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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?
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Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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2020-01-11 | brk1 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-05-09 | ash.shouvik | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
2019-10-05 | Mrudula | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 460.0 444.711560045 103% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.93162393162 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88890822591 1.8723322822 101% => OK
Unique words: 79.0 76.076318743 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.675213675214 0.655143326166 103% => OK
Syllable count: 145.8 141.574747475 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0912008775146 0.0738818816272 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 58.5 60.3232687746 97% => OK
STD paragraph length: 23.5 17.3634065801 135% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.395 22.9064221017 98% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.125 6.49597621602 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 31.1548821549 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.07894736842 4.0588447711 76% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.22877803371 3.18357895611 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.13947368421 1.46810986539 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.608781990917 1.01537252472 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 28.6644219978 122% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.67 5.28593714927 145% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.219142857143 0.187982170178 117% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.157523176137 0.154715141812 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.66 35.408047138 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.287692307692 0.306236595465 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16427715072 0.198589292138 83% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.71 5.14435465769 72% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.89 2.80480359147 67% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.79 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.995333333333 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.781424425095 0.637764685501 123% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.61219022103 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7637865595 1.68816559523 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.34699940582 2.15290372801 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.250615452991 0.343871460585 73% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.