ANSWERING YOUR TURNIT IN QUESTIONS !

Replying to @Mi-Hair Couture 🚨 **TURNITIN TIPS EVERY UNIVERSITY STUDENT NEEDS TO KNOW** 🚨 If you’ve ever panicked after seeing your Turnitin percentage, SAVE THIS! 👀📚 **1. Similarity score ≠ AI score** 🔎 **Similarity score:** This shows how much of your assignment matches content in Turnitin’s databases, such as websites, journals, publications and previously submitted student papers. A **25% similarity score does NOT automatically mean 25% plagiarism.** Your matches could include properly referenced quotations, common phrases, references and other legitimate similarities. Always check **what has actually been matched and where it comes from**, rather than focusing only on the percentage. 🤖 **AI score:** This is completely separate from your similarity score. It estimates how much of your qualifying text Turnitin’s AI detector thinks **may have been generated by AI**. So you can have a low similarity score but a higher AI score, or vice versa. ⚠️ An AI score is also **not proof that you used AI**. Turnitin acknowledges that AI detection can make mistakes, so it should not be used as the sole basis for deciding whether a student committed academic misconduct. **2. Can your lecturer see your AI score? 👀** Depending on how your university and assignment are configured, **you may not be able to see an AI score as a student, while your lecturer may still have access to the AI Writing Report.** So don't assume: ❌ “I can't see an AI score, therefore my lecturer can't see one.” Student and lecturer access can be different depending on your institution’s Turnitin settings. **3. Does submitting your first draft before your classmates give you an advantage?** 🚨 **Don't rely on this as a Turnitin hack!** Submitting first does **NOT automatically guarantee a lower similarity score** or prevent your work from being compared with other students’ submissions. Whether student papers are used as comparison material depends on your university’s **assignment settings and repository settings.** Also, be careful when submitting **multiple drafts**. If your first draft is stored in a repository, your later version could potentially be compared against your earlier submission. This can sometimes result in a higher similarity score because Turnitin is matching your new submission to your own previous work. So the idea that: **“Submit first so your classmates can't affect your similarity score”** ❌ is NOT a reliable Turnitin strategy. ✨ **THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY:** Don't panic over the percentage! A similarity score does **not automatically equal plagiarism**, and an AI score does **not automatically prove you used AI.** Always check **what Turnitin flagged, where the match comes from, your university’s submission settings and your institution’s academic-integrity rules.** 📌 **Save this for your next assignment & send it to a student who needs to know!** #Turnitin #UniversityTips #StudentTips #AcademicTips #StudyTok