Ashok LeyLand Whole Testpaper

Part 1: Engineering Aptitude (50 Questions – 25 Minutes)

Physics
Maths
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Basics

Part 2: Mechanical Comprehension (50 Questions – 30 Minutes)

Basic Production Engineering

Mechanical Figurative Questions

Part 3: General Aptitude (60 Questions, 30 Minutes)

Analogy
Analytical Reasoning
Verbal
Quantitative Aptitude
Figurative Puzzles
Alphabetical Puzzles

Part-1: BASED ON 11& 12 FUNDA.

Electrical circuit
Effect of addition of salt on water (related to solutions)
Over turning of vehicle in circular track (conditions of skidding, etc)
Effect of pressure on boiling
Buoyancy effect
Effect of rubbing glass with silk & rubber with_________ (nature of charge
produced)
Forces on charges
Time period of pendulum
Body temperature in f, temperature common on both c &f scale
Graphite crystal structure
Part-2: BASED ON ENGINEERING FUNDA
1. If v=220V, I=25A, power factor=0.8, frequency=400Hz. If the motor runs
for 3 hours, what is the power consumed?
2. Symbol of capacitor?
3. Boiling point of mercury?
4. When salt is added to water, what happens to its freezing point?
5. What motor do they use in railway engines for traction?
a. DC Shunt motor b. DC Series motor
6. What motor is used for running lathe spindle?
7. Type of magnetic material used for small motors.
a. Diamagnetic b. paramagnetic c. ferromagnetic
8. What types of images do concave and convex lenses produce?
9. What is the speed of 3-phase induction motor?
10. Which gear type does not have axial thrust? Ans: Herringbone
11. Determinant value? Ans: 0
12. Which of the following is not a thermal radiation law? Ans: Lamberts law
13. In which units sound is measured? Ans:Decibels
14. Velocity of sound at sea level?
15. Which of the following is formed due to the attraction between moon and
earth? Ans:Tides
16. Instrument used for measurement of high temperatures? Ans:Pyrometer
17. Thread used in lathe leadscrew? Ans:ACME Thread
18. If water is air, air is dust, dust is light, light is sound, and sound is water,
where does fish live?
19. If the barometer shows 300mm Hg, what is the absolute pressure?
20. What is the 4-1 process in otto cycle?
21. Power stroke in diesel cycle is what process? Ans:Adiabatic process
22. Which of the following does not form a real image?
a. Concave b. Convex c. telescope d. microscope
23. At what temperature °C and K are the same?
24. What is the material used in permanent magnet?
25. An object weighs 3kg in air, 2.5kg in water, what is its density?
26. Which material has the highest C p value?
a. air b. water c. copper
27. Which of the following has lowest thermal conductivity?
a. steel b. SS c. Bronze d. copper
28. The crystalline structure of graphite is
a. a. Simple cubic b. FCC c. BCC d. HCP
29. Which process cannot be used to produce external threads?
a. forging b. Rolling c. milling d. turning
30. The axial stress on a member which is subjected to a sudden load when
compared to load applied gradually is
a. a. same b. double c. half d. quadraple
31. Silencer reduces noise. It also
a. gives balance to engine b. increases fuel consumption c.
Decreases fuel consumption d. reduces vibrations
32. Unit of kinematic viscosity.
33. Unit of surface tension.
34. Meaning of overdrive
35. Wankel engine
36. Meaning general drill bit angle.
37. Reason of using regenerator & condenser.
38. Cycle used in gas cycles, dual cycle& diesel cycle diagram.
39. Normal value of voltage in spark plug & distributor function.
40. In which case turning will be easy (front wheel driven back wheel
steered/__/___/___).
41. Viscous fluid passing through duct of varying cross section & pressure
remains unchanged-reason?
42. Differential function
43. Pitch circle diameter &Pressure angle
44. Gear hobbler
45. Gear system in which axial thrust is absent.
46. Force applied on pin joint of truss (connecting 3 bars, middle straight side
slant at equal angle)-tension/compression in middle bar?
47. Element added to steel for corrosion resistance.(Ans: Cr)
48. Which has lowest specific heat- water, steam, copper?
49. Which has lowest thermal conductivity-stainless steel, steel, and bronze?
50. Diamond pin function.
51. Relation between stress-gradually applied & suddenly applied.
52. Increasing of water density in range?(0-4 degree)
53. 1 litre, 4 stroke engine, 1600 rpm, mean thermal effective pressure=5 bar,
power of engine?
54. Finding rpm of single phase alternator from list of rpm's.
55. Efficiency of carnot engine.
56. Temperature measurement based on which law.
57. Size of lathe(parameters)
58. Thread can be formed by all process except
a. Forging b. rolling c. Milling d. Turning
59. Thread used in screw jack, lead screw?
60. Which is not related to thermal radiation
a. planck law b. steffan boltzmann law dc. fourier law
61. Radiator type used in bus.
62. Definitions of normalizing, tempering, quenching, etc.
63. Normal hardness value of cast iron used in lathe bed.(in BHN)
64. Definitions-straddle milling, slab milling, gang milling etc.
 65. Questions based on getting final 3-D shape, from sheet showing details
where it can be folded.
66. Getting front view, top view, side view of given isometric view.
67. Material is not removed in which process
a. punching b. coining c. tapping d. embossing

Part 3: General aptitude (60 Questions: 30 Minutes)

Question Types: Figurative questions (from Edgar Thorpe), Analogy, ratios and
proportions, time and work, time and distance, Implicit statement reasoning
1. If the average of the 10 of the 11 player is 30.if the 11th player score is added
the average decreases by 2.what is the score of the 11th player.

2. Exonerate –meaning
3. Analogy
Peaceful: resistance then
a) litigation: lawlessness
b) coherent: inconsistency
c) dumb: follow
d) diligent: reliability
e) rough: forceful
Ans :b

4. Cut is to feline, vulpane is to---------------.

5. Three problems using codes
a. if AGPSV IS BHQTW, then DKNUY
b. CEGIK then choose the same pattern ans: moqsu
6. Diagram of one block was given. It contains three or four sections. we were
asked to find the
a. Left side view. b. Bottom side view c. Back side view.
with regards
saket123

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ASHOK LEYLAND Test Paper 2006

The test consisted of 3 sections 50 or 30 questions each. all were objective

questions havin 4 or 5 choices.

section 1 - basic maths (30 min)

questions are easy. the paper is basically a test of fundamentals & speed.
consisted of questions on basic maths that you learn in 12th n first year of
engineering.
just know the basics of functions, sets & relations well.
definitions of stuff like order of ordinary differential equation bcoz u r asked to
identify a given differential equation.
know basics of geometry well and funda of folds i.e. a given piece of paper if
folded along given lines will give wat shape.
fundas of equation solving, determinants & matrices. the determinant usually is
zero magnitude.

section 2 - basic mechanical & general Engineering 40 min

this section separates the best from the rest. questions are only concept based.
all subjects are covered in one way or other.
know the fundas of pulleys n other basic mechanics stuff.
if u havent studied automobile engineering then just go thru functions of
fundamental stuff like differential, overdrive, gears, clutch.
know wat type motors are used in machines like Lathe etc.
one question was on crystal structure of graphite( Ans: HCP)

section 3 - reasoning 30min

this was the toughest in terms of time management.

its virtually impossible to solve even 100% questions even if ur CAT preps are at
peak. i put blind guesses the last minute for abt 15-20 questions.
the questions were basically finding pattern, breaking codes n the fundas of
assumptions, conclusions .. the one u have in CAT.

I am not sure if they have a section wise cutoff or overall cutoff. but all ppl above
the minimum cutoff are shortlisted for interview.
It was raining heavily so none of were in either formals or wid our files. but the
HR was cool. he said dont bother for dresses.
As for the files he said they are not needed if u can explain ur project or training
well.
so there i was wearing a tight T-shirt n faded jeans facin my biggest interview till
date.

interviews were Tech+HR combined 20-40mins duration each.

stress was on how much you have learnty frm ur summer project n how much
can u relate it to the real stuff.

I was the last person in.

First the HR tried to corner me. He told me why i was not angry since they made
me wait for so long. (i turn came at 2:30pm whereas the time given by them was
1:00pm)
He asked me if my time was so worthless that i can be made to wait any amt of
time by anytime. but i countered him by saying that “waitin for the Interview by
your company is worth the wait”.
He seemed very impressed. They then asked me a few tech questions which i
answered well. then came my masterstroke. i told them i hadnt learnt Automobile
engineering as it was in the final yeat.
I told the surprisded lot that I had learnt by myself thru internet. then they asked
me a lot of questions regarding Automobile engineering n i just kept surprising
them wid my answers.
Then a few out of syllabus questions frm Manufacturing processes which i
answered n pointed that the they were not in my syllabus but i had read abt them
in the books. they were again surprised
n commented that i was way ahead of my course. Then asked abt wat n where
did i do my summer projects. i gave a brief introduction abt both of them. I told
them i knew “FLUENT”- a CFD software which surprised them again.them again.
Then they asked me my first choice i.e. R&D or Production or Marketing. I
answered even b4 he finished “R&D”. Then he asked me the second choice: “No
second option”. Then they adviced me for abt 5mins on that. In the end i told that
i was open for the first two but not marketing.
Then they asked few HR questions like family background n other usual stuff. In
the end they asked if i wanted to ask them sumthin.
I asked them abt the performance appraisal in their company. its very important
that u ask them a good question. use the Internet n find out good q’s.
The HR was specially very impressed by me. He told me i was the best n it was a
great performance.
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there are 3 papers in ashok leyland. 2 from technical and 1 from non-tech. you
shud go thru any objective book for technical. they will cover all the topics in 2
papers even engg. drawing also.
for 1st technical paper- 25 min 50 ques
2nd technical paper- 30 min 50 ques
for non-tech 30 min 60 ques..

i think most difficult portion is non-tech, covering english and r.s. agarwal
reasoning.

so go through the syllabi and r.s.agarwal and for english go thru any book like
manohar prasad or barrons....
waise non-tech portion will be ceciding for toppers. so b careful in that.

for interview,if you are from btech.they will ask you from your core subjects like
thermal,automobile and i.c.engines or ur area of interest. they will also ask about
ur training(vocational) and ur project.
if u r frm mtech,they will ask for ur thesis.

the knowledge of software CATIA will be helpful because this is an automobile

company and all automobile companies use CATIA for designing.

Hi guys... I am Srihari from PSG Tech Coimbatore. Ashok Leyland is the first
company that comes to our campus for recruitment… So it was really a tough
battle to get thru.
The selection process is as follows
A written test consisting of 3 rounds
Aptitude 60 questions 30 mins
Technical 50 Q’s 25 mins
Mech comprehension 50 Q’s 30 mins
After these rounds they shortlisted 66 people from 150
Then was my interview. They called us in rank wise... I was the first person on
the second day.
There were 3 HRs in the panel. Before I went into the panel the HR came outside
and asked me to come in soon. I went inside and gave the application form that
they had given to us. It was the only thing they got from us... NO resumes, no
certificates or no reports  They want you to be urself.
First I explained about my RC car project. So they asked many questions from
it... Like the engine power, torque, capacity, bore, stroke etc... Then they asked
me Ackerman steering and steering error (I dint know abt it).
They also asked me to explain my whole summer training and I did. They asked
me the % of C in CI and gear material. They also asked about my extra curricular
activities. I am a participant in Baja 09 so they were asking about that also.
As a whole interview was really cool. SO wat I wud advice is be urself and not
make a fuss out of anything... Be confident and ur into ASHLEY 
Cheers Srihari
Sri.dowsildeamon@gmail.com