Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

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Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain 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: 287.0 444.711560045 65% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 87.0 116.580246914 75% => 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: 3.29885057471 3.81502700369 86% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.05407580998 3.28032121604 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.67548203754 1.8723322822 89% => OK
Unique words: 52.0 76.076318743 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.597701149425 0.655143326166 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 89.1 141.574747475 63% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.0 1.21358024691 82% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0672231265504 0.0738818816272 91% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 29.0 60.3232687746 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 16.2685791225 17.3634065801 94% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.41 22.9064221017 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.29085728841 6.49597621602 112% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 48.0 31.1548821549 154% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 1.8125 4.0588447711 45% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.20166984512 3.18357895611 38% => The length of acoustic sentences keeps same.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.806666666667 1.46810986539 55% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.598568895134 1.01537252472 59% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 60.0 28.6644219978 209% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 12.91 5.28593714927 244% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215166666667 0.187982170178 114% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.133422782496 0.154715141812 86% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.2 35.408047138 82% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.335632183908 0.306236595465 110% => OK
STD word duration: 0.26043597907 0.198589292138 131% => It may have hesitations.

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: 8.94 5.14435465769 174% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.5 2.80480359147 89% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.23 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02733333333 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.29785853342 0.637764685501 204% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 1.88189487346 2.58495923209 73% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.12481072896 1.68816559523 67% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.78082191781 2.15290372801 83% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.203395310345 0.343871460585 59% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.

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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.