People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 374.0 444.711560045 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 90.0 116.580246914 77% => 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: 4.15555555556 3.81502700369 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.08007028824 3.28032121604 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.96022170578 1.8723322822 105% => OK
Unique words: 67.0 76.076318743 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.744444444444 0.655143326166 114% => OK
Syllable count: 113.4 141.574747475 80% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0356646619392 0.0738818816272 48% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 9.0 60.3232687746 15% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.51840322743 17.3634065801 55% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.165 22.9064221017 18% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.30449590545 6.49597621602 66% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.46153846154 4.0588447711 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.2227974272 3.18357895611 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.42269230769 1.46810986539 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.775755501194 1.01537252472 76% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 28.6644219978 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.31 5.28593714927 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.253529411765 0.187982170178 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.201463503525 0.154715141812 130% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.39 35.408047138 89% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.348777777778 0.306236595465 114% => OK
STD word duration: 0.194083760714 0.198589292138 98% => 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: 7.42 5.14435465769 144% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.78 2.80480359147 170% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 41.65 45.0716498316 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.925555555556 1.00159221848 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.408163265306 0.637764685501 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.16086434574 2.58495923209 84% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.60864345738 1.68816559523 95% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13443771902 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.271073933333 0.343871460585 79% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.