Wednesday, August 6, 2008

TCS placement papers on May 19th, 2008

Online Test –Computer based (No OMR)
Two Sections
Aptitude Part -

(1) Verbal (20 mins)

(2) Reasoning (40 mins)

Psychometric Test. (30 mins)

Only if you clear the first Aptitude Part, You will be allowed to take the Psychometric
test. I found the Reasoning part very easy but tumbled at the Verbal part. Many
previous Questions were repeated in reasoning part. But in Verbal part only one word
was repeated for me. Since it was a computer-based exam, you get questions from a
huge database and each get different questions. Infact I was prepared for the
psychometric part too but failed in the aptitude part (possibly only due to the verbal
part). I found the psychometric questions exactly same as that of given in the
chetana group. (I saw them from my neighbour).

Verbal Part

SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS. – 10 each.

I had mugged up all the words available in the previous questions in the Files section
of Chetana Group. Based on my experience, there is no other sure way than
mugging up the 3500 wordlist from GRE Barrons Book!!

COMPREHENSION PASSAGE WITH BLANKS

A very tough and boring passage with 6 blank spaces. Most like me didn't
understand what they meant.
6 questions – select the appropriate sentence for each blank space from a list of 9
sentence . Whew! Not easy as they sound.
A READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGE.
A passage on Shares and buying shares through the Internet. Questions based on
this passage.
REASONING
· Find the missing no in the series.
· Find the odd one out. – one has to strike out from a list of names of OSes and
other a list of databases.
· Find the singular matrix of the given matrices.
· Find the group of no.s with maximum standard deviation.
· In the word ORGANISATIONAL, 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: I
· In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/6 + 4t + 3, where t is
elapsed time. Find the percentage difference in temperature b/w 4 and 9 pm.
· Something like the efficiency of 3 machines is individually 20 , 30, 40 %. Find
the net efficacy if they are working separately.
· Given the length of the 3 sides of a triangle. Find the one that is impossible?
(HINT: sum of smaller 2 sides is greater than the other one which is larger)
· (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance) find units. Ans: Mass
· My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a
place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane
landed. a) 6:00 am b) 6:40am c)7:40 d)7:00 e)8:00
· Match the following with Square - Polygon , sentence – paragraph etc
· 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?
· Values like G (1) , G(-1) etc and a function of G(N) given, Find G( 4) ?
· Coding problem: Each letter is 3 backwards – The answer was QUICK .
· A graph given, find the relation.
· 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 (2, 5).
· In which of the system, decimal number (a no given) is equal to (another
number) ?
· A question with company and power plant near to a river. Cost of laying
cables? (Something different from the previous questions)
· Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube ? ans 6 8 12
· A bar graph question of no of distributors and market share of a company
.Questions like if this no of distributors left the company , find the percentage
increase in the no of distributors etc.
· Questions based on a Venn- diagram of Football , Hockey and Cricket
players.