(Archive) Results withheld/ deferred

@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.

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.

Confirms what I have said – Fess up if you are guilty!

For some reason your earlier post:

“Hi I don’t know any 1 can help me or not .
I submit my rab 2nd time this time I have been asked how I did allot improvements in sentence ,grammerly and the vacabery? I told him I used gramerly software . today 10 days has been passed but I have not got any responce from aco.
Please tell me after how many days i should contact with ACO. If i have not get response. As 2 month already has been passed for result announcement”

and my reply from yesterday have both disappeared into the ether

so I have re-posted your original query above and my answer below:

“I think they try to resolve ACO cases within 2 months but this is a general guide. Some cases are more complex than others and sometimes other students may be implicated so they are waiting to compare responses and someone’s case is always going to be last. So 2 months though a target is an average.

I think you will just have to sit it out and expect it may be at least another week or 10 days before you get a follow up from them. However you could send a polite enquiry as a reminder…”