Pragyanshu Pandey is a Mechanical engineer from IIT-BHU and graduated in 2015. He has 34 months of work experience working with Oracle Financial Services in Bangalore. In his free time, Pragyanshu spends his time playing the guitar and playing e-Sports.
One the most important competitive exam for almost all MBA aspirants is the IIFT exam which the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade conducts for admission into its coveted MBA (IB) program. The institute changes the exam pattern every few years to check the level of preparation of the students.
IIFT exam is one of the most crucial exams for most MBA aspirants. As IIFT exam 2018 approaches, we bring you interviews from the toppers who aced the exam to help the aspirants understand what it takes to perform well on the D-Day.
CAT 2018 is over and the hottest question that haunts all aspirants is visible on every forum available – Slot 1 vs. Slot 2. However, with a few days remaining you don’t have time to discuss much of that but focus on the next task at hand – IIFT. With formulas and tricks fresh in your mind, there can be no better timing to IIFT than this. Rather than sounding preachy, here I will jot down a few pointers that you should keep in your mind before attempting IIFT.
Though CAT is done and dusted, aspirants would also be gearing up to take several other competitive exams for the top B-Schools in the country. One of the prominent exams on every aspirant’s list would be the IIFT exam, due this year on the 2nd of December, 2018. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, founded in 1963, selects its students through its own exams and further processes conducted for those who clear the exams. This exam is different from the CAT in both its syllabus, exam pattern, and marking system.
Witty and confident, Mr. Aashay Doshi sits back with a reminiscent smile as we start to talk about “those MBA entrance exam days”. ‘These are tough phases of life a lot of people go through’, he says, ‘but with the right mental attitude anything is possible.’ Hailing from a family with a business background in Gujarat, he says that business has always run in his blood, and these days, he tries to think of as many things as possible with a business optimizing perspective. Read on to know more about his IIFT preparation and other tips he would like to give to MBA aspirants.
A year ago, I was one among the numerous aspirants of TISS National Entrance Test- TISSNET as we popularly know it. Cut to a year later, I am a part of TISS, Mumbai for their MA Human Resources Management & Labour Relations (MA HRM&LR) class of 2018-2020. This has been a great journey for me, filled with many ups and downs. It’s an experience that I would like to share with my fellow aspirants. I’d be extremely satisfied to know if the strategies that had worked for me, work for you as well.
Suraj Ramalingam Iyer hails from Aamchi Mumbai and is currently pursuing PGDHRM from XLRI Jamshedpur. He quit his job in TCS to work with a startup working on Machine Learning while parallelly preparing for CAT. With a percentile of 98.38 in XAT, he joined XLRI in the HRM batch of 2018-2020. Suraj will be interning with Microsoft IDC as a Project Management intern in the summer of 2019.
Pragyanshu Pandey is a Mechanical engineer from IIT-BHU and graduated in 2015. He has 34 months of work experience working with Oracle Financial Services in Bangalore. In his free time, Pragyanshu spends his time playing the guitar and playing e-Sports.
One the most important competitive exam for almost all MBA aspirants is the IIFT exam which the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade conducts for admission into its coveted MBA (IB) program. The institute changes the exam pattern every few years to check the level of preparation of the students.
IIFT exam is one of the most crucial exams for most MBA aspirants. As IIFT exam 2018 approaches, we bring you interviews from the toppers who aced the exam to help the aspirants understand what it takes to perform well on the D-Day.
CAT 2018 is over and the hottest question that haunts all aspirants is visible on every forum available – Slot 1 vs. Slot 2. However, with a few days remaining you don’t have time to discuss much of that but focus on the next task at hand – IIFT. With formulas and tricks fresh in your mind, there can be no better timing to IIFT than this. Rather than sounding preachy, here I will jot down a few pointers that you should keep in your mind before attempting IIFT.
Though CAT is done and dusted, aspirants would also be gearing up to take several other competitive exams for the top B-Schools in the country. One of the prominent exams on every aspirant’s list would be the IIFT exam, due this year on the 2nd of December, 2018. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, founded in 1963, selects its students through its own exams and further processes conducted for those who clear the exams. This exam is different from the CAT in both its syllabus, exam pattern, and marking system.
Witty and confident, Mr. Aashay Doshi sits back with a reminiscent smile as we start to talk about “those MBA entrance exam days”. ‘These are tough phases of life a lot of people go through’, he says, ‘but with the right mental attitude anything is possible.’ Hailing from a family with a business background in Gujarat, he says that business has always run in his blood, and these days, he tries to think of as many things as possible with a business optimizing perspective. Read on to know more about his IIFT preparation and other tips he would like to give to MBA aspirants.
A year ago, I was one among the numerous aspirants of TISS National Entrance Test- TISSNET as we popularly know it. Cut to a year later, I am a part of TISS, Mumbai for their MA Human Resources Management & Labour Relations (MA HRM&LR) class of 2018-2020. This has been a great journey for me, filled with many ups and downs. It’s an experience that I would like to share with my fellow aspirants. I’d be extremely satisfied to know if the strategies that had worked for me, work for you as well.
Suraj Ramalingam Iyer hails from Aamchi Mumbai and is currently pursuing PGDHRM from XLRI Jamshedpur. He quit his job in TCS to work with a startup working on Machine Learning while parallelly preparing for CAT. With a percentile of 98.38 in XAT, he joined XLRI in the HRM batch of 2018-2020. Suraj will be interning with Microsoft IDC as a Project Management intern in the summer of 2019.
