Coursework been sent to exam board as a possible case of plagiarism

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I don't want to go into the in's and out's of the completion of this particular piece of work. It was a poster for 1, it was based on a very, very recent event - so only internet sources had info, and most of all the guy I was working with pretty much send me his work and did bits of mine, it all looked good and well but he never put 'the source' down as a source. I edited bits, added my own references, sorted out referencing for figures and pictures and we were done - I never knew most of it was copy and pasted pretty much!

Just to clarify, I go to one of the University of London groups - one of the more prestigious (as much as I hate to sound like a snob, it might be worth mentioning as there probably more strict?)

Errr... so you shared work? Was it meant to be submitted individually? It could be plagiarising each other that's the biggest concern?

I don't think the OP is quite that stupid, but it wouldn't surprise me.

OP: You're probably going to get zero for that piece of work. People may tell you otherwise, but if I were you, that's what I'd be preparing myself for.

Because the piece of coursework is what it is, I think there is a possibility of more leniency.

Is it routine for suspected plagiarism to be handed straight over to the exam board?

A piece of coursework that myself and a fellow student handed in has been sent straight off to the exam board in order to be assessed for plagiarism by our personal tutor. Would anyone be able to advise me on how serious this is? obviously genuine plagiarism is taken very seriously in almost every case but the fact that my tutor has sent this piece of work straight off to the exam board is particularly alarming. Basically, we have forgotten to cite a website that we (mainly he!) used fairly often and technically there is a large amount of plagiarism.

Has anyone else been in this situation?

Any advice will be appreciated

You say you're at a prestigious London university, yet you can't spell and seem to think that plagiarism is something universities/exam boards will just let fly? I'm not even at university abut even I know that if I don't reference properly I can expect getting a zero marker. The fact that it has gone straight to the exam board is probably the most worrying thing to be honest - a university might let a student off or just knock some marks from the total, but do you genuinely think the exam board will do the same? Sorry to sound harsh, just think you need to face the music a little.

This is what I expect, and I believe it's what I deserve - and certainly what my work partner deserves for sending over mainly a copy and pasted piece of work and not informing me. I am just worried that the penalty may be more serious. I will still comfortably pass the module, even with a 0 in this component because I am a first year undergraduate.