How your school’s built-in checker might differ from Litimus
A score from your school’s platform and a score from Litimus are not measuring on the same scale, even when they are trying to answer the same question.
Different tools, different thresholds
What counts as “likely AI” on one platform might sit in another’s mixed range entirely. If you check your own writing with Litimus before submitting to a different institutional tool, do not expect the two numbers to match exactly — read both for their reasons, not just their scores.
Your school’s tool is the one that counts for your grade
Whatever you learn from checking your own work elsewhere, the platform your institution actually uses is the one whose result matters for any formal process. Use your own check as preparation, not as a substitute for knowing what your school’s tool is likely to say.
Ask what your institution’s tool actually reports
Some platforms show only a single flag, not a score or reasons. If that is what your school uses, you will not get the kind of detail Litimus gives you — which makes checking your own writing beforehand, where you can see the reasoning, more useful, not less.
The underlying limitation is the same everywhere
Every detector, including Litimus, gives a probability built from writing patterns, not a certainty. That caveat applies just as much to whatever tool your school runs as it does here — see how AI detectors work for why that is true of the approach generally, not any one product.