STAR answers fail on length before content
Behavioral interviews reward concise structure: Situation, Task, Action, Result — with the result in the first sentence when possible. Most candidates over-explain context and run out of time before the metric lands.
Speaking pace in interviews sits around 120–140 WPM with pauses. Reading your script silently misleads you; this tool uses spoken pace so two minutes on paper is not four minutes in the room.
Practice one notch shorter than the target. Panels stack questions; leaving thirty seconds for follow-up beats finishing breathless.