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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? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-08 | Elena Cristina | 73.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-14 | Shafayet | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-10-27 | naznazu | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-25 | toefl201800 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-17 | M.S 2019 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 15 - Question 1People make friends in many different ways. What do you think is a good way to make new friends? Use specific details and examples in your response. 90
- Some people prefer to work for a large company. Other prefer to work for a small company. Which would you prefer? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice. 83
- TPO 20 - Question 2 Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet ,Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news 67
- TPO 10 - Question 1 Talk about a time when you accomplished something you did not think you could do. What do you accomplish? Why did you think you could not do it? 88
- TPO 01 - Question 6 80
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 373.0 444.711560045 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 103.0 116.580246914 88% => 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: 3.6213592233 3.81502700369 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84925335158 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 71.0 76.076318743 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.68932038835 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 120.6 141.574747475 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0614139656343 0.0738818816272 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.1666666667 60.3232687746 28% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.6675531664 17.3634065801 90% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.36666666667 22.9064221017 32% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.60239771262 6.49597621602 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 31.1548821549 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.34090909091 4.0588447711 58% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.77024885023 3.18357895611 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.8825 1.46810986539 60% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.615512074322 1.01537252472 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 28.6644219978 140% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.45 5.28593714927 122% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.16125 0.187982170178 86% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.154194479473 0.154715141812 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.91 35.408047138 84% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.290388349515 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.156626587844 0.198589292138 79% => 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: 3.81 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.2 2.80480359147 221% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.2 45.0716498316 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.982222222222 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.904977375566 0.637764685501 142% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.33031674208 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.60633484163 1.68816559523 95% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37378803076 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.273330679612 0.343871460585 79% => 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.