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PAPER ON 15TH JANUARY AT UIT - RGPV (GEC) BHOPAL

HELLO FRIENDS THIS IS DHEERAJ ASSUDANI from E.C.

I had day1 company as TCS on january 15th, 2008 in our college. Nearly 200 students
attended for online test, out of which 121 were short listed for interview.
There may be some mistakes in this paper & so I am sorry for that
Complete tcs selection procedure consists of :
1)Online test
2)Technical interview
3)H.R. or M.R. round

Online test
Online test consisted of 3 sections verbal, quantitative and critical reasoning.
Total time duration was 90 minutes.
1.Verbal - 30 questions 20 minutes.
2.Quantitative - 32 questions 40 minutes
3.Critical reasoning - 3 puzzles with 4 questions each for 30 minutes.

1.Verbal consisted of 10 synonyms, 10 antonyms, 5 sentence completion, and a reading

comprehension with 5 questions. Synonyms and antonyms were quite difficult, but
sentence completion and reading comprehension was easy to get through if u carefully
analyze and answer. It is good to be thorough with 400 high frequency words.

2.Quant section was simple enough. All the previous year questions are repeated. The
following questions are some sample questions that I solved in the test.
1) Complete the series 7, 9 , 13 , __ , 27, 37
ANS: 19

2) What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit memory?
ANS:127

3) Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube

ANS:6,8,12

4) In a triangle which one is not possible. Sides are (5 ,5 ,5.), (5 ,4 ,5 ), (4 ,4, 9 ), (3,4 ,
5,)?
ANS: (4,4,9) (HINT : for a triangle sum of smaller 2 sides should be greater than the
other one which is larger)

5) Match the following:

1. Male - Boy a. A type of
2. Square - Polygon b. A part of
3. Roof - Building c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables d. A superset of
ANS: 1- d, 2- a, 3- b, 4- c
6) Given $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value of $%$6-%$
%6 ?
ANS : -72

7) My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place
with coordinates 36N 70W. What is the local time when my plane landed.
a) 6:00 am b) 6:40am c) 7:40am d) 7:00pm e) 8:00 am
(Hint : Every 1 deg longitude change is equal to 4 minutes . If going from west to east
add time else subtract time & there is no change for north to south)
ANS: (e) 8:00am

8) In a two-dimensional array, X (9, 7), with each element occupying 4 bytes of memory,
with the address of the first element X (1, 1) is 3000, find the address of X (8, 5).
ANS: 3212

9) Select the odd one out. a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d. Eiffel.

ANS: LISP

10) In which of the system, decimal number 194 is equal to 1234?

ANS: 5

11) A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is made
from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 1500mts away from the
power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and cost of cable on
the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the total of laying the cable.
ANS:20250

12) Which of the following are orthogonal pairs?

a. 3i+2j b. i+j c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j
ANS: (A) & (C).

13) If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is SHDVD?

ANS: PEASA

14) 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?
ANS: 20%

15) A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours.
Then for how many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?
ANS: 13

16) Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices? (Hint determinant(A)=0)

17) units of basic quantities :

like (energy * time * time)/(mass * dist) = distance

18) For a round trip, a car used 4 1/2 gallons of gasoline. If it used 1/4 more gasoline
going than coming back, how much gasoline was used coming back?
Ans: 2 gallons

19) A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit
percentage?
Ans. 25%
20)g[0]=1,g[1]=-1,g[n]=2*g[n-1]-3*g[n-2] then calculate g[4]=
21) .The ratio of boys to girls is 6:4.60% of the boys and 40% of girls take lunch in the
canteen.What % of class takes lunch? Ans) 52%
22) Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation?
a)1,0,1,0,1,0 b) -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1
c)1,1,1,1,1,1 d) -1,1,-1, 1,-1, 1
ANS: D
23) units of basic quantities (momentum * velocity)/(force * time) = velocity
24-27) there were 3 questions on venn diagrams (like 20 spek eng,30 speak hindi 3 speak
both and so on..)
28-32)5 questions based on 1 piechart (data interpretation).
CRITICAL REASONING: ( 3 puzzles with 4 questions each)
1) Some seating arrangement problem like there were 6 people A, B, C, D, E, F sitting in
a table they all are agricultural minister, health minister, education minister and so on.
The hints proceed like this. 1) A sits 2 seats away from D. 2) agricultural minister cannot
sit near health minister. And some 3 more hints (I don,t remember) using the hints given
in the question U have to trace out their seating position in a round table and have to
answer 5 questions based on it.
2) all P,s are Q,s, some R,s are Q,s , all P,s are E,s...so on. With these hints u can draw a
venn digram and answer the following 5 questions. All the questions are from GRE
Barron model papers (12 th ,13 th edition) so just solve all those. (Just mug up the
answers.)
3) barons gre 12 edition page 496
Ashland is north of east liverpool
TECHNICAL INTERVIEW:
SIR: Have seat
ME: thank you very much sir
SIR: Tell me about yourself.
Me: I said my name, my college name, my degree, about my family and my hobbies,
some of my positive qualities, my role model.
Sir: What are your core subjects that u have learnt so far?
Me: I am an EC student I said all my core subjects.

Sir: What are the different types of Topologies?, what are merits &demerits of each?
Me: Mesh topology, star topology, Tree topology, Bus topology, mesh topology.

Sir: what is the Topology used in ur college?

Me: I said it is star topology.
Sir: Implement bubble sort in c using pointers?
Me: I made it.
Sir: what are header & circular link list?
Me: I explained with an example.
Sir: what are different data structures & how & where do we use them?
Me: I explained
Sir: what are operational amplifier ( inverting , non inverting , summer, integrator,
differentiator)?
Me: I explained.
Sir: what are flip flops & logic gates?( they can tell any function to implement )
Me: I explained .
HR ROUND :
Sir: Why TCS?
Me: TCS gives Experience certainty, I came to know that it has a good work environment
and the employees get a good respect. It has various initial and continuous learning
programs which will help me a lot in learning new skills and updating myself with latest
technologies hence I prefer TCS.
Sir: DHEERAJ you are from Bhopal can u tell the history of Bhopal?
Me: I told.
Sir: Tell me about famous Bhopal Gas tragedy?
Me: I told.
Sir: Tell me about famous historical temples, about kings, dates etc ?
Me: I told.
Sir: Do u have anything to ask us?
Me: I have 1 more year to complete my course what do u expect me to do in this 1 year to
fit in to your organization?
Some puzzles were also asked like
1. two coins of same radius with 1 coin fixed & other turn around it , how much the other
would turn when it takes a complete one revolution?
2. you are in a room of l,b,h=10,10,10 & in the centre is a monkey trying to pluck
bananas in the centre of ceiling but he is unable to do it what shud he do to pluck them?
3. What is the height of room if after entering the room with a watch ur head
strikes a hanging bulb?
Ans: Oscillate the hanging bulb. Calculate the time period for one complete
oscillation by Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) of the handing bulb. Put it in the
formula T=2 * 3.14 * (L/G)^1/2
L will be the length of the hanging thread.
Add the L with ur height to get the height of the room.

4. You have to draw 3 concentric circles with a line passing thru their center
without lifting hand.
Ans: Start the line complete one circle move inside circles along the line and then
draw second circle. Like wise rest.
I was almost sure that I will get placed and as expected I got selected. Out of 121 who
attended the interview 49 got placed.
Speak very polite and be confident in the interview. Don,t try answering the question that
you really don,t know. Be very careful with the resumes keep it as simple as you can .

Infosys Placement Papers - mathematical aptitude -

solved
Here are some solved questions from Infosys Placement Papers

1) The L.C.M. (Lowest (or Least) Common Multiple) of two numbers is 45 times to their
H.C.F (Highest Common Factor). If one of the numbers is 125 and sum of L.C.M. and
H.C.F. is 1150, the other number is:

a) 215
b) 220
c) 225
d) 235

Solution: Let L.C.M. be l and H.C.F. be h. Then l = 45h

l + h =1150
This gives h =25 and l = 1125
Thus the second number = (25 * 1125)/125 = 225

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

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

Solution: L.C.M. of 2,4,6,8,10,12 = 120

So they toll together after every 120 seconds i.e. 2 minutes. So in 30 minutes they toll
together 30/2 + 1 = 16 time

3) The value of (0.625 * 0.0729 * 28.9)/(0.0017 * 0.025 * 8.1) is

a) 0.3825
b) 3.825
c) 38.25
d) 382.5
Solution: The sum of decimal places in numerator and denominator being the same,
decimal point can be removed
(625*729*289) / (17*25*81) = 3825

4) Linear equations are part of all math aptitude tests. They can be age related problems,
upstream, downstream problems etc
I am three times as old as my son. Five years later I shall be two and a half times as old as
my son. What is my age?

Solution:
Let my age be x years and age of my son be y years.
(i) x = 3y
Five years later
(ii) x+5 = 5/2(y+5)
From (i) and (ii)
y=15 and x=45

Infosys Placement Papers - solved -part 1

1) Can you find out what day of the week was January 12, 1979?

Ans. Friday.

2) Find x+2y

(i). x+y=10
(ii). 2x+4y=20

Ans: (b)

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Wipro Sample Placement Papers - solved - part 2

Here are some solved questions from Wipro Placement Papers

1) A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days, when given at a rate of 850 grams
per head. At the end of 7 days a reinforcement
arrives and it was found that now the provisions will last 8 days less, when given at the
rate of 825 grams per head.How, many more men
can it feed?

Ans. 1700 men.

2) From 5 different green balls, four different blue balls and three different red balls, how
many combinations of balls can be chosen
taking at least one green and one blue ball?

Ans. 3720.

3) Three pipes, A, B, & C are attached to a tank. A & B can fill it in 20 & 30 minutes
respectively while C can empty it in 15 minutes.
If A, B & C are kept open successively for 1 minute each, how soon will the tank be
filled?

Ans. 167 minutes.

4) A person walking 5/6 of his usual rate is 40 minutes late. What is his usual time?

Ans. 3 hours 20 minutes.

Wipro Sample Placement Papers - solved - part 1

Here are some solved questions from Wipro Placement Papers

1) The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand at intervals of 64 minutes of
correct time. How much a day does the clock gain or lose?

Ans. 32 8/11 minutes.

2) Solve for x and y: 1/x - 1/y = 1/3, 1/x2 + 1/y2 = 5/9.

Ans. x = 3/2 or -3 and y = 3 or -3/2.

3) Daal is now being sold at Rs. 20 a kg. During last month its rate was Rs. 16 per kg. By
how much percent should a family reduce its
consumption so as to keep the expenditure fixed?

Ans. 20 %.

4) Find the least value of 3x + 4y if x2y3 = 6.

Ans. 10.

Accenture sample Placement Papers - Solved - part 2

Here are some solved questions from Accenture Placement Papers
1) A wizard named Nepo says "I am only three times my son's age. My father is 40 years
more than twice my age. Together the three of us
are a mere 1240 years old." How old is Nepo?

Ans. 360 years old.

2) One dog tells the other that there are two dogs in front of me.The other one also shouts
that he too had two behind him. How many are
they?

Ans. Three.

3) A man ate 100 bananas in five days, each day eating 6 more than the previous day.
How many bananas did he eat on the first day?

Ans. Eight.

4) If it takes five minutes to boil one egg, how long will it take to
boil four eggs?

Ans. Five minutes.

Accenture sample Placement Papers - Solved - part 1

Here are some solved questions from Accenture Placement Papers

1) Can you tender a one rupee note in such a manner that there shall be total 50 coins but
none of them would be 2 paise coins.?

Ans. 45 one paisa coins, 2 five paise coins, 2 ten paise coins, and 1
twenty-five paise coins.

2) A monkey starts climbing up a tree 20ft. tall. Each hour, it hops 3ft. and slips back 2ft.
How much time would it take the monkey to
reach the top?

Ans.18 hours.

3) What is the missing number in this series? 8 2 14 6 11 ? 14 6 18 12

Ans. 9

4) A certain type of mixture is prepared by mixing brand A at Rs.9 a kg. with brand B at
Rs.4 a kg. If the mixture is worth Rs.7 a kg., how
many kgs. of brand A are needed to make 40kgs. of the mixture?
Ans. Brand A needed is 24kgs.

3i Infotech Sample Placement Papers - Solved - part 2

Here are some solved questions from 3i Infotech Placement Papers

1) Three cards are drawn at random from an ordinary pack of cards.Find the probability
that they will consist of a king,
a queen and an ace.

Ans. 64/2210.

2) A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice. Every
cat killed an equal number of
mice. Each cat killed more mice than there were cats. How many cats do you think there
were ?

Ans. 991.

3) If Log2 x - 5 Log x + 6 = 0, then what would the value / values of x be?

Ans. x = e2 or e3.

4) The square of a two digit number is divided by half the number.After 36 is added to the
quotient, this sum is then divided by 2.
The digits of the resulting number are the same as those in the original number, but they
are in reverse order. The ten's place of
the original number is equal to twice the difference between its digits. What is the
number?

Ans. 46

3i Infotech Sample Placement Papers - Solved - part 1

Here are some solved questions from 3i Infotech Placement Papers

1) Mr. Shah decided to walk down the escalator of a tube station. He

found that if he walks down 26 steps, he requires 30 seconds to
reach the bottom. However, if he steps down 34 stairs he would only
require 18 seconds to get to the bottom. If the time is measured from
the moment the top step begins to descend to the time he steps off
the last step at the bottom, find out the height of the stair way in
steps?

Ans.46 steps.

2) The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was

4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young
member. Find how much younger is the new member ?

Ans.40 years.

3) ABCE is an isosceles trapezoid and ACDE is a rectangle. AB = 10

and EC = 20. What is the length of AE?

Ans. AE = 10.

4) In the given figure, PA and PB are tangents to the

circle at A and B respectively and the chord BC is parallel to
tangent PA. If AC = 6 cm, and length of the tangent AP is 9 cm, then what
is the length of the chord BC?

Ans. BC = 4 cm.

TCS Sample Placement Papers - solved - part 2

Here are some solved questions from TCS Placement Papers

1)Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9

hours a day.How many hour a day should 40 men work to complete the
job?

(a) 8 hrs
(b) 7 1/2 hrs
(c) 7 hrs
(d) 9 hrs

Ans. (b)

2) Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728

(a) 12
(b) 20
(c) 8
(d) none of these

Ans. (c)

3) A boat travels 20 kms upstream in 6 hrs and 18 kms downstream in 4

hrs.Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the
water current?

(a) 1/2 kmph

(b) 7/12 kmph
(c) 5 kmph
(d) none of these

Ans. (b)

4) A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope

7m long.Find the area it can graze?

(a) 38.5 sq.m

(b) 155 sq.m
(c) 144 sq.m
(d) 19.25 sq.m

Ans. (a)

TCS Solved Placement Papers

Here are some solved questions from TCS Placement Papers

1.If 2x-y=4 then 6x-3y=?

(a)15
(b)12
(c)18
(d)10

Ans. (b)

2.If x=y=2z and xyz=256 then what is the value of x?

(a)12
(b)8
(c)16
(d)6

Ans. (b)

3. (1/10)18 - (1/10)20 = ?

(a) 99/1020
(b) 99/10
(c) 0.9
(d) none of these

Ans. (a)

4.Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in
40 mins.If all of them work
together, find the time taken to fill the tank

(a) 17 1/7 mins

(b) 20 mins
(c) 8 mins
(d) none of these

Ans. (a)

1) In one hour a boat goes 11 km long the stream and 5 km against the stream. The speed
of the boat in still water is?

a) 8
b) 10
c) 12

Answer is 8

2) A man can row 18 kmph in still water. It takes him thrice as long as row up as to row
down the river. Find the rate of stream?

a) 10
b) 9
c) 8

Answer is 9

3) A man can row 71/2kmph in still watre . if in a river running at 1.5 km an hour, if takes
him 50 min to row to place and back. how far off is the place?
a) 3
b) 6
c) 4

Answer is 3

4) A man can row 3 quarters of a km aganist the stream is 111/4 min. the speed of the
man in still water is ?

a) 5
b) 10
c) 7.5

Answer is 5

Hello frnds,I am Samir Anand (MCA 4th sem),TCS recruitment team visited our campus
on 24th march, and selected 310 students.It was 2 day process,written test followed by
tech n hr interview (combined). nearly 560 turned up for written test, out of which 502
qualified for the next round, and finally 310 were selected......

I wud like to share my experience wid all of u .The paper as usual consisted of 3 sections-
1) VERBAL ( 32 questions )
2) APTITUDE (38 questions )
3) CRITICAL REASONING ( 12 questions )

in the verbal section there were 10 synonyms,10 antonyms,6 sentence completeion ques
and 6 ques on reading comprehension.for this u just follow GRE Barron 12th edition,each
n every ques comes from that particular book.

this is the exact ques that was in the paper:-(with ans) In a sense the university had failed.
It has stores great quantities of knowledge; it teaches more people; and despite its
failures, it teaches them better.__D___ . Of the great branches of knowledge- the sciences
the social sciences and humanities- the science are applied. Strenuous and occasionally
successful efforts are made to apply the social sciences, not almost never are the
humanities well applied. We do not use philosophy in defining our conduct. __E__. The
great task of the university in the next generation is to learn to use the knowledge we
have for the questions that come before us. __F___ The difference between a primary
problem
and a secondary or even tertiary problem is that primary problems tend to be around for a
long time, whereas
the less important ones get solved.

One primary problem is that of interfering with biological development. ___A____.

Obviously, there are benefits both to individuals and to society from eliminating, or at
least improving, mentally and physically deformed persons. On the other hand, there
could be very serious consequences if this knowledge were used with premeditation to
produce superior and subordinate classes, each genetically prepared to carry out a
predetermined mission. __B___, Here we have a primary problem that will still exist
when we are all dead. Of course, the traditional faculty members would say.
__C____. And certainly they would not learn, but they would learn some other
things.

A. The next generation, and perhaps this one, will be able to interfere chemically with the
actual development of an individual and perhaps biologically by interfering with an
individuals genes.
B. This can be done, but what happens to free will and he rights of the individual
C. But the students wont learn enough to go to graduate school
D. It is in the application of this knowledge that the failure has come.
E. We do not use literature as a source of real and vicarious experience.
F. The university should organize should organize courses around primary problems
G. The universities greatest shortcoming is not to help students see the relevance of
humanities to real problems.
H. It is difficult for modern students, accustomed to the minute of film, to appreciate
opera.
I. It is necessary students to require to include in their curricula liberal arts courses.

About aptitude, i wud just say no need 2 worry as it is the most easiest section,just
practice papers of last 2 or 3 years and u will be able to solve all of them on the day of
test.

some ques were as follows:--

Q1. Fill in the missing number in the sequence 5 7 11 ?? 35 67
(a) 24 (b) 33 (c) 19 (d) 18 (e) 25

Q2. In the following series, how many Ws are there such that each W is followed by an C
next to it if the C is not followed by a S next to it?
WCWSQMWCSMCWCCWQMW
W C Q W C S C WAM C W C M
(a)3 (b) 5(c)6 (d)4 (e)7

Q3. If QMFBTF is coded as PLEASE how will HBJO be coded?

(a)MIND (b)ALERT (c)TRIAL (d) GAIN (e) BRAVE

Q4. Suppose the first and second letters in the word CONSTITUTIONAL were
interchanged, also the third and fourth letters, the fifth and sixth etc. Print the letter that
would then be the tenth letter counting from the right.
(a) T (b) I (c) N (d) O (e) U

Q5. How would the decimal number 520 be represented in a base -7 number System?
(a) 1564 (b) 1234 (c) 1342 (d) 1562 (e) 1672

Q6. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit word computer?
(a) 199 (b) 251 (c) 201 (d) 233 (e) 257

Q7. If n = 10 x 18 x 22, which of the following is NOT an integer?

(a) n / 132 (b) n / 55 (c) n / 45
(d) n / 20 (e) n / 78

Q8. Which of the following is a power of 3?

a. 2672 b. 2898 c. 2735
d. 2187 e. 2413

Pick the odd one out

Q9. (a)ORACLE (b)INGRESS (c) UNIX

(d)DB2 (e) SYBASE

Q10. (a)SAP (b)HTTP (c)WAP (d)SMTP (e)ARP

Q11. The three numbers in brackets represent the length of the sides of a triangle. Which
of these does not represent a proper triangle?
(a)(2m,3m,4m) (b)(1m,2m,4m) (c) (3m,4m,5m) (d) (3m,3m,3m) (e) (5m,3m,5m)

Q12. The three numbers in brackets in each of the following options represents the
number of vertices, the number of edges and the number of faces respectively. Find out
which of these represents a solid planar cube?
(a) (4,8,12) (b) (8,12,6) (c) (8,6,12) (d) (8,8,8) (e) (12,6,8)

Q13. Which set of data exhibits a higher Standard Deviation?

(a) 7, 0, -7, 7, 0, -7 (b) -7, -7, -7, -7, -7, --7 (c) 7, -7, 7, -7, 7, -7
(d) 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 (e) 7, 7, 7, 0, 7, 7

Q28. Of the four vectors A,B,C,D find out which pair forms an orthogonal set
A = i+j, B = 3i+2j, C = -7i+j, D = 2i-3j
(a)BD (b)AD (c)BC (d)AC (e)AB

Q29. Evaluate the expression

M (373,7) + R (5.8) + T (7.7) - R(3.4) where M stands for Modulo arithmetic, R stands
for Round-off operation and T stands for Truncation Operation
(a)13 (b)16 (c) 12 (d)19 (e)21

Q30. Three independent mechanisms A, B and C have been incorporated for fuel saving
in a car producing respectively 30%, 20% and 40% efficiency. Assuming that they
operate independently, what is the net fuel efficiency achieved?
(a)61 % (b) 64% (c) 62% (d) 66.4% (e) 69%

Q31. The scores in class exams and final exam of 2 students are given as below:
Class exam Final exam
3 1.4
3.5 1.65
Find the Class exam score of a student who has scored 6 in the Final e