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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?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-16 | Toefl2016 | 67.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-14 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-21 | paras001 | 62.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-14 | bijan54 | 68.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-31 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 412.0 444.711560045 93% => OK
No of words: 105.0 116.580246914 90% => 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: 3.92380952381 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.20108587294 3.28032121604 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85521267216 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 73.0 76.076318743 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.695238095238 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 132.3 141.574747475 93% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0728115147882 0.0738818816272 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.6666666667 60.3232687746 29% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.5082564159 17.3634065801 107% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.565 22.9064221017 33% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.09167421901 6.49597621602 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 31.1548821549 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.2 4.0588447711 103% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.85657137142 3.18357895611 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.73 1.46810986539 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.964377519439 1.01537252472 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 28.6644219978 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.35 5.28593714927 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.197727272727 0.187982170178 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.134770236065 0.154715141812 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.28 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.355047619048 0.306236595465 116% => OK
STD word duration: 0.210668431922 0.198589292138 106% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.52 5.14435465769 166% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.41 2.80480359147 86% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.39 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00866666667 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.484688257325 0.637764685501 76% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.31328486451 2.58495923209 89% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.60828376294 1.68816559523 95% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.95815450644 2.15290372801 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.537509990476 0.343871460585 156% => 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.