TCS MOCK TEST PAPERS 2013

INTRODUCTION 

Preparing for your campus placements could be one of the biggest challenges of college life. And being the culmination of all these years of study and effort, it can be quite stressful as well. Understanding the need of the hour, we have put together 5 Mock Test Papers for you to work out, verify and strategize. And that’s not all…Towards the end of the booklet, you will also find plenty of easy-to-remember shortcuts, tips and guidelines to popular TCS Questions which will help you maximize your speed and accuracy. Before you proceed further, here’s a brief on TCS Aptitude Tests as of 2012:

•  TCS conducts ONLINE TEST. So get comfortable with the mouse and practice before the D-Day.
• TCS test has 35 questions with a total duration of 80 minutes.
• The test has a single section only.
• Watch out for negative marking because negative marking warrants a more careful approach.
• All questions involve problem solving and logical thinking to arrive at the answer. But remember that some questions are quite long and cleverly-worded that it also challenges the test-taker’s verbal skills because you first need to understand the question to solve it!
• As said earlier, many TCS test questions have a tendency to be long-winding. So while you practice with the Mock Tests that follow, learn to sift through the information mine and quickly spot the relevant data alone. Otherwise, it’s quite easy to get lost with the information overload!

DISCLAIMER: Please note that this Mock test is intended to be supplementary and cannot substitute thorough preparation. Questions in this test are simulated based on TCS Aptitude Test pattern as of August 2012. However, test patterns and questions are likely to change anytime without notice.

TCS MOCK TEST 1

1.The difference between the ages of two of my three grandchildren is 3. My eldest grandchild is three times older than the age of my youngest grandchild and my eldest grandchild's age is two years more than the ages of my two youngest grandchildren added together. How old is my eldest grandchild?
(a) 12
(b) 13
(c) 10
(d) 15

2.A greengrocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7 pennies and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get?
(a) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts (c) 1 apple, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts
(b) 1 apple, 2 chickoos, 1 peanut (d) 1 apple, 1 chickoo, 1 peanut

3.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 and 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?
(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 6
(d) 72

4.One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf 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 Rapunzel - Dwarf: 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) Monday
(b) Sunday
(c) Thursday
(d) Saturday

5.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) 20
(b) 18
(c) 27
(d) 0

6.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 n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?
a) All statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true the even numbered are false. c) All statements are true. d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

7.10 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 rightmost 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. (c) Both A and B (d) Neither A nor B

8.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) 192
(b) 64
(c) 54
(d) 102

9.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 d 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?
(a) 8
(b) 12
(c) 16
(d) 24

10.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) ¼
(b) ½
(c)3/4
(d) 1/3

11.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) 11/12
(b) 0
(c) 1/12
(d) 1/6

12.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 womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is “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?
(a) 375
(b) 625
(c) 500
(d) 3125

13.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) 0
(c) 4
(d) 2

14.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. (a) 236.16 (b) 11.39 (c) 8.78 (d) 23.24

15.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 coin is the third coin from the top. Then
(a) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move. (b) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move. (c) Alice has no winning strategy. (d) In order to win, Alice’s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move

16.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) 5/9
(b) 1/9
(c) 2/3
(d) 1/3

17.36 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) 18
(b) 13
(c) 34
(d) 12

18.One the Planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week – Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 minutes while each minute has 60 seconds. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of clock on Oz when the time is 12.40 am.
(a) 89
(b) 251
(c) 111
(d) 79

19.The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earning 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 and also write code at the same rate. If 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total, how many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes?
(a) 6
(b) 432
(c) 72
(d) 12

20.A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If the 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted totally, how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?
(a) 900
(b) 488
(c) 500
(d)800

21.Planet fourfi resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3-dimensional objects. The 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. - The diameter of the coins should be at least 64mm and not exceed 512mm. - Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. - 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?
(a) 5
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 6

22.A hare and a tortoise race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. 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)8
(b) 37.80
(c) 40
(d) 5

23.Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius of the circles to the side of the square.
(a) 1:(2 + 72)
(b) 1:(4 + 73)
(c) (2 + 72):1
(d) 1:(2 + 62)

24.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 in1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing especially in Formula One where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit’s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit’s Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken in hours for Rohit to drive that distance.
(a) 15.88
(b) 29.75
(c) 14.88
(d)476

25.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 is maximized. This maximum probability is
(a) 37/38
(b) 1 / 2
(c) 14/19
(d) 3 / 4

26.Pizza shops make pizzas of same thickness but different diameter. Cost of pizza A with diameter 8 cm is 80 $, cost of the pizza B with diameter 12 cm is 240 $, cost of the pizza B with diameter 24 cm is 720 $. Which of the above mentioned pizzas gives the best value for money?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) Cannot say

27.Determine the distance between x-intercept and z-intercept of the plane whose equation is 6x+8y-3z=72.
(a) 31.92
(b)26.83
(c) 32.66
(d) 25.63

28.Lucy finds around 25 groups of stars that appear to her as constellations. She draws 7 patterns of the constellations in her notebook and notes down the number of stars in each of them. She counts 5 stars in first constellation and 15 on next. She counts a number the third time and forgets to note it down. The next four constellations she counts 51, 53, 159, 161. Next day her father looks at the notebook and wants to know the number of stars in the third constellation. Lucy only remembers that number of stars counted in each of the constellation followed a pattern 5, 15, x, 51, 53, 159, 161. What is the value of x?
(a) 19
(b) 17
(c) 47
(d) 31

29.6 persons standing in the queue for ROBERT movie are wearing different coloured shirts. All of them belong to different age groups. After two years, their average age will be 43. A seventh person joined with them, hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person?
(a) 67
(b) 69
(c) 72
(d) 74

30.X is 6 years younger to Y. X's father is a businessman who invested 10000 at 8% rate of interest and obtained his amount after 10 years. Y's father is a job holder who invested around 20000 at 2% rate and obtained his amount after 20 years. Now compounding, both of them get around Rs. A. After 5 years, the ratio of ages of X and Y is 1:2. Now X's father is 20 years older to Y and Y's father is 30 years more than X. After 20 years, again X's mother asks X's father to purchase a LCD TV which costs around 45000. What is the age of X and Y together?
(a) 12
(b) 8
(c) 18
(d) 6

31.The great musician Rahman has organized a live concert. The concert is organized in a big auditorium. Rahman plays both English and Tamil songs on his Yamaha Casio. The audience in the eastern part of the auditorium love listening to Tamil songs and those in the western part of the auditorium love listening to English songs. He plays songs in random. The probability that he plays English songs for 6 consecutive times is 1 in
(a) 32
(b) 16
(c) 64
(d) 128

32.It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same colour?
(a) 3
(b) 25
(c) 48
(d) 26

33.A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10mph. Another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was traveling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit
(a) 35 mph
(b) 15 mph
(c) 20 mph
(d) 30 mph

34.A person drives with constant speed and after some time he sees a milestone with 2 digits. Then travels for 1 hour and sees the same 2 digits in reverse order. 1 hour later he sees that the milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them. What is the speed of the car?
(a) 54 (b) 45 (c) 27 (d) 36 35. With four fifths of the tank full, a vehicle travels 12 miles. How much distance will the vehicle travel with one-third tank full? (a) 8.05 km (b) 6.05 km (c) 12 km (d) 5 km

TCS MOCK TEST 2

1.1/3 of a number is 6 more than 1/6 of that number then what is the number?
(a) 12
(b) 36
(c) 24
(d) 48

2.The pace length P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints. For men, the formula n/P = 180 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pace length in meters. Bernard knows his pace length is 120 cm. The formula applies to Bernard’s walking. Calculate Bernard’s walking speed in kmph.
(a) 236.16
(b) 8.78
(c) 15.56
(d) 23.62

3.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 and also write code at the same rate. Suppose 24 such programmers take 24 minutes to write 24 lines of code in total, how long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?
(a) 12
(b) 24
(c) 6
(d) 72

4.A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says “Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? (a) All statements are false. (b) The odd numbered statements are true the even numbered are false. (c) Second last statement is true and the remaining statements are false. (d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

5.Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 25 + 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) 43
(b) 16
(c) 36
(d) 34

6.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 n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? (a)First half of the statements are true and the rest are false. (b) The odd numbered statements are true the even numbered are false. (c) First half of the statements are false and the rest are true. (d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

7.10 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 rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A) All suspects are lying. B) The leftmost suspect is guilty. C) Rightmost suspect is guilty.
(a) A only
(b) A and B
(c) B only
(d) B and C

8.The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 6) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?
(a) 108
(b) 192
(c) 54
(d) 102

9.One the Planet, Oz, there are 8 days in a week – Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 minutes while each minute has 60 seconds. As on earth, hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of clock on Oz when the time is 14.40 a.m.
(a) 83
(b) 74
(c) 129
(d) 65

10.On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids 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 = 2 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jegan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 4 mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?
(a) 18
(b) 12
(c) 16
(d) 24

11.It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same colour from my drawer, which contains 26 red and 24 blue, 34 brown socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the each colour?
(a) 6
(b) 74
(c) 61
(d) 62

12.For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumoured 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 rumours to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 5/6 of winning. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?
(a) 0.72
(b) 0.50
(c) 0.64
(d) 0.83

13.Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 19, 19 and 19, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is
(a) 1
(b) 0
(c) 4
(d) 2

14.66 people {a1, a2,..., a66} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a65, a66}, {a66, a1}. The size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is
(a) 22
(b) 33
(c) 65
(d) 11

15.The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earning 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 and also write code at the same rate.Suppose 16 such programmers take 16 minutes to write 16 lines of code in total, how many lines of code can be written by 96 programmers in 96 minutes?
(a) 16
(c) 432
(d) 96
(b) 576

16.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 in1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing especially in Formula One where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 3 times as fast as Mohit’s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit’s Mercedes is 33 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 909 km, find the total time taken in hours for Rohit to drive that distance.
(a) 9.18
(b) 10.18
(c) 9
(d) 99

17.Anoop managed to draw 6 circles of equal radii with their centers on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the side of the square to the radius of the circles. Assume 2 is 1.4.
(a) 9 : 1
(b) 6.2 : 1
(c) 10.4 : 1
(d) 7.6 : 1

18.A hare and a tortoise race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/4 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?
(a) 8
(b) 37
(c) 45
(d) 6.6

19.There are two boxes, one containing 21 red balls and the other containing 25 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 is maximized. This maximum probability is
(a) 0.5
(b) 0.63
(c) 0.72
(d) 0.48

20.Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 32 + 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) 113
(b) 32
(c) -49
(d) 50

21.A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? (a) All statements are true (b) The odd numbered statements are true the even numbered are false (c) The first half of the statements are true and the remaining statements are false (d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false

22.After a typist writes 25 letters and addresses 25 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) 23/25
(b) 0
(c) 2/25
(d) 1

23.There are two water tanks A and B, where A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, liters….., in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20, and so on) If tank B is 1/64 filled after 17 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?
(a) 6 hours
(b) 24 hours
(c) 22 hours
(d) 23 hours

24.You have a jar containing water absorbing marbles which will take 21 hours to set completely when fixed with white cement. There are 50 red marbles, 52 blue marbles and 63 black marbles. The jar is kept inside a dark room. What is the minimum number of marbles that you need to pick to make sure that you have a pair of marbles in each color?
(a) 117
(b) 98
(c) 120
(d) 114

25.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) 0.25
(b) 0.50
(c) 0.75
(d) 0.3333

26.A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If only 2 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?
(a) 210
(b) 465
(c) 450
(d) 538

27.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.
- The diameter of the coins should be at least 256 mm and not exceed 4096 mm.
- Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater.
- The diameter of a 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?
(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 6

28.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 womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is “How many 7 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?
(a) 5000
(b) 15625
(c) 2500
(d) 3179

29.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 coin is the third coin from the top. Then (a) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move. (b) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move. (c) Alice has no winning strategy. (d) In order to win, Alice’s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move

30.There are 5 pentagonal pyramid shaped bottles whose volumes are in geometric progression and there are 5 materials to make a perfume inside the bottle viz., Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. Also, all the faces of the pyramids are painted in different colours. To make a perfume that is in demand, the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together. Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume EXCEPT (a) Balsamic and Lilac (b) Woody and Lemon (c) Mimosaic and Woody (d) Mimosaic and Lilac

31.20 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)
(a) 19
(b) 18
(c) 20
(d) 21

32.There are 45 cans out of which one is poisoned. If a person tastes very little of this, he will die within 14 hours; so they decided to test it with mice. Given that a mouse dies in 24 hours and you have 24 hours in all to find out the poisoned can, how many mice are required to find the poisoned can?
(a) 44
(b) 29
(c) 6
(d) 5

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 :) :)

SOME COMMON HR QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

1) TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF??

• This is a certain question(with exceptions sometimes),you should be well prepared for this question coz if you are not then certainly you can make sure you are going to blow up the interview.
• Make 5 points which are you own unique selling points(for example : if you are passionate about photography then you must tell him that so that whenever photography comes to his mind he/she should think of you)and tell him irrespective of whether he asks you or not !!!!
• I believe anyone’s strongest answer should be this one and one should really prepare for this one.

2) WHY SHOULD WE SELECT YOU?

• Tell him you loved the job profile and you feel your profile meets his requirement and then talk about your strengths backed up by examples to support your answer.

3) WHAT ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION?

Few sample answers:
A. If given an opportunity I would like to pursue but presently there is financial crisis so getting a job is the only thing that is there in my mind.
B. Sir I would like you to apply whatever I have been learning for the past few years and I believe one can actually master the trade only by practical application in real life of whatever he learnt.
C. Sir my seniors who are already working in the company have told me wonderful things about the work culture and the overall growth of a individual and I want to be a part of such a company and seek growth in the line of company’s growth.
 

These are just a few sample ones don’t rely on them completely your job is to assure the interviewer that you won’t be leaving the company for the sake of higher education at least for a few years (only in the worst case you admit about your immense urge to pursue higher education but you should assure him that you will work for at least 3-4 years (you need not work jus bluff that you would do it)
 

If you in any sense give him a hint that you will be pursuing higher education for sure after engineering, cent percent you won’t get the job. (Obviously when he/she finds out that you are going to leave then why waste time and money by selecting you)

4) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK ABOUT YOU??

•  Again you talk about your strengths and highlight those strengths which make your profile meet the required job profile. For ex: if you are applying for a managerial post then you should highlight strengths like leadership qualities, organizing capability, etc 

If you are applying for some design company then strengths like creativity (all your strengths should be backed up by some or the other examples to prove them), team player etc!!!

5) DO YOU HAVE ANY WEAKNESSES?

• “No I don’t “is the worst answer you could give coz no one is perfect.
• “Not weaknesses only weakness” never mention more than one weakness.

Why the hell do you want to show the company your negative side?

• Always remember there are a few weaknesses which are not acceptable at all by the company for ex: laziness, fluctuating mind, ill health etc By telling them these kinds of weaknesses you are only conveying that you are unfit for the job and asking him not to give it you.
• A weakness should be a moderate one (lol moderate: P) i.e. something which doesn’t adversely affect the company or the work.
• “Always your weakness should have a correction factor” (for ex: communicating in English “correction factor: you are trying to overcome it by reading the newspaper and talking to friend in English”)
• Whenever you admit your weakness you show him that you are honest. Also if use a correction factor it would impress the interviewer coz you are making an effort to overcome your weakness and that is what the company looks for, people who make constant effort to improve their personality.

6) DO YOU HAVE A GIRL/BOY FRIEND?

• If yes is the answer then no problem just tell them, if no then immediately back up your answer by telling him that even though you don’t have a girlfriend you have many friends who are girls. This question is just asked to see if you can interact comfortably with the opposite sex or not.
• If you support your answer immediately next question would be why don’t you have a GF? What do you seek in a girl to make her your life partner??

Better you don’t let the interview sail in that direction coz all those are debatable topics, unnecessary headache.

7) WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS FROM NOW?

• Its asked coz they want to check whether you have a goal in your life or not.
• There are usually two types of goals:

           I. Short term goal

           II. Long term goal

• Short term goal is nothing but where you see yourself in the near future(4-5 years)
• Long term goal is what you probably want to do 15-20 years from now.
• You need not be specific about these goals just a vague idea would be enough.

*** For short term goal never mention about higher studies ( For ex: I would want to pursue my post graduation or masters…because as soon as you say this he/she would get an idea that you will be moving out of the company in a couple of years which isn’t good at all…so better avoid anything like this !!! )

8) WHY DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS COMPANY?

• Tell him/her that this is your dream company (even if it’s not: P) and more importantly it is the job profile because of which you are so much interested in joining the company. The mentioned job profile is what you are looking for and you posses the ability to perform those tasks ( tell him about your strengths like leadership skills or man management ability or proficiency in technical knowledge or adaptability to diverse environs or organizing capability etc ALL BACKED UP BY EXAMPLES)
• SAMPLE ANSWER: Sir the job profile which was explained in the seminar earlier this morning is what I have been looking for and I strongly believe that I am capable of doing those tasks efficiently.

Immediately the next question would be what makes you so capable of doing those tasks…this is the point where you talk about your strengths

ANSWER CONTINUES: Sir I am the captain of my college football team and I lead the team for various tournaments…In fact we even won the inter engineering football tourney last year. Apart from that as mentioned earlier I have done my schooling in three different states and there was never a problem in adapting to a new place so I can easily adapt myself to diverse environs. And finally I have good organizing capability as I was an active member in NSS and organized many events like blood donation camp, save trees campaign, etc

If the company wants someone good in technical knowledge then he/she must give examples suitable to the job profile…For ex : I believe I have good technical and practical knowledge in design field as I was a part of the design team in SAE and I designed the roll cage of an ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE ( even if you dint do anything just learn whatever was done from whoever actually did the designing part) …Apart from that I have submitted technical papers for paper presentations at XXXXX…one of my paper presentation was awarded the 2nd prize as well. And whenever you say you are good with technical knowledge you can
expect a few questions in that field undoubtedly ( so must brush up your subject knowledge as well ) But don’t worry it won’t be in depth !!!!

9) DO YOU HAVE ANY INSPIRATIONAL FIGURE IN LIFE?

• It can be anyone…but make sure whenever you mention someone you have basic information about that person….more importantly you should be in a position to tell why and how has that person inspired you (Don’t make silly mistakes…Imagine yourself telling Sir, SAINA NEHWAL is my inspirational figure …I am an ardent follower of her game and I have seen all her tennis matches!!!) Along with that you should have basic knowledge like from where the person belongs or any other important highlights of his/her life.

10) DID YOU FACE ANY CHALLENGES IN LIFE? AND HOW DID YOU OVERCOME THEM?

• This question is asked to test if you can handle critical situations which you are bound to face when you actually work.
• So challenges can be anything…any problematic situation which you have faced in your class or home or team or in public….Tell them what the situation was and what your approach was in handling that particular situation !!!

11) IT SEEMS THAT YOU HAVE A LOW AGGREGATE IN ENGINEERING, COULD YOU JUSTIFY SO AS TO WHY?

• If your aggregate is low and you can’t think of any reason to defend yourself then it is advisable to accept the fact that you do have a low aggregate but then include the correction factor stating that you have been working hard to improve the aggregate.
• SAMPLE ANSWER: Sir I do believe my aggregate hasn’t been satisfactory but I have been trying real hard to improve it, In fact there has been a gradual increase in my semester wise marks (or) In fact I have done very well in my internals this semester and I am looking forward to perform well in my external exams also.

12) TELL ME ABOUT YOUR COLLEGE?

• Whenever this question pops out never ever give a negative feedback.
• It’s just to check whether you are loyal to place where you have spent your four years of engineering.
• I do agree that there might a few things(or many :P ) on the negative feedback list but better avoid anything of that sort, but if you really want to point something go ahead but make sure you do it in a polite way and also add a correction factor. For ex : The drinking water facility wasn’t up to the mark in college so we complained to the management and they assured usthat they would resolve the issue at the earliest.

This way you have two advantages,
i. You are telling the interviewer that you are in a position to point out
errors if any
ii. More importantly you made an effort to resolve that issue by giving a
complaint.

13) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK ABOUT YOU?

• This is a real good chance to create one hell of a impression on the person your interview coz what your friends think about you is nothing but the kind of person you are according to the public, which is really very important
• So, you are again going to talk about the attributes of your character which would bring out the strengths in you. Remember to back up those statements by examples giving proper reasons.
• For ex: My friends believe I have good leadership skills coz I am the captain of the college cricket team (reason can be anything….head of a cultural club or lead in a association etc etc) and I am responsible for the team and its well being.

By doing so you tell the person that you are a responsible person, you can mange people, you have leader ship skills. Finally the example you give would stand as a proof for whatever you are saying.

14) DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES?

• Again this is the point where you have a chance to stand out of the crowd.
• A hobby can be anything…reading books, dancing, singing, collecting articles, playing a sport…anything!!!
• It’s just that you should be really fond of whatever you like to do.

For Ex:
You say that reading books is your hobby…the next question could be the name of your favorite author or even the name of the last book you read...and if you can’t answer these basic questions also…congrats you are on the way to screwing up your interview !!!

• So I request you to be a little careful when you talk about your hobby.

15) HOW DO RATE YOUR PERFORMANCE IN THIS INTERVIEW?

• Pretty rare question but if it is asked then tell them in terms of a measure
• Please don’t make a fool of yourself by giving a 10 on 10 and try to show that you are MR.PERFECT
• If the interview was not that good then rate 6-7 or even low would be fine, at least he/she would appreciate your honesty :P and who knows you might even get selected
• On the contrary if the interview was real good then give yourself a 9 on 10…immediately the next question would be why not 10 on 10 if it was so good…this is the point where you flatter him/her by saying that “Sir/Madam I believe my interview was very good according to me but there is always a scope for improvement hence the 9 “(by telling this you are indirectly scoring a 10 on 10: D )

16) DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TO ASK??

•  If you really want to ask something then go ahead, make sure your question is related to job you are seeking.

Don’t ask them silly question like when the results would be out? (I did lol) or how many people are you going to select?

Wipro Placement Pattern:2013 batch

 

 

Eligibility: Criteria: 60% through out

Package: 3.3 lpa

Round 1(aptitude):

Separate pattern for (IT ,CSE) and other departments. Other departments don't have technology domain module.

This is the rough layout of the aptitude :

English Comprehension(18 ques)

 Synonyms/Antonyms/Word Meaning (Vocabulary)

 Complete the Sentence (Grammar)

 Spot error/Correct sentence (Grammar/sentence construction)

  Sentence Ordering (Comprehension skills)

  Questions based on passage (Comprehension skills)

Quantitative Ability(16 ques)

Logarithms

 HCF and LCM, Divisibility

 Power

 Numbers, Decimal Fractions

  Permutations and Combinations, Probability

   Word Problem: Profit, Interest, Inverse

Reasoning and Logical Ability(16 ques)

    Analogy Pattern Recognition

   Classification Pattern Recognition

   Coding Pattern Recognition

  Number Series Pattern Recognition

  Direction sense, Blood relations, CDL

  Puzzles, Logical word sequence

   Selection decision table

    Data sufficiency

   Objective reasoning

 Module 2: Technology Domain Skills (25 ques) ( THIS MODULE IS NOT FOR NON CSE GUYS)

Computer Programming Principle

 Basic Programming: Iteration, recursion, decision-making Compilation   execution, errors, Data types, Complexity

 Data structures: Graph, Hash, Heap, Linked list OOP

  Procedures, functions, Scope

 Search & sorting, Queue, Sorting, Stacks, Trees

 Second round: ( Non elimination Round)

This was an essay writing round they asked us to write an essay of 100 words. The topic given to me was “ Problems faced by Today’s generation”

Third round(Tech Round):

There was only one technical round.

That guy asked me about my papers,projects

I mentioned Datastructures and algo as my area of interest. He asked me to write two simple programs.

Some questions like..

1.       Which is the most toughest datastructure according to you?

2.       Tell me one applications of stack and write code and explain ( I told towers of Hanoi,recursion balancing symbols,postfix evaluation,prefix to postfix conversion etc)

3.       Explain tree traversal techniques and write a code for preorder traversal

4.       What is polymorphism and explain its types

They are seeing your confidence level more than your subject knowledge.

If you perform well in this round then there is no HR round(mainly for people with bad communication skillz)..otherwise HR round will be there..ques like tell me about urself,why wipro? Etc…. there is a sectional cut-off i think it was 12 or something per section for cse student not sure for non-cse dept. The verbal section is somewhat easier than the other sections...

ALL THE BEST :)