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Plz, can you tell me, Is the pattern of TCS aptitude is change or not? If change plz send me the pattern. Thanx

Originally Posted by ashwinimyself

Plz, can you tell me, Is the pattern of TCS aptitude is change or not? If change plz send me the pattern. Thanx

The selection procedure of TCS consists of following 3 rounds:

1. Written Test

2. Technical Interview

3. HR Interview


TCS Written Test: consists 35 Questions


1. In written Test:

-No of questions: 35
-Time limit: 80 Minutes
-Negative mark: 1/3
-Calculators can be allowed
-For each wrong question 0.33 marks will be deducted.
-Easy questions
-Just practice the previous questions
-Lots of unnecessary data (read carefully)
-Take care of negative marking and attempt a question only if you are sure.
-Take your time for each question and move on if you don’t know any.

Practice mock TCS online sample placement papers with latest test pattern, count down timer, detail test analysis with answer and explanation.


Areas to concentrate

-Puzzles
-Probability
-Time and Work
-Coding and decoding
-Numbers
-Simple equations
-Permutation and combination
-Average
-Clocks and calendars
-Geometry
-Statement problem
-Practice more reasoning questions
-C++, java, OS, DBMS

Start your preparation now and evaluate your success probability before attempting the real test.


2. Technical Interview

In technical round basically they ask about my B.Tech project and they asked some logic about C Prog, mat lab, and basically they asked what ever you written in your resume
a) Differences between C and Java?

b) Is jsp is a language? Justify

c) What are the types of Collision Resolution Techniques and the methods used in each of the type?

d) What are DDks? Name an operating system that includes this feature.

e) What has triggered the need for multitasking in PCs?

f) What is page cannibalizing?

g) What is SLIP (Serial Line Interface Protocol)?

h) What are the possible ways of data exchange?

i) Find the n-1th maximum salary.

j) What is DML (Data Manipulation Language)?

k) About the Projects

l) About C++, what is oops?? Features of oops???

m) About my favorite subject?

n) Logic gate

o) To design any software and how will it be marketed?

p) Write a program to swap the value two variables without using third variable.

( wrote by simple logic but he wants different one.)

q) WAP to swap two variables with XOR ing of two variables (Wrote after giving hint by him).

r) What are ranges of int, unsigned int, float,long ?

s) What is Data structure, java

t) OSI Layers

u) Five queries and also about normalization, anomalies, ACID properties, joins.

v) What is array? (Explained in deep...he said now I`ll not ask the technical

w) Basics like joins, normalization, sorting, etc....

x) Draw circuit diagram of 8085 microprocessor?

y) The electron motion in transistor. noise ratio explain

z) AWT, OS, SWING, what is meaning of Designing in SDLC?

aa) Oracle, function overloading, DBMS and RDBMS, What is normalization


3.HR round

questions will be like this:

a) Market yourself.
b) Why TCS?
c) Mention five uses of a pen other than writing
d) Do you know about bond?
e) Are you ready to sign the bond?
f) What is your ambition, weakness and strength? Asked me one by one?
g) Hobbies
h) Tell about your family background.
i) Why should we select you?
j) What are your expectations from society?
k) Some puzzles
l) What is IT industry?


If your Academic background is good, be prepared to face some Techiees here too….

here are some of the sample questions:

some of the questions...

1. For temperature a function is given according to time t^2 / 6 + 4 t + 12.Wat is the temp ris eor fall between 4 Am to 9 Am .-----------------

2. Select the odd one out?..

a. Java
b. Lisp
c. Smalltalk
d. Eiffel.

Ans: lisp


3. Select the odd one out

a. SMTP
b. WAP
c. SAP
d. ARP.

Ans: SAP


4. Select the odd one out

a. Oracle
b. Linux
c. Ingress
d. DB2

Ans: Linux


5. Select the odd one out

a. WAP
b. HTTP
c. BAAN
d. ARP

Ans: BANN


6. Select the odd one out

a. LINUX
b. UNIX
c. SOLARIS
d. SQL SEVER

Ans: d


7. Select the odd one out

a. SQL
b. DB2
c. SYBASE
d. HTTP

Ans: HTTP


8. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?

Ans: 0.5 % ( sqrt( 101 N ) )


9. Wat is the value of % # % (5) + # % # ( 2 )wher % is doubling,# means reciprocal-
The size of the bucket is N kb.The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb per millisec.A programmer sends a program to receiver.There it waits for 10 millisec and response wil be back to programmer in 20 millisec.Hw much time the program takes to get a response back to the programmer after it is sent?

Ans 30 millisec


10. The following is not a triangle:

A) (60o, 80o, 20o)
B) (90o, 60o, 30o)
C) (54o, 66o, 60o)
D) (69o, 51o, 60o)

Ans: A (since sum of the angles in a triangle = 180o.)


11. The following is a planar cube (E, V, F):

A) (12, 8, 6)
B) (12, 6, 8)
C) (6, 6, 8)
D) (6, 8, 6)

E - no. of edges V - no. of vertices F - no. of faces

Ans: A


12. The greatest prime number among the following which can be stored in a 9-bit word computer is:

Ans.509


13. Calc. A-(B C) and represent the resulting 8-bit word in decimal form.

A 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
B 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
C 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

A-(B C)
(I might have interchanged the values of A, B & C but still try this.)


14. Fit a suitable curve with the given data.

x y
1000 3
? ?
? ?
? ?

A) y = log x
B) y = log 10x
C) y = -10log x
D) y = ex


15. How many B's are followed by G's which are not followed by S's in the following series:

B B G M P Q B G S K O B G A S B B G D E F B G S T I

Ans: 4 (Another Q on the same logic was also asked.)


16. M(373,5) + R(3.4) + T(7.7) - R(5.8) = ___

M - Modulo R - Round-off T - Truncate

17. Match the following:

A) Female - Girl i) A type of

B) Bug - Reptile ii) A superset of

C) Beagle - Dog iii) A part of

D) Piston - Engine iv) Not a part of


18. There is a matrix X of order 7 9 whose elements will be filled column-wise. The address of the first element X(1,1) is 1258. Each element occupies 4 bytes of memory. Then the address of the element X(5,8) is 1473.

19. The line equation of the following curve is

A) y = ex
B) y = tan x
C) y = cos x
D) x + y = 0


20. A & B can do a piece of work in 12 days. A is capable of doing twice the work as B. In how many days A alone can complete the work?

21. If the first/second, third/fourth, fifth/sixth etc. letters of the word PSYCHIATRIST are interchanged, then the letter which is 8th from right is I . If DCPRY is coded as CBOQX then SPEND can be coded as RODMC.

22. The following is not a triangle:

A) (2,3,4)
B) (3,4,5)
C) (5,5,5)
D) (1,3,5)


23. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance). Find units/Mass?

24. 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) 1,1,0, -1,0, -1


all the best friend..!!!