IIFT 2008 Details

IIFT 2008
Important Dates
1. Last Date for Sale of Prospectus by post: 20th August 2008

2. Last date for Sale of Prospectus across the counter at IIFT: 3rd September 2008

3.Last Date for Receipt of completed Applications: 3rd September 2008

4. IIFT Written Test: 23rd November 2008 (10 am–12 noon)
Eligibility

1. Recognized Bachelor’s degree of minimum 3 years’ duration in any discipline.

2. Candidates appearing for a qualifying examination can also apply subject to submission of proof of requisite qualification by October 7, 2009.

3. No age limit
ONLINE Application process
1. You should have a demand draft of the applicable amount favoring INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE payable at DELHI since you will be required to fill in the details of the demand draft in the online application form.
2. Applicable amount of the demand draft is as follows: * General/OBC Indian candidates: Rs.1300/-(Rs. 1200 in cash from IIFT, Delhi Campus).
3. Print Only on A4 size paper in portrait layout with Bar Code visible.
4. Once you complete your online application form and submit the same, take a print out and send the same to IIFT after doing the needful as follows:
* Sign in the Box provided for the purpose. * Paste your photograph in the box provided for the purpose.
* Enclose the demand draft of the applicable amount with your full name, address and application number on the reverse of the demand draft.
* Enclose two self addressed adhesive labels. * Enclose copy of the requisite certificate, if belonging to SC/ST/PH category. 5. Last date for submitting online application form: 3rd September 2008

LRDI

John, Pete, Tom, George, and Steve are brothers. One day, one of them broke a window. When their father asked them who did it, they gave the following answers:

John: "It was Pete or Tom."

Pete: "It was neither George nor me."

Tom: "Both of you are lying."

Steve: "No, only one of them is lying."

George: "No, Steve, you are wrong."
Then their mother added: "Three of my sons are telling the truth, but I do not believe what the two others said.

"My Question is Who broke the window?

LRDI

Joey has 8 drinking glasses, all of different sizes. He has lined them up from smallest to largest and numbered them 1 (smallest) to 8 (largest).

He knows that glass #4 holds 10 ounces and that glass #7 holds a pint, or 16 ounces. Now he wants to figure out how much all the others hold! He experiments by filling up different glasses with water and pouring the water back and forth into other glasses.

Here are his results: -Pouring water from glasses #1 and #2 filled glass #4. -Pouring water from glasses #1 and #3 filled glass #5. -Pouring water from glasses #2 and #3 filled glass #6. -Pouring water from glasses #1 and #5 filled glass #7. -Pouring water from glasses #1 and #7 filled glass #8. -Pouring water twice from glass #3 filled glass #7. -Pouring water twice from glass #4 filled glass #8.

How much water does each glass hold?

CONTEXTUAL LEARNING

Hi guys,it's vocabulary time again. Except this is li'l different from what you have come across in my earlier posts.I 've picked up this interesting article from 'The Hindu' ,so this is like doing two things in one go.Read this article and learn words as well. Encountering words in their natural habitat and becoming aware of the usage of the words is the best way to remember lot many words. The meaning of the words are given at the end of the article. read on and enhance your vocabulary.

Happy contextual learning!!!!!!

Stifling the spirit: my naani and 61 years of anguish

I am a 36-year-old British Mirpuri. Three years and three months ago, I came to Pakistan with the sole intention of taking my naani, my maternal grandmother, across the Line of Control to meet her family on the other side of Kashmir.
She was born into a Hindu-Brahman-Saasan family in the early 1930’s, on the Pakistani-administered side of Kashmir, not far from what is described as the Line of Control (LoC). The communal frenzy and folly that was August 1947 in the Punjab was replicated in Kashmir by October 1947. My naani’s life changed for ever.
Misplaced from her fleeing family, destitution was quickly evident, dishonour imminent and death almost certain. What transpired as a rescue mission by my naana, maternal grandfather, led to her having to convert from the faith of her forefathers, marry a stranger in a strange environment, bear children, rear grand-children, even great-grand-children and engage in almost 61 years of constant extemporisation to combat the persistent estrangement she endured. Her background was literally a closed chapter, sealed and suppressed. Not too unlike the border that has un-naturally divided Kashmir.
My naani had probably accepted her predicament as fate as soon as she had entered my naana’s house, way back in October 1947. I, however, have increasingly felt otherwise. I’ve always considered this to be part of a perverse political drama. Lack of imagination by the rulers accompanied denial of creative expression for the ruled. Improvising a constructive alternative has been my self-imposed mission for the past three years and three months.
I had learnt of her story in 1988, while I was visiting my grandparents in Mirpur. News had filtered through the 70 kilometres or so of mountainous terrain that her mother had passed away. We listened to a cassette recording of her kid brother’s forlorn attempt at getting a Pakistani visa a few years earlier.
A year later, after my GCSEs, I took a year off to explore my “origins.” I visited my naani’s family in Rajouri, in Indian-administered Kashmir in December 1989. Three days was all I got with them — my father had accompanied me to India and being a staunch, orthodox Muslim, couldn’t prolong the prospect of spending too much time with non-Muslims. The emotions of my naani’s siblings and their offspring etched a permanent impression on my impressionable mind. I promised them that I would reunite them with their sister.
Travelling from India to Pakistan and relaying my adventure to all and sundry had a mildly sensational effect on the local population. Forty-two years of jingoism was momentarily set aside and human emotion was purposefully reflected on. This cut little ice with my naana though. He remained rigid and paranoid over the idea of my naani visiting her siblings, fearing she may never return.
The 1990’s raced past, conflict in the region easily overshadowing all else. Nevertheless, I made an attempt in 1993 when I tried to insist on my naani accompanying me to India. Eventually, after a month of unsuccessful insistence, I crossed the Wagah-Attari border by myself. The lonesome figure that I was, instead of venturing north to visit her family, I decided to ride my sorrow and angst by proceeding south to Bombay and Goa. The mere idea of meeting them without naani was unbearable.
Life carried on but the emotional baggage increased. Naani’s kid brother’s death in February 2004 proved to be the final shock that I was willing to passively endure. It wasn’t until March 2005 that we were informed of this tragedy. A subsequent emotional verbal exchange between me and my naana secured his long-sought acquiescence for my naani to visit her family.
18th April 2005: I arrive in Pakistan. The three of us apply together for an Indian visa at Islamabad. That was the advice the Indian visa officer in London gave me after getting over his disbelief that I could be related to both a Muslim and a Hindu family. We waited in vain. The Indian High Commission told us they were waiting for a No Objection Certificate to my visa application from the High Commission in London. The Indian visa delay prompted my naana to revert back to his original stance of not allowing my naani to travel. In effect, the Indian government had inadvertently done him a favour as he wasn’t overly keen in the first place.
October 2005: In the wake of the earthquake, I apply by myself for a cross-LoC permit under the impression that people would be allowed to travel in a matter of weeks if not days.
February 2008: My cross-LoC permit has finally come through! I visit my naani’s family and there is mutual elation. I witness the fourth death anniversary of my naani’s kid brother, Master Sita Ram Sharma. He, along with his parents had lived in constant anxiety over their sister and daughter respectively. They all died in vain. Anyway, meeting my naani’s remaining two siblings after 19 years evoked a sense of mutual revival of hope. I explain my naana’s intransigence and they eventually manage to convince him to apply for a cross-LoC permit so that he and my naani can visit them. My naani’s heart condition has become such that travelling via Wagah-Attari or Lahore-Delhi would be almost impossible.
March 2008: I return to this side of Kashmir and promptly make applications for cross-LoC permits for myself and my naani and naana. Four months later, the applications are still being processed … on this side.
Before 2005, my naana was the main obstacle between my naani and her family. Now it’s the merry relationship between India and Pakistan. My naani is 78 years old. Please help me reunite her with her family, separated for over 60 years by a distance not much more than 60 kilometres.

Meanings of the highlighted words:

1. replication(n)-to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce

2.frenzy(n)-i) extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
ii) a fit or spell of violent mental excitement

3. folly(n)-a foolish action, practice, idea, etc

4.transpired(v)-to occur; happen; take place.

5.extemporization(n)-to speak impromptu.

6.estrangement(n)-no longer close/or living together

7.predicament(n)-an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.

8.forlorn(adj)-expressive of hopelessness/despairing

9.impressionable(adj)-easily influenced

10.sundry(adj)-of various kinds.

11.jingoism(n)-excessive support for one's country

12.angst(n)-great anxiety.

13.acquiescence(n)-agreement.

14.stance(n)-standpoint.

15.inadvertently(adv)-unintentionally.

16. Elation(n)-very happy and excited.

17.intransigence(n)-stubbornness.

Source-THE HINDU-FRIDAY-18.07.2008

Tanveer Ahmed is the author of the above article.

LAST TWO DIGIT

Dear student, Agenda is how to calculate last two digits of the number ending on 1.
Last digit or unit digit will be always 1.
Just observe tenth place digit in following example
11^2 = 121 (1 * 2 = 2)
11^3= 1331 (1 * 3 = 3)
21^2 = 441 (2 * 2 = 4)
21^3= 9261 (2 * 3 = 6)
Just apply this technique to the following examples
Example: 31^8
If number is ending on 1 last digit is always 1.Important is how to calculate Tenth place digit. It is also very easy. Tenth place digit will be (3 * 8 =24) so tenth place digit is 4
So last two digits of 31^8 is 41.
Find the last two digits of 41^2789
In no time at all you can calculate the answer to be 61 (4 × 9 = 36. Therefore, 6 will be the tens digit and one will be the units digit)
Find the last two digits of 71^56747
Last two digits will be 91 (7 × 7 gives 9 and 1 as units digit)
Now try to get the answer to this question within 10 s:
Find the last two digits of 51^456 × 61^567
The last two digits of 51^456 will be 01 and the last two digits of 61^567 will be 21. Therefore, the last two digits of 514^56 × 61^567 will be the last two digits of 01 × 21 = 21
Last two digits of numbers ending in 3, 7 or 9
Find the last two digits of 19266.
19^266 = (19^2)133. Now, 19^2 ends in 61 (19^2 = 361) therefore, we need to find the last two digits of (61)133.
Once the number is ending in 1 we can straight away get the last two digits with the help of the previous method. The last two digits are 81 (6 × 3 = 18, so the tens digit will be 8 and last digit will be 1)
Find the last two digits of 33^288.
33^288 = (33^4)72. Now 33^4 ends in 21 (33^4 = 33^2 × 33^2 = 1089 × 1089 = xxxxx21) therefore, we need to find the last two digits of 21^72. By the previous method, the last two digits of 21^72 = 41 (tens digit = 2 × 2 = 4, unit digit = 1)
So here’s the rule for finding the last two digits of numbers ending in 3, 7 and 9:
Convert the number till the number gives 1 as the last digit and then find the last two digits according to the previous method.
Now try the method with a number ending in 7:
Find the last two digits of 87^474.
87^474 = 87^472 × 87^2 = (87^4)^118 × 87^2 = (69 × 69)^118 × 69 (The last two digits of 87^2 are 69) = 61^118 × 69 = 81 × 69 = 89
If you understood the method then try your hands on these questions:
Find the last two digits of:

1. 27^496

2. 79^93

3. 583^512

UNJUMBLE YOUR MIND!!!!!!!!!

PARAGRAPH JUMBLES-
Paragraph jumbles of the verbal logic part is almost an inevitable section. The catch lies with the phrase “choose the most logical order of sentences to form a coherent paragraph.” To solve this genre of questions you need to be as mechanical as possible. If you are one of those students who are literally terrified of the Verbal Ability section in CAT, Para jumbles could come to your rescue and bolster your score.
Do you guys remember your childhood days when you used to occupy yourselves with the very interesting jigsaw puzzles; while trying to join the pieces you would put 2 similar looking pieces together, Right? YOU NEED TO DO THE SAME THING WITH WORDS HERE, BY ESTABLISHING A LINK BETWEEN 2 SENTENCES. There would be lot many key words to help you to form the mandatory pair/s e.g.: proper nouns, pronouns: he, she, it, they etc., and conjunctions: although, however, and, also, while, yet, but, besides etc.

For example if there are options like: 1) ABCD (2) ABDC(3) BACD(4) DABC (5)CBAD after reading the sentences ,using the indicator clues you have figured out that AB is a mandatory pair, you can straight go to your options and eliminate ,you will be left with 2 options like in the above mentioned case. Thereafter, you can form bigger sequences, thus deciphering the right answer.
THIS STRATEGY ALWAYS WORKS IN ALMOST ALL CASES.
There are few other strategies as well, which you need to bear in mind while tackling this arena.

1) Identify an obvious beginner (a sentence which introduces an idea) or an obvious conclusion (a consequence or which sums up an idea). Consider this example:

A)He hopes to correct the limitations of cochlear implants through his research.
B)Ruffin knows firsthand; he received an implant 6 years ago.
C)Cochlear implants help bring profoundly deaf individuals into the hearing world, but one HHMI fellow says the technology needs improvement.
D)Chad Ruffin says users have a tough time understanding speech in noisy environments, largely because today’s implants transmit almost no information about pitch.

Here the statement C is an obvious beginner as it introduces the entire topic of cochlear implants. Sometimes an obvious beginner or a conclusion is very evident. This just makes our task simpler.

2) Establish a link and identify mandatory pair/s. In fact identifying mandatory pair/s is a crucial step. For e.g.

A)The service carries a premium: as of mid-1992, several hundreds Washington political insiders paying from $980(for a small firm)to nearly $4500(the white house itself) to read about daily White House activities.
B)Even the most timely industry newsletter is usually at least a week old before it gets to its readers.
C)It reaches paid subscribers 18 minutes after leaving the editor’s desk, by fax.
D)Not the ‘White House Bulletin.’

It’s obvious here that DC is a mandatory pair since the pronoun ‘it’ refers to ‘The White House Bulletin’

3) Something has to be mentioned first and then explained. It’s not very difficult to map the author’s mind, he follows a definite logic, and he would never jump from one idea to another. Consider the following example which I‘ve used to elaborate this point.

A. There is much to be done.
B. Outside in the sunrise garden roses are already awake, clematis climb like a growing child and all the border marigolds are on fire.
C. Climbing painfully from a sore mattress, standing in striped pajamas by the window, Jim stares garden wards.
D. These days it’s all weed killing, backache and wishes.

We need to understand that the garden needs to be mentioned and then described so B will always come after C.

4) Associate keywords and form sequences: Now check this example out.

A. The two neighbours never fought each other.
B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

Here the key words are highlighted. With the help of key words you can understand that BE is related because of the mere presence of the word ‘therefore’ which is an indicator clue and since B has happened it leads to E and D follows from E. This is how you associate keywords and move from smaller sequences to bigger ones.

Try adhering to these strategies and you can crack paragraph jumbles fairly easily.