Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why.

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 379.0 444.711560045 85% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 107.0 116.580246914 92% => 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: 3.54205607477 3.81502700369 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2162214527 3.28032121604 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.56647335222 1.8723322822 84% => OK
Unique words: 66.0 76.076318743 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.616822429907 0.655143326166 94% => 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: 0.0894339880467 0.0738818816272 121% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 53.5 60.3232687746 89% => OK
STD paragraph length: 23.5 17.3634065801 135% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.5 22.9064221017 103% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.64 6.49597621602 71% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 31.1548821549 100% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.45161290323 4.0588447711 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.89425136208 3.18357895611 91% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.41516129032 1.46810986539 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.03425482281 1.01537252472 102% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 28.6644219978 136% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.99 5.28593714927 151% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.204871794872 0.187982170178 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.177747614141 0.154715141812 115% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.46 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.331401869159 0.306236595465 108% => OK
STD word duration: 0.447659434551 0.198589292138 225% => 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: 9.63 5.14435465769 187% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.02 2.80480359147 72% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.0 45.0716498316 104% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.04444444444 1.00159221848 104% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.829787234043 0.637764685501 130% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.27659574468 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.40425531915 1.68816559523 83% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.86125211506 2.15290372801 86% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.305482046729 0.343871460585 89% => 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.