Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)

NTA has announced the result of IIFT 2020 entrance exam on December 13. The final answer key has also been released. National Testing Agency (NTA) released the answer key for IIFT 2020 along with the option to challenge. The admit card was available for download from November 19. IIFT is a national-level management entrance exam conducted annually by National Testing Agency (NTA), for admission to its MBA (IB) program. IIFT 2020 was conducted on December 1, 2019, in online or computer-based mode at around 224 exam centres across India. Around 39,752 candidates have registered for the exam. IIFT 2020 result will be declared on December 12, 2019. As many as 2097 candidates were shortlisted for further selection rounds a previous year.

The application process for IIFT 2020 began from September 9, 2019. Candidates had to register for the exam in online mode. The last date to fill the application was October 25, 2019 and it was then extended to November 3. Candidates who qualify the exam will be shortlisted for the selection process - Writing Test, GD, and PI.

Candidates who wish to apply for the exam must check the IIFT 2020 eligibility criteria first. Here are the complete eligibility criteria for IIFT exam for this year. 

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

2. SC, ST and PWD category candidates with minimum 45% marks in graduation are eligible to apply.

3. Final year graduation students can also apply. However, they would need to submit the proof of requisite qualification by second week of October 2020

4. Foreign nationals and NRIs can apply for IIFT entrance exam with a valid GMAT score which is not older than January 1, 2019.

5. Candidates of any age can apply for IIFT entrance exam.

Note: The eligibility criteria remains more or less same every year.

Mode of Application : Online

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

The registration cum application process of IIFT 2020 started from September 9, 2019 and the last date to fill the application form is October 25, 2019. The IIFT 2020 application process was completely online. Here is the complete information about the application form of IIFT 2020.

1. Candidates first 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. Rs. 1650 for General and OBC Category candidates and Rs. 825 for SC, ST, and PWD category candidates. The application fee can be paid via net banking, credit card, debit card, and DD. The application fee for foreign nationals and NRIs is Rs. 5500. 

4. In the fourth and final step of the IIFT 2020 application form, candidates need 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 2020 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 2020.

• The exam has six sections - English Grammar, Vocabulary and Comprehension, General Knowledge and Current Affairs, Logical Reasoning, Data Interpretation and Quantitative Analysis.
• The duration of the exam is two hours. There is no sectional time limit. The total marks for the exam are 100. The number of questions keeps changing every year. Last year, the exam had 114 questions. The exam has only multiple choice questions. 
• According to the IIFT 2020 exam pattern, there is negative marking for wrong answers and there is a differential marking scheme. 
• The exam will be conducted in around 20 cities in India.

Admit card is the must-have document for every candidate to appear for IIFT 2020 exam. Candidates need to carry the IIFT 2020 admit card to the exam centre on the day of the exam. Only the candidates who fill and submit the application form of IIFT 2020 along with the application fee would be able to download the admit card. Given below are the rest of the details.

• The admit card of IIFT 2020 released for download on November 19
• Candidates will be able to download the IIFT admit card 2020 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 2020 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.