A student submits a Ph.D. thesis in a university. Upon scrutiny, it is found that the thesis has a similarity content of 35 percent. This would fall in which of the following categories of plagiarism according to UGC regulations?

A 35 percent similarity falls in the band above 10 up to 40 percent, which UGC classifies as Level 1 plagiarism.

Level 0 covers similarity up to 10 percent and attracts no penalty.

Level 2 covers above 40 up to 60 percent similarity.

Level 3 covers similarity beyond 60 percent, the gravest band.

A Level 1 student is asked to resubmit a revised script within six months.

Quotations, references and small standard phrases are excluded before this count.