TCS NEW PATTERN 2013 ,NIT,SASTRA and TCE

The aptitude consisted of 30 QUESTIONS which were tuff for the most part. 
The test is for 80 minutes, total time(no timer for each question).
There is negative marking (the amount was not specified).

As far as i know there were no dummy questions,( but still beware i can't guarantee that if u attend dummy questions you are out for sure)

Here are some questions that were asked for the test. At least 15 questions will come out of this:



1) 28a + 30 b +31c =365 find a+b+c if a.b.c are natural numbers


2) P is 30% of Q
    Q is 20% of M
   M is 50% of N

what is P/N equal to.

3)Mother +daughter+infant age is 74. Mother age is 46 more then daughter and infant.
And infant age is 0.4 of daughter. Find daughters age.


4) A takes 12 hrs to complete a work
    B takes 10 hrs to complete the same work 
    time taken by them to make 2 publications working independently.

5)Some cards question. Probability of 1 ace which is red and one spade. Something like
This. Do go thru the cards ques. The decks and everything.

6)A finishes a work in 8 hrs
   B finishes a work in 10 hrs
  C  finishes a work in 12 hrs
A,B,C work together but A leaves after 2 hrs find the time t taken by B & C.

7)There are exactly 4 Thursdays and 4 Sundays in a month of 31. Find the first day. 

You can calculate easily.

8)There were some questions of this type :-

J, K, L, M and N collected stamps. They collected a total of 100 stamps. None of them collected less than 10.

No two among them collected the same number.

(i) 3 collected the same number as K and M together.

(ii) L collected 3 more than the cube of an integer

(iii) The no. collected by J was the square of an integer.

(iv) Total no. collected by K was either the square or cube of an integer.

1. The no. collected by J was:

(1) 27 (2) 49 (3) 36 (4) 64

2. The no. collected by K was:

(1) 16 (2) 27 (3) 25 (4) 36

3. The difference of numbers collected by L & M was:

(1) 3 (2) 2 (3) 5 (4) 9

9)All numbers between 11 & 100 how many times is the number 4 used

10)A & B travelling from X to Y. A starts at 12 pm at a speed of 63m/hr. B at 1:30 pm at a speed of 84m/hr.At what time will B be 34m ahead of A?

11)There were2-3 visualizing questions also.

A cube was given in 1d. With dotted lines. Faces were marked. With 1 face as x. U had to

Tell that what will be face opposite x when it is folded as a cube.

12)Another time distance, a person runs around a rectangular field. Time given speed

Given. Find the distance. Apply perimeter formula 2(length+breadth). And length and breadth
Ratio given. Find area.

13)There is a school were 60% are girls and 35% of the girls are poor.

Students are selected at random, what is the probability of selecting a poor girl out of total strength.

14)There are 3 groups A,B,C 

2 members belong to all the three

3 members belong to A&B

3 members belong to B&C

3 members belong to C& A

minimum possible number of members in any three.

15)There are 3 numbers x,y,z 

the mean is m 

median is 5

m is 10 more than the smallest number and 15 less than the biggest number.

what is x+y+z

16)There are 5 men and 11 women. How many ways can a panel of 11 be formed such that the number of men is not more than 3.

17)Y-W-U-S-Q is coded as 25-23-21-19-17

what is S-F-A-Y-T coded as.

18) After 6 years Raju's fathers age will twice of the Raju's age 2 years ago.His mothers age was twice that of Raju's age. Sum of the age of their parents.

19)  Initial price =40,000. It reduces 3/4 of previous years price every year what is the price after 3 years.

20)60 men work take 40 days to complete a work. Now suppose that is 60 men start working and every 5 days 5 people leave.In how many days will the work be complete.

21)Then there was a series completion question.

7^0,7^1 , 7^1+7^0,7^2 something like this but i was not able to solve it. I tried to ask my friends for the exact questions but wasn't able to get it, anyways some series question with include finding the missing values will come

22)There was a triangle questions. There was a diagram of a triangle with multiple symmetric triangle inside And they asked us how to many triangles there were in total

23)Three groups :: x1,x2,x3

A,b common to all three. Then atleast 1 elemnt common to 2 ie x1,x2,x2,x3,x3,x1.

Findminimum elements in each group. Answer is 4.

24)

         ok this is a a 2 paper cut u have to fold it into a cube and say what letter is on the opposite side of X. Ans is C

25) Like sudoku type

u have to find a,b,e,c,d,f such that the sum of the sides are equal.

26)Exact sudoku type question i don't remember the value it was a 3x3 matrix and u have to find value missing values in it.

27)3 dice are rolled. Then what is the probability u will get the sum of number as 10.
Ans :27/216

28) When all words in "master" is sorted in alphabetical order then what is the 49th word.

29)Some seating arrangement question. Like X sits opposites Y and B sits 2 seats left of A type questions. You are asked to find the person sitting 4 seats right of X.

30) 3 trucks A,B,C

A loads 10 kg/min
B loads 13 1/3 kg/min
C unloads 5kg/min

If three simultaneously works then what is the time taken to load 2.4 tonnes

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