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For millions of students like you, a graduate or business degree can give you a big advantage in your future career. An important step toward achieving that goal — and the path to thousands of graduate and business programs all over the world — is to take the GRE® General Test.

Starting August 1, 2011, the GRE® revised General Test will replace the current GRE General Test, giving you the advantage of a better test experience — and new types of questions that help show your readiness for graduate-level work.
Here's What You Can Expect from the GRE revised General Test

Representatives of Educational Testing Service (ETS), creator of the TOEFL® test and GRE® General Test, will participate at upcoming educational fairs throughout India to answer questions students may have regarding the two assessments and share the latest program information, resources, and study tools.

The TOEFL test and the GRE General Test are the two most widely accepted assessments used for admission into higher education. The TOEFL test is the most widely accepted English language assessment for undergraduate and graduate admissions. The GRE General Test is the most widely administered admissions test used by graduate and business programs around the world. Together, the GRE and the TOEFL tests are two important pieces of a university application for study abroad.

As part of IIM-C’s Institute Lecture Series, senior CPI (M) leader and a Member of Parliament, Sitaram Yechury will address the students on Friday, 17th December at the Institute’s auditorium.

Mr. Yechury is expected to dwell on the dangers of crony capitalism. This will be his first talk after the breaking of the 2G spectrum scandal, about which Mr. Yechury has been very vocal in his criticism.

IIM Ahmedabad has become the first IIM in the country to launch its own Business Books series. The book launch ceremony was held on December 11, 2010 at the B-school campus as part of the inaugural day events of the IIMA Golden Jubilee Celebrations.

The books, published in association with Random House India, are written by IIMA faculty and cater to general Indian readers in the Indian business context. The books are based on facts, research and examples that are powerfully positioned with a clear Indian focus.

Career based MBA programs are designed to add value to corporations and organizations, as well as to the business student. Career based MBA programs are also becoming more highly desired by Fortune 500 corporations and large organizations around the world. Companies are looking beyond just the management-level training programs that have been historically part of the MBA degree. They are looking for specific skills that will add immediate value to the bottom line. Career based MBA programs are widely referred to as the ‘passport for a successful career'.

ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth today announced the opening of applications for ICICI Fellows, a pioneering leadership programme designed to create a cadre of socially responsible leaders for India.

Ms. Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Bank Ltd and member of Governing Council, ICICI Foundation, said, "We are delighted to continue with ICICI's five decades of contributing to India's development with this new initiative to provide the next generation of leaders with the experience and skills required to promote inclusive growth."

IIM Lucknow today announced the launch of its 24th Annual International Business Conclave, Manfest 2011 with the unveiling of the event's website - http://www.iimlmanfest.com. This edition of Manfest is based on the theme "Renaissance 2030: Shape the Change" and aims to create new paradigms of thought that foresee our lives, our society, our economy, two decades from now. Manfest 2011 will be held from January 21-23 in the IIM Lucknow campus.

The Summer Placements at the Indian Institutes Of Management are done with for the 2010-12 batch.Giving you a glimpse of how the Summer Internships have been this year at the premier IIMs'.

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow completed its summer internship placements for the PGP class of 2012 with 417 offers from 151 companies. A slot-based process spread over 6 days was followed, with 123 offers being made in Slot Zero, said an IIM Lucknow press release.

Got to read an article just a few days ago about Ashish Goyal.
An NMIMS grad who even after getting visually impaired in his adolescence has,
against all odds emerged a champion.
A fighter in the real sense,this boy has managed to get dual MBA degree's from NMIMS and Wharton and is all set to receive the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, 2010 from the President of India.

CAT 2010 has been better than CAT 2009, is the opinion of many of the test takers across the country. This is not just an opinion, but a fact as well. Till now there has been no reports of any major glitch at any test lab, unlike last year when the first few days of CAT 2009 had given nightmares to the test takers with server crashes and navigation problems. The credit must go to the CAT 2010 Convener Prof. Himanshu Rai of IIM Lucknow for his careful planning and implementation of things with the support of test executing agency Prometric.

Let us have a detailed look at the similarities and differences between CAT 2009, the first computer-based test of CAT, and CAT 2010. This analysis will be of great help to the future CAT test takers, as well as CAT administrators...

If the trend of the last year or two is analyzed,
it now is very clear that the IIMs are targeting
a better mix of students in their campuses even if that means compromising
on the selection criteria based on CAT.
This though is a bed news for the engineers who till a year or two ago were the ones who
mostly filled up the coveted IIM seats.
This year,students from backgrounds as varied as a rock band guitarist,
an ISRO scientist,NGO workers and painters have made it to the IIMs....

Hi Friends,

Read this wonderful article about Purnachandra Rao Duggirala,an IIM-Indore alumni from the batch of 2006 on pagalguy.com
Known as chandu to his friends,this master blogger has discovered an unusual way to make money and to spread his knowledge.
His blog chandooo.org is where he writes articles and sells products relating to MS-Excel.
And guess how much he earns doing this...

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The list of GRE test centers in India:--

AHMADABAD
Test Center Number: 8902
GRE, TOEFL

ALLAHABAD
Test Center Number: 8903
GRE, TOEFL

CALCUTTA
Test Center Number: 8906
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Hi Friends,

So Friends,

Good news for all GRE takers.
With the introduction of the GRE revised General Test, Educational Testing Service (ETS) will offer 50% discount on the test fee to all individuals, for a period between August 1 and September 30, 2011.
The announcement appeared on the GRE website when ETS revealed a completely new test-taker section designed to educate potential graduate and business school students about the GRE revised General Test.

Hi all,
Listing some important GD topics that might be of help for CAT 2010

The Economy
How the stock market works
The foreign exchange rate, liquidity, basic economic theory
Economic reforms in India
How banking works; common banking terms
Know how the stock market works - bonds, investment, etc.
The global economic scenario
Derivatives trading

Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, has been reappointed the chairman of the board of governors of IIM-Bangalore.
The term of one of the richest men in India was to end this month and the HRD ministry’s decision means he’ll head the B-school’s top decision-making body till 2015.

The IIM s have decided to extend the testing window for CAT 2010.

The CAT vouchers will now be available till the 4th of October,

and the last date of registration is 7th of October.

The declaration though has evoked mixed responses from the experts and CAT aspirants alike.

CAT 2010 is going to have more number of questions than previous years.
This according to Prometric will bring in greater accuracy and international standards to CAT.

"Each question paper will be a little different from the other, but its evaluation would be done on the same scale," Managing Director of Prometric, Soumitra Roy said.

Hello friends,

Time to fasten your seatbelt friends.

Prometric has released the CAT practise test to familiarize all CAT aspirants with the feel of the exam.So,do take a few minutes out of your preparations and get a feel of the CAT.

You can visit the link hereunder to directly go to the CAT test page.

http://www.catiim.in/CATPracticeTest/index.html

Wishing you all the very best for CAT 2010.

Good News for all IELTS applicants....
Slowly but surely IELTS has found its way into USA – another 57 universities joined the list of many others already recognizing IELTS in the US of A. This year more IELTS Test Centers will be opened in USA to meet the growing demand for IELTS exam.

UK has also accepted IELTS as the official English test for immigration purposes and IELTS band score can now be translated into equivalent Cambridge ESOL Certificate of corresponding level.

• SOME KEY POINTS-
• IIM-B and Paris-based HEC School of Management (HEC) started a student exchange programme
  
• 20 students from each of the institutes will visit India and France and work jointly on projects of mutual interest
• IIMB Director Pankaj Chandra says: “This initiative is part of our strategic vision to increase the size of the institute in terms of number of programs, to make IIM-B an international school and a top research school which focuses not only on India but on other emerging economies”

Good news for all CAT-2009 candidates.

Kellogg's Beth Flye and Carla Edelston field questions on the ins and outs of the application process at the top-ranked school, financing an MBA, and job placement.

Haryana-based O P Jindal Global University (JGU), floated by the Jindal Group, has launched a B-school that will commence operations from August this year when a full-time MBA programme will be rolled out. The Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) is situated on the 54-acre fully residential JGU campus and will enroll 120 students in the MBA programme.
“Admissions to the two-year programme will be through CAT 2009 for Indian students and through GMAT for NRI and international students,” says professor C Raj Kumar, vice chancellor, JGU.

World’s Premier B-School ISB is launching an executive MBA (EMBA) for senior executives with 10 to 25 years of experience. As claimed by ISB this EMBA will be a world class program and it will cost Rs 2.5 million plus travel expenses.

Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), is currently developing the 10th generation GMAT which is expected to roll out by 2013. In order to make the exam more apt for the B-School admissions GMAC has requested business faculty from around the world to share their opinions on

It has recently been announced by the Australian government that some dramatic changes to the immigration and education laws will affect the IELTS pass mark. IELTS, the International English Language Testing system from Cambridge University Press and administered in Australia by IDP is a must for many international people seeking immigration to Australia or entrance into a college or university.

The IELTS exam is extremely difficult for many speakers of English as a Second Language and it can take months of training and IELTS preparation lessons to be able to reach the pass mark of 5.5.

The police have arrested 10 persons and are looking for some others, to unravel the “IELTS result fraud” which duped gullible students from Gujarat, keen to go abroad despite scoring poorly in the IELTS examination which tests for English language skills.

The arrests were made in Kaira district in central Gujarat. The district Superintendent of Police Himanshu Shukla said the police had already recovered at least 110 “bogus certificates” of “updated revised marks” , and were confident of unearthing more.

No one should lunge at graduate school. Getting an advanced degree can take years and can cost tens of thousands of dollars if you're not lucky enough to land a fellowship. And no one should begin planning for graduate school in October of their senior year. Putting together a good application—one that can really sell—is the product of years of careful planning and doing the right stuff to get yourself ready for graduate work in your desired field.

Following the biometric system-that requires eye scan and finger print for all foreign students entering UK-started-started a year ago, the student-visa system in the country have been constantly evolving to become more objective and transparent.

According to the tier-4 of the points based system which will be implemented from Tuesday, all education providers that recruit international students in the UK need to be registered with the UK Border Agency. More than 2,100 universities, independent schools and colleges have applied to become licensed sponsors. The institutions are responsible for ensuring that international students comply with the conditions of their visas while they are in the UK.

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE), used by many as an entrance exam to graduate degree programs and increasingly accepted by business schools as an alternative to the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), will be completely revamped for 2011, according to a recent report in the Financial Times.

Billed as the most significant changes in the test’s 60-year history, the revisions are aimed primarily toward making the test more relevant to business students, the FTreports.

At the close of 2009, BusinessWeek devoted an article to the ongoing competition between the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT, and Educational Testing Services (ETS), the publisher of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). According to the BW article, some business school applicants don’t know which exam they should take as part of the process of applying to business school.

In an effort to expand the number of international experiences available to its MBA students, Harvard Business School (HBS) will open a new facility in China later this month, according to a recent report in theFinancial Times. The new facility, in Shanghai, will be the school’s first overseas facility, the FT adds. The move to China is part of an expanded curriculum development program and the launch of a new January term that will include a range of intensive seminars taught in small classroom settings, HBS announced.

By R Shiva Kumar, Director- R&D, Career Launcher (Alumni IIMC-1997)

Prometric, the company conducting the online Common Admission Test (CAT) to the IIMs, has been at the receiving end for the chaos and technological breakdowns plaguing the test this year. Now there are allegations that Prometric leaked the list of candidates registered for CAT to an online coaching portal.

For most people applying the graduate programs, there is no need to choose between these two tests because the admissions department sets the requirements. Business schools require the GMAT for most MBA programs, and graduate schools require the GRE for most advanced studies in sciences, humanities, and art. However, some dual-degree and other special programs offer a applicants a choice of exam. Here are some tips to help you choose the right test to take.

For now, some top-30 schools have decided against accepting the GRE in addition to the GMAT. As a result, one of the first steps for applicants who are trying to decide which exam to take is to determine if the schools that interest them permit GRE scores. For instance, the Booth School has no plans to accept the GRE in the near future. Martinelli,associate dean of student recruitment and admissions at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business explains that the school has a long history with the GMAT, and the admissions committee knows exactly what GMAT scores mean and how to compare them from student to student and year to year. In addition, the GMAT provides security that gives business schools assurance that the person taking the exam is the one whose name is on the application. "The issues of quality and security in a competitive environment are important to me as an admissions professional," says Martinelli. After all, she adds, the MBA is valuable and opens doors to a lot of people. "People will do anything to get into top-tier schools," says Martinelli.