IIFT 2019 Exam Analysis, Overall and Sectional Cut-Offs by Endeavor for admissions into IIFT MBA (IB) 2020-22

Endeavor Careers Posted on November 22, 2019

IIFT 2019 Exam Analysis and Expected Cut-off

Overview of IIFT 2019 Exam Analysis: Almost all MBA entrance tests have gone online for almost a decade now. IIFT 2019 also joined the bandwagon and went online this year. Not only that, but paper pattern was also changed for IIFT 2019 Exam. From a six-section format, this year IIFT went back to its four-section format. This might have been surprising to some students in the beginning but students could now take solace in the fact that they will be required to clear cut-offs of four sections instead of six sections in IIFT 2018 and IIFT 2017.

The new pattern for IIFT 2019 is as below:

Sections	Number of Questions	Marks/question	Negative Marking	Total Marks per Section
Quantitative Ability	25	3	1	75
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension	35			105
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning	30			90
General Awareness	20	1.5	0.5	30
Total	110			300

The sectional, in-depth IIFT 2019 Exam analysis is as follows:

Section 1: Quantitative Ability

Like last year, this year too this section turned out to be the most challenging one. Of 25 questions, around 7 questions were from Geometry.

The detailed question distribution for this section is as below:

Questions	No. Of Questions
Numbers	1
Arithmetic	11
Algebra	2
Modern Maths	4
Geometry	7

Difficulty Level: Moderate to Difficult

Ideal Attempts: 10-12

Ideal Time: 40 minutes

Section 2: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension:

The section had 35 questions out of which 16 questions were on Reading Comprehension and 19 were on Verbal Ability.

The detailed question distribution in this section is as follows:

Topic	Sub-Topic	Number of Questions
Reading Comprehension	Disruptive VS Sustainable Innovation	4
Reading Comprehension	Psychology – Personality Types	4
Reading Comprehension	Economy – Undemocratic Govt. and Democratic Govt.	4
Reading Comprehension	Japan’s Economic Growth due to its Cultural Factors	4
Verbal Ability	Crossword	3
Verbal Ability	Analogies	3
Verbal Ability	Grammar – Choose the correct sentence	1
Verbal Ability	Fill in the blanks	4 (2 prepositions based)
Verbal Ability	Idioms and Phrases	3
Verbal Ability	Para-jumbles	3
Verbal Ability	Match the Following – Words and Meanings	1

Among the Reading Comprehensions, the ones based on “Economy – Undemocratic Govt. and Democratic Govt.” and “Japan’s Economic Growth due to its Cultural Factors” were easy.

In Verbal Ability, few students would have been surprised by the Crosswords based questions, but a well-prepared student would have used the method of Option Elimination to arrive at the correct answers. Of the 3 questions in Analogies, 2 can be said to be moderate while 1 was quite difficult. The questions on grammar and Fill in the blanks were quite easy whereas the questions on Idioms and Phrases can be termed difficult.

Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate

Ideal Attempts: 22-24

Ideal Time: 35 minutes

Section 3: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning:

This section had 16 questions on Data Interpretation and 14 on Logical Reasoning.

The detailed question distribution in this section is as follows:

Topic	Question	No. Of Questions
Reasoning	Arrangement Blood Relations	4
Reasoning	Linear Arrangement	3
Reasoning	Lift and Time	2
Reasoning	Set theory	2
Reasoning	Series	1
Data Interpretation	Input-Output	2
Data Interpretation	Mix Charts(Food, Style Spending)	4
Data Interpretation	Tabular (Customer ID)	4
Data Interpretation	Bar Graph (Chennai Kanpur Work Distribution)	4
Data Interpretation	Tabular (T-Shirts Delhi And Mumbai)	4

Among these, the Data Interpretation sets on Mixed Chart (Bar + Line), 2 sets based on Tables were easy. Among reasoning based questions the ones based on Series, Linear Arrangement and Set-Theory were easy. The sets on Lift-timings and Input-Output were moderate and the ones on Bar-Graphs, Arrangement + Blood Relations were difficult.

Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate

Ideal Attempts: 14-15

Ideal Time: 35 minutes

Section 4: General Awareness:

This section had questions from almost all topics ranging from Static GK to Current Affairs. There were around 9 questions on Static GK whereas the rest 11 were based on Current Affairs. Among these questions based on Kapil Dev Biopic, UN Migration Report, BIMSTEC, Important Port-Countries, Technical Foul, and Flagrant Foul, 2018 Winter Olympics and Logo depicting a wild cat can be considered as Easy.

Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate

Ideal Attempts: 6-8

Ideal Time: 10 minutes

Overall and Sectional Cut-off

Sections	Number of Questions	Marks/question	Negative Marking	Total Marks per Section	Ideal Attempts	Cut-offs
Quantitative Ability	25	3	1	75	10-12	11
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension	35	3	1	105	22-24	22
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation	30	3	1	90	14-15	16
General Awareness	20	1.5	0.5	30	6-8	5
Total	110			300	Overall Cut-off – 117

We hope you found our IIFT 2019 Exam Analysis helpful. Do post your queries in the comment section below. Wishing all the best to all the test takers for the results!

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