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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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- When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why? 70
- You have been offered two jobs. One job is in your preferred professional field, but the payis low. The other job is outside your preferred field, but it pays more. Which job would you choose? 83
- TPO 44 - Question 3 83
- Do you agree or disagree the following statement? Parent should be in the process of helping their children to choose a university. Use specific reasons and details in your response. 70
- tpo 14 task 4 90
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.