How to Check Your Turnitin Score Before Submitting
Submitting blind is how good papers get flagged. There are four realistic ways to see your Turnitin numbers first, and they are not equally useful. Here is what each one gives you.
1. Your university's draft or practice folder
Many institutions set up a 'draft' assignment that allows multiple submissions and shows the similarity report. It is free and official. The catch: many draft folders still store your paper in the repository, so your final submission then matches itself at 90%+. Confirm with your department that the draft folder is non-repository before using it.
2. Free web plagiarism checkers
Useful for a rough first pass on obvious web copying. They cannot see Turnitin's student paper database or paid journals, and they never show an AI score. Never treat a free tool's percentage as your Turnitin percentage.
3. A supervisor or lecturer running it for you
The most legitimate route if your supervisor is willing. Response time is the problem — most students need an answer the night before the deadline.
4. An instructor-side non-repository check
This is what services like FREKUM WRITES do: your file is submitted through a genuine instructor account with repository storage switched off, and you get the official PDF back with both the similarity percentage and the AI percentage. It costs $1 and takes 10–30 minutes. Because nothing is stored, your final university submission is unaffected.
What to do with the numbers
Under 15% similarity with properly cited matches is normal for most coursework. Above that, open the source list and check whether the matches are quotes you forgot to cite, over-long block quotes, or your own reused work. For AI, anything above your institution's threshold needs a genuine rewrite, not a paraphrase pass.
FAQ
Will a pre-check make my final submission show 100% similarity?
Only if the pre-check was stored in the repository. Non-repository submissions leave no trace, so your final submission is unaffected.
How much does a pre-check cost?
$1 per file with FREKUM WRITES, or $0.8 per file on bulk orders.
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