IIFT 2018 LR | Previous Year IIFT Paper

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

Six friends Albert, Betty, Claire, Daisy, Evan and Fred who are working in different organizations, are looking for a switch in their jobs. They came across an advertisement in the newspaper regarding a job fair being organized in New Delhi. After enrolling for the fair, different days are allotted to each one of them from Monday to Saturday not necessarily in the same order, starting from the Monday. They also had to arrange for their stay in different hotels to concentrate well while preparing for the upcoming interviews namely Taj, Hilton, Crowne Plaza, Radisson, Hyatt and Marriott. Additional information provided is as follows:

1. Albert prefers to stay in Taj but not in Hilton. Albert does not work in Whirlpool and participates in the job fair on Monday. The person who works in Whirlpool participates in the job fair on Saturday.
2. Fred does not stay in Hyatt but works in Himalaya.
3. Betty and Daisy participate in the job fair on consecutive days.
4. Claire participates in the job fair on the day before the person staying in Crowne plaza but on the next day of Pepsi employee.
5. The person working with Oppo participates in the job fair on Friday and does not stay in Hilton.
6. Claire who is working with Nestle participates in the Job fair at a gap of one day prior to Evan.
7. Daisy stays in Marriot attends the conference on the last day of the week.
8. The person working with Apple stays in Radisson.

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

Richie invites three of his friends Sunny, Pinky, and Nancy for his birthday party organized at his home. As the party goes on till late in the night, Sunny, Pinky, and Nancy choose to stay at Richie's house. Being good friends they usually stay back at each other's house. Each of them including Richie stay either in the room painted blue or in the painted purple. They have adequate number of rooms of both colours. The preferences which need to be fulfilled are:

1. If sunny stays in the room painted purple, then Pinky and Richie stay in the same room as Nancy.
2. If Pinky stays in the room painted purple, then Sunny stays in the room in which Nancy and Richie don't stay.
3. If Nancy stays in the room painted blue, then Sunny and Richie stay in the room which Pinky has chosen.
4. If Richie stays in the room painted Blue then Sunny and Pinky do not stay in the same room as Nancy.

Answer the following questions based on the information given below.

An agent has to send as secret message to CBI office in Delhi. He needs to compile his message using following 12 code words - Scare, Logical, Mouse, Beauty, Helping, Roses, Cats, Doctor, Arguments, Crude, Ferry and mineral. The agent compiles the coded message and delivers it to CBI office in from of a 4 × 3 matrix. Each coded word has been allocated a position in the matrix (1 × 2 position represents row 1 and column 2). The clues to compile the secret message are:

1. The word in 2 × 1 and 3 × 1 have the same number of letters.
2. Roses is to the immediate left of Beauty and Mineral is immediately above Roses.
3. The word in 4 × 3 is shorter than the word in 1 × 2.
4. Ferry is separated from Helping horizontally by only one word Logical.
5. Arguments is at position 2 × 3 in the matrix and the word immediately below it has odd number of letters.
6. Crude and Doctor are in the same horizontal row and Crude is to the right of Doctor.
7. Cats is not the same row or columns as Mouse.

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

Eight officers of Indian Trade Service meet for a cup of coffee at coffee point. The officers P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are seated in a circle and discuss issues related to Trade in Series, Trade in Intellectual Property Rights, Investments, Tariffs, Remedies, Standards, Trade Facilitation and Subsidies not necessarily in the same order. An MBA student sitting on the next table overheads the discussion and ranks the issues as per their importance from 1 to 8. Not two officers can have the same position. Additional information available is:

1. P is sitting to the immediate left of S and the officer opposite to S discusses issues pertaining to Remedies.
2. U's issues is ranked 7th and there is one officer between U and the officer whose issue is ranked 2nd .
3. The officer whose issue is ranked 1 is not opposite to the officer whose issue is ranked 8 who represent issues related to Investments.
4. The ranks of the issues raised by the officers sitting opposite to each other cannot be both even or both odd.
5. The officer discussing issues related to Trade in Services is sitting opposite to T. T is sitting at a gap of one place from p.
6. R is sitting opposite to Q and represent issues related to standards and Trade in Intellectual Property Rights not necessarily in the same order.
7. P's issue was ranked 4th and he was discussing issues related to Tariffs and sits opposite to the officer ranked 5th who represents issues related to Subsidies.
8. The officers representing issues related to Trade in Services and Trade Facilitation are sitting adjacent to each other.

Answer the following question based on the information given below.

A consultant to Department of Commerce, Government of Bianca has suggested 30 products which have high export potential. Dora an entrepreneur and prospective3 exporter notices that these products can be grouped in three ways- Machine made goods, Handmade goods and intermediate goods. Among these 30 products some products are both machine made and intermediate goods but not intermediate goods. Some products are handmade and not intermediate goods but not machine made goods. Further it is seen that handmade-machine made goods are 1 less than machine made-intermediate goods. Similarly the total number of handmade-intermediate goods is 1 less than machine made-intermediate goods. There are just 4 products common across all products groups i. e. machine made-handmade- intermediate goods. Apart from this the number of only handmade goods is same as only machine made goods but less than only intermediate goods. Each product group/combination has at least one product.
 
Dora prefers to export machine made goods and avoid hand made goods. She finds out that only handmade goods are twice the machine made-intermediate goods and the number of only intermediate goods is an even number. Whereas her close friend Sara prefers to export intermediate goods followed by only handmade goods.

Based  on the information given below, answer the questions which follow.

Nautanki is famous play group from Eastern India is playing different shows every hour starting from 10 am with a two hour lunch break from 1 pm to 3 pm after which the show resumes at 3 pm. Entry tickets for different shows are coded with 7 words each day. The same words are rearranged for different shows following a difinite rule. For example: