Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)

IIFT is a national-level management entrance exam conducted once in a year by the National Testing Agency (NTA), for admission to MBA (IB) program offered by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. IIFT 2021 is likely to be conducted in the first week of December 2020, in online or computer-based mode across various exam centres in India. Previous year, in IIFT 2020, around 39,752 candidates had registered for the exam. The application process for IIFT 2021 will be available tentatively from the second week of September and will continue until the first week of November. Before filling the application form, candidates must carefully go through the eligibility criteria. Candidates have to register for the exam in online mode. The result of IIFT 2021 will be declared in the second week of December 2020. Candidates who qualify the exam will be shortlisted for the selection process - Writing Test, GD, and PI which is likely to be conducted in the month of January or February 2021.

Candidates who wish to apply for the exam must check the IIFT 2021 eligibility criteria before filling the application form. Given below eligibility criteria can be checked by candidates for IIFT 2021 entrance exam- 

1. General category candidates with a minimum 3-year graduation degree in any discipline with 50% marks from a recognised university/institute/college will be eligible to apply.

2. SC, ST and PwD category candidates with minimum 45% marks in graduation will also be able to fill the form.

3. Final year graduation students will also be able to fill the application form.

4. There will be no age limit for candidates to apply for IIFT 2021 entrance exam.

Note that the eligibility criteria remains more or less the same every year.

Mode of Application : Online

Mode of Payment : Net Banking | Credit Card | Debit Card

The application process of IIFT 2021 will commence tentatively from the second week of September. NTA will allow candidates to fill the IIFT 2021 application form in online mode on the official website. Candidates will be able to fill the IIFT application form 2021 till the first week of November. The IIFT 2020 application process can be filled using the below mentioned steps:

1. Candidates will need to do a primary registration by filling in the personal details, contact number, email id, and password.

2. In the second step, candidates need to fill in the academic and personal details.

3. The third step is the payment of application fee i.e. tentatively Rs. 1650 for General and OBC Category candidates and tentatively Rs. 825 for SC, ST, and PWD category candidates. The application fee will be paid via net banking, credit card, debit card, and DD. The application fee for foreign nationals and NRIs will be Rs. 5500. 

4. In the fourth and final step of the IIFT 2020 application form, candidates will be required to upload the scanned copy of their photograph (size: not more than 50KB) and signature (size: not more than 20KB) in JPEG/JPG format.

5. Make sure that contact number(s) and email id are entered correctly as all communication related to the exam will be sent to those only.

Application Fees

Candidates who are planning to appear for the entrance exam this year must know the IIFT 2021 exam pattern. It will allow them to know the topics covered in the exam, syllabus, and marking scheme and they can strategies their preparation accordingly. Here are the complete details related to the IIFT exam pattern 2021.

Exam Pattern of IIFT 2021:

Let us see the IIFT 2021 exam pattern in detail:

• IIFT will have six sections - English Grammar, Vocabulary and Comprehension, General Knowledge and Current Affairs, Logical Reasoning, Data Interpretation and Quantitative Analysis.
• The duration of the exam will be two hours. There will be no sectional time limit. The total marks for the exam will be 100. The number of questions keep changing every year. Last year, the exam had 114 questions. The exam has only multiple choice questions. 
• According to the IIFT 2021 exam pattern, there is negative marking for wrong answers and there is a differential marking scheme. 

Admit card is the must-have document for every candidate to appear for IIFT 2021 exam. Candidates need to carry the IIFT 2021 admit card to the exam centre on the day of the exam. Only the candidates who will fill and submit the application form of IIFT 2021 along with the application fee would be able to download the admit card. Given below details can be checked by candidates:

• The admit card of IIFT 2021 will be available tentatively in the third week of November
• Candidates will be able to download the IIFT admit card 2021 with the help of their registered id and password
• Candidates need to carry the admit card to the exam centre on the day of the exam along with a photo id proof - Driving License, Aadhar id card, Election id card, Passport
• Without the admit card, no candidate will be allowed to write the IIFT 2021 exam
• Candidates need to keep the admit card till the end of the admission process as it would be required at every stage of the admission