3 October 2026 · 7 min read
Internship reports in Nepal tend to come back with a similarity score that surprises the student, and the reason is almost always the same chapter. The analysis is yours, the activities are yours, but the organisation profile — history, vision and mission, products, branch network, organisational structure — was taken from the bank's or company's website, its annual report, or a senior's report on the same organisation. Every one of those sources is likely to match.
This is fixable, and fixing it properly also makes the report better. Here is why the profile flags and how to write it so it reads as your work.
Banks, finance companies, insurers and large firms in Nepal publish their history, mission statement and product descriptions in near-identical form across their website, annual report and press material. When a student pastes that text, it matches the organisation's own pages directly.
It also matches other students. Popular internship organisations host dozens of interns every year, and many of them paste the same paragraphs. If those earlier reports were submitted through a repository, your profile now matches a whole line of seniors as well as the company. That is how a report where the student wrote every analysis paragraph honestly still shows a high overall figure concentrated in a few pages.
Supervisors know this pattern well. A copied profile rarely gets a report rejected on its own, but it signals that the student treated the chapter as filler — and a report flagged on one chapter invites closer reading of the rest.
Some material in the profile is fixed wording that you should not paraphrase, because changing it would misrepresent the organisation. Quote it, mark it clearly and cite it:
Everything else — the history, how the organisation is structured, what each department does, where it sits in the industry — should be your own description. You were inside the organisation; you can describe its structure from what you observed and from your supervisor's explanations, and support it with the published material rather than reproduce it.
The easiest way to make the profile yours is to write it from the internship rather than from the website. Instead of copying a paragraph on the bank's history, summarise the key milestones in two or three sentences and cite the annual report. Instead of pasting the organisational chart description, describe the reporting lines you actually worked within: which department you sat in, who it reported to, how it interacted with the branches or other units.
For products and services, do not reproduce the product brochure. Group the products into categories, describe in one line what each category is for, and note which ones your department dealt with during your placement. That connects the profile to the activities chapter that follows and gives the reader a reason to read it.
Industry context works the same way. A sentence such as the number of commercial banks operating in Nepal needs a source — cite the regulator's current publication rather than copying a senior's figure, which may be several years out of date.
Using a senior's report on the same organisation as a model is common and, used carefully, helpful: it shows you the expected structure and level of detail. The risk is copying its profile, its SWOT analysis or its recommendations, which are exactly the parts most likely to be in the repository already.
Use earlier reports for structure only, then close them. Your SWOT should reflect the organisation as you found it this year, and your recommendations should come from your own observations. A recommendation copied from a three-year-old report often describes a problem the organisation has since solved, which a supervisor who knows the organisation will notice immediately.
Even a perfectly written profile earns little. The marks are in the chapters where you connect what you did to what you studied: the activities you performed, the problems you observed, and your analysis using concepts from your coursework. These chapters are also naturally low in similarity, because nobody else had your placement.
If your similarity report shows matches inside the analysis chapters, look closely. Common causes are textbook definitions pasted to introduce a concept, and generic literature-review paragraphs reused from the internet. Define concepts briefly in your own words with a citation, and spend the space on applying them to what you saw.
Students often skip citations in the profile because they assume the organisation itself does not count as a source. It does. In APA 7, an annual report is cited with the organisation as author, the year, the report title and the URL if you accessed it online. A company web page is cited the same way, with the page title and the date you retrieved it if the page is likely to change. Cite the specific annual report year you took each figure from, because branch counts, capital and deposit figures change every year.
Internal documents are different. Policy manuals, staff circulars and internal reports you saw during the placement are usually confidential. Ask your supervisor before using them at all, and if you are allowed to, describe them in general terms rather than reproducing their content.
Run a check before you submit to your college, not after. A report that shows the matches chapter by chapter tells you within minutes whether the problem is the profile, a borrowed definition or something larger, and gives you time to rewrite only what needs it. Check that the pre-submission check does not store your document, so it cannot match your own final submission later.
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