IIFT-2010

1) I. Of course, it isn’t anywhere near as simple as this in real life

II. the diagram is commonly called ‘the stack’, and the people in the computer industry love to talk
about it
III. at the base are components that are assembled into finished hardware products; operating
systems, middleware, and software applications sit above the hardware; and it’s all topped off by a
whole range of services
IV. the stack shows most of the major pieces in a typical computing environment

A) II, I, III, IV

B) II, IV, III, I

C) III, IV, II, I

D) II, III, I, IV

Answer: B

2) I. as a skeptical empiricist,
II. I do not want to be the turkey
III. since we do not observe
IV. so I do not want to focus
V. solely on specific organs in the brain
VI. brain functions very well

A) I, II, III, IV, V, VI

B) II, I, IV, III, V, VI
C) I, VI, IV, III, V, II
D) I, II, IV, V, III, V

Answer: D

3) I. knowledge, even when it is exact

II. because we tend to forget what we know
III. if we do not pay attention
IV. or forget how to process it properly
V. does not often lead to appropriate actions
VI. even when we are experts

A) I, V, II, IV, III, VI

B) I, V, III, IV, II, VI
C) VI, V, II, I, III, IV
D) III, VI, I, II, V, IV

Answer: A

4) I. in the classroom
II. once they are let out on streets
III. statisticians, it has been shown
IV. and engage in most trivial inferential errors
V. tend to leave their brains

A) III, V, I, IV, II
B) II, III, V, I, IV
C) I, V, II, III, IV
D) III, I, V, IV, II

Answer: A

5) I. sure enough failed

II. I have tested myself and
III. by carefully setting a wide range
IV. even while consciously trying to be humble
V. as we will see the core of my professional activities
VI. and yet such underestimation happens to be

A) I, II, V, III, IV, VI

B) IV, II, I, III, V, VI
C) V, II, I, IV, III, VI
D) II, I, IV, III, VI, V

Answer: D

6) I. except that people got all excited

II. so I would not have cared
III. and talked quite a bit about
IV. the least about them
V. pouring verbal sauce around the forecasts
VI. what these figures were going to mean

A) I, II, IV, V, III, VI

B) I, III, II, IV, V, VI
C) II, IV, I, III, VI, V
D) V, II, IV, VI, I, III

Answer: C

IIFT-2009

1) I. As a retention strategy, the company has issued many schemes including ESOPs.
II. Given the track record and success of our employees, other companies often look to us as
hunting ground for talent.
III. The growth of the Indian economy has led to an increased requirement for talented managerial
personnel and we believe that the talented manpower is our key strength.
IV. Further, in order to mitigate the risk we place considerable emphasis on development of
leadership skills and on building employee motivation

A) I, II, III, IV
B) II, I, IV, III
C) II. I, IV
D) IV, I, III
Answer: C

2) I. It reverberates throughout the entire Universe. And you are transmitting that frequency with
your thoughts!
II. The frequency you transmit reaches beyond cities, beyond cities, beyond countries beyond the
world.
III. You are a human transmission tower, and you are more powerful than any television tower
created on earth.
IV. Your transmission creates your life and it creates the world.

A) IV, I, III, II
B) II, IV, III, I
C) III, IV, II, I
D) I, II, III, IV

Answer: C

3) I. Asian economies will need alternative sources of growth to compensate for the rapid fall in
demand from the western markets.
II. But the crisis has exposed the limits of region’s dominant economic- growth model.
III. The export- led model that propelled many Asian economies so effectively for the past 30 years
must be adapted to a different global economic context.
IV. Asia is less exposed to the financial turmoil than the west is, because Asian countries responded
to the previous decade’s regional crisis by improving their current-account positions, accumulating
reserves, and ensuring that their banking systems operated prudently.

A) IV, II, I, III

B) I, II, III, IV
C) III, I, II, IV
D) II, III, IV

Answer: A

4) I. The dangers of conflicting irrational majoritarianism with enlightened consensus are, indeed,
great in developing democracy.
II. Real democracy is about mediating the popular will through a network of institutional structure
and the law of the land.
III. While law making and governance are meant to articulate the latter, the judiciary is supposed to
protect the former from any kind of excess that might occur, unwittingly or otherwise, in the
conduct of legislative and governmental functions.
IV. The principle of separation of powers is meant to embody a desirable tension between individual
rights and social consensus.

A) I, II, III, IV
B) II, I, III, IV
C) IV, III, I, II
D) II, III, IV

Answer: C

5) I. First may be necessary for immediate relief.

II. However, to cure the problem from the root the treatment at the elemental level is a must.
III. Therefore synergy of modern medical science and ancient Indian wisdom is in the interest of
humanity.
IV. Allopathic treatment is symptomatic while Ayurveda treats at an elemental level.

A) IV, II, I, III

B) IV, I, II, III
C) IV, III, II
D) II, IV, III

Answer: B

6) I. He somehow knew he would find what he was looking for. So, with missionary zeal, he started
to climb.
II. So instead, for perhaps the first in his life he shed the shackles of reason and placed his trust in
his intuition.
III. At first he thought about hiring a Sherpa guide to aid him in his climb through the mountains,
but, for some strange reason, his instincts told him this was one journey he would have to make
alone.
IV. The next morning, as the first rays of the Indian sun danced along the colourful horizon, Julian
set out his trek to the lost land of Savana.

A) I, II, III, IV
B) III, IV, I, II
C) I, III, II, IV
D) IV, III, II, I

Answer: D

IIFT-2008

1) I. The economy’s performance in expenditure terms was even poorer with real GDP contracting
by 0.6% after a gain of 0.5% in the October-December quarter.
II. On an output basis—the government’s preferred measure because it is less volatile thin
expenditure-based GDP—the economy contracted by 0.3% in real terms from the previous quarter.
III. Data from Statistics New Zealand, a government agency, published on June 27th show an
almost uniformly abysmal economic performance in January-March 2008.
IV. This was the first contraction since late 2005, made worse by the fact that the previous quarter’s
growth rate was revised down from 1% to 0.8%.

A) III, IV, II, I

B) I, II, III, IV
C)III, II, IV, I
D) I, III, II, IV

Answer: C

2) I. Matti Meri, a teacher-trainer at Helsinki University, was a teacher at the time.

II. By the time comprehensives reached the more populous south, teachers were eager to join in
what was clearly a roaring success.
III. “Grammar-school teachers were quite afraid of the reforms,” he recalls.
IV. “They used to teach only one-third of the students. But the comprehensive schools used almost
the same curriculum as the grammar schools had—and we discovered that the two- thirds were
mostly able to cope with it.”V. Comprehensive schools were introduced in 1972 in the sparsely
populated north, and then over the next four years in the rest of the country.

A)V, I, III, IV, II

B) I, II, III, IV, V
C) V, I, II, IV, III
D) I, III, II, IV, V

Answer: A

3) I. “It is a clear illustration of the major role played by diet and culture on your risk of chronic
disorders,” he says.
II. Little is known about its effects, but changing its levels, possibly through diet or with different
gut bacteria, might help to control high blood pressure.
III. Chinese and Japanese people are very similar at a genetic level, but Dr Nicholson found big
differences in the type and variety of metabolites in their blood and urine.
IV. “Metabolomics can provide very specific pointers as to what is going wrong and new ways of
intervening.”
V. For instance, he found an unexpected metabolic marker, called formate that seems to have a role
in regulating blood pressure.

A) III, II, IV, I, V

B) III, IV, V, I, II
C) II, III, IV, I, V
D) III, I, IV, V, II

Answer: D