With more than 1,000 business schools around the world now accepting GRE scores, students taking a GRE gain advantage

With the recruitment season heating up at business schools around the world, Educational Testing Service (ETS) recently announced that more than 1,000 business schools worldwide now accept GRE revised General Test scores for their MBA programmes.

David Payne, vice-president and chief operating officer for the Higher Education division at ETS, says, “Schools want great candidates for their MBA and specialised Master’s programmes and they recognise that GRE test takers are a highly qualified, highly diverse population.”

This information is good news for students around the world since taking the GRE revised General Test provides many advantages. In addition to a lower test fee compared to other admissions test options, GRE test takers benefit from the test-taker friendly features of the exam, such as the preview / review functionality and the quantitative reasoning section onscreen calculator.

GRE officials also announced the introduction of the new ScoreSelect option earlier this year, which allows test takers to decide which GRE scores, from their reportable history, to send to their designated schools. Students also appreciate the fact that GRE scores are welcome at both graduate and business schools, which means they need to take only one test as they explore their various academic and career options.

Among the 1,000 plus business schools now accepting GRE scores have most of the world’s top-ranked MBA programmes, including seven of the top 10 on the Financial Times 2012 Global MBA rankings. In addition, the business schools at Duke University, the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison join the 85% of US News & World Report Top 100 business schools in the United States that accept GRE scores. Around the world, some other recent additions to the rapidly growing worldwide network of schools accepting GRE scores include the triple-accredited EMLYON Business School, Fudan University, HEC Paris, IMD, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and University of Cambridge.

When asked about her school’s recent decision to accept GRE scores, Jenni Denniston, director of MBA recruiting and admissions at the Ivey School of Business at Western University in Canada, explains that “Accepting GRE scores opens up a new and diverse applicant pool for our full-time MBA programme to seek applications from.”

Pejay Belland, director, marketing, admissions and financial aid at INSEAD in France, says, “By accepting GRE scores for admissions we now have access to an even wider pool of candidates with highly unique profiles. This continued diversity results in developing skills in and outside of the classroom, which are crucial for tomorrow’s business leaders and entrepreneurs.”

AP Eamcet 2012 Results On June 30th 2012:

The Andhra pradesh Eamcet 2012 exam was conducted May 12, 2012.

The Students are eagerly waiting for the EAMCET 2012 results. The higher officials declared that the results will be on June 30th. The recently released advanced supply marks will be added and the result will be on the updated database. So it takes some time to update . Finally the results will be on 30th June 2012.

With the seat selection process kicking off for professional courses, Karnataka Examination Authority(KEA) has put up the cut off ranks for medical and engineering seats in the past four years.

The cut offs for Bangalore Medical College (BMC), the most sought after college in the state was 204 (general merit) last year. This was after the intake was increased. Prior to that, the cut offs were much below the top 100. In 2008, it was 89, in 2009 it was rose upto 97 and in 2010 it was 86. With around 150 more seats expected to be sanctioned this year, the cut off ranks will rise. As for the engineering seats, RVCE ( R V College of Engineering) remained the most favourite among the aspirants over the years. The cut off for electronics and computer science here were 396 and 408 respectively. It was as low as 78 and 470 in 2008. The ranks were 163/581, 127/350 for these two courses in the subsequent years.

The list of cut off ranks will give students an idea as to which colleges they can look forward to while applying this year.

The Medical Council of India has rejected the approval for Christian Medical College, Dichpalli, Nizamabad, and Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada. With this, students will lose about 150 MBBS seats in the new academic year 2012-13. While Christian Medical College had sent proposals for 100 MBBS seats, the Rangaraya College had proposed to increase its quota from 100 to 150 seats. Both the proposals were rejected by the MCI.

CMC has been trying to secure MCI approval since 2007 in vain. The MCI teams inspecting the college have expressed dissatisfaction over the existing infrastructure and faculty and refused to give approval.However, both colleges are optimistic about securing the approval, as the MCI has asked them to attend a personal hearing before its Board of Governors (BoG) on June 1.

The colleges are expected to give an undertaking on meeting the MCI norms within the stipulated time-frame and request for “conditional approval“.At present, there is an acute shortage of MBBS seats in the state.Only 4,500 MBBS seats are available in 14 government and 23 private medical colleges in the state, while over 70,000 students qualify in the Eamcet medical entrance tests every year and vie for MBBS seats.

Putting the 4.5% minority sub-quota on hold till legal challenges are resolved, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on Thursday sought to allay students' apprehensions and advised them to expand their choice of courses.

The statement came on the back of the Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment scrapping the sub-quota, putting in quandary the over 300 IIT aspirants who had been shortlisted under the provision. The urgency in the case is because counseling for students is already underway.

IIT-JEE organizing chairman Prof G B Reddy said, "The students should expand their choices to take care of both eventualities (if the HC decision is upheld or stayed by the Supreme Court).'' While law minister Salman Khurshid has categorically said that the government would approach the SC to challenge the HC order, it remains to be seen whether it will be able to get a stay. In the wake of the court order, IITs have decided to abide by the ruling, "ignoring" the quota provision till further legal developments. The statement said "the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court will be implemented by ignoring the provision for reservation of 4.5% seats and by converting seats meant for OBC (non-creamy layer)-minority community to OBC (non-creamy layer) category".

With this, about 325 candidates who had been shortlisted under the sub-quota for counseling may have to compete with the 27% OBC non-creamy layer quota. This means that aspirants who were assured of the course of their choice will now have to keep their options open. The statement also said that "all the shortlisted candidates are advised to note that availability of 4.5% reservation for OBC (non creamy layer-minority) shall depend on the legal developments till June 13 and hence they may register the choice of courses accordingly."IIT

Counselling for admission to 15 IITs and IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad is currently underway and the process will go on till June 10. The web release of the first seat allotment will be made on June 14. The IITs are the first to implement the government's decision.

Krishna University B.Ed & PG III Semester Supple. Exam Revaluation Fee Notification 2012.