54. When students go to a university, many of them take a job for the first time. Some people say that this teaches them responsibility and prepares them to enter the work force. Others say that working distracts them from their most important task: study

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54. When students go to a university, many of them take a job for the first time. Some people say that this teaches them responsibility and prepares them to enter the work force. Others say that working distracts them from their most important task: studying. Do you think it is better to work when going to university or to wait until graduation?

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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: 363.0 444.711560045 82% => 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: 3.52427184466 3.81502700369 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.30603275501 1.8723322822 70% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 58.0 76.076318743 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.563106796117 0.655143326166 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 117.9 141.574747475 83% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0781843270379 0.0738818816272 106% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 34.3333333333 60.3232687746 57% => OK
STD paragraph length: 10.2089285541 17.3634065801 59% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.1233333333 22.9064221017 66% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.81418696739 6.49597621602 59% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 47.0 31.1548821549 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.1914893617 4.0588447711 54% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.45336437089 3.18357895611 46% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.907872340426 1.46810986539 62% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.521466574153 1.01537252472 51% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 49.0 28.6644219978 171% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.14 5.28593714927 192% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.20693877551 0.187982170178 110% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.175617907153 0.154715141812 114% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 32.12 35.408047138 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.311844660194 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.266457332138 0.198589292138 134% => It may have hesitations.

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: 4.95 5.14435465769 96% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.49 2.80480359147 53% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.37 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00822222222 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.0800088164 0.637764685501 169% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.27022261406 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.27837778268 1.68816559523 76% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.80572851806 2.15290372801 84% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.255817174757 0.343871460585 74% => 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.