An investigation is underway into alleged online cheating by prospective and current MBA students. Thousands are accused of looking at current questions on their entrance exams. The publisher of the test has shut down the domain and is looking into who used it to cheat. Those scores could be thrown out. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered Scoretop.com to pay the Graduate Management Admission Council 2.35 million dollars and to turn over a computer hard drive containing payment information and user IDs. The council has sued Scoretop’s operator for copyright infringement. It alleges the site offered current questions from the Graduate Management Admission Test as well as other private material.

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Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.

The exam’s publisher, the Graduate Management Admission Council, is tracking down users of Scoretop.com after winning a lawsuit to shut down the site and seize a computer hard drive containing payment information and user identifications.

Scoretop sold VIP access for $30 a month, giving users previews to current questions on the latest Graduate Management Admission Test. Some were posted by users after taking the exam.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema also ordered site operator Lei Shi to pay $2.35 million plus legal costs in a June 20 ruling in the copyright infringement lawsuit.

In court documents, GMAC cited a posting by a user who said the information offered on the site was “inestimable,” saying that he saw 10 to 12 “word by word” items and “many of the other questions felt very familiar.”

About 6,000 GMAT scores from when the Web site started in 2003 to the present are in question, GMAC spokeswoman Judy Phair said Wednesday. It’s unclear how many test-takers are involved, because they can take the test several times a year.

“We have an ethical responsibility to schools and students to say this is a secure and fair test,” Phair said. “Obviously, you’re not being fair if you have an unfair advantage.”

The council plans to match data with test-takers and cancel the scores of anyone it determines knowingly used Scoretop to cheat on the GMAT. It will also notify the schools receiving scores, and perhaps prevent them from retaking the test. Phair said she can’t offer a timetable on the process.

Shi wasn’t represented by an attorney, according to court documents. McLean, Va.-based GMAC said Shi has returned to his native China and couldn’t be reached.

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Bangalore: ICFAI Business School (IBS) began in 2008 authorization of two years MBA program, said the director of Bangalore IBS TR Venkatesh.

Sharing the calendar of events, on Friday said IBS Venkatesh, Bangalore, recognize, some 500 students, including participation in national competitions. IBSAT, the entrance test will take place in 200 centres, December 16.

According to the timetable, the deadline for filing the application is 20 November. Interview and approval of the decision, in the admission examinations will take place between February 4 and 18 years.
New Campus

IBS said Venkatesh building was a State-of-the-art campus in Mysore Road, priced at Rs 70 crore. He said IBS has already acquired the land and worked other formalities. The new campus is a youth hostel for students and districts of the Faculty. It would be ready by June 2009, he said.

The Faculty of Management Studies, College of Materials Management (FMS) Jabalpur, a Business School Founded in 1994, admits 55 students per batch. Number of hits on the basis of benefits in terms of Madhya Pradesh common entrance test (MPJET). The Institute has a youth hostel, 154 students.

FMS covers 39 hectares.

It has 5 classrooms and an auditorium for 200 people. It has 75 computers with dial-up Internet. Suryavanshee RN is the director of SGF and A Natarajan is the president.