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@trephena need your kind guidance regarding obu misconduct and acca membership application. I was given zero grade and aco said that he will advise ACCA. Can this be a problem in my ACCA membership application.

@trephena thank u for your response. It happened 2 years ago, I have received invitation for membership. While transferring to membership will it cause any trouble and also after attaining membership status.

Dear Student,

Thank you for participating in the Investigative Process and responding to the concerns which were raised about the originality of the work that you submitted for assessment for the Research and Analysis Project in Period 34.

Having carefully considered what you have had to say and having looked at your work carefully, I have concluded that you have committed plagiarism and/or collusion in that you have copied word for word from your sources material and/or colluded with other students or your mentor and submitted the work as you own independent and original work. This is a breach of Student Conduct regulation 2.2.1 and I have imposed a penalty of a Zero grade for your Research and Analysis Project. If you are eligible you may resubmit a project, but must choose another topic and research a different company i.e. not Topic 17 and not HSBC. You should undergo mentoring again.

The key facts of this case are as outlined in my letter of 30th October 2017
The Turnitin Originality Checking Report shows a match within other sources.
The Turnitin Originality Checking Report shows a significant match with another student within the Skills and Learning Statement.

The reasons for my decision are that such matches with other students suggest a deliberate attempt to cheat.

You have the right to request that your case be re-heard by an Academic Misconduct Committee. If you wish to do so, you must set out in writing which of my findings and/or penalties that you believe are inappropriate and the reasons why. Your letter, together with any additional information you wish to submit, must be received by the University Student Conduct Officer (email studentdisputes@brookes.ac.uk) within 15 working days of the date of this letter. You should note that an Academic Misconduct Committee can increase penalties as well as reduce them. Although in this instance, I will not be referring the matter to the Undergraduate Misconduct Committee for a more serious penalty, the breach is of such a serious nature that I will be advising ACCA of this matter.

If you have any questions about this letter or the academic issues that it relates to, please contact me.

If you are unclear about any other aspect of your situation or are in any doubt as to what you should do now, you should contact the BSc Office at Oxford Brookes on acca@brookes.ac.uk or refer to the Student Conduct Regulations and Procedure which are available on the Brookes Intranet at
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/students/your-studies/student-disputes/student-conduct/ for further information. Please note that as a non-enrolled student some of the standard support services listed, such as the Student Union, are not available to you.

Yours faithfully,

Can I resubmit in the next intake??

What are the chances of ACCA penalising me?

This letter is not very clear about whether they think you have committed Malpractice or Misconduct here (a zero grade and making you chose another topic can indicate either Malpractice or Misconduct). The former is less serious than the latter (and as such does not involve notification to ACCA). It does say that “I will be advising ACCA of this matter” so my guess is Misconduct.

I think this means your student record at ACCA will have this recorded as a note but unless you commit a further offence(s) then no action is taken.

However what you do need to be aware of is that Misconduct means you will have to pay the penalty resubmission fee (currently GBP 600). This is mentioned somewhere in the Info Pack.

@trephena hi my course work was refereed for ACO investigation and the outcome was failed due to negligent in academic work. But today i again received mail

Although you have received a grade for your Period 34 RAP submission, the coursework you have
submitted for assessment for the Research and Analysis Project has been referred to me for
investigation because of concerns about its originality. In particular, your project shows a number of
striking similarities to other projects which have been submitted by students of the same mentor:
1. Many passages of the Research Report appear to be paraphrases of the same report and
use the same elements (including charts) in the same style and place.
2. The spreadsheet is in the same style and comprises the same elements in the same order
3. The presentation file has the same slides with changes only to detail.
These similarities indicate that you may have received too much help in preparing your Research and
Analysis Project, to the extent that it cannot be said to be entirely your own work.
To assist me in investigating these concerns, I must ask you to explain how such a high match could
have occurred. You may also send me any other evidence that this was solely your own work, but
please note that my major area of concern relates to the similarities outlined above.
I appreciate that mail may take some time so I am e-mailing a copy of this letter so that you can begin
gathering together your evidence. I am also aware that, like me, you wish this matter to be settled as
speedily as possible so must ask that you email or post this evidence so that I receive it by 19 March.

Could u please help me regarding this issue.

hi my results has been defferred guys please pray for me i have emails which i sent to my mentor as a proof that my project is my own work and in these emails even the slightest change on my project is mentioned in total i have more than 20 such emails in the time of aprox 3 months are they enough plus please suggest me for which kind of questions i need to be prepared plus i do have some notes on my register but they are very small in quantity as i have very bad and slow writing due to cerebal palasy so should i also submit my medical certificate while providing my resgiter workings if they ask for evidence guys please reply as soon as possible because i am tensed and unable to focus on my p7 studies

Thanks bro one more question in how much days aco will contact me plus one more thing i have refferenced my work well i have more than 100 and between 110 references in my list of reference plus as far as kmow i was the. Only one student from my mentor who submitted project on Boeing and Airbus so i think there is no chance that my project matches with some one else i want to ask that can you tell me what can be the reason of reffering my project to aco and secondly i have read in this forum that aco will check my project with human eye now by checking with human eye if aco thinks that my project is well refferenced will he still contact me and ask me for proof

It is difficult for us to give specific advice as we understand that procedures vary according to the circumstances. According to OBU statistics we believe that 10-15% of cases are exonerated – although this is at the end of their investigation and very few students are exonerated without any investigation. We are told that this is because at least 2 people including a senior marker are involved in the decision to investigate further and therefore the ACO will normally need to satisfy themselves that the decision to defer was unnecessary given the evidence before they are satisfied and will exonerate the student.

Our advice is to cooperate fully when your ACO contacts you (and do not try to treat the ACO as fools as they know from experience all of the excuses). As TLL informed, your evidence of the mentor relationship will be useful.

Wait until the ACO contact you with their evidence before reacting to them as they will have specific questions. And remember if you are innocent this should be readily apparent -so goodl luck!

Guys i got email it is 19% plaegeurism and she is asking that my sls report is matching aprox half to someone else well i dont know that student plus i made my sls report on my own it was my own words my own experience what should i do please help

Mam i am also shocked to see that i was thinking that my other files may have got problem but to see a problem in sls was shocking for me mam i didn’t got any file from anyone it wasmy own words and any plagerism is co incidence mam what should i do now

I am a bit confused here though as you have said something about 19% plagiarism – in the research report that could be normal and just coincidence.

You should be sent all the evidence so that you can see for yourself and examine everything in the context of what they are saying the issue is. Having examined it all carefully you should query it If the work is not yours. Have they sent you the wrong Turnitin report?
The only other thing I can think of is are you sure you uploaded the correct file when you submitted? I really don’t know what else to say.

(Without seeing the evidence I am not in a position to comment with any authority except that a 50% match would not normally be regarded as a co-incidence because in any written text it would tend to indicate a common source. This is why I asked previously if your mentor had supplied ‘samples’ – if so did you accidentally upload that file instead of your own? )

i just want to know if there is serious breach of conduct what impact will be with the ACCA status

As always I advise you to cooperate -I’ve heard if you own up straightaway you are more likely to get a lighter punishment. The students who maintain innocence when there is strong evidence against them are fools really as it prolongs the investigation and annoys the ACO and therefore they end up with the worst of both worlds- a higher penalty and often the penalty resubmission fee GBP 600

You are probably looking at academic negligence if you are very, very lucky or realistcally academic malpractice. If you are unlucky then they could give you Misconduct and the Penalty resubmission fee. You will probably get a fail anyway and usually end up having to submit on a totally different company regardless. However on the bright side you are normally allowed to resubmit (and that should certainly be the case for a 24% score), so it’s not the end of the line

The most incriminating thing may be the SLS and the 10%, Depends if this percentage is 10% of everything ((7,500 + 2,000) *10%) or 2,000 *10% – the difference is about 950 words in the first scenario or 200 words for the second.

200 words in an SLS might be explainable – anything more than this is harder to explain away. Once they see similarities in the written work they might also look at the other files too. Like I say if you know you did it, fess up and hope for the best.