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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-30 | hudashti1 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-17 | Tulips | 50.75 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-06 | mgrajapt | 40.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-31 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-04 | archimo | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Kumari Soni
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- Your friend has enough money to buy either a smartphone or laptop, but not both. What do you recommend he do and why? 66
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?In the future, people will read fewer books than they do toady.Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 60
- Are you willing to carefully choose a gift which your friends like or buy whatever you like? Please include specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 83
- 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
- Some people think that students should do part-time jobs. Other people think that students should focus on their study without doing part-time. What is your opinion and why? 50
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.