A student says, “My similarity score is very low, so my report cannot contain plagiarism.” What is the strongest response?

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Similarity software checks attribution more reliably than a human reader can.

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A low score proves that the student collected all research data personally.

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Unacknowledged ideas or translated passages may still be present despite a low score.

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Plagiarism occurs only when a report exceeds a fixed similarity percentage.

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