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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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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-28 | germennn | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-24 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-10-30 | germennn | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-28 | germennn | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-14 | leematt1214 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user germennn
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- Do you agree or disagree that kids prefer to do activities outside instead of reading books? 66
- Some people believe that first-year college students should live in a dormbuilding that homes only freshmen. Others may prefer the idea thatfirst-year students must live together with students in 2nd, 3rd, or even 4thgrade. Which opinion do you agree with 60
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 374.0 444.711560045 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 97.0 116.580246914 83% => 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: 3.85567010309 3.81502700369 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.13828899271 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.75857071018 1.8723322822 94% => OK
Unique words: 70.0 76.076318743 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.721649484536 0.655143326166 110% => OK
Syllable count: 123.3 141.574747475 87% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0379289609825 0.0738818816272 51% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.20202020202 156% => OK
Average paragraph length: 19.4 60.3232687746 32% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.1103555299 17.3634065801 64% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.106 22.9064221017 40% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.07644600089 6.49597621602 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.69444444444 4.0588447711 66% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.92670479265 3.18357895611 61% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.15611111111 1.46810986539 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.664978185848 1.01537252472 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 28.6644219978 133% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.07 5.28593714927 209% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.291315789474 0.187982170178 155% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.21603083421 0.154715141812 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.56 35.408047138 89% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.325360824742 0.306236595465 106% => OK
STD word duration: 0.227387955215 0.198589292138 115% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.84 5.14435465769 133% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.48 2.80480359147 53% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.53 45.0716498316 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01177777778 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.834614539864 0.637764685501 131% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.13046343071 2.58495923209 82% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53744783659 1.68816559523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.21799746515 2.15290372801 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.285126505155 0.343871460585 83% => 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.