If your friend were having difficulty deciding his or her major, what advice would you give him or her and why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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If your friend were having difficulty deciding his or her major, what advice would you give him or her and why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 434.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 110.0 116.580246914 94% => 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: 3.94545454545 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.23853184046 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16096091268 1.8723322822 115% => OK
Unique words: 72.0 76.076318743 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.654545454545 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 139.5 141.574747475 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.14317219461 0.0738818816272 194% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.75 60.3232687746 23% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.5221615763 17.3634065801 89% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.51375 22.9064221017 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.38667350328 6.49597621602 98% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 31.1548821549 100% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.54838709677 4.0588447711 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.25529784425 3.18357895611 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.26838709677 1.46810986539 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.668576228067 1.01537252472 66% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.46 5.28593714927 122% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215333333333 0.187982170178 115% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.161322313673 0.154715141812 104% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 32.1 35.408047138 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.291818181818 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.178198978765 0.198589292138 90% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.12 5.14435465769 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.03 2.80480359147 144% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.11 45.0716498316 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.980222222222 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.6801178871 0.637764685501 107% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.49376558603 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.63228292904 1.68816559523 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.24299065421 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.300822718182 0.343871460585 87% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.