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Do plagiarism checkers save personal statements

Hey, so I a bit scared of my PS coming up as plagiarism even though I wrote it all, I used a couple of sites to check. Would these sites save my personal statement?

Reply 1

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by Khairounn_
Hey, so I a bit scared of my PS coming up as plagiarism even though I wrote it all, I used a couple of sites to check. Would these sites save my personal statement?

Idk, probably not best to use them though. You know it’s original it will be fine

Reply 2

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by DRGN3455
Idk, probably not best to use them though. You know it’s original it will be fine


I already used it 😭 I was just really scared. Im still going to submit it

Reply 3

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by Khairounn_
I already used it 😭 I was just really scared. Im still going to submit it

I used it on mine as well and my application was fine, probably shouldn’t have though(but anxiety). GOOD LUCK


Once you’ve submitted it just go to your personal statement section in UCAS and you can make sure it wasn’t flagged.

At the bottom (on your personal statement section) there’s a similarity report. If it was flagged it will be obvious

Hopefully it just has some plain text and nothing underneath it

Hope this helps❤️

Reply 4

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by DRGN3455
I used it on mine as well and my application was fine, probably shouldn’t have though(but anxiety). GOOD LUCK
Once you’ve submitted it just go to your personal statement section in UCAS and you can make sure it wasn’t flagged.
At the bottom (on your personal statement section) there’s a similarity report. If it was flagged it will be obvious
Hopefully it just has some plain text and nothing underneath it
Hope this helps❤️


Definitely helps ❤️ thank youu!
Original post
by Khairounn_
Hey, so I a bit scared of my PS coming up as plagiarism even though I wrote it all, I used a couple of sites to check. Would these sites save my personal statement?


If you wrote it all by yourself then you have nothing to fear and have no need to put it in a plagiarism/AI checker.
I would advise you to read the privacy policy of any of these sites before you'd even use them for something like this. Generally you should be fine, but all it takes is one dodgy site and then who knows who has your PS?
As above - they might be using your PS for all sorts of purposes and it’s pointless anyway. Only UCAS can check your PS against all the other PSs submitted to them previously. Any online tool doesn’t have access to the source material that UCAS checks against.

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