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Originally Posted by Niall
And just to expand a bit on this (because it's a bit of an unfounded point), I was actually speaking with my mum about coursework today, and she told me that they will actually go through and check passages of it against the major search engines to find results for exemplar courseworks in case I (or anyone else for that matter) copied and pasted from the Internet.
People just assume that because the top grades are being attained more often now, that the exams are easier. But what if the system has managed to teach well, and kids are more intelligent as a result? No-one seems to consider that..
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This is true, a few months back our year had this revision tips session with some organisation that specialises in it and the woman told us (she said she shouldn't be telling us) that there's this special search engine specifically for that purpose that lots of educational institutions use to check for plagiarism. I can't remember the name of it now though.
EDIT: Found it.
http://www.copyscape.com