Exam 1

Hi Friends,
I am Anusha, from RVR&JC Guntur. TCS came to our college on 19-10-2010. They
conduct selection process per each round. There is 4 rounds
1) Aptitude test.
2) Technical round
3) MR
4) HR
Before going to the TCS Aptitude test please write the mock tests which are provided by
the TCS it gives boost to you.
For the Aptitude prepare the R.S. Aggarwal & Freshersworld.com TCS model papers.
For Technical round be aware of basic funds of your core subjects and C, C++.
If you crack the both aptitude & Technical round you are 75% selected.
In MR they give any context situation how can you resolve it and also little much
knowledge about current affairs thats enough.
In HR prepare the interview Questions.
Be confident in all the rounds. Don't be tenz the HRs are very cool & friendly.
Aptitude test:(35 Questions, 80 mins, online test)
Q1. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be
separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the
others lie on the other side.
The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all
configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on
a line) is
a)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1

Ans: 5
Q2. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal
system in base 8.
A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000.
How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?
a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192
Ans: 192
Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9)
Q3. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with
sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is
a)1 b)3 c)4 d)0
Q4. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance
and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards
diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when
the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase
its speed so as to tie the race?
a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5
Ans: 37.80
Soln is as follows
After tortoise covers 1/5th distance hare starts the race
When hare covers 1/8th of distance tortoise meets hare
So distance covered by tortoise = 1-(1/5 + 1/8)
= 27/40
Time taken by both is same
time = dist/speed
So (dist/ speed) of tortoise = (dist / speed) of hare
let speed of tortoise be t and of hare be h
27/40t = 1/8h
h = (40/(8*27) )* t = 5/27 * t
Now for the next part hare has to cover 7/8 th distance when tortoise covers 1/8
th distance
so we get
1/8t = 7/8h
h = 7t
so the factor by which h's speed increases = 7t/ (5/27 * t)
which we get as 37.8
Q5. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within
60 minutes. How many programmers are needed?
a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60
Ans: 10
This type of Q's repeated 4times for me but values are different.
Q6. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression
N=9+X+Y-Z
Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to
maximize N while Bhanu
would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and
Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the
next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the
value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the
value of N at the end of the game would be
a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20
The Q's concept is same but the equation of N's is changing.
Q7. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one
above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The
goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to
another position in the stack.
Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a
position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move
implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example
once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move.
If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the
game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then
a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.

b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.
c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move.
d) Alice has no winning strategy.
Ans: d
Q8. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each
match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B,
Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such
rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger
team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will
correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3

Ans: 5/9
(2/3*2/3) + (1/3*1/3)= 5/9
Q9. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other
words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35,
a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken
hands with at least one person in the set is
a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18

Ans: 18
Q10. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the
letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that
exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12
Ans: b
Q11. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from
1 to 40,
statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which
statements are true and which are false?
a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.
b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.
c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.
d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.
Ans:c
Q12. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green
balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a
box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red
ball is maximized. This maximum probability is
a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4

Ans: 14/19
Q13. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw
a dart at it and it
hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to
the center of the circle than the periphery?
a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25

Ans: d
Here the data about the distance is of no use.
For radius of 1 m if dart is inside the circle of 1/2 m radius the dart is closer to
center than periphery
so area of 1/2 m circle is pie/4
area of board is pie
So probability = 0.25
Q14. 9. A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their
faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same
color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and
blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of
winning?
a) 3 red and 3 blue faces b) 2 red and remaining blue

c) 6 red and 0 blue d) 4 red and remaining blue
Ans: a
answer is option 1 because
prob of a winning = both red + both blue
for option 1 prob = 4/6 * 4/6 + 2/6*2/6 = 1/2
So equal prob of both winning s
Q15. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after
the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the
form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of
echina is given by the formula
d = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8
Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar
blast.
Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is
diameter?
a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21
Ans: 16
Q16. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1
to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which
a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false.
b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.
c) All the statements are false.
d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.
Ans: d
Q17. Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a
circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest
are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their
choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a
(smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first
player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary
coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?
a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.

b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his
first turn.
c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.
d) Alok has no winning strategy.
Ans: d
Q18. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled
in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filled
Ans: 23
Q19. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at
an altitude of 200m.
Formula is 2xy/(x+y).
Q20. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest
child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of
other two children. What is the age of eldest child?
Ans: 18
Q21. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has
enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich
gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he
took?
Easy one try it.
Q22. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 12 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4,
repetation of no. is allowed?
Ans: (5)^11
Q23. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 cashew is 1 cent. If father buys
same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each
child will get?
Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew
Q24. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked total number of wheels present
is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there
Ans: For this question answer is deduced from the options.
Q25. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week
byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on
the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal.
Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when
I lie too. What day is it?
a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday

Ans: a
I attempted 28Q but i don't recollect it now.

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I crack my interview in our college 245 members are selected i am one of them. Best of
luck to every one.
Thank you!
Name: Bhabani Sankar Swain
Stream: Electronics and Telecommunication
College: Eastern Academy Of Science & Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Session: 2006-2010
Email id: [email protected]
Status: Selected
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Test location: Techno India Campus, Salt Lake, Kolkatta

Test Date: 1st Nov, 2010
Around 1000 students attained the TCS drive in different batches. The first batch started
at 9 am. I attained the drive
at 2 pm. It was 4th batch. I attained 27 questions. From my batch only 3 candidates out
of 200 were selected. I was one of them. From 1000 students only 26 students qualified
the written test.
Campus Type:- off-campus It's the new pattern, contain 35 questions.
In this drive cut-off mark varied according to our batch .in my batch cut off was around
22. In some other batches cut off was around 17 also. Actually Target of TCS is to
retrieve best students from each batch.
1/3 negative marks there.

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Details of the Process:
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Cut off near about 18.
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So answer only the correct answer.
Don’t do guess, it's interesting paper. I like to solve it, i think real talent will be selected
now, it's suitable for good student.
Some questions that remembered.
1) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hours ago. And horse started to
ran with average speed 22km/hour, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds
with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After travelling 6
hrs, 2 hours after sunset it got dog. Compute the speed of dog?
Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it.
Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,
Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).
Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr
Ans: 16.5km/hr.
2) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume:
Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in
demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together.
Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can
be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one
can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the
question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:
1) Balsamic and Lilac
2) Woody and Lemon
3) MI mosaic and Woody
4) MI mosaic and Lilac
3) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop
Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbour and gave change to John. After 2 days,
it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The
cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?
Ans: Is 23(cost price 19 + change given 4).
4) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the
winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round
are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as
winner, how many players are played in first round
Ans: Is 28.
5) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change
at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will you divide 31p so that you
will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?
a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32
Ans: Is 6
6) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. Probability is 1 that of all are
boys out of?
a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024
Ans:1024
7) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water
is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second
bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?
Ans: Second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)
8) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded
by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and
manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as
Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued
participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success
.Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the
speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953
km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.
a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18
Ans: b
9) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to
70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which
a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.
b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.
c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false.
d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.
Ans: d
10) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The
Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate
nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as
follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that
loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round ,
half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a
knock-out tournol how many matches were played?
a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255
Ans: b
11) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 black. The
lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the
difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she
is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a
pair of each colour?
a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42
Ans:50
12) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a
circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest
are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their
choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a
(smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first
player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary
coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?
a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.

b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his
first turn.
c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn.
d) Alok has no winning strategy.
13) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss
die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?
a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail

b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head
c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is
odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didn’t remembered last
option and I don’t know answer.
14) Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has
gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he
took?
a) 8 b)4 c) 7 d) 7.33
(Options may be different)
15) In an exam there are total 12 questions. From the first 4 questions a student has to
answer 2 questions which are compulsory. And he has to answer 5 from the rest. In how
many ways he can answer questions.
Ans: 4c2*8c5 ( it is combination problem)
16) A gun has a nozzle velocity 330 mt/sec. It has to meet a target which is at a
distance 5km. It retards at a rate of 8 mt/sec/sec while travelling in air. Find the velocity
at a place where the bullet will meet the target.
Ans: You=330mt/sec s=5km=5000mt apply formula v2=u2-2as
V=?
17) For school children a software was designed.\In that \software one monkey has to
choose balloons. If a monkey chooses 2 at a time and continues picking then 1 baloon
is left. If it picks 5 at a time then the remaining is zero,if it picks 6 at a time then
remaining is 3. What is the total number of balloons?
a) 72 b) 75 c) 79) d) 80
Ans: 75 ( Just devide the choosing patten in the number and check whether you are
getting the remainder as the remaining value). If it chooses 6 at a time and continues
then 75-(12*6)=3 which satisfies the condition
18) There are two statements. There is also a question. Choose 1 if the question can be
answered by using either one. Choose 2 if the question can be answered using both the
statements. Choose 3 if the question can not be answered using these two statements
Statement1: Avinash spends 30% on house rent, 20% on children’s education,40% on

foods
Statement 2: Pritam spends 20% on house rent, 45% on children’s education,20% on
food
Question: If pritam spends more than avinash on foods who spends more on children’s
education?
The question can be answered by
a) 1 b) 2 c)3
Ans: c
19) A hollow space on earth surface is to be filled. Total cost of filling is Rs20000. The
cost of filling per mt3 is Rs 225 .how many times a size of 3 mt3 soil is required to fill
the hollow space?
Ans: 20000/225=88.88
88.88/3=29.62
So 30 times of 3 mt3 is required to fill the space completely
20) There are different things like p,q,r,s,t,u,v. We can take p and q together. If r and s
are taken together then t must has to be taken. u and v can be taken together.v can be
taken with p or s. every thing can be taken together except
a)p b)t c)v d)s
Ans: t
21) New town is straight to the north of New york. A high way M runs from newtown
making an angle of 61 degree south east. from newyork there is also an high way N
which runs northeast 61 degrees.if high ways M and N are straight then findout the
acute angle made at their intersection point.
Ans: 180-(61+61)=58 (the high ways make a triangle the addition of 3 angles of a
triangle is 180)
22) There are 7 meetings A,B,C,D,E,F,G .one meeting should happen in one day.
Meeting A is on Sunday c and d meetings should happen after B. Then E ,F,G meetings
should occur in three conjucutive days. And meeting g is on Saturday. Then meeting the
should occur on which day?
a) sun b) mon c)wed d)fri
Ans: c
23) There are 9 weights like 16,19.156.26, 106,15,24,36 (in kg). There are three
persons like rohit, sameer and imran. each lifts 3 types of weights. Rohit”s total lifted
weight is 2 times than the weight lifted by rohit. What is the weight lifted by imran?
Ans: Total weight=16+19+156+26+106+15+24+36=398 kg

Suppose option is y kg lifted by imran(choose from option) then 3x+y=398
=>x=(398-y)/3 here x should be a whole number then y is the weight lifted by imran.
Interview:
Total 26 students were shortlisted in written test and were undergone technical interview
followed by HR interview at single place. Before interview everybody was given a form
and they told how to fill the form). There were around 8 panels consisting 0f 2 members
(1 technical member(male) and 1 HR member(female)). I filled the form and I was the
last one to be interviewed AT 6 pm.
Me: Good evening mam, Good evening sir

Technical hr: Good evening, me Asutosh and handshake with me
Me: Also handshaked and told myself bhabani sankar and stood around 5 second
Technical hr: Please sit down
Me: Sat and told thank you sir

Technical: You are from Orissa
Me: Ya
Technical: How far cuttack is from your house?
Me: It is about 60 kms from cuttack

Technical: What you know except C and C++?(I wrote C and C++ as my language in
CV)
Me: I know computer network and mobile communication.

Technical: Ok. You know C and C++ very well?
Me: Actually I am from Electronics background. I had to give importance on my branch

subjects in 4 years. as software was my dream so I was always in touch with C and C+
+. I know the basics of C and C++ very well
Technical: Tell me the basic difference between C and C++
Me: Told about 4 points about C and C++ and difference between them
Technical: What is header file and how it works?

Me: Told confidently
Technical: Whats the work of printf()?

Me: Told
Technical: Whats the work of scanf()?

Me: Told
Technical: You know while and do while loop?

Me: ya I know
Technical: Ok write syntax of “ for” loop

Me: for(i=0;i<=0,i++) actually I forgot the semicolons between them. He help me
Technical: Can we write i+++?

Me: Yes we can write it in C program but we cant write in for loop
HR: Ok if I will write simplely as for(; ;) will it show the output?

Me: No I will not show as there is not any condition within brackets
HR: Why? Syantax is correct. Right? It will compile or not? Then what will be the output?
Me: It will print a garbage value
HR: Where it will find a garbage value

Me: There may be previously stored garbage value
HR:Ok you know C++?

Me: I know the special features of C++
HR: What is inheritance?

Me: Told confidently
HR: What is polymorphism?

Me: Told with confusion
HR: Give examples

Me: Unable to give
HR: What the difference between class and object?

Me: Told with examples
HR: What is recursive function?

Me: Sorry I dony know the detail about recursive function
HR: Ok just tell what is recursive function

Me: Told(the function that calls itself)
HR: Can you write a program to find factorial of a number using recursive function?
Me: Sir, I have not prepared abt this program
HR: Which program you can write in C

Me: I can swap two variables without using 3rd variable
HR: Ok write. I was trying to wrting the whole program but he told to write only the logic
Me:-a=a+b
b=a-b
a=a-b
HR: Ok explain using a =5 b=10

M: I explained
HR: You know data structure? Was it in your course?

Me: Yes I kone the basics
HR: What is linked list, what is stack

Me: Explained
HR: What is difference between stack and queue?

Me: Explained
HR: You know Java?

Me: No, I don’t know Java
HR: What other subjects you know?
Me: I know compute networks
HR: Ok explain tcp/ip protocol

Me: Explained
HR: What are the different types of ip addresses?

Me: Told and explained
HR: What other protocols you know?

Me: I couldnot remember any other protocols.
HR: Tell about peer to peer network and shared network? Difference between them?
Me: Told
HR: Which other subjects you know?

Me: Mobile communication
HR: Except mobile communication which subjects you know?

Me: I was silent I could not remember any subjects that I am confident in.
Then technical asked the HR manager(female) to ask questions.

HR: What are your weakness?
Me: Told
HR: TCS is present at many centres including remote areas. Do you want to be
relocated?
Me: I am ready to work anywhere for TCS
HR: How you believe that you have team leading capability?
Me: Told
HR: Why TCS?

Me: My brother is working for a TATA Group company for last 6 years.
HR: Both HRs asked at same time why?

Me: He has told me that job satisfaction is there is TATA Group of comanies and for me
it is the no1 it service provider and oursourcer in India and outside world also. They
were happy at this time
HR: Why should we select you?

Me: Told about my strong areas and team building capability. And told them for the
above reasons I feel I am the best candidate for TCS.
HR: Ok thank you so much.

Me: Handshaked and told thank you so much mam.
Mean time other HR asked me “You have to take a Pakoda at least". Actually there was
pokoda in the table in front of me and HR shared with me.
Me: First handshake with male HR and picked one pokoda from plate and again thanked
them.
HR: One more thing. Please nut the tie properly while next time) (Actually my tie was
loose. I could not get any time to size my tie)
Me: I smiled and thanked again to both of them and left the place
We waited around 2 hours after interview at around 8 pm they told all the 26 candidates
to go to conference hall. We gathered. They gave the presentations about TCS IT
infrastructures. Actually the drive was specially meant for IT infrastructure servies.
At last they told that they will send the information about confirmation about our
selection through mail. We all left the place.
Next day on 2nd Oct at 6 pm I got an email that I have successfully qualified in the
selection process and will receive offer letter shortly. My joys had no bounds when I got
the mail. It was the happiest moment for me for ever.
Please, my friends don't think that when TCS will come you will start studies. You start
preparation from today. If you need any help you can send me email. I'm read to help
you all the best guys.
Hi,
I am Sunil Yadav, i have done my B.Tech (2006-10) in ECE discipline from BSAITM,
Faridabad. Our college is not so much good in terms of placement so most of students
could not get any job from college and i was 1 of them. So I decided 2 go to Bangalore. I
got my TCS hall ticket on 14th of August and on 18th August, I reached Bangalore.
There was TCS off-campus in SJBIT college on 22nd August 2010.
There was only 3 rounds:
1) Written test
2) Technical
3) HR
There were around 3000 students, out of which only 700 cleard the written.
Written test:
It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains
35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared
with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.
1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled
Ans 21
2) In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5
years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th
person?
3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2
4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an
altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y)
5) Same model as 4th question. But it is on flat surface. Formula is same 2xy/(x+y).
6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are
there they have to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors. In how many ways we can select?
Ans: 6C2
7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X

Ans: 17
8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they
measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round
measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?
Ans: 4(155)/7=31
9) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds
after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be
produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )?
Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
2) Woody and Lemon
d in that manner. What is the final width of that arrange11) A triangle is made from a
rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the
numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?
Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2
12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation
ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).
Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)
13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears
changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves
2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be
in:
Ans: white
14) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number?
Ans is 18
15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all
are boys?
a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024
16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77
inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter.
Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to
cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?
Ans is 2(141) =242
17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After
one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is
the profit for that person?
Ans is 15 pounds
Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days,
Ans is 23(cost price + change given).
19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no
of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than
sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?
Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls
20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green,
11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How
many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color.
odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.
I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer.
22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B.
What is the present age of B in binary form?
I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily.
23) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the
combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are place ment?
Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x.
24) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with
each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:
a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’s
b) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men
Ans is 28.
26) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in
extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions.
Who is sitting immediate right to E?
Ans is B or C
27) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake
hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands.
How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?
Ans is 12C2
28) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple.
(Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia
is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?
a) Linda is shorter among them
b) Chelsea is taller than Julia
c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia
d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia
Ans: d
29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact
change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u
a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32
Ans is 6
30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was
as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the
present age of Peter?
Ans is 20
31) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 26, yellow 30 and red
56. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors.
What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color.
32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of
water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from
second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the
above?
(Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)
33) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’?

Ans: bird(parakeet)
34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri, Sat
and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today.
What is the day?
35) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest
Ans: 18
I attempted 27 questions. Result was declared in the evening and my name was among
the successful guys. I was so happy. Then they asked us 2 come on 28th Sept at 11:30
AM as it was getting late that day.
Technical:
I reached there by 11:00 on 28th. After checking our documents, we were made 2 sit in a
room and asked 2 wait 4 the turn. My turn came around 7 pm and within half an hour,
result was declared and again my name was in the list.
Questions asked from me and my friends are:
1)Tell me abt. urself.

2) Your project in detail nd ur role in it.
3) Yourr favourite subjects in B.Tech. Be well prepare with atleast 1.
4) OSI model nd function of each layer
5) TCP/IP model
6) Classful addressing
7) What is swapping?
8) Difference b/w linux and windows?
9) What is op-amp?
10) What is IC?
11) Which sorting technique is best?
12) What is stack?
13) WAP for factorial using recursion.
14) WAP for Armstrong no.
15) Wap for reversing a string.
16) WAP for prime no.
17) WAP for even/odd no.
18) WAP for getting Fibonacci series.
19) What is REGEDIT command?
20) What is your PC’s configuration?
21) How to do project planning?
22) Being an ECE student, why you want 2 join software industry?
23) What is the use of stdio.h, conio.h?
24) Different b/w scanf & gets?
25) Different b/w while nd do while?
26) Why capacitor allows ac nd not dc?
Only 250 cleard d technical.
HR:
After half an hour, I was called for HR
Me: Good evening sir.

Int: Good evening, take your seat.
Me: Thank you sir. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to them)
Int: Tell me about yourself.
Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my
answer).
Int: Tell me about. Your family background.

Me: Bla Bla
Int: Tell me about your hobbies?

Me: Told as cricket and internet surfing.
Then he asked some questions about cricket. So be well prepare with your hobbies
Int: Why do you want to join TCS?

Me: Told some strong points about TCS and he was impressed with my answer.
Int: I you are rejected today, then what will you do?
Me: Told
Int: Are you having any geographical constraints (are you intended to work anywhere in
the world)?
Me: No sir, I am not having any geographical constraints and I’m interested to work
anywhere in the world.
Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)?
Me: Yes sir.
Int: Thank you.

(It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send
results through mail within 3 week. I thought i will be selected because i was confident
about my performance)
Finally, i got mail on 21st sept. Thanks to GOD, I was in TCS. Around 200 students were
selected in this round.
I attended 5 companies up to now. TCS was my 6th company but I didn’t loose hope. If
you have failed yet, don’t get disappointed. Losers got a chance to correct their mistakes
and winners lost their chance to correct their mistakes. If you are selected, remember,
you are better than those who are participated for that interview, but not the ‘Best’. I
got selected in off-campus, I am very happy for that. Because, i completed with the
other college students also. But those who got selected in On-campus are completed
with the students of their college. Getting job in TCS is one of my great achievements in
my life.
So do your home work well and keep faith in GOD.
All the best!
If you need any help related to TCS, then you can contact me on my id:
[email protected]
Hi,
My name is Soumen, i have done B.Tech from MCKV Institute of Engg, which brought
TCS on-campus only, no other such known IT company, i cleared aptitude, but couln't
crack interview, i again try my luck in off-campus conducting by TCS in our city, again
this time i cleared aptitude and waiting for final results as you can see the latest pattern
from other paper posted previously, i can help by submitting the question i faced.
1) Now pet's age is to times when paul was once. But at that time paul's age=pet's
current age ,how old is pet?
2) Block has 10,9,5 size, how many unit cube is needed to make a block of that size?
3) 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes
possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence.
Ans-22
4) 10men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2
men are dancing with same women and vice versa.
Ans-never
What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color
6) B is taller than j and 3 pillers. P is shorter than B and 2 pillers is j shorter/taller than
P?
Ans-irrelevant question
7) Sangakara and ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased so to resolve
ponty takes out a coin, what is the probability that dice shows correct option.
8) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 58
wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?
Ans: 7
9. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water
10. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square?
a. 1 b.2 c.5 d.6
Ans: c
11. Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be
divisible by4?
a. 31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657
Ans: c
12. One problem on (a3-b3)/(a2+ab+b2)

Ans: ‘a-b’
13. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’?

Ans: bird(parakeet)
14. Key words in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question
one number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26 15 b?
Ans:54
(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=26
7*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)
15. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3
grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?
Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape
16. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and
speaks truths on other days.. one day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today.
What is the day?
17. Man, Bear, North, South, Walks.

Ans: White
18. (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number?
Ans: 9(for any no it can be true)
19. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same
time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours,
how much time will it take to fill completely?
Ans: 7 hours
20. Keywords: T.Nagar, Chennai, 1-100, prime numbers b/n 140-180, How many 2’s are
there?
Ans: 20 (Not only 2’s ,1’s,3’s,4’s,5’s,6’s,7’s,8’s,9’s,0’s also 20)
21. One question has last part like difference between two terms is 9 and product of two
numbers is 14, what is the squares of sum of numbers?
Ans: 109
22. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and
his father is my father’s son?
Ans: His son
23. What is the value of [(3x+8Y)/(x-2Y)]; if x/2y=2?

Ans: 10 {the numerical may change)
24. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in
that ‘M’ flavors are taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange?
(Logic: NcM )
25. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest
Ans: 18
26. In a market 4 man are standing. The average age of the four before 4 years is 45,
aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average weight of all?
Ans: 49
27. Keywords: One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of
4:6:7, the material cost is: 100, what is the total cost?
Ans: 425
28. Keywords: Density, Reluctance, Sensitivity, Voltage, Current, what is the Resistance
Formula is “R=V/I”
29. Keywords: Sports readers, 10 tables, 4chairs per table, each table has different
number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person?
Ans : 6
30. Keywords: Die, card, coin, b/n 2 to 12

Ans: All are equal
31. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got
79 marks in 8th subject. what is the average of all the subjects?
The extra 5 marks will be distributed in 8 semester, 5/8=.625
74+.625=74.625
32. In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by
adding the numbers we get 44,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?
Ans: 8
33. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is
6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?( 3years) “You try to solve this
question once”
34. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph. and returns to A with 80kmph,
what is the average of their speed?
Just go and hit't
Test Paper :7
Paper Type : Candidate Experiences

Test Date : 29 August 2010
Test Location : SRMCEM, Lucknow
Posted By : Richa
I received a hall ticket from TCS to attend the off campus drive at SRMCEM, Lucknow on
29th August at 8am. There was a crowd of around 250-300 candidates in the morning
batch.
It was a Computer Based Test(CBT) for 60 minutes. We were to attempt 35 questions.
The questions were based on logics; some of them were aptitude and a few were
analytical.
IMPORTANT: I discussed with many friends who had appeared for this process recently
and also read it on www.freshersworld.com regarding the experience of other
candidates. Many had to say that if you want to clear the Aptitude Round, then you must
attempt somewhere around 23-25 questions to make it through. But this is not the case.
What I figured out was that TCS is selecting candidates based on their accuracy. I
attempted just 16 questions and still made it through, because all 16 questions I
answered were correct. I made no guess. Even one of my friends made through TCS on
28th August by attempting 16 questions and all of them were right. There were a few of
my friends who attempted 17 question with 1-2 wrong answers and some who made 2-3
guesses. They couldn't make through the written round. There was one candidate who
attempted 15 questions and all right, and he also made it through. So, all I could make
out was that TCS is selecting candidates on 100% accuracy; ofcourse there must be
some lower limit to the question you should answer. Since I saw a candidate attempting
15 questions and still making through, so I guess 15 would be the minimum out of 35.
Please do not guess or do not attempt if you are not sure about your answer.
The computer based test had questions from:

Area and Perimeter, Probability (Many questions from this chapter).
Problems on Ages (Many questions from this chapter).
Pipes and Cisterns, Ratio and Proportion and some logical questions
The questions are pretty lengthy but with all irrelevant statements. I remember one
question where they told about a romantic story of Alice and Paul and then right at the
end after 5-6 lines, they came up with a question on ages of Alice and Paul. I'd rather
suggest everyone to start reading the question from where they find any Numerica data.
I don't remember many questions but only a few (and that too not with exact numerical
value). I'll share with u a few questions such that you can understand what the question
asked for.
Question 1: There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical
sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be
produced 5 times consecutively? ( 1 of )
Answer: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
32 will be the answer. (My friends got similar question with "3 times consecutively"; for
that the answer would be 8)
Question 2: Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is
twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age
of Peter?
Luckily, I had this question twice. Initially I left it because of the confusing statement but
when I got the same question second time with different names of the friends (Pooja and
Prasad) then I gave a little extra time and solved it.
Answer: 20 years. I simply substituted the answers in the statement to find the best fit,
because the statement in the question was pretty confusing.
Question 3: The ages of two friends is in the ratio 5:6. After how many years will the
ages be in the ratio 7:8?
Answer: 10 years.
Question 4: (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a
perfume: Lilac, Balsalmic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in
demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsalmic go together.
Woody and Mimosaic go together, Woody and Balsalmic never go together. Lemon can
question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume EXCEPT:
1) Balsalmic and Lilac
2) Woody and Lemon
3) Mimosaic and Woody
4) Mimosaic and Lilac
Answer: Mimosaic and Lilac. I have made the question here really easy to understand.
But the actual question was in a twisted language and it was difficult to find the answer.
It took me some time to get to the answer.
Question 5: A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different
toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings.
Answer: 8 * 7 = 56
Question 6: A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and
C cm. (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square
made from the same rope?
Question 7: What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation
ax+by+cz+d=0. (I do not remember the values of a,b,c,d)
Question 8: An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she
usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?
Answer: 33.33%
Question 9: A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to
reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what s the average speed
of the pony? (This question was really long with loads of irrelevant statement)
These are a few questions that I could recall. I made through the aptitude round by
attempting 16 questions. Next was Technical Interview Round.
Technical Interview:
Here I will discuss the technical questions that were asked to me and also the questions
asked to my friends.
Question 1: Write the pointer representation of a[i][j][k].
Question 2: i = 5
i++, ++i, --i, i--, 5
What will be the output if it is printed?
Question 3: How will you insert a new node between any two nodes in a linked list?
Write the code.
Question 4: How will you find a particular data in the linked list?
Question 5: What is MD5?
Question 6: What is RSA? Explain its principle.

Question 7: There is a triangle and 3 ants on each vertex of the triangle. The 3 ants start
to move randomly along the edges of the triangle. What is the probability that two ants
will collide?
Question 8: What is the difference between C and C++?
Question 9: What do you mean by polymorphism?
Question 10: Give an example of polymorphism with code.
Question 11: What do you mean by OOP?
Question 12: What is inheritance?
Question 13: What is a friend function?
Question 14: What is an abstract class?
Question 15: Suppose there is a number 235 such that sum of first two digits is equal to
the third digit. How many such 3 digits number are possible?
Question 16: Why is the VIRTUAL keyword used in C++?
Question 17: Which keyword is written to use a variable declared in one class in the
other class?
Question 18: Suppose a code is written in C and you want to use that code in C++. How
can you do that?
Question 19 What do you mean by DML?
Question 20: Is there any language other than SQL where DML is used? If yes, then
which?
Question 21: How many normal forms do we have?
Question 22: Here is a tic-tac-toe game which is being played by 2 people:

xo_
o__
xox
Represent the blank spaces. Who played the last chance (x or o)?
Technical Questions asked to my friends:
Question 1: What is a transaction? Properties of Transaction?
Question 2: What "condition" will be written in the if statement such that both Hello
World are printed when the following code is executed.
if(condition)
{
printf("Hello");
}
else
{
printf("World");
}
Question 3: What will be the output of the following code?

int i=5;
printf("%d, %d, %d", i++, i, ++i);
Which C compiler do you use? (My friend said TURBO)

What will be the output of above code in TURBO compiler? (He said same)
No! It will not be the same.
After the Technical round, there was an MR i.e. Managerial Round.

It was just a 2-3 minutes round. The interviewer asked me to introduce myself. Then
asked about my father. Then core values and strengths. Your hobbies? Which latest
novel have you read?
Next was the HR round. This was a little time taking round as the technical one.
Question 1: Introduce yourself?
Question 2: Your family background; father, mother, siblings.
Question 3: How does TCS earns its revenues? How it does its business?
Question 4: What was the need of bringing Information Technology in India?
Question 5: There is a round cake. You have 3 chances to cut the cake. Divide the cake
into 8 pieces in these 3 chances.
Question 6: Suppose if I reject you today, what will you do next?
Question 7: You have a good communication skill. Why is it so? Is it because of your
schooling or family atmosphere? Whom do you give the credit for this?
Question 8: What are your strengths? Give 2 examples of your life incidents that portray
this strength in you.
Question 9: What are your weaknesses?
This was it. Out of some 250-300 candidates, only 10 could make it till the HR round and
I'm glad to be one of them. They have asked us to wait for 2 weeks for the mail.I'm
waiting for my email.
Wish all you guys a very good luck!
Test Paper :8
Paper Type : Whole Testpaper
Test Location : Reva institute,bangalore
Posted By : Rajesh kumar
TCS has changed it's old pattern and introduced new pattern for Written test.
The Written test consists of 35 questions.

All questions are Aptitude questions, no Verbal, no Passages etc. Only Aptitude based on
blood relations, percentages, profilt-loss etc.
Time: 1 hour
There is Negative marking: -0.33 for each wrong answer, Timer will be displayed on the
top right corner of the screen. Most of the questions are lengthy. They are about 4 to 5
lines. But they are eassy. Only requirement is to be fast.
Note: Among these 35 questions few questions are very very simple questions.So first
solve out those easy questions and then move to lengthy questions.There will be option
to skip a question and answer it later.
1. One man want to build a wall the length and breadth of the wall are 20, 30
respectively. He need 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he
need?
Ans: l*b*35(no of bricks needed for sqcm)
2. One person had three children. He has 7 pennis. Then how he can distribute the fruits
among his child by folloing conditions.
a)he can get one water millon for 1 penny.
b)he can get 2 oranges for 1 penny.
c)he can get 3 grapes for 1 penny.
Ans: 2 water millon 1 orange 1 grape
3. 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?
Ans:18
4. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number
as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime
numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?
Ans:
For 1 to 10 - 1 six
2 to 20 - 1 six
Similarly upto 59 we utilise six, 5 times
from 60 to 69 (including 66) - 11 times
from 70 to 100 - 3, hence ans = 5+11+3 = 19
Ans:19.
5. One grand father has 3 grand child. Eldest one age is 3 times of the youngest child
age. Sum of two youngest child age is more than two of eldest one age. Find the eldest
one age?
Ans: 15(we can easily predict from options, as we take y as 15)

6. Difefrence between two numbers is 4 and their product is 17. Then find the sum of
their squers?
Ans: 70 (By using (x-y)2=x2+y2-2xy)
7. I don't remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?
Ans: white.
8. Find category from following Jumbled letters, parakeet(answer)

Ans: Bird(category)
9. Which is the smallest digit when devides the 2880 gives perfect squre.?
Ans:5(we can easily predict from options, as we devides them with 2880)
10. One question like. formule?

Ans: Here you can use the (a-b)3=(a-b)(a2+ab+b2)formule).
11. I don’t have any brothers and sisters.by pointing a picture that man said that his
father is my fathers. Son then who is he?
Ans: His son.
12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average
age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has
become 45. Find the age of seventh person?
Solution: Here the question appear as an easy one, but carried a lot of unwanted
sentences and unwanted datas(i didn't mention above) in exam which may confuse you
on solving technique.
So now we can compute x from above equation. (x = 41, 6x = 246)

Let now we compute y,((6x+y)/7) = 45, as we have value of x, compute y.
Ans: 69
13.The ratio between the ages of two pwrsons is 6:5 and sum of there ages is 77 then
how many years later there ratio becomes 8:7?
Ans: we can easily predict from options
14. Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran
with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with
depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs,
2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog?
Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,
Ans:16.5km/hr.
15. Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors
are there they has to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors what’s chanses to select?
Ans:6C2
16. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31

Solution: Here it appear simple, because it arranged in arranged in sequence manner,
but the actual question was some what twist mentioning fibonacci series and more over
question was in statements (no numbers). Hence first try to understand the question
well.
Here let group alternate terms 3,7,15,31 (3+4 =7, 7+8 =15, 15+16=31)
Similarly for second group (22,45,? (22+23 = 45, 45+46 = 91) hence ans is 91.
17. Cycles and 4 wheelors problem?
Ans: We can easily predict from options
18. Some irrivvelent data.in last two lines problem will be there. One man walks certain
distance with 5 kmph and walk back the same
Ans: A
19. A and B tanks r there.1/8th of the tank B is filled in 22Hrs.what is time to fill the tank
full?
Ans: I don’t know.
20. 5 friends went for week end party to Mc donalds restrurent and there they measure
there weights. Some irrilevent data. Final measure is 155 kg then find the average
weight of 5 people?
Ans: 155/5=31
21. 2 pots are there. 1st pot is filled with ink and 2nd pot is filled with water. Take 1 spoon
of ink from 1st pot and pore it in 2nd pot and take 1 spoon of mixture from 2nd pot and
pore it in 2nd pot then which one of following is true?
Ans: Water in 1st pot is less than the ink in 2nd pot.
22: One electronic problem?
Ans: V=IR
23.There r ten spots in library and each spot has 4 tables and ten readers ar there .
sorry I don’t remember complete question?
Ans: None
24. Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs,
Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is
one of those days when I lie too. Then find today?
Ans: Thursday
For Remaining problems I remember the topics they have covered they are probability,
Time and Distance.
Note: Don't attempt more than 27 questions out of 35. There will be highest cutoff.
All the best.
Test Paper :9
Test Location : ITER, Bhubaneswar
Posted By : Rakesh Chowdhury
Hi Friends,
Below are some questions of TCS campus held in ITER, Bhubaneswar in 14th
August 2010. I have cleard it and got job in TCS. So i think that this will help you very
much.
There are 2 stage for it.

1st is written test which consist of 35 aptitude questions which are very very easy.
Because most of the questions are calculation type and formula based and also
calculator is allowed during test. I have answered 27 questions out of 35.
My suggestion is please ateend minimum 25 questions. Remember there is negative

mark for wrong answer. So answer very carefully. After this there is Tecnical Interview it
is also some what easy. They ask you questions from each subject. So be prepare for it.
So please answer carefully.
Some of my interview question is:

HR: Tell me about yourself.
ME: Answered it.
HR: Are you Oracle Certified( I am Oracle certified. I have mentioned it in my CV).
ME: Yes sir(after this he ask me to show my certificate. I have showed it)
HR: What is normalization.

ME: I have answered it.
HR: Do you know C and C++?

ME: Yes sir.
HR: Write a C program for fibonacci series.

ME: I wrote it.
HR: What is DDL and DML LAnguage?

ME: Answerd it with example.
HR: OK you can go now.

ME: Thank you sir.
After this on 15th August result is decalerd. I'm one of them Ok. Best of luck for your
campus. Below is the some of the written question that i have remebered
Aptitude questions(35)
1. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average
age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current average age has
become 45. Find the age of seventh person?
Solution: It is given as after 2 year average age wiil be 43 so now the average is 2 year.
After addition of 7th person average is 45 so 7th person wiil be 45+(6*(45-4))
Ans: 69
2. Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran
with average speed 22km/hour, Horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with
depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hours,
2hours after sunset it got dog. Compute the speed of dog?
Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,
Ans:16.5km/hr.
3. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31
Solution: Here it appear simple, because it arranged in arranged in sequence manner,
but the actual question was some what twist mentioning fibonacci series and more over
question was in statements (no numbers). Hence first try to understand the question
well.
Here let group alternate terms 3,7,15,31 (3+4 =7, 7+8 =15, 15+16=31)
Similarly for second group (22,45,? (22+23 = 45, 45+46 = 91) hence ans is 91.
4. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number
as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime
numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering?
Ans:
This type of question if it is asked how many 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 then you bindly write the
answer as 20. But for 1 answer will be 21 as 100 is included
5. ((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2
Ans: as x=2y put the value and get the answer.
6: If we subract a number with y, we get 4 increase of number, once it got divided by y

itself. Find that number?
Ans: 12 (we can easily predict from options, as we take y as 6)
7. I don't remember exactly the question, one logical problem stating the colour of beer?
Ans: white. What ever the question about the color of beer means you wrote the answer
as white because polar beer. This question is very lengthy don’t burther about that.
8. Jumbled letters, parakeet(answer)

Ans: Bird(category)
9. One question like. (209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144) = ?

Ans: here you can use calc, many(4 to 5) questions were depend upon calc alone.(no
need problem solving technique).
10. I'm only son for my parents. (some irrelevant statements in the middle to distract
you). The man in picture is my father's son (some irrelevant statements). Who is he?
A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes aftr every 4 min, now train is defective
and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 3 times
consecutively(1 out of)?
1. 16 2. 8 3. 12 4. 4
Ans:
(1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2)=(1/8)
Thus 1 out of 8
11. Resistance is X ohm voltage Y then what is current

Ans: V=IR
12. I have 3 grandsons, age different between 2 of grandsons X years, 1st grandson is
twice elder than younger one adiition off ages of all the three is y than what is age of
eldest grandson?(There is some value inX and Y).
13. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has
gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he
took?
1. 8 2. 4 3. 7 4. 7.33
(Options may be different)
114
Lion rat stayin in jungle happily.
Lion lies on: Mon, Tue, Wed
Rat lies on:Wed, Thurs Sat
If lion says: I didn't lie yesterday
Rat says: e1 i didnt lie yesterday
So what day is today?
14. The ratio of current age of X and Y is 5:7, after hw many years der age ratio will b
7:9?
15. Inspired by fibonacci series sanket decided to create is own series which is
1,2,3,7,7,22,15,67, like this, then what no come immediately before 63?
Ans: 202
Explanation: Check altenate no.1,3,7,15=====>n*2+1
Similarly 2,7,22,67=======>n*3+1
So series is 1,2,3,7,7,22,15,67,31,202,63.
16. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 5 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4,
Ans: Last 2 place should be divisible by 4
So possible values at last place are 12,24,32,44,52 this can be arranged in 5 ways
The rest 3 places can be filled in 5*5*5 way so total is 5^4
17. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 banana is 1 cent. If Rahul buys same
amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will
get?
Ans: 1 plum, 2 apple, 1 banana
Explanation: 7/3=2.333 cents for each child
according to ans given for d sum each child will get 1 plum, 2 apple, 1 banana
18. 2880 is divided by which smallest no. So we get no. which is perfect square?
Ans= 5
Explanation: 2880/5=576 sure sort question.
19. There are to prime no(with some nonsence stuff) then addition of two prime no is
13, and multiplication is 21, then what are some of there squares?
Explanation: XY=21 and X+Y=13. Solve using calci
Ans of X & Y will b in points. Then x2+y2=??
20. Smita was makin 1 design(again some nonsence) size of larger cube to be made is
5*5*5 using smaller cubes of 1*1*1. She created solid larger cube Then she decided to
make hollow cube. Then how many 1*1*1 cubes required to make hollow larger cube
Ans= 104
Explanation: (25+25)+(15+15)+(12+12)=104
21. 2X/5Y=5X/3Y Then what is x/y
22. A pizza parlor provides pizzas. There were 2 toppings available initially peperoni and
salami.
But now they, have introduces 8 new toppings(some names) to select from. A person
wishes to buy two different pizzas of new topping in how many ways he can do that?
Ans: 8 X 7=56
23. Person travels to(some nonsence stuff). If he goes from A to B with speed of 4kmph
and
returns back to B with speed of 5 kmph. What is his average. Speed of Journey? (Values
may be different)
Ans: 4.44(It's not 4.5)
Explaination: 2PQ/(P+Q)===2*4*5/(4+5)=4.44kmph
24. There is a dice having value from 1 6 on each face and a pack of cards having face
card aces(hugh chunk of nonsense). When 2 dies are thrown and their scores are added
then which sum will come max number of times?
1. 8 2. 9 3. 10 4. 11
Ans: 8
Explanation: 8-2,6 3,5 4,4
9-4,5 3,6
10-5,5 4,6
11-5,6
Thus 8's probability is more
25. ''Susha brought terilon cloth and rope to(some nonsence now just go to last 2
lines)''. If rope is 153 meter long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1 meter long then how
many times will she have to cut it?
Ans: 152 times
26. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked(some nonsense) total number of
wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there
Ans:
This can be done by looking at the option first check the no of bicycles and then multiply
it by 2. And then substract the multiplication value from 240 if the value is divided by 4
then that is the answer
27. 1/3 of a number is 6 more than 1/6 of that number then what is the number.
Ans=x/3=x/6+6
36
28. The cost of making a robot consists of material cost, repairing cost, coloring cost and
is in the ratio 3:4:5. If the material cost is 1200 then find out the cost of the robot.
Ans: Simple 3 part is 1200 so 3+4+5=12 part=?
29. There are pepsi 1 litre & oil 1 litre. It is given as 1 spoon of pepsi is aken and is
mixed with Oil. Then 1 spoon oil&pepsi is taken and is mixed with pepsi then which of
the condition holds true.
Ans: The amount of pepsi in oil is mre than amount of oil in pepsi.
30. An tank is filled with water. In first hour 10 lit, in second hour 20 lit and in 3 rd hour
time 40 lit. If time taken to fill ¼ of the tank is 5 hour. What is the time required to fill
up the tank.
Ans: As the water is filled as twice speed and in 5 the hour ¼. So in 6 hour ½. So
answer 7 th hour.
The aptitude test consists of 35 questions and here we have been given negative
marking of 0.33 per wrong answer. At the selection the bench mark was 22 marks. It’s
an easy test where more than 25 questions can be cleared easily. Never try to solve the
questions first that have more number of lines.
Coming to questions first search for the numerical data in the questions and just the
logic how the questions can be solved
a.1 b.2 c.5 d.6

Ans: c
2. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water
divisible by4?
a.31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657
Ans: c

Ans: bird

Ans: ‘a-b’
6. In school there are some bicycles and 4 wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 190
Ans: 15
7. Keywords in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question
one number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26b 15?
Ans:54
(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=26
7*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)
8. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and
speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today.
What is the day?
9. Man, Bear, North, South, walks.

Ans: White
10. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3
grapes foe 1p.he has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?
Ans: 1 watermelon,2chickoos,1grape
Ans: 9
12. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same
time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160….if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours,
how much time will it take to fill completely?
Ans: 7 hours
13. Keywords: T. Nagar, Chennai, 1-100, prime numbers between 140-180, How many
2’s are there?
14. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and
his father is my father’s son?
Ans: His son
Ans:109

Ans:10 {the numerical may change)
17. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in
that ‘M’ flavors are
taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange?
(Logic: NcM )
18. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child
age is 3 times
youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children.
What is the age of
eldest child?
Ans: 15
19. KEYWORDS: one organization ,material labor and maintenance are in the ratio of
4:6:7,the material cost
is:100,what is the total cost?
Ans: 425
20. KEYWORDS: density, reluctance, sensitivity, voltage ,current, what is the resistance
21. In a market 4 man are standing .the average age of the four before 4years is
45,aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49.what is the average weight of
all?
Ans: 49
22. Keywords: Sports readers, 10 tables, 4chairs per table, each table has different
number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person?
Ans: 6
23. Keywords: Die, card, coin, between 2 to 12

Ans: All are equal
24. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got
79 marks in 8th
subject. what is the average of all the subjects?
Ans: 74.625
25. In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:6 and by
adding the numbers we
get 44,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?
Ans: 8
26. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph. and returns to A with 80kmph,
what is the average of
their speed?
27. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is
6times the Alice.
What is the presents Paul’s age?( 3years) “You try to solve this question once”
These are the questions that I remember.
Test Paper :11

Test Date : 19 November 2010
Test Location : Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Posted By : Mahesh
Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working
with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be
achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits.
The problem posed at the end of the workshop is
1) How many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with
repetition) that are divisible by 4?
Can you help Alok find the answer?
375
3125
500
2) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one
above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The
goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to
another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns.
A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤
20).
We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing).
The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-
move, on ubsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens
to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold
coinis the third coin from the top. Then Alice has no winning strategy.
In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move.

In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.
3) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a
dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle.
What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?
0.75
1
0.25
0.5
4) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other
words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35,
a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken
hands with at least one person in the set is
13
18
11
12
5) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7
billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the
way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every
respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.
Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total.

How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?
18
72
6
12
6) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters
randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly
1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?
0
1/12
11/12
12/212
7) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to
40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which
The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false.
The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.
The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false
8) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1
to 40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which
The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.
The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.
The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.
The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.
9) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one
of them is guilty.
The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next
to him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the
following possibilities are true?
A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent.

B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent .
Neither A nor B
Both A and B
B only
A only
10) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with
sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is
4
3
1
0
11) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal
system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered
1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?
256
64
192
54
12) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if
there is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k
people a1, a2, ......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak},
{ak, a1} shake hands).
9
8
7
6
13) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each
match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B,
Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning.
Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia,
Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the
probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
5/9
1/9
2/3
4/9
14) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after
the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the
form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of
echina is given by the formula
d = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8
Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar
blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many
years back did the solar blast occur?
12
16
8
24
15) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression
N=9+X+Y-Z
Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to
maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a
single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z).
Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally
Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable.
Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game
would be
27
0.0
20
18
16) Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs,
Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is
one of those days when I lie too. Then find today?
1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?
Ans:18
Learn the conpects of the questins these questions are repeating by changing the
values.
Test Paper :12

Test Date : 18 September 2010
Test Location : Chennai
Posted By : Afnan Pathan
TCS Latest Fresher Job Interview Placement Paper, 18th September 2010, Chennai.
1) Ramu & Sangeetha went for biological analysis to a island which is 34km from their
place. They travelled in a boat which went at a speed of 2m/s. when they are in half a
distance in the boat sangeetha note there are 7 leg & 8 leg octopuses under the water.
Ramu counted the total number of legs of octopuses and got 54. Sangeetha instantly
said I know how many 7 leged octopuses are there under the water. They both reached
the island after 20 min they left . How many seven leged octopuses does sangeetha
calculate?
1. 4 2. 5 3. 6 4. 7
Ans: Total number of legs of both 7 & 8 leged octobus = 54. Find number of 7 leged
octopuses
Go from answer
4(7 leged octobus) + X = 54.
5(7 leged octobus) + X = 54. Similarly do for all. The x you get should be exactly
divisible by 8. Only one answer will satisfy the condition.
Note: You may find lot of nonsense stuff to test verbal ability. Just take required data
alone. From the next question onwards I post necessary data only.
2) Total number of wheels of bicycles & 4 wheeled vechicles is 38. How many bicycles
are there? ( This question has more than 6 lines to test your verbal abilty)
Ans: Similar to above. Go from answer
Choices from answer( 2 wheelers) + X = 38. X should be exactly divisible by 4
3) Jumbled sentences given APPRAKEET. What is the meaning.
PARAKEET
Ans: Bird
4) Logical problem asking for the colour of beer
Ans: White
5) There are 14 spots. Each spot has 8 seats. 28 people seated in all the spots. No
similar number people sat in any spot. How many spots left with no people at all
Ans: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28. So remaning 7 spots has no people at all
6) Can A has milk. Can b had water. A spoon of milk from can A is added to Can B. Then
from the mixture same amount is taken from Can B and added to Can A.
Ans : Can A contains less item than item in Can B
7) There is a plane contains 32 points. All the 32 points have equal distance from point
x.
Which of the following is true
A: All the 32 points lie in circle.

B: The distance from x to all 32 points is less then the distance between each other
Ans : A only
8) Horse ran at speed of 34kmph. Pony started after 2 hours. Horse ran for 4 hours.
What is the speed of pony?
Ans: (34*4)/(4+2)
9) A clock gives 4 ticks consequetively. After days it has become defective & gives only 2
ticks. What is the probability that clock produces 3 ticks consequetively. 1 out of ?
Ans: 1/8
10) Person points to a photo and says the main in the picture is the son of my fathers
son. What is the relationship between him & person in the photo?
Ans: he himself
11) There is a cloth of 153 yards length. X has to cut the cloth into 153 pieces. He takes
5 seconds to cut each piece how much time he require to cut all 153 pieces?
Ans: 152*5
12) Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has
enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old MERCEDES wich
gave him 35 kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he
took?
Ans: 490/35*3
13) Jagan lies on Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Pradeep lies on Wednesday Thursday Saturday.
Jagan says I didn’t lie yesterday. Pradeep also says that I didn’t lie yesterday. What day
is today?
Ans: Sunday
14) The ratio of current age of X and Y is 5:7. After how many years their age becomes
7:9?
Ans: Simple ratio
By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 5 digit no. Can be formed which is divisible by 4,
Ans: 2500 (not sure)
XY=21 and X+Y=13. Ans of X & Y will be in points then x square+y square=?
Ans: Solve using quadratic eqn. you get x & y
15) Person travels from A- to b in 9km/hr, and B to A in 4 Km/hr. What is the average
speed?
Ans : 2(9*4)/9+4
16) Find total cost to build a robot. The cost of spare parts use to bulid it is in the ratio
4:5:3. The cost of spare parts are $40, $50, $60.
Ans: Simple ratio. I don’t remember the question exactly but all you do is to add $40+
$50+$60 to get the answer
17) Pizza shops make pizza of same thickess and different diamester. Cost of 8cm is 80,
12 cm is 240, 24 cm is 720. Which pizza gives best value for money?
Ans: Divide cost by cm & compare with others. Hint. Take smallest one and multiple till
you get the largest pizza. Then compare both you get the answer
18) Average marks of 5 sub is 61. Six sub mark is 89. What is the average after adding
6th?
Ans: (61*5) + 89/6
19) Find number of 3’s between 1 & 100?
Ans: 19
20) A pipe can fill a tank at the rate 1 litre/hr, the tank is 1/32 filled in 6 hours. After
how many hows the tank is filled completely
Ans: 1/16, 1/8, ¼, ½, 1. After 5 hours.
Test Paper :13

Test Location : SJBIT College Bangalore
Posted By : V.V.Sreekanth
Hi,
I am V.V.Sreekanth, i have done my MCA (2007-10) from MIC College of Tech,

Vijayawada. Our college is not so much good in terms of placement so most of our
college students could not get any job from college and i was 1 of them. So I decided 2
go to Bangalore. I got my TCS hall ticket on 31st of August, I reached Bangalore.
There was TCS off-campus in SJBIT college on 31st August 2010.
There was actually 4 rounds:
1) Written test
2) Technical
3) GD
4) HR
There were around 3000 students, out of which only 200 cleared the written. I was one of
them.
Written test:
It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35
questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with
previous papers and having a little presence of mind. Questions which i got in exam are.
1) The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8
then what is the present age of sam?
Ans: 12years (names and values may change)
Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2
5) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are 190
Ans: 15
6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are
Ans: 16C4
7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X

Ans: 17
8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they
Ans: 4(155)/7=31
8. The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, cost of repairing and cost of
painting in the ratio of 5:2:3. The cost used for material is 200. Find the total cost of
making the robot?
Ans: 400 (just calculate it).
2) Woody and Lemon
11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I
do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from
the same rope?
Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2
Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)
13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears
changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves
2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be
in:
Ans: white
14) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled
Ans 21
are boys?
a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024
Ans is 2(141) =242
Ans is 15 pounds
Ans: d
Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls
20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green,
11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How
many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color.
23) Ram buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop
Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to Ram. After 2 days,
Ans is 23(cost price + change given).
24) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the
combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final
width of that arrangement?
Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x.
Ans is 28.
Ans is B or C
Ans is 12C2
a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32
Ans is 6
30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was
as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the
present age of Peter?
Ans is 20
What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color.
Ans : very easy..
32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of
water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from
second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the
above?
33) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘IGTRE’?
Ans: Animal(TIGER)
34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri, Sat
and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today.
What is the day?
Ans: 18
I attempted 28 questions exactly. Result was declared after 2 hours and my name was
among the successful guys. I was so happy. Then they asked us 2 come on 4th Sept at
1:30 PM as it was getting late that day.
Technical:
I reached there by 11:00 on 4th. After checking our documents, we were made 2 sit in a
room and asked 2 wait 4 the turn. My turn came around 2 pm and within an hour, result
was declared and again my name was in the list.
Questions asked from me are:
1) Tell me about. yourself.

Ans: I told confidently.
2) Your project in detail and your role in it.

Ans: I explained my entire project with diagrams. It took almost 20 minutes. He was
satisfied.
3) Problems faced in project

Ans: I explained because I have done my project in South Central Railways(SCR). It was
a live project done by me.
4) Your favourite subjects in MCA.

Ans: Be well prepare with atleast 1. I told C and Java
5) Why java?
Ans: Because it is a powerful language. And I explained some oops concepts which I like
the most.
6) You like programming or theoretical subjects?

Ans: Be confident about this. I told programming subjects.
7) He asked me to write some code of my academic project.

Ans: I have written that and explained well. He impressed.
8) Difference b/w linux and windows?

Ans: I explained kernel and its use..
9) Which database you used in your project?

Ans: I told oracle 10g
10) Why?
Ans: I told that SCR has Oracle licensed version. That’s y I used this.
11) Random algorithm which I used in my project

Ans : explained confidently…
12) How to do project planning?

Ans : I explained SDLC life cycle perfectly…
13) He also asked me to explain some new concepts that I know in C.

Ans : Actually I have done some programes using graphics in C. So I explained them. He
impressed and gave shakehand.
14) Why TCS?
15) He asked some questions on college details etc.
Only 100 cleard the technical.
GD:
Actually GD was not an elimination round in TCS. It was very easy. My topic was Love
marriages vs Arranged marriages. Be confident. raise atleast one best point. Then you
will be selected.

Int: Good evening, take your seat.
Int: Tell me about yourself.
answer).
Int: Tell me about. Your family background.

Me: Bla Bla
Int: Tell me about your hobbies?

Int: Why do you want to join TCS?

Int: I you are rejected today, then what will you do?
Me: Told
Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)?
Me: Yes sir I am willing to write 10 years also. Because it is TCS. Then he smiled a lot.
Int: Thank you.

(It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send
results through mail within 3 weeks. I thought i will be selected because i was confident
about my performance)
Finally, i got mail on 21st sept. Thanks to GOD, I was in TCS. Around 80 students were
selected in this round. If you have failed yet, don’t get disappointed. Losers got a chance
to correct their mistakes and winners lost their chance to correct their mistakes. If you
are selected, remember, you are better than those who are participated for that
interview, but not the ‘Best’. I got selected in off-campus, I am very happy for that.
Because, i completed with the other college students also. But those who got selected in
On-campus are completed with the students of their college. Getting job in TCS is one of
my great achievements in my life.
So do your home work well and keep faith in GOD.
All the best!
Test Paper :14

Test Date : 23 October 2010
Test Location : G.L.Bajaj Knowledge park 2, Greater Noida
Posted By : Sukhi
Hello!
My name is Surjeet Singh, i did my B.E (2006-10) in ECE discipline from pdmce. Our
college is not so much good in terms of placement so most of students could not get any
job from college and i was 1 of them. So I decided 2 go for off-campus. I got my TCS
hall ticket on 19th of Oct.
There was only one Written test.
There were around 3000 students.
Written test Round:
It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains
35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared
with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.
1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in
21 hours what time it will take to get completely filled
Ans: 23
3) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X

Ans: 17
3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they
Ans: 4(155)/7=31
Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
6) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I
do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from
the same rope?
Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2
7) (There was a long story, I’ll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume:
can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that’s not needed for the
2) Woody and Lemon
Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)
Ans:18
are boys?
a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024
Ans: 2(140) =240
Ans: 15 pounds
Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days,
Ans: I couldn't solve it.
Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls

17) Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the
Ans: (z-1) (y-x) +x.
18) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with
each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:


I couldn't solve it
a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32
Ans : 18
I attempted 18 questions. I'm waiting for my result as they have told us that result will
be mailed to us within 3 days time management is very important during exam. I can
solve more than 25 but due to lack of time management I did only 18. So be prepared.
Test Paper :15

Test Date : 2 September 2010
Test Location : Vardhaman Engg College Hyderabad
Posted By : Srimannarayana Bhuma
Hi friends,
I am Srimannarayana.B from Narasaraopeta Engg College, MCA department. I attended
the TCS Off-Campus drive on 29th August 2010 in MLR college, Hyderabd. And I am
selected for TCS.
TCS Recruitment process consists of 4 rounds.

1. Written test (35 questions 60 minutes 1/3 negative)
2. Techinical round
3. Management round
4. HR
Written Test:
It is the most important round to achieve success. In this round 35 questions with 60
minutes .the questions are very lengthy and time consuming .but if u found the logic it is
very simple. All most all questions are having 7 to 10 lines. But the useful data is in the
last two lines. And one more point is in this round there is a negative marking of 1/3. If
you answered the above 20 questions you will be shortlisted.
The questions are like.
1. The ticket for a journey is in the range of 1 to 63 paise.

You have 63 paise in your pocket and so on. And the question is you have to change the
money into coins and all denominations are available. At final you have to buy the ticket
and you should have at least one coin?(not same figures)
Ans: 64 (just add 1 to highest i.e. 63+1)
2. The sum of two numbers is given and product is also given find the square of
difference of two numbers.
Ans:(a-b)2=a2+b2+2ab.
3. The dog and here are running. dog crosses the roads, rivers and different. Here start
running after 2 hours of dog running. dog runs 30kmph in 6 hours. Then what is the
averge speed of here?
(values are not same)
Ans: 30*6/4
4. In a restaurant there are differnet 9flavours of pizzas.

Ans: n
c
m
5. A length of rod is turned into triangle. The sides of a triangle are 12,16,10. if this rod
is turned into square then find the area of the square?
Ans: rod length=12+16+10=38

length of the side os a square=38/4;
area=(38/4)*(38/4)
6. There are some chocolates. A woman can eat 3 chocolates and a man can eat 1
chocolate and a child can eat half chocolate. Then 20 chocolates is divided in.
Ans: Go through the options(5Woman, 3man, 4children).
7. A water tank is filled in the way as 256,128,64,. the parts in every hour. Then in how
many hours the tank will filled?
Ans: 256,128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1 ( 9 hours) values are not same.
8. The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8
then what is the present age of sam?
Ans: 12years (names and values may change)
The result of written test is given with in 24 hours time and by luck am one of the
shortlisted candidates.
And the remaining rounds are conducted for me 2nd September.
Technical Interview:
For me it's a cool interview and the interviewer is very young and encouragive.
My interview is like.
Sir: Tell me about yourself?

Me: I answered. This is best question to impress the panel. So prepare yourself.
Sir: Which project you have done in the academics?
Me: I answered my project details nearly 10mins. For this answered sir was impressed.
Sir: Which platform you have devloped?
Me: Java
Sir: How many marks you will give for Java?
me: 7
Sir: he asked some questions on java like
What is the difference b/w String and StringBuffer?
What are the life cycles of servelet and Applets?
Some questions on MuktiThreading?
Sir: Sir wrote some lines of code like.
String s1="abc";
String s2="abc";
String s3=new String("abc");
if(s1==s2)//what it returns wheather true or false and why?
if(s1==s3)//what it returns wheather true or false and why?
I answered with explanation.
Sir: What is the difference between '=='operator and .equals() func?
And some questions on SQL joins like difference between right join and left join and
natural join etc.
And finally he asked what is your favourite core subject?
Me: OS but he didn't asked any questions on OS.
Mangement Round:
It's very easy round and less elimination round. In this round they ask simple questions
and give a situations and observe ur feelings. So be confident in this round. If you
cleared this round then you are almost placed. But don't neglect HR.
HR Round:
For it's me very simple and for me HR is a young lady and simply smiling face.
She asked tell me about yourself?

What is you are native place and for what it is famous?
Who is the founder of Google?
Who are the competators for the TCS in the world market as well as in Indian market?
Are you willing to relocate?
What is your favourite working location?
Finally the results was given after 20 days and I am one the selected candidates.
Finally my suggestion is concentrate on Written test and Technical Round.

Thanks to MLR College and Vardhaman Engg College.
Thank you for reading my experience.
See you in TCS. All the best for your success.
1.The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive

footprints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship
between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pacelength in
meters. Bernard knows his pacelength is 164cm. The formula applies to
Bernard's walking. Calculate Bernard's walking speed in kmph.
236.16
23.62
8.78
11.39
Planet fourfi resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its
residents are 3-dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape while
their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some
stipulations on the size of the coins.
â€¢ The diameter of the coins should be at least 64mm and not exceed 512mm.
â€¢ Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater.
â€¢ The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.
You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these
requirements and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many
coins can you design? 9, 5, 8, 6
TCS Test Paper latest Placement Papers

Written Test Questions-2010
Written Test Round:
previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.
1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21
hours what time it will take to get completely filled
Ans: 23
3) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X

Ans: 17
3) friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure
there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is
155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?
Ans: 4(155)/7=31
5) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after
being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times
consecutively? (1 of )?
Ans:1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
6) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do
not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same
rope?
Ans:((A+B+C)/4)2
7) (There was a long story, I’ll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac,
Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the
following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI
mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any
material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how
much quantity of the other; but that’s not needed for the question.) All of the following
combinations are possible to make a perfume except:
2) Woody and Lemon
What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do
not remember the values of a, b, c, d).
Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)
Ans:18
10) There are 12 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are
boys?
a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024
Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut
into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?
Ans: 2(140) =240
12) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one
year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit
for that person?
Ans: 15 pounds
13) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper
exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known
that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle
is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?
Ans: I couldn’t solve it.
14) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of
brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters.
How many boys and girls present in a family?
Ans:4 boys and 3 girls
15) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for
batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?
c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd
then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.
16) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What
is the present age of B in binary form? I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You
can solve easily.
17) Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine
length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that
arrangement?
Ans: (z-1) (y-x) +x.
18) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each
other. Then which of the following statements is always true:
19) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners
from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in
third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many
players are played in first round
extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is
sitting immediate right to E?
21) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands
between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many
such kinds of such shake hands are possible?
(Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is
shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?
23) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at
the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide
the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?
a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32
24) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age
is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two
children. What is the age of eldest child?
Ans:18
I attempted 18 questions. I’m waiting for my result as they have told us that result will be
mailed to us within 3 days time management is very important during exam. I can solve more
than 25 but due to lack of time management I did only 18. So be prepared.
1) 20men and 20 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men
are dancing with same women and vice versa.
Ans: never
2) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 234 wheels
in the campus. How many bicycles are there?
Ans: go wid options. multiply each option wid 2 and subtract the obtained no from 234. if it
is exactly divisible by 4, that is the answer
3) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes
foe 1p.he has three sons. How can he share the friuts equally?
Ans: 1 watermelon,2chickoos,1grape
4) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining
children are boys
Ans: 1/2^6 = 1/64
5) Two tanks
Ans: and B. A fills 1 ltr/1 hr… b fills 10, 20, 30….. per hour. if this is (passage unnecessary).
if 1/4th tnk of b takes 15 hrs to fill how much it time will t take to fill complete tank?
6) The three sides of a triangle are given.16, 14, 21 cms and this triangle is conveted into a
square .so what will be the area of the square generated?
Ans:- (14+16+21)/4. Then you will get the 1 side of a square and now find the area of a
square.ie, side^2
7) An equation of the form 4x+6y-2z=32 . Find the difference between x intercept and z
intercept?
Ans: x/a+y/b+z/c=1
A toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4

min………………………………. …………………………………… now train is defective
and can make only 2 sounds…………….. …………………………………………… Find
probability that same sound is repeated 5 times consecutively (1 OUT OF __)?
Ans: 1/32
9) 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if
they are in no pair of cyclic sequence.
Ans:9
10) A piza shop made pizzas

with to flavours.in home there are ‘9’ different flavors, in that ‘2’ flavors are taken to made
piza in how many ways they can arrange?
(Logic: NcM, N= 9, M=2 )
11) one organization ,material ,labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, if the material
cost is: 272 ,what is the total cost?
Ans:4x=272 ==> x=68 ; now total cost = 272 + 6(68)+7(68).
12) passage………………. joe is taller than jerry and 3 pillers. kistern is shorter than joe and
2 pillers is jerry shorter/taller than kistern ?
Ans:
13) a volume of A are having in a container of sphere… how many semi hemispheres of B
volume each will be rqred to transfer all the A in to semi hemispheres…..?
Ans: A= x B
14) Question based on V=I*R but in dis question most of data given are ridiculas like
volume, density, length, height similar long story are given
Ans:
15) A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony.
If the average speed of the horse is 81 kmph, what s the average speed of the pony? (This
question was really long with loads of irrelevant statement)
Ans:
16) Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 42 years. Peter is twice as old as
Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?
Ans:
17) difference b/w two numbers is 4.and their product is 17.then find the sum of their squers?
Ans:
18) In a room ………………… ( unwanted stuff)……………………….. Sports readers,10

tables,4chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will
left without at least one person?
Ans: 6
19) 4 years before Paul’s age is 3times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the
Alice. what is the presents Paul’s age???
Ans: x-4 = 3(y-4) ; x=6y : solve u will get it..
20) In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the
numbers we get 55,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?
Ans:easy u can do it… simple eqtns
21) ……………..(some chetta chikkati sollu)..unwanted data………… followed by a

formula diameter d = 10*(t-14), t>14… then what id diameter after t=40..?
Ans:
22) Direction problems….. A man goes 50 km NORTH, then turned left walked 40 km, then
turned RIGHT…? in which direction is he in?
Ans: NORTH
23) A, B, C, D, E are there among A, B, C are boys and D, E are girls =====> D is to the left
of A and no girl sits at the middle and at the extremes. Then what is the order of their
sittings..
Ans:
24) some ages problem………… then asked the answer in binary
Ans:
25) Some denominations question… like u have 31 ps, and tckt cost is between 1 to 31, u
have to give the exact denominations for the ticket. find all the no of possible denominations
u may predict and u must be left wid at least few paise…?

Test Location : Salt lake, Kolkata
Posted By : Gaurav
Hi,
My name is Gaurav, i have done B.Tech from JIT Institute of Engg, which brought TCS on-
campus only, no other such known IT company, i cleared aptitude, but couln’t crack
interview, i again try my luck in off-campus conducting by TCS in our city, again this time i
cleared aptitude and waiting for final results as you can see the latest pattern from other paper
posted previously, i can help by submitting the question i faced.
1) Now pet’s age is to times when paul was once. But at that time paul’s age=pet’s current
age ,how old is pet?
2) Block has 10,9,5 size, how many unit cube is needed to make a block of that size?
3) 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if
they are in pair of cyclic sequence.
Ans-22
4) 10men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men
are dancing with same women and vice versa.
Ans-never
5) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 26, yellow 30 and red 56.
Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What’s the
possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color
6) B is taller than j and 3 pillers. P is shorter than B and 2 pillers is j shorter/taller than P?
Ans-irrelevant question
7) Sangakara and ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased so to resolve
ponty takes out a coin, what is the probability that dice shows correct option.
8) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 58 wheels
in the campus. How many bicycles are there?
Ans: 7
9. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is
added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and
added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?
a. 1 b.2 c.5 d.6
Ans: c
divisible by4?
a. 31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657
Ans: c

Ans: ‘a-b’

Ans: bird(parakeet)
14. Key words in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question one
number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26 15 b?
Ans:54
(Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=26
7*2+1=15 26*2+2=54)
15. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes
foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally?
Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape
16. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and speaks
truths on other days.. one day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?
17. Man, Bear, North, South, Walks.

Ans: White
Ans: 9(for any no it can be true)
19. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time.
Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much
time will it take to fill completely?
Ans: 7 hours
20. Keywords: T.Nagar, Chennai, 1-100, prime numbers b/n 140-180, How many 2’s are
there?
Ans: 109
22. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his
father is my father’s son?
Ans: His son

Ans: 10 {the numerical may change)
24. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in that
‘M’ flavors are taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange?
(Logic: NcM )
25. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age
is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two
Ans: 18
26. In a market 4 man are standing. The average age of the four before 4 years is 45, aftyer
some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average weight of all?
Ans: 49
27. Keywords: One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, the
material cost is: 100, what is the total cost?
Ans: 425
28. Keywords: Density, Reluctance, Sensitivity, Voltage, Current, what is the Resistance
29. Keywords: Sports readers, 10 tables, 4chairs per table, each table has different number of
people then how many tables will left without at least one person?
Ans : 6
30. Keywords: Die, card, coin, b/n 2 to 12

Ans: All are equal
31. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79
marks in 8th subject. what is the average of all the subjects?
The extra 5 marks will be distributed in 8 semester, 5/8=.625
74+.625=74.625
32. In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the
numbers we get 44,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?
Ans: 8
33. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times
the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?( 3years) “You try to solve this question once”
34. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph. and returns to A with 80kmph, what
is the average of their speed?
Just go and hit’t
TCS Job Interview Placement Paper Pattern: August, 2010
Company Name: TCS

Type: Fresher, Job Interview
I am V.V.Sreekanth I have done my MCA (2007-10) from MIC College of Tech,

Vijayawada. I got my TCS hall ticket on 31st of August , I reached Bangalore.
There was actually four rounds:
1. Written test
2. Technical
3. GD
4. HR
There were around 3000 students, out of which only 200 cleared the written. I was one of
them.
Written test:
previous papers and having a little presence of mind. Questions which I got in exam are.
Q.1. The age of Ram and Sayam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8 then
what is the present age of Sayam?
Ans. 12years (names and values may change)
Q.2. There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after
being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times
consecutively? (1 of )?
Ans. 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32
Q.3. Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2
Q.4. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 14kmph up and 26kmph down at an
altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/ (x+y)
Q.5. In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are 190
Ans. 15
Q.6. Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are
Ans. 16C4
Q.7. 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X

Ans. 17
Q.8. 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they
measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A B C AB BC AC ABC. Final round
Ans. 4(155)/7=31
Q.9. The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, cost of repairing and cost of
painting in the ratio of 5:2:3. The cost used for material is 200. Find the total cost of making
the robot?
Ans. 400 (just calculate it).
Q.10. (There was a long story, I'll cut short it) There are 5 materials to make a perfume:
Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand
the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI
mosaic go together Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any
material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how
much quantity of the other but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following
combinations are possible to make a perfume except:
1. Balsamic and Lilac
2. Woody and Lemon
3. MI mosaic and Woody
4. MI mosaic and Lilac
Q.11. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I
do not remember the numerical value)What will be the area of the square made from the
same rope?
Ans. ( (A+B+C)/4)2
Q.12. What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d
(I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d).
Ans. sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)
Q.13. A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears
changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2
miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in:
Ans. white
Q.14. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled
Ans. 21
Q.15. There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all
are boys?
(a) 2
(b) 2!
(c) 2048
(d) 1024
Q.16. A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77
Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut
into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?
Ans. is 2(141) =242
Q.17. Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one
year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit
for that person?
Ans. is 15 pounds
Q.18. There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple.
(Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is
shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?
(a) Linda is shorter among them
(b) Chelsea is taller than Julia
(c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia
(d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia
Ans. (d)
Q.19. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of
brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters.
How many boys and girls present in a family?
Ans. is 4 boys and 3 girls
Q.20. There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11
orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves. How many
draws are required to obtain a pair of each color.
Q.21. There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die
for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?
(a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail

(b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head
(c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd
then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.
Q.22. 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B.
Q.23. Ram buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper
exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to Ram. After 2 days, it is known
that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle
is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?
Ans. is 23(cost price + change given).
Q.24. Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the
Ans. is (z-1) (y-x) +x.
Q.25. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the
winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are
played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner,
how many players are played in first round
Ans. is 28.
Q.26. There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in
extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is
sitting immediate right to E?
Ans. is B or C
Q.27. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands
between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many
such kinds of such shake hands are possible?
Ans. is 12C2
Q.28. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change
at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide
the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?
(a) 22
(b) 31
(c) 6
(d) 32
Ans. is 6
Q.29. There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was as
old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of
Peter?
Ans. is 20
Q.30. A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are available in blue 16, yellow 40 and red
36. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's
the possibility their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color.
Ans. very easy..
Q.31. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea. One spoon of water
is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl
and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?
Ans. second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)
Q.32. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘IGTRE’?
Ans. Animal (TIGER)
Q.33. A lies on Monday, Tuesday, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri,
Sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today.
What is the day?
Q.34. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child
age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two
Ans. 18
I attempted 28 questions exactly. Result was declared after two hours and my name was
among the successful guys. Then they asked us to come on 4th Sept at 1:30 PM as it was
getting late that day.
Technical:
I reached there by 11:00 on 4th . After checking our documents, we were made to sit in a
room and asked to wait for the turn. My turn came around 2 pm and within an hour, result
was declared and again my name was in the list.
Questions asked from me are:
Q.1. Tell me about. yourself.

Ans. I told confidently.
Q.2. Your project in detail and your role in it.

Ans. I explained my entire project with diagrams. It took almost 20 minutes. He was
satisfied.
Q.3. Problems faced in project

Ans. I explained because I have done my project in South Central Railways (SCR). It was a
live project done by me.
Q.4. Your favorite subjects in MCA.

Ans. Be well prepare with at least 1. I told C and Java
Q.5. Why java?

Ans. Because it is a powerful language. And I explained some oops concepts which I like the
most.
Q.6. You like programming or theoretical subjects?

Ans. Be confident about this.. I told programming subjects.
Q.7. He asked me to write some code of my academic project.

Ans. I have written that and explained well. He impressed..
Q.8. Difference b/w Linux and windows?

Ans. I explained kernel and its use..
Q.9. Which database you used in your project?
Ans. I told oracle 10g
Q.10. Why?
Ans. I told that SCR has Oracle licensed version. That’s y I used this…
Q.11. Random algorithm which I used in my project

Ans. explained confidently…
Q.12. How to do project planning?

Ans. I explained SDLC life cycle perfectly…
Q.13. He also asked me to explain some new concepts that I know in C.

Ans. Actually I have done some programs using graphics in C. So I explained them. He
impressed and gave shake hand.
Q.14. Why TCS?
Q.15. He asked some questions on college details etc.
Only 100 candidates cleared the technical exam.
GD:
Actually GD was not an elimination round in TCS.. It was very easy. My topic was Love
marriages vs. Arranged marriages. Be confident.. raise at least one best point. Then You will
be selected.
HR:

Interviewer: Good evening, take your seat.
Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.

answer).
Interviewer: Tell me about. Your family background.

Me: Blah Blah ...
Interviewer: Tell me about your hobbies?

Interviewer: Why do you want to join TCS?
Interviewer: I you are rejected today, then what will you do?
Me: Told
Interviewer: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)?
Me: Yes sir I am willing to write 10 years also. Because it is TCS.. Then he smiled a lot…
Interviewer: Thank you.
(It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results
through mail within 3 weeks. I thought I will be selected because I was confident about my
performance)
Finally, I got mail on 21st Sept. I was in TCS. Around 80 students were selected in this
round.
Exam/Interview Date: 31-Aug-2010

No of Rounds: Aptitude Test
Location: Bangalore
Contributor Name: V.V.Sreekanth

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Hi Friends,

Aptitude test:(35 Questions, 80 mins, online test)

a)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1

The Q's concept is same but the equation of N's is changing.

a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move.

a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3

(2/3*2/3) + (1/3*1/3)= 5/9

a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18

a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4

a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25

a) 3 red and 3 blue faces b) 2 red and remaining blue

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.

Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew

Ans: For this question answer is deduced from the options.

a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday

I attempted 28Q but i don't recollect it now.

My Experience: From my childhood I have believed one proverb “HARDWORK NEVER

Test location: Techno India Campus, Salt Lake, Kolkatta

1/3 negative marks there.

Details of the Process:

It's the new pattern, contain 35 questions.

Some questions that remembered.

Ans: Is 23(cost price 19 + change given 4).

a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn.

a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail

(Options may be different)

Statement1: Avinash spends 30% on house rent, 20% on children’s education,40% on

The question can be answered by

So 30 times of 3 mt3 is required to fill the space completely

Ans: Total weight=16+19+156+26+106+15+24+36=398 kg

Me: Good evening mam, Good evening sir

Me: Sat and told thank you sir

Me: It is about 60 kms from cuttack

Me: I know computer network and mobile communication.

Me: Actually I am from Electronics background. I had to give importance on my branch

Technical: What is header file and how it works?

Technical: Whats the work of printf()?

Technical: Whats the work of scanf()?

Technical: You know while and do while loop?

Technical: Ok write syntax of “ for” loop

Technical: Can we write i+++?

HR: Ok if I will write simplely as for(; ;) will it show the output?

HR: Where it will find a garbage value

HR:Ok you know C++?

HR: What is inheritance?

HR: What is polymorphism?

HR: Give examples

HR: What the difference between class and object?

HR: What is recursive function?

HR: Ok just tell what is recursive function

HR: Which program you can write in C

HR: Ok explain using a =5 b=10

HR: You know data structure? Was it in your course?

HR: What is linked list, what is stack

HR: What is difference between stack and queue?

HR: You know Java?

HR: Ok explain tcp/ip protocol

HR: What are the different types of ip addresses?

HR: What other protocols you know?

(2/32/3) + (1/31/3)= 5/9

Ans: lb35(no of bricks needed for sqcm)