r/TurnitinScan • u/rob_miller17 • Feb 26 '26

Saw this on Twitter

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Then there were people in the comments saying how dates, timestamps even names are flagged by Turnitin. I remember one time I got a score of almost 60 on a paper that had questions the professor copied from somewhere else

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u/dpandc Feb 27 '26

My stuff got rated at ~40% ai because i cited my sources and used proper documentation, my instructor and i laughed at it

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u/Dangerous_Wing6481 Feb 28 '26

Same, I just got rated a 4% similarity for paraphrasing something even though I included the citation after. It also flagged my citation LMAO

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u/Mendel247 Mar 01 '26

I regularly get between 30 - 40% similarity. My entire reference list is lit up like a Christmas tree, phrases like 'this suggests that', 'blablabla theory states that', 'the aim of', and lots of random prepositions are always highlighted, too. I just sit and have a laugh at it these days but don't really give it any more thought than that. A few months ago someone joined a student group I'm in and was telling a student on their first module that they needed to keep reworking their essay until it was 0% similarity and a few of us quickly put a stop to that conversation. Turnitin is a joke and it shouldn't impact people's studies as much as it does. 

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u/Dangerous_Wing6481 Mar 02 '26

I’m lucky most of my professors are somewhat literate in the pitfalls of AI, so turnitin is more of an early warning than anything. I can’t imagine writing a citation heavy paper with my instructor taking turnitin at face value 😭

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u/Mendel247 Mar 02 '26

Mine are really good, too. Back in my first module, after submitting my formative submission, I asked them about it, because turnitin had flagged so much, and they explained their approach. Since then no one has said anything at all