How to prepare for TCS campus placement online test

Let me tell u very clearly about various patterns TCS followed till date..

1. Quebex pattern : (This was in practice till 2010 batch)

The pattern here is it has verbal round, numerical and critical reasoning.
It has sectional cut off.
No negative markings.

(U need not worry about this since it’s no longer in practice)

2. Touch stone pattern:
The fact is no one will remember if i say it as touch stone pattern, they remember only if i call 70 pattern :D

the pattern is there is around 36 questions, u need to solve in 1 hour.
Correct quest carries one mark, wrong question carries -1/3 marks,
so we must be very careful while selecting questions. if u do not know please leave it. don try to attend wrong questions and get negative marks!!!!

Also time management plays a vital role!!! So pls be a lil careful and work on it as well.

Questions won’t be tough. It might be lil tricky~!!!

Enclosing you the TCS touch Stone pattern.....TCS Tests will be generally an Online test.. You need to answer 36 questions in 1 hour.. Question can be either from Numerical or Critical reasoning or Reading comprehensions (RC's). RC's will be very rarely asked..

Questions will be easy if u know how to do a logic...

each correct question carries 1 mark and wrong question carries -0.33 marks.. Typical CAT pattern...

Tips which i suggest to u while u sit for Online Test:

1. Please make ur mind fresh.. Dont confuse yourself.. many will come n confuse u.. Don damn care about them.. Like for eg., if one guy has attended test and if he comes n confuses u with question, dont bother.. Because TCS has 100000 sets.. U might get any set...

2. See you people are given 1 hour.. I request you people to give a brush up of all 36 questions for some 5 minutes.. By doing so., u will surely come across some 5 easy questions which can be solved just by seeing.. This reduces the time.. Also u can know where tough questions are.. So that u can use in later point of time...

3. Since its an online test, u may will come across with many stress like server may go down., PC might switch off etc etc.. Please don't get tensed..

4. Since No calculators are allowed, Please try solve questions manually..

How to prep for Touch Stone pattern:

I could see all u people having RS Aggarwal book in ur hand and doing problems from it..

    Surely that will not help u people..

My suggestion is please try to know the basic logic.. Don’t memorize the problem.. That will not help u in any way.. If u are able to understand the logic, u can do any problem..

Again in Math... there is no sum called tough.. It might be tricky.

Touch stone pattern is not at all tough....:) That’s the truth...

Why few people feel touch stone pattern as Tough:

*there r 1ly 70 patterns. and few patters will be hard to work out so some ppl will just study the answers instead of learning how to work out. But in test they'll get same question with different values.

 *it often happens, after reading 1st line of the question, ppl used to select answer without reading the rest of question, don’t be overconfident like that. read full question and understand it and work it out and answer.

 *copying from the neighbors by seeing 1st line alone. Note: u'll also get same kind of question like ur neighbor, but questions will be shuffled and values will be changed.

 *attending too many questions with guesses

 *wrong information about cutoff marks. some ppl might give u information like cutoff is 15 r 20 r 25 etc. so that they'll attend 1ly 15 r 20 r 25 questions exactly, as they hear abt cutoff. but remember it'll be decided only by tcs hr. so try to attend 5 r more questions than minimum cutoff.

 *some ppl used to be afraid of wat'll happen if somethin happens to the system in which they r attending the test, forget it, ter is a possibility of the application to get closed if u try to some other application like calculator r something else. try to avoid running anything else than the test window. even if something happens don’t worry too much, coz u can resume the test using user id and pass.

*wasting too much time in single question. so try to answer all simple and known questions and after completing it, u can go for working out some tough questions.

 *few ppl will not hav the habit of rechecking the answers they hav written, but here after completing test, u'll surely hav some time, so use tat time wisely and cross check ur answers and check whether u hav attended enough questions.

 Note: after test they'll collect ur user id. so note it somewhere. u'll need it once if u get selected.

 Any other doubts ask me :) :)

What is a campus placement?

                       

Campus placement is the program conducted within educational institutes or in a common place to provide jobs to students pursuing or in the stage of completing the opted course. Industries visit the colleges to select students depending on their ability to work, capability, focus and Aim. The recruitment broadly consists of:

a) WRITTEN TEST
b) GROUP DISCUSSION
c) TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
d) HR INTERVIEW

Don’t get tensed all these rounds are only for a few companies, majority of the companies which look for mass recruitment conduct a written test followed by an interview that’s it!!! All the above mentioned rounds are nothing but means to eliminate people. One needs to survive this elimination process to ultimately get selected.
 

Different companies have different approach to select freshers. Some mainly focus on individual’s communication skills, some look for technical knowledge,some go for problem solving skills, ultimately the testing procedure is based on the job profile.
 

The number of people getting selected entirely depends upon the company’s requirement at that period of time. If a person’s profile meets the job profile he/she gets selected. Campus placement according to me is the easiest way of getting a job. 

Why campus placement?

I want this to be a little dramatic so please bare with me….We have been studying all our life till now. Parents tell their children, when they are in 10th standard that it is the most important part of their life so they are supposed to work very hard for getting a good percentage and once they are done with that they will have a very bright future, children feel ecstatic about the deal and work very hard and hope their life would be happily ever after. But here it comes again when they join 11th standard or in our state intermediate…again the same crap and this time with increased intensity and pressure. Somehow they manage to get through this as well…and finally it’s down to engineering!!!! The question comes into your mind...Ok I worked like a donkey for hours together and ended up in this college...What’s next??? The first three years we enjoy...we don’t give damn about anything...and all of sudden you are in your final year...it’s as if everything happened in a split second!!!
 

People around you come up with questions regarding your life that completely freak you out…What after engineering?, Being the scariest of all.
 

There is time when everyone in the class feel masters is the best option and they book slots for GRE (in the end not more than 10% actually pursue M.S due to various reasons...that’s none of our concern) then there is time when everyone talks about M.TECH…suddenly people start joining GATE classes…half of them feel the competition is way too high and lose hope even before writing the exam…for this as well not more than 10 percent actually get a seat in IIT’s NIT’s…and very few actually appear for the interviews and pursue MTECH….

So what about the rest of the people in class??? Majority of people in the class end up taking a job. Some of them are focused from the very beginning that they are going to take up a job, some of them want a job because they couldn’t get into the university they applied for, some do it for experience so that that the cud pursue MBA after 2 years, some coz they have nothing in their min, and some coz their parents force them to take up a job…and the list goes on. So when you have decided to take up a job, why not try for the job that pays you higher than others.

“Trust me the best way of getting a job is campus placement...some might feel that they will apply off campus n all that but that should be secondary because in this country of 1 billion people….the competition is tremendous, you just can’t go out searching for job…But whereas when the company comes to your college the number of people competing for the job are comparatively very less, and the people competing against you are your fellow classmates which is I guess is better than competing against complete strangers coz you would have a clear idea about each and every person competing!!! More importantly your college being your home ground instills some confidence in you so it’s very easy to crack a placement on campus”