Speaking topics in text
TPO 25 - Question 3
Split Graduation
Traditionally, the university holds one ceremony for all graduating students, during which students are awarded their diplomas. Beginning this year, however, the university will hold two graduation ceremonies. Under the new arrangement, half the graduating students will participate in the first ceremony, and the other will participate in a second ceremony to be held the following day. Administrators cite two reasons for the change. First, the number of students and increased in recent years, and since diplomas are awarded individually, the single ceremony has become uncomfortably long. Also, the hall where the ceremony is held is too small to accommodate the growing audience of friends and family members.
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Votes
This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-17 | Bobby1987 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-12 | paras001 | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-07-31 | toeflbeginner | 63.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-09 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 582.0 593.389002037 98% => OK
No of words: 149.0 154.784114053 96% => 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: 3.90604026846 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49378814695 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95363121508 1.81998168104 107% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 93.7942973523 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604026845638 0.608046397892 99% => OK
Syllable count: 180.9 185.724439919 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0470628151729 0.0833886788687 56% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 3.90020366599 256% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 14.9 71.3690273242 21% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.7693899741 24.1299301424 78% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.077 26.8388033085 19% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.44375247417 8.89323425527 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.65625 4.20756893501 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.49651053731 3.23972648638 108% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.46 1.51236819293 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.826646085093 1.0352206224 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 37.9022403259 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.87 7.22384928717 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.187307692308 0.193825474362 97% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.141545254854 0.16431695912 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.22 46.6644602851 86% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.269932885906 0.304040633073 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151309703483 0.193491353168 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.47 6.97134419552 50% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.83 3.21433808554 119% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 50.77 59.1375356415 86% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.846166666667 0.985625594026 86% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.512113452826 0.643888735843 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.93480401812 2.61565628039 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77270041363 1.58604529434 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.2376926902 2.01333574461 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.341972389262 0.322651457988 106% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.