TPO 1
The reading passage and the listening section are both discussing that the providing employees the selection of working four-day workweek. The reading proposes some compelling reasons to suggest the benefit of the four-day workweek. However, the speaker casts doubt on it and delves into reasons and examples to refute it.
First of all, the article mentions that working a four-day workweek reduces the cost and increases the profit for the employer. Nonetheless, the speaker disagrees with this statement. A four-day workweek causes company to purchase more computer and require extra space. Moreover, the medical cost is the same whether the employees work five days or four days a week. Therefore, the employer forces to spend more money due to the four-day workweek policy.
Secondly, the speaker opposes the idea that the four-day workweek would reduce unemployment rates. Applying a four-day workweek means the employer requires to hire more employees to undertake the five-day workweek workloads. As a result, the employer may expect the four-day workweek workers to do the same workload as the five-day employees do.
Last but not least, the article indicates that the employees, who work for four days a week, are able to have more leisure time to improve their quality of lives. Nevertheless, the speaker disapproves of this idea. The employees, who work a four days workweek, lowers their opportunity to promote because manager tends to promote the employees who work for five days a week.
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- TPO 40 70
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 20 in 30
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 14 12
No. of Words: 237 250
No. of Characters: 1222 1200
No. of Different Words: 119 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.924 4.2
Average Word Length: 5.156 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.534 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.352 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.602 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4