The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was established in 1963 by the Government of India to help professionalise India’s foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources, analysing and disseminating data and conducting research.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Admission Test (IIFT) Syllabus
English Comprehension
Candidates should have sound knowledge of the following topics:
- Comprehension of passage
- Verbal Reasoning
- Syllogisms
- Contextual usage
- Analogies
- Antonyms
- Fill In the Blanks
- Jumbled paragraphs with 4 or 5 sentences
- Foreign language words used in English
- Sentence completion
- Sentence correction
- odd man out
- idioms
- one word substitution
- Different usage of same word
- Errors in word choice
- mania & phobia
- Incorrect words
- Mood
- Conditionals & Multiple Usage
- Punctuation
- Proverb
- Phrasal verb etc.
Logical Reasoning
- Questions from these topics are asked
- Critical reasoning
- Visual reasoning
- Assumption-Premise-Conclusion
- Assertion and reasons
- Statements and assumptions
- identifying valid inferences
- identifying Strong arguments and Weak arguments
- Statements and conclusions
- Cause and Effect
- Identifying Probably true
- Probably false
- definitely true
- definitely false kind of statement
- Linear arrangements
- Matrix arrangements
- Puzzles
- Family tree problem
- Symbol Based problems
- Coding and decoding
- Sequencing
- identifying next number in series etc.
Quantitative Analysis
- Geometry (Lines, angles, Triangles, Spheres, Rectangles, Cube, Cone, etc.)
- Ratios and Proportion
- Ratios
- Percentages
- In-equations Quadratic and linear equations Algebra
- Profit & Loss
- Averages
- Percentages
- Partnership
- Time-Speed-Distance
- Work and time
- Number system
- HCF
- LCM
- Geometric Progression
- Arithmetic progression
- Arithmetic mean
- Geometric mean
- Harmonic mean
- Median
- Mode
- Number Base System
- BODMAS
- Mensuration
- Allegation & Mixtures
- Work
- Pipes and Cisterns
- Simple Interest & Compound Interest
- Set Theory
- Venn Diagram
- Installment Payments
- Partnership
- Clocks
- Probability
- Permutations & Combinations
- Topics like Trigonometry
- Vectors
- Binomial Expansion
- Co-ordinate geometry
- Logarithm
- Calendar
- Maxima & Minima Progression
- Surds & Indices and Complex numbers.