The duplicate checking of graduation thesis in colleges and universities is becoming more and more strict： some schools have reduced the duplicate checking rate to 8%

　　● The so-called duplicate checking of papers refers to inquiring about the repetition rate of papers, aiming at coping with academic misconduct and plagiarism of academic papers.

　　The "duplicate checking rate" of graduation thesis in some schools has been reduced from the original 30% to 20%, and even more strictly to below 8%. In addition, the school has added a retrial link, that is, the quality of the graduation thesis of the graduated students is tracked and monitored. Once it is found that it is higher than the duplicate checking rate, the degree certificate and graduation certificate will be cancelled directly.

　　At present, there is still a lack of infrastructure to curb academic corruption. We should constantly strengthen supervision and supervision, improve the academic evaluation system, and establish good academic norms.

　　Legal Daily reporter Zhao Li

　　The graduation season is coming, and the accompanying paper duplicate checking has also been put on the agenda.

　　However, this year’s strict paper duplicate checking rate has made many fresh graduates "shiver". According to the survey, the "duplicate checking rate" of graduation thesis in some schools has been reduced from 30% to 20%, and even more strictly to below 8%. In addition, some schools have added a retrial link, that is, the quality of graduation thesis of graduated students is tracked and monitored. Once it is found that it is higher than the duplicate checking rate, the degree certificate and graduation certificate will be cancelled directly.

　　On February 22 this year, the Ministry of Education announced the main points of work in 2019. In higher education, the Ministry of Education will strengthen the supervision and investigation of academic misconduct, and this year, it will carry out sampling inspection of master’s and doctoral dissertations.

　　On February 27th, the Ministry of Education issued a document to further standardize and strengthen the management of postgraduate examination enrollment and training, and to investigate the fraudulent behavior of dissertations immediately, investigate it to the end, investigate it with responsibility, and never tolerate it, so as to achieve "zero tolerance".

　　On April 2, the Ministry of Education announced the Ministry of Education’s Departmental Budget for 2019 in official website, saying that in 2019, the Ministry of Education plans to sample about 6,000 doctoral dissertations (excluding the military system), and the sampling ratio is about 10% of the number of doctoral degrees awarded in the last academic year. In 2019, the sampling budget for dissertations was 8 million yuan.

　　Some critics say that China’s colleges and universities are entering the "strict out" era, and those fresh graduates who can walk into the print shop are the "winners in life" this graduation season, because they have finally reached the final step of completing their graduation thesis.

　　Paper duplication checking is becoming more and more strict.

　　Water injection writing is a thing of the past.

　　After writing the first time, the instructor asked me to quote the literature of the last three years as much as possible. So, check it again on HowNet, and then modify it. The publication time of references is also very important. Finally, you should count the year and date of three years ago, for fear of miscalculation. Now, although the thesis is handed over to the instructor again, I always dream that something has gone wrong when I sleep at night.

　　Lin Hai, a senior graduate who has found a good job, is still very anxious, because the paper is duplicated.

　　Check the first draft once, check it blindly, check it on behalf of the school, and check it again for the defense. Nowadays, "a paper is checked four times" is passed down by some graduates.

　　At present, there are three authoritative papers testing institutions in China: Gocheck VIP, CNKI and Wanfang. Paper duplication checking, also known as paper detection, mainly refers to inquiring the repetition rate of paper content, aiming at coping with academic misconduct and plagiarism of academic papers. The duplicate checking rate of paper detection is the percentage of duplicate words in the total number of words.

　　There are also some people who have already graduated, because of the random inspection of their papers, and they have to check again.

　　Liu Shan (pseudonym), who has graduated with a master’s degree, was selected by the college because of the selective examination of his dissertation by the local education department. "I can only take time to fill out various forms and entrust my schoolmate to help me find a tutor to sign."

　　The sampling papers originated from two documents issued in 2014.

　　In 2014, the state issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Quality Assurance and Supervision System for Degree and Postgraduate Education, clearly proposing to carry out sampling inspection of doctoral and master’s dissertations. In the same year, the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Ministry of Education jointly issued the Sampling Measures for Doctoral and Master’s Dissertations (Degree [2014] No.5).

　　According to the relevant regulations, the author, tutor and graduate school will face corresponding punishment after sampling problems in doctoral thesis. The author of the thesis will be revoked his degree and the tutor will be stopped from enrolling students.

　　In September last year, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Paying Close Attention to the Implementation of the Spirit of the National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Era, emphasizing that colleges and universities should comprehensively sort out the teaching contents of various courses, eliminate "water courses", create "gold courses", strictly control the exit of graduation and resolutely cancel the "clear examination" system.

　　In October of the same year, the Ministry of Education issued "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of High-level Undergraduate Education and Improving the Ability of Cultivating Talents in an All-round Way", which clearly proposed to strengthen the whole process management of the topics, topics and defense of graduation design (thesis), strictly monitor the form, content and difficulty, and improve the quality of graduation design (thesis). Strengthening the management of undergraduate graduation project (thesis) is a measure to pay close attention to undergraduate education and teaching.

　　In this year’s graduation season, many colleges and universities have strengthened their management in "strict out".

　　In April, Tsinghua University published the latest revised Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Management of Disciplinary Actions against Students in Tsinghua University, in which there was a significant change, that is, the punishment for academic misconduct was increased, and those who plagiarized dissertations could be expelled from school. The original punishment was to give "the above punishment".

　　On May 5th, the Undergraduate School of Central South University issued a relevant notice, which made it clear that students whose "copy ratio" was 70% or above in the second test were suspected of serious paper fraud. If the fraud (plagiarism) was confirmed to be true, the college would study and deal with the students and their instructors seriously according to the regulations.

　　On May 6th, the Academic Affairs Office of Emei Campus of Southwest Jiaotong University issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Checking and Testing the Graduation Design (Thesis) of 2019, requiring that the checking and testing of this graduation design (thesis) should increase the comparison database of college students’ theses (including this one). If students from the same department and school are found to plagiarize from each other, the Academic Affairs Office will start the investigation procedure and deal with it strictly.

　　Paper testing promotes business.

　　There are hidden traps in price concessions.

　　In order to prevent the repetition rate of papers from being too high and unqualified, most students will check the duplicates themselves.

　　According to a survey conducted by the reporter of Legal Daily, it has become the choice of many graduates to check the duplicate in Taobao or use the duplicate checking software before the school organizes duplicate checking.

　　However, the school does not allow graduates to check the papers privately. Those students who can’t guarantee that they can meet the requirements twice or the school doesn’t provide duplicate checking accounts often choose to go to the e-commerce platform to buy duplicate checking accounts for papers.

　　When the reporter searched for "paper duplicate checking" on the Internet, he saw various brands of duplicate checking products, with prices ranging from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan, and the scope of duplicate checking covered from undergraduate graduation thesis to doctoral thesis. Some businesses can sell tens of thousands of times a month.

　　According to the reporter’s observation, the introduction information of the merchants is almost the same: the duplicate checking of this master’s thesis, the VIP5.2 system, the test results are consistent with those of colleges and universities, and the verification of authenticity is supported.

　　After communicating with the merchants, the reporter learned that generally, as long as the payment is based on the number of words in the paper, the corresponding order will be generated, and you can enter the self-service entrance of HowNet to check the duplicate. After completing the corresponding steps, you will get the duplicate check result in an hour.

　　Price concessions are one of the main reasons for the popularity of online duplicate checking service at present.

　　Take the Webmaster VIP5.1/TMLC2 system as an example, the lowest price for a duplicate check is around 280 yuan, and the highest price in the peak season is around 350 yuan. For the undergraduate PMLC system of HowNet, the lowest price for a duplicate check is around 130 yuan, and the highest price is around 180 yuan.

　　However, the Academic Misconduct Network once said in "Beware of the Low Price Trap in Taobao HowNet Paper Detection" that some ordinary versions of HowNet detection in 5 yuan and 1 yuan on Taobao are mostly "selling dog meat by hanging sheep’s head". Although a few low-cost tests can support the verification of the authenticity of HowNet, the verification time is very old, that is, the old report verification code is inserted into the ordinary version of the test.

　　However, some students who use other duplicate checking software are easily caught in a dilemma.

　　"Last year, I used two softwares to check the duplicate for insurance, but I got very different results, one was 29%, and the other was only 12%." Zhang Yan, a Beijing resident who has been working now, recalled that in order to be "more stable", she could only compare the two reports word for word and make changes to the overlapping parts.

　　To Zhang Yan’s chagrin, in the final report given by the college, the repetition rate of his papers was less than 10%. "This shows that the previous two duplicate checks are inaccurate, and the software duplicate checking technology is really flattering.".

　　There are not a few people who have had the same experience as Zhang Yan.

　　Some interviewees recalled that they used three different duplicate checking softwares, which were modified every time they checked, but the repetition rate of the last check actually increased instead of decreasing.

　　With the cake of paper duplicate checking getting bigger and bigger, an industrial chain with dense culverts is emerging, which makes the simple duplicate checking service move towards "weight reduction", "ghostwriting" and "piracy".

　　On an e-commerce platform, the reporter noticed that a professional and streamlined production line that circumvented the duplicate checking software was formed. A paper with a total length of more than 10,000 words, which requires that the duplicate checking rate be reduced from 22% to 5%, is quoted at a store in 850 yuan.

　　In addition, there are still many students who spit out the current check-up standard.

　　Lin Hai believes that it is still unfair to avoid duplication of academic misconduct to some extent. He told reporters that taking the study of ancient documents involved in his thesis as an example, this kind of humanities papers quoted more original words from other works, which invisibly led to a high duplicate checking rate. "Duplicate checking rate should not be a prerequisite for determining the quality of papers and whether students participate in defense."