Be your natural self
Let you be you. Avoid imitating others. Your approach may be different from the others preparing for IIFT 0n November 23, 2014. If you lose your natural self, you may lose the examination. If you are strong in Verbal practice more questions in this area. Your strong fundamentals will carry you through. If you are strong in Quant and Data interpretation, work more on it – it will help you to increase your speed and accuracy Go to the examination with an open mind and remain prepared to attempt as many questions as you can with accuracy. Be open to increase your attempts. You may find some interesting questions that you may solve with ease and will be able to improve your score.
Focus more on Reading Comprehension
English comprehension section is divided into two parts – the first part will consist of fundamentals, vocabulary, jumbled paragraphs etc. in the core form and the second part will have 4-5 Reading comprehension passages followed by 14-16 questions. RC therefore is a very important area. Out of 120 questions, if you can crack 16 correct, it is definitely a big deal. Try to improve your speed of reading the RC, by practicing it more.
Make summary of the passage, write down difficult words and then try to understand their contextual usage in the sentences and paragraphs of the passage. If you can understand 80% of the passage well, you will be able to answer almost all the questions based on it.
Practice more LR problems
Logical reasoning has more share than Data Interpretation in IIFT. It however requires a logical and coherent thought process. The concepts of Family tree, team formation, seating arrangement, followed arguments; statements are not based on such fundamental principles as of other sections. If you can crack the 20 questions in this section, you will be quite near to convert your call.
Success Mantra is General Awareness
How long can you sit in one go? If you can study for more than 3 hours with concentration, you may be the winner. Although there is no fix syllabus for this section, get some good stuff in concise form which you might have been collecting. Read it and try to connect it to your memory. This section doesn’t require any concept building as in Quant, DI or English comprehension, a quick chronological reading of events at this juncture will take you a long way.
Even the sections with low scoring weightage will be more helpful to ace the IIFT November 2014 entrance test. The varying scoring pattern in IIFT has a high weightage in shortlisting process for final admission round. Candidates sometimes lag behind by one or even half mark. The section of General awareness can pull you out of this dilemma and may give you an edge over others, if you regularly and sincerely prepare for it. This is the only section which doesn’t require any concept building or formulae mugging.
Practice more on Paper pencil mode
Get a few dummy OMR sheets, practice how to blacken the circle, erase the darkened portion and darken it again and check whether you have torn the sheet, made it clumsy or it is fine and intact with its texture. No cutting is allowed, you will have to erase the previous answer to mark the new one. Check also how much time you spend on it. In our hurry we sometimes either tear the OMR sheet or leave the circle too light to be detected as our answer. So be careful.
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