Paper 1 · Higher Education
UGC NET June 2023 (17.06.2023) Shift-I
According to the UGC Regulations 2018 on plagiarism, common knowledge or coincidental terms up to how many consecutive words shall be excluded while checking similarity for the detection of plagiarism?
A8
B12
C14 ✓ Correct
D18
Correct answer: (C) 14 — Up to 14 consecutive words are excluded, so the answer is 14.
Explanation
★Up to 14 consecutive words are excluded, so the answer is 14.
★The UGC 2018 regulations set out how to measure similarity for plagiarism.
★They provide certain exclusions before the similarity percentage is calculated.
★Common knowledge or coincidental terms up to 14 consecutive words are excluded.
★Quoted work with proper attribution and references are also excluded.
★So the fixed limit for such coincidental strings is 14 words.
★This prevents ordinary shared phrases from inflating the similarity score.
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