Deepali Rawat converted IIFT Delhi after securing 97% in IIFT Exam. She is an MBA-IB student. Shivangi has no previous work experience after completing her graduation from BBAU Lucknow. She shared her IIFT Delhi MBA Admission experience with the Collegedunia Team, read below

Deepali Rawat

Collegedunia Team: What was your IIFT percentile? Did you avail reservation benefits for IIFT Delhi MBA Admission?

Deepali: I scored 97% in the IIFT CBT 2021 Examination. Yes, I am from the OBC Category so I availed the reservation benefits. 

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Collegedunia Team: Can you please describe your Pre MBA Academic Performance for Collegedunia readers?

Deepali: Yes, I had scored 86.14% in my 10 boards and had a decent score in 12 board exams, i.e 82%. Also, I completed my graduation from BBAU with 73%. 

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Collegedunia Team: Describe the general setting of WAT / GD (if any).

Deepali: My GD was online, there were around 7-8 people per group. At first we were supposed to join the meet link at the given time for me the GD. They kept us all in the same meeting first and after briefing us about the flow of the process they sent all of us to our respective rooms on zoom meet. After being sent to our respective rooms there were two professors who briefed us on all the rules. We will be given a topic to discuss for that they'll give us 3 minutes to think and 10 minutes to discuss and then conclude the discussion. They communicated the basic hygiene rules that nobody needs to create ruckus and give everyone the chance to speak. In our group The topic was "Should School Uniforms be mandatory or not" one person started the discussion by introducing the topic and giving a structure to the discussion then all of us put forward our opinions on the topic. Our discussion was a soft one. We haven't made the discussion a fish market, everybody got the chance to speak. 

Collegedunia Team: What was the WAT/GD Topic?

Deepali: GD topic in SIBM Pune was "School uniforms should be necessary or not"

Extempore topic in IIFT- Working in Rural vs Urban.

Collegedunia Team: What was your answer/points put forward for the WAT or GD respectively? 

Deepali: In my response to the GD topic given, I was talking about the topic that school Uniforms should be mandatory as they provide a sense of discipline among the students since the very beginning in their life.  

Collegedunia Team: Describe the general setting of your personal Interview.

Deepali: In my Personal Interview there were 4 people in the panel 3 of them were faculty and one of them was an alum. The interview took place on zoom for around 20-25 minutes. It was a kind of conversational interview where they asked me about the things I mentioned in the pre interview form and asked my favourite subject from BBA (that was marketing management) and asked questions on the same only like what are 7 Ps, Porter 5 forces (real life examples and implementations). 

Collegedunia Team: Mention at least 5 questions that were asked in IIFT Delhi Interview and how you responded to each of them?

Deepali: The questions asked during the Interview are:

Ques 1. What are the 7Ps in marketing?

Ques 2. What is the consumer surplus?

Ques 3. What are economies of scale?

Ques 4. Few things which are famous about Lucknow?

Ques 5. One question on hobbies and cooking: what all do I like to cook (conversational)?

Collegedunia Team: Mention any three reasons why you chose this college over other colleges which you converted.

Deepali: The major reason why I joined IIFT was that I wanted to study Trade and there is no better place to study International Business and Foreign Trade than IIFT Delhi. 

Also the campus is amazing and the faculty here is absolutely one of the best minds of India.

The amount of exposure that IIFT provides in the form of International Business and all the subjects are taught and keeping the International approach in mind was also one the reasons for choosing IIFT over everything. 

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Collegedunia Team: What was the reason for you not converting other colleges?

Deepali: I couldn't convert IIM Lucknow because of my mistakes in the personal Interview round. Less preparation for the interview and not thoroughly going through the pre interview form was one of the major reasons; if you are writing something on the paper you should be prepared to back it up in the interview.