IIFT 2016 Result out by December 20; expect 99 percentile at 55 marks and very low sectional cut offs

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IIFT 2016 exam result for admission to MBA (IB) 2017-19 is proposed to be announced by December 20, 2016 by the Indian Institute of Foreign trade. With a twist in change of sectional weightage to the components in IIFT 2016 exam it is expected that an overall score of 55 will be awarded 99 percentile while sectional cut offs will also remain low.

Going by the past trend, it takes around 20 to 25 days for IIFT to declare its entrance exam result every year. During the last 2 years IIFT entrance exams were held on November 22 or 23 and the results were declared within less than a months time around December 15. The IIFT aspirants should now get ready to view their result even before December 20.

IIFT 2016 MBA (IB) entrance test for admission session 2017-19 was held today on Nov 27, 2016 as paper based test from 10AM to 12Noon in 20 test cities across the country. Around 45000 candidates appeared in the IIFT 2016 entrance exam. As happened in the past, the exam had moderate to high difficulty level and with short time limit to complete the test comprising too many questions, candidates could not attempt many questions despite knowing their answers.

Changed weightage to pull down cut offs
With a changed IIFT written exam, it is expected that your low sectional score will not be a hurdle in crossing the cut offs. The weightage awarded to each section was 36.5% on LRDI; 31% on VARC; 20% on Quant and 12.5% on General Awareness.

The 120 minutes test was found to contain moderate to difficult questions. Most of the candidates couldnt solve more than 50 to 60% of the questions strengthening the percentile predictions that despite scoring low in each section, test takers will be awarded high percentile.

Total number of questions in IIFT 2016 exam was 123 as against last year where 124 questions were placed in the exam. The weightage to LRDI section was increased to 36.5% in IIFT 2016 from 33% in IIFT 2015.
General Awareness (GK) section in IIFT exam has always been a hard nut to crack. The number of GK questions has been reduced to 25 in IIFT 2016 from 28 in IIFT 2015. The weightage to GK section has also been reduced from 14% to 12.5% as 0.50 mark is awarded to each correct answer in this section. As the cut-off in the GK section remains very low, in IIFT 2016 the cut off is expected to remain same with less than 1 mark as it was only 0.82 mark last year.

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Sectional weightage
While the test paper was the same for everyone, the order of the sections changed from person to person. However, the order of the questions for a given section for all the sets was the same. Register here for IIFT Call Predictor

Section
Part
No. Of Questions
Marks/Question
Total

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

(E) = (C) * (D)

Section -1
Part 1 (LR)
22 (Questions 01-22)
0.75
16.5


Part 2 (DI)

20 (Questions 23-42)
1.00
20
Section - 2
Part 1 (RC)
16 (Questions 43-58)
1.00
16

Part 2 (VA)
20 (Questions 59-78)
0.75
15

Section - 3
GK
25 (Questions 79 -103)
0.5
12.5

Section - 4
QA
20 (Questions 104-123)
1.00
20
Total
123
100

Low sectional cut offs
Section/Area
Expected Cut-off

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension
8

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning
9

Quantitative Ability
5

General Awareness
1
Overall Cutoffs
General Category : 48
OBC : 43
SC/ST/PH : 38
99.98 percentile at less than 70 marks
Going by the past trends in IIFT result which awarded 99.9 percentile to a score of 69 last year, the overall cut off expected this year may remain 48 or less marks. It is expected that following percentile will be awarded on different raw scores

IIFT Raw scores
Percentile scores

69.4
99.98

60.08
99.7

58.35
99.52

56.85
99.3

55.09
98.98

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Over the years Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) has been ranked as the top institute offering MBA in International Business at its Delhi and Kolkata campuses. The intake at IIFT Delhi campus is 220 and at IIFT Kolkata campus it is 140 students. The career prospects and high campus placements at IIFT also add to the glory of its entrance exam