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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? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2017-06-13 | mgrajapt | 78.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-11 | Bobby1987 | 86.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-24 | Christine hanna | 73.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-27 | vhb | 93.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-11 | Malaak | 96.67 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 520.0 444.711560045 117% => OK
No of words: 137.0 116.580246914 118% => OK
Chars per words: 3.79562043796 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42121322205 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.99685404447 1.8723322822 107% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 76.076318743 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613138686131 0.655143326166 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 168.3 141.574747475 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.142889397727 0.0738818816272 193% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 45.6666666667 60.3232687746 76% => OK
STD paragraph length: 7.76029781788 17.3634065801 45% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.0633333333 22.9064221017 66% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.49739267963 6.49597621602 54% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.22727272727 4.0588447711 153% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.74402312433 3.18357895611 180% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.96181818182 1.46810986539 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.42428175316 1.01537252472 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 20.0 28.6644219978 70% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.93 5.28593714927 74% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1965 0.187982170178 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.1529795738 0.154715141812 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.51 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.273795620438 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.149491260819 0.198589292138 75% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.89 5.14435465769 56% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.12 2.80480359147 76% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.19 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00422222222 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.442575791104 0.637764685501 69% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.03164416906 2.58495923209 117% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85881832264 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23940282591 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.440107255474 0.343871460585 128% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
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.