Gurmant's Review On Indian Institute Of Foreign Trade - [IIFT], Kolkata

The candidate needs to have a minimum or equivalent graduation degree from a recognized university and he or she should have at least scored more than 50 percent in his graduation. IIFT has started accepting CAT scores starting from 2024 and the application form is available on the website iift.nta.nic.in. The fee amount is 2500 for general candidates. The CAT exam is held once in a year in the last week of November every year. The exam is moderate to difficult. Generally, one section in each slot is easy, another is moderate and one would be very tough....Read More

IIFT admission consist of Aptitude test. After clearing the aptitude test, GD/PI shortlist is released for all the eligible candidates. The cut-off varies every year depending on composite score calculation that is based on previous scores of class 10th, 12th, and aptitide exam. Different weightages are assigned for this initial shortlisiting. After GD/PI rounds, final shortlist for admission into the programme is released by the institute with waitlist for Delhi & Kolkata campuses.IIFT earlier had its own aptitude exam until 2022. Recently, from 2023, IIFT has decided to take scores of CAT exam into consideration. The CAT exam is held once a year during last sunday of November. Eligibility for course is a student needs to be in his/her last year of 3 or 3+ years of full-time graduation in any field or completed. Application forms for applying to IIFT can be found on its website. The application fees range from 1000 to 2000 based on category. Application dates vary every year....Read More

The admission process of IIFT was quite smooth. Yes, to get admission to IIFT we need to write an aptitude exam. The exam consists of 4 sections which are - Reading comprehension and verbal ability, general awareness, logical reasoning and Quantative aptitude. One need to clear the individual sectional cutoffs as well the complete cutoff to be considered for the first Shortlist. This year IIFT 2022 for the first shortlists the cutoffs are given below: GEN - 40( sectional percentile) GEN EWS / OBC NCL- 35 ( sectional percentile) SC/ST/pwd/Kashmiri/migrants and non migrants-30(sectional percentile) Overall cutoffs General 40.5 Gen-ews 33 ST/SC /pwd/kasmiri migrants non migrants 25.5 Final cutoff for general- 52 The reservation people SC/ST wil get 50% tution fee waiver. The process was smooth however they need to expedite the process...Read More

The admission process here at IIFT, Kolkata was pretty smooth. Your eligibility in this college was determined through the IIFT exam which was taking place till last year, but from this year onwards it is solely dependent on the CAT score. After clearly the cutoff score, I received a call within 15-20 days of result declaration and from that point on it was a slow but continuous process. However, it took them 5 months to wrap the whole process of GD-PI and our batch started officially on 10th of July, which is pretty late for Bschools, apart from that everything else was pretty much a cakewalk....Read More

I passed the IIFT 2022 exam administered by NTA. Between September 21 and October 30, 2021, applications could be submitted online. The application form cost 2500 rupees. A minimum 3-year Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with a minimum GPA of 50% is required by the IIFT to enrol students in the MBA(IB) programme. Ten per cent of the seats were reserved for newly introduced EWS reservations. On December 5, 2021, the exam was administered. For Gen 95 percentile with 100 marks was the cutoff for the Gen category for an interview call. Due to a conflict in the exam's schedule, students experienced difficulties when the IIFT exam, which was scheduled to be given on December 5, 2021, had to be redone in some centres due to a technical software fault....Read More

I have given IIFT 2022 exam conducted by NTA. The application form was filled online between 21 september 2021 and 30 october 2021. Application form cost was Rs. 2500. The prerequisite to get enrolled into MBA(IB) from IIFT is to have minimum 3 years Bachelor's degree with minimum 50% marks. I have availed EWS reservation in which 10% of the total seats are reserved. The exam was conducted on 5 December 2021. The cutoff for ews category was 90 percentile with 86 marks for an interview call. There was a technical software glitch in the IIFT exam which was conducted on 5 December 2021 in some centers where the exam was reconducted which caused problems for students due to a mismatch in schedule and also caused delays in results and further GD/PI process. The improvement I would suggest to National Testing Agency to use high-quality user-friendly software to conduct exams and they can put some mock IIFT exams before the actual IIFT exam to check for faults....Read More