48423371 tcs placement papers

TCS Test Pattern:

It was an online exam…. Test Consists of 3 Sections… + Psychometric Test

1. Test on Synonyms and Antonyms (40 questions, 20 minutes: Also Q’s

on Sentence Completion).

2. Aptitude Test (32 questions, 40 minutes: General Questions on

Mathematics).

3. Critical Reasoning (30 Minutes: 3 Analysis Paragraphs and 12

questions Relating them).

4. Psychometric Test (150 Questions, 30 minutes: only if you Qualify in

the above tests).

Details about How to Prepare for the above tests:

1. Verbal Ability:

This Test contains Synonyms & Antonyms…Almost all of them were From

GRE BARRON’S 12th Edition & upward…30-50% of them will be repeated from

previous TCS papers. Few Questions on Sentence Completion were also

there..for these also refer BARRON’S.

NOTE: During the Exam..you should be careful..because on the computer

screen the names Synonyms & Antonyms will be placed side by side so that

we may by mistake choose an antonym instead of a synonym…so Be

Careful..

2. Aptitude Test:

This test will consist of very general questions…This is the easiest section

Compared to the Other Two. Almost 70-80 Questions will be repeated from

the Previous TCS Papers…just learn the method from those papers..same

model will be given..(This happened almost all the times). If you have time

refer to any Aptitude book of your interest…it may be R.S.AGARWAL or any

Other……

3. Critical Reasoning:

Here Starts your Problems…30 Minutes…12 questions..don’t think that

there is a lot of Time..these will be somewhat tougher those who has some

touch with such kind..and will be Very Tough.. if you haven’t seen this kind

before..so,you should have some practice relating this kind of questions… 3

paragraphs will be given.. 3X4.. 12 questions.. first 2 paragraphs will be

some twisty questions… like our arrangements questions… routes between

cities.. like that… and the last one will be on Data Interpretation…

You prepare Data Interpretation again from BARRON’S…. but the remaining

from R.S.AGARWAL-Reasoning…. Or from Barron’s 13th Edition

4. Psychometric Test:

This test comes up only if you qualify in the Aptitude test… This test consists

of 150 questions which we should answer in 30 minutes (of course, that

much time is not required) Don’t think that this test has no weightage.. there

is filtering in this test too… this test tests your psychology.. Remember

among 150 many questions were asked again & again in a

variety of ways.. so don’t get trapped… be honest while attempting this test..

choose what you’re your heart says.. it will take you through the test..

This ends the

Tests……

INTERVIEWS:

Now if you are Alive Even after All these tests….then you have to face a

Technical Interview…

It may be on the same day of the Test. So be Prepared in Advance.

The Interview will be done by a Panel of 2 members…. No need to worry..

They will be Very supporting & Friendly.. First they ask us to Introduce

ourselves… then they’ll go into your project details… don’t forget to prepare

project…. They mainly concentrate on your project only…so be confident on

every aspect of your project… then you should have some basic knowledge

on C language. There will be some questions like “what is the o/p of this

code?”, “what are the errors in the code?”..like that… so be prepared for all

the basic concepts.. If needed you have to write some small codes too.. at

the end they will ask some general questios like “Why TCS?”, “Where do you

see yourself in the next five years?”, “do you have any questions?”, try ask

some questions… it shows your interest in the Company..

HR:

Now if Chase this one too…. Then comes your Final Attack.. the HR Round… I

many times heard that “I failed in HR round!”.. likewise anwers…. But you

should not fail in it.. because it involves no technical questions… it just dwell

into your innerself… so, be confident and frank while facing this round…They

generally ask questions like “Tell about yourself?”, “Who r your role

models?”, “What is your weakness?”, don’t say “I Have no weakness!”, just

prepare a small weakness for yourself that causes no harm to your future…

O.K.. “What is your mother tongue?”

if your Academic background is good.. be prepared to face some Techies

here too….

NOW IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL HERE TOO….. CONGRATS… YOU ARE IN

TCS…..

Test Paper :3

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 14 December 2010 Test Location : Vastu nagar, Bangalore Posted By : Vara Prasad N

Contributor name: N Vara Prasad Company Name: TCSStatus: SelectedVenue: CVR College of Engineering, IBP.

Placement Date: 14/12/2010.

Hi Friends, First of all thanks for everyone i.e. My Family, my friends, Freshersworld.com. For supporting me in getting placed in TCS.

Selection process:1. Online touchstone test.2. Technical interview cum MR.3. HR Written Test:

Written test consists of 35 questions 80 mins, previously it is 60 mins but now time they increased 20 mins. It is a online test.

Preparation: Up to my knowledge questions for written test is always from previous papers. So first of all solve below patterns mostly all these patterns.

Main aim of the written test is to filter the aspirants. So concentrate on the written test. i.e. The 1st hurdle of TCS. Attempt the questions 4 VCH your cent% correct. Don't give blind guesses. Attempt the questions atmost solved by you.

Pattern 1:

1. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number?a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9Solution:Let the number be x,((1/2)*x)=3+(1/6)*x,Then solve x

2. (1/3) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number?a) 6 b) 16 c) 18 d) 21




Pattern 2:

1. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required to fill it completely?a) 26 B)25 c)5 d)27

Solution: for every hour water in tank in B is doubled,

Let the duration to fill the tank B is x hours.x/32 part of water in tank of B is filled in 21 hours,Next hour it is doubled so,

2*(x/32) part i.e (x/16) part is filled in 22 hours,Similarly (x/8)th part in 23 hours,(x/4)th part is filled in 24 hours,

(x/2)th part is filled in 25 hours, (x)th part is filled in 26 hoursSo answer is 26 hours.

2. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely?a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6

3. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40,80, 160...in tank B. 1/8 th of the tank B is filled in 22 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully?a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27

4. A tank is filled with water. In first hour 10 liters, second hours 20 liters, and third hour 40 liters and so on. If time taken to fill ¼ of the tank if 5 hours. What is the time taken to fill up the tank?a) 5 B) 8 c) 7 d) 12.5

5. If a tank A can be filled within 10 hours and tank B can be filled ¼ in 19 hours then, what is the time taken to fill up the tank completely?a) 21 B) 38 c) 57 d) 76

Pattern 3:

1. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person?a) 43 b) 69 c) 52 d) 31 Solution:Total age of 6 persons is x hours,after two years total age of 6 persons is x+12Average age of 6 persons is after two years is 43So (x+12)/6=43,then solve x,After 7th person is added then (x+7th person age)/7=45So we will get 7th person age easily

2. In a market 4 men are standing. The average age of the four before 4years is 45, after some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average age of all?a) 43 b) 45 c) 47 d) 49

3. In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person?a) 25 b)20 c)45 d)30

4. In a market 4 men are standing .The average age of the four before 2 years is 55, after some days one man is added and his age is 45. What is the average age of all?

a) 55 b) 54.5 c) 54.6 d) 54.7

Pattern 4:1. In the reading room of a library, there are 23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a single reader?a) 8 b) none c) 16 d) 15

Solution: 23 reading spots, Each reading spot consists of 9 chairs placed around it so There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers.

For each table different no of persons are sat,so for first table 1 person is sit,2nd table 2 persons are sit 36readers means(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 so 8 tables are filled so 23-8=15 reading spots does not have single reader.

2. In the reading room of a library, there are 10 tables, 4 chairs per table. In each table there are different numbers of people seated. How many tables will be left out without at least 1 person?a) 8 b) 6 c) 2 d) 7

3. In the reading room of a library, there are 10 tables, 4 chairs per table. In each table there are different numbers of people seated. How many ways they will sit in the library so that no chair would be blank?a) 8 b) 6 c) 2 d) 7

Pattern 5:

1. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph

Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y)

2. A man travels from A to B at 4 mph over a certain journey and returns over the same route to A, at 5 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?a) 4.44 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4.887 mph d)5 mph

3. A person is rock climbing at an altitude of 800 m. He go up by 7 mph. and come down by 9 mph. what was his average speed?a) 7.875 mph b) 7.125 mph c) 7mph d) 7.5 mph

4. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m?a) 28.8 mph b) 27.8 mph c) 27.5mph d) 30 mph

5. Person travels to a hill, if he goes from A to B with speed of 4kmph and returns back to B with speed of 5kmph. What is his average speed of journey?a) 4.5kmph b) 4.44kmph c) 9kmph d) 4.245kmph

6. A man travels from A to B at 70 mph over a certain journey and returns over the same route to A, at 80 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?a) 74.66 b)75 c)74.33 d)74.99

7. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m.a) 28.8 b)28 c)27 d)28.6

Pattern 6:

1. Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block ,3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block?a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71

Solution: I do not know perfectly but I got some solutions from internet I do not know correctly whether it is tru e or not,((3*9*5))-((3-2)*(9-2)*(5-2)) so answer is 114.

2. A boy wants to make cuboids of dimension 5m, 6m and 7m from small cubes of .03 m3. Later he realized he can make same cuboids by making it hollow. Then it takes some cubes less. What is the number of the cubes to be removed?a) 2000 b) 5000 c) 3000 d) 7000

3. Smita was making a cube with dimensions 5*5*5 using 1*1*1 cubes. What is the number of cubes needed to make a hollow cube looking of the same shape?a) 98 b) 104 c) 100 d) 61

4. Leena cut small cubes of 10 cm dimension each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 100 cm, width 50 cm and depth 50 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a perfect cube?a) 500 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650

5. Leena cut small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 10 cm, width 3 cm and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a perfect cube?a) 910 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650

6. A lady builds 9cm length, 10cm width,3cm height box using 1 cubic cm cubes. What is the minimum number of cubes required to build the box?a) 730 b) 270 c) 720 d) 310

Pattern 8:1. (40*40*40 – 31*31*31)/(40*40+40*31+31*31)=?a)8 b)9 c)71 d)51

Solution:a3 -b3 =(a-b)*(a2+a*b+b2) so from this formula we will find (a-b) value

2. (98*98*98 – 73*73*73)/( 98*98*98 – 73*73*73)=?a).171 b).4 c).420 d).415

3. (209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144) = ?a)905863729 b)905368729 c)905729368 d)65

Pattern 9:

1. ((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2 a)8 b)none c)16 d)15

Solution: substitute x=4y in above we can find solution

2. x/2y = 2a,then 2x/x-2ay=?a)4 b)8 c)16 d)2

3. 3X/5Y = 5Y/3X…..Find the value of X/Ya) 3/5 b) 5/3 c) 2/5 d) 5/2

4. What is the value of (3X+8Y)/(X-2Y), if X/2Y=2a) 8 b) none c) 10 d) 13

5. (4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2a) 48/5 b) 46/5 c) 47/5 d) 49/5

6. ((4x+2y)/(4x-2y)= ? as (x/2y) = 2a) 8/7 b) 9/7 c) 11/7 d) 6/7

Pattern 10:

1. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings?a) 16 b) 56 c) 112 d) 28

Solution: 8c2

2. A pizza shop made pizzas with many flavors. There are 10 different flavors, in that 7 flavors are taken to make pizza. In how many ways they can arrange?a) 240 b) 120 c) 65 d) 210


Pattern 11:

1. 3, 22, 7, 45, 15, ?, 31a) 91 b)151 c) 90 d) 5

2. 8 6 17 14 35 31 75 _ 143?

3. Inspired by Fibonacci series Sangeet decided to create his own series which is 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 22, 15, 67, 31, _, 63?a) 202 b) 31 c) 76 d) 49

4. 3, 12, 7, 26, 15, ?a) 54 b) 27 c) 108 d) 31

5. 1! + 2! + ……. + 50!=?a)3.1035*10^64 b)2.1021*10^65 c)3.1035*10^63 d)3.1035*10^62

6. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, _, 32?

7. 5, 9, 12, 18, 26, 36, 47, 72, _?a) 75 b) 135 c) 100 d) 55

8. 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161a) 17 b) 34 c) 54 d) 112

Pattern 12:

1. Simple question but big one on average age.sth like a, b, c weighted separately 1st a, b, c ,then a& b, then b & c ,then c & a at last abc, the last weight was 167,then what will be the average weight of the 7 reading?a) 95 b) 95.428 c) 95.45 d) 94

Solution: Last weight abc is 167i.e three persons weight is 167 .in first 6 combinations a,b,c,ab,bc,ac i.e a checked weight for 3 times totally like that band c also so total weight in all 7 combinations is (4*167)

Average is (668/7)=95.42

Pattern 13:

1. A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only 2 different tunes at random. What are the odds that the train produces for consecutive music tones of the same type?a) 1 in 16 B) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 8 d) 1 in 32 Solution: Initially it produces 10 sounds and the defect came and now it produces only 2 different sounds and consecutively so there are totally 2 sounds and we have to select on sound and the probability is ½ and it produces the same sound concecutively for 2 times so the probability becomes ½*1/2 ie ¼

2. A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area at random. What are the odds that five consecutive cars of same color will come through the test area at any one time?a) 1 in 16 b) 1 in 125 c) 1 in 32 d) 1 in 25

Pattern 15:

1. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 25 cm, 11 cm and 31 cm. What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?a) 280.5625 b) 240.5625 c) 280.125 d) 240 Solution: Add all sides 25+11+31 to get rope length rope length =67,rope is made in to as square. So side of square is 67/4=16.75 and so area is 16.75*16.75=280.5625

2. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 21 cm, 24 cm and 28 cm. What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?a) 280.5625 b) 333.0625 c) 333.0125 d) 400

Pattern 16:

1. What is the distance between the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0Solution: intercept form equation

2. What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d

(I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).

Pattern 17:

1. A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he travelled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear?a) White b) Black c) Gray d) Brown

Solution is: White. above all the matter is nonsense

Pattern 18:

1. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boysa) 1/64 b) 1/32 c) 1/128 d) 1/256

Pattern 19:

1. Usha bought a linen cloth and rope to build a tent. If the rope is 153 m long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1m length, then how many cuts are to be made to cut the ropes into 153 pieces?a) 153 b) 152 c) 154 d) 155 Solution: To make it 153 pieces we have to cut 152 times so obviously after last cut we got 153rd piece

2. A person has to make 146 pieces of a long bar. He takes 4 seconds to cut a piece. What is the total time taken by him in seconds to make 146 pieces?a) 584 b) 580 c) 730 d) 725

Solution: 146 pieces means 145 cuts so for each cut it takes 4 seconds means total time 145*4=580


Pattern 20:

1. Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up. The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month?a) $27 b) $18 c) $45 d) $486

Solution: See last 3 lines only answer is 45-27=18

Pattern 21:

1. A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one

year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?

Solution: here we cannot consider depreciation or decay of item accto answer so go acc to answer

Totally 5+10=15$profit

Pattern 22:

1. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?a) loss 23 b) gain 23 c) gain 54 d) Loss 54

Solution: Loss= Change of money given to john(4$)+actual cycle cost 19$=23$ loss

Pattern 23:

1. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42Solution: I am not able to answer this if i go in procedure way so search in net by searching question. Better see below website

2. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 14 blue, 20 red, and 18 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?




Pattern 24:

1. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that coin shows correct option?a)1/2 b)1/6 c)1/12 d)6/10

Solution is ½.

2. There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is headc) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.

Pattern 25:

1. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?a) 4 boys and 3 girls b) 3 boys and 4 girls c) 2 boys and 5 girls d) 5 boys and 2 girls

Pattern 26:

1. 10 men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibility that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa?a) 22 b) 20 c) 10 d) none

2. There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’sb) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of mena) both a and b b)only a c)only b d)none

Pattern 27:

1. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played?a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255Solution: Do not know perfect logic 28

2. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round?a) 256 b) 512 c) 64 d) 128

Pattern 28:

1. Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?

2. A, B, C, D, E are there among A, B, C are boys and D, E are girls D is to the left of A and no girl sits at the middle and at the extemes. Then what is the order of their sittings.

Pattern 29:

1. There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all without repeat. How many handshakes possible?a) 6 b) 21 c) 28 d) 7

Solution: For handshakes type question i am confirming you that if the there are n members are thereHandshakes are given in linear manner =n-1(last person cannot give hand shake to first person)Handshakes are given in cyclic manner =n(last person can give hand shake to first person)

But i do not know perfectly for repetition it is nc2

2. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?a) 122 b) 66 c) 48 d)1 28

Pattern 30:

1. B is taller than j and 3 pillars. P is shorter than B and 2 pillars is j shorter/taller than P?a) yes b) no c) may be d) can’t find

2. There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Juliac) Chelsea is shorter than Juliad) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia

Pattern 31:

1. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7 Solution: in btech we studied 8 4 2 1 code for binary system in digital logic proceed in that way for answer it is 16 8 4 2 1 if u add all we will get 31 so 5 coins required

Pattern 32:

1. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?a) 8 b) 20 c) 16 d) 15

Pattern 33:

1. 20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made?a) 190 b) 210 c) 150 d) 250

2. 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence.

a) 45 b) 9 c) 12 d) 10

Pattern 34:

1. If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 20 two wheelers parked therea) 48 b) 50 c) 52 d) 64

Solution: Proceed with answer is best in question they will give total no of wheels

2. If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 58 wheels are parked therea)10 b) 33 c) 22 d) none

Pattern 35:

1. A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named John, Jill, jack. He went to a park weekly twice. He loves his sons very much. On a certain day he found the shop keepers selling different things. An apple cost 1penny, 2chocalate costs 1penny & 3 bananas cost 1 penny. He has bought equal number of apple, chocolate & banana for each son. If the total amount he invest is 7 penny then how many he has bought from each piece for his son?a) 1app, 1cho, 1 banana b)1 app, 2cho,3 banana c)1app, 2cho, 1banana

2. One person had three children. He had 7 pennies. Find the distribution of the fruits among the three children. A melon costs 1 penny, 2 oranges cost 1 penny and 3 grapes cost 1 pennya)2 melons, 1 orange, 1 grape b) 2 melons, 2 orange, 1 grape c) 1 melons, 2 orange, 1 grape.

Pattern 36:

1) The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 55. Then after how many years their ratio will become 8:7?a) 11 b) 7 c) 10 d) 12

Solution: 6x+5x=55, so x=5, put first ratio after substitution is (6*5)/(5*5) and second ratio is 40/35 So difference in numerators 40-30=10 years

2)The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 66. Then after how many years their ratio will become 7:6?a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 12


Pattern 37:

1) A volume of 10936 l water is in a container of sphere. How many semisphere of volume 4l each will be required to tranfer all the water into the small semispheres?a) 2812 b) 8231 c) 2734 d) 4222

Pattern 38:

1) A person ismanufacturing a house. He bought 20 ropes of wire which has a density of 300

Kg/m3. The height of the building to be constructed is 40 m. If the capacity of the current passed in the wire is 20 A and the voltage capacity is 80 Volts. Then what will be the opposing force to the current if the wire is used?a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 1600 Solution: ohms law V=IR, Opposing force of current is resistance, R=v/i

Pattern 39:

1) A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs.Horse takes 3 hours to reach the pony.If the average speed of the horse is 81Kmph.Then what is the average speed of the pony?a) 46.4 b) 51 c) 53.4 d) 48.6

Solution: Horse takes 3 hours to cover the distancePony takes 3+2 =5 hours to cover the same distance, Velocity=distance/time, distance travelled by them is equal it is 81*3=243km, speed of pony=243/5=48.6

3) A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what is the average speed of the ponyPattern 40:

1) The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14.What is the square of their sum?a) 120 b) 130 c) 137 d) 145

Solution: a-b=9, ab=14, (a-b)2=a2+b2-2*a*b

2) The sum of two no is 5 and the product of the two is 14.What is the sum of their squares?3) The sum of the squares of two no is 12 and their sum is 15.Find the product of the two no?

Pattern 41:

1) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05

Solution: radius =7mm, then diameter 2*radius, substitude diameter the in above equation you will get answer

Pattern 42:

1) A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is?a) North b) South c) East d) West

Pattern 43:

1) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present

in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21.Solution: You have to count and answer but be prepare with answer

2) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100. Then how many 6’s will be present in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21


4) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 0’s will be present in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 11

Pattern 44:

1) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21. What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D?a) 13 b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42

Pattern 45:

1) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Solution: Speed of Ferrari =4*35=140,time=distance/velocity,

2) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Marane llo, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Pattern 46:

1) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ‘Which statements are true and which are false?a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Pattern 47:

1) A man goes north 37km.turns left goes 2km.turns right goes 17km.turns right goes 2km. find distance b/w starting ending point.a) 54 b) 27 c) 81 d) 67

Pattern 48:

1) If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can?a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1

Pattern 49:

1) If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b and c are mixed in 8:5 ration if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?A) 13.34 b) 15.73 c) 16.73 d) 9.45

Solution: Solve for a:b:c,then b ratio is b/(a+b+c)*35

Pattern 50:

1) If we subtract a number with y, we get 4 increase of number, once it got divided by y itself... Find that number??A) 13 b) 12 c) 14 d) 11

Pattern 51:

1) It is the class with the seating arrangement in 4 rows and 8 columns. When the teacher says 'start' the girl who is sitting in first row and first column will say 1, then the next girl sitting behind her will say 4, the next girl sitting behind that girl will say 7, in a particular order each girl is telling a number, the following girls told 10, 13 next turn is yours what u will say?a) 15 b) 17 c) 14 d) 16

Solution: It is a series 1, 4, 7, 10, 13.

Pattern 52:

1) It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25

2) Lady has 2 select gloves & hat from a basket. In the dark, she can distinguish hat & gloves. 14 red, 20 blue, 18 green are there. Find probability that any selected glove pair has same color. 3) A lady had fine gloves and hats. 25 blue, 7 red and 9 gey. She had to select a pair among them. But there was no light so she had to select in darkness the correct pair with a glove and a hat. Therefore how many combinations of same color she can select? Pattern 53:

1) If the Valentine’s Day in 2005 falls on Monday, then on which day will the Valentine’s Day fall on 2010?A) Saturday b) Thursday c) Wednesday d) Sunday Pattern 54: 1. A person run from A to B.He took ¼ of the time less to reach B when compare to run at normal Speed.Then how many percentage he has increased his speed?a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2

Solution: I do not know perfectly but i have simple logic,1-(1/4)=(3/4),then reverse it so it is 4/3=1.333,1.33-1=33.33 like this

2. An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2

Pattern 55:

1. In a building there are 5 rooms.Each having a equal area .The length of the room is 4m and breadht is 5 m.The height of the rooms are 2m. If 17 bricks are needed to make a square meter then how many bricks are needed to make the floor of a particular room?a) 320 b) 380 c) 340 d) 300

Solution: area of the room is length*breadth=4*5=20m2, For one square meter it takes 17 bricks, For 20m2 total no of bricks are 17*20=340,

Pattern 56:

1. One man want to build a wall .The length and breadth of the wall are 20 and 30 respectively. He need 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he need?a) 21,500 b) 30,000 c) 21,000 d) 20,000

Pattern 57:

1. In a hotel we can order two types of varities, but we can make 6 more variteis in home. One can choose the four varities with two from hotel as must. Find how many ways one can order.a) 14 b) 15 c) 56 d) 28

Pattern 58:

1. If a pipe can fill the tank within 6hrs.But due to leak it takes 30 min more. Now the tank is full then how much time will it take to empty the tank throught the leak?a) 78 b) 56 c) 66 d) 59

Pattern 59:

1. The bacteria has the probability of split into 3 and probability to die is 1/3rd of the total bacteria.Let the probability is P.Some of them survived with probability 1/5.Then which among the following relation is true?a)P=1/3+1/5*3 b)P=1/5*(1/8-3)

2. There is a bacteria which has the probability of die 1/3 of its total number or it may

tripled. Find out the probabilityA. P=1/3+(2/3*p^3) B. P=2/3+(2/3*p^3) C. P=2/3+(1/3*p^3) D P=2/3+(2/3*p^3)

Pattern 60:

1. There was a grand mother in a village who had a grand child.Upon asking her grand childs age she told that she is as older as many days old as her daughters age in weeks and as many days as her own age in years.The sum of the three is 130.then how old is the child.?

Pattern 61:

1) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers?a)18 b)19 c)20 d)21

2) In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?

Pattern 62: 1) Amrith told to Anand in front of a Photo that “He is the son of my father’s son”.Find who is in the picture if amrith have no brothers and sisters.a) Amrith himself b) Amrith’s Uncle c) Amrith’s Father d) Amrith’s son

2) One person has no siblings and says,” the guy in the photo is the only son of my father ‘s son”. What is the relation of the guy to the person?

Pattern 63:

1) One grand father has 3 grand children two of the age difference is 3.Eldest child age is 3 times the youngest childs age and the eldest child age is two year more than the sum of other two children. Find what is the age of the elders child?a) 18 b) 22 c) 30 d) 10.

Solution: there are 3 childs,let the age of younger be x,elder be 3x,so the middle one be m,3x=2+x+m,then we have a-b=3 or b-c=3,or a-c=3, then for answer we have to go via options, substitute that in above equations

2) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?


Pattern 64: 1) In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in the 8th subject. what is the average of all the subject?a) 76.251 b) 80.25 c) 74.265 d) 74.625

Solution: Total marks=74*7=518, then average=(518+79)/8=74.625

Pattern 65: 1) 3 persons a,b,c were there A always says truth,B lies on Monday,tusday,& Wednesday.but C lies on thrusday,Friday & saturday .one day A said”that B & C said to A that” B said “yesterday way one of the days when I lies”,C said that”yesterday way one of the days when I lies too”.then which day was that? a) Sunday b) Thursday c) Saturday d) Tuesday

Pattern 66:1) Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?a) 4 b) 9 c) 3 d) 5Solution: For answer solve via options

Pattern 67: 1) How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?a)57 b)56 c)59 d)58

2) how many 13 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if repetition of digits is allowed?

3) By using 1,2,3,4,5,how many 5 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4,repetation of no. is allowed??

4) Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4? 5) How many of 14 digit numbers we can make with 1,2,3,4,5 that are divisible by 4. Repetitions allowed. Pattern 68:1) Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of the following statement holds now?a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblersb) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumblerc) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumblerd)None of the statements holds true

Solution: Think wisely and answer these are asked in my paper 2 or 3 questions

2) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?

Pattern 69: 1) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die.

You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often – 8,9 or 10?a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

Solution: Calculate how many times 8,9,10 will come when we throw 2 dice, and answer

Pattern 70: Q1. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.

The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1Ans: 5

For below questions, answers i am not sure whether they are correct or not you have to solve urself

Q2. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192Ans: 192Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9)

Q3. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa)1 b)3 c)4 d)0

Q4. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5Ans: 37.80

Q5. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed?a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60

Solution:(men*time)/work)Ans: 10

This type of Q's repeated 4times for me but values are different.

Q6. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu

would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20

The Q's concept is same but the equation of N's is changing.

Q7. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then

a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move.d) Alice has no winning strategy.Ans: d

Q8. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3Ans: 5/9

Q9. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa)12 b)11 c)13 d)18Ans: 18

Q10. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12Ans: b

Q11. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?

a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.

c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.Ans:c

Q12. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability isa)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4 Ans: 14/19

Q13. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25Ans: d

Q14. 9. A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of winning?a) 3 red and 3 blue faces b) 2 red and remaining bluec) 6 red and 0 blue d) 4 red and remaining blueAns: a

Q15. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter?a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21Ans: 16

Q16. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.Ans: d

Q17. Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn.c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.d) Alok has no winning strategy.Ans: d

Q18. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10, 20, 40, 80. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns: 23

Q19. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y).

Q20. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?Ans: 18

Q21. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he took?Easy one try it.

Q22. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 12 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4, repetation of no. is allowed?Ans: (5)^11

Q23. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 cashew is 1 cent. If father buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will get?Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew

Q24. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were thereAns: For this question answer is deduced from the options.

Q25. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) SundayAns: a Once you clear this test your promoted to Technical round. Preparation for Technical round: Always have a smiling face whatever the questions posed on you. It helps in the interviews.

* Be well prepared with your subject basics* Basic C programs* Be prepared with your favourite 1 or 2 core subjects.

Some points to be kept in mind during technical interview. * Be confident about what you say.* Have a good eye contact.* Be truthful, don't bluff the interviewer. Think that he is more clever than you.* Don't be panic try to be bold enough. Nice your panic you'll be made more by the interviewer. When your done with technical round then here comes the HR.

HR Interview:

HR's are very friendsly. Having interacting with them is a cake walk. But mind, don't be 222 smart and overact before the interviewer. They are enough to trace about you. They ask about your family background.Some logical questions.General terms

Main areas they test: * Communication skills.* Way of expressing your views* How you understand and receive the things* Problem solving ability* Your truthfulness Have these stuff before the selection process you'll be in TCS. All the best!

Test Paper :4

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 15 January 2011 Test Location : Technocrats Institute Of Technology, Bhopal Posted By : Rohit Tomar

Hello Friends, Firstly I would like to thanks Freshersworld.com and all my friends for supporting me and final result was my selection in TCS. Really I believe in that” Long hours doesn’t mean anything, it’s the result that counts not mere efforts”. So friends let me describe my success story: On 15/01/2011 TCS conducted written examination. Around 410 students participated and finally 256 students were selected in this written examination and then after interview session finally 173 students were selected. And by this figure our college has made a record of maximum no of selections in M.P in TCS. So Selection Procedure is divided into 3 states: 1) Written Test2) Technical Interview 3) HR interview

Written Test: Written test consists of 35 questions 80 mins, It is a online test. Below I share some of the questions. Q1. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number?a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9 Solution:Let the number be x,((1/2)*x)=3+(1/6)*x,Then solve x Q2. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required to fill it completely?a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27 Solution: for every hour water in tank in B is doubled, Let the duration to fill the tank B is x hours. x/32 part of water in tank of B is filled in 21 hours, Next hour it is doubled so, 2*(x/32) part i.e (x/16) part is filled in 22 hours,Similarly (x/8)th part in 23 hours,(x/4)th part is filled in 24 hours, (x/2)th part is filled in 25 hours, (x)th part is filled in 26 hours So answer is 26 hours. Q3. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boysa) 1/64 b) 1/32 c) 1/128 d) 1/256 Solution: Probability of a boy or girl is ½So for remaining 6 it’s – {1/2}^6= 1/64 Q4. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 14 blue, 20 red, and 18 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?a) 50 b) 8 c) 40 d) 42 Solution:This is the most repeated question in Tcs so prepare it well. It has no logic but it’s answer comes like this Firstly add 2 max values i.e 20+18=38Then add 2 to answer i.e. 38+2=40 so this is the answer. Q5. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that coin shows correct option?a) 1/2 b) 1/6 c) 1/12 d) 6/10 Solution is ½.

Q6. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05 Solution: radius =7mm, then diameter 2*radius, substitude diameter the in above equation you will get answer Q7. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Solution: Speed of Ferrari =4*35=140,time=distance/velocity, Q8. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7 Solution: Will be 5.For 31p, we divide it 1,2,4,8,16. Q9. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?a) loss 23 b) gain 23 c) gain 54 d) Loss 54 Solution: 23 lossas he has to pay 35 dollar to neighbor he has only 31 remainingso 35-31=4and cycle costs 19 dollarso total loss=19+4=23 dollar Q10. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisened if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisened can?A) 3 B) 2 C) 6 D) 1 Solution: 1Because in that problem they didn't mention the details like,one mice take 2 hr or 3hr etc. They told only 24 hr to test. So 1 mice is enough rest are useless words. Q11. A Sheet of paper has statements number from 1 to 20. Statement n says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true". Which statements are true and which are false.

a. The even no statements are true and the odd no statements are false.b. The 1st 13 statements are false and rest are true.c. The 1st 6 statements are true and rest are falsed. The odd no statements are true and even no. are false. Solution: This type of question was repeated 3 times but for different case.For this type of Questions, follow this:At least- Ist half are true, Last half are falseExactly- Last second one is true or (N-1)th Statement is trueAlmost- All are true.So correct answer is (C) Q12. On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week- Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 12:40 am. Solution: 89 deg 36 hours a day mane the clk will be of 18 hours.18 hours covrs 360 degThus 1 hour covrs 20 deg12 hours covers 12*20=240 degekhon,1 hour in 90 minthus in 90min the hour hand goes 20degtai, for 1min hr hand goes 2/9degsei jonne, for 40 min hour hnd goes (2/9)*40deg=80/9deg=9deg(approx)thus hr hand covrs total of 240+9=249degnow min hand covrs=40*4=160deg(karon, 90min=360deg1min=4deg)hus angle betwn them 249-160=89deg Q13. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that is not needed for the question) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:1) Balsamic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) MI mosaic and Woody4) MI mosaic and Lilac Solution: First is acceptable for perfume since balsamic and liliac are given to be present and second is also acceptable as lemon can be added with any of four, third is also acceptable as given in question left fourth is not acceptable as MI mosaic is always with woody and balsamic is always with liliac. Therefore combination of MI mosaic and liliac cant occur because woody and balsamic are never together Q14: Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y â€“ Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok

proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be? Note: For this type of questions:x+y-z=11x-y-z=2x*(y+z)=18What should be the approach to do such type of prob? Solution: This question was repeated 3 times for different casesYeah TCS has this 3 type of questions where there isx+y-z,=11x-y-z ==2and x*(y+z)=18 If an integer is added to any of the above equations just add the integer to the value of the equations. For example in this case it would be 15+18=33. (don't ask me for explanations why this value comes for those equations. It took me some gruelling sessions to understand that) Q15. Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following statement holds now? a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblersb) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumblerc) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumblerd)None of the statements holds true Solution: aThere is less coffee in the first tumbler than water Q16. Shreya writes 1st 100 whole num. let A and B be the num of times she writes 0 and 9 respectively, find the value of A+B Solution:First 100 whole nos=0 to 99.thus A=no.of 0's=(0,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90)=10B=no. of 9's=(9,19,29,39,49,59,69,79,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99)=20A+B=30 Q17. When my uncle died, he left a will instructing his executers to divide his estate of 19,80,000 in this manner.Every son should receive 3 times as much as a daughter and that evry daughter should get twice as much as their mother. what is my aunt's maximum share if my uncle has atleast one son and one daughter?(a) 19,80000 (b) 9,90,000 (c) 3,30,000 (d) 2,20,000 (e) 1,98,00 Solution:1+2+6=91980000/9=220000220000(mother)440000(daughter)1320000(brother)Answer is 220000(d)

Q18. There are 3 boys A,B,C and 2 girls D,E. D always sit right to A.girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. who is sitting immediate right to E? Solution:A D B E Cright of e is cNow come to interview part: Technical Interview: Only thing you need to keep in mind while interviewing is you should be confident while replying. And English is must. Ok so as I am a Electronics student I”ll suggest some topics from which interviewer asks questions: 1. Digital electronics basic2. Diodes basic3. Terms like amplifier, IC, filter just their definition4. C/C++5. Different between 8085 and 80866. Communication basics7. 1G, 2G, 3G, GSM, CDMA etc just basics8. OSI layer model9. LAN, WAN, MAN10. Router and Topologies, TCP/IP model. Be confident while replying and prepare technical well. Don’t go in deep just take overview of all subjects. HR round: Then for HR interview you must prepare yourself well. Some key questions that are asked are: 1. Strengths, weakness,Ans: You should prepare your strengths and weakness a few days earlier from interview. And you should also make examples of your strengths and weakness. Like when you say you are a good learner then you should be capable of giving a relevanr real life example where you can say you was a good learner. 2. HobbiesAns: Don’t make fake hobbies. Always make real hobbies that you actually do in free time. Because they are going to ask a lot of questions from your hobbies part.Like my hobbies include Photography so they asked me which camera do you use, features of that camera, latest photo you shoot, what you do with the photos, etc. So be prepare. 3. Extra co-curricular activitiesAns: Explain work you have done apart from your studies. 4. Tell me about yourself:Ans: Tell your whole Bio data and try to bring fluency while speaking about yourself.

5. What experience do you have in this field? 6. What do you know about this organization?Ans: This is most important part. You should search about TCS and know latest happenings, awards won by TCS and a little history of TCS. You can go to www.wikipedia.org for that information. 7. Are you a team player? 8. Why should we hire you?Ans: Here also you need to tell your strength. And how company is going to benefit from it. 9. What is your greatest strength? 10. Tell me about your dream job? 11. What is more important to you: the money or the work? 12. Are you willing to work overtime? Nights? Weekends? 13. Would you be willing to relocate if required? 14. Do you have any questions for TCS? Ans: This is also important to ask a question at last of the interview so prepare a question in your mind before going to interview. And never ask about Payscale, working hours and all these cheap thinkings that comes in your mind. You can go for socialism if you like social services. And many other questions are there. But what is more important is, to ask a question because that shows your interest in company. Last point Finally I would say that you should prepare yourself for HR interview few days earlier by having interviews with your friends and preparing for questions. Remember one thing friends don’t create fake hobbies/strengths otherwise they”ll caught you. Common yaar they are doing all India recruitment you can’t lie with them. They have got experience in this interviewing field. Ok friends I think that’s sufficient. Only thing that I would like to say is that: “Sucess is the first thing that should always be in your mind” Hope this file will help you Bye For any further query mail me [email protected] See you in TCS

Test Paper :5

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 15 January 2011

Test Location : Technocrats Institute Of Technology, Bhopal Posted By : Abhinav Dwivedi

Hello Friends, TCS came to our college (Technocrats Institute Of Technology, Bhopal) on 15th January and made the highest number of selection in the Madhya Pradesh region in this session with 173 selections from our college. There were only 3 rounds: 1) Written test2) Technical round3) HR round There were around 340 students who sat for the campus out of which 243 cleared the written and finally 173 were selected from the college.

It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers All patterns are same but with different values. Refer Freshersworld.com question papers.

I am giving the answers that are 100 % correct because we have researched a lot on the answers with friends and got the most correct answers after consulting the we and the yahoo groups.

Written questions 1) (1/3) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number?a) 6 b) 16 c) 18 d) 21Ans- x/3=x/6 +3 …..solve ans is 18

2) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely?a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6

This question repeated two times in my paper Ans: (b) these type of que are repeated frequently but the numeric values change.Simple approach is- count the number of hours taken to fill the part of the tank from the given part ie. Initially the tank is 1/32 then after 1 hour it will become 1/16 then 1/8 then ¼ then ½ then 1. Here 1 is the state when the tank is full so the number of hours is (1+1+1+1+1)=5. Now add this number of hours to the given time ie 5+3=8 3) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42

Ans: Do not get trapped in these type of questions .a very simple trick to solve these type of question is just see the max and the middle value of gloves and hats …ie 32 and 25 . just

add max+min_values +2 or 1 or 3 ie 32+25+3=60 the answer will definitely fall in this range as 60 here

4) Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played?a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Ans: (255) there are two varieties of this type of que in one they ask about the number of matches in the first round …so solution to that is 2^(number of rounds)…ie 2^8=256 another variety is the number of matches played in the tournament so ans is 2^(number of teams )-1 ..ie 2^8 -1=255


Ans very simple question approach is time =dist./speed ie 953/(4*35)=6.18 6) how many 8 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if repetition of digits is allowed? Ans: (78125) simple trick to these type of que is that 5^(number of digits-1) ie 5^(8-1) i.e. 5^(7)=78125By math’s first 6 digits of the 8 digit number can be filled in by using any 5 digits given so it come out (5*5*5*5*5*5) and last two must be divisible by 4 ie (44,52,32,12,24) are the 5 possibilities. So the anwer is (5*5*5*5*5*5*5=5^7)

7) Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5Ans: 37.80

8) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression

N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and

Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 Ans: Do not get trapped in this que i am giving a very short trick that guarantees 100% correct solution just add the following number if the que contains the following changes X*(Y-Z) then add 18 to the given constant to get N….ie 9+18=27X+(Y-Z) = then add the 12 ie 9+11=20X-(Y-Z) is then add 2 ie 9+2=11 9) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3Ans: 5/9….just do 1-(probability)^2…..1-(2/3)^2

11). On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter?

a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 2 Ans: Put the value of years in equation and get the answer ie 10) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ' Which statements are true and which are false?a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.Ans: c There are two more varieties of this type of questions. I am giving those also below just concentrate on the part underlined in the questions and mark the answer. 11) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?


12) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At most n of the statements on this sheet are false. ‘Which statements are true and which are false?a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) all are false

Ans: (d) all are false 13) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12 Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2) 14) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a)0.75 b)1 c)0.5, d)0.25Ans: Probability= (area of inner circle)/(area of outer circle)i.e (r/2)^2/r^2 =1/4=0.25 15) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212 Ans: 0 This questions repeated in my paper thrice. 16) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0 Ans: 4 If it is given line then there are 4 points – one inCentre and three circumcentresIf it it given line segment then and is 1 bcoz only one incentre is there 17) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9 Ans: 5/9

Same as the question 7.

18) Mr. Bean went to a shop for buying a gift to his wife on her Birthday. He bought 28 purple marbles as her wife was fond of marbles. He also bought 21greem marbles. While coming out of the shop on the way he also bought 24 red, 42 yellow and 12 pink marbles and he put them all in a bag. When he was returning back to the home a lightning occurred and suddenly due to some reasons the red, green, and yellow balls got converted into white color. But in spite of this Mr. Beans decided to give few marbles to his lovely wife. So, how many times he should put his hand in the bag so that he can gift his wife at least one ball of each color.

Ans: logic is same as I told in the question 3 i.e 24+42+2=68

19) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 50 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Thena) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move. b) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move. c) Alice has no winning strategy.

d) In order to win, Alice’s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move Ans: (d) In this type of que if the coin is at the 3 position (as here )then the answer is d otherwise at the 1 or second position of the coin the answer is always. No chance of winning ie C20) There is a planet oz . The people there are four fingered and reside in 4 – dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3 – dimensional objects. The rupees notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins. · The diameter of the coins should be at least 16mm and not exceed 64mm· Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater.· The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these requirements and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design? Ans: 4

At least 16 coins so the series is 16, (16+16/2)= 24 , (24+24/2)=36, (36+36/2)=54. Now next value of coin exceeds 64 so the number of coins is 4

22) 21 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no ‘cycle’ of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of people a1, a2, … , aK such that the pairs (a1, a2), (a2, a3),… , (a (k-1), a k) , (ak, a1) shake hands.a) 17 b) 18 c) 19 d) 20 Ans: n

22) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying. B. leftmost suspect is innocent.C. leftmost suspect is guiltya) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only Ans: c 23) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, Sunday to Saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40?a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89 Ans: 89 24) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12Ans:18 25) The pace length P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pace length in meters. Bernard knows his pace length is 164cm. The formula applies to Bernard's walking. Calculate Bernard's walking speed in kmph.a) 23.62 b) 8.78 c) 11.39 d) 236.16Ans: 236.16 (144*1.64 m) 26) Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centers on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius of the circles to the side of the square.a) 1:(4+ 7v3) b) 1:(2+ 6v2) c) 1:(2+ 7v2) d) (2+ 7v2):1Ans: b 27) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A) All suspects are lying B) leftmost suspect is guilty a) Neither A nor Bb) Both A and Bc) B onlyd) only aAns: C

28) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsea, Juli visited that temple. (Som unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Juli is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Julic) Chelsea is shorter than Julid) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and JuliAns: d Friends there is a trick of solving this questions any question in the paper of TCS that involves comparison the answer is always –cannot determine 29) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs. ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr., horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs., 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km, Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hrAns: 16.5km/hr. 30) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e. no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 3 b) 5 c) 2 Ans: 5 Friends there is a trick of solving this questions any question in the paper of TCS that involves points separated by line with a set of points points each side the answer is the number of points in plane as 5 here the answer is always –cannot determine 31) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN =9+ X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20Ans: 20 Here it is X+Y-Z then add the 11 so ans is (11+9)=20 32). The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192Ans: 192 From 1 to 100 3 comes 192 Once you clear this test you are promoted to Technical round

I attempted 35 questions and I was sure that at test 31 were correct, the cut of was high in our college most probably above 25. So be accurate and score high, as the questions are easy.

Technical interview: Our interview was in the university campus, in Bhopal itself. I reached the campus around 3 pm. We were given a form from the TCS that contained our basic details from our name to the project and all. Finally our technical started at 7 in the evening .there were around 9 panels in the conference hall taking the technical interviews I had to wait for a long time and my technical started at around 10 pm in the night. My TR was more of HR than the technical one. Luckily my TR came out to be from my city itself God favored and the luck! Questions asked from me were: Me: Good evening, sirTR: Good evening, take your seat. TR: How was your day. You must have waited for a long timeMe: I had a great day, this morning I took my written test and, gave my best. I think have scored well and cleared it. It is my first interview so I liked waiting for a long time because I was waiting anxiously for this time. TR: Ok, Abhinav tell me why have you written basics of C++, C and java in your resumeMe: sir. I had studied C++ and c in the class 12 as it was in my syllabus so I had acquired basic knowledge of that and recently I have studied java and the other modules are yet to finish so I have written basic word. But sir I have done a project in java recently and did well in it. TR: looking at my project in the resume, of tell me something about your project Me: I was waiting eagerly for this question, that Is why I said I made a project in Java. I told about my project “Bhopal road transport enquiry system” everything in deep. TR was impressed. TR: Ok, you have written you gave paper presentation on surface computer. Tell me about itMe: I was prepared for this. I told all that I had prepared TR: Ok, tell me Abhinav, where do you belong to natively Me: Told TR: Then why you chose to study in BhopalMe: I told that I had taken a year drop and prepared for the competitive exams and I got good college like TIT in Bhopal so I opted for this. He was satisfied TR: Where are you from basically Me: I told Kanpur

TR: He asked me about a location from Kanpur that how far was it. I was surprised how come he knows about all in Kanpur. I replied easily TR: Tell me about batch Me: I said that sir I had heard about batch but not had full information about it so can’t answer it. I said sorry sir TR: He says but you have written OS as technical skill in Your subject. Didn't you know batch processing Me: I said sorry sir TR: Then he a asked about deadlockMe: I replied all I knew about deadlock. He was satisfied TR: what is merge sort explain Me: I explained d but I told incorrectly initially then I corrected my answer by this permission TR: Ok can you write a program in Java for me. He asked me to print prime numbers between 1 to 100 Me: I gave the logic and wrote the program TR: You have drawing and sketching as your hobby, can you draw my sketchMe: I was prepared for this I said yes sir but I will take 1 or 2 hours’ time and you have it sit still for that period he smiled and said leave it Finally he said ok you can go nowMe: But I had a question in my mind I told that I wanted to ask a question. He said yes you can I asked about his introduction He said that he belongs to Kanpur. He keeps on visiting there often but, he is basically from Lucknow. I had a smile on the face. Then he shook hands with me I returned with smile confident that my TR will easily promote me. HR round: It's very easy round and less elimination round. In this round they ask simple questions and give a situations and observe ur feelings. So be confident in this round. If you cleared this round then you are almost placed. I was called for my HR at 2:00 am in the morning . My HR had the last resume of mine for the day He was siting tired. Me: Good evening sir HR: Good evening. Are you tired of waiting. Have you had your dinnerMe: no sir I am not feeling tired but energetic because I have been promoted to my last round of the interviews. I said I had my dinner HR: What did you have in the dinner? Was it sufficient? Me: Told what all the lunch packet was provided by out college and that amount each dish had HR: Ok tell me about you family?

Me: I told all HR: Tell me why you want you choose a private sector than a government sectorMe: I told HR: Tell me about you project?Me: I explained d all I was already waiting for this question HR: Ok you have drawing and sketching as your hobby, can you draw my sketch.Me: I was prepared for this I said yes sir but I will take 1 or 2 hours’ time and you have it sit still for that period. He smiled why not in 10-15 minutes. Me: I said sir it will be just a rough sketch not an accurate on. He smiled and said do you have any of your sketched in your folder.Me: I said no sir but I have several certificates I got during college and school days HR: Are you comfortable to be relocated. Bond with TCS Me: I said yes with suitable reason that I had inters in travelling to new place d as I mentioned d it in resume and I am sociable as my strength is that so I m comfortable HR: Ok thank you do you have any questions to ask Me: I asked about his introduction and the skill I needed to develop till I join TCS. Finally I left and returned home at 3 :00 am in the morning in the chilling cold. And had a sigh of relief. Finally the results were out in the college on 17th January at 10 am in the morning answered I was selected out of the 173 from out college. Finally my suggestion is 1) Concentrate on written test and Technical Round. Thank you for reading my experience.

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Test Paper :6

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 22 December 2010 Test Location : SLIET Longowal, Punjab Posted By : Ranjeet Kaur

Hi,

I attempted 25 questions and it is enough not attempt more than 27 questions because there is 0.33 negative marking. Quantitative/aptitude test (35 questions, 80 minutes)

Note: 1 mark will be deducted for every 3 wrong answers

1. A Roman was born the first day of the 35th year before Christ and died the first day of the 35th year after Christ. How many years did he live?(a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 72

2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres long. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the speed of the dog in Km/hr?(a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5

3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race?(a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54

4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, then 48 miles directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) from T to R?(a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500

5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was very interested in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the north and reached the north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear for an 1 hour to the east with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south and reached his laboratory in 2 hours. What was the colour of the bear? (a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue

6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate of 850 g per head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement?(a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700

7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business prospered and they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did they have in all at the end of eighteen years?(a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000

8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daughter receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive?(a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700

9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12

more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning.(a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288

10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer?(a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000

11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19

12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. find the age of seventh person?(a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45

13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31(a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35 14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 6

15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?(a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15

16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25

17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence.(a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46

18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. Each round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each reading spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spots donot have atleast a single reader.

(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) None

19. Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out

tournol how many matches were played?(a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255

20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. ( At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?(a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs

21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?(a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph

22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have introduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how many ways he can select?(a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58

23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there?(a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208

24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?(a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18

25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand.(a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m

26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 apple costs Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples?(a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25

27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage.(a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30%

28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train?(a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m

29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary?(a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900

30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010(a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday

31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a way that the vowels always come together?(a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040

32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?(a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these

33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together? (a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16

34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number? (a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360

35. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. The duration of the flight is:(a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours

About interview.

There is basic question of your subject.

I'm ECE student so question was about basics of digital

* What is flip flop?* What is multiplexer?* What is applications of these?* Project details.* Features of C++?* Polymorphism* Inheritance

My interview was only 10 mins. Very simple question Very interesting.

Keep simile on your face and be confident. In HR Just introduction, about family, strenghts and hobbies.Be prepare for all.There can be GD. So prepare for that my last round was GD. Best of luck!

Test Paper :7

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 20 December 2010

Test Location : Great Noida Posted By : Sanjay kumar

1. There are 150 weights. Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg weights. The sum of the weights is 260. What is the number of 1kg weights?Ans: 40

2. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for over speeding and exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr. At the same time B is fined for over speeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit. If he was driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road? Ans: 15 kmph

3. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east. How far is A from his starting point? Ans: 13 kms

4. A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank. How far will the car travel with 1/3 filled tank?Ans: 5 kms

5. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number?Ans: 35

6. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three pencils, three pens and three erasers cost? Ans: 27

7. Fathers age is 5 times his son’s age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than son. Find the fathers’ present age.Ans: 40 years

8. What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the ratio17 : 24 so that it becomes equal to 1 : 2 ?Ans: 10 should be subtracted

9. What is the 12th term of the series 2, 5, 8, ….Ans: 35

10. If 20 men take 15 days to to complete a job, in how many days can 25 men finish that work?Ans: 12 days

11. In a fraction, if 1 is added to both the numerator at the denominator, the fraction becomes 1/2. If numerator is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the fraction.Ans. 3/7

12. If Rs.1260 is divided between between A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4, what is C’s share?Ans: Rs. 560

13. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit percentage?Ans: 25%

14. What percent of 60 is 12?Ans: 20%

15. Hansie made the following amounts in seven games of cricket in India: Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.21, Rs.12, Rs.18, Rs.19 and Rs.17(all figures in crores of course).Find his average earnings. Ans: Rs.16 crore

16. If two pencils cost 8 cents, then how much do 5 pencils cost?Ans: 20 cents

17. Some work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them can do this work alone in 40 minutes. How much time does the second person take to do the same work ? Ans: 60 minutes

18. A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip.If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming, what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back? Ans: 2 gallons

19. The lowest temperature in the night in a city A is 1/3 more than 1/2 the highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the highest temperature is 100 degrees. Then what is the low temp? Ans: 40 degrees

20. Javagal, who decided to go to weekened trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. The average speed of forward journey is 40 miles/hr.Due to traffic on sundays, the return journey’s average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot? Ans: 120 miles

21. A salesperson by mistake multiplied a number and got the answer as 3, instead of dividing the number by 3.What is the answer he should have actually got?Ans: 3

22. A building with height D shadow upto G. What is the height of a neighbouring building with a shadow of C feet.Ans: (C*D)/G

23. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph. Another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit.Ans: 15 mph

24 A bus started from bus stand at 8.00am, and after staying for 30 minutes at a destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. During the return journey bus travels with 50% faster speed. At what time does it return to the bus stand? Ans: 11.00am

25. In a mixture, R is 2 parts and S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25% of the mixture, how much of R is to be added? Ans: One part of R

26. Wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for travelling 80 miles how much time does it require? Ans: 2 hrs 45 mins

27. With a 4/5 full tank a vehicle can travel 12 miles, how far can it travel with a 1/3 full tank

Ans: 5 miles

28. There are two trees in a lawn. One grows at a rate 3/5 of the other in 4 years. If the total growth of trees is 8 ft. What is the height of the smaller tree after 2 years Ans: 1 1/2 feet

29. Refer to the figure below. A ship started from P and moves at a speed of I miles per hour and another ship starts from L and moving with H miles per hour simultaneously .Where do the two ships meet?||—g—||—h—||—i—||—j—||—k—||—l—|| PG H I J K L are the various stops in between denoted by || . The values g, h, i, j, k, l denote the distance between the ports. Ans: Between I and J, closer to J

30. If A is travelling at 72 km per hour on a highway. B is travelling at a speed of 25 meters per second on a highway. What is the difference in their speeds in m/sec. Ans: 1 m/sec

31. If the word ‘ddosszm’ is changed to ‘central’ then what will be the change for ‘rtjbl’ ? Ans: quick

32. The word unimpressive was given.they asked us to do change 1st & 2nd,3rd & 4th,so on.then they asked what will be 10th letter from right? Ans: m

33. The ques on a man,a woman and a boy finish work together in 6 days.man takes 10 days,woman takes 24 days then how much boy will take? Ans: 40 days

34. If DDMUQZM is coded as CENTRAL then RBDJK can be coded as ——— Ans: QCEIL

35. In the word ECONOMETRICS, if the first and second , third and forth ,forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right?Ans: word is CENOMOTEIRSC tenth word is R

36. Find the physical quantity in units from the equation: (Force*Distance)/(Velocity*Velocity)Ans: Ns2/m

37. Find the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes “square” and + denotes “square root”.Ans: 621

38. If f(0)=1 and f(n)= f(n-1)*n, find the value of f(4).Ans: 24

Test Paper :8

Paper Type : Aptitude - General Test Date : 22 December 2010 Test Location : VSB Engineering College, Karur Posted By : Niranjan

1. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 2. (1/3) of a number is 5 more than the (1/6) of the same number?a) 6 b)36 c)30 d)72 3. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely?a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6 4. Leena cut small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 10 cm, width 3 cm and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes oes she need to make a perfect cube?a) 910 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650 5. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 26 blue, 30 red, and 56 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? 6. 10 men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibility that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa?a) 22 b) 20 c) 10 d) none





11. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05

12. A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is?a) North b) South c) East d) West

13. In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21.

14. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

15. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ‘Which statements are true and which are false?a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

16. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can?a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1

17. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25

18. How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?a) 57 b) 56 c) 59 d) 58

19. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.

The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 3 b) 5 c) 2 d) 1Ans: 5

20. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192Ans: 192

21. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 1 b) 3 c) 4 d) 0

22. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5Ans: 37.80

23. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed?a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60

24. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20

25. Alice nd Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the

gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then

a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move.d) Alice has no winning strategy.

26. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3Ans: 5/9

27. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa)12 b)11 c)13 d)18Ans: 18

28. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?

a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

29. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability isa)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4

30. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25

31. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.

And rest I don't remember but similar 100% accuracy is more essential.

I attended 27 and all were right.

Test Paper :9

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 3 December 2010 Test Location : SRM University, Chennai Posted By : Rajeev

1. A Roman was born the first day of the 35th year before Christ and died the first day of the 35th year after Christ. How many years did he live? (a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 72 2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres long. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the speed of the dog in Km/hr? (a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5 3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, then 48 miles directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) from T to R? (a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500 5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was very interested in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the north and reached the north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear for an 1 hour to the east with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south and reached his laboratory in 2 hours. What was the colour of the bear? (a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue 6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate of 850 g per head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement? (a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700 7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business prospered and they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did they have in all at the end of eighteen years? (a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000 8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daughter receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive? (a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700

9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning. (a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288 10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer? (a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000 11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering? (a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19 12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. find the age of seventh person? (a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45 13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31 (a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35 14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 6 15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? (a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15 16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25 17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence. (a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46 18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. Each round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each reading spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spots donot have atleast a single reader. (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) None 19. Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played?

(a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255 20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B.( At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? (a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs 21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? (a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph 22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have introduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how many ways he can select? (a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58 23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there? (a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208 24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work? (a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18 25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand. (a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m 26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 apple costs Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples? (a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25 27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage. (a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30% 28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train? (a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m 29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary? (a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900 30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010 (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday 3 31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a way that the vowels always come together? (a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040 32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players

is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team? (a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these 33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together? (a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16 34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number? (a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360 35. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. The duration of the flight is: (a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours

Test Paper :10

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 3 December 2010 Test Location : SRM University, Chennai Posted By : Harsha Vardhan

QUANTITATIVE/APTITUDE TEST (35 questions, 60 minutes)

Note: 1 mark will be deducted for every 3 wrong answers

1. A Roman was born the first day of the 35th year before Christ and died the first day of the 35th year after Christ. How many years did he live?

(a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 722. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at

an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres long. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the speed of the dog in Km/hr?

(a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5

3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race?

(a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54

4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, then 48 miles directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) from T to R?

(a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500

5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was very interested in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the north and reached the north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear for an 1 hour to the east with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south and reached his laboratory in 2 hours. What was the colour of the bear?

(a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue

6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate of 850 g per head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement?

(a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700

7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business prospered and they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did they have in all at the end of eighteen years?

(a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000

8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daughter receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive?

(a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700

9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning.

(a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288

10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer?

(a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000

11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?

(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19

12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. find the age of seventh person?

(a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45

13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31

(a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35 14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?

a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6

15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?

(a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15

16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25

17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence.

(a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46

18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. Each round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each reading spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spots donot have atleast a single reader.

(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) None

19. Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played?

a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255

20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B.( At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs

21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?

a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph

22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have introduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how many ways he can select?

(a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58

23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there?

(a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208

24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?

(a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18

25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand.

(a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m

26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 apple costs Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples?

(a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25

27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage.

(a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30%

28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train?

(a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m

29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary?(a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900

30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010

(a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday

31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a way that the vowels always come together?

(a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040

32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team?

(a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these

33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together ?

(a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16

34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number?

(a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 36035. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average

speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. The duration of the flight is:

(a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours

Test Paper :11

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 26 November 2010 Test Location : SRM University, Chennai Posted By : Murali Krishna Ayenampudi

Contributor name: Ayenampudi Murali KrishnaCompany Name: TCSStatus: Selected Venue: SRM University,Chennai Placement Date: 26/11/2010.

Hi Friends first of all thanks for Freshersworld.com, placementpaper.net, my classmates and Karthikeyan supporting me in getting placed in TCS.

Selection process:

1) Written test 2) Technical cum HR interview.

Written Test:

Written test consists of 35 questions 80 mins, previously it is 60 mins but now time they increased 20 mins. It is a online test.

Preparation: Up to my knowledge questions for written test is always from previous papers.so first of all solve below patterns mostly all these patterns and 19 November 2010, RVRJC College of Engineering, Guntur paper which is posted in freshersworld are repeated in written test and try previous papers given by various users in freshersworld.com and prepare quantitative aptitude by R.S Aggarwal.

Pattern 1:

1. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number?a) 6 b)7 c)8 d)9

Solution:Let the number be x,((1/2)*x)=3+(1/6)*x,Then solve x





Pattern 2:

1. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required to fill it completely?a) 26 B)25 c)5 d)27

Solution: for every hour water in tank in B is doubled,Let the duration to fill the tank B is x hours.x/32 part of water in tank of B is filled in 21 hours,Next hour it is doubled so,2*(x/32) part i.e (x/16) part is filled in 22 hours,Similarly (x/8)th part in 23 hours,(x/4)th part is filled in 24 hours,(x/2)th part is filled in 25 hours, (x)th part is filled in 26 hoursSo answer is 26 hours.

2. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely?a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6

3. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40,80, 160…..in tank B. 1/8 th of the

tank B is filled in 22 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully?a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27

4. A tank is filled with water. In first hour 10 liters, second hours 20 liters, and third hour 40 liters and so on. If time taken to fill ¼ of the tank if 5 hours. What is the time taken to fill up the tank?a) 5 B) 8 c) 7 d) 12.5

5. If a tank A can be filled within 10 hours and tank B can be filled ¼ in 19 hours then, what is the time taken to fill up the tank completely?a) 21 B) 38 c) 57 d) 76

Pattern 3:

1. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person?a) 43 b) 69 c) 52 d) 31

Solution:Total age of 6 persons is x hours,after two years total age of 6 persons is x+12Average age of 6 persons is after two years is 43So (x+12)/6=43,then solve x,After 7th person is added then (x+7th person age)/7=45So we will get 7th person age easily

2. In a market 4 men are standing. The average age of the four before 4years is 45, after some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average age of all?a) 43 b) 45 c) 47 d) 49

3. In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person?a) 25 b)20 c)45 d)30

4. In a market 4 men are standing .The average age of the four before 2 years is 55, after some days one man is added and his age is 45. What is the average age of all?a) 55 b) 54.5 c) 54.6 d) 54.7

Pattern 4:1. In the reading room of a library, there are 23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a single reader?a) 8 b) none c) 16 d) 15

Solution: 23 reading spots, Each reading spot consists of 9 chairs placed around it so There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers.For each table different no of persons are sat,so for first table 1 person is sit,2nd table 2 persons are sit 36readers means(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 so 8 tables are filled so 23-8=15 reading spots does not have single reader.

2. In the reading room of a library, there are 10 tables, 4 chairs per table. In each table there are different numbers of people seated. How many tables will be left out without at least 1 person?a) 8 b) 6 c) 2 d) 7

3. In the reading room of a library, there are 10 tables, 4 chairs per table. In each table there are different numbers of people seated. How many ways they will sit in the library so that no chair would be blank?a) 8 b) 6 c) 2 d) 7

Pattern 5:1. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph

Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y)

2. A man travels from A to B at 4 mph over a certain journey and returns over the same route to A, at 5 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?a) 4.44 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4.887 mph d)5 mph

3. A person is rock climbing at an altitude of 800 m. He go up by 7 mph. and come down by 9 mph. what was his average speed?a) 7.875 mph b) 7.125 mph c) 7mph d) 7.5 mph

4. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m?a) 28.8 mph b) 27.8 mph c) 27.5mph d) 30 mph

5. Person travels to a hill, if he goes from A to B with speed of 4kmph and returns back to B with speed of 5kmph. What is his average speed of journey?a) 4.5kmph b) 4.44kmph c) 9kmph d) 4.245kmph

6. A man travels from A to B at 70 mph over a certain journey and returns over the same route to A, at 80 mph. What is his average speed for the journey?a) 74.66 b)75 c)74.33 d)74.99

7. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m.a) 28.8 b)28 c)27 d)28.6

Pattern 6:

1. Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block ,3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block?a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71

Solution: I do not know perfectly but I got some solutions from internet I do not know correctly whether it is tru e or not,((3*9*5))-((3-2)*(9-2)*(5-2)) so answer is 114.

2. A boy wants to make cuboids of dimension 5m, 6m and 7m from small cubes of .03 m3.

Later he realized he can make same cuboids by making it hollow. Then it takes some cubes less. What is the number of the cubes to be removed?a) 2000 b) 5000 c) 3000 d) 7000

3. Smita was making a cube with dimensions 5*5*5 using 1*1*1 cubes. What is the number of cubes needed to make a hollow cube looking of the same shape?a) 98 b) 104 c) 100 d) 61

4. Leena cut small cubes of 10 cm dimension each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 100 cm, width 50 cm and depth 50 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a perfect cube?a) 500 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650

5. Leena cut small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 10 cm, width 3 cm and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a perfect cube?a) 910 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650

6. A lady builds 9cm length, 10cm width,3cm height box using 1 cubic cm cubes. What is the minimum number of cubes required to build the box?a) 730 b) 270 c) 720 d) 310

Pattern 8:

1. (40*40*40 – 31*31*31)/(40*40+40*31+31*31)=?a)8 b)9 c)71 d)51Solution:a3 -b3 =(a-b)*(a2+a*b+b2) so from this formula we will find (a-b) value

2. (98*98*98 – 73*73*73)/( 98*98*98 – 73*73*73)=?a).171 b).4 c).420 d).415

3. (209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144) = ?a)905863729 b)905368729 c)905729368 d)65

Pattern 9:

1. ((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2 a)8 b)none c)16 d)15

Solution: substitute x=4y in above we can find solution

2. x/2y = 2a,then 2x/x-2ay=?a)4 b)8 c)16 d)2

3. 3X/5Y = 5Y/3X…..Find the value of X/Ya)3/5 b)5/3 c)2/5 d)5/2

4. What is the value of (3X+8Y)/(X-2Y), if X/2Y=2a)8 b)none c)10 d)13

5. (4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2a)48/5 b)46/5 c)47/5 d)49/5

6. ((4x+2y)/(4x-2y)= ? as (x/2y) = 2a)8/7 b)9/7 c)11/7 d)6/7

Pattern 10:

1. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings?a) 16 b) 56 c) 112 d) 28

Solution: 8c2



Pattern 11:

1. 3, 22, 7, 45, 15,? , 31a) 91 b)151 c) 90 d) 5

2. 8 6 17 14 35 31 75 _ 143?

3. Inspired by Fibonacci series Sangeet decided to create his own series which is 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 22, 15, 67, 31, _, 63?a) 202 b) 31 c) 76 d) 49

4. 3, 12, 7, 26, 15, ?a) 54 b) 27 c) 108 d) 31

5. 1! + 2! + ……. + 50!=?a)3.1035*10^64 b)2.1021*10^65 c)3.1035*10^63 d)3.1035*10^62

6. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, _, 32?

7. 5, 9, 12, 18, 26, 36, 47, 72, _?a) 75 b) 135 c) 100 d) 55

8. 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161a) 17 b) 34 c) 54 d) 112

Pattern 12:

1. Simple question but big one on average age.sth like a, b, c weighted separately 1st a, b, c ,then a& b, then b & c ,then c & a at last abc, the last weight was 167,then what will be the average weight of the 7 reading?a) 95 b) 95.428 c) 95.45 d) 94

Solution: Last weight abc is 167i.e three persons weight is 167 .in first 6 combinations a,b,c,ab,bc,ac i.e a checked weight for 3 times totally like that band c also so total weight in all 7 combinations is (4*167)Average is (668/7)=95.42

Pattern 13:

1. A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only 2 different tunes at random. What are the odds that the train produces for consecutive music

tones of the same type?a) 1 in 16 B) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 8 d) 1 in 32

Solution: Initially it produces 10 sounds and the defect came and now it produces only 2 different sounds and consecutively so there are totally 2 sounds and we have to select on sound and the probability is ½ and it produces the same sound concecutively for 2 times so the probability becomes ½*1/2 ie ¼

2. A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area at random. What are the odds that five consecutive cars of same color will come through the test area at any one time?a) 1 in 16 b) 1 in 125 c) 1 in 32 d) 1 in 25Pattern 15:


Solution:add all sides 25+11+31 to get rope length rope length =67,rope is made in to as square So side of square is 67/4=16.75 and so area is 16.75*16.75=280.5625


Pattern 16:

1. What is the distance between the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0

Solution:intercept form equation

2. What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).

Pattern 17:

1. A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he travelled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear?

a) White b) Black c) Gray d) BrownSolution is: White. above all the matter is nonsense

Pattern 18:

1. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boysa)1/64 b)1/32 c)1/128 d)1/256

Pattern 19:

1. Usha bought a linen cloth and rope to build a tent. If the rope is 153 m long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1m length, then how many cuts are to be made to cut the ropes into 153 pieces?a)153 b)152 c)154 d)155 Solution:to make it 153 pieces we have to cut 152 times so obviously after last cut we got 153rd piece


Solution: 146 pieces means 145 cuts so for each cut it takes 4 seconds means total time 145*4=580


Pattern 20:

1. Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up. The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month?a) $27 b) $18 c) $45 d) $486

Solution: See last 3 lines only answer is 45-27=18

Pattern 21:

1. A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?

Solution: here we cannot consider depreciation or decay of item accto answer so go acc to answerTotally 5+10=15$profit

Pattern 22:

1. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?a)loss 23 b)gain 23 c)gain 54 d)Loss 54

Solution: Loss= Change of money given to john(4$)+actual cycle cost 19$=23$ loss

Pattern 23:

1. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if

it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42Solution: I am not able to answer this if i go in procedure way so search in net by searching question. Better see below website

http://www.m4maths.com/placement-puzzles.php?

My answered questions may be answered there.





Pattern 24:

1. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that coin shows correct option?a)1/2 b)1/6 c)1/12 d)6/10

Solution is ½. 2. There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is headc) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.

Pattern 25:1. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?a) 4 boys and 3 girls b) 3 boys and 4 girls c) 2 boys and 5 girls d) 5 boys and 2 girls

Pattern 26:

1. 10 men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibility that 2

men are dancing with same women and vice versa?a) 22 b) 20 c) 10 d) none

2. There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’sb) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of mena) both a and b b)only a c)only b d)none

Pattern 27:

1. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played?a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Solution: Do not know perfect logic 28


Pattern 28:

1. Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?

2. A, B, C, D, E are there among A, B, C are boys and D, E are girls D is to the left of A and no girl sits at the middle and at the extemes. Then what is the order of their sittings.

Pattern 29:


Solution: For handshakes type question i am confirming you that if the there are n members are thereHandshakes are given in linear manner =n-1(last person cannot give hand shake to first person)Handshakes are given in cyclic manner =n(last person can give hand shake to first person)But i do not know perfectly for repetition it is nc2


Pattern 30:

1. B is taller than j and 3 pillars. P is shorter than B and 2 pillars is j shorter/taller than P?a) yes b) no c) may be d) can’t find

2. There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Juliac) Chelsea is shorter than Juliad) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia

Pattern 31:

1. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7 Solution: in btech we studied 8 4 2 1 code for binary system in digital logic proceed in that way for answer it is 16 8 4 2 1 if u add all we will get 31 so 5 coins required

Pattern 32:

1. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?a) 8 b) 20 c) 16 d) 15

Pattern 33:


2. 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence.

a) 45 b) 9 c) 12 d) 10

Pattern 34:

1. If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 20 two wheelers parked there

a) 48 b) 50 c) 52 d) 64

Solution: Proceed with answer is best in question they will give total no of wheels

2. If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 58 wheels are parked therea)10 b) 33 c) 22 d) none

Pattern 35:

1. A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named John, Jill, jack. He went to a park weekly twice. He loves his sons very much. On a certain day he found the shop keepers selling different things. An apple cost 1penny, 2chocalate costs 1penny & 3 bananas cost 1 penny. He has bought equal number of apple, chocolate & banana for each son. If the total amount he invest is 7 penny then how many he has bought from each piece for his son?a) 1app, 1cho, 1 banana b)1 app, 2cho,3 banana c)1app, 2cho, 1banana

2. One person had three children. He had 7 pennies. Find the distribution of the fruits among the three children. A melon costs 1 penny, 2 oranges cost 1 penny and 3 grapes cost 1 pennya)2 melons, 1 orange, 1 grape b) 2 melons, 2 orange, 1 grape c) 1 melons, 2 orange, 1 grape.

Pattern 36:

1) The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 55. Then after how many years their ratio will become 8:7?a) 11 b) 7 c) 10 d) 12Solution: 6x+5x=55, so x=5, put first ratio after substitution is (6*5)/(5*5) and second ratio is 40/35 So difference in numerators 40-30=10 years

2)The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 66. Then after how many years their ratio will become 7:6?a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 12


Pattern 37:

1) A volume of 10936 l water is in a container of sphere. How many semisphere of volume 4l each will be required to tranfer all the water into the small semispheres?a) 2812 b) 8231 c) 2734 d) 4222

Pattern 38:

1) A person ismanufacturing a house. He bought 20 ropes of wire which has a density of 300 Kg/m3. The height of the building to be constructed is 40 m. If the capacity of the current passed in the wire is 20 A and the voltage capacity is 80 Volts. Then what will be the opposing force to the current if the wire is used?a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 1600 Solution: ohms law V=IR, Opposing force of current is resistance, R=v/i

Pattern 39:

1) A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs.Horse takes 3 hours to reach the pony.If the average speed of the horse is 81Kmph.Then what is the average speed of the pony?a) 46.4 b) 51 c) 53.4 d) 48.6

Solution: Horse takes 3 hours to cover the distancePony takes 3+2 =5 hours to cover the same distance, Velocity=distance/time, distance travelled by them is equal it is 81*3=243km, speed of pony=243/5=48.6

3) A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what is the average speed of the ponyPattern 40:

1)The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14.What is the square of their sum?a) 120 b) 130 c) 137 d) 145

Solution: a-b=9, ab=14, (a-b)2=a2+b2-2*a*b

2) The sum of two no is 5 and the product of the two is 14.What is the sum of their squares?

3) The sum of the squares of two no is 12 and their sum is 15.Find the product of the two no?

Pattern 41:

1) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05

Solution: radius =7mm, then diameter 2*radius, substitude diameter the in above equation you will get answer

Pattern 42:

1) A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is?a) North b) South c) East d) West

Pattern 43:

1) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21.

Solution: You have to count and answer but be prepare with answer


3) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100. Then how many 1’s will be present

in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21

4) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 0’s will be present in the numbers?a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 11

Pattern 44:

1) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21. What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D?a) 13 b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42

Pattern 45:

1) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Solution: Speed of Ferrari =4*35=140,time=distance/velocity,


Pattern 46:

1) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ‘Which statements are true and which are false?a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Pattern 47:

1) A man goes north 37km.turns left goes 2km.turns right goes 17km.turns right goes 2km. find distance b/w starting ending point.a) 54 b) 27 c) 81 d) 67

Pattern 48:

1) If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die

within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can?a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1

Pattern 49:

1) If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b and c are mixed in 8:5 ration if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?A) 13.34 b) 15.73 c) 16.73 d) 9.45

Solution: Solve for a:b:c,then b ratio is b/(a+b+c)*35

Pattern 50:

1) If we subtract a number with y, we get 4 increase of number, once it got divided by y itself... Find that number??A) 13 b) 12 c) 14 d) 11

Pattern 51:

1) It is the class with the seating arrangement in 4 rows and 8 columns. When the teacher says 'start' the girl who is sitting in first row and first column will say 1, then the next girl sitting behind her will say 4, the next girl sitting behind that girl will say 7, in a particular order each girl is telling a number, the following girls told 10, 13 next turn is yours what u will say?a) 15 b) 17 c) 14 d) 16

Solution: It is a series 1, 4, 7, 10, 13.

Pattern 52:

1) It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color?a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25

2) Lady has 2 select gloves & hat from a basket. In the dark, she can distinguish hat & gloves. 14 red, 20 blue, 18 green are there. Find probability that any selected glove pair has same color. 3) A lady had fine gloves and hats. 25 blue, 7 red and 9 gey. She had to select a pair among them. But there was no light so she had to select in darkness the correct pair with a glove and a hat. Therefore how many combinations of same color she can select? Pattern 53: 1) If the Valentine’s Day in 2005 falls on Monday, then on which day will the Valentine’s Day fall on 2010?A) Saturday b) Thursday c) Wednesday d) Sunday Pattern 54: 1. A person run from A to B.He took ¼ of the time less to reach B when compare to run at normal Speed.Then how many percentage he has increased his speed?a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2

Solution: i do not know perfectly but i have simple logic,1-(1/4)=(3/4),then reverse it so it is 4/3=1.333,1.33-1=33.33 like this

2. An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2

Pattern 55:

1. In a building there are 5 rooms.Each having a equal area .The length of the room is 4m and breadht is 5 m.The height of the rooms are 2m. If 17 bricks are needed to make a square meter then how many bricks are needed to make the floor of a particular room?a) 320 b) 380 c) 340 d) 300

Solution: area of the room is length*breadth=4*5=20m2, For one square meter it takes 17 bricks, For 20m2 total no of bricks are 17*20=340,

Pattern 56:

1. One man want to build a wall .The length and breadth of the wall are 20 and 30 respectively. He need 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he need?a) 21,500 b) 30,000 c) 21,000 d) 20,000

Pattern 57:

1. In a hotel we can order two types of varities, but we can make 6 more variteis in home. One can choose the four varities with two from hotel as must. Find how many ways one can order.a) 14 b) 15 c) 56 d) 28

Pattern 58:

1. If a pipe can fill the tank within 6hrs.But due to leak it takes 30 min more. Now the tank is full then how much time will it take to empty the tank throught the leak?a) 78 b) 56 c) 66 d) 59

Pattern 59:

1. The bacteria has the probability of split into 3 and probability to die is 1/3rd of the total bacteria.Let the probability is P.Some of them survived with probability 1/5.Then which among the following relation is true?a)P=1/3+1/5*3 b)P=1/5*(1/8-3)

2. There is a bacteria which has the probability of die 1/3 of its total number or it may tripled. Find out the probabilityA. P=1/3+(2/3*p^3) B. P=2/3+(2/3*p^3) C. P=2/3+(1/3*p^3) D P=2/3+(2/3*p^3)

Pattern 60:

1. There was a grand mother in a village who had a grand child.Upon asking her grand childs age she told that she is as older as many days old as her daughters age in weeks and as many days as her own age in years.The sum of the three is 130.then how old is the child.?

Pattern 61:

1) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers?a)18 b)19 c)20 d)21


Pattern 62: 1) Amrith told to Anand in front of a Photo that “He is the son of my father’s son”.Find who is in the picture if amrith have no brothers and sisters.a) Amrith himself b) Amrith’s Uncle c) Amrith’s Father d) Amrith’s son

2) One person has no siblings and says,” the guy in the photo is the only son of my father ‘s son”. What is the relation of the guy to the person?

Pattern 63:

1) One grand father has 3 grand children two of the age difference is 3.Eldest child age is 3 times the youngest childs age and the eldest child age is two year more than the sum of other two children. Find what is the age of the elders child?a) 18 b) 22 c) 30 d) 10.

Solution: there are 3 childs,let the age of younger be x,elder be 3x,so the middle one be m,3x=2+x+m,then we have a-b=3 or b-c=3,or a-c=3, then for answer we have to go via options, substitute that in above equations



Pattern 64: 1) In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in the 8th subject. what is the average of all the subject?a) 76.251 b) 80.25 c) 74.265 d) 74.625Solution: Total marks=74*7=518, then average=(518+79)/8=74.625

Pattern 65: 1) 3 persons a,b,c were there A always says truth,B lies on Monday,tusday,& Wednesday.but C lies on thrusday,Friday & saturday .one day A said”that B & C said to A that” B said “yesterday way one of the days when I lies”,C said that”yesterday way one of the days when I lies too”.then which day was that? a) Sunday b) Thursday c) Saturday d) Tuesday

Pattern 66:

1) Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?a) 4 b) 9 c) 3 d) 5

Solution: For answer solve via options

Pattern 67: 1) How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?a)57 b)56 c)59 d)58

2) how many 13 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if repetition of digits is allowed?

3) By using 1,2,3,4,5,how many 5 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4,repetation of no. is allowed??

4) Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4? 5) How many of 14 digit numbers we can make with 1,2,3,4,5 that are divisible by 4. Repetitions allowed. Pattern 68:1) Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of the following statement holds now?a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblersb) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumblerc) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumblerd)None of the statements holds true

Solution: Think wisely and answer these are asked in my paper 2 or 3 questions


Pattern 69: 1) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often – 8,9 or 10?a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

Solution: Calculate how many times 8,9,10 will come when we throw 2 dice, and answer

Pattern 70:

Q1. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.

The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1Ans: 5

For below questions, answers i am not sure whether they are correct or not you have to solve urself

Q2. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192Ans: 192

Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9)


Q4. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5Ans: 37.80

Q5. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed?a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60

Solution:(men*time)/work)Ans: 10



Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20


Q7. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then


Q8. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3Ans: 5/9

Q9. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa)12 b)11 c)13 d)18Ans: 18

Q10. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12

Ans: b



Ans:c

Q12. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability isa)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4 Ans: 14/19

Q13. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25Ans: d

Q14. 9. A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of winning?

a) 3 red and 3 blue faces b) 2 red and remaining bluec) 6 red and 0 blue d) 4 red and remaining blueAns: a

Q15. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter?

a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21Ans: 16




a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.

b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn.c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.d) Alok has no winning strategy.Ans: d

Q18. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10, 20, 40, 80. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns: 23

Q19. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y).




Q23. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 cashew is 1 cent. If father buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will get?

Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew

Q24. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there

Ans: For this question answer is deduced from the options.

Q25. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?

a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) SundayAns: a

Interview:Then coming to interview my interview is fine i am from M.Tech, power electronics and drives

In my college for non IT branches separate technical panel came.For M.tech power electronics and drives and power systems one technical guy came and interviewd us. But he took around 45 min or more for each person. For me my interview gone for around 45 min. Mainly they asked questions on electrical only not on C, C++, Java

Mainly i told to him about my project both B.Tech and M.Tech answer some HR questions like tell me about yourself, why you came to software, tell me about TCS, why you had taken power electronics, if i reject you what will you do, can you relocate your self, some applications of our branch ie power electronics and some day to day applications in it and some basic electrical questions like kirchoffs laws, ohms law, motor principle, generator principle, why transformer is used. What are the recent trends in power electronics

Thats it

All the best and see you in TCS.

Test Paper :12

Paper Type : Aptitude - Numerical Test Date : 19 November 2010 Test Location : RVRJC College of Engineering, Guntur. Posted By : Anusha

Hi Friends,

I am Anusha, from RVR&JC Guntur. TCS came to our college on 19-10-2010. They conduct selection process per each round. There is 4 rounds

1) Aptitude test.2) Technical round3) MR4) HR

Before going to the TCS Aptitude test please write the mock tests which are provided by the TCS it gives boost to you.

For the Aptitude prepare the R.S. Aggarwal & Freshersworld.com TCS model papers.For Technical round be aware of basic funds of your core subjects and C, C++.If you crack the both aptitude & Technical round you are 75% selected.In MR they give any context situation how can you resolve it and also little much knowledge about current affairs thats enough.In HR prepare the interview Questions.Be confident in all the rounds. Don't be tenz the HRs are very cool & friendly.

Aptitude test:(35 Questions, 80 mins, online test)

Q1. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

a)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1Ans: 5

Q2. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8.

A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192Ans: 192Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9)


Q4. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?

a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5Ans: 37.80

Q5. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed?

a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60Ans: 10



Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be

a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20


Q7. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then


Q8. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?

a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3Ans: 5/9

Q9. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is

a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18Ans: 18

Q10. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12

Ans: b



Ans:c

Q12. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is

a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4 Ans: 14/19

Q13. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?

a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25Ans: d

Q14. 9. A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of winning?


Q15. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter?

a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21Ans: 16





Q18. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns: 23

Q19. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an

altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y).




Q23. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 cashew is 1 cent. If father buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will get?

Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew

Q24. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there

Ans: For this question answer is deduced from the options.

Q25. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?

a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) SundayAns: a

I attempted 28Q but i don't recollect it now.My Hartful Thanks to Freshersworld.com. It helps me alot during the preparation of TCS placements.I crack my interview in our college 245 members are selected i am one of them. Best of luck to every one.

Thank you!

Test Paper :13

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 1 November 2010 Test Location : Techno India Campus, Salt Lake, Kolkatta Posted By : Bhabani Sankar Swain

Name: Bhabani Sankar SwainStream: Electronics and TelecommunicationCollege: Eastern Academy Of Science & Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Session: 2006-2010 Email id: [email protected]: Selected

These are my details. You can contact me for any assistance. I will be pleased to help you.

My Experience: From my childhood I have believed one proverb “HARDWORK NEVER GOES UNREWARDED”. Thats the secret of my success. Friends don’t loose hope until u get selected. Before TCS I attained almost 9-10 companies but I was deducted from final round. It was my bad luck that I was deducted from final round but I never loosed hope and concentrated on studies how to make the next one more successful. I was in search of a company that will give me 100% job satisfaction. Finally I found TCS as my destination.

Test location: Techno India Campus, Salt Lake, KolkattaTest Date: 1st Nov, 2010

Around 1000 students attained the TCS drive in different batches. The first batch started at 9 am. I attained the driveat 2 pm. It was 4th batch. I attained 27 questions. From my batch only 3 candidates out of 200 were selected. I was one of them. From 1000 students only 26 students qualified the written test.Campus Type:- off-campus It's the new pattern, contain 35 questions.

In this drive cut-off mark varied according to our batch .in my batch cut off was around 22. In some other batches cut off was around 17 also. Actually Target of TCS is to retrieve best students from each batch.

1/3 negative marks there.So answer only the correct answer.

Don’t do guess, it's interesting paper. I like to solve it, i think real talent will be selected now, it's suitable for good student. This time most of the questions were changed but concept was same as it was before. If you will refer fresherworld.com questions it will definitely help you.

Details of the Process:

It's the new pattern, contain 35 questions.Cut off near about 18.1/3 negative marks there.So answer only the correct answer.

Don’t do guess, it's interesting paper. I like to solve it, i think real talent will be selected now, it's suitable for good student.

Some questions that remembered.

1) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hours ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hour, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After travelling 6 hrs, 2 hours after sunset it got dog. Compute the speed of dog?Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,

Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hrAns: 16.5km/hr.

2) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) MI mosaic and Woody4) MI mosaic and Lilac

3) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbour and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?

Ans: Is 23(cost price 19 + change given 4).

4) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round

Ans: Is 28.

5) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will you divide 31p so that you will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?

a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32

Ans: Is 6

6) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. Probability is 1 that of all are boys out of?

a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024

Ans:1024


Ans: Second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

8) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Ans: b

9) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Ans: d

10) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played?a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Ans: b

11) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 black. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42

Ans:50

12) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first

turn.c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.d) Alok has no winning strategy.

13) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?

a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is headc) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer.

14) Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he took?a) 8 b)4 c) 7 d) 7.33

(Options may be different)

15) In an exam there are total 12 questions. From the first 4 questions a student has to answer 2 questions which are compulsory. And he has to answer 5 from the rest. In how many ways he can answer questions.Ans: 4c2*8c5 ( it is combination problem)

16) A gun has a nozzle velocity 330 mt/sec. It has to meet a target which is at a distance 5km. It retards at a rate of 8 mt/sec/sec while travelling in air. Find the velocity at a place where the bullet will meet the target.Ans: You=330mt/sec s=5km=5000mt apply formula v2=u2-2as V=?

17) For school children a software was designed.\In that \software one monkey has to choose balloons. If a monkey chooses 2 at a time and continues picking then 1 baloon is left. If it picks 5 at a time then the remaining is zero,if it picks 6 at a time then remaining is 3. What is the total number of balloons?

a) 72 b) 75 c) 79) d) 80

Ans: 75 ( Just devide the choosing patten in the number and check whether you are getting the remainder as the remaining value). If it chooses 6 at a time and continues then 75-(12*6)=3 which satisfies the condition

18) There are two statements. There is also a question. Choose 1 if the question can be answered by using either one. Choose 2 if the question can be answered using both the statements. Choose 3 if the question can not be answered using these two statements

Statement1: Avinash spends 30% on house rent, 20% on children’s education,40% on foodsStatement 2: Pritam spends 20% on house rent, 45% on children’s education,20% on foodQuestion: If pritam spends more than avinash on foods who spends more on children’s education?

The question can be answered by

a) 1 b) 2 c)3 Ans: c

19) A hollow space on earth surface is to be filled. Total cost of filling is Rs20000. The cost of filling per mt3 is Rs 225 .how many times a size of 3 mt3 soil is required to fill the hollow space?Ans: 20000/225=88.88

88.88/3=29.62

So 30 times of 3 mt3 is required to fill the space completely

20) There are different things like p,q,r,s,t,u,v. We can take p and q together. If r and s are taken together then t must has to be taken. u and v can be taken together.v can be taken with p or s. every thing can be taken together excepta)p b)t c)v d)s

Ans: t

21) New town is straight to the north of New york. A high way M runs from newtown making an angle of 61 degree south east. from newyork there is also an high way N which runs northeast 61 degrees.if high ways M and N are straight then findout the acute angle made at their intersection point.

Ans: 180-(61+61)=58 (the high ways make a triangle the addition of 3 angles of a triangle is 180)

22) There are 7 meetings A,B,C,D,E,F,G .one meeting should happen in one day. Meeting A is on Sunday c and d meetings should happen after B. Then E ,F,G meetings should occur in three conjucutive days. And meeting g is on Saturday. Then meeting the should occur on which day?a) sun b) mon c)wed d)fri

Ans: c

23) There are 9 weights like 16,19.156.26, 106,15,24,36 (in kg). There are three persons like rohit, sameer and imran. each lifts 3 types of weights. Rohit”s total lifted weight is 2 times than the weight lifted by rohit. What is the weight lifted by imran?

Ans: Total weight=16+19+156+26+106+15+24+36=398 kgSuppose option is y kg lifted by imran(choose from option) then 3x+y=398=>x=(398-y)/3 here x should be a whole number then y is the weight lifted by imran.

Interview:

Total 26 students were shortlisted in written test and were undergone technical interview followed by HR interview at single place. Before interview everybody was given a form and they told how to fill the form). There were around 8 panels consisting 0f 2 members (1 technical member(male) and 1 HR member(female)). I filled the form and I was the last one to be interviewed AT 6 pm.

Me: Good evening mam, Good evening sirTechnical hr: Good evening, me Asutosh and handshake with me

Me: Also handshaked and told myself bhabani sankar and stood around 5 secondTechnical hr: Please sit down

Me: Sat and told thank you sirTechnical: You are from Orissa

Me: YaTechnical: How far cuttack is from your house?

Me: It is about 60 kms from cuttackTechnical: What you know except C and C++?(I wrote C and C++ as my language in CV)

Me: I know computer network and mobile communication.Technical: Ok. You know C and C++ very well?

Me: Actually I am from Electronics background. I had to give importance on my branch subjects in 4 years. as software was my dream so I was always in touch with C and C++. I know the basics of C and C++ very wellTechnical: Tell me the basic difference between C and C++Me: Told about 4 points about C and C++ and difference between them

Technical: What is header file and how it works?Me: Told confidently

Technical: Whats the work of printf()?Me: Told

Technical: Whats the work of scanf()?Me: Told

Technical: You know while and do while loop?Me: ya I know

Technical: Ok write syntax of “ for” loopMe: for(i=0;i<=0,i++) actually I forgot the semicolons between them. He help me

Technical: Can we write i+++?Me: Yes we can write it in C program but we cant write in for loop

HR: Ok if I will write simplely as for(; ;) will it show the output?Me: No I will not show as there is not any condition within brackets

HR: Why? Syantax is correct. Right? It will compile or not? Then what will be the output?Me: It will print a garbage value

HR: Where it will find a garbage valueMe: There may be previously stored garbage value

HR:Ok you know C++?Me: I know the special features of C++

HR: What is inheritance?Me: Told confidently

HR: What is polymorphism?Me: Told with confusion

HR: Give examplesMe: Unable to give

HR: What the difference between class and object?Me: Told with examples

HR: What is recursive function?Me: Sorry I dony know the detail about recursive function

HR: Ok just tell what is recursive functionMe: Told(the function that calls itself)

HR: Can you write a program to find factorial of a number using recursive function?Me: Sir, I have not prepared abt this program

HR: Which program you can write in CMe: I can swap two variables without using 3rd variable

HR: Ok write. I was trying to wrting the whole program but he told to write only the logicMe:-a=a+bb=a-ba=a-b

HR: Ok explain using a =5 b=10M: I explained

HR: You know data structure? Was it in your course?Me: Yes I kone the basics

HR: What is linked list, what is stackMe: Explained

HR: What is difference between stack and queue?Me: Explained

HR: You know Java?Me: No, I don’t know Java

HR: What other subjects you know?Me: I know compute networks

HR: Ok explain tcp/ip protocolMe: Explained

HR: What are the different types of ip addresses?Me: Told and explained

HR: What other protocols you know?Me: I couldnot remember any other protocols.

HR: Tell about peer to peer network and shared network? Difference between them?Me: Told

HR: Which other subjects you know?Me: Mobile communication

HR: Except mobile communication which subjects you know?Me: I was silent I could not remember any subjects that I am confident in.

Then technical asked the HR manager(female) to ask questions.HR: What are your weakness?Me: Told

HR: TCS is present at many centres including remote areas. Do you want to be relocated?Me: I am ready to work anywhere for TCS

HR: How you believe that you have team leading capability?Me: Told

HR: Why TCS?Me: My brother is working for a TATA Group company for last 6 years.

HR: Both HRs asked at same time why?Me: He has told me that job satisfaction is there is TATA Group of comanies and for me it is the no1 it service provider and oursourcer in India and outside world also. They were happy at this time

HR: Why should we select you?Me: Told about my strong areas and team building capability. And told them for the above reasons I feel I am the best candidate for TCS.

HR: Ok thank you so much.Me: Handshaked and told thank you so much mam.

Mean time other HR asked me “You have to take a Pakoda at least". Actually there was pokoda in the table in front of me and HR shared with me.Me: First handshake with male HR and picked one pokoda from plate and again thanked them.

HR: One more thing. Please nut the tie properly while next time) (Actually my tie was loose. I could not get any time to size my tie)Me: I smiled and thanked again to both of them and left the place

We waited around 2 hours after interview at around 8 pm they told all the 26 candidates to go to conference hall. We gathered. They gave the presentations about TCS IT infrastructures. Actually the drive was specially meant for IT infrastructure servies.

At last they told that they will send the information about confirmation about our selection through mail. We all left the place.

Next day on 2nd Oct at 6 pm I got an email that I have successfully qualified in the selection process and will receive offer letter shortly. My joys had no bounds when I got the mail. It was the happiest moment for me for ever.

Please, my friends don't think that when TCS will come you will start studies. You start preparation from today. If you need any help you can send me email. I'm read to help you all the best guys.

Test Paper :14

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 22 August 2010 Test Location : SJBIT College, Bangalore Posted By : Sunil Yadav

Hi, I am Sunil Yadav, i have done my B.Tech (2006-10) in ECE discipline from BSAITM, Faridabad. Our college is not so much good in terms of placement so most of students could not get any job from college and i was 1 of them. So I decided 2 go to Bangalore. I got my TCS hall ticket on 14th of August and on 18th August, I reached Bangalore.

There was TCS off-campus in SJBIT college on 22nd August 2010.

There was only 3 rounds: 1) Written test 2) Technical

3) HR There were around 3000 students, out of which only 700 cleard the written. Written test: It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns 21 2) In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person? 3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2

4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y) 5) Same model as 4th question. But it is on flat surface. Formula is same 2xy/(x+y). 6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are there they have to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors. In how many ways we can select?Ans: 6C2 7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find XAns: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?Ans: 4(155)/7=31 9) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )?Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32 10) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) MI mosaic and Woody4) MI mosaic and Lilac

11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in:Ans: white 14) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans is 18 15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys?a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024

16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter. Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?Ans is 2(141) =242 17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?Ans is 15 pounds 18) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?Ans is 23(cost price + change given). 19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls 20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color. 21) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is headc) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form?I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 23) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x. 24) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’sb) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men 25) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first roundAns is 28.

26) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E?Ans is B or C 27) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?Ans is 12C2

28) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Juliac) Chelsea is shorter than Juliad) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia Ans: d 29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32Ans is 6 30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of Peter?Ans is 20

31) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 26, yellow 30 and red 56. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color. 32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?(Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

33) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’?Ans: bird(parakeet)

34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri, Sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?


Ans: 18

I attempted 27 questions. Result was declared in the evening and my name was among the successful guys. I was so happy. Then they asked us 2 come on 28th Sept at 11:30 AM as it was getting late that day.

Technical:

I reached there by 11:00 on 28th. After checking our documents, we were made 2 sit in a room and asked 2 wait 4 the turn. My turn came around 7 pm and within half an hour, result was declared and again my name was in the list.

Questions asked from me and my friends are:

1)Tell me abt. urself. 2) Your project in detail nd ur role in it. 3) Yourr favourite subjects in B.Tech. Be well prepare with atleast 1. 4) OSI model nd function of each layer 5) TCP/IP model 6) Classful addressing 7) What is swapping? 8) Difference b/w linux and windows? 9) What is op-amp? 10) What is IC? 11) Which sorting technique is best? 12) What is stack? 13) WAP for factorial using recursion. 14) WAP for Armstrong no. 15) Wap for reversing a string. 16) WAP for prime no. 17) WAP for even/odd no. 18) WAP for getting Fibonacci series. 19) What is REGEDIT command? 20) What is your PC’s configuration? 21) How to do project planning? 22) Being an ECE student, why you want 2 join software industry? 23) What is the use of stdio.h, conio.h? 24) Different b/w scanf & gets? 25) Different b/w while nd do while? 26) Why capacitor allows ac nd not dc?

Only 250 cleard d technical.

HR:

After half an hour, I was called for HR Me: Good evening sir.Int: Good evening, take your seat. Me: Thank you sir. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to them)

Int: Tell me about yourself. Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my answer). Int: Tell me about. Your family background.Me: Bla Bla

Int: Tell me about your hobbies?Me: Told as cricket and internet surfing. Then he asked some questions about cricket. So be well prepare with your hobbies

Int: Why do you want to join TCS?Me: Told some strong points about TCS and he was impressed with my answer.

Int: I you are rejected today, then what will you do?Me: Told

Int: Are you having any geographical constraints (are you intended to work anywhere in the world)?Me: No sir, I am not having any geographical constraints and I’m interested to work anywhere in the world.

Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)?Me: Yes sir.

Int: Thank you.(It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results through mail within 3 week. I thought i will be selected because i was confident about my performance)

Finally, i got mail on 21st sept. Thanks to GOD, I was in TCS. Around 200 students were selected in this round.

I attended 5 companies up to now. TCS was my 6th company but I didn’t loose hope. If you have failed yet, don’t get disappointed. Losers got a chance to correct their mistakes and winners lost their chance to correct their mistakes. If you are selected, remember, you are better than those who are participated for that interview, but not the ‘Best’. I got selected in off-campus, I am very happy for that. Because, i completed with the other college students also. But those who got selected in On-campus are completed with the students of their college. Getting job in TCS is one of my great achievements in my life.

So do your home work well and keep faith in GOD.

All the best!

If you need any help related to TCS, then you can contact me on my id:

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Test Paper :15

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 29 August 2010

Test Location : Salt lake, Kolkata Posted By : Soumen Kumar Das

Hi, My name is Soumen, i have done B.Tech from MCKV Institute of Engg, which brought TCS on-campus only, no other such known IT company, i cleared aptitude, but couln't crack interview, i again try my luck in off-campus conducting by TCS in our city, again this time i cleared aptitude and waiting for final results as you can see the latest pattern from other paper posted previously, i can help by submitting the question i faced.

1) Now pet's age is to times when paul was once. But at that time paul's age=pet's current age ,how old is pet?

2) Block has 10,9,5 size, how many unit cube is needed to make a block of that size?

3) 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence.Ans-22

4) 10men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa.Ans-never

5) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 26, yellow 30 and red 56. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color

6) B is taller than j and 3 pillers. P is shorter than B and 2 pillers is j shorter/taller than P?Ans-irrelevant question

7) Sangakara and ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased so to resolve ponty takes out a coin, what is the probability that dice shows correct option.

8) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 58 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?Ans: 7

9. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?(Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

10. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?a. 1 b.2 c.5 d.6Ans: c

11. Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4?a. 31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657Ans: c

12. One problem on (a3-b3)/(a2+ab+b2)Ans: ‘a-b’

13. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’?

Ans: bird(parakeet)

14. Key words in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question one number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26 15 b?Ans:54(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=267*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)

15. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape

16. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and speaks truths on other days.. one day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?

17. Man, Bear, North, South, Walks.Ans: White

18. (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number?Ans: 9(for any no it can be true)

19. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely?Ans: 7 hours

20. Keywords: T.Nagar, Chennai, 1-100, prime numbers b/n 140-180, How many 2’s are there?Ans: 20 (Not only 2’s ,1’s,3’s,4’s,5’s,6’s,7’s,8’s,9’s,0’s also 20)

21. One question has last part like difference between two terms is 9 and product of two numbers is 14, what is the squares of sum of numbers?Ans: 109

22. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his father is my father’s son?Ans: His son

23. What is the value of [(3x+8Y)/(x-2Y)]; if x/2y=2?Ans: 10 {the numerical may change)

24. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in that ‘M’ flavors are taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange?(Logic: NcM )

25. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?Ans: 18

26. In a market 4 man are standing. The average age of the four before 4 years is 45, aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average weight of all?Ans: 49

27. Keywords: One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, the material cost is: 100, what is the total cost?Ans: 425

28. Keywords: Density, Reluctance, Sensitivity, Voltage, Current, what is the Resistance Formula is “R=V/I”

29. Keywords: Sports readers, 10 tables, 4chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person?Ans : 6

30. Keywords: Die, card, coin, b/n 2 to 12Ans: All are equal

31. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in 8th subject. what is the average of all the subjects?The extra 5 marks will be distributed in 8 semester, 5/8=.62574+.625=74.625

32. In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the numbers we get 44,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?Ans: 8

33. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?( 3years) “You try to solve this question once”

34. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph. and returns to A with 80kmph, what is the average of their speed?Just go and hit't

Test Paper :16

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 29 August 2010 Test Location : SRMCEM, Lucknow Posted By : Richa

I received a hall ticket from TCS to attend the off campus drive at SRMCEM, Lucknow on 29th August at 8am. There was a crowd of around 250-300 candidates in the morning batch.

It was a Computer Based Test(CBT) for 60 minutes. We were to attempt 35 questions. The questions were based on logics; some of them were aptitude and a few were analytical.

IMPORTANT: I discussed with many friends who had appeared for this process recently and also read it on www.freshersworld.com regarding the experience of other candidates. Many had to say that if you want to clear the Aptitude Round, then you must attempt somewhere around 23-25 questions to make it through. But this is not the case. What I figured out was that TCS is selecting candidates based on their accuracy. I attempted just 16 questions and still made it through, because all 16 questions I answered were correct. I made no guess. Even one of my friends made through TCS on 28th August by attempting 16 questions and all of them were right. There were a few of my friends who attempted 17 question with 1-2 wrong answers and some who made 2-3 guesses. They couldn't make through the written round. There was one candidate who attempted 15 questions and all right, and he also made it through. So, all I could make out was that TCS is selecting candidates on 100%

accuracy; ofcourse there must be some lower limit to the question you should answer. Since I saw a candidate attempting 15 questions and still making through, so I guess 15 would be the minimum out of 35. Please do not guess or do not attempt if you are not sure about your answer.

The computer based test had questions from:Area and Perimeter, Probability (Many questions from this chapter).Problems on Ages (Many questions from this chapter).Pipes and Cisterns, Ratio and Proportion and some logical questions

The questions are pretty lengthy but with all irrelevant statements. I remember one question where they told about a romantic story of Alice and Paul and then right at the end after 5-6 lines, they came up with a question on ages of Alice and Paul. I'd rather suggest everyone to start reading the question from where they find any Numerica data.

I don't remember many questions but only a few (and that too not with exact numerical value). I'll share with u a few questions such that you can understand what the question asked for.

Question 1: There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? ( 1 of )Answer: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/3232 will be the answer. (My friends got similar question with "3 times consecutively"; for that the answer would be 8)

Question 2: Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?Luckily, I had this question twice. Initially I left it because of the confusing statement but when I got the same question second time with different names of the friends (Pooja and Prasad) then I gave a little extra time and solved it.Answer: 20 years. I simply substituted the answers in the statement to find the best fit, because the statement in the question was pretty confusing.

Question 3: The ages of two friends is in the ratio 5:6. After how many years will the ages be in the ratio 7:8?Answer: 10 years.

Question 4: (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsalmic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsalmic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together, Woody and Balsalmic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume EXCEPT:1) Balsalmic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) Mimosaic and Woody4) Mimosaic and LilacAnswer: Mimosaic and Lilac. I have made the question here really easy to understand. But the actual question was in a twisted language and it was difficult to find the answer. It took me some time to get to the answer.

Question 5: A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings.Answer: 8 * 7 = 56

Question 6: A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm. (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?

Question 7: What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0. (I do not remember the values of a,b,c,d)

Question 8: An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?Answer: 33.33%

Question 9: A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what s the average speed of the pony? (This question was really long with loads of irrelevant statement)

These are a few questions that I could recall. I made through the aptitude round by attempting 16 questions. Next was Technical Interview Round.

Technical Interview:Here I will discuss the technical questions that were asked to me and also the questions asked to my friends.

Question 1: Write the pointer representation of a[i][j][k].

Question 2: i = 5i++, ++i, --i, i--, 5What will be the output if it is printed?

Question 3: How will you insert a new node between any two nodes in a linked list? Write the code.

Question 4: How will you find a particular data in the linked list?

Question 5: What is MD5?

Question 6: What is RSA? Explain its principle.

Question 7: There is a triangle and 3 ants on each vertex of the triangle. The 3 ants start to move randomly along the edges of the triangle. What is the probability that two ants will collide?

Question 8: What is the difference between C and C++?

Question 9: What do you mean by polymorphism?

Question 10: Give an example of polymorphism with code.

Question 11: What do you mean by OOP?

Question 12: What is inheritance?

Question 13: What is a friend function?

Question 14: What is an abstract class?

Question 15: Suppose there is a number 235 such that sum of first two digits is equal to the third digit. How many such 3 digits number are possible?

Question 16: Why is the VIRTUAL keyword used in C++?

Question 17: Which keyword is written to use a variable declared in one class in the other class?

Question 18: Suppose a code is written in C and you want to use that code in C++. How can you do that?

Question 19 What do you mean by DML?

Question 20: Is there any language other than SQL where DML is used? If yes, then which?

Question 21: How many normal forms do we have?

Question 22: Here is a tic-tac-toe game which is being played by 2 people:x o _o _ _x o x

Represent the blank spaces. Who played the last chance (x or o)?

Technical Questions asked to my friends:

Question 1: What is a transaction? Properties of Transaction?

Question 2: What "condition" will be written in the if statement such that both Hello World are printed when the following code is executed.

if(condition){printf("Hello");}else{printf("World");}

Question 3: What will be the output of the following code?int i=5;printf("%d, %d, %d", i++, i, ++i);

Which C compiler do you use? (My friend said TURBO)What will be the output of above code in TURBO compiler? (He said same)No! It will not be the same.

After the Technical round, there was an MR i.e. Managerial Round.It was just a 2-3 minutes round. The interviewer asked me to introduce myself. Then asked about my father. Then core values and strengths. Your hobbies? Which latest novel have you read?

Next was the HR round. This was a little time taking round as the technical one.Question 1: Introduce yourself?Question 2: Your family background; father, mother, siblings.Question 3: How does TCS earns its revenues? How it does its business?Question 4: What was the need of bringing Information Technology in India?Question 5: There is a round cake. You have 3 chances to cut the cake. Divide the cake into 8 pieces in these 3 chances.Question 6: Suppose if I reject you today, what will you do next?Question 7: You have a good communication skill. Why is it so? Is it because of your schooling or family atmosphere? Whom do you give the credit for this?Question 8: What are your strengths? Give 2 examples of your life incidents that portray this strength in you.Question 9: What are your weaknesses?

This was it. Out of some 250-300 candidates, only 10 could make it till the HR round and I'm glad to be one of them. They have asked us to wait for 2 weeks for the mail.

I'm waiting for my email.

Wish all you guys a very good luck!

Test Paper :17

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper

Test Date : 22 August 2010

Test Location : Reva institute,bangalore

Posted By : Rajesh kumar

TCS has changed it's old pattern and introduced new pattern for Written test.

The Written test consists of 35 questions.All questions are Aptitude questions, no Verbal, no Passages etc. Only Aptitude based on blood relations, percentages, profilt-loss etc.Time: 1 hourThere is Negative marking: -0.33 for each wrong answer, Timer will be displayed on the top right corner of the screen. Most of the questions are lengthy. They are about 4 to 5 lines. But they are eassy. Only requirement is to be fast.

Note: Among these 35 questions few questions are very very simple questions.So first solve out those easy questions and then move to lengthy questions.There will be option to skip a question and answer it later.

1. One man want to build a wall the length and breadth of the wall are 20, 30 respectively. He need 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he need?

Ans: l*b*35(no of bricks needed for sqcm)

2. One person had three children. He has 7 pennis. Then how he can distribute the fruits among his child by folloing conditions.

a)he can get one water millon for 1 penny.

b)he can get 2 oranges for 1 penny.

c)he can get 3 grapes for 1 penny.

Ans: 2 water millon 1 orange 1 grape

3. 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?

Ans:18

4. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?Ans:For 1 to 10 - 1 six 2 to 20 - 1 sixSimilarly upto 59 we utilise six, 5 timesfrom 60 to 69 (including 66) - 11 timesfrom 70 to 100 - 3, hence ans = 5+11+3 = 19Ans:19.

5. One grand father has 3 grand child. Eldest one age is 3 times of the youngest child age. Sum of two youngest child age is more than two of eldest one age. Find the eldest one age?

Ans: 15(we can easily predict from options, as we take y as 15)

6. Difefrence between two numbers is 4 and their product is 17. Then find the sum of their squers?

Ans: 70 (By using (x-y)2=x2+y2-2xy)

7. I don't remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?Ans: white.

8. Find category from following Jumbled letters, parakeet(answer)Ans: Bird(category)

9. Which is the smallest digit when devides the 2880 gives perfect squre.?

Ans:5(we can easily predict from options, as we devides them with 2880)

10. One question like. formule?Ans: Here you can use the (a-b)3=(a-b)(a2+ab+b2)formule).

11. I don’t have any brothers and sisters.by pointing a picture that man said that his father is my fathers. Son then who is he?Ans: His son.

12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person?Solution: Here the question appear as an easy one, but carried a lot of unwanted sentences and unwanted datas(i didn't mention above) in exam which may confuse you on solving technique.

So now we can compute x from above equation. (x = 41, 6x = 246)Let now we compute y,((6x+y)/7) = 45, as we have value of x, compute y.Ans: 69

13.The ratio between the ages of two pwrsons is 6:5 and sum of there ages is 77 then how many years later there ratio becomes 8:7?

Ans: we can easily predict from options

14. Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog?Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hrAns:16.5km/hr.

15. Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are there they has to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors what’s chanses to select?

Ans:6C2

16. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31Solution: Here it appear simple, because it arranged in arranged in sequence manner, but the actual question was some what twist mentioning fibonacci series and more over question was in statements (no numbers). Hence first try to understand the question well.Here let group alternate terms 3,7,15,31 (3+4 =7, 7+8 =15, 15+16=31)Similarly for second group (22,45,? (22+23 = 45, 45+46 = 91) hence ans is 91.

17. Cycles and 4 wheelors problem?

Ans: We can easily predict from options

18. Some irrivvelent data.in last two lines problem will be there. One man walks certain distance with 5 kmph and walk back the same

Ans: A

19. A and B tanks r there.1/8th of the tank B is filled in 22Hrs.what is time to fill the tank full?

Ans: I don’t know.

20. 5 friends went for week end party to Mc donalds restrurent and there they measure there weights. Some irrilevent data. Final measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of 5 people?

Ans: 155/5=31

21. 2 pots are there. 1st pot is filled with ink and 2nd pot is filled with water. Take 1 spoon of ink from 1st pot and pore it in 2nd pot and take 1 spoon of mixture from 2nd pot and pore it in 2nd pot then which one of following is true?

Ans: Water in 1st pot is less than the ink in 2nd pot.

22: One electronic problem?

Ans: V=IR

23.There r ten spots in library and each spot has 4 tables and ten readers ar there . sorry I don’t remember complete question?

Ans: None

24. Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs, Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is one of those days when I lie too. Then find today?

Ans: Thursday

For Remaining problems I remember the topics they have covered they are probability, Time and Distance.

Note: Don't attempt more than 27 questions out of 35. There will be highest cutoff.

All the best.

Test Paper :18

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences


Test Location : ITER, Bhubaneswar

Posted By : Rakesh Chowdhury

Hi Friends, Below are some questions of TCS campus held in ITER, Bhubaneswar in 14th August 2010. I have cleard it and got job in TCS. So i think that this will help you very much. There are 2 stage for it.1st is written test which consist of 35 aptitude questions which are very very easy. Because most of the questions are calculation type and formula based and also calculator is allowed during test. I have answered 27 questions out of 35. My suggestion is please ateend minimum 25 questions. Remember there is negative mark for wrong answer. So answer very carefully. After this there is Tecnical Interview it is also some what easy. They ask you questions from each subject. So be prepare for it. So please answer carefully.

Some of my interview question is:HR: Tell me about yourself.ME: Answered it.

HR: Are you Oracle Certified( I am Oracle certified. I have mentioned it in my CV).ME: Yes sir(after this he ask me to show my certificate. I have showed it) HR: What is normalization.ME: I have answered it. HR: Do you know C and C++?ME: Yes sir. HR: Write a C program for fibonacci series.ME: I wrote it. HR: What is DDL and DML LAnguage?ME: Answerd it with example. HR: OK you can go now.ME: Thank you sir. After this on 15th August result is decalerd. I'm one of them Ok. Best of luck for your campus. Below is the some of the written question that i have remebered

Aptitude questions(35)1. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person?Solution: It is given as after 2 year average age wiil be 43 so now the average is 2 year.After addition of 7th person average is 45 so 7th person wiil be 45+(6*(45-4)) Ans: 69

2. Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hour, Horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hours, 2hours after sunset it got dog. Compute the speed of dog?

Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hrAns:16.5km/hr.

3. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31Solution: Here it appear simple, because it arranged in arranged in sequence manner, but the actual question was some what twist mentioning fibonacci series and more over question was in statements (no numbers). Hence first try to understand the question well.Here let group alternate terms 3,7,15,31 (3+4 =7, 7+8 =15, 15+16=31)Similarly for second group (22,45,? (22+23 = 45, 45+46 = 91) hence ans is 91.

4. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?Ans:This type of question if it is asked how many 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 then you bindly write the answer as 20. But for 1 answer will be 21 as 100 is included

5. ((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2Ans: as x=2y put the value and get the answer.

6: If we subract a number with y, we get 4 increase of number, once it got divided by y itself. Find that number?Ans: 12 (we can easily predict from options, as we take y as 6)

7. I don't remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?Ans: white. What ever the question about the color of beer means you wrote the answer as white because polar beer. This question is very lengthy don’t burther about that.

8. Jumbled letters, parakeet(answer)Ans: Bird(category)

9. One question like. (209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144) = ?Ans: here you can use calc, many(4 to 5) questions were depend upon calc alone.(no need problem solving technique).

10. I'm only son for my parents. (some irrelevant statements in the middle to distract you). The man in picture is my father's son (some irrelevant statements). Who is he?

A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes aftr every 4 min, now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 3 times consecutively(1 out of)?1. 16 2. 8 3. 12 4. 4Ans:(1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2)=(1/8)Thus 1 out of 8

11. Resistance is X ohm voltage Y then what is currentAns: V=IR

12. I have 3 grandsons, age different between 2 of grandsons X years, 1st grandson is twice elder than younger one adiition off ages of all the three is y than what is age of eldest grandson?(There is some value inX and Y).

13. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he took?1. 8 2. 4 3. 7 4. 7.33(Options may be different)

114Lion rat stayin in jungle happily.Lion lies on: Mon, Tue, WedRat lies on:Wed, Thurs SatIf lion says: I didn't lie yesterdayRat says: e1 i didnt lie yesterdaySo what day is today?

14. The ratio of current age of X and Y is 5:7, after hw many years der age ratio will b 7:9?

15. Inspired by fibonacci series sanket decided to create is own series which is 1,2,3,7,7,22,15,67, like this, then what no come immediately before 63?Ans: 202Explanation: Check altenate no.1,3,7,15=====>n*2+1Similarly 2,7,22,67=======>n*3+1So series is 1,2,3,7,7,22,15,67,31,202,63. 16. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 5 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4, repetation of no. is allowed?Ans: Last 2 place should be divisible by 4So possible values at last place are 12,24,32,44,52 this can be arranged in 5 waysThe rest 3 places can be filled in 5*5*5 way so total is 5^4 17. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 banana is 1 cent. If Rahul buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will get?Ans: 1 plum, 2 apple, 1 bananaExplanation: 7/3=2.333 cents for each child according to ans given for d sum each child will get 1 plum, 2 apple, 1 banana 18. 2880 is divided by which smallest no. So we get no. which is perfect square?Ans= 5Explanation: 2880/5=576 sure sort question. 19. There are to prime no(with some nonsence stuff) then addition of two prime no is 13, and multiplication is 21, then what are some of there squares?Explanation: XY=21 and X+Y=13. Solve using calciAns of X & Y will b in points. Then x2+y2=?? 20. Smita was makin 1 design(again some nonsence) size of larger cube to be made is 5*5*5 using smaller cubes of 1*1*1. She created solid larger cube Then she decided to make hollow cube. Then how many 1*1*1 cubes required to make hollow larger cubeAns= 104Explanation: (25+25)+(15+15)+(12+12)=104 21. 2X/5Y=5X/3Y Then what is x/y

22. A pizza parlor provides pizzas. There were 2 toppings available initially peperoni and salami.But now they, have introduces 8 new toppings(some names) to select from. A person wishes to buy two different pizzas of new topping in how many ways he can do that?Ans: 8 X 7=56

23. Person travels to(some nonsence stuff). If he goes from A to B with speed of 4kmph and returns back to B with speed of 5 kmph. What is his average. Speed of Journey? (Values may be different)Ans: 4.44(It's not 4.5)Explaination: 2PQ/(P+Q)===2*4*5/(4+5)=4.44kmph

24. There is a dice having value from 1 6 on each face and a pack of cards having face card aces(hugh chunk of nonsense). When 2 dies are thrown and their scores are added then which sum will come max number of times?1. 8 2. 9 3. 10 4. 11Ans: 8Explanation: 8-2,6 3,5 4,4 9-4,5 3,6

10-5,5 4,6 11-5,6Thus 8's probability is more

25. ''Susha brought terilon cloth and rope to(some nonsence now just go to last 2 lines)''. If rope is 153 meter long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1 meter long then how many times will she have to cut it?Ans: 152 times

26. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked(some nonsense) total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there

Ans:This can be done by looking at the option first check the no of bicycles and then multiply it by 2. And then substract the multiplication value from 240 if the value is divided by 4 then that is the answer 27. 1/3 of a number is 6 more than 1/6 of that number then what is the number.Ans=x/3=x/6+636 28. The cost of making a robot consists of material cost, repairing cost, coloring cost and is in the ratio 3:4:5. If the material cost is 1200 then find out the cost of the robot.Ans: Simple 3 part is 1200 so 3+4+5=12 part=? 29. There are pepsi 1 litre & oil 1 litre. It is given as 1 spoon of pepsi is aken and is mixed with Oil. Then 1 spoon oil&pepsi is taken and is mixed with pepsi then which of the condition holds true.Ans: The amount of pepsi in oil is mre than amount of oil in pepsi. 30. An tank is filled with water. In first hour 10 lit, in second hour 20 lit and in 3 rd hour time 40 lit. If time taken to fill ¼ of the tank is 5 hour. What is the time required to fill up the tank.Ans: As the water is filled as twice speed and in 5 the hour ¼. So in 6 hour ½. So answer 7 th hour.

Test Paper :19

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences


Test Location : SJB College of Engg, Bangalore

Posted By : Giri Babu G

The aptitude test consists of 35 questions and here we have been given negative marking of 0.33 per wrong answer. At the selection the bench mark was 22 marks. It’s an easy test where more than 25 questions can be cleared easily. Never try to solve the questions first that have more number of lines.

Coming to questions first search for the numerical data in the questions and just the logic how the questions can be solved

1. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?

a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6 Ans: c 2. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above? (Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl) 3. Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4?a.31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657 Ans: c 4. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’? Ans: bird 5. One problem on (a3-b3)/(a2+ab+b2) Ans: ‘a-b’ 6. In school there are some bicycles and 4 wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? Ans: 15 7. Keywords in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question one number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26b 15? Ans:54(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=26

7*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)

8. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day? 9. Man, Bear, North, South, walks.Ans: White 10. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p.he has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?Ans: 1 watermelon,2chickoos,1grape 11. (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans: 9 12. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160….if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours

13. Keywords: T. Nagar, Chennai, 1-100, prime numbers between 140-180, How many 2’s are there?Ans: 20 (Not only 2’s ,1’s,3’s,4’s,5’s,6’s,7’s,8’s,9’s,0’s also 20) 14. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his father is my father’s son? Ans: His son 15. One question has last part like difference between two terms is 9 and product of two numbers is 14, what is the squares of sum of numbers? Ans:109 16. What is the value of [(3x+8Y)/(x-2Y)]; if x/2y=2?Ans:10 {the numerical may change) 17. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in that ‘M’ flavors aretaken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange? (Logic: NcM ) 18. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 timesyoungest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age ofeldest child?Ans: 15 19. KEYWORDS: one organization ,material labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7,the material costis:100,what is the total cost? Ans: 425

20. KEYWORDS: density, reluctance, sensitivity, voltage ,current, what is the resistance Formula is “R=V/I”

21. In a market 4 man are standing .the average age of the four before 4years is 45,aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49.what is the average weight of all? Ans: 49 22. Keywords: Sports readers, 10 tables, 4chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person? Ans: 6 23. Keywords: Die, card, coin, between 2 to 12 Ans: All are equal 24. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in 8th

subject. what is the average of all the subjects?Ans: 74.625 25. In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:6 and by adding the numbers weget 44,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?

Ans: 8 26. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph. and returns to A with 80kmph, what is the average oftheir speed? 27. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice.What is the presents Paul’s age?( 3years) “You try to solve this question once”

These are the questions that I remember.

Test Paper :20

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 17 December 2010 Test Location : SSGM College of Engineering, Shegaon Posted By : Pratik Patil

Hi Friends, I am Pratik Patil from Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College Of Engineering, Shegaon. TCS recruitment is conducted on 17-12-10 to 18-12-10.

It consists of 3 rounds.

1. Written test2. Technical and Managerial Round3. HR round

* In our college "231" members are attended; out of which"122" are cleared written test.* In these 122 around 93 are cleared Technical and Managerial Round.* In those 93 all cleared HR Round.

All questions are Aptitude questions, no Verbal, no Passages etc. Only Aptitude based on blood relations, percentages, profit-loss and Probability etc. Time: 80 minutes There is Negative marking: -1/3rd for each wrong answer, Timer will be displayed on the top right corner of the screen. Most of the questions are lengthy. They are about 4 to 5 lines. But they are easy. Only requirement is to be fast. In written test the questions are as follows it has total 35 questions. 1. A circular dartboard of radius 2 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5Ans: 0.25

2. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They

receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 18 b) 72 c) 6 d) 12Ans: 12

3. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212Ans: 0

4. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are falseAns: a

5. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.b) The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.d) The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.Ans: d6. 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty.The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . a) Neither A nor Bb) Both A and Bc) B onlyd) A only

Ans: d 7. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 9/10 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 0.9 b) 0.62 c) 0.79 d) 0.82Ans: 0.82

8. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = 9 + X + Y - ZWhere X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable.Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 27 b) 0.0 c) 20 d) 18Ans: 20

9. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is how many 4 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 375 b) 3125 c) 125 d) 625 Ans: c

10. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns.A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing).

The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on ubsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then Alice has no winning strategy.

a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.c) Alice has no winning strategy.Ans c)

11. 12 people {a1, a2, ..., a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a11, a12}, {a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa) 6 b) 4 c) 12 d) 3Ans: b

12) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 3 b) 5 c) 2Ans: b

13) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 66 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 4.18 b) 7.21 c) 227.22 d) 6.18Ans: b

14) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B.( At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 17 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?a) 22 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 20 hrs d) 27 hrsAns: a

15) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42Ans: c (32+25+2=59) 16) Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are necessarily true?A. The points in P lie on a circle.B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than the distance between X and a point in Pa) A and B b) Neither A nor B c) B only d) A onlyAns: d

17) On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week- Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.

1) Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 12:40 am.a) 71 b) 251 c) 111 d) 89Ans: 89

18. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?a) 432 b) 6 c) 12 d) 72Ans: 432

19. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 40 b) 37.80 c) 8 d) 5 Ans: 37.80

(Question is same like that only values are changed. Logical question, very easy.)20. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 30. For all values of n from 1 to 30, statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are true and which are false? a) All statements are false.b) All statements are true.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.d) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.Ans: b 21. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?a) 9 hours b) 7 hours c) 10 hours d) 8 hoursAns: 8 22. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total.How many programmers can write 72 lines of code in 72 minutes?Ans: 12

23. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 3 b) 1 c) 0 d) 2Ans: b

24. In a room (unwanted stuff) Sports readers, 10 tables, 4 chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person?Ans: 6

25. The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108

Ans: d Technical and Managerial Round: Questions asked to me in Technical and Managerial round.

1.Tell me about yourself? 2.Tell me about your family background?3. What is the basic difference between C and C++ and explain the important features of C++

4. Example of Polymorphism.

5. Write a program of Bubblesort using data structure.

6. What is the difference between 2G and 3G Mobile communication systems?

7. Are you ready to work in shifts in TCS? HR Round: 1. Introduce about yourself? 2. Why you want to join TCS? 3. Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses?4. Why should I hire you?

Both the rounds of Interview were very easy. On the same day of Interview at 7.30 pm they have announced the names of selected candidates. And I have successfully qualified in the selection process and will receive offer letter shortly. My joys had no bounds when my name was announced. It was the happiest moment for me forever.

All The Best! See in you TCS.

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Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 28 December 2010 Test Location : Siliguri Institute Of Technology, Siliguri Posted By : Kamalesh Chakraborty

Company Details: Company: TCSCategory: Placement paper Placement Paper Details: Paper Type: Candidate's experienceTest Date: 28th December, 2010Test Location: Siliguri Institute Of Technology, Sliiguri Author Details: Name: Kamalesh Chakraborty Stream: Information Technology

College: Siliguri Institute Of Technology, Siliguri Session: 2007-2011 Email id: [email protected] Phone no: +919800035401 Status: Selected These are my details. You can contact me for any assistance. I will be pleased to help you. Quantitative aptitude test (35 questions, 80 minutes) 1. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 20. for each value of n from 1 to 20, statement says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are true.' which statements are true and which are false? 2. Alok and bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N=46+X+Y-Z, where X,Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9) alok woul like to maximize N while bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, alok chooses a single digit number and bhanu substitues this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z) Alok then chooses the next value and bhanu the variab le to substitute the value. Finallyu aloka proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies the value of N at the end of the game would be (a) 37 (b) 57 (c) 64 (d) 55 3. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints for men the formula n/P=110 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where n= number os steps per minute and P= pacelength in meters. Bernard knows his pacelength is 97cm the formula applies to Bernards walking. Calculate Bernards walking speed in kmph. (a) 106.70 (b) 8.82 (c) 6.21 (d) 11.34 4. Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the side of the square to radius to the circles. You may assume that squate toot of 2 is 1.4 (a) 13.90 :1 (b) 10.40 :1 (c) 11.80 :1 (d) 15.90 :1 5. Alok is attending a workshop how to do more with less and todays theme is working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achived if mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at lthe end of the workshop is how many 6 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2,3,4,5 (but with repetition) that are divible by 4? Can you help alok find the answer? (a) 3125 (b) 3906 (c) 1250 (d) 3907 6. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection from a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 11 the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is (a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4 7. After the typist writes 100 letters and addresses 100 envelopes she inserts the letters randomly in to the envelopes(1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelop?(a) 0 (b) 1-1/100 (c) 1/100! (d) 1/100 8. The teacher is testing a students proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question: 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? (a) 19 (b) 6 (c) 17 (d) 18

9. The IT giant tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India.At tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same rate. Suppose 13 such programmers take 13 minutes to write 13 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 104 programmers in 104 minutes: (a) 104 (b) 832 (c) 13 (d) 8 10. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 16 for all values of n from 1 to 16 statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false’. Which statements arte true and which are false? (a) The second last statement is true and the rest are false. (b) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. (c) All the statements are false. (d) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statement are false. 11. 45 suspects are rounde by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Shich of the following possibilities are ture? A. all the suspectrs are lying. B. the leftmost suspect is guilty. C. the rightmost suspect is guilty. (a)A and C (b)A and B (c)B only (d)A only 12. 45 people {a1, a2, ……a45} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 45 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2,a3},…..{a44,a45},{a45,a1}. Then the size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is (a)16 (b)22 (c)15 (d)14 13.The citizzens of planet oz are 8 fingered and thus habve developed a number system in base 8. A certain street in Oz contains 1000 buildings nubered from 1 to 1000. How many 4s are used in numbering these buildings ? Express your answer in base 10. (a)64 (b)96 (c)192 (d)256 14. Middle earth is fictional land inhabited by hobbits elves dwarves and men. The hobbits and the elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournoi is one where out of the two teams that play a match the one that loses get eliminated the matches are played in different rounds where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 6 rounds played in a knock out tournoi how many matches were played? (a) 42 (b) 64 (c) 63 (d) 65 15. Ferrari S. p.A is an italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the compay sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars bvefore moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A through out is history the compay has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohit’s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit’s Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the sistance traveelled by the Ferrari is 991 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance (a) 7.74 Hours (b) 247 Hours (c) 8 Hours (d) 30 Hours 16. A circula dashboard of radius 1.0 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q I th circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of circle than the periphery? (a) .25 (b) .75 (c) .50 (d) 1.00

17. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare I the other. The hare starts after the tortoise had coveredc 1/7 of its distance and that tooo leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor shoul the hare increase its speed so as to ties the reace? (a) 8 (b) 41.00 (c) 56 (d) 7 18. On the planet Oz there are 8 days in a week – Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 minutes while each minute has 60 seconds. As on earth the hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 15:40 am (a) 186 degrees (b) 311 degrees (c) 131 degrees (d) 149 degrees 19. For the king’s revelry 254 barrels of beer have b een ordered . howerver, it was found that one of them is poisoned. The poison takes effect even if consumed in the tiniest amount after 14 hours. Yhou need to find within 24 hours the poisoned barrel and have at your disposal some beer guzzling mice. The smallest number of mice required to find the poisoned barrel is (a) 9 (b) 8 (c) 254 (d) 7 20. Planet Fourfe resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3- dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape shile their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins. A. The diameter of the coins should be at least 16 mm and not exceed 64mm. B. given a coin the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. C. the diameter of the coin must always be na integer. You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with thers requirements and your goal is to desigh as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design? (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 3 21. There are two boxes, one containing 24 red balls and the other containing 38 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is (a) .50 (b) .39 (c) .69 (d) .19 22. Given a collection of points P in the plane a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e the pint lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P) . The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 4 points in the plane is (a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 5 23. There are two water tanks A and B , A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10,20,40,80,160. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/8 filled after 23 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? (a) 27 hours (b) 25 hours (c) 26 hours (d) 3 hours 24. A man has some socks in his drawere – 14 identical blue, 20 identical red, and 28 identical black. The lights are out and it is totally dark. How many socks must he take out to make sure he has a pair of each colour? (a) 34 (b) 50 (c) 30 (d) 28 25. As a result of global warming is that the ice of some glaciers is melting. 13 years after the ice disappears, tiny plants, called lichens, start to grow on the rocks. Each lichen grows approximately in the shape of a circle. The relationship between the diameter of this circle

and the age of the lichen can be approximated with the formula: d=18*(t-13)for t>13, where d represents the diameter of the lichen in millimeters, and t represents the number of years after the ice has disappeared. Using the above formula calculate the diameter of the lichen , 39 years after the ice has disappeared. (a) 702 (b) 468 (c) 13 (d) 689 26. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. find the age of seventh person? (a) 49 (b) 45 (c) 69 (d) 20 27. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except (a) Balsamic and Lilac (b) Woody and Lemon (c) MI mosaic and Woody (d) MI mosaic and Lilac 28. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red, 10 white, 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30 orange. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow? (a) 59 (b) 8 (c) 50 (d) 42 29. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y – Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be (a) 28 (b) 30 (c) 33 (d) 35 30. A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning? (a) 5 red and 1 blue faces (b) 1 red and 5 blue faces (c) 3 red and 3 blue faces (d) 4 red and 2 blue faces 31. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will you divide 31p so that you will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? (a) 21 (b) 31 (c) 6 (d) 32 32. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45. For all values of n from 1 to 45, statement n says “At most n of the statements on this sheet are false”. Which statements are true and which are false? (a) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. (b) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. (c) All statements are true. (d) All statements are false.

32. In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is OZ day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40? (a) 80 (b) 81 (c) 87 (d) 89 33. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A’s chances of winning. Let’s assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? (a) 5/9 (b) 1/9 (c) 2/3 (d) 4/9 34. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 10 such programmers take 10 minutes to write 10 lines of code in total. How many lines will be written by 50 programmers in 50 minutes in total? (a) 50 (b) 18 (c) 10 (d) 250 35. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then (a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move (b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move (c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move (d) Alice has no winning strategy I attempted 29 out of 35 and results were declared in about an hour or so and i cleared the test. In our college around 330 appeared for the apti out of which 270 cleared the written test. Interview was held on 30th December 2010, at Techno India Salt LAKE campus. The reporting time for us was at 2.30 p.m. When my turn for in interview came it was 5.40 p.m. My interview went on for around 20 minutes. My name was called by some TCS official and I went inside along with him inside the room. The room where I was interviewed there was 3 interviewer simultaneously interviewing my friends as that slot was especially for our college only. So I went near to him. To be honest i was nervous and my heart was pounding. I said good evening Sir. Then i sat on the chair. Then he was looking throughly through the TCS form which is to be filled and submitted along with my CV. After couple of minutes he asked me Tell me about yourself? I mentioned my name, native place, education and hobbies. As I mentioned my hobbies as internet surfing and chating. He asked what I luck about chating? Why I spent time in chating rather than reading the books? I'm very passionate about chating so I replayed to him in a manner I guess he liked it.

Then he went over to my project- my project title "jChat-Chat Client in Java". He asked all the details about the project then he carried on asked to draw the architecture of the project and database part too. Basically J stands for Java. It is basically intranet chat application which is being developed by me as a part of my final year project. Then he asked me about the keys in DBMS: Primary key its features, foreign key. Constraints different types of constraints. Well in my subject of interest I had mentioned operating system and networking but no questions from this two subjects. After that he said we will get bak to you then said said thank you sir have a nice day and left the room. Anyways I would like to thank God and all those who helped me in paving the path for me. Remember 2 thing in apti dont guess and in interview be relaxed. Another thing your are not out unless and until the result is out even if your out here don't wry as because TCS is not the last company so have faith in God. If anything you wish 2 know just mail me or give me call. If I can I will surely help you. Last but not the least I would like to thank Freshersworld.com for their effort. Its an amazing site for a freshers. He can avail the info from here. Thank You. With regards Kamalesh Chakraborty

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Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 15 December 2010 Test Location : Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai Posted By : Aravind Anantharaman

Hello Friends,

TCS came to our college on 15th December. The presentation started by 9. I was in the first batch. So completed the test by 12. Got the result by 12: 30. The we had our technical cum HR immediately from 1. I completed my interview by 3 got the result by 9:30.

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1) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18Ans: b


a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. Ans: c

3 questions of same type stating at most, exactly 3) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrsAns: a

4) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying B. leftmost suspect is innocentC. leftmost suspect is guiltya) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only Ans: c

5) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y – Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would beAns: 15+18 =33 3 questions of the same type with different equations for N

6) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 900 b) 488 c) 563 d) 800 Ans: c

7) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40?

8) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed

two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog?Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hrAns: 16.5km/hr.

Values are also changed in some types

9) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?

a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

10) Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round, half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 11) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12 Ans: a

12) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108 Ans: d13) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning? a) 5 red and 1 blue faces.b) 1 red and 5 blue faces.c) 3 red and 3 blue faces.Ans: c

14) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?

a) 5/9b) 1/9c) 2/3d) 1/3 (For this question they changed the values)

15) A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer? (a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000

16) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 1 b) 0 c) 4 d) 2

17) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 7 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

a) 3 b) 7 c) 2 d) 1Ans: 7

18) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no “cycle” of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ……, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ……, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands). a) 7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8Ans: c

3 questions from handshake process questions both LINEAR AND ALSO CYCLIC

HR and Technical: Me: Good afternoon sir.HR: Good afternoon! take your seat.

Me: Thank you.HR: Your native?Me: SaidHR: Your family background?Me: SaidHR: Tell me about yourself?

Me: SaidHR: You have some IBM certifications on Db2 and RAD can you explain me?

Me: Told about db2 and rad. In rad i completed with a word eclipse.HR: What is eclipse?

Me: Told.HR: Your area of interest?

Me: Said DBMS, web designing and seoHR: What is seo?

Me: Said.HR: What is normalization?

HR: What is foreign key?HR: Types of normalization?

HR: Type which is associated with foreign key?Me: Said

HR: Can we do the referencing without foreign key?Me: I said but we had a big discussion over it.

HR: Any questions?Me: asked.

Then I left the panel after 9 hours results were announced.Was happy to hear my name in the selected list.

261 got selected from around 400 from second round.All the best friends. Use Freshersworld.com and read all the patterns from Freshersworld.com

Have faith on god. Sure success comes to you.

See you all at TCS.

Test Paper :23

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 28 August 2010 Test Location : YCCE College Of Engg, Nagpur Posted By : Vikram Singh Chauhan

Hi Friends,

This is “Vikram Singh Chauhan” student of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg. from G.H. Raisoni college of Engg., Nagpur.

TCS came to our university for off-campus on dated 28th & 29th of August-2010. A total of 1500 appeared for it and only 36 got selected. The selection process consisted of regular 4 Tcs rounds as

1. Aptitude Test.2. Technical Interview (TI).3. Managerial Interview (MR).4. HR Interview (HR). 1. Aptitude test:

TCS has changed its aptitude pattern from March of this year as it now uses “TouchStone” software which consists of mostly (about 90%) of the questions on Quantitative section only. There is no need to mugup the model test paper of GRE Barron now. If you have gone through R.S. Aggrawal its sufficient but you need to be really quick while solving the questions as time alloted is not sufficient. Test Pattern: You will be asked to solve 35 questions in 60 minutes and there is negative marking of 33.3% also. But each and every question contains lot of irrelevant data and it consumes hell lot of time to extract useful data from the question. Few questions for your reference are: Q1) There’s a farm having various birds of different weight. Farm has 23 birds weighing less than 15 gm, 35 birds weighing betweem 15 gm to 50 gm, and 12 birds weighing greater than 50 gm. One day accidentally a cunning Fox enetered the farm. After seeing so many birds see decided to pick some birds for its meal for next few days. Fox picked some birds from the farm and went away. How many total birds fox should pick so that it will have minimum 2 birds of each weight group.

(not remembering the options, but I and many of my frends tried all possible probabilties and permutation combination bt our answers didn’t matched any of the given options)

Q2) A roof has two tanks A and B. Tank A gets fileed at the rate of 1.3 litre/hour. Tank B gets filled at the rate (10,20,40,80,..). If after 22 hours the Tank B is (1/16)th filled. Calculate the time required by it to get full

2) 27hr b) 26hr c) 30hr d) 25hr.

Q3) Mr. Bean went to a shop for buying a gift to his wife on her Birthday. He boughtt 28 purple marbles as her wife was fond of marbles. He also bought 21greem marbles. While coming out of the shop on the way he also bought 24 red, 42 yellow and 12 pink marbles and he put them all in a bag. When he was returning back to the home a lightning occurred and suddenly due to some reasons the red, green, and yellow balss got converted into white colour. But inspiye of this Mr. Beans decided to give few marbles to his lovely wife. So, how many times he should put his hand in the bag so that he can gift his wife atleast one ball of each colour. Q4) A seamstress was very popular in a town for her stiching. She used to charge $2.35 for every shirt and $3.254 for every single pant. If you want to get whole dress stiched together she will charge you $5.25. now if you went to that seamstreess with a cloth 109 m long. The seamstress can make 7 pieces out of one metr of the cloth and will charge for one complte dress. So how many total pieces shecan cut out for you from that cloth?a) 767 b) 15.47 c) 767 d) 15.57 Q5) Paul is twice as old as Peter as peter was as old as paul is now. So what is the present age of Paul now if sum of there ages is 35years?a)21 b)24 c)17 d)23 (Featured twice in the paper with different data and character names)

Q6) An old lady has certain gloves and hats in her basket. She has around 35gloves and 42hats in her collection. She went to his Grandchildren on a certain occasion. She decided to gift her grandchildren few hats. She had 3grndchild. So how many attempts she will have to make to ensure that smallest will get 1, and second will get2, and eldest will get3hats.

Q7) Find the distance between x and z intercept of the plane given by the equation 2x+3y+5z=30?a) 16.15 b) 15.16 c) 261 d) 14.25 Q8) A wire was bent to make a triangle with sides 22, 26, 18cm. If now the same same wire is bend to make a square Determine its area?a) 271.50 b) 260.00 c) 272.50 d) 272.25 Q9) A family had 11 children. If they have to be arranged in a queue where youmgset will always stand at the end of queue so how many different ways are there in which thye can be arranged?a) 512 b) 4096 c) 1024 d) 2048 Q10) The ticket to the Disneyland starts from 1p to 7p. You are on a tour to Disneyland with total 7p. You have got the chance to get your 7p changed into the change of 1p, 2p, 3p. Whatever you want. All the denominations are available. So how many coins will you have now? Q11) Six friends tom, peter, paul, john, mathews, robert went for the shopping in amall. After doing the shopping of 8,000rupees they came across a weighing machine. They stareted weighing themselves first individually, then in pairs as tom and peter together then peter and paul likewise. Then they weighed them in the group of three then four and finally all six of them weighed together and machine showed the reading of 240. After this a person joined there group and weighed with them and the average weight now came out as 68. So what was the age of new person joining the group?a) 42 b) 44 c) 35 d) 42.5 Q12) Indian government decided to conduct the census of 1991 very sincerely. So it instructed all its coordinators to note down the data of everyone very carefully. A coordinator went to lady and asked her age. Lady replied “My age is equal to my daughters age in months and is equal to my granddaughter in days. The coordinator got confused and took out his calculator and made calculation according to the data given by lady but when he pressed equal to button calculator displayed math error. He again made the calculations by considering 30days in month and 365 days in year. Now what no. would he have got on the screen of calculator? Q13) 10 people met in a annual meeting of a society. They all started shaking hands with each other in the circular pattern as {(a1,a2)(a2,a3)……(a9,a10)(a10,a1)...}. So find out the number handshakes if repeatatuin of handshake is not there?a) 8 b) 10 c) 9 d) 11 Q14) 10 players participated in an tennis tournament to play for the title. All the players played with one another once only and there were a total of 45matches in all. Now if above given statements are true there are two probabilities A) There must be atleast two players who have won all the matchesB) There must be a player who have lost all his matches.Then tell which of the below mentioned condition is true.a) only A b) only B c) both A&B d) can’t be determined as data is not sufficient. Q15) Sangakara and Ponting came out for the toss of 1st test of 3match test series. There at the toss referee told them that he forgot to bring the coin. So everyone got tensed what to do now as toss should happen at any cost. So at that time sangakara put his hand in his pocket and took out a dice with numbers 1,2,3,4. Now what should be done with this dice so again sangakara suggested a unique plan as

(After this few conditions were given and then it was asked which two or three cinditios are true as above question. I am not able to recaal the conditions)’ Q16) A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have introduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how many ways he can select?a) 24 b) 43 c) 56 d) 58 Q17) 2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres long. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the speed of the dog in Km/hr?a) 20 b) 22 c) 16.5 d) 18.5 18 more questions which were based on the topics of number system, average, time and distance, time and work, pipes and cisterns, problems on ages. Pay extra attention on probability and permutation and combination.

The result of aptitude test was out in 10 minutes and out of 60-70 students in my batch only 4 got through. I attempted 24 questions. I think if you have solved around 21-22 questions correctly you will get through.

Technical round: After this they called me for the TI. The HR was a man of around 35. I: May I come in sir?TI: Yeah sure. Take the seat. So vikram what are you doing from past few days? I: Told him abt preparation for TCS and other things.TI: You are from ETC so why do you want to join software industry? I: Was ready for this question answered to his satisfaction.TI: It means you are interested in programming so which is your favorite subject? I: I told sir C and Microprocessor.TI: In which microprocessor you are good? I: 8085.TI: What are 1byte, 2byte, 3byte instructions? I: Gave him answer which later I came to know was wrong.TI: What actually happens when a call instruction is executed, Explain in full detail? I: Explained nicely to him.TI: What are different types of interrupts in up, what are hardware and software interrupts, how are they executed, what, is the difference in hardware and software interrupts and why there is need of them, what is IVT (interrupt vector table)? I: Luckily I was knowing the answers of all the questions so expalined everything to him smoothly and nicely.After this was the turn of most deadly MR round where you will be given any situation and will be asked to solve it with cross questioning on your every statement. But their was hardly any elimination in this round. Luckily I wasn’t called for this round and was called straight for the final round ie.,

HR round: HR: Was a girl of around 24-25.HR: So how are you Vikram? I: I said fantastic mam.HR: Have you had your lunch today (as it was aorund 4:30 pm)?

I: No mam didn’t got the time.

HR: So without having your lunch how can you feel fantastic. Don’t you need food for feeling energetic?I: Was aware of this trap already gave her the answer which impressed her a lot and she complimented me for my answer saying nice answer. (got huge confidence from this). HR: Tell me something about you?I: Told. HR: Being an electronics engineer what can you do in TCS and how can you help TCS in its development?I: Told. HR: Tell me about the recent trends in IT industry?I: Was knowing that this question is being asked to almost everyone so I went prepared with its answer and told him everything which have read in dailies. HR: Then she asked me whether I'm mobile, ready to sign the bond, and wether I am aware of the background check conducted by TCS.I: I aggreed on all her questions and this brought an end to my interview. After around half an hour results were announced as I was last to go for the HR I had to wait very little for the results and indeed it was very pleasing to listen ma name in the voice of HR which confirmed me as a TCSian.

Best of Luck!

Vikram Singh Chauhan.

Test Paper :24

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 8 December 2010 Test Location : Velammal Engineering College, Chennai Posted By : Krish

Hi Friends,

TCS came to our college on 8th December. Totally 950 students appeared for TCS online exam and 480 are cleared. Aptitude questions came from previous questions papers only but they have changed the values study throughly all the 70th patterns questions available in the net and also don't mug any answers because they have totally changed the values. If you understand the concept of all questions then you can easily clear the online exam also take the sample online exam that is available in TCS portal because most of the questions

are coming from that model only with values changed next round is Technical/HR round. There is no separate HR round and technical round. It is combined round.

I'll post some of the questions i got in exam.

1. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?( I got this ques 3 times with values changed)

2. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 24 + X + Y – Z ,where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be(i got this ques 2 times with equations changed)Ans: 35

3. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?a) All statements are false b) The odd numbered statements are true the even numbered are false c) All statements are true d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false(like this i got another ques with stmts numbered from 1 to 10)

4. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 100 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 100. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings and give the answer in base 10 system? (my friends got same ques with give the ans in base 7, base 6, base 5etc)

5. A result of global warming is that the ice of some glaciers is melting. Twelve years after the ice disappears tiny plants, called lichens, start to grow on the rocks. Each lichens grows approximately in the shape of a circle. The relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of the lichen can be approximated with the formula

d = 13 * (t-11) for t > 11 where d represents the diameter of the lichen in millimeters, and t represents the number of years after the ice disappeared. Using the above formula, calculate the diameter of the lichen, 36 years after the ice has disappeared.a) 468 mm b) 457 mm c) 325 mm d) 11 mm

6. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 1/4 b) 1/2 c)3/4 d) 1/3

7. After the typist writes 25 letters and addresses 25 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a) 11/12 b) 0 c) 1/12 d) 1/6

8. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits . The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is How many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 375 b) 625 c) 500 d) 3125

7. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 1 b) 0 c) 4 d) 2

(For this question they changed the value of third side but the ans for this type of question is always one)

8. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pacelength in meters. Bernard knows his pacelength is 111cm. The formula applies to Bernard’s walking. Calculate Bernard’s walking speed kmph.

9. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 50 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Thena) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move. b) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move. c) Alice has no winning strategy. d) In order to win, Alice’s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move

10. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 5/9b) 1/9c) 2/3d) 1/3 (For this question they changed the values)

11. 33 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 33 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with

at least one person in the set is?(ans is 11)

12. One the Planet, Oz, there are 8 days in a week – Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hours has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of clock on Oz when time is 15.40 am?

13. Planet fourfi resides in 4 – dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3 – dimensional objects. The rupees notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins. The diameter of the coins should be at least 16mm and not exceed 64mm Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these requirements and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design?

14. A hare and tortoise a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after tortoise has covered 1/5 its distance and that leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 8b) 37.80c) 40d) 5 (For this question they changed the value 1/5 to 1/3 and 1/8 to 1/7)

15. Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius of the circles to the side of the square.2)a) 1:(2 + 7b) 3)1:(4 + 72):1c) (2 + 72) ( For me they changed 7 circlesd) 1:(2 + 6 to 9 circles)

16. Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing especially in Formula One where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit’s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit’s Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken in hours for Rohit to drive that distance.

17.There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red is maximized. This maximum probability isa) 37/38 b) 1 / 2 c) 14/19 d) 3 / 4 (values are changed for me. I think it is 23 red and 30 green)

18. 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the

person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?A) All suspects are lying B) the leftmost suspect is guiltyC) rightmost suspect is guiltya)A onlyb)A and Bc)B onlyd)A and C

19. 1/3rd of the number is 3 more than 1/6th of the number, then find the number?a) 24 b) 12 c) 18 d) 20

20. 21 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no ‘cycle’ of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of people a1, a2, … , aK such that the pairs (a1, a2), (a2, a3),… , (a (k-1), a k) , (ak, a1) shake hands.a) 17 b) 18 c) 19 d) 20

21. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160….., in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20, and so on) If tank B is 1/16 filled after 17 hours, what is the total durations required to fill it completely?a) 4 hours b) 21 hours c) 22 hours d) 24 hours

22. Middle-earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournoi is one, where out of two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 6 rounds played in a knock-out tournoi how many matches were played?

If it is mathches then formula is 2^n-1If it is players then it is 2^n

23. Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 9 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 7 b) 9 c) 8 d) 10

24. A lady has fine gloves and hats of different colours of hats in her closet-18 blue,32 red and 25 yellow.the lights are out and it is totally dark.In spite of thr ddarkness,she can make out of the difference which is hat and a glove.she takes an item out of the closet only if he sure that it is glove .how many gloves must she take out make sure that she has a pair of each color.a)6 b)8 c)60 d)59 (For me they changed the values of blue,red and yellow colours)

25. (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsalmic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsalmic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together, Woody and Balsalmic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much

quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:

(Like this model. But they changed the story by adding lemon, sweet etc and we have to find the option that gives ans for the impossible combination that is given in questions. Its a easy and logical type question)

26. One question like that there are 40 barreals are there and one is poisoned. If a drop is consumed he will die in 14 hrs then how many least mice are required to find the poisoned barreal?

Remaining i can't remember. I attempted around 32 questions and I'm sure 27-28 are correct and i cleared my online exam and luckily i got HR panel n the HR was very kind n in jolly mood. They announced the results on 9th December and my name also one among the students selected. Proud to join TATA groups.

Test Paper :25

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 4 December 2010 Test Location : Pulla Reddy Engg College, Hyderabad Posted By : Dinesh Manepalli

There were 3 rounds:

1) Written Test2) Technical & managerial round 3) HR round (Written Test: 35 questions 80 mins) 1) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 3 b) 5 c) 2

2) How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85 3) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4* (t-9) for t ≥ 9 Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 12mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?

a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12 d) 12.06Ans: c 4) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18Ans: b


a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Ans: c

6) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrsAns: a 7) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/16 filled after 4 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 8hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrsAns: a

8) Unnecessary data. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red , 10 white , 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30 orange. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow?a) 59 b) 8 c) 50 d) 42Ans: a(32+25+2)

9) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such

programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2) 10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108 Ans: d

11) 12 people {a1, a2, …, a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, …, {a11, a12}, {a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa) 12 b) 4 c) 18 d) 11

Ans: B 12 ) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 100). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move.If the gold coin happens to be on top when it’s a player’s turn then the player wins the game.

A. Alice has no winning strategy.B. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. ThenC. In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move.D. In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move.Ans: D

13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.’ Which statements are true and which are false?

A. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false.B. The last second statement is true and the rest are false.C. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.D. All the statements are false.

14) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no “cycle” of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ……, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ……, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands).a)7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8

Ans: c

15) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12

Ans: a 16) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying. B. leftmost suspect is innocent.C. leftmost suspect is guiltya) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only Ans: c


Ans: a 3 lines are given so ans is 4 one incenter and 3 excenters. If it is 3 line segments then ans would be 1 18) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y – Z)Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would beAns: 15+18 =33

19) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as the win the race?(for this values are changed)a) 8 b) 5 c) 37 d) 80

Ans: c20) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45. For all values of n from 1 to 45, statement n says “At most n of the statements on this sheet are false”. Which statements are true and which are false?

A. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. B. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.C. All statements are true. Ans: c 21) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of

the smaller cubes remain unpainted?a) 900 b) 488 c) 563 d) 800 Ans: c22) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?a) 72 b) 432 c) 12 d) 144 Ans: b

23) The teacher is testing a student’s proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer?

a) 12 b) 18 c) 6 d) 21 Ans: b Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = X – Y – Z

24) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 2 b) 4 c) 9 d) -18

Ans: a

25) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog?Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hrAns: 16.5km/hr.

26) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning?a) 5 red and 1 blue faces.b) 1 red and 5 blue faces.c) 3 red and 3 blue faces.Ans: c

27) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40?a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89

Ans: 891. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is how many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 375 b) 3125 c) 500 d) 625 Ans: d

2) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5Ans: 0.25

3) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12

Ans: 12

4) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 18 b) 72 c) 6 d) 12Ans: 12

5) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212Ans: 0

6) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are falseAns: A

7) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?a) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.b) The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

d) The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.Ans: D

8) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty.The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . Neither A nor BBoth A and BB onlyA onlyAns:D

9) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0Ans: 4

10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 256 b) 64 c) 192 d) 54Ans: 192 11) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands).a) 9 b) 8 c) 7 d) 6Ans: 9

12) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9

Ans: 5/9

13) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?

a) 12b) 16c) 8d) 24

Just substitute values then you get ans

14) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable.

Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 27 b) 0.0 c) 20 d) 18Ans: 20 15) Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs, Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is one of those days when I lie too. Then find today?1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?Ans:18

16) Two tanks A and B. A fills 1 ltr/1 hour B fills 10, 20, 30 per hour. If this is (passage unnecessary). If 1/4th tank of B takes 15 hours to fill how much it time will to take to fill complete tank? Ans:17

17) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boysAns: 1/2^6 = 1/64

18) A Toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 mins, now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 5 times consecutively (1 out of)?Ans: 1/32

19) 20men and 20 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa.Ans: Never

20) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 234 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?

Ans: Go with options. Multiply each option with 2 and subtact the obtained no from 234. If it is exactly divisible by 4, that is the answer. 21) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2 chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes

foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the friuts equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape

22) A piza shop made pizzas with to flavours. In home there are ‘9’ different flavors, in that ‘2’ flavors are taken to made piza in how many ways they can arrange?(Logic: NcM, N= 9, M=2 )

23) One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, if the material cost is: 272, what is the total cost?

Ans: 4x=272 => x=68; now total cost = 272 + 6(68)+7(68).

24) 4 years before Paul’s age is 3times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?Ans: x-4 = 3(y-4); x=6y: Solve you will get it. 25) In a question, last part has, the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the numbers we get 55, after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?Ans: Easy you can do it, simple equtions 26) In a room (unwanted stuff) Sports readers, 10 tables, 4 chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person?Ans : 6

Test Paper :26

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 7 December 2010 Test Location : P V P Siddhartha Institute, Vijayawada Posted By : A.Surendranath

Hi Friends,

This is Surendra pursing MCA in P V P Siddhartha Institute of Technology recently on Dec 7th, 2010. TCS has visited our college for the campus placement drive. There are totally 353 students are eligible for the written exam excluding the Five toppers from each department.

The test was a very simple one with a minimal practice we can get it very easily.The questions that i got in the written exam are

1) (1/3) of a number is 6 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b) 18 c) 36 d) 24

2) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. 1/8 th of the tank B is filled in 22 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully?a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27

3) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has coverd 1/4 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered

only 1/8 of the distance.By what factor should the hare increse its speed so as to tie the race?Ans: 35.00

4) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 30. For all values of n from 1 to 30, statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are true and which are false?

This type of question repeated for me three time just replacing atmost with exactly, atleast.

7) On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week Sunday to Saturday and another day call Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 mins while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 10.40 am.Ans: Aroung 59 degrees

8) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 in base buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 4's are used in numbering these buildings?Express your answer in base10?Ans: 192

9) A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings?

a) 16 b) 56 c) 112 d) 28

10) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area at random. What are the odds that five consecutive cars of same color will come through the test area at any one time?a)1 in 16 b)1 in 125 c)1 in 32 d)1 in 25

11) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42

This type was repeated two times

14) Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played?a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Ans)255

15)20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made?a)190 b)210 c)150 d)250

16) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. given the expression N= 12+X*(Y-Z)

Where X, Y, Z are variables repersenting single digits(0 to 9). Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end,Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X,Y,Z). Alok then chooses next value and Bhanu the variable to substitute the value finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable Assumig both play to their optimal strategies the value of N at the end or the game would be?

This type also repeated for three time with change of expAns: Better go through the options given NEVER place 0 or 9 in the Expression

20) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?

a) 17 b)21.25 c)12.25 d)14.05

21) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Ans) simple one you can slove it

22) How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?a) 5^7 b) 5^6 c) 5^9 d) 5^8Ans: 5^8

23) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 11 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

a) 3 b) 11 c) 2 d) 824) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?

Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls

25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacentto each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn.c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.d) Alok has no winning strategy.

These are some questions that i face I answered totally 32 questions. Don't answer all 35 questions correctly even if you know there may be a chance of upper cutoff.

I completed my technical, Managerial and HR rounds and awaiting for the result.

All the best!

Test Paper :27

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 4 December 2010 Test Location : G.Pulla Reddy Engg College, Hyderabad Posted By : Harish and prosenjit das

Hai,

This is Prosenjit & Harish from G.PullaReddy Engg College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. Before going to write written test of TCS, write the two mock test. Conducted by TCS.

There were 3 rounds:1) Written Test2) Technical & managerial round 3) HR round (Written Test: 35 questions 80 mins) 1) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 3 b) 5 c) 2 2) How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85

3) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4* (t-9) for t ≥ 9 Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 12mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12 d) 12.06Ans: c 4) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18Ans: b 5) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. Ans: c 6) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrsAns: a 7)There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/16 filled after 4 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 8hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrsAns: a

8) Unnecessary data. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red , 10 white , 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30 orange. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow?a) 59 b) 8 c) 50 d) 42Ans: a(32+25+2) 9) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?

a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2)

10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal

system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1

to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108

Ans: d

11) 12 people {a1, a2, …, a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words,

there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, …, {a11, a12},

{a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with

at least one person in the set is

a) 12 b) 4 c) 18 d) 11

Ans: B

12 ) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacked one

above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The

goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another

position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a

position i below the top coin (0 = i = 100). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies

doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player

makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move.

If the gold coin happens to be on top when it’s a player’s turn then the player wins the

game.

A. Alice has no winning strategy.

B. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then

C. In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move.

D. In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move.

Ans: D

13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40,

statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.’ Which statements

are true and which are false?

A. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false.

B. The last second statement is true and the rest are false.

C. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.

D. All the statements are false.

14) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there

is to be no “cycle” of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2,

……, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ……, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake

hands).

a)7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8

Ans: c

15) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters

randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1

letter is inserted in an improper envelope?

a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12

Ans: a

16) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one

of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the

person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of

the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying

B. leftmost suspect is innocent .

C. leftmost suspect is guilty

a) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only

Ans: c

17) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides

of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is

a) 4 b) 3 c) 0 d) 1

Ans: a 3 lines are given so ans is 4 one incenter and 3 excenters. If it is 3 line segments then

ans would be 1


N = 15 + X*(Y – Z)

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to

maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single

digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then

chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok

proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal

strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be

Ans: 15+18 =33

19) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes

in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5

of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered

only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as the win the

race?(for this values are changed)

a) 8 b) 5 c) 37 d) 80

Ans: c

20) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45. For all values of n from 1 to 45,

statement n says “At most n of the statements on this sheet are false”. Which statements

are true and which are false?

A. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

B. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

C. All statements are true.

Ans: c

21) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes

of size 1 cm. If 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of

the smaller cubes remain unpainted?

a) 900 b) 488 c) 563 d) 800

Ans: c

22) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7

billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in

products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They

receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such

programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can

be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?

a) 72 b) 432 c) 12 d) 144

Ans: b

23) The teacher is testing a student’s proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following

question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can

you help the student find the answer?

a) 12 b) 18 c) 6 d) 21

Ans: b

Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression

N = X – Y – Z

24) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to

maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single

digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then

chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok

proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal

strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be

a) 2 b) 4 c) 9 d) -18

Ans: a

25) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with

average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it

crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got

dog. compute the speed of dog?

Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it.

Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,

Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).

Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr

Ans: 16.5km/hr.

26) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of

number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins.

One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die

have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning?

a) 5 red and 1 blue faces.

b) 1 red and 5 blue faces.

c) 3 red and 3 blue faces.

Ans: c

27) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is

36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40?

a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89

Ans: 89

Technical and managerial Round:

Questions asked to some of my friends.

Tell me about yourself?

1. Programs on Fibanoci, Reversing a string, sorting techniques normally and by using

double pointers, programs on pointers, swapping normally and by using pointers.

2. Difference between C and C++?

3. Inheritance, polymorphism?

4. Why do we use header files, how are they created?

5. Layer used in Mobile?

6. OSI layer?

All the Best.

See you in TCS.

Test Paper :28

Paper Type : Aptitude - Numerical Test Date : 1 October 2010

Test Location : SRM University, Chennai Posted By : Syed basha

This is Syed Basha doing 4th B-Tech. (SVEC) these are some of the question i faced in the written examsee every previous paper, every question i was faced are from previous papers only (almost). Go through this paper once 1) New town is straight to the north of New york. A high way M runs from newtown making an angle of 61 degree south east. from newyork there is also an high way N which runs Northeast 61 degrees. If high ways M and N are straight then findout the acute angle made at their intersection point.

Ans: 180-(61+61)=58 (the high ways make a triangle the addition of 3 angles of a triangle is 180)

2) There are 7 meetings A,B,C,D,E,F,G. One meeting should happen in one day. Meeting A is on Sunday c and the meetings should happen after B. Then E ,F,G meetings should occur in three conjucutive days. And meeting g is on Saturday. Then meeting the should occur on which day?a) Sun b) Mon c) Wed d) Friday

Ans: c

3) There are 9 weights like 16,19.156.26, 106,15,24,36 (in kg). There are three persons like rohit, sameer and imran. each lifts 3 types of weights. Rohit”s total lifted weight is 2 times than the weight lifted by Rohit. What is the weight lifted by imran?

Ans: Total weight=16+19+156+26+106+15+24+36=398 kg

Suppose option is y kg lifted by imran(choose from option) then 3x+y=398=>x=(398-y)/3 here x should be a whole number then y is the weight lifted by imran.

4. 9 A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of winning?


5. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter?

a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21Ans: 16

6. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?


7. Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?


8. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns: 23

9. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y).

10. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?Ans: 18

11. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35 kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he took?Easy one try it.

12. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 12 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4,

repetation of no. is allowed?Ans: (5)^11

13. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’?Ans: bird(parakeet)

14. Key words in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question one number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26 15 b?Ans:54(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=267*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)

15. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape

16. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and speaks truths on other days.. one day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?

17. Man, Bear, North, South, Walks.Ans: White

18. 2880 is divided by which smallest no. So we get no. which is perfect square?Ans= 5Explanation: 2880/5=576 sure sort question. 19. There are to prime no(with some nonsence stuff) then addition of two prime no is 13, and multiplication is 21, then what are some of there squares?Explanation: XY=21 and X+Y=13. Solve using calciAns of X & Y will b in points. Then x2+y2=?? 20. Smita was makin 1 design(again some nonsence) size of larger cube to be made is 5*5*5 using smaller cubes of 1*1*1. She created solid larger cube Then she decided to make hollow cube. Then how many 1*1*1 cubes required to make hollow larger cubeAns: 104Explanation: (25+25)+(15+15)+(12+12)=104 21. 2X/5Y=5X/3Y Then what is x/y

22. A pizza parlor provides pizzas. There were 2 toppings available initially peperoni and salami. But now they, have introduces 8 new toppings(some names) to select from. A person wishes to buy two different pizzas of new topping in how many ways he can do that?Ans: 8 X 7=56

23. Person travels to(some nonsence stuff). If he goes from A to B with speed of 4kmph and returns back to B with speed of 5 kmph. What is his average. Speed of Journey? (Values may

be different) Ans: 4.44 (It's not 4.5)

Explaination: 2PQ/(P+Q)===2*4*5/(4+5)=4.44kmph

24. There is a dice having value from 1 6 on each face and a pack of cards having face card aces(hugh chunk of nonsense). When 2 dies are thrown and their scores are added then which sum will come max number of times?1. 8 2. 9 3. 10 4. 11Ans: 8

Explanation: 8-2,6 3,5 4,4 9-4,5 3,6 10-5,5 4,6 11-5,6

Thus 8's probability is more

25. ''Susha brought terilon cloth and rope to(some nonsence now just go to last 2 lines)''. If rope is 153 meter long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1 meter long then how many times will she have to cut it?Ans: 152 times

26. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked(some nonsense) total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there

Ans: This can be done by looking at the option first check the no of bicycles and then multiply it by 2. And then substract the multiplication value from 240 if the value is divided by 4 then that is the answer 27. 1/3 of a number is 6 more than 1/6 of that number then what is the number.Ans: x/3=x/6+636

All the best!

Say All is well

Test Paper :29

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 27 November 2010 Test Location : Bapatla Engineering college, Vijayawada Posted By : M. Swarna Kumar

Hi Friends,

I am M. Swarna kumar Bapatla Engineering College. TCS requitment is conducted on 27-11-10 to 29-11-10.

It consis of 4 rounds.

1. Written test2. Technical round3. MR round4. HR round

In written test the questions is as follows it have total 35 questions

1. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is how many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 375 b) 3125 c) 500 d) 625 Ans: d

2) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5Ans: 0.25

3) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12

Ans: 12

4) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 18 b) 72 c) 6 d) 12Ans: 12

5) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?

a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212Ans: 0

6) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false.b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false

Ans: A

7) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?a) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.b) The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.d) The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.Ans: D

8) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty.The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . Neither A nor BBoth A and BB onlyA onlyAns:D

9) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isa) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0Ans: 4

10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 256 b) 64 c) 192 d) 54Ans: 192

11) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there

is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands).a) 9 b) 8 c) 7 d) 6Ans: 9

12) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.

Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9

Ans: 5/9

13) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?a) 12b) 16c) 8d) 24

Just substitute values then you get ans

14) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = 9 + X + Y - Z


Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 27 b) 0.0 c) 20 d) 18Ans: 20

15) Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs, Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is one of those days when I lie too. Then find today?1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?Ans:18

16) Two tanks A and B. A fills 1 ltr/1 hour B fills 10, 20, 30 per hour. If this is (passage unnecessary). If 1/4th tank of B takes 15 hours to fill how much it time will to take to fill complete tank? Ans:17

17) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boysAns: 1/2^6 = 1/64

18) A Toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 mins, now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 5 times consecutively (1 out of)?Ans: 1/32 19) 20men and 20 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa.Ans: Never

20) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 234 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?

Ans: Go with options. Multiply each option with 2 and subtact the obtained no from 234. If it is exactly divisible by 4, that is the answer. 21) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2 chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the friuts equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape 22) A piza shop made pizzas with to flavours. In home there are ‘9’ different flavors, in that ‘2’ flavors are taken to made piza in how many ways they can arrange?(Logic: NcM, N= 9, M=2 ) 23) One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, if the material cost is: 272, what is the total cost?

Ans: 4x=272 => x=68; now total cost = 272 + 6(68)+7(68).

24) 4 years before Paul’s age is 3times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?Ans: x-4 = 3(y-4); x=6y: Solve you will get it. 25) In a question, last part has, the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the numbers we get 55, after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?Ans: Easy you can do it, simple equtions

26) In a room (unwanted stuff) Sports readers, 10 tables, 4 chairs per table, each table has

different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person?

Ans : 6

Test Paper :30

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 26 November 2010 Test Location : SRM University, Chennai Posted By : Gupta

Hi, TCS created the world record of recruiting 1080 from the single campus. These are the questions i remembered. Some of them will be repeated twice or thrice(values will be changed). On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week- Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.

1) Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 12:40 am.a) 71 b) 251 c) 111 d) 89

Ans: 89

2) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 6 b) 12 c) 72 d) 18 Ans: 12

3) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?a) 800 b) 488 c) 900 d) 500 Ans: 488 4) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?a) 432 b) 6 c) 12 d) 72 Ans: 432 5) Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A..

Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken in hours for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 15.88 b) 14.88 c) 476 d) 29.75

Ans: 14.88

6) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e. the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 10 points in the plane isa) 5 b) 3 c) 9 d) 10 Ans: 10 The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 7) 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer?a) 18 b) 21 c) 12 d) 6

Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression

N = 12 + X*(Y - Z)

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be

a) 93 b) 12 c) -69 d) 30

Ans: 12

8) The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pacelength in meters. Bernard knows his pacelength is 164cm. The formula applies to Bernard's walking. Calculate Bernard's walking speed in kmph.

a) 23.62 b) 8.78 c) 11.39 d) 236.16

Ans: 23.62

9) There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is

a) 3/4 b) 37/38 c) 1/2 d) 14/19

Ans: 14/19

10) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?

a) 40 b) 37.80 c) 8 d) 5

Ans: 37.8

11) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 30. For all values of n from 1 to 30, statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are true and which are false? a) All statements are false.b) All statements are true.c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.d) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

Ans: b

12) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 9 hours b) 7 hours c) 10 hours d) 8 hours

Ans: 8

13) Planet fourfi resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3-dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins.

• The diameter of the coins should be at least 64mm and not exceed 512mm.

• Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater.

• The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.

14) You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these requirements and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design?

a) 8 b) 5 c) 6 d) 9

Ans: 6

14) Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius of the circles to the side of the square.

a) 1:(4+ 7v3) b) 1:(2+ 6v2)

c) 1:(2+ 7v2) d) (2+ 7v2):1Ans: b

All the best.

Test Paper :31

Paper Type : Aptitude - General Test Date : 26 November 2010 Test Location : SRM University, Chennai Posted By : Biswajyoti Barman

Hi Everyone, I am Biswa, from SRM University, Chennai. TCS came to our college on 26-11-2010. There were 3 rounds

1) Aptitude test.2) Technical round3) HR

Please appear in the TCS mock test which gonna give you enough confidence.Aptitude test: (35 Questions, 80 mins, online test)

1. A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?

2. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?a) Loss 23 b) gain 23 c) gain 54 d) Loss 54

3. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 4. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?0.75,1,.5,.25Ans: Probability= (area of inner circle)/(area of outer circle)i.e (r/2)^2/r^2 =1/4=0.25

5. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * v (t – 8 ) for t = 8Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years

back did the solar blast occur?a) 24 b)12 c)8 d)16

Ans: Simple substitutional problem

6. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = 9 + X + Y – ZWhere X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 27 b)18 c) 20

7. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A’s chances of winning.

Let’s assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 4/9 b) 2/3 c) 1/3 d) 5/9

Ans: Paul will choose the team with the same probability as the team will winSo the final probability is (2/3)*(2/3)+(1/3)*(1/3)=5/9

8) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

Ans: Apply (n1)*(t1)/(w1)= (n2)*(t2)/(w2) wheren1, n2 are number of peoplet1, t2 are timew1, w2 are work

9) 36 people {a1, a2, …, a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, …, {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is?a) 11 b) 12 c) 13 d) 18Ans: 18

10) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.’ Which statements are true and which are false?

a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false.b)The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.c)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.d)All the statements are false.

Ans:B

11. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? Ans: 0

12) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? a) All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent.b) All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent .A onlyNeither A nor BBoth A and BB only

13) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines isAns: 1, incentre

14) One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel – Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?

Friday, Saturday, Thursday, WednesdayAns: Thursday 15. A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?a) 488 b) 800 c) 900 d) 500

Ans: First take 5 cm cube so its volume is 5^3=125 and it is hallow of 1 cm thickness so the inner cube has 3cm edge so its volume is 27subtraction 125-27=98so 98 1cm cubes can be made in those 9818 are no color face cubes so no of faces which are not coloured are 18*6=10820 are two color face cubes so 20*4=80 faces are not coloured60 are one colored faces so 60*5=300 faces are not coloured.so totally 108+80+300 faces are not colored

16) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = X – Y – ZWhere X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok

proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 9 b) -18 c) 2 d) 20

Ans: -18

17) A greengrocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get?

1 apple, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts1 apple, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts1 apple, 1 chickoo, 1 peanut

Ans: Elimination process.Given 7pLet us take 3 applesTotal cost=3*1=3pSo each boy gets “1 apple”(as 3 boys share each of them equally)Now we remain wid 4p2 chochos for 1pTotal cost for 6 chokoes 1p*3=3pNow that we share those 2 chocs equally among the 3 children.Now we remain with 1pFor 1p we get 3 peanuts we share those 3 among the 3 boys equallyso finallyFor each boy

a) 1 apple b) 2 chockos c) 1 peanuts 18) The teacher is testing a student’s proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer?a) 12 b) 21 c) 6 d) 18 19) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 37.80 b) 8 c) 40 Ans: 37.80 20) There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability isa) 1/2 b) 14/19 c) 37/38 d) 3/4

Ans: 14/19 21) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They

receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 12 b) 6 c) 72 d) 18 Ans: Simple formula.

people X time /lines = people1 X time1 / lines112×12/12 = 72 x x/72 solve for xx=12Answer: 12

22) There are two statements. There is also a question. Choose 1 if the question can be answered by using either one. Choose 2 if the question can be answered using both the statements. Choose 3 if the question can not be answered using these two statements Statement 1: Avinash spends 30% on house rent, 20% on children’s education,40% on foodsStatement 2: Pritam spends 20% on house rent, 45% on children’s education,20% on food

Question: If pritam spends more than avinash on foods who spends more on children’s education? The question can be answered bya) 1 b) 2 c)3

Ans: c

23) There are pepsi 1 litre & oil 1 litre. It is given as 1 spoon of pepsi is aken and is mixed with Oil. Then 1 spoon oil&pepsi is taken and is mixed with pepsi then which of the condition holds true. Easy.

These are a few questions which i can remember now. cut off was around 21-22.

The interview round was a cake walk for me. Basically i am a electronics and telecomm student so they stressed me only on my core subjects like wireless communication, broadband communication etc. Be thorough with all the basics and success is yours. They asked a few very easy programming questions likea) Difference b/w C and C++

In my college around 700 students were allowed for direct interview for securing 75% in 10th, 12th and 7.5 cgpa upto 6th sem. Remaining 1300 students were seating for the aptitude test, out of which 750 students cleared the test. I also cleared the test. i.e. total 1450 students were in the process of interview. Out of which a mammoth 1080 students were placed in TCS.

I got my offer letter via email on 28th November'2010.This is probably a day which should be written in history when a company has selected 1080 students from a single college.

See you all in TCS.

Feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Test Paper :32

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 19 November 2010 Test Location : RVR & JC College Of Engg, Guntur Posted By : Lakshman Sakhamuri

Hi, This is lakshman. I have attended for TCS on-campus placement in our college. TCS conduct four rounds 1) Aptitude test2) Technical round3) MR round4) HR round Total participated: 753Finally selected: 245 All the questions I faced in interview are from previous papers from Freshersworld.com and the sample tests conducted by TCS. questions are same but changing numericals.

If we are perfect in sample tests wecan easily crack the aptitude. In technical if we are from computer branch background they will touch all the concepts that we have learned likec, C++, Java, data structures, operating systems, DBMS.

For non-computer branches they will touch C, C++, data structures and also core subjts that they have in academics with resceptive their branch. If we clear technical, almost 80% we are selected. Be confident in MR & HR:

Refer the questions that placed below.

1) A green grocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get?

1 apple, 2 chickoos, 1 peanut 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts 1 apple, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts 1 apple, 1 chickoo, 1 peanut

2) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 5 b) 37.80 c) 8

3) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?

a) 12 b) 72 c) 6

4) There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability isa) 3/4 b) 37/38 c) 1/2

Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits. RAPETEKAa) Bird b) Fruit c) Vegetable

6) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?a) 800 b) 488 c) 900

7) A hunter leaves his cabin early in the morning and walks one mile due south. Here he sees a bear and starts chasing it for one mile due east before he is able to shoot the bear. After shooting the bear, he drags it one mile due north back to his cabin where he started that morning. What color is the bear?a) Grey B) White c) Brown

8) Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A.. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 14.88 b) 476 c) 15.88

9) The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grandchild is three times older than the age of my youngest grandchild and my eldest grandchild's age is two years more than the ages of my two youngest grandchildren added together. How old is my eldest grandchild?a) 15 b) 12 c) 10

10) The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question.1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number?Can you help the student find the answer?a) 18 b) 21 c) 6

11) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?a) 7 hours b) 9 hours c) 10 hours

12) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expressionN = X - Y - ZWhere X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would bea) 9 b) -18 c) 4

13) A man is standing in front of a painting of a man, and he tells us the following: Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my father's son. Who is on the painting?a) His son b) His father c) He himself

14) One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel - Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?a) Thursday b) Monday c) Tuesday d) Sunday

15) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 6 b) 72

16) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25

17) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8

Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.

Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?

a) 24 b) 12 c) 8 d) 16

* Do not click on the exit button unless you are sure.

18) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.

Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?a) 4/9 b) 2/3 c) 1/9 d) 5/9

19) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

20) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 64 21) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set isa) 12 b) 13 c) 18 d) 11

22) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move.

If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game.

Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Thena) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.

c) Alice has no winning strategy.d) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move.

23) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false.b) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.c) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.d) All the statements are false.

24) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands).a) 7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8

25) Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is

How many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 375b) 625c) 500d) 3125

26) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?a) 0b) 12/212c) 11/12d) 1/12

27) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . A onlyNeither A nor BBoth A and BB only


29) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 40 b) 37.80 c) 8 d) 5

30) There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability isa) 3/4 b) 14/19 c) 37/38 d) 1/2

31) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?a) 900b) 488c) 500d) 800

32) The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grandchild is three times older than the age of my youngest grandchild and my eldest grandchild's age is two years more than the ages of my two youngest grandchildren added together. How old is my eldest grandchild?a) 13 b) 10 c)15 d) 12

33) Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A.. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.a) 29.75 b) 15.88 c) 476 d) 14.88

The tip for TCS exam is. If you don't answers for the questions then don't mark it.If you follow this tip you can easily crack the written test.

In our college 350 members selected for technical out of 753.

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Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 17 November 2010 Test Location : VR Siddhartha engineering college, Vijayawada Posted By : Md. Atavur Rahaman

Hi, I am Atavur Rahaman from chandolu, Guntur(D.T);

I am from VR Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada.

Interview structure:1) Written Test(only aptitude; no verbal)2) Technical Round(stress on your place of interest)3) HR and MR (prepare previous HR & MR questions) * In our college "678" members are attended; out of "370" are cleared written test.* In these 370 around 280 are cleared techncal round.* In those 280 members 220 are cleared all remaining rounds Written test:

It cinsist of 35 questions all are quantitative. Time is 80 mins. Its special offer for our Siddhartha but in general time will be only 60 mins cut off was not declared. 1) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2 chickoos, 1 grape 2) Both questions are just 1st question but changed values.

3) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely?Ans: 7 hours 4) In a market 4 man are standing. The average age of the four before 4 years is 45, aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average weight of all? I am not sure but question is like this, very easy 5) A question on average speed Hint: Formula{(2*v1*v2)/(v1+v2)} 6) A question on ratio of ages between ages. Just like ages of two persons is 6:5 sum of their ages is 44 ofter how many years the ratio would be 8:7?Ans: 8 (may be some different value)

7) A large story bla bla bla at last speed of train given and time was given caliculate distance.Hint: S=T*V In some times you have to convert time from km/hr to m/sec or vise versa.Formula: kmph--to--m/sec-- multiply with (5/18)m/sec --to--kmph-- multiply with (18/5); 8) A question on cubes: A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of thesmaller cubes remain unpainted?

a)800 b)488 c)900 9) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5

of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?

a) 5 b) 37.80 c) 8

10) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?

a) 12 b) 72 c) 6 11) I am surprised that there are three qustions again repeated by just changing numbers(very easy ) 12) This question is simple very simple this much long question is common in written exam neglect unnecessary data. You have to learn how to catch necessary data from whole stuff. 13) Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a) 14.88 b) 476 c) 15.88 14) The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer?

a) 18 b) 21 c) 6 15) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litreevery hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 7 hours b) 9 hours c) 10 16) Again this below question is repeated thrise by changing values.

Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining

variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 9 b)-18 c) 4 17) See this question how easy; but he twisted it in very nice way. Taste it: A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and ithits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the centerof the circle than the periphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25 18) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 24 b) 12 c) 8 d) 16 19) This is very simple but a little bit twisted.

For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.

Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?

a) 4/9 b) 2/3 c) 1/9 d) 5/9 20) People {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is

a) 12 b) 13 c) 18 d) 11 21) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game.

Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. Alice has no winning strategy. 22) There are two questions like below. He changed a little in values and statement. 23) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statementand says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false'. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. c) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. d) All the statements are false. 24) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12 25) There are three questions on this model just changed statements.

26) One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel - Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it? a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Sunday d) Monday 27) India with a burgeoning population and a plethora of vehicles (at last count there were more than 20 million of them) has witnessed big traffic jams at all major cities. Children often hone their counting skills by adding the wheels of vehicles in schoolyards or bus depots and guessing the number of vehicles. Alok, one such child, finds only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons in his schoolyard. He counts the total number of wheels to be 46. What could be the possible number of bicycles? a) 25 b) 5 c)4 These are some questions. All are very easy but you may not get these repeated questions in paper but it's very easy. Technical round:

It's very cool round.He just stressed on DBMS and I answered 75% of all questions. Like,* Joining tables* Simple queries* Primary key* Foreghn key.* Nested querys* plsql data types. HR round:

He asked just simple questions about my family? prepare following.

Tell me about your self About profile of TCS Why should i hire you Strengths and weakness Hobbies, it's very important And be confident while answering Don't lie

All the best!

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Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 19 November 2010 Test Location : Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Posted By : Mahesh

Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is

1) How many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?Can you help Alok find the answer?3753125500

2) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns.

A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing).

The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on ubsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then Alice has no winning strategy.

In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.

3) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle.

What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? 0.75 1 0.25 0.5

4) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is13181112

5) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.

Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total.How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?1872612

6) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?01/1211/1212/212

7) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false.The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false

8) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?

The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.

9) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty.The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . Neither A nor BBoth A and BB onlyA only

10) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is4310

11) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

25664 192 54

12) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands).9876

13) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match

with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.

Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?5/91/92/34/9

14) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formulad = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8

Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?1216824


N = 9 + X + Y - Z


Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be270.02018

16) Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs, Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is one of those days when I lie too. Then find today? 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?Ans:18

Learn the conpects of the questins these questions are repeating by changing the values.

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Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 18 September 2010 Test Location : Chennai Posted By : Afnan Pathan

TCS Latest Fresher Job Interview Placement Paper, 18th September 2010, Chennai.

1) Ramu & Sangeetha went for biological analysis to a island which is 34km from their place. They travelled in a boat which went at a speed of 2m/s. when they are in half a distance in the boat sangeetha note there are 7 leg & 8 leg octopuses under the water. Ramu counted the total number of legs of octopuses and got 54. Sangeetha instantly said I know how many 7 leged octopuses are there under the water. They both reached the island after 20 min they left . How many seven leged octopuses does sangeetha calculate?

1. 4 2. 5 3. 6 4. 7

Ans: Total number of legs of both 7 & 8 leged octobus = 54. Find number of 7 leged octopuses

Go from answer

4(7 leged octobus) + X = 54.

5(7 leged octobus) + X = 54. Similarly do for all. The x you get should be exactly divisible by 8. Only one answer will satisfy the condition.

Note: You may find lot of nonsense stuff to test verbal ability. Just take required data alone. From the next question onwards I post necessary data only.

2) Total number of wheels of bicycles & 4 wheeled vechicles is 38. How many bicycles are there? ( This question has more than 6 lines to test your verbal abilty)

Ans: Similar to above. Go from answer

Choices from answer( 2 wheelers) + X = 38. X should be exactly divisible by 4

3) Jumbled sentences given APPRAKEET. What is the meaning.

PARAKEET

Ans: Bird

4) Logical problem asking for the colour of beer Ans: White 5) There are 14 spots. Each spot has 8 seats. 28 people seated in all the spots. No similar number people sat in any spot. How many spots left with no people at all Ans: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28. So remaning 7 spots has no people at all 6) Can A has milk. Can b had water. A spoon of milk from can A is added to Can B. Then from the mixture same amount is taken from Can B and added to Can A. Ans : Can A contains less item than item in Can B

7) There is a plane contains 32 points. All the 32 points have equal distance from point x.Which of the following is true

A: All the 32 points lie in circle.B: The distance from x to all 32 points is less then the distance between each other Ans : A only 8) Horse ran at speed of 34kmph. Pony started after 2 hours. Horse ran for 4 hours. What is the speed of pony? Ans: (34*4)/(4+2) 9) A clock gives 4 ticks consequetively. After days it has become defective & gives only 2 ticks. What is the probability that clock produces 3 ticks consequetively. 1 out of ? Ans: 1/8 10) Person points to a photo and says the main in the picture is the son of my fathers son. What is the relationship between him & person in the photo? Ans: he himself 11) There is a cloth of 153 yards length. X has to cut the cloth into 153 pieces. He takes 5 seconds to cut each piece how much time he require to cut all 153 pieces? Ans: 152*5 12) Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old MERCEDES wich gave him 35 kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he took?

Ans: 490/35*3

13) Jagan lies on Monday Tuesday WednesdayPradeep lies on Wednesday Thursday Saturday.Jagan says I didn’t lie yesterday. Pradeep also says that I didn’t lie yesterday. What day is today?

Ans: Sunday

14) The ratio of current age of X and Y is 5:7. After how many years their age becomes 7:9? Ans: Simple ratio By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 5 digit no. Can be formed which is divisible by 4, repetation of no. is allowed? Ans: 2500 (not sure)

XY=21 and X+Y=13. Ans of X & Y will be in points then x square+y square=?

Ans: Solve using quadratic eqn. you get x & y

15) Person travels from A- to b in 9km/hr, and B to A in 4 Km/hr. What is the average speed?

Ans : 2(9*4)/9+4

16) Find total cost to build a robot. The cost of spare parts use to bulid it is in the ratio 4:5:3. The cost of spare parts are $40, $50, $60.

Ans: Simple ratio. I don’t remember the question exactly but all you do is to add $40+$50+$60 to get the answer

17) Pizza shops make pizza of same thickess and different diamester. Cost of 8cm is 80, 12 cm is 240, 24 cm is 720. Which pizza gives best value for money?

Ans: Divide cost by cm & compare with others. Hint. Take smallest one and multiple till you get the largest pizza. Then compare both you get the answer

18) Average marks of 5 sub is 61. Six sub mark is 89. What is the average after adding 6th?

Ans: (61*5) + 89/6

19) Find number of 3’s between 1 & 100?

Ans: 19

20) A pipe can fill a tank at the rate 1 litre/hr, the tank is 1/32 filled in 6 hours. After how many hows the tank is filled completely

Ans: 1/16, 1/8, ¼, ½, 1. After 5 hours.

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Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 31 August 2010 Test Location : SJBIT College Bangalore Posted By : V.V.Sreekanth

Hi,

I am V.V.Sreekanth, i have done my MCA (2007-10) from MIC College of Tech, Vijayawada. Our college is not so much good in terms of placement so most of our college students could not get any job from college and i was 1 of them. So I decided 2 go to Bangalore. I got my TCS hall ticket on 31st of August, I reached Bangalore. There was TCS off-campus in SJBIT college on 31st August 2010. There was actually 4 rounds: 1) Written test2) Technical3) GD4) HR There were around 3000 students, out of which only 200 cleared the written. I was one of them. Written test:

It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers and having a little presence of mind. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8 then what is the present age of sam?Ans: 12years (names and values may change) 2) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )?Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32

3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2 4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 14kmph up and 26kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y) 5) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?Ans: 15 6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are there they have to select 4 flavors from 16 flavors. In how many ways we can select?Ans: 16C4 7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find XAns: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?Ans: 4(155)/7=31

8. The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, cost of repairing and cost of painting in the ratio of 5:2:3. The cost used for material is 200. Find the total cost of making the robot?Ans: 400 (just calculate it). 10) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) MI mosaic and Woody4) MI mosaic and Lilac

11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do

not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in:Ans: white

14) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns 21

15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys?a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024 16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter. Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?Ans is 2(141) =242 17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?Ans is 15 pounds

18) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Juliac) Chelsea is shorter than Juliad) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and JuliaAns: d

19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls 20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color. 21) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head

c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form?I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily.

23) Ram buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to Ram. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?Ans is 23(cost price + change given).

24) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x.

25) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first roundAns is 28.


29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32Ans is 6 30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of Peter?Ans is 20 31) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 16, yellow 40 and red 36. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color.Ans : very easy..

32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?(Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

33) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘IGTRE’?Ans: Animal(TIGER)

34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri, Sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?

35) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?Ans: 18

I attempted 28 questions exactly. Result was declared after 2 hours and my name was among the successful guys. I was so happy. Then they asked us 2 come on 4th Sept at 1:30 PM as it was getting late that day.

Technical:

I reached there by 11:00 on 4th. After checking our documents, we were made 2 sit in a room and asked 2 wait 4 the turn. My turn came around 2 pm and within an hour, result was declared and again my name was in the list.

Questions asked from me are:

1) Tell me about. yourself.Ans: I told confidently. 2) Your project in detail and your role in it.Ans: I explained my entire project with diagrams. It took almost 20 minutes. He was satisfied. 3) Problems faced in projectAns: I explained because I have done my project in South Central Railways(SCR). It was a live project done by me. 4) Your favourite subjects in MCA.Ans: Be well prepare with atleast 1. I told C and Java 5) Why java? Ans: Because it is a powerful language. And I explained some oops concepts which I like the most. 6) You like programming or theoretical subjects?Ans: Be confident about this. I told programming subjects. 7) He asked me to write some code of my academic project.

Ans: I have written that and explained well. He impressed. 8) Difference b/w linux and windows?Ans: I explained kernel and its use.. 9) Which database you used in your project?Ans: I told oracle 10g 10) Why?Ans: I told that SCR has Oracle licensed version. That’s y I used this. 11) Random algorithm which I used in my projectAns : explained confidently… 12) How to do project planning?Ans : I explained SDLC life cycle perfectly… 13) He also asked me to explain some new concepts that I know in C.Ans : Actually I have done some programes using graphics in C. So I explained them. He impressed and gave shakehand. 14) Why TCS? 15) He asked some questions on college details etc. Only 100 cleard the technical.

GD: Actually GD was not an elimination round in TCS. It was very easy. My topic was Love marriages vs Arranged marriages. Be confident. raise atleast one best point. Then you will be selected. After half an hour, I was called for HR Me: Good evening sir.Int: Good evening, take your seat. Me: Thank you sir. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to them)Int: Tell me about yourself. Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my answer). Int: Tell me about. Your family background.Me: Bla Bla Int: Tell me about your hobbies?Me: Told as cricket and internet surfing.Then he asked some questions about cricket. So be well prepare with your hobbies Int: Why do you want to join TCS?Me: Told some strong points about TCS and he was impressed with my answer.

Int: I you are rejected today, then what will you do?Me: Told Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)?Me: Yes sir I am willing to write 10 years also. Because it is TCS. Then he smiled a lot. Int: Thank you.(It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results through mail within 3 weeks. I thought i will be selected because i was confident about my performance)

Finally, i got mail on 21st sept. Thanks to GOD, I was in TCS. Around 80 students were selected in this round. If you have failed yet, don’t get disappointed. Losers got a chance to correct their mistakes and winners lost their chance to correct their mistakes. If you are selected, remember, you are better than those who are participated for that interview, but not the ‘Best’. I got selected in off-campus, I am very happy for that. Because, i completed with the other college students also. But those who got selected in On-campus are completed with the students of their college. Getting job in TCS is one of my great achievements in my life.

So do your home work well and keep faith in GOD.

All the be

Test Paper :37

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 23 October 2010 Test Location : G.L.Bajaj Knowledge park 2, Greater Noida Posted By : Sukhi

Hello!

My name is Surjeet Singh, i did my B.E (2006-10) in ECE discipline from pdmce. Our college is not so much good in terms of placement so most of students could not get any job from college and i was 1 of them. So I decided 2 go for off-campus. I got my TCS hall ticket on 19th of Oct.

There was only one Written test.

There were around 3000 students.

Written test Round:

It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns: 23

2) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y)

3) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find XAns: 17

3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?Ans: 4(155)/7=31

5) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )?Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32

6) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2

7) (There was a long story, I’ll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that’s not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:1) Balsamic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) MI mosaic and Woody4) MI mosaic and Lilac

8) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)

9) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number?Ans:18

10) There are 12 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys?a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024

11) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter. Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?Ans: 2(140) =240

12) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the

profit for that person?Ans: 15 pounds

13) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?Ans: I couldn't solve it.

14) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls


a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is headc) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.

I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer.

16) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form?

I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily.

17) Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?Ans: (z-1) (y-x) +x.

18) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:

a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’sb) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men

19) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round

20) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E?

21) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?

22) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple.

(Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?

a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Juliac) Chelsea is shorter than Juliad) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and JuliaI couldn't solve it 23) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32 24) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?Ans : 18 I attempted 18 questions. I'm waiting for my result as they have told us that result will be mailed to us within 3 days time management is very important during exam. I can solve more than 25 but due to lack of time management I did only 18. So be prepared.

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Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 2 September 2010 Test Location : Vardhaman Engg College Hyderabad Posted By : Srimannarayana Bhuma

Hi friends,I am Srimannarayana.B from Narasaraopeta Engg College, MCA department. I attended the TCS Off-Campus drive on 29th August 2010 in MLR college, Hyderabd. And I am selected for TCS.

TCS Recruitment process consists of 4 rounds.1. Written test (35 questions 60 minutes 1/3 negative)2. Techinical round3. Management round4. HR

Written Test: It is the most important round to achieve success. In this round 35 questions with 60 minutes .the questions are very lengthy and time consuming .but if u found the logic it is very simple. All most all questions are having 7 to 10 lines. But the useful data is in the last two lines. And one more point is in this round there is a negative marking of 1/3. If you answered the above 20 questions you will be shortlisted.

The questions are like.

1. The ticket for a journey is in the range of 1 to 63 paise.You have 63 paise in your pocket and so on. And the question is you have to change the

money into coins and all denominations are available. At final you have to buy the ticket and you should have at least one coin?(not same figures)Ans: 64 (just add 1 to highest i.e. 63+1)

2. The sum of two numbers is given and product is also given find the square of difference of two numbers.Ans:(a-b)2=a2+b2+2ab.

3. The dog and here are running. dog crosses the roads, rivers and different. Here start running after 2 hours of dog running. dog runs 30kmph in 6 hours. Then what is the averge speed of here?(values are not same)

Ans: 30*6/4

4. In a restaurant there are differnet 9flavours of pizzas.Ans: n c m

5. A length of rod is turned into triangle. The sides of a triangle are 12,16,10. if this rod is turned into square then find the area of the square?

Ans: rod length=12+16+10=38length of the side os a square=38/4;area=(38/4)*(38/4)

6. There are some chocolates. A woman can eat 3 chocolates and a man can eat 1 chocolate and a child can eat half chocolate. Then 20 chocolates is divided in.

Ans: Go through the options(5Woman, 3man, 4children).

7. A water tank is filled in the way as 256,128,64,. the parts in every hour. Then in how many hours the tank will filled?

Ans: 256,128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1 ( 9 hours) values are not same.

8. The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8 then what is the present age of sam?

Ans: 12years (names and values may change)

The result of written test is given with in 24 hours time and by luck am one of the shortlisted candidates.And the remaining rounds are conducted for me 2nd September.

Technical Interview:

For me it's a cool interview and the interviewer is very young and encouragive.My interview is like.

Sir: Tell me about yourself?Me: I answered. This is best question to impress the panel. So prepare yourself.Sir: Which project you have done in the academics?Me: I answered my project details nearly 10mins. For this answered sir was impressed.Sir: Which platform you have devloped?Me: JavaSir: How many marks you will give for Java? me: 7Sir: he asked some questions on java likeWhat is the difference b/w String and StringBuffer?What are the life cycles of servelet and Applets?Some questions on MuktiThreading?Sir: Sir wrote some lines of code like. String s1="abc";String s2="abc";String s3=new String("abc");if(s1==s2)//what it returns wheather true or false and why?if(s1==s3)//what it returns wheather true or false and why?

I answered with explanation.

Sir: What is the difference between '=='operator and .equals() func?

And some questions on SQL joins like difference between right join and left join and natural join etc.And finally he asked what is your favourite core subject? Me: OS but he didn't asked any questions on OS.

Mangement Round:

It's very easy round and less elimination round. In this round they ask simple questions and give a situations and observe ur feelings. So be confident in this round. If you cleared this round then you are almost placed. But don't neglect HR.

HR Round:

For it's me very simple and for me HR is a young lady and simply smiling face. She asked tell me about yourself?What is you are native place and for what it is famous?Who is the founder of Google?Who are the competators for the TCS in the world market as well as in Indian market?Are you willing to relocate?What is your favourite working location?

Finally the results was given after 20 days and I am one the selected candidates.

Finally my suggestion is concentrate on Written test and Technical Round.Thanks to MLR College and Vardhaman Engg College.

Thank you for reading my experience.See you in TCS. All the best for your success.

Test Paper :39

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 8 September 2010 Test Location : SBJ College, Bangalore Posted By : Krish

1) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa) 3 b) 5 c) 2

2) Paul the octopus who has been forecasting the outcome of FIFA world cup matches with tremendous accuracy has now been invited to predict ICC world cup matches in 2011. We will assume that the world cup contenders have been divided into 2 groups of 9 teams each. Each team in a group plays the other teams in the group. The top two teams from each group enter the semi finals (after which the winner is decided by knockout). However, Paul has a soft spot for India and when India plays any team, Paul always backs India. Alas, his predictions on matches involving India are right only 2 out of 3 times. In order to qualify for the semi finals, it is sufficient for India to win 7 of its group matches. What is the probability that India will win the ICC world cup?a) (2/3)^10 b) (2/3)^9 + 8/3 * (2/3)^9 c) 8/3 * (2/3)^9 d) (2/3)^10 + 8/3*(2/3)^9

3) Toy train produces at least 10 different tunes when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 meters at 10 meters per minute. However , the toy train is defective and it now produces only two different tunes at random. What are the odds that the toy train produces 4 consecutive music tunes of the same type?a) 1 in 16 b) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 8 4) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21 . What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D? a) 13 b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42Ans: c 5) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often – 8,9 or 10?a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10 6) One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the

other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it ? a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) SundayAns: a

7) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area completely at random. What are the odds that 5 consecutive cars of the same color will come through the test area at any one time?c) 1 in 16 ci) 1 in 12 cii) 1 in 32 ciii)1 in 25

8) Alok is attending a workshop “How to do more with less” and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind(as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer digits.

The problem posed at the end of the workshop is

How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4?

Can you help Alok find the answer?a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85

9) Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it Ms RAPETEKAa) Bird b) Vegetable c) City d) Fruit

10) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9

Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.

Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 12.06Ans: b

11) In the reading room of a library, there are23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a single reader? a) 8 b) None c) 16 d) 15 Ans: d

12) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured

race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18Ans: b

13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Ans: b

14) Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played?a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Ans: D 15) A research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75 sterilized cages for a certain set of laboratory experiments . To identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1 to 100 , by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requires that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius. Also , not more than 2 mice can be caged together and each cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times is the tag numbered '4' used by the lab in numbering these mice?a) 9 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21Ans: b 16) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs

Ans: a

17) Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of the following statement holds now?

a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumbler.b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumblerc) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumblerd) None of the statements holds true.

18) Francois Pachet , a researcher at Sony Computer Science laboratories is also a jazz musician. He decided to build a robot able to improvise like a pro. Named Continuator, the robot can duet with a live musician in real- time. It listens to a musical phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between materials , labour and overheads in the ratio of 4:6:2.If the materials cost $108. the cost of the robot is a) $270 b) $324 c) $216 d) $ 648Ans: b

19) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour?a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42 20) A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4 mph c) 4.8 mph d) 5 mphAns: d

21) Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up . The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month?a) $27 b) $ 18 c) $45 d) $ 486

22) Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are necessarily true?A. The points in P lie on a circle.B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than the distance between X and a point in Pa) A and B b) Neither A nor B c) B only d) A only

23) In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed – circuit television (CCTV) cameras – one for every 14 people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogates two suspects . The ratio

between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55 years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7.?a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 5

24) Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block?a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71

25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn.c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.d) Alok has no winning strategy.

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Test Paper :40

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 28 September 2010 Test Location : VNR Vignan Jyoti Engineering College Posted By : Gautam Palani

Hi Friends, This is Gautam from Pragati Engineering college, surampalem, sharing my experience in being a part of TCS family which was a thriller movie in my life, because i never expected that i will be selected. I new most of the students will have confidence that written exam will be tough and will be eliminated in written itself. So i also have the same confidence that i will never crack the written exam, before this TCS i cleared CSC written exam, so you people those who have confidence like me and very much frustrated with placements and not getting into any company because of this written exam this experience may help you 1/10 times remaining 9 is your part ok lets see my movie of my life. It was 10th September I received a mail from Mr. Ranodeep of TCS inviting for TCS written test, as ususal my confidence came into picture that i will quit in written and already my friends who already attempted also said that Questoins are very lengthy and difficult to answer it, so my confidence grew from 50 to 80 percent but remaining 20 percent confidence grown after seeing the expereinces from "frehersworld.com" written by some of my friends and one of my friend also cleared the written exam but he rejected in Managerial round bad luck he was shoked and he didn't know why he rejected but he gave me some valuable suggestions which helped me a lot. TCS exam pattern:

This time in TCS 2010 recruitment they changed the pattern, new pattern is 35 questions 60 mins for which 1 mark for correctly answering -1/3(-0.33) for wrong one's. Don't guess and dont put nearest answer just if your confident then only attempt it , I confidently attempte 25 in which 24 are correct i am proud of myself, i never believed because you already know my confidence.

Tips to crack the written:

1. Read the question from last 2 lines if not able to get go to last 3 lines, bottom up approach is more importatnt because relevent information about question is available at last lines only.

2. Topics to be concentrated in R.S Aggarwal uncle's booka) Pipes and cisterns (Only concentrate on methods like simulaneus filling taps and sequentital filling time taken and size of tub )2 problemsb) Time and Distance (Average distance problems formula-2xy/(x+y) x-first speed y-second speed -1 prob and d=s*t simple problem only 1 so total 2 problemsc) Numerical calculations simple problem based on (A+B)^2=A^2+B^2+2AB AND (A+B)^3

But not directly he will ask it using lilavathi story telling the concept at last saying that product of two numbers is something and sum of two numbers is something find sum of squres of that number A+B is given AB is given solve it using A+B whole square formal and get sum of squares 2 problems.d) Ages problems 2 problemse) Surface area and formulas on geomentry 1 problemf) Permutation -2 problemsg) Probability -2 problemsh) Blood relations -2 problems same problems from R.S uncle(Aggarwal)

Just know the concept to solve and use the 1st tip its enough you will be able to solve 16 questions 3 puzzles are there which i will be sharing all the types.

I remembered only these questions. I attempted 25 questions.

1) Two tanks A and B. A fills 1 ltr/1 hour B fills 10, 20, 30 per hour. If this is (passage unnecessary). If 1/4th tank of B takes 15 hours to fill how much it time will to take to fill complete tank?

2) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boys 3) The three sides of a triangle are given. 16, 14, 21 cms and this triangle is conveted into a square. So what will be the area of the square generated?

4) An equation of the form 4x+6y-2z=32 . Find the difference between x intercept and z intercept?Ans: x/a+y/b+z/c=

5) A Toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 mins, now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 5 times consecutively (1 out of)? 6) 20men and 20 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa.

7) 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence. 8) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 234 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? 9) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2 chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the friuts equally? 10) A piza shop made pizzas with to flavours. In home there are ‘9’ different flavors, in that ‘2’ flavors are taken to made piza in how many ways they can arrange?(Logic: NcM, N= 9, M=2 ) 11) One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, if the material cost is: 272, what is the total cost?

12) 4 years before Paul’s age is 3times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?

13) In a question, last part has, the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the numbers we get 55, after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?

14) In a room (unwanted stuff) Sports readers, 10 tables, 4 chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person? 15) Question based on V=I*R but in dis question most of data given are ridiculas like volume, density, length, height similar long story are given

16) Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 42 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?

17) A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 81 kmph, what s the average speed of the pony? (This question was really long with loads of irrelevant statement)

18) Difference between two numbers is 4 and their product is 17. Then find the sum of their squers?

19) A, B, C, D, E are there among A, B, C are boys and D, E are girls D is to the left of A and no girl sits at the middle and at the extemes. Then what is the order of their sittings.

20) Some ages problem, then asked the answer in binary.

21) Some denominations question like you have 31 paise, and ticket cost is between 1 to 31, you have to give the exact denominations for the ticket. Find all the no. of possible denominations you may prdict and you must be left wid atleast few paise?

22) Direction problems. A man goes 50 km North, then turned left walked 40 km, then turned right? In which direction is he in?

Technical Round(TR): 28th Sept

My friends faced simple C programs and briefly about project. Now It's my turn, he asked

me about my self and about my main project nearly 35 minutes and 2 simple Technical questions.You should prepare C programs like reverse of a number, palindrome, fibonacci, even number series, odd number series etc. and also data structure concepts.

MR round: Next dayThis round is horrible for me, I faced some Technical questions here also.He asked some basic concepts, i answered those questions correctly and confidently but he argued with me that your answers are wrong then i told my answers are correct sir, then he gave a horrible statement i.e "You think that I am not able to write even a simple C program also" it was strange to me but i managed the situation. After some time he said that "Ok Mr. Gautam even you are not pefect in basic cinsepts how can i select you? So you can go now try again after 6 months". He repeated this for 4 times, each time i smiled and justifying my answer, he again repeated the same for 5th time too strange for me, at that time i get up from the chair and again with a smile i asked that "Shell I wait at out side sir?" then with a smile he said that "Ok Gautam you are promoted to H.R round".I was very happy after clearing the M.R round. I proceeded to H.R round with a lot of confidence.

H.R Round:

Here also i faced some Technical questions and H.R asked me that,1) Tell me about your self?2) Tell me any 2 incidents you want to share with me?3) Why your % decreased in B.Tech? (As i had 77% in diploma, 73% in X , 68 in my B.Tech)4) Your strengths? (very frequnet qiestion but be prepared)5) Your family?6) How you ranked your self compared with your friends?

Like this my H.R completed.

It was a nice conversation between me and HR they said they will inform me within a 10 days. I got a mail that in 9 days it self statin that "you clered TCS selection process". That is my movie story. I got offer letter on13th Oct. By gods, fresherworld.com, shakkus, my friends, and myself grace i am one of TCS family.

Hope this type of interview may happen to all of you who apply for this company.See you in TCS friends.

All the best. The End.

A Film By Gautam

Test Paper :41

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 22 August 2010 Test Location : Techno India Posted By : Bedanta banerjee

Hi Friends, I would like to introduce myself as Bedanta Banerjee from Netaji Subhash Engineering Collage, Garia, Kolkata. I have sat for TCS offcampass drive on 22nd August, 2010 in Techno India Collage, Salt Lake. When I am writing this article, I already got selected in TCS and got the offer letter. Fresherworld and its placement papers helped me a lot and I am thankful to them. This made me to open my pen to share my experiences with you and if you sincerely follow my rules, you will definitely clear the entire selection process with ease.

Touchstone test:

At first, I would like to introduce you to the Touchstone test of TCS generated by TCS employees and IIT students; This is the aptitude test which you have to clear first. It consists of more than 2 lakhs questions on mainly quantitative aptitude. Don’t be frightened because of it's sheer volume; actually it consists of only 300 around questions with interchanged data. Touchstone test is a computer based test and it asks you to complete 35 questions within 60 minutes. Again, I am saying that it is a very very easy test to clear, try to follow my rules. A 3 to 4 day preparation is enough. 3 day preparation strategy 4 touchstone test :

Rule 1: Prepare yourself on the following topics; Just brush up your basics: ages, percentages, ratio and proportion, numbers, time and distance, sequence, time and work, probability, permutation and combination & blood relation. {Here probability and per/com is optional because it carries only 3-4 questions on it.}

Rule 2: Go through the previous papers in fresherworld of this test. I have also giving you some relevant questions which appeared in our test.

Rule 3: Try to solve the questions by yourself; don't memorize them because data will be changed.

Rule 4: Try to just interchange the data of the questions and solve them faster and faster. The Time Management is a important skill often tested in aptitude test. So by practicing the questions given below try to develop speed and accuracy.

Rule 5: Speed reading is a important part of this test as all the questions do have some irrelevant data. So in these 3 days of preparation, try to find the relevant data from the question and read very fast.

Tricks for aptitude test:

1) You will be asked to answer 35 questions in 60 minutes. At the beginning, don’t even think to answer all questions.

2) Just go through all the 35 questions and solve the easy ones. Every paper consists of minimum 15-17 easy questions and rest of them moderately difficult.

3) Try to answer the easy ones 15-16 questions out of 35 within 45 mins and also write the individual number of moderately easy ones or mark them [that u think can do within 3-4 mins ] in the scratch paper.

4) Last 12-15 mins of the exam, try to solve the marked ones, atleast of 5 them.

5) The difference between you and others will lay answering marked ones, so try to solve the easy 15-16 as fast as you can. [Caution: you try to believe that u can acquire 100% accuracy in easy questions; so complete the easy questions of entire range question number 1 to 35 within 40-45 mins.]

5) So after the time is completed, you will find urself answering 22-24 questions without any rigorous preparation. Those who r a bit slower in calculations can also clear this test by my plan. And cut off, as I already mentioned, lies below 20 around 18-19.

6) Last but not the least, don't try to mark the questions you are not absolutely sure; as the paper consists of negative marking, you will not be able to meet the cutoff.

Some examples of touchstone test:

1. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6Ans: c

2. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea. Equal amount . one spoon of water from 1st is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the 1st bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?

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Thought process :

Water bowl tea bowl

100 100

90w (+10w= spoon vol) 100tea+10water

90w+ (10*10/11)tea+ 10/11 w 100t- (10*10/11) t

+ 10w- 10/11w

(1st bowl’s water vol is equal to 2nd bowls tea volume)

3. Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4?a.31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657 Ans: c 4. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’? Ans: Bird

5. One problem on (785^3-235^3)/(785^2+785*235+235^2)

Ans: You are free to carry a calculator with you but you should not use it to solve this kind of problem. Because it is simple:A3-b3 / a2+ab+b2

Ans is : a-b here 785-235= 550 thats it. 6. In school there are some bicycles and 4 wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?Ans: 15

Thought process : b*2+w*4=190 i.e. , b+2w=95 now see u ca not solve 2 unknowns fron 1 eqation, so just plot options here to get the right answer and verify if you are getting integers as vales of B and W.

7. There are two persons paul and Jay .Paul lies on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday and the remaining days he speaks truth.Jay lies on Thursday,Friday,Saturday and the remaining Days he speaks truth. once they meet each other, in their conversation Paul says that yesterday is the day one among those I lie. Jay also says that yesterday I also lie. what is that day?

a) Sunday. b) Tuesday. c) Thursday. d) Wednesday[Thought process: Now this day cannot be Sunday because in Monday paul speaks truth and Sunday everyone tells truth. So it must be weekdays. Again, Tuesday can not possible because Monday and Tuesday paul speaks truth. In case of thrus day, paul speaks lie and Wednesday he speaks true. And joy speaks truth in thrusday and he speak lies in Wednesday. So, thrusday is the answer. 8. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape 9. (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans: 9 10. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160…. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely?Ans: 7 hours 11. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his [painted picture] father is my father’s son?Ans: His son 12. One question has last part like difference between two terms is 9 and product of two numbers is 10, what is the squares of sum of numbers? Ans: thought process : a-b=9 and ab= 10 a+b = sqrt[9^2 + 4*10] = 11a= 10 and b=1 so 101 ans. 13. What is the value of [(3x+8Y)/(x-2Y)]; if x/2y=2?Ans:10 {the numerical may change) 14. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in that ‘M’ flavors are taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange?(Logic: NcM )

14. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?Ans:15 15 . In one organization, material, labour and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, the material cost is: Rs. 100, what is the total cost?Ans: 425

16. KEYWORDS: density, reluctance, sensitivity, voltage, current, what is the resistance Formula is “R=V/I”

17. In a market 4 man are standing .the average age of the four before 4 years is 45, after some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average age of all?Ans: 49 18. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in 8th subject. what is the average of all the subjects?Ans: 74.625 19. In a question ,last part has, the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:6 and by adding the numbers we get 44, after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?Ans: 8 20. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph and returns to A with 80kmph, what is the average of their speed?Ans: Use harmonic mean formula: avg speed = 2ab/a+b = 2*70*80/150

21. A question like a wire is wound whose resistance is some 132. 44647 ohms. If a voltage of 30 mv, 296 ma current is applied to it what is the resistance.

Clue: use formula R= V/I. beware of voltage & current particularly kilo or milli etc. units.

22. In a city, there are 100 buildings numbered by corporation between 0-100, how many twos are shown in door,Ans: 2,12,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,32,42,52,62,72,82,92=(20 twos)

I have attempted 28 questions in the test and meet the cut off with ease. My name was 1st to be declared. In our offcampus batch of aptitude, out of 90+ students only 22 names were declared. So when it will be your turn, make sure that your name will be declared.

I think my plan to tackle the test will give you an extra edge; best of luck to you all those will be going to sit for the test in 2011.

See you at TCS. I can be reached any time at [email protected]

Test Paper :42

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 21 August 2010 Test Location : G.L Bajaj Institute of management and Technology Posted By : Rajeev ranjan

Hi Everybody,

In all, there are 4 rounds and each round is an elimination round. 1) Written Test2) Technical interview3) Managerial Interview4) HR 1) The Written test is an online test

in which: 1) 35 questions.2) 60 minutes.3) +1 each correct answers.4) -0.33 each wrong answers.5) No verbal questions, no comprehensions.6) Easy questions based on series, age, permutation & combinations, simple numerical solving ability question speed & distance, problems on trains, average, etc 1) Related to some bear problem, in which loads of diversion of mind is done but final questions is what is the colour of the bear.Ans: is white 2) Related to age sum/average of ages of 5 people is given & a 6th person joins in & then sum/average of 6 ppl are given, find the age of 6th new person. 3) Related to direction & distance: a person is travelling in so and so direction, eg: 5km North then 5km East then 10km North then so and so. Find the distance between original & final positions. 4) Permutaion relational question: A case is given, choose which permutation formula satisfies it best. 5) Ratio of ages of 2 people are given, some year back or ago & their relation/sum etc is given. Find their present ages' ratio 6) A jumbled word is given & you have to select the category it belongs to ARPAEETK Ans: PARAKEET -Its a bird 7) Related to A pony & some horse running away from stable. Horse cought the refer after few hours say 4hours. Speed of horse is 35kmph and he left stable 3 hours after pony left stable then what is speed of pony?Ans: pony ran for total 7 hours same distance covered by horse in 4hrs with 35 kmph. Thus distance of horse 35X4 & speed of pony 35X4/7 8) Mumbai building dept decide to give numbers to building. 1-30 numbers were given to industrial buildings. 1-100 were given to restaurant buildings. Find how many number of 2's (or 6's or 3's) were used while numbering restaurant buildings. 9) Some expression can be given to be solved: Use calci to solve it

10) A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 min train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 3 (or 8 etc )times consecutively. 11) There are 3 grandsons age different between 2 of grandsons is A (say 3 or 2 etc) years 1st grandson is twice elder than younger one & sum of ages of all the three is B (say 8 or 5 etc) years then what is age of eldest grandson. 12) A very long question but in the end. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old MERCEDES wich gave him 35 kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he took? 13) Related to finding out the present day: say if A event is on Mon tues thurs B on sunday sat etc. 14) The cost 1 plum is 1 cent ,2 apples

is 1 cent,3 banana is 1 cent, if A buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent den what amount of fruit each child will get? Ans: 1 Plum ,2 Apple,1 Banana 15) 2880 is divided by which smallest no. so we get no. which is perfect square?Ans: 5some more question i don't have remember.

Important points: 1) Calculator is allowed 2) Questions are lengthy unneccessarily, but are easy so do the short questions first & in lengthy questions, analyse a little bit, be smart. Generally the answers can be taken out from last part of the questions. 3) Although test is online, you can switch between the questions easily & change your answers as well, before you actually click on submit. 4) R.S. Aggarwal is enough for written test. 2) Technical Interview Questions are based upon1) project.2) Any strong language.3) Resume especially the technical skills written in your resume.4) 3 Favourite subject.

In my case they told me to give 3 subject name I gave then RDBMS, C++, Software Engg. My interviewer was impresed with me as i gave RDBMS as my first choice then he asked me about 10 to 15 question form DBMS as about joins, normalization, integrity, acid property etc all were simple and basic.

After asking question he asked me about my home towns etc and then i left the room. After 20 mins one person came and took me for MR round. I MR round he asked me abt myself why TCS. Sell your self in 1 min give your self point out of ten in Java. I gave 8. He asked me are you confident i said yes sir mainly he was checking my confdence and he asked one question from Java which i answered then he gave me a situation that two of my best friend

is not doing their work and give it to me then will i complain or not. It was atriky question which i answered very well and after that at last he asked me who is the CEO of TCS. "Frankly i was not knowing that answer but very confidently i answered" " Sir i don't know full name but his name is Mr. Srinivasan" I was knowing that i was wrong the he asked me are you sure very confidently i said yes sir. I think my confidence impresed him. then he told me Rajeev if you are right then you will get your result and if you are wong even though you will get your result and i came out after 30 min result announced and i got selected 4 last round which was HR round

In HR round they mainly asked me about my family back ground, introduce your self, why TCS, your strength and weakness etc and at last i came out. then one HR came and told me that i will be mail my result after 10 days i got a call from TCS office they asked me about my year break and family background i on know why but at last they told me that i will be mail my result after 10 to 15 day. I was quit nervious but at last on 22nd of September i got a mail about my selection anf my offer letter also

It amazing na i got deselected in TCS atlast.I hope you will fing this help full prepare well and wish me luck for my joining.

See you all in my dream company TCS.

Test Paper :43

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 7 September 2010 Test Location : MLRIT College, Hyderabad Posted By : Anil Kumar

Hi Friends,

This is Anil from RRSCET sharing my experience in being a part of TCS family which was a thriller movie in my life, because i never expected that i will be selected. I new most of the students will have confidence that written exam will be tough and will be eliminated in written itself. So i also have the same confidence that i will never crack the written exam and i never cleared any exam except this TCS, so you people those who have confidence like me and very much frustrated with placements and not getting into any company because of this written exam this experience may help you 2/10 times remaining 8 is your part (haha yeh dekhne se selc8 nahi hota beta padna zaruri hai magar bagwan saat dena) ok lets see my movie of my life. TCS(total confusing situation). It was 5th September I received a mail from Mr. Ranodeep of TCS inviting for TCS written round, as ususal my confidence came into picture that i will quit in written and already my friends also said that it has very group of large questions impossible to clear, so my confidence grew from 60 to 90 percent but 10 percent confidence grown after seeing the expereinces from freshersworld written by some of my friends and also one of my friend cleared the written exam but he failed in Technical round bad luck due to some reason but he gave me some valuable suggestions which helped me a lot and i will add some of the them here along with my suggestions. TCS exam pattern: This time in TCS 2010 recruitment they changed the pattern, new pattern is 35questions 60mins for which 1 mark for correctly answering -0.33 for wrong one's.(edar bhagawan ko mat sochna haha luck nahi kaam aata sirf talent) us life don't guess just if your confident

only attempt it i'm confident in attempting 32 in which 31 are correct i am proud of myself, i never believed because you already know my confidence. Tips to crack the written:

1. Read the question from last 2 lines if not able to get go to last 3 lines bottom up approach is more importatnt because saying about (Eg: lilavathi ka hei8 he will ask product of 2 number what are those sum of squares of the same numbers at last) this why read it from last2. Topics to be concentrated in R.S Aggarwal uncle's booka) Pipes and cisterns (Only concentrate on methods like simulaneus filling taps and sequentital filling time taken and size of tub )2 problemsb) Time and Distance (Average distance problems formula-2xy/(x+y) x-first speed y-second speed -1 prob and d=s*t simple problem only 1 so total 2 problemsc)Numerical calculations simple problem based on (A+B)^2=A^2+B^2+2AB AND (A+B)^3 But not directly he will ask it using lilavathi story telling the concept at last saying that product of two numbers is something and sum of two numbers is something find sum of squres of that number A+B is given AB is given solve it using A+B whole square formal and get sum of squares 2 problemsd) Ages problems 2 problemse) Surface area and formulas on geomentry 1 problemf) Permutation -2 problemsg) Probability -2 problemsh) Blood relations -2 problems same problems from R.S uncle(Aggarwal) Just know the concept to solve and use the 1st tip its enough you will be able to solve 16 questions 3 puzzles are there which i will be sharing all the types. a) Uncle puzzle is there which means 7 rupees must be divided between 3 things banan, choco, biscuit for buying this for this type of puzzle answer is always 1. 1st item 2-2nd item1-3rd item squence is 1,2,1 b) My papers as different puzzle that is 20 cake pieces must be divided among 3 people mother father and sons that is mother eats 2 pieces father eats 3 and son eats half so what will be the quantity to so choose the option which suits the question cum from options that is add the qunatity by father and mother and son to get total 20 which will suit it that is the answer. c) A question on arrangement on letters answers may me one is bird or animal if its repeteka its bird if its rigte its animal (tiger). d) A question on hand shake which is from shakus puzzle buk formula is 2^n=n(n-1)/2 number of hand shakes problem 8 people attending party number of hanshakes with cycle means 8*7/2=28 or if u find the word no cycle than answer is 7 one less e) A question on socks to be picked in dark room to get the socks of same color its number of choices total number of types of socks +1 f) A problem on cake preparing toppings its always (ans:ncm=28) same as handshakes g) A problem on buliding number number of 2's or 3's or 4's etc upto 9 answer is always 20 (count 2 in 22 two times every body in this forms will written8 19 its worng its answer is 20 for 2-9 number and 21 for number of 1's because 100 is included.

h) A problem on ohm law V=IR formula simple bit this problems if you prepare its enough to get 30 out of 35 may be 35 also but remaining 3 i don't know how to solve and some model question i'm uploading the file solve all those you will easily get 30 in my movie that day was the happiest day i felt because first time in my life i lost my confidence that i have previously (failing in written).I got the mail to night that I am shortlisted for TR i was very much excited first time i got the oppurtunity to prove my interview ability and technical skills and softskills(which i don't have) Technical and mangeral interview on 9th Sept My project is on Java so they concentrated only on project mainly real time questions since I done my project on my own they told me to write the code also which i wrote succesfully ony 1 module( don't worry) 2. Questions on C mainly from arrays and pointers and structures and linked lists practice one program from each just to have confident that you know all haha. Simple programs to be known fibb, factorial prime, even and odd arrays to be constriucted taking numbers as inuput, pascal traingle, pyramid all this are not asked only for me but i am writing all the question asked for CSE people for ECE what is data structure give exmple this questions for EEE they are rejecting most of them. It was combined round for me that is manegral and technical which for 30-35mins they said to wait for 10 mins besides them they said you are through to HR. I was shocked gods grace i was forwaded to HT (highly risky). HR round: Same day This round was a walking cake for me because the interviwer was like my brother who was talking very friendly with me 1. Tell me about Yourself (This was my expecting question but he not started with this question he started saying)HR: Mr Anil your eyes are read?Me: Sir, i was reading the whole night yesterday for technical round HR: So you read for technical rounds (actually i should say i was prepring not reading this the mistake he caught)Me: It's not like that sir i need to brush up all the technical topics i have in my academics HR: So if you read like this the whole night than your nerves will get disturbed you can't work in companys Me: Yes sir, but frankly speaking last time i have attended the interview in Accenture i failed to clear the technical round. So this time i don't want to miss this oppurtunity that's why sir i prepared so much and i'm successfull in doing so because if you clear TR only they will send to HR HR: Thats good Anil so wat are your weakness Me: I will never mind the time if i like to work on something i like HR: Whats your stengths Me: Hardworker sir which is already prooved( seeing my eyes haha) HR: Haha laughingly said niceMe: Sir would you like to see my achievements(diverting) HR: No i trust you, you just say me why you got those Me: Said the history of those topics and said i am interested in knowing the new tehcnologys sir

HR: Ahaa so can you tell me one which is not presently launched in a market but yet to be launchedMe : Said every thing the new tehcnology names cryonics ( getting back the dead person) HR: Vow thats really great where you got this Me: From net HR: Do you cry AnilMe: No sir HR: Last time when you cried Me: Said some situation about my mother HR: Ok asked about my family how many members are there in your family Me : 3 myslef my father and mother HR: Will you relocate?Me: Yes sir HR: But you are the only one to your parents name you may be prefering Hyderabad. Me: Yes sir, if the preference is given to me i prefer hyderabad but if the TCS requires me in other location i am ready to relocate my cousin will take care of them. HR: Ok that's fine Anil just read english news papers so that you can develop your career more and more ok by TCS all the best see youMe: Thank you sir shaking the hands came out happily. It was a nice conversation between me and HR they said they will inform me within a week but its got too late because of holidays Sept 20 the release of my movie haha at 12:30 i received a mail from Ranodeep saying your slected hahaha by gods, fresherworld, shakkus, my friends, and myself grace i am one of TCS family. Hope this type of interview may happen to all of you who apply for this company.See you in TCS friends, bye all the best for your exam. The End. A Anilkumar movie.

Test Paper :44

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 5 September 2010 Test Location : Gitam College of Engineering, Kakinada Posted By : VMS Manikyala rao

Hai Guys, This is Manik from Kakinada, i cleared TCS written test in Gitam on September 5th and interview on September 8th.

Thank god for selecting me into the TCS.

I'm in ECE student.

Aptitude test:

The aptitude test consists of 35 questions and here we have been given negative marking of 0.33 per wrong answer. At the selection the bench mark was 22marks. Its an easy test where more than 25 questions can be cleared easily.

Never try to solve the questions first that have more number of lines. Try to read last line of the questions because first lines will be of unrelevated data coming to questions first search for the numerical data in the questions and just the logic how the questions can be solved

1. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6 Ans: c

2. In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? Ans: 15

3. Man, Bear, North, South, walks. Colour of bear(Hint: North pole )Ans: White

4. A father has 7 penny�s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p.he has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape

5. (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans: 9

6. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160�.if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours7. In a market 4 man are standing .the average age of the four before 4years is 45,aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49.what is the average weight of all? Ans: 49

8. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. Each round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each reading spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spots donot have atleast a single reader. (1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) None Ans 6. because different no of persons are sitting on round table. So possible differnt combinations for 10 people will be 1 2 3 4. because max 4 people can sit on round table. so round tables left are 6. 9. A person do rock climbing at an altitude of 800 m.He go up by 7 mph. and come down by 9 mph. what was his av speed. Ans (7+9)/2=8. 10. A boy want to make a cuboid of dimension 5m, 6m, 7m. from small cubes of .03 m3. later he realized he can make same cuboid by making it hollow. Then it take some cubes less. What is the no. of these cube.Ans. Vol of solid cuboid= 5*6*7=210 m3. Vol of its inner cuboid by removal of which the cuboid will be hollow= (5-2)*(6-2)*(7-2)=60 m3, then ans will be 60/.03 11. Two years ago A was 6 times older than B. Now he is 2 times older than B. What is the age of A. Ans. Age of A=5, Age of B= Two and half.

12. What is thew value of (78*78*78-45*45*45)/(78*78+78*45+45*45) Ans. 78-45=33. a3-b3=(a-b)(a2+ab+b2)

I remember only some of these questions. Also prepare the following topics:

Ages, percentages, numbers, simplification, profit and loss, time and work, time and distance etc.

Try to see maximum all test papers previous ones

Then you can clear the first round.

Later you will be called for interview after 2 or 3 days.

There will be 3 rounds.

1. Technical round

2. M.R

3. H.R

Technical round:

As i'm an ECE student they asked about C, Data structure and digital electronics. I heard from other branches C.S.E students must concentrate on software engineering and DBMS also they hey will ask basic concepts and they may ask to right programs. So just check various programs swapping without using third variable like that.

M.R:

They will check our resume clearly and checks our fluency communication skills and leadership quallites.

H.R:

It's a cool round. If make blunders only we will be eliminated in this round.

All the best guys, Take care

Any doubts regarding these you can contact me through mail. Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Test Paper :45

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 21 August 2010 Test Location : SJB Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Posted By : Gourab Bhattacharyya

Hi, I'm Gourab Bhattacharyya from Asansol Engineering College, CSE, 2010 batch. I appeared for TCS at SJBIT in Bangalore on 21st August. TCS conducted their off-campus for a month. On 21st August. I was called at 3.00 P.M and on that day more than 1000 candidates appeared and in my batch there is about 200 students. At 5.30 p.m. our aptitude started and on 7.00 p.m i got my result, that i was cleared. The aptitude on the next day i appeared for next rounds, i.e, for technical and GD. All the details are given below.

Selection procedures: 1. Aptitude test(35 questions in 1 hour)2. Technical interview3. GD

TCS is now using the touchstone software for their online test.

Aptitude section:

There are 35 questions in 1 hour as aptitude. For each wrong answer 0.33 marks will be deducted and for each right answer 1 marks will be given. Some of the questions are given below.

Friends there is a trick of solving these questions. Don’t read the whole question carefully just see what they want and what are the data you need to give the answers. Don’t waste so much time for just 1 single question because you can get back to it after solving the easier ones.

1. A scientist who is doing a research, found that color of skin of animals vary with change in distance. One day he started to chase a beer. He walked 1 mile towards north, then turned and walked 1 mile towards east and then he turned right and caught the beer and radio-ribboned the beer. Then he left the beer at that spot and returned to his base-station taking a turn(walked 1 mile). Then what was the color of beer at that spot?a) White b) Brown c) Black d) Grey

Ans: White(because in North and South pole baears are of white in colour).

2. There is a problem on a race between a horse and a cat, after chasing so much the horse finally caught the cat when the sun already been set and the moon is in the sky. Some numeric value was given it’s easy just calcute the distance traveled by the horse and by that the speed of that cat. As I remember the Answer: is 66.67 m/sec(check it).

3. After knowing how the fibbonacci series works two friends of a class tried to invent a new series and they took 3 and 7 as the first two terms. One day they ask you to say the next term on that series as you are also in the same class. What will be that term.3,7,7,25,15, ,31Ans: 61 (here two series are merged 1st:3,7,15,31 and 2nd:7,25,61,) 4. In a colony the municipality decided to number the houses and the shops. They want to number the shops with the numbers containing 3 between 1-100. The hoses are 10-20 flored and at the back of the house 8 feet is left for fire exit. How many shops can be numbered.a.3 b.10 c.19 d.23Ans:19 (Just count the numbers containing 3 between 1-100).

5. One question on calculation containg only operands and operators, just calculate it using calculator.

6. One problem from average. Its easy.

7. One from pipes and cisterns, it is also easy.

8. The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, cost of repairing and cost of painting in the ratio of 5:2:3. The cost used for material is 200. Find the total cost of making the robot?

Ans: 400 (just calculate it). 9. A tank fills in the squence of 10, 20 ,40, 80 (means 10 litre in 1 hr, 20 litr i 2nd nd so). IF at the 4th hour the tank is 1/4 full. When will it be full?

Ans:6 (x/4=80 That means capacity of tank is 320 litres. From the series we can see that in 5th hour it's 160 and then in 6th hour it's 320) 10. What number should be used to divide 2880 into two perfect squares.a) 4 b) 5 c) 6

Ans: 5 (easy calculation).

I attended 22 questions out of 35 and 21 were absolutely correct. So try to manage your time for solving questions.

On the next day I first appeared for GD and then for Technical interview.

GD:

In GD round in our group there is 20 students and I was given time 9.00 a.m. and our GD was started at 12.30 p.m. We are given the topic “Who is the better manager a man or a woman”, all of us given individually 1 min to speak on that topic. All of us spoke well. After that round ou of 20 only 16 were selected. Then we gone for Technical.

Technical Interview.

There is probably 15 panels for taking interview, one for each student. I was called for at 1.00 p.m.My interviewer was very friendly. Here is the interview.

Me: Good afternoon sir(with smile)

Interviewer: Good afternoon and then handshaked with me.

Interviewer: Ok Gourab tell me about yourself.

Me:Told briefly(with mentioning my week and strong point with example)

Interviewer: Good Good

Interviewer: What programming languages u know?

Me: C and Java and also told that, but my favourite subject is DBMS.


Interviewer: Ok. What is DBMS?

Me: Told with example.


Interviewer: What is data and why we need to store it?

Me: Told and gave one example.


Interviewer: What is loop and how many types of loop are there in C.

Me: Told.


Interviewer: What is the difference between for,while and do-while?

Me: Told.


Interviewer: Why we use loops?

Me:Told with example


Interviewer: Ok Gourab do you have any questions?

Me: Yes sir.

Interviewer: Ok ask.

Me: Sir what is the evaluation process in TCS? Means how you evaluate an employee?

Interviewer: Told

Me: Sir one more.

Interviewer: Ok ask.

Me: I heard that TCS is SEI CMM Level 5 company, what does it mean?

Interviewer: Briefly told.

Interviewer: Ok thank you Gourab.

Me:Thank you sir(with smile)

One thing answer every questions whatever you know the ansewer or not say with confidence and a smile. They told result will be out within 3 weeks and they will contact you by mail or phone.

On 21st Sept after exactly one month on 9 a.m. I got the confirmation mail.So don’t loose hope just try your best AAL IZZZ WELL.

See you on TCS.

Good bye.Test Paper :46

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 5 September 2010 Test Location : Sree Vidyanikethan,Tirupathi Posted By : Venkata Sateesh. P

I got TCS hall ticket for written test in my college on 5th September 2010.

Written test:

It is very easy exam compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filledAns 21

2) In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person?

3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2

4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m.formula is 2xy/(x+y)

5) Same model as 4th question. But it is on flat surface. Formula is same 2xy/(x+y).

6) Six friends go to pizza corner there r 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors r there they have to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors. In how many ways we can select?Ans: 6C2

7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find XAns: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?Ans: 4(155)/7=31

9) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )?Answer: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32

10) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac2) Woody and Lemon3) MI mosaic and Woody4) MI mosaic and Lilac

11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in:Ans: white

14) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans is 18 15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys?a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024 16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter.

Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?Ans is 2(141) =242 17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?Ans is 15 pounds 18) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?Ans is 23(cost price + change given). 19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls

20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color.


a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tailb) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is headc) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form?I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 23) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x. 24) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’sb) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men 25) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first roundAns is 28.


28) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?a) Linda is shorter among themb) Chelsea is taller than Juliac) Chelsea is shorter than Juliad) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia

Ans: d

29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32

Ans is 6

30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of Peter?Ans is 20

I attempted 30 questions. Next day evening I got mail from TCS that I cleared aptitude test and called for interview. They sent one application form to mail. Interview is on 8 th in Vardhaman Engineering College, Hyderabad at 1:30pm.

I reached college by 12:30pm. They collected filled in application form at 2:45pm and calling one by one for technical interview.

Around 5:00pm, i was called for Technical Round. It’s a 2 member panel.

Me: Good Evening sir (I wished both)Int: Good evening. What’s your name? Me: Venkata Sateesh sir.Int: My name is Avinash. (I didn’t remembered other panelist name)Take your seat. Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses. Me: I told 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses.Int: Tell me your areas of interest? Me: C and JavaInt: Choose any of your subjects other than programming?

Me: selected Operating systems.Int: Select one more subject like DBMS or CN (He given me the choice) Me: Selected Data Base Management Systems (But I am not perfect in DBMS but better than CN).Int: Tell some operating systems which are available in the market? Me: Windows from Microsoft, Mac from Apple, and so onInt: Ok. Write a query to display first 5 lines in a table and given white paper Me: I started writing query like “select * from table……” (Actually I don’t know answer) and showedInt: It is not correct try one more time Me: I started writing one more query (but it also not correct, I know that). But I showed that query with confidenceInt: It is also wrong. Ok, leave it. What is foreign key? Me: Explained Int: What is entity? Me: Explained with example.Int: What is entity relationship model? Me: Again explained with example which i taken aboveInt: What is normalization? Me: ToldInt: Explain 1st and 2nd normalization by taking examples? Me: Explained with confidence and smile on my face but not accurate.Int: (In my resume i kept that i am maintaining a website for my department). What are the tools you used for creating website? Me: Told.Int: I think you’re having knowledge in web designing. What is the difference between JSP and servlet? Me: Told.Int: Write a program for finding factorial of a given number using recursion? Me: WroteInt: Why you wrote like this? (pointing to one line)

Me: We can write that in some other ways also and i wrote in other 2 ways. (I think he was fully satisfied with my answer)

Int: Are you having any questions?Me: No sir.

Int: Ok sateesh you’re promoted to next round i.e. HR

(TI is around 20min for me. Friends, even if you don’t know answer, don’t get worry. Say what you know with confidence, smile on your face and maintain good eye contact)

(Be through with your resume. If you mention any references in application form, be ready to face the questions like how is he/she related to you? on what project he/she is working? What he/she told about our company? What is his/her designation? What is his/her work in TCS? one of my friend rejected in the technical interview, because he not answered questions which i mentioned above. Interviewer told that you must have interest to know about the work in a software company, without that interest how you work in a software company?)

I am waiting for my HR interview. After 2 hours i called for HR around 7:30pm.

Me: Good evening sir.Int: Good evening, take your seat. Me: Seat. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to them)Int: Tell me about yourself. Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my answer). He didn’t ask any more questions.Int: Are you having any geographical constraints (are you intended to work anywhere in the world)? Me: No sir, I am not having any geographical constraints and I’m interested to work anywhere in the world.Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)? Me: Yes sir.Int: Thank you.

(It’s a 3 min round for me. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results to mail within a week or 2. I thought i am selected, and i was confident about my performance ).

Finally, i got mail on 20-9-2010. I'm selected for TCS.

I attended 10 companies up to now. First company which i attended in my life was TCS, and rejected in HR. I am selected in my 11th interview again it is TCS. If you are failed don’t get disappointed. Losers got a chance to correct their mistakes and winners lost their chance to correct their mistakes. If you are selected, remember, you are better than those who are participated for that interview, but not the ‘BEST’. I got selected in off-campus, I am very happy for that. Because, i competed with the other college students also. But those who got selected in On-campus are competed with the students of their college. Getting job in TCS is one of my great achievements in my life.

All the best!

Test Paper :47

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 7 September 2010 Test Location : Bangalore. Posted By : Shoaib

Hi Friends,

I'm attend the TCS written exam on 7th September 2010. There are 4 rounds. First round was an Quantative Aptitude round, where we have to answer the online questions through touch stone software. This database have 1 lack questions, out of 1 lack we will prompt to 35 questions and time limit is 60 mins. For every correct answer we have 1 mark and for every wrong answere 0.33 mark ll be deduced (one mark for 3 wrong answers). Questions were mainly from age, ratio proportional, speed and distance, sequence, probability, work and time, average, blood relation, area and volume and one logical question.

The questions faced by me are(i remembered). 1. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person? 2. Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? 3. A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes aftr every 4 min(and some nonsence)now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds..find probability that same sound is repeated 6 times consecutively(1 OUT OF __)? 4.The cost 1 plum is 1 cent ,2 apples is 1 cent,3 banana is 1 cent.if rahul buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent den what amount of fruit each child will get??5. pizza parlor provides pizzas...there wer 2 toppings available initially peperoni and salami... but now they,ve introduces 8 new toppings (some names) to select from...... a person wishes to buy two DIFFERENT pizzas of NEW topping....in how many ways he can do that?? 6. ' susha brought terilon cloth and rope to (some nonsence nw jst go to last 2 lines).if rope is 153 mtr long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1 mtr long then how many times will she have to cut it??7. The ques on a man,a woman and a boy finish work together in 6 days.man takes 10 days,woman takes 24 days then how much boy will take? 8. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. sum of their ages is 42yrs. What is the present age of Peter?9. The ages of two friends is in the ratio 6:5. After how many years will the ages be in the ratio 8:7? 10. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm. (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?11. What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0. (I do not remember the values of a,b,c,d) 12. Simple question bt big one on average age.sth like a,b,c weigheted separately 1st a,b,c ,then a& b,then b&c ,then c&a at last abc,the last weight was 151,then what will be the avg weight of the 7 weight?13. There r ten spots in library and each spot has 6 tables and each has ten chairs. 10 student come into liberary and want 2 study. in 1st table only person, and in 2nd table 2 persons and so on.... finally how many tables would be blank? 14. a problem on V=IR formula

15. a problem on (a-b)^2 here we need to find a^2+b^2 16. There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Som unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsey and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Juli is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?17. you hav coins of all dimensions. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 155p coin. In how many parts will u divide this so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? 18. a block has 14cm width. if we combine 2 blocks the width will b 25cm. then if we put 150 blocks in similar manner. then wat is the resultant width.19. a man started at his house and travel 50km towards north and take his left and travel 50km and then take right and travel 50km then in which direction he is from his house 20. a man has age in years equal to his daughters age in months and daughter age is equals to his grand daughter age in weeks and her age in weeks total age of 3 members is given we need to find out the mans age21. problem on data interpretation 22. The cost of making a robot consists of material cost,repairing cost,coloring cost and is in the ratio 3:4:5.if the material cost is 1200 then find out the cost of the robot.23. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160….if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely?24. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in 8th subject. what is the average of all the subjects? 25. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. what is the presents Paul’s age???26. 10men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa. 27. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car .........it has enjoyed great success..............If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old MERCEDES wich gave him 35kmph...if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari.........the hw much time he took?? 28. a problem on series..?I forgot the remaining 8 questions. I cleared the wriiten test i received invitation to attend the further rounds on 9th september. i called for the technical at 4:45pm the question are

1. Tell me about you are self and you are college(for 5mins)? 2. Write a program for string reverse?3. Define encapsulation? wid example?4. What is multiple inheritance?5. What is friend function?6. What is virtual function?7. What are access specifiers?8. Expalin software development lifeycle?9. What are diff types of testings?

10. What is diff between unit testing and regression testing?11. What is cohesion?12. What is diff between whitebox and blackboxtesting?13. A simple logical problem?14. What is diff between CSE and IT(i m IT student)15. What is function overloading and overriding?

After completing technical he said 2 wait for the next round and that is Managerial Round. I called for the MR at 6:30pm the question are faced by me are

1. Tell me abt u r self?2. Where r u frm?3. Tell any 2 likes and dis likes about u r neighbours?4. Write the algorithm for quicksort?(i explained the logic)5. Time complexities of quicksort and bubblesort?6. Explain u r project?7. Explain abt u r acheivements?

After completing that he said to wait for next round. i.e. HR. I called for HR at 8:30pm. the HR interview is very cool and he asked few questions only. In HR the questions are

1. Tell me abt u r self?2. wats u r aim?3. wat r u r skills?4. do u hav any certifications on u r skills?(i said I dnt hav) he asked y?5. r u willing to rellocate?6. r u ready to sign on a 2yr bond?Thats all..

Some of HR questions faced by my friends are1. why TCS?2. Who is the founder?3. Who is the present CEO?4. What is the mission and vision of TCS?5. What is the name of the award TCS recently received?6. Why should i hire u? The HR told me that TCS will communicate through mail with few dayz about the result.

All the best Friends!!Test Paper :48

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 21 August 2010 Test Location : GL Bajaj Institute, Greater Noida Posted By : Monika Manchanda

Hi Everybody,

In all, there are 4 rounds and each round is an elimination round. 1) Written Test2) Technical interview3) Managerial Interview4) HR

1) The Written test is an online test in which: 1) 35 questions.2) 60 minutes.3) +1 each correct answers.4) -0.33 each wrong answers.5) No verbal questions, no comprehensions.6) Easy questions based on series, age, permutation & combinations, simple numerical solving ability question speed & distance, problems on trains, average, etc I do not remember exact questions but Some of the questions i faced were. 1) Related to some bear problem, in which loads of diversion of mind is done but final ques is what is the colour of the bear.Ans- is white 2) Related to age--sum/average of ages of 5 people is given & a 6th person joins in & then sum/average of 6 ppl are given, find the age of 6th new person. 3) Related to direction & distance : a person is travelling in so n so direction , eg - 5km north then 5km east then 10km north then so n so...find the distance between original & final positions... 4) Permutaion relational question : a case is given...choose which permutation formula satisfies it best.. 5) Ratio of ages of 2 people are given, some year back or ago & their relation/sum etc is given...find their present ages' ratio 6) A jumbled word is given & u have to select the category it belongs to ARPAEETK Ans: PARAKEET - its a bird 7) Related to A pony & some horse running away from stable...Horse cought the ref..after few hrs say 4hrs .speed of horse is 35kmph and he left stable 3 hrs after pony left stable then what is speed of pony?Ans: pony ran for total 7 hrs...same dist covered by horse in 4 hrs with 35 kmph..thus dist of horse 35X4 & speed of pony--35X4/7 8) Mumbai building dept decide to give numbers to building..1-30 numbers were given to industrial buildings...1-100 were given to res.buildings ..Find how many number of 2's (or 6's or 3's) were used while numbering res.buildings.. 9) Some expression can be given to be solved : use calci to solve it 10) A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes aftr every 4 min train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 3 (or 8 etc )times consecutively. 11) There are 3 grandsons age diff between 2 of grandsons is A (say 3 or 2 etc) yrs 1st grandson is twice elder than younger one &sum of ages of all the three is B (say 8 or 5 etc) yrs then what is age of eldest grandson.. 12) A very long question...but in the end. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old MERCEDES wich gave him 35 kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hrs) he took? 13) Related to finding out the present day: say if A event is on Mon tues thurs B on sunday sat etc. 14) The cost 1 plum is 1 cent ,2 apples is 1 cent,3 banana is 1 cent, if A buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent den what amount of fruit each child will get? Ans: 1 Plum ,2 Apple,1 Banana

15) 2880 is divided by which smallest no. so we get no. which is perfect square?Ans: 5 16) Related to blocks an room to be filled by blocks the length , breadth & height of each block & the room is given. Find no. of blocks etc or related question. 17) Some probability ques on gloves, jackets, hats etc type of data given. Something like a girl has 3 gloves of same color , 3 hats of same color & 3 jackets of same color there s no light & she puts in her hand in her wardrobe to collect any 2 things. What is the probability of her getting the same color things (say gloves, or hats etc)? Important points:1) Calculator is allowed2) Questions are lengthy unneccessarily, but are easy so do the short questions first & in lengthy questions, analyse a little bit, be smart. Generally the answers can be taken out from last part of the questions.3) Although test is online, you can switch between the questions easily & change your answers as well, before you actually click on submit.4)R.S. Aggarwal is enough for written test. 2) Technical Interview Questions are based upon1) project2) Any strong language3) Resume especially the technical skills written in your resume4) Favourite subject In my case , i was asked aboutTell about yourself. (simply introduce urself)My project description.Java, since my project was on java.Diff between c++ & java.Function overloading & over riding how done in java.Then sql as it was written in my resume.My previous projects. Resume plays a big role here. So be sure about what you have written in your resume each & every word. 3) Managerial Interview This can be simply HR + technical..I was asked about 1st again introductionResume description Technical skills written in resume were askedKnowledge about latest technologies related to my skills(in resume).. eg plsql & tlsql..joomla..etc..Why you want to join TCS?What is the diff. between other companies & TCS which makes TCS your preference? Resume plays a big role here as well. So be very sure about it. 4) HR This is the easiest round but be careful about it, as this is also an elimination round. One small mistake & you can be rejected. Just be confident & honest thats all.I was asked about Again my introductionWhy i wish to join tcs? or why tcs is a preference?Where do i stay?My family background

Whether i m willing to relocate ( esp chennai) or not?Any year gap? Reason for it?Any questions? At the end of this very round, i was told that i have been shortlisted & i may leave for the day. I got the mail confirmation after a week. After clearing this process, it really felt like the hard work was paid for & was worth it.Loads of Thanks to god!! My Comments:It does not matter how many students are selected out of how many.Just be confident about yourself and give your Bestest !! Thats it.Thanks & ALL THE BEST TO ALL OF YOU !!

Test Paper :49

Paper Type : Candidate Experiences Test Date : 22 August 2010 Test Location : GL Baja Engineering college Noida Posted By : Rahul Goel

My name is Rahul. I have done my BTech in CSE Branch, 2010. I attended TCS campus drive in Noida. All questions are being given with huge passage of irrelevant data. So, focus is needed while answering. So understanding whatever question wants in a less time need a focus. No verbal, no reasoning, only quantitative.

Paper Pattern.No need to read the whole passage just read what question is asking and read only those lines. The best thing in this is you need not to search for the questions whether you have answered them or not by scrolling. A window on righ side of the questions paper will display the status. The unanswered will be in RED and answered will be in GREEN and this minimises the searching time. So it is an online paper and feel free to tension because speed of computer will be good. No GRE Barron, no other book. Only need to know basics of general quantitative like * Area and Perimeter* Probability (Many questions from this chapter).* Problems on Ages (Many questions from this chapter).* Pipes and Cisterns* Ratio and ProportionAnd some logical questions1/3 Negative marking will be allowed. Important instruction:The test will be comprise 35 question in 60 min. So Basic need is just to cross cutoff. So here accuracy is important because TCS is selection on the bases of accuracy not the no of question. But i think one should attempt at least 17 questions right. For cracking paper its beter to attempt simple question so if you stuck somewhere then move forward and attempt another one, believe me in my paper there were 15 questions which were so simple to answer. Memory based paper.

1. 1st a story. Then a simple ratio problem. The question was if the ratio of age of two persons is 5:6,sum of present age is 33,then in how many years the ratio of their age becomes 7:8?a)3 b)4 c)5 d)6

2. Arrange the jumbled letters to make a perfect word RGTEI(sth like this). Find to which category it belong? (plz do not attempt if u do'nt knowthese type q becoz its time consuming)A)town b)vegetable c)animal d) bird

3. Simple question bt big one on average age.sth like a,b,c weigheted separately 1st a,b,c ,then a& b,then b&c ,then c&a at last abc,the last weight was 167,then what will be the avg weight of the 7 weight?

4. Simple puzzle based on IQ3 persons a,b,c were there A always says truth,B lies on Monday,tusday,& Wednesday.but C lies on thrusday,Friday & saturday .one day A said”that B & C said to A that” B said “yesterday way one of the days when I lies”,C said that”yesterday way one of the days when I lies too”.then which day was that?Ans: a Sunday

5. An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?Answer: 33.33%

6. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings.Answer: 8 * 7 = 56

7. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm. (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?

8. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?Luckily, I had this question twice. Initially I left it because of the confusing statement but when I got the same question second time with different names of the friends (Pooja and Prasad) then I gave a little extra time and solved it.Answer: 20 years. I simply substituted the answers in the statement to find the best fit, because the statement in the question was pretty confusing.

9. A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at north pole.there he saw a bear .he then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction.After that he travelled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the colour of the bear? ans is white

10. 2 pots are there.1st pot is filled with ink and 2nd pot is filled with water.take 1 spoon of ink from 1st pot and pore it in 2nd pot.and take 1 spoon of mixture from 2nd pot and pore it in 2nd pot then which one of following is true?Ans: Water in 1st pot is less than the ink in 2nd pot.

11. A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 min, now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 3 times consecutively (1 out of)?

1. 16 2. 8 3. 12 4. 4Ans: (1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2) = (1/8)

Lots of question based on probability all one tricky so do them on your risk.

12. Series Problem like 4 12 8 26 16 56 32 x ..? find x Ans is 120 because it is two series not a single one look at first series 4 8 16 32 ..... n second one 12 26 56 x. means 12 (12*2+2) (26*2+4) (56*2+8). Lots of question may be on Fibonacci series so have a look concept also.

13. Some question based on Dice and Cubes but unfortunately i forget those questions.

Technical Interview: I got my interview schedule after four days in TCS Office Noida but lots of frends got dere schedule on the day of paper. So be prepared mentally for interview n yeah be well dressed it makes really a positive impact.

The interviewer was a beautiful lady the near about 28 years old.She welcomed me when i entered in the room.My interview continued till 20mins.Imp Instruction if u r from Non cs background den u can say u don't have much idea about s/w field then they asked u about ur subjects but u have to impress him by knowledge of ur field n give them assurance that u will do really good at a time of ur training.

* Tell me about ur self?(u have to tell about u n ur family background)* My strength n weakness.(Be prepared for this question).* About My final year project. (You have to tell whatever you done, its depend on. So whatever you speak be confident)* About summer training.(U have to specify about whatever u learn there they can ask u simple ques regarding training)* MY favourite subjects(I told DBMS, so she asked me about languages used in DBMS, Sql queries, and about normalization etc.) ( It's really simple beccause this is in your hand to tell a specific subject and they will ask you simple questions regarding your subject. It's not necessary to give answer of all questions if you don't know say confidently i don't know.)* She asked me About computer languages i said, i am comfortable in C and C++. So she asked me what is a different between C and C++, Oops concepts, Different between Static and final, write a program for palindrome. (Prepared for Some program Like (palindrome, Fibonacci, Recursion, Strings, Factorial etc.)* Generally they asked about your CV stuffs so make your CV according to your comfort zone. May be they can ask something different from your CV but in that case you can easily say i have no idea. In my case they asked about Unix commands.

Frankly speaking interview was so good because you have need to show that you technically sounds better. So be prepared for the interview.After technical we called for MR(Managerial round)It was just a 7-8 min round.They can ask you technical or puzzles or about your hobbies anything. So don't worry for this round.

* The interviewer asked me about my hobbies, my family background.* He gave me a puzzle like (a candle burns in 60min. Then how can two candles can burn in 90min. Ans we can burn a candle first n in 60 min this will burn completely den we will burn second one from both of end so it would take 90 min to burn both of candles.)* Then he suddenly changed the question and said now you have 45 min to burn both of candles and i couldn't do but he gave me 4 min to solve and insisted me luckily i got the right answer and i replied. we would burn first candle from both of end and at same time we

would burn second candle from starting point so in 30 min the first one will burn completely and second will burn half then we will burn second burning candle from another point also, So in this way both of candles will burn in 45min.* He asked me to write a simple C program to add two numbers and picked a questons like roll of void main(), getch(), and about some header files.

Guys if you are worry about puzzles then frankly speaking look for some basic puzzles of Shakuntla Devi. My be they can ask you puzzle.

HR Round:This round was just of 2-3 minutes.

* They asked me how was my Technical round.* Have i been placed in anywhere else(I replied yeah in infosys also, i don't know what impact of this would be on her)* Then she asked if i would been placed in infosys then why would i join TCS(i replied because of work culture and ethics in TCS)* At last she said me "Ok rahul we have done, you can go now".

So, HR round was just a formality. Guys frankly speaking this time TCS is hiring in bulk. So those who have been given all the rounds they all were selected but most important part is written test. So if you have cleared the written then your 90% job is done. Finally i got my confirmation letter via mail after a week.Guys feel free to write me and ask me if you have any doubt. You can mail me about [email protected] or [email protected]. Really it would be a pleasure to help you guys. Let's see what would i join Infosys or TCS. Waiting your mails With RegardsRahul.

Test Paper :50

Paper Type : Whole Testpaper Test Date : 29 August 2010 Test Location : SAI RAM ENGG COLLEGE, CHENNAI Posted By : Chandra Mohan Ravuri

Hi,I am Chandra Mohan Ravuri. I attended the TCS off campus at Sai Ram engg college at Chennai on 29th of August and got selected. I am uploading my experience so that it will be usefull for all job seekers in TCS.

The selection process consists of two rounds only.

1. Quantitative aptitude test: It is online test consists of thounds of questions among tehm you will be given 35 questions and the time limit is 1 hour. Each question carries 1 mark and wrong answer carries -0.33 marks.

2. Technical and HR interviews

Tips to crack aptitude :

1. Never Guess an answer . Attend only the questions you are reasonably certain of answering correctly . (I attended exactly 30 questions , Never guessed any question randomly.

2. If you dont get the answer in the first try or you get stuck up quickly skip the question . Come back to it later if you have time. ( I attended the first question skipped 8 questions before answering the next question).

3. Read the question fully once and find out what they are asking . Most of the time they give a lot of irrelevant data to confuse you. For example they may ask a problem on ages but may also give you data on blood relations (i have 2 brother and 2 sisters. You have to correctly deduce the fact that you only need information related to Age and the rest is irrelevant data .

4. Try not to panic at the sight of those long questions. Most problems are very simple which require you to do some logical thinking with a clear mind.

5. There will be certain questions which will be very simple but will have small twists .

6. Most questions asked have a fixed pattern. A friend of mine attended the interview on 21st (she too got selected). Most of the questions i got were similar to the ones she got with slight changes introduced (learn the logic dont mug up the answer) .

Some of the questions which I remembered are as given below.

1) If an old women's age is the same as her three grand daughters i, mean the number of days old child=the no of weeks old child=no of months old child. The total years of all these ppl is 114 years then how old is the old woman?

The year has 365 days and 30 days each month.

I calculated it with the options given try 2 use the calculator its easy. Don't remember the answer.

2) There was a piece of cloth which is 135 miles long and 35ft wide and some nonsense again then he wants to divide the cloth into pieces with one mile each if he took 7 secs for cutting piece. What is the time taken for cutting the whole of the cloth into pieces?

135-1=134 x 7=938 secs.

3) A woman had somany gloves and hats 22 red,34 blue, 45 white there was power cut and she took a glove and how many gloves shud she take so that she gets a pair of glove fr each color?

Don't know the answer.

4) Problem on ((a3-b3)/(a2-ab-b2))=(a- don waste tym directly calculate it!

5) The bear problem..i put it as black.

6) Parateeka(Bird)

7) If a person climbed a hill which was 200 mtrs high. The average speed while climbing was 23 mph and while coming down was 30 mph. Then what is the average speed of his journey?

Use the formula (2xy)/(x+y)

8) If the are 2 containers of 1 ltr each. I had Pepsi and another water. If one spoon from Pepsi was taken and added in water and then frm the mixed container of water one spoon was taken and added in Pepsi..

So pepsi had more quantity of Pepsi than what water had in 2nd container.

9) If the area was hit by a virus and so the decrease in the population because of death was x/3 and the migration from other places increased a population by 2x then annually it had so many ppl. find our the population in the starting.

10) If the milk and water was added in 5:4 ratio then how much more water should be added so he gets the ratio of 6:7.(Not exact question but something like that)

11) A tank fills in the squence of 10, 20 ,40,80.... (means 10 litre in 1 hr, 20 litr i 2nd nd so). If at the 4th hour the tank is 1/4 full when will it be full?

Ans: x/4=80

That means capacity of tank is 320 litres. From the series we can see that in 5th hr it's 160 nd then in 6th hr it's 320 so answer is 6

12) 2 very simple questions on ages like if 3 years back i was 2 times of my friends age and so and so. If you know the basic concept you will be able to solve that.

13) There are only bicycles and 4-wheelers in the parking. If the total number of wheels are 240.

What can be the possible number of cycles?

Ans: 2x+ 4y= 240

See options ie the value of x from the options. Then check the value of y from eqn for each option. The value of x for which y is a integer would be the answer.

14) The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, Cost of repairing nd cost of painting in the ratio of 5: 2: 3 the cost usd for material is 200. Find the total cost of making the robot?

Ans: 5x/10=200

So x=400 Ans.

15) If jack lies on Mon, Tue Wed and jill lies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If both together tell they lied yesterday. So c the given options and then c cos in the given dates

one will be saying the truth and one will be lying. I got Thursday as option because jack is saying the truth he lied yest but jill is lying again as he lies on that day.

16) Scientist starts from his base camp from North (my friend got North Pole) chases after a Bear etc.

Answer lies in the first sentence that says that Bear's Color changes according to the weather. As far as i know there are 2 kinds of bears. The Normal ones which are Black and the Polar Bears which are white. Polar Bears are present only in the North and South poles (Arctic and Antarctica). I chose white i am not sure if that was correct (if it was North Pole white is the correct answer)

17) Seamstress makes a cut on a piece of cloth in 3 secs. If she wants to cut the cloth into 11 pieces. How much time would it take. (My friend got the same question with different values)

Answer: To cut a piece of cloth into 11 pieces she has to make 10 cuts. so 10*3 = 30secs is the answer.

18) A lady is trying to pick gloves and hats from her wardrobe in the dark. She has 22 white and 33 green ones. She wants to pick a pair of gloves of white and green. How many tries before she gets it right?

Answer: They mentioned 'hat' to confuse you. Its a standard probability question .

19) Rearrange a jumbled word and say if the word is a bird, animal, vegetable or a city

Answer: skipped because of lack of time

20) A man was standing before a painting of a person . He says "Brothers and sisters i have none . The man's father is my father's son" . (I love poems ) . How is the person in the painting related to this man .

Answer: Son

21) 2 buckets with milk and water. A person takes a cup from the bucket with water and pours into the bucket with milk and takes a cup from the milk (mixed with water now) and pours into the bucket with water.

Answer: Both buckets have the same amount of liquid.

22) A problem on cuboids I don't remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?

Answer: If you know the surface area of a cuboid its just simple multiplication.

23) Rapunzel walks into the forest of forgetfullness. She meets a Lion who lies on Monday Tuesdays and Wednesdays and meets a rabbit who lies on Thurs fridays and saturdays . On that day both say that "I lied yesterday". What day is it .

Answer: Easy enough. Try solving it.

24) 4 Guys standing in a queue in a supermarket. Their average weight is 43. 1 more guy joins the queue and the average weight changes to 42. What is the weight of the new guy.

Answer: Use formula Avg = sum of weights / Total Number

25) Another standard Problem on Ages

26) T-Nagar problem

Answer: Did not attend .

27) A horse relieved from a stable. A pony started 2 hours later and went chasing after it and caught up ( Don't remember any more)

Answer: Skipped

28) A Guy had a Mercedes and another guy had a ferrari. This Ferrari ran twice as fast as the Mercedes Answer: Use the formula Speed = Distance / Time

Thats all i remember now!

Best of luck for those attending the off-campus.

29) I don't remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?

Ans: White.

30) There was a scientist who after doing research, found that color of skin of animals vary with change in distance. One day he started to chase a beer. He walked 1 mile towards north, then turned and walked 1 mile towards east and then caught the beer and radio-ribboned the beer. Then he left the beer at that spot and returned to his base-station taking a turn towards south (walked 1 mile towards south). Then what was the color of beer at that spot?

a)White b)Brown c)Black d)Grey

31) Also a one question like color of bear? (obviously its black)

Ans. Black

32) The problem of BEAR is about identifying its color with regard to its Region whether it is from North or South or East or West. Because, The Bear's color will vary in different location and so they have mentioned this as distance. As far I know, North - White Bear ( Polar Bear )

East-Black Bear

South-Black Bear (Sometimes Grey too )

West-Brown Bear

33) In the class of 40 students, 30 speak Hindi and 20 speak English. What is the lowest possible number of students who speak both the languages?

a) 5 b) 20 c) 15 d) 10 e) 30

34) If A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 30%, 20% and 10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used combined.

35) A can do a piece of work in 20 days, which B can do in 12 days. In 9 days B does Ÿ of the work. How many days will A take to finish the remaining work? Some Sample questions of TCS. 1) If 20 men take 15 days to complete a job, in how many days can 25 men finish that work?

2) One fast typist type some matter in 2hr and another slow typist type the same matter in 3hr. if both do combine in how much time they will finish.

3) The ratio of incomes of C and D is 3:4.the ratio of their expenditures is 4:5.Find the ratio of their savings if the savings of C is one fourths of his income?

4) 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. find the age of seventh person?

Solution: Here the question appear as an easy one, but carried a lot of unwanted sentences and unwanted datas (i dint mention above) in exam which may confuse you on solving technique.

5) Let x be current average age of first 6 persons in queue and current age of seventh person be y. Then 6x will become the sum of those 6 persons age. Now, let compute the sum of those 6 persons after two years, 6x+12 (as each and individual increase their age by 2). hence its average become (6x+12)/6 = 43 (give in question itself). So now we can compute x from above equation. (x = 41, 6x = 246). Let now we compute y, ((6x+y)/7) = 45, as we have value of x, compute y. Ans: 69

6) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog?

Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it.

Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,

Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).

Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr

Ans: 16.5km/hr. 7) 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31

Solution: Here it appear simple, because it arranged in arranged in sequence manner, but the actual question was some what twist mentioning fibonacci series and more over question was in statements (no numbers). Hence first try to understand the question well. Here let group alternate terms 3,7,15,31 (3+4 =7, 7+8 =15, 15+16=31) Similarly for second group (22,45,? (22+23 = 45, 45+46 = 91) hence ans is 91.


Ans:

For 1 to 10 - 1 six

2 to 20 - 1 six

Similarly upto 59 we utilise six, 5 times

from 60 to 69 (including 66) - 11 times

from 70 to 100 - 3, hence ans = 5+11+3 = 19

Ans:19.

9) ((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2

Ans: 2 (simple algebra, I think no need of explanation)

10) If we subract a number with y, we get 4 increase of number, once it got divided by y itself.. Find that number??

Ans: 12 (we can easily predict from options, as we take y as 6)

11) I dont remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?

Ans: white.

12) Jumbled letters, parakeet (answer)

Ans: bird (category)

13) Ratio proportional problem with age. Sorry, dint remember exact question.

14) One question like. (209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144) = ?

Ans: Here you can use calc, many(4 to 5) questions were depend upon calc alone.(no need problem solving technique).

15) I'm only son for my parents. (Some irrelevant statements in the middle to distract you). The man in picture is my father's son. (some irrelevant statements).Sho is he?

Ans: He himself (blood relation type of question).

16) Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?

a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6

Ans: c


(Ans: Second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

18) Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?

a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6

Ans: c

19) Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4?

a.31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657

Ans: c

20) One problem on (a3-b3)/(a2+ab+b2)

Ans: ‘a-b’

21) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’?

Ans: Bird

22) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are 190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?

Ans: 15

23) Key words in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question one number series is there….I got the series 3 12 7 26b 15?

Ans: 54

(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=26

7*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)

24) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p.he has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?

Ans: 1 watermelon,2chickoos,1grape

25) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and speaks truths on other days.. one day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?

26) Man, Bear, North, South, walks.

Ans: White

27) (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number?

Ans: 9

28) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160….if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely?

Ans: 7 hours

29) KEYWORDS:T.Nagar,Chennai,1-100,prime numbers b/n 140-180,How many 2’s are there?

Ans: 20 (Not only 2’s ,1’s,3’s,4’s,5’s,6’s,7’s,8’s,9’s,0’s also 20)

30) One question has last part like difference between two terms is 9 and product of two numbers is 14, what is the squares of sum of numbers?

Ans: 109

31) A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his father is my father’s son?

Ans: His son

32) What is the value of [(3x+8Y)/(x-2Y)]; if x/2y=2?

Ans: 10 (the numerical may change)

33) A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in that ‘M’ flavors are taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange?

(Logic: NcM )


Ans: 15

35) In a market 4 man are standing .the average age of the four before 4years is 45,aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49.what is the average weight of all?

Ans: 49

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