Your similarity score is not your plagiarism score
Turnitin measures matched text, not dishonesty. A 24% score can be entirely clean and a 9% score can be a genuine problem. Here is why.
UK academic writing
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Written from primary UK sources — UKCGE and QAA guidance, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, Turnitin's own documentation and universities' published regulations — rather than from other people's blog posts. Every external link in every post is checked before publication.
Nothing here is a template to submit, and we do not produce work for students. Where a post touches the line, it says so and links to our academic integrity policy.
Nobody warns you about the upgrade viva
Upgrade, transfer, confirmation, progression: four names for the same UK doctoral gate, and most candidates never read the published criteria they are judged against.
Studying in the UK
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Three weeks, no reply: when your supervisor goes quiet
Silence is almost never a verdict on your work. What it usually is, and the specific requests and records that start the conversation again.
Studying in the UK
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Coaching, not cheating: the line we don't cross
The viva is the one assessment nobody can outsource. UK examiners are required to establish that the work is yours — out loud, to your face.
Studying in the UK
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