207547 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.177428060756 0.198589292138 89% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.5 5.14435465769 29% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.56 2.80480359147 163% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.91 45.0716498316 131% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.30911111111 1.00159221848 131% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.407401120353 0.637764685501 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.69903242234 2.58495923209 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.78237990154 1.68816559523 106% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.14329454991 2.15290372801 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.353675308176 0.343871460585 103% => OK

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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.