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IIFT - 2010 Analysis

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Sunday, 28 November 2010 09:06 - Last Updated Thursday, 26 May 2011 10:03

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IIFT maintained the standards of their entrance test in terms of level of difficulty levels.

The test was conducted on 28th November 2010 from 10 am to 12 pm. It was for 100 marks

from 135 questions.

The test had 4 sections viz. Language Ability, Quantitative Skills , Data Interpretation & Logical

Reasoning and General Awareness.

The Language Ability section had 2 sub-parts, Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability.

The marks awarded for different sections varied and a wrong answer was subject to deductionof 1/3rd of the marks the question carried.

Language Ability section:

In the language ability section, part 1 was reading comprehension which had 15 questions,

each carrying 0.7 marks.

It had 4 comprehensions. The comprehensions were time consuming with a number of

confusing questions.

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Part 2 was Verbal Ability which was a mixed bag. The para-jumbles were a cakewalk. On the

other hand the synonyms, antonyms and spelling-correction were challenging.

Sentence correction questions seemed ambiguous and were on the difficult side.Overall the

section was difficult except the para-jumbles.

Quantitative Skills section:

In this sections there were 30 questions with 1 mark for every right answer. The question were

doable but it wasn't a section where one could boost the marks owing to the time constraint.

The questions were lengthy with the difficulty level being moderate to difficult.

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning section:

This set had 35 questions with 1 mark awarded for a right answer. The 3 LR sets were a little

tricky but should have been attempted since they were on the easier side as compared to the

rest of paper. The DI sets were pretty lengthy adhering to the IIFT protocol. Overall the sectionwas moderate by IIFT standards.

General Awareness section:

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This section is the deciding factor for many IIFT aspirants and certainly lived up to its reputation.

The knowledge of the aspirants about many fields were tested in the test with some challenging

questions. The questions on the current affairs should have been cracked. Overall the section

was moderate to difficult.

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IIFT 2011

Exam Name

IIFT 2011-13 Programme Test

Exam Date

28th Nov 2010

Institutes accepting this Exam score

Indian Institute Of Foreign Trade, Delhi

& Indian Institute Of Foreign Trade, Kolkata

Total Duration of the exam (minutes)

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120

Total number of questions

135

Number of Sections

4 sections with section 3 (English) further divided into 2 sub sections RC and Vocab.

Number of choices per question

4

Choice Format

A, B, C, D

Marks per question

Varied (0.4 for G.A, 0.5 for Vocab, 0.7 for RC and 1 for LRDI and Quant)

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Negative Marking

1/3rd of marks allotted

Differential Marking

Yes

Mode of marking the ovals

Pencil

The IIFT 2011-2013 was again the surprise package with increased number of questions

from 122 to 135 focussing on the General Awareness section and Quantitative Ability.

Time management would have played an important role as, even though not specified

on the question paper, IIFT follows sectional cut-offs.

Section

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Subject Area

Number of Questions

Marks per question

Total Marks

Time Allotted

Section 1

Quantitative Ability

30

1

30

40

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Section 2

Logical Reasoning Data Interpretation

35

1

35

35

Section 3 Part 1

English Comprehension

15

0.7

10.5

15

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Section 3 Part 2

Verbal Ability

25

0.5

12.5

20

Section 4

General Awareness

30

0.4

12

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Section 1 Quantitative Aptitude

Topics

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Easy

Medium

Difficult

Numbers( Number, HCF/LCF, Averages, Divisibility, Surds & Indices, BODMAS etc.

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2

1

1

Percentages (Percentages, SI/CI, Partnership, Profit & Loss)

4

3

1

Ratio (Mixture & Alligation, Proportion & Variation, Ratio, TSD, Pipes & Cisterns, Works and Misc.)

4

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1

3

Geometry

7

2

3

2

Algebra

2

1

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1

Modern Math (Set theory, Functions, Permutation & Combination, Probability, Log, Series (AP/GP,

11

1

5

5

Geometry and Modern Maths dominated this section. This section can be termed as

difficult in the view of the nature of questions and time available to solve it. The right

strategy would be to solve the questions from the areas one is comfortable with. Correct

answer of one question was not in options and hence, few students would have wasted

time on that. Questions based on venn daiagram, cosine rule, indices, linear equationshould have been your first choice.

Overall ideal attempts should have been 10-12.

Cut-off for this section would be 7-8 marks.

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Section 2: Logical Reasoning And Data Interpretation

Topics

Number of Sets

Level of Difficulty

Easy

Medium

Difficult

Tables

2 Sets- 9 ques.

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2 Sets

Bar Graph

2 Sets-7 ques.

1 Set

1 Set

Pie chart

1 ques.

1

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Caselets

Arrangements (Linear/ Matrix/ Circular) (No. of sets)

3 sets-13 ques.

2

1

Series based and Directions

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2 ques.

1

In this section, the logical reasoning should have been straight choice to maximize the

attempt. Single question were must attempt category. In the remaining time, attempting

bar graph set based on retailers should have been preferred. Questions based on table

were calculation intensive.

Ideal attempts in this section should have been 15-17.


Section 3: English Comprehension and Verbal Ability

Topics

Number of Questions

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Level of Difficulty

Easy

Medium

Difficult

Fill in the Blanks (single/ double/ paragraph/

tense based/ idiom based/ preposition based/

complete the theme)

6

3

3

Sentence Correction(underlined/highlighted/

mark the error/ repeated/ how many errors/

combining two sentences)

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3

3

Odd Man Out

Analogy (similar / dissimilar)

6

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3

3

Wrongly spelt word

2

2

Identify the incorrect / correct sentence

2

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1

1

Jumbled Sentences

6

6

Topics

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Easy

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Medium

Difficult

Topic Kodak, Warren Buffet, Individual Psychology towards institutes, Investor psychology

15

3

7

5

Length of passage

1 and a quarter page

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No. of questions per passage

4 passages. 5-4-3-3

This section had 40 questions out of which 15 questions were on Reading

comprehension. 25 were on vocabulary and grammar. The set on Jumbled Sentences

was the easiest set and was a must attempt. Most of the questions on Fill in the Blanks,

Sentence correction, Similar Analogies and Spellings were of medium level of difficulty

and should have been attempted. In some analogy questions, understanding the relation

between the word pair was a difficult job.

In comprehension, there were four passages each just over a page in length. Two

passages could have been easily attempted. One of the passages was tough and also

had ambiguous questions. The direct questions based on each passage should havebeen identified for maximizing the attempt.



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Section 4 General Awareness

The section had 30 questions of 0.4 marks each. Questions were along the expected

lines and quite difficult. There were many questions this year, which tested a

candidates awareness of current incidents. Only someone who had read the topics in

question i.e. trade, finance and business, that is one who is updated, would have got a

decent score.



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IIFT 2011 ANSWER KEY

Series D

Section 1-General Awareness

Q. No. Ans. Key Correct Option Stem

1 C Lee Myung - Bak

2 D a,b and d (R-Com, Airtel, Aircel)

3 A Canara Bank, HSBC, Oriental Bank of Commerce4 B a-iv-4, b-iii-2, c-ii-1, d-i-3

5 C a-iii-2, b-i-4, c-iv-3, d-ii-1

6 D a-4, b-1, c-2, d-3

7 C a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

8 D a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

9 A a-v, b-i, c-iv, d-iii, e-ii

10 D Tamil Nadu

11 C a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

12 B a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

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13 D a-iii-4, b-iv-1, c-i-3, d-ii-2

14 C a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

15 A Bank of Bengal, Bank of Bombay, Bank of Madras

16 A Germany

17 B Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim

18 C Shiela Dixit

19 C Puducherry

20 D a-iv-1, b-i-3, c-ii-4, d-iii-2

21 B Jantar Mantar

22 B a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1

23 A Andhra Pradesh

24 B a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

25 B a-ii-3, b-i-1, c-iv-2, d-iii-4

26 D Tejaswini Sawant

27 B a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3

28 D Netherland

29 D Power

30 B a-2, b-1, c-4, d-2

Section 2-Quantitative Ability


31 B 3(e-1) 32 C 540

33 D None of These

34 B 0.2727

35 B 576

36 A (37.5,52.5,45)

37 B Rs.2400

38 D 102

39 A ((2/7),(27/5))

40 B (11,9,3) 41 C sqrt(b))/sqrt((a+/-sqrt(a-b))

42 A 7.2 Days

43 *** Correct answer-4408 not in options

44 C (5/3)

45 C 3.05 hours

46 B 2(3^(-1/sqrt(2)))

47 A (16,24,20 : 45 , 35,30 Years)

48 D An Irrational Number

49 D None of These

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50 B 176400

51 D 7%

52 C 1063 units

53 C 35

54 C Rs 40000

55 C 125

56 B 9.28 hrs

57 A 4sqrt(3) cm

58 B 25.50%

59 A c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2abcos(theta)

60 C 1984

3-Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation


61 D Rock band competition

62 D Five

63 C Rock band competition and folk dance competition

64 C Debate competition

65 C Rock band competition

66 C Only Alto

67 D Alto and Swift

68 D Punto and SX4 69 D None of these

70 D Raghu-Ranchi-Gmail

71 C Kabeer has an e-mail id with Yahoo

72 D None of these

73 D Tisco, HCL, Usha Martin

74 A One

75 C 63

76 A Westside, 2005

77 B S.Stop, 2007 78 D None of these

79 C Orissa

80 D R-Com-30.3, Vodafone-77.22, Idea-82.99, Airtel-89.91

81 D None of these

82 B 10.50%

83 A 2

84 D 33

85 A 14688

86 A 75

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87 D Nike Cap and T-Shirt

88 C 2.9, 3.1, 3.4

89 B 38 years

90 C 5060

91 B India stands at 5th position at the given CO2 emission

level and per capita income of each country.

92 B 2520 units

93 D 2005

94 D +56%

95 A 0.8

4-English Comprehension And Verbal Ability


96 D Kodak did not have a vision

97 B Only II and III

98 D III and IV

99 C II, IV, I, III

100 A 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

101 B Only IV (Best option out of those given though even II is r

102 B Only IV

103 B Only I

104 B Only II

105 B Our experiences influence post experience...

106 A a-1 and 4

107 B The influence of individuals' prior

108 A I and V

109 B I and III

110 D I & III

111 C nuanced, opportunity

112 D sustainedly, resilient

113 C conflicting, unequivocally

114 A swiveled, stocked

115 D arbitrarily, unrelated

116 D Dirigisme, boosted 117 B Large and experienced firms...

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118 *** All options are wrong

119 A who warned that these...

120 C Ornery;contort

121 A Nymphs:Gehenna

122 C Dilentante:Reminiscience

123 D Munificient: Psusillanimous

124 B II, IV, III, I

125 D I, II, IV, V, III, VI

126 A I, V, II, IV, III, VI

127 A III, V, I, IV, II

128 D II, I, IV, II, VI, V

129 C II, IV, I, III, VI, V

130 B Boundless:expanse

131 A Nonplus:perplexed

132 A Meander:drive

133 C Insipid:taste

134 D He got his daughter married.

135 D Before restructuring a firm...

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