IIFT 2015: Result declared; 1508 candidates short listed for GD-PI-WAT to be held in January 2016

Result for Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) full time MBA(IB) 2016-18 entrance exam has been declared. IIFT has shortlisted 1508 candidates for final admission round and has posted the list on its site. Around 60000+ aspirants appeared in IIFT entrance exam on Nov 22, 2015.

MBA(IB) programme at IIFT is its flagship programme and is available at its New Delhi and Kolkata campuses in India and at Dar-es-Salaam campus in Tanzania. For an intake of around 360 seats 1508 candidates from all categories have been shortlisted for PI round.

Get ready for GD-PI-WAT round
The shortlisted candidates will have to go through the rigorous process of IIFT final admission round which consists of Written Ability Test, Group Discussion and Personal Interview. The GD-PI-WAT round for MBA(IB) programme at IIFT is expected to take place from January 2016 onwards and final admission offers are expected to be received by the candidates by the end of March 2016.

Exam held on Nov 22
IIFT 2015 entrance test for the MBA(IB) batch 2016-18 was conducted on November 22, 2015 at 20 test centres across India namely, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bhubeneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Delhi, Guwahati, Hydrabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur and Visakhapatnam.

IIFT MBA(IB) entrance test is conventional paper pencil mode test with 2 hours duration from 10.00 A.M. to 12.00 Noon.

IIFT 2015: entrance test is different
The written admission test 2015 to MBA Programme 2016-18 in IIFT consisted of multiple choice objective type questions (in English) divided in 4 sections. It comprised the questions covering English Comprehension, General Knowledge & Awareness, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Analysis. The candidate could attempt any question from any section during the time allotted to attempt the test in the examination.
IIFT entrance test doesnt have any pre declared fixed number of questions either over all or section wise. IIFT 2015 contained 124 questions, 6 more than IIFT 2014 which had 118 questions. Number of questions goes on varying every year in different sections as well as overall. The total number of questions in IIFT entrance test goes anywhere from 115 to 130.

Questions in different sections and sub sections in IIFT entrance exam carry different marking pattern. While overall maximum marks are 100, the maximum marks allotted to different questions vary from 0.5 to 1. Sectional cut offs also play an important role and a candidate has to clear them as well. Penalty of one third marks is awarded for every wrong answer in IIFT entrance exam.

MBA (IB) at IIFT: ROI is high
Registration to IIFT MBA (IB) entrance exam opens in the month of July every year. The exam is one of the most preferred ones as the MBA (IB) programme at IIFT offers great learning experience and high placement packages. In the placement season 2015, the highest salary went up to US$ 110000 by a US based company, while the highest domestic salary stood above Rs. 24 lakhs. Foreign companies based in US, Singapore Middle-East, Nigeria & Australia opted for IIFTians