IIFT 2004 Pattern

Time Allotted : 2 hours
Number of questions : 196
Number of Sections : 4
Marks for the correct answer : Variable
Marks for the wrong answer : -1/5 of the mark allotted for each question
Number of choices per question : 5

Expected Cutoff for IIFT 2004 - 50+


IIFT 2004 Analysis

The IIFT 2004 was on expected lines and the pattern was almost a repeat of IIFT 2003. However, the difference in this year's paper was the introduction of Negative Marks for wrong answers. This would have put breaks on the mark-all-questions strategy that IIFT examinees are used to till last year. The students who came out of the exam hall complained about the way the whole exam was conducted. There was no reporting time mentioned and those students who came much before the exam time of 10:00 AM were not allowed inside and even before most students have taken their seats, the bell to start was given in many a centres across the country. Thanks to the knowledge of the pattern that T.I.M.E. provided its students through its papers, students of T.I.M.E. felt that the paper was almost in similar lines to the previous year's paper.

Quantitative Ability

Most of the questions in this section were ranging on the easy to moderate variety. Very few questions can be termed as difficult and a good math student would have had a field day. In fact, most students who are good in math have said that they have attempted more than 35 questions in this section. A good score in this section would be 18+.

Reasoning

This section consisted of Data Interpretation, Data Sufficiency, Verbal Reasoning (Critical Reasoning) and Analytical Reasoning. The questions in Analytical ability were quite simple. The sets of DI were easy to understand and so were the DS questions. However, there were 10 questions on Strong Arguments and Inferences which can be termed as of moderate to high difficulty. A good score in this section would be 12+.

Verbal Ability

The verbal ability section of the paper included some words that many students may not have come across. Also questions where students have to identify the wrongly spelt words would not have been easy as either they all looked right or all wrong. The cloze passage was one of the easy sets of the entire verbal paper. Since there was only one RC passage in the paper, there was no dearth of time to complete the section or paper as such however accuracy matters more in this than the speed. A good score would be 10+.

General Awareness

This section contained all areas of general awareness and current affairs and for a student who has been regularly following the newspapers and magazines, this section would have been easy. However, as is natural with most students, eliminating 3 out of the 5 choices would have been easy but getting the right answer would have also taken some extra thought and analysis. A good score in this section would be anything above 8 net marks.