Checklist for IIFT

MBA exam season has already been kicked off by IRMA earlier this month, but for many, it starts with IIFT. By now you must have honned your VA skills, Vocab & GK as well. You must have prepared a checklist in your mind; call it a mind map, that you are intended to follow on the IIFT day. However, for the folk how are yet to decide a proper mind map, I encourage you to go through these last moment tips; call it a checklist or a ready reconer.

Remeber, these points are drawn from analysing the earlier IIFT papers. However, you are encourage not to rely it totally as it is just meant to help you once your basic preparation is done. After talking to many existing students at IIFT, We came to know that IIFT does not always follow sectional cut off strategy. However, if it is written in the instructions that “You have to show competency in each of the section” this mean there is sectional cut off for the paper. So don’t go with a preconceived notion about the paper. Optimization is the key, your paper strategy should be flexible enough so that you can easily sail through it easily be it a 10 section paper or only 1 section.

Following are the points that one can note about earlier IIFT papers:

Quatitative Ability:

1. Prepare  Trigonometry formulas.eg: sin2a,sin3a,tan(a+b) etc
2. Complex numbers and basic derivations
3. Probability, permuation fundas and Bayes’ theorem
4.  Time, Speed and Distance
5. Clocks and races
6. Geometry formulas pertaining to altitudes and medians
7. Quadratic equations(very high weightage for this topic)

Verbal Ability:

1. Revise Sentence correction & sectence attack plans
2. RC reading and approach for each type of question
3. Reading questions beforehand in the RCs will definitely help
4. Expect high-handed vocabulary  

DI/LR:

1. One must attemt all LR sets as their level will be moderate to difficult. So familiarise yourself with LR sets having multiple people with multiple conditions in the question
2. Calculation intensive DI
3. Try speed calculation techniques
4. Do the DI section last or last but one but the LRs earlier in the paper. Will give a much needed confidence boost if you’ve killed 5 questions in good time

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