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55. After college, some students decline to enter the working world right away. Some travel to see the world while others volunteer for an organization like the Peace Corps. Which do you think is better – going right to work or seeing theworld/volunteering – and why?
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-16 | ying.ma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-14 | brk1 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user brk1
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- You have been offered two jobs. One job is in your preferred professional field, but the payis low. The other job is outside your preferred field, but it pays more. Which job would you choose? 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. 66
- Some universities have a strict policy that freshmen must live on campus indoors for their first year. Other universities have no such policy and allow students to decide where to live. Which policy do you think is better for first-year students and why? 83
- Some people feel they perform better when they have to finish by a strict time. Others feel they do better work if they do not have time pressure. Which best describes you? Explain why. 83
- TPO 28 - Question 2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To protect the health of young children, advertisements for candy and junk food should not be shown on television. Use specific reasons and details in your response. 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 486.0 444.711560045 109% => OK
No of words: 135.0 116.580246914 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.6 3.81502700369 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.4086580994 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.59721980676 1.8723322822 85% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 76.076318743 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62962962963 0.655143326166 96% => OK
Syllable count: 153.0 141.574747475 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0317071961479 0.0738818816272 43% => 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: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.5 60.3232687746 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.72882315596 17.3634065801 56% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.473 22.9064221017 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.33926354156 6.49597621602 51% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 47.0 31.1548821549 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.87234042553 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.2180787285 3.18357895611 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.05723404255 1.46810986539 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.646643385977 1.01537252472 64% => 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: 6.58 5.28593714927 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.156666666667 0.187982170178 83% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.137817454604 0.154715141812 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.45 35.408047138 117% => OK
Average word duration: 0.307037037037 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.158469878311 0.198589292138 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.98 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.8 2.80480359147 171% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.73 45.0716498316 121% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.21622222222 1.00159221848 121% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.76740361776 0.637764685501 120% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.46665448566 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.55307875023 1.68816559523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05066344994 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.244876437037 0.343871460585 71% => 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.