With only a week left to appear in IIFT 2015 going to be held on November 22, 2015, the experts and toppers alike are of the view that the last 7 days of preparation for IIFT 2015 entrance exam will no longer need any coaching or prep centre.
The advisable preparation strategy during the last week is to take 3-4 mocks before the actual IIFT exam. It would be better to practice speed tests and focus on the areas where you get stuck and see whether you can overcome them else leave them without cramming your head on them. Besides, it is high time to learn well how to spend your time judiciously.
IIFT toppers and mentors on its exam preparation suggest not to look beyond the IIFT written test now and focus more on all its components. The components of final admission round can be taken care of after the written test.
IIFT 2015 is one of the most sought after entrance tests for admission to MBA (IB) batch 2016-18 in Delhi and Kolkata campuses of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. The prestigious exam in paper pen mode will be followed by CAT 2015 exactly after a week as CAT 2015 will be held on November 29, 2015. IIFT entrance will be a paper pencil mode 2 hours duration MCQ test.
Next 7 days of preparation journey for IIFT entrance is going to be crucial as the preparation for CAT 2015 is running parallel to IIFT preparation. IIFT is the only B school that attracts so many candidates to its entrance examination for so few seats. The institute is a deemed University and therefore provides MBA instead of PGDM.
Type of questions expected in IIFT 2015
Admission in IIFT assures you a good career with a high placement in domestic as well as foreign companies. Candidates in order to secure admission in IIFT have to prepare a few different topics like General Knowledge, basics in English language. An entire different section on logical Ability appears in IIFT entrance test while Reading comprehension despite based on small passages have more reasoning type of questions.
The prospective IIFT entrance test takers should understand the importance of various facets of the exam like time management in examination hall, importance of sections, how to improve speed to solve more questions in less time among others. All this will help the candidates to improve their score in getting shortlisted and getting through the final admission round.
Improve on RC
Reading comprehension is another crucial area. To improve and score more in this part read 2-3 editorials from good news papers daily. This will keep you synchronized with the kind of passages you get in the final exam. Try to identify the theme, main idea, title of the passage.
Revise GK quickly
Another important scoring section in IIFT entrance exam is General Knowledge. Consider GK as very important along with other sections.
IIFT topper shares that the questions asked in IIFT entrance are pretty basic. On General Knowledge front you can buy a year-book published by Manorama and go through it quickly. This may suffice. There is no need to update your current affairs during this period as the question paper must have already been prepared. Hence revise your GK related upto October 2015.
Strengthen your stronger areas in 7 days
Since there is very less time for the exam, it is recommended that IIFT test takers must further strengthen their stronger areas instead of spending time on their weaker topics. The strategy is to keep in mind to score high in every section to clear the sectional cut-off
Take timed test
In order to enhance speed in the testing room, the prospective IIFT test takers should take timed tests and practice calculation intensive questions on Data Interpretation and Quant more and more.
Save more time for Quant and DI
According to past toppers who scored high in IIFT entrance exam the test takers should be able to complete VA, LR, GK in 25-30 minutes each. This will save your time for lengthier sections like Quant and DI. Besides questions in Quant and DI carry the higher 1 mark per question so more time has to be devoted to these questions.
During the next 7 days it will be better to refer to past papers and solve them. This will enable you to understand the test pattern and composition better and you will be able to answer maximum questions in the IIFT 2015 entrance test.
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