In a major relief to the Institute of Rural Management, (IRMA), Anand, and thousands of candidates set to appear for its entrance test scheduled on next Sunday, November 11, for the 2013-15 batch, the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the institute to conduct its test separately for this year.

IRMA has hailed the decision. IRMA director Prof Jeemol Unni said all the efforts would now be directed towards successfully organizing the test.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode has completed summer placements for its 16th batch (2012-14) comprising 366 students across 144 companies, with 80 of them, including Philips, General Mills, NSE, Flipkart and Sudarshan Chemicals visiting the campus for the first time. The highest stipend offered was Rs 1.5 lakh for two months.

International Management Institute (IMI) has said it may reopen its admission registration process once the CAT results are declared. The institute, however, said from the next year onwards, the process will be closed in one go. Talking to MBAUniverse.com, Dr Pritam Singh, director-general, IMI, said: This year, we may allow one more opportunity to aspirants to apply for our institute once the CAT results are out.

Often described as the telecom man, Manoj Kohli is the chief executive officer (international) & joint managing director of Bharti Airtel. He heads the international business group of the company and sits on its board. Prior to his present assignment, Mr Kohli held multiple roles as CEO & joint MD, president & CEO and head of mobile services business at Bharti Airtel.

So, the curtains finally fell on CAT 2012 after 21 testing days between October 11 and November 6. The 21st or the last day passed off without any major untoward incident being reported. According to some test takers, the Quant section was easier in a shift from the earlier trend. On an overall basis, the difficulty level was easy to moderate, experts said.

Saurabh Kumar, a test taker, said: The quantitative ability & data interpretation section was easier among the two sections. There were three reading comprehension passages which were lengthy and ambiguous.

As part of its efforts to find solutions to rising problems across industry verticals which deter growth and often lead to job losses, IMT Ghaziabad is in the process of organising a competition to generate ideas and strategies that are likely to reverse the trends.

The event, called IMT Big 10, will ask participants to come up with ideas and strategies to boost the growth of the various sectors of the economy. The competition is not only open to students of B-schools but also for alumni who have less than three years of work experience.

Many B schools have finished their selection process for academic session 2013-15. The final lists of selected students are gradually being declared by different B-schools.

MBA Admissions are in full swing in the country. There are many B-schools in all four zones North, South, West, East, where admission 2013 are still open. All the institutes listed in this article accept CMAT scores for admission to the academic session 2013-15.

For all those who have given CMAT exam or have registered for the CMAT May 2013 exam, its the right time to choose their Best Fit institute.

Common Error questions in Verbal Ability (VA) section in Common Admission Test (CAT), is one of the core testing area for the CAT aspirants. Though the section needs to be dealt very carefully, an expertise in the same can boost your CAT percentile and help you get into your dream B-schools like IIMs.

Ability to identify common errors in paragraphs and sentences is as important as error correction in Vocabulary Usage, Jumbled Paragraphs, and Reading Comprehension passages.