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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 |
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| 2017-03-01 | Toefl2016 | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-17 | Tulips | 50.75 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-14 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-10 | mehrnazsadr | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-27 | naznazu | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Kumari Soni
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- It's better to cancel fast food, because this way people will eat more health food. 66
- Some people believe that attending class in university should be required, while others believe that it should be optional. Which point of view do you agree with? Use details and examples to support your explanation. 90
- Some students would prefer to live with roommates. others prefer to live alone. 60
- Some people believe that universities should require students to take classes on ethics, whether others believe a school should focus only on academic issues. Which do you think better? 66
- 9. Most schools support extra-curricular activities, such as clubs and sports teams.Some schools pay for these activities, some require that students pay, and someuse a mix of school funds and student payments. Which do you think is preferable,and why? 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 384.0 444.711560045 86% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 111.0 116.580246914 95% => 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: 3.45945945946 3.81502700369 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.24586718041 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.57562390779 1.8723322822 84% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.747747747748 0.655143326166 114% => OK
Syllable count: 119.7 141.574747475 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.096930424695 0.0738818816272 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 28.0 60.3232687746 46% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 36.2146379245 17.3634065801 209% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 11.0925 22.9064221017 48% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.9953427521 6.49597621602 215% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.26923076923 4.0588447711 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.67483848214 3.18357895611 115% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56115384615 1.46810986539 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.03478101334 1.01537252472 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 28.6644219978 94% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.37 5.28593714927 121% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.235925925926 0.187982170178 126% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.160052289124 0.154715141812 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.04 35.408047138 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297657657658 0.306236595465 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.137316330761 0.198589292138 69% => 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: 2.67 5.14435465769 52% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.51 2.80480359147 125% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.37 45.0716498316 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.986 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.608519269777 0.637764685501 95% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.5016903313 2.58495923209 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8706333108 1.68816559523 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.51210653753 2.15290372801 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.370093693694 0.343871460585 108% => OK
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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.