With IIMs admitting to have released tampered CAT scores for admission to non-IIMs for academic season 2013-15, top B-schools have expressed shock and anger over the development even as they initiated immediate action on admission review process for their new batches.

In a shocking revelation that will impact MBA admission based on CAT 2012 scores and shake up the credibility of CAT exam, IIMs have admitted that CAT scorecards available officially to non-IIMs for admission year 2012-13 have been tampered with inflated scores of some candidates.

According to IIMs, scorecards of as many as 80 testing IDs available on official CAT website have been found inflated as compared to the actual scores available with IIMs in the master datasheet of CAT 2012 scorecards.

With nominations for Indian Management Conclave (IMC) Awards 2013 closing June 28, B-schools from across have enthusiastically nominating their innovative initiatives and practices for different award categories even as the entries from different B-schools continued pouring in for the ongoing nomination process for IMC Award 2013. Nomination in demand management category and Innovations in Curriculum Delivery, however, have dominated the entries so far.

With 4-5 months left for the major MBA entrance exams including CAT, you must be ready with a preparation strategy which will work simultaneously for all such exams like XAT, NMAT, IIFT Entrance Exam, and SNAP.
Our previous article on major entrance exam brought you expected MBA entrance exam dates based on last years exam dates. While CAT and XAT have announced their exam dates in OctoberNovember and January respectively, exams dates for other major exams like NMAT, SNAP, IIFT entrance are yet to be announced.

SPJIMR has introduced an integrated program in Business Communication, a Business Consulting Project and a minor specialization in Consulting for its PGDM programme even as the institute inducted its new PGDM batch of 2013-15.

According to the institute, SPJIMRs PGDM Program of 2013-15 consists of 236 participants with 94 female students. The new batch comprises 65 non-engineers from different top colleges and over 90 per cent of the batch carries average work experience of 24 months, the institute said.

The Indian Management Conclave Awards 2013 has received enthusiastic response from management institutes with top B-schools including IIMs, NMIMS, SPJIMR, BIMTECH, TAPMI, IFIM, FMS-BHU and over 50 other Management institutes nominating their initiative for the Award.

The last date for Nomination for IMC Award 2013 is June 20. An eminent jury will select B-school initiatives which will be awarded at 4th Indian Management Conference & Awards 2013 to be held on August 2nd & 3rd in New Delhi.

One of the important constituent of the Verbal section in CAT is jumbled paragraph. The jumbled paragraph questions carry a group of misplaced sentences that needs to be placed in a sequential and coherent manner. Jumbled paragraph questions in CAT, gives you an opportunity of scoring around 12 to 15 percent marks depending upon the number of para-jumble questions (3 or 4 out of 20 on Verbal Ability).

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has appointed long time NITIE professor Dr Amitabha De as new director of IIM Shillong.

A team of 2nd year PGDM students from SP Jain Institute of Management Research (SPJIMR) has won LOreal International Brandstorm Finals 2013 held in Paris on June 21, 2013.

The SPJIMR team comprising three students of 2nd year PGDM batch - Ujjwal Chaddha, Mitali Parekh and Himanshi Dandona, who represented India at this international platform, competed with 37 teams (countries) from across the world during the Semi-Finals round.

The team was in the top 3 finalists along with the teams from France and Greece. The International Finals were held at Grand Palais, Paris.

With time zone questions appearing in different forms in various sub-sections of Verbal Ability section in CAT, your VA prep strategy must include a detailed preparation of With time zone questions appearing in different forms in various sub-sections of Verbal Ability section in CAT, your VA prep strategy must include a detailed preparation of basics of different Tenses.