The MBA forum is all set to have its meeting on the 30th of December in Tel Aviv. There would be representatives from the top business schools in Israel. The event will several presentations and discussions, it would also provide some tips to write G-mat, how to get into some of the best business schools. Some of the representatives which are to attend the meet are:

• Harvard Business School (HBS)


• UCLA University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Management


• Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University


• Yale School of Management (Yale SOM)


• Tel Aviv University - Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration


• Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management and many more.

With the economy continuing in the stage of recession, there are more questions in mind one has to only wait to get some answers, the number of people taking up the MBA courses has increased. The University of Memphis which specifically offers customer based MBA program in the winter of 2009, the number of the application for the next years evening MBA program has almost taken over the numbers of the last three years. The director says that he wouldn’t be dazzled if the numbers would reach double. These customer driven MBA programs will enable the companies to get trained employees to fill the available vacancies. The director says that the program has very good response after the announcement in the beginning of the year and they were in the process of revising the curriculum this is acted as a sugar coating on the pie.

GMAT is the abbreviation of Graduation management admission test, it is a test meant for people who are intending to do their MBA. Most of the business schools use the scores of GMAT as the criterion to assess the potential of the students. The weightage of the GMAT scores varies from school to school; the weightage to get into a business school is given to three categories: entrance scores, work experience and the interview skills. The GMAT examination is somewhat similar to the entrance test like SAT or the GRE. The GMAT consists of two sections the written section consisting of two essays and a quantitative and a verbal section.

The written section also called as the Analytical Writing Assignment, in the first essay the student has to analyze an argument and in the other one the student has to analyze an issue. The student is rated on a scale of six points.

In the next section of quantitive and verbal questions, this is a computer based test. The quantitive section has 37 questions testing on the problem solving and data presentation levels. The verbal section consists of 41 questions based on the comprehension of the reading blocks, analytical reasoning skills and the grammatical aspects like correcting the sentences.