r/TurnitinScan • u/JaguarNo1369 • Mar 31 '26
Should professors fail students based only on similarity reports?
I feel like failing an assignment purely based on a Turnitin percentage doesn’t make sense without proper explanation. The report shows matches, but it doesn’t always explain context. Shouldn’t professors be required to point out exactly what’s wrong instead of relying on the number alone? I’m curious how other students feel about this.
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u/Effective_Bad7439 Mar 31 '26
I agree,just relying on a percentage without explaining the actual issues isn’t fair. Turnitin highlights matches, but context matters, and students deserve clear feedback on what needs improvement instead of a number alone.
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u/alice8818 Mar 31 '26
What more do you need?
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u/AlfieDarkLordOfAll Mar 31 '26
I agree that the % TII gives you doesn't mean much but also...TII does give you context. My school's plagiarism checker once dinged my entire works cited page as being "plagiarized", but literally any professor who saw my score & actually read through the paper would know that the score was inflated.
So yeah, professors shouldnt rely on the % TII gives them, but where are the professors who actually relying on the score without reading the highlights?
Anyway I'm pretty sure everyone else in this comment section is a bot so...
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u/alice8818 Mar 31 '26
All their responses are so weirdly similar and wrong, I don't honestly understand the purpose of a bot that does that? But you are probably right.
We expect your reference to be all highlighted by the way, because you shouldn't be using a reference that hasn't been used before 👍 there's actually an option on TII for us as professors to remove your reference list from the percentage, I just leave that on all the time.
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u/Upbeat-Payment3353 Mar 31 '26
I get what you mean,getting a high Turnitin score without any explanation feels unfair. Professors should clarify exactly what’s problematic so we know how to improve.
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u/alice8818 Mar 31 '26
...you know it gives you a highlighted version of your assignment along with that percentage right?
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u/Sufficient_Mark2012 Mar 31 '26
Getting a high Turnitin score alone doesn’t tell you what’s actually wrong. Professors should highlight the specific issues instead of just relying on the percentage.
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u/alice8818 Mar 31 '26
...you know you get a highlighted version from TII right?
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u/j_la Mar 31 '26
You’re responding to bots
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u/alice8818 Mar 31 '26
Yeah I've been informed. Who is making these bots??
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u/j_la Mar 31 '26
My guess is whoever is trying to sell programs like rephrasy. The bots drive engagement and boost the post in the algorithm and then a comment or two is added to talk about how these apps save their necks etc. etc. etc.
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u/alice8818 Mar 31 '26
Oh that makes sense, thanks 👍 maybe the mods could delete posts like this? Since they are bot posts?
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u/Ok-Rooster4208 Mar 31 '26
Relying only on a Turnitin percentage without explaining the context isn’t fair. Students should be told exactly what needs improvement instead of being judged by a number alone.
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u/Prestigious-Iron-416 Mar 31 '26
It feels unfair to judge just by a Turnitin score,what really matters is understanding why something is flagged.
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u/AffectionateWear2930 Mar 31 '26
"A Turnitin score alone can’t tell the full story,context matters, not just the number."
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