1-APTITUDE TEST My aptitude test was online. Ther is no need to panic ,its very simple. There was no sectional cut off & no negative marking. Time was fixed for particular section, once the time for one section is over u can not return back to it or change the answers for that section’s can change the answers in a particular section in the time limit provided for that section, for example u can change the answers of English section in the time provided ,first 20 minutes but after that u can not, as after that quantitative section will come automatically. It has 3 sections:- 1>English -(time-20 minutes)-(10 synonyms + 10 antonyms + 8 fill in the blanks + 1 passage) 2>Quantitative -(time-40 minutes)-(38 questions) 3>Critical Reasoning -(30 minutes)-(3 reasoning passage) 1>ENGLISH In case of English, the paper was very very standard. Most of the antonyms & synonyms were really new ,i mugged many but it didn’t helped me allot, but i will also suggest that go through different paper like mine one. U have to use ur IQ to solve most of them, i will suggest don’t waste extra energy on mugging up anto. & syno., but ya mug up the common ones. # Synonyms & synonyms:- Most of the words were new, so i don’t remember, but still what i remember i will write, do both antonym & synonym of the word ... ESTRANGE APATHETIC I really don’t remember………. i have a list of most frequent asked words , if u want , I can give it to u by mailing it to ur ID # fill in the blanks It was really tough, i really don’t remember, but don’t worry much as there r many set of paper, u may get a easy one, as told by friends that few of them got easy ones. # Passage It was a psychological type passage,(but NOT psychological paper) i read all the passage of Barron but it was not from that, so b prepared. 2>QUANTITATIVE PLEASE GO THROUGH MY PAPER AND FEW MORE, THAT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH, NO NEED TO GO THROUGH ANY BOOK. Dont waste time for this section preparation, just go throgh the papers, this is the most scoring section of all 3 sections. 1> Match the following: 1. Male - Boy ---> a. A type of 2. Hexagon- 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 2> G(0)= -1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) + G(N-2), find G(6)= ? ans.3 3>Which set of data exhibits a higher Standard Deviation? (a) 7, 0, -7, 7, 0, -7 (b) 7, 7, 7, 0, 7, 7 (c) -7, -7, -7, -7, -7, -7 (d) 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7 (e) 7, -7, 7, -7, 7, -7 Ans: e 4> In Chennai , temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less in 4pm to 9pm. Ans. put value 9 and 4 in the eqn. -t^2/2+8t+3, then subtract the lower value from higher one thet is the answer. 5>Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube Ans. 6, 12, 8 6>Largest prime nos in n-bits register(n from 5 to 9) Ans: Largest prime no in 9-bit register—509 Largest prime no in 8-bit register—251 Largest prime no in 7-bit register—127 Largest prime no in 6-bit register—61 Largest prime no in 5-bit register—31 Largest prime no in 3-bit register--7 7> 2questions were on identifying the nature of the graph . y=tanx y=cosx+2 y=logx...... practice this type equations only. 8> The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 1000N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much more memory now occupied? Ans: 0.5 % 9>Evaluate the expression M(843,11) + 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 Ans: 7+6+7-3=17 10> Find the value of @@+25 - ++@ 16 where @ denotes "square" and + denotes "square root". Ans.625-4= 621 11>A power cable is run by the bank of the river of 900 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 5/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.4/- per meter. Find the point downstream where the cable is to cut across the river. Ans: 2100m, (900*5 + {3000-900)*4) , please check i m not sure. 12> Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices? 90 78 23 09 89 , 34 , 23 , 45 Ans. 23 23, as Det(A)=0 13>(Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance ) find units. Ans. Mass 14>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? Ans. 8 days (please confirm it once) 15>In a two-dimensional array, X(9,7), with each element occupying 2 bytes of memory, with the address of the element X(0,0) is 3000, find the address of X(8,5)? Ans: 3106 16>Series completion 2,4,_,14,22 Ans:-8 17>Three independent mechanisms A, B and C have been incorporated for power saving in a plant producing respectively 30%, 40% and 10% efficiency. Assuming that they operate independently, what is the net power efficiency achieved? (a) 62.2% (b) 68% (c) 61% (d) 64% (e) 56% Ans:(a) 62.2% (please confirm once) 18>Find the value of A or B or C.....practice few more like this. A 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 B 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 C 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 19>An aircraft takes off from A (89o N Lat , 20o E ) at 6.00 AM local time to B (50o S , 40o W ). If the flying time is 10 hours what is the local time of landing at B? Ans:12:00pm Don’t worry for N,S.E & W it does not matters . 1o change == 4mins Here 20 o+40 o=60 o So 60*4=240 mins……4hrs If time change not considered ,then after 10 hrs it will reach at the same palce after 6:00+10:00=4:00pm Going frm east to west so subtract 4hrs frm 4:00pm… 4:00pm-4hrs=12:00pm (if plane is going frm west to east then then Add those hrs) 20>11. Select the odd one out a. SMTP b.WAP c. SAP d.ARP ans : (c) SAP 21>Select the odd one out. a. Java b.Lisp c. Smalltalk d.Eiffel Ans: (b) Lisp 22>Which of the following are orthogonal pairs? a. 3i+2j b.i+j c. 2i-3j d.-7i+j Ans: a & c (dot product = 0) 23>select odd one- sql, db2, sybase, http Ans:-http 24>select odd one-sybase, db2, oracle, unix Ans:-unix 25-27>Venn diagram is given specifying that some people know Math, some know Physics, etc . so prepare for venn diagrams of 3 circles 3 Q’s will b there on the venn diagram.(u can prepare this part from R.S.Agarwal) 28-30> 3 Questions on Data interpretation it can b asked from: BAR GRAPH CIRCLE GRAPH PIE CHART (u can prepare it from RS Agrawal) 31> 534 in decimal system is 1362 in certain system. find base of that. Ans:7 (Trial & error ) 32> A can copy 50 papers in 10 hrs while A &B together can copy 70 papers in 10 hrs.how many hrs will be required for B to copy 26 papers? Ans: 13hrs 33>Find eqn of line having intercepts (0,3) & (-2,0) Ans Y=(3/2)X + 3 Formula x/a + y/b = 1 34>if n=105*28*51 which one is not int? a) n/210 b) n/70 c) n/161 d)n/255 Ans: (c) 35> which one is the power of 3 a> 2312 b> 6762 c> 6074 d> 1701 e> 1831 ans d 36> If VXUPLVH is written as SURMISE, what is COVER? So friends this section is almost same every time, only the figures r different,. i think this was the section in which in which i was most sure & confident. 2>CRITICAL REASONING Just go through Barron’s 12th edition, most of the reasoning were from that book. In that book at last 5 model test paper r given , solve reasoning from it , its enough, if u can’t understand the reasoning just mug up the answers HR My Technical & HR was combined, as i m from Electronics & Communication department so i prepared two of my subjects firstly Digital electronics and the second one as Tele communication. In computer field i did C & Data Structure only. Then i was called............... I opened the door and took permission to come in.............. ME> Sir, may i come in? HR>come in. HR> sit down ME> thank u Sir Then i forwarded my file HR>what is this? ME>Sir my CV. (it will be better if u say "Sir my CV and my academic and achievement records") HR>ok tell something about your self, which is not mentioned in the CV. ME> Good morning Sir , i m Kumar Saurav from Dhanbad ,as u know thats the coal capital of India .. i m from this college.........,know i would like to talk about my positive qualities.......................i have a lot of interest in...........................achievements...................extracurricular activities. HR>tell some thing about your family? ME> told................ HR>ok,u r from electronics & communication? ME> yes Sir. HR>which subject u r most comfortable? ME>Digital electronics. HR>can u draw a JK flip flop? ME>yes Sir ....(then drawn) HR>write its truth table? ME>.......(written) HR>Explain it? ME>......(explained) HR>can u draw Integrator Op-amp? ME>(drawn but not fully correct) HR>its wrong ME>yes Sir i can not remember know HR>can u write bubble sort program? ME>Sir i can explain the logic but cant write the program HR>explain call by value & call by reference? ME> (explained) HR>explain switch-case ME> explained HR> can u write ur name in reverse order & check whether its palindrome or not…?? ME>tried , explained…..but can not satisfy them ,then I asked that Sir can I explain u the logic of Number palindrome…. HR> can u explain it …..explain ME> explained ……(I put my total effort to explain) HR>ok……. HR>now tell me something about TCS. ME> told…(plz b prepared) HR> why TCS ..?? ME> told HR> at what position u want to see ur self after 10 years…?? ME> told Then they asked me few more common questions. At last they told me Thank You Saurav I also told them Thank You Sir & left the room.