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The best IIFT Books for topping the national level management entrance exam include books by authors such as Arun Sharma, Norman Lewis and so on. Candidates must also take care to select the latest books(published in 2018-2023) based on the updated IIFT Exam Pattern and Syllabus.
- IIFT has made some major changes to the exam pattern and syllabus such as increased number of questions, different marking scheme, etc.
- IIFT Paper has 4 Sections; Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, General Awareness. For more details, check IIFT 2023 Syllabus.
- The most commonly used books for IIFT preparation include books by Arun Sharma.
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IIFT 2023 Preparation Books (Section-Wise)
IIFT 2023 will have 4 sections which will be based on different subjects. Candidates can also refer to books for other management exams such as CAT, XATandMAT for practise as the subjects are similar but it is recommended to get books specific to IIFT. Buying books catered to this exam will help in getting questions that are more focused and applicable to the exam. Here is the section wise list of books for IIFT Preparation -
IIFT GK Books
| Name of Book | Author | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Manorama Yearbook ` | Mammen Mathew | 2021/2023(when it is available) |
| General Knowledge 2021 | Manohar Pandey | 2021 |
| Static General Knowledge | AP Bhardwaj | 2020 |
| GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2021 for All Competitive exams | TEAM PRABHAT | 2020 |
IIFT Quantitative Ability Books
| Name of Book | Author | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations | RS Agarwal | 2018 |
| Shortcuts in Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Exams | Disha Publication | 2018 |
| How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for CAT | Arun Sharma | 2018 |
| Quantitative Aptitude for All Competitive Examinations | Abhijit Guha | 2016 |
IIFT Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Books
| Name of Book | Author | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Wiley's ExamXpert Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT | Capt. AK Kalia | 2020 |
| How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT | Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhayay | 2020 |
| Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning | RS Agarwal | 2018 |
| Proficiency in Reading Comprehension Simplifying the 'Passage' for you | Ajay Singh | 2018 |
| Verbal Ability & Comprehension for CAT/ XAT/ IIFT with 5 Mock Tests 3rd Edition | Bharat Patodi and Aditya Choudhary | 2018 |
| Word Power Made Easy | Norman Lewis | 2011 |
IIFT Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning Books
| Name of Book | Author | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|
| How to Prepare for DATA INTERPRETATION for CAT | Arun Sharma | 2019 |
| Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation | Nishit K Sinha | 2020 |
| Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for CAT & other MBA exams(6e) by Pearson | Nishit K Sinha | 2020 |
IIFT Sample Papers and Solved Question Papers
Solving Mock Tests and Solved Question papers should be on every IIFT Aspirants to do list. One thing to note is that candidates should try to solve the mock tests in Exam Like conditions. It is a very good strategy to solve as many mock tests as possible so that candidates can clear theIIFT cut offs with ease.
IIFT Solved Papers
| Name of Book | Author |
|---|---|
| IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) 2019 - Topic-Wise & Year-Wise Solved Papers 2006-2018 | Gautam Puri |
| IIFT Solved Paper and mock test 2020 | RK Jha |
| IIFT solved paper and mock test 2019 | Arihant Experts |
| MBA 2019-20 : Solved Papers (XAT|IIFT|NMAT|SNAP|CMAT) | Gautam Puri |
| Wiley's ExamXpert IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) Solved Papers 2007-2018 | Captain AK Kalia (Retd) Pradeep Kumar Gupta |
Note: Candidates can attempt free IIFT Mock Tests on NTA’s official website, for more details check IIFT 2023 Previous Years' Question Papers, Sample Papers and Mock Tests.
IIFT 2023 Sample Questions
IIFT Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
Direction : Answer the questions with the given information and the graph. The analyst at a retail giant has modelled the consumer spending and consumer sentiment to prepare a strategy on product offers in the upcoming festive season. The data given in the figure are from the last 10 years on 3 parameters namely, food spending (Food Spend), style spending (Style Spend), and sentiment index (Sentiment Index). Study the figure above and answer the following questions :
Question. In which year, the highest annual percentage change in Style Spend is recorded?
Options -
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2011
Question. The average sales of which colour T-Shirt sold is the same in both the cities?
Options -
- Yellow
- Blue
- Black
- Red
Question. Which style T-Shirt has the highest difference in number of units sold between two cities of Delhi and Mumbai?
Options -
- S1
- S2
- S3
- S4
IIFT Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Direction : Read the passage and answer the questions.
Sustaining Versus Disruptive Innovation
Successful companies, no matter what the source of their capabilities, are pretty good at responding to evolutionary changes in their markets-what in T71e Innovator's Dilemma (Harvard Business School, 1997), Gayton Christensen referred to as sustaining innovation. Where they run into trouble is in handing or initiating revolutionary changes in their markets, or dealing with disruptive innovation(DI).
Sustaining technologies are innovations that make a product or service perform better in ways that customers in the mainstream market already value. Compaq's early adoption of Intel's 32-bit 386 microprocessor instead of the 16-bit 286 chip was a sustaining innovation. So was Merrill Lynch's introduction of its Cash Management Account, which allowed customers to write checks against their equity accounts. Those were breakthrough innovations that sustained the best customers of these companies by providing something better than had previously been available.
Disruptive innovations create an entirely new market through the introduction of a new kind of product or service, one that's actually worse, initially, as judged by the performance metrics that mainstream customers value. Charles Schwab's initial entry as a bare-bones discount broker was a disruptive innovation relative to the offerings of full-service brokers like Merrill Lynch. Merrill Lynch's best customers wanted more than Schwab-like services. Early personal computers were a disruptive innovation relative to mainframes and minicomputers. PCs were not powerful enough to run the computing applications that existed at the time they were introduced. These innovations were disruptive in that they didn't address the next-generation needs of leading customers in existing markets. They had other attributes, of course, that enabled new market applications to emerge-and the disruptive innovations improved so rapidly that they ultimately could address the needs of customers in the mainstream of the market as well.
Sustaining innovations are nearly always developed and introduced by established industry leaders. But those same companies never introduce-or cope well with-disruptive innovations. Why? Our resources-processes-values framework holds the answer. Industry leaders are organized to develop and introduce sustaining technologies. Month after month, year after year, they launch new and improved products to gain an edge over the competition. They do so by developing processes for evaluating the technological potential of sustaining innovations and for assessing their customers' needs for alternatives. Investment in sustaining technology also fits in with the values of leading companies in that they promi~e higher margins from better products sold to leading-edge customers.
Disruptive innovations occur so intermittently that no company has a routine process for handling them. Furthermore, because disruptive products nearly always promi~e lower profit margins per wut sold and are not attractive to the company's best customers, they're inconsistent with the establi~hed company's values. Merrill Lynch had the resources- the people, money and technology-required to succeed at the s ustaitling itmovations (Cash Management Account) and the disruptive innovations (bare-bones discount brokering) that it has confronted in recent history. But its processes and values supported only the sustaining innovation : they became disabilities when the company needed to understand and confront the discount and on-line brokerage businesses.
The reason, theretore, that large companies otten surrender emerging growth markets is that
smaller, disruptive companies are actually more capable of pursuit1g them. Start-ups lack resources, but that doesn't matter. Their values can embrace small markets, and their cost structures can accommodate low margins. Their market research and resource allocation processes allow managers to proceed intuitively; every decision need not be backed by careful research and analysis. All these advantages add up to the ability to embrace and even itutiate disruptive change.
Questions -
Q1. How does the author differentiate between Sustaining Innovation (SI) and Disruptive Innovation (DI) ?
Options -
- SI is mainly for IT companies while DI is for the banking sector.
- SI requires companies to change at a faster pace while DI requires companies to move at a moderate pace.
- SI is a continuous process with incremental changes while DI occurs intermittently with larger consequences.
- SI can be managed only by companies having smaller workforce while DI can be managed by companies having large workforce.
Q2. According to the passage, DI is more difficult for companies to adopt because :
Options -
- There is a shortage of talented leaders who can implement DI successfully in their companies.
- There is a lack of understanding in companies regarding advantages of DI particularly with regard to emerging markets.
- Due to the geographical location of companies it becomes difficult to implement DI and coordinate with different divisions.
- The companies do not want to move out of their comfort zone and incur additional cost on implementing DL
IIFT Quantitative Ability
Ques. A cricket team has 11 players and each of them has played 20 matches till date. Vint, Rohit, Mahendra, Rahul and Shikhar have scored runs at an average of 60, 55, 50, 45 and 40 respectively. Rest of the players have scored at an average of 25 each. In the next 10 matches, Virat and Rohit each scored 900 runs whereas Mahendra scored twice that of Rahul. After 30 matches, if Virat's new average score is twice that of Rahul, what is the approximate average score of Mahendra ?
Options -
- 49
- 41
- 43
- 45
Ques. You travel by Delhi Metro everyday from Botanical Garden, Noida to Hauz Khas, Delhi. At Hauz Khas metro station, you use an escalator to get out from the station. The escalator takes 80 seconds. One day, the escalator was not working and you walked up the escalator in 50 seconds. How many minutes does it approximately take you to walk down the working escalator?
Options -
- 1.5 minutes
- 2.2 minutes
- 2.8 minutes
- 2.6 minutes
IIFT General Knowledge
Question. The 2018 Winter Olympics games were held in:
Options -
- South Korea
- Canada
- Sweden
- Romania
Question. Scientist's plan to build an elevator between Earth and the Moon to cut down on the rocket fuel needed for a trip between the Earth and the Moon is known as:
Options.
- Space Line
- Space Lift
- Space Elevator
- Space Bridge
Ques. Match the SeaPort with the Country where it is located :
Options -
- (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (C) - (v), (d) - (ii), (e) - (i)
- (a) - (iv), (b) - (v), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iii), (e) - (i)
- (a) - (iv), (b) - (v), (c) - (iii), (d) - (ii), (e) - (i)
- (a) - (iv), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (v), (e) - (i)
| Sea Port | Country |
|---|---|
| (a) Busan | (i) The Netherlands |
| (b) Jebel Ali | (ii) Belgium |
| (c) Qingdao | (iii) U.A.E. |
| (d) Antwerp | (iv) South Korea |
| (e) Rotterdam | (v) China |
IIFT Preparation Books 2023 FAQs
Ques. Is Bringing a calculator to the IIFT exam hall allowed?
Ans. No. Carrying any electronic device to the exam hall is not allowed.
Ques. Is the IIFT syllabus similar to the CAT syllabus?
Ans. Yes, CAT and IIFT both have similar subjects and syllabus.
Ques. Can CAT books be used for IIFT preparation?
Ans. Yes, CAT Books can be used for IIFT Preparation as the syllabus is similar.
Ques. How to download official NTA Mock Tests for IIFT 2023?
Ans. Aspirants can download the official NTA Mock Tests by visiting the official website of NTA and regiosering using their email and password.
Ques. Can I take the IIFT exam from any computer?
Ans. No. IIFT exam cannot be taken from any computer. The candidate will have to take the exam at the test center mentioned on their IIFT admit card.
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