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: 310.0 444.711560045 70% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 86.0 116.580246914 74% => 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: 3.60465116279 3.81502700369 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.04526164648 3.28032121604 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.40827347509 1.8723322822 75% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 60.0 76.076318743 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.697674418605 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 99.0 141.574747475 70% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00849716444181 0.0738818816272 12% => 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: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 21.75 60.3232687746 36% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.1159460145 17.3634065801 104% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.725 22.9064221017 47% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 10.1808386197 6.49597621602 157% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.09523809524 4.0588447711 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.66326372703 3.18357895611 115% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.88619047619 1.46810986539 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.87938053672 1.01537252472 185% => 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: 4.44 5.28593714927 84% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.261176470588 0.187982170178 139% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.251159249995 0.154715141812 162% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.23 35.408047138 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.398023255814 0.306236595465 130% => OK
STD word duration: 0.506313212574 0.198589292138 255% => It may have hesitations.

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.03 5.14435465769 195% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.14 2.80480359147 112% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 42.9 45.0716498316 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.953333333333 1.00159221848 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.39627039627 0.637764685501 62% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.00466200466 2.58495923209 78% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.3986013986 1.68816559523 83% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.75284837862 2.15290372801 81% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.381053011628 0.343871460585 111% => 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.