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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From the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Rajat Mishra, 26, is an incarnation of K and determination.

In 2004, Mishra was captain in the Indian army in Vadodara, if an accident to serve his life destroyed. Mishra’s patrol vehicle collided with a tractor front of the caravan has struck the floor. “I was made again and after awareness after 15 days and I first checked the damage and found my right arm off. I’ve called “One down, but intact!” And yet the feast with a chocolate shake, “he said.

“Once on the front, there is no room for fear. It is the responsibility of patriotism and inspire you.” Prestige of employment and the pride of the nation, Mishra led to join the army. His dreams shattered after the accident, but has lived his will. And it was held by his mother and sister.

Armed with the formation of the National Defence Academy, Pune, Mishra said he learned the Gospel of life - nothing is impossible. In the eight months he Military Hospital in Pune Mishra had a change of attitude in life and decided, the scales olive uniform.

With a prosthesis members, he decided to learn writing with his left hand.Within three months, he could write legibly and now, it may also drive with his left hand.

“I appeared for the first time, cats and GMAT scores and high per cent rate and has received calls from the India School of Business, Hyderabad and IIM-A.”

After 20 days, with the ISB, Mishra has changed his opinion. “I thought that the academic life of two years in IIM-A is more help in building a solid foundation for future life. He wrote recently, as a student in 2009 the lot of post-graduate diploma IIM-A program.

Asked if she was crying never lost on its ends, he said: “I did cry when I felt guilty for not crying over the lack of a part of my body.”

About life, he says, “you never know what will happen next, to live each moment in life”

Chennai, Aug. 9 - TAMIL Nadu has 15 hectares, Chennai-based Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) on the Old Mahabalipuram Road to its campus after Dr. Bala V. Balachandran, JL Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information and Management - Director of the Centre for Research and Dean of accounting, GLIM.

The official presentation of this country is not yet done, “said S. Sriram, Executive Director, GLIM. The Institute is a protection fees for the country.

Mr. Balachandran said, in this case, has not worked, the second option would be the East Coast Road. Investment in this project, between Rs 15 crore and Rs 20 crore for two years and is eligible. GLIM, in connection with the Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, proposes five segments - manufacturing, financial services, nanotechnology, the family business and health.

More than 50 per cent of teaching staff is international, while the rest is covered by industry and government.

GLIM its own tests and accreditation accepted CAT and GMAT scores.

Mr. Balachandran said that the 12-month course costs about 2.97 R lach, but differs from other courses in the United States and India. About 120 students have been selected this year.

One difference is that the course provides an opportunity for the Chinese language. In addition, over 49 weeks, without a break, which allows students, the faster finish.

Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy inaugurates the International Business School by lighting a traditional lamp at the Galfar International Convention Center in Kochi recently.

KOCHI, 18 August 2007 - A Doha-based NRI group has launched Kerala’s first International Business School in Kochi in partnership with the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), University of Applied Sciences of Austria.

“The International Business School (IBS-Kochi) will offer an 18-month international MBA program, especially designed to produce graduates who are commercially astute, socially responsible and international in outlook,” Founder-Director Dr. Mohan Thomas said.

An ENT surgeon practicing in Doha for the past 23 years, Dr. Thomas is also chairman of Birla Public School in Doha and director of Lakeshore Hospital in Kochi besides holding stakes in dozen other companies.

He said the admission would be on the basis of TOEFL and GMAT scores, through the selection processes adopted by all the top international business schools. The total fee is fixed at Rs.1 million and the IBS-Kochi had already made arrangements with financial houses to make education loans available for deserving students.

Graduate assistantships, scholarships, and other fellowships are also available to qualified applicants.

“We aim to create future CEOs and we are sure the students would be able to repay the loans within a year on job,” he told Arab News in an interview here. The course is divided into two parts - first year at the Kochi center and the second part in universities in Austria and the US.

Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy unveiled the project last Saturday at a function held at the Galfar International Convention Center here. Chandy said institutions like the IBS would make Kerala an international destination for quality professional education.

Cofounder professor Jay Kandampully and another cofounder Dr. Mohan Das briefly explained the salient features of the program that caters to the needs of managements with an international perspective in the fast-growing Indian economy.

Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, one of India’s leading computer scientists and chief mentor of the International Institute of Information Technology, Dr. Andreas Altman, executive director of the Management Center Innsbruck and the IBS Dean, Prof. David Almond and Kerala legislator KC Joseph were also present.

“Kochi is fast becoming the hub of economic and business activities. With the implementation of the SmartCity project, the city will become smarter. That’s why we chose to set up an institution here, “Dr. Thomas said.

The seats are available and 120 during the first year it will be limited to 60. The course is scheduled to start in July next year.

High TOFEL and GMAT scores at IBS are similar as at other international business management programs. Some of the curriculum modules will be taught and students will then undertake further studies at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), University of Applied Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria.

Specialization modules may be undertaken at MCI and at California State University, Chicago, and College of Business and at other partnering universities.

The IMBA faculty comprises top professors from key business disciplines at highly regarded business schools in Europe, US, Canada and Australia.

Professor David Lamond, foundation dean and professor, has been a longtime faculty member Macquaire Graduate School of Management and Dean of the Sydney Graduate School of Management.

IBS houses two international Journals: Managing Service Quality and the Journal of Management History.

Lamond said IBS-Kochi aims at delivering a rigorous graduate management education to last a lifetime, providing students with a personalized International MBA education to complement students’ backgrounds, experiences, and goals.

Professor Kandampully said the strength of the IBS-MCI IMBA program lay in its four major components: Foundation modules, Core modules, modules and Leadership Specialization and professional development module (internship).

The ‘foundation’ modules offer a broad understanding of business and management while ‘core’ modules ensure students master the essential knowledge critical for all practicing managers.

‘Specialization’ modules enable expertise in at least one discipline of students’ choice, such as marketing, services, logistics, or retailing.

The leadership curriculum and professional development is an “outside the classroom” module, consisting of a series of activities and events designed to provide students with opportunities for professional development and growth in the direction of their preferred career path.

Besides, ten Centers of Excellence are housed within IBS to nurture meaningful connections between academic endeavors and real-world applications. The centers will collaborate with experts from various universities around the world to usher nascent knowledge to India and act as focal points for students, business people, and policy makers alike