Tcs placement paper

I would like to share my experience with other people who are preparing for the TCS as think that that will be helpful for the entire upcoming visitor who want to prepare for TCS. The recruitment procedure for TCS consist the following four rounds:

1.Online Test
2.Technical Interview
3.H.R. Interview
4.M.R. Interview

1.ONLINE TEST :Online test was conducted for JUIT students and for some branches of JIIT students on 18 Th Feb. and for remaining branches of JIIT on 19 Th Feb. The test started around 10 A.M. without any pre-placement session. You will be given Login Id and password. Firstly there was a sample test and instruction for the test. They will also give instructions orally so listen carefully everything. The TCS people will be all time there during the test so for any clarification ask them for a help. Remember that:
· There is no negative marking.
· No higher cut-off.
· There was no section cut-off.(but I think that there was a minimum cut-off for individual section because some students were not able to clear the test because they were unable to score in a particular section).
· Don’t click on the EXIT Button; otherwise your test will be finished at that point.
· You can jump to any question within a particular section, but you can not jump sections. On R.H.S. there is a display of Q.No. The answered questions appears in Green color, unanswered but visited questions in some other color(red or orange ,I don’t remember exactly) and unvisited questions in other color(red or orange).
· A clock on the top corner of the right hand side displays the reaming time so please keep track of the time.

There were 3 Sections in the test: ---
A.VEBAL SECTION (32 QUSETIONS 20 MINUTES):
10 antonyms, 10 synonyms, 1 Reading comparison heaving 6 question and one passage for fill in the blank with 6 questions. Most of the antonyms and synonyms were form Barron’s GRE (you can refer any edition for this section). Only prepare exercises given in the back of word list. There are 50 word lists in the book but you need not to mug all of them only 20 will also work. Start preparing a lot ahead of for this because it will take a lot of time because most of the words are hard to remember. It will take hardly 6-8 minutes to complete antonyms and synonyms because there are only two possibilities, either you know the answer or not. In the remaining time you can attempt RC & fill in the blanks. RC passage on Share Market and Investment, I have seen it somewhere but I don’t remember where exactly (most probably in barrons’s). The passage for fill- in the blanks I don’t remembered. But key point in fill-in the blank question is that there were not 5 options to fill the blanks. Instead it options were only 6 choices written and we have to fill each options by selecting it from a drop down menu. So please take care of this.

B. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ( 38 QUES, 40 MINUTES):
The most easy and scoring section. You need not to do anything. No need to buy R. S. Awarwal or something else. Just practice 5-10 sample papers form Freshersworld that will be more than enough. I am giving some of the question with explanation that were in my examination:------
1. 58, 27, 12, __, 2 .
Sol. 27*2+4 = 58, 12*2+3 = 27, 5*2+2 = 12, 2*2+1 = 5, 1*2+0 = 2 ….ans = 5

2. How the given string how many Y’s are followed by L that are not followed by PYLYPQMYLPMLYLLYQMYYLQYLPLYAMLYLM Sol. Only count those pair by YL and discard pairs of YLP ……..ans =4.

3. First & second, third and fourth, fifth and sixth letter of word SENSATIONALY are interchanged find the 12th letter form right.
Sol. The interchanged word is ESSNTAIONALY. Now start counting frm Right the 12th letter is E.

4. What is the largest prime number which can be stored in 6 bit register?
Sol. As the register is 6 bit long we can store max number 63 (if all bits are 1).But 63 is not prime the largest prime number is 61.
Ans = 61.

5) Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube
Ans. 6, 8, 12

6. If g(0) = 1, g(1) = -1 and g(n) = g(n-1)-g(n-2) then calculate g(6).
Sol. Start with g(2) = g(1) + g(0) = -1 - 1 = -2, g(3) = g(2) + g(1) = -2+1 = -1, g(4) = g(3) + g(2) = -1+1 = 0, g(5) = g(4) + g(3) = 0+1 = 1, g(6) = g(5) + g(4) = 1-0 = 1
ans = 1.

7. which of the following heaving highest standard deviation.
a. 9,0,9,0,9,0 b. 9,-9,0,9,0,-9 c. 9,-9,9,-9,9,-9 d. 9,9,9,9,9,9
Ans. C, standard deviation is 18(i.e. the difference between two consecutive terms is highest).

8. Find the result of the following expression- M (737, 7) +R (3.4) +T (7. 7)-R (6.4) if, M denotes modules operation, R denotes round-off, T denotes truncations?
Sol): 2+3+7-6 = 6

9. In a city, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/6 + 4t + 12, where t is elapsed time. Find the percentage change in temperature from 3pm. to 6 pm.
Sol): In equation first put t=3,
we will get 25.5........................... (1)
Now put t=6,
we will get 42.............................. (2)
So %change = ((42-25.5)/42)*100)
=39.3

10. Find d Odd one out? a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2
Ans. All other except Linux which is an operating system are Database Management Systems.

11. If FHQWVDO is written as CENTRAL, what is TXLFN?
ANS. The first letter of the word has been changed 3 letter backward in alphabetic order so we change T to Q. As there were no other options starting with Q we need not to find each alphabet. So the answer is the word in the options starting with Q

12. Which shape will be obtained by using these values of X & Y?

X Y

0 0.00001

10 1.02

100 1.72

1000 3.00

9999 4.72
Sol): Y= log10(X)

13.Find d unit of given expression - (Force*Distance)/ (Velocity *Velocity)?
Sol): (M*a*L)/(LT-1*LT-1) = (M*LT-2*L)/(L2T-2) = Mass

14. A can copy 20 pages in 4 hours and A and B can copy 70 pages in 10 hours. How much time B will take to copy 26 pages
Sol. A’s 1 hour work =20/4=5 pages , A+B’s 1 hour work = 7 pages So B’s 1 hour work =7-5=2 pages. Time taken by B to copy 26 pages =26/2=13 hours.

15. A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 20%, 30% and 10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used combined?
Sol): Method is (80/100*70/100*90/100)*100 = 50.4
So, economy = 100-50.4 = 49.6

16. Find d Odd one out? JAVA b. LISP c. Small talk d. Eiffel
Ans. All other except LISP are object oriented programming languages.

17. Match the following
1. Male – Boy a. A type of
2. Square - Polygon b. A part of
3. Roof - Building c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom – Vegetables d. A superset of
Ans: 1- d, 2- a, 3- b, 4- c

18. Find the value of 232 in the base 5
Sol. Divide 232 by 5 until the number is reduced to zero and select the reminder from bottom to up
ans = 1412

19. A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 mtr width. a cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000 mtr away from the power unit. The cost of the cable bellows water Rs5 / mtr and cost of cable on the bank is Rs 4/ mtr. Find the pt where the cable cut through the river.
a.2800 b. 3000 c. 2100 b.3900
Sol. Just use simple trigonometry
Ans: 2100

20. Given $ means Tripling and % means change of sign then find the value of $%$6-%$%6 ?
Ans. 72 (values are not exactly same)

21. In two dimensional array X(6,9) each element occupies 4 bytes of memory. If the address of first element X(1,1)is 3000 then what will be the address of the last element X(2,3) ?
Sol. Remember that we have been asked to write to find address of last element not of first element. 3000+8*4+3*4+3(for last element) = 3047

22. My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 8 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N 80W. What is the local time when my plane landed.
Ans. Every 1 deg longitude is equal to 4 minutes . If west to east add time else subtract time) and measure the longitude form GMT do the difference between the longitude is 90 degree=90*4=360minutes=6 hours. Don’t take into account the value of N and S if any. So the local time of landing = 2+8-6=4am.

23 Which of the following are orthogonal pairs? a. 3i+2j b. i+j c. 2i-3j d. -7i+j
Sol. The product of slope(y/x) of two equations should be -1
ans = a & c

24. Find d singular matrix from a given set of matrices?

a) 2 3 b) 4 16 c) 0 5 d) 9 8

4 5 1 4 1 5 4 5
Sol): b (Hint: det (A) = 0 i.e. ((a11+a22)-(a12+a21))

25. What is the equation of the given line?

26. If n=10*18*38 which of the following is not an integer?
a. n/40 b. n/90 c. n/72 d. n/35
Sol. (10*18*38)/35 is not an integer so ans = d (n/35)

27.28.29. A Venn diagram was given and 3 questions were asked on it. Just understand the problem carefully and solve it (only addition, subtraction and multiplication and division required)
The question was based on that this number of people know c , this number of people java and this number of people know .net

30.31.32. A bar graph was given and question was asked on it. It was something about club membership (just addition, multiplication etc.) Other questions were also simple but I don’t exactly remember those. Just do some more previous papers those will be helpful to you.

C. CRITICAL REASONING (12 QUESETIONS, 30 MINUTES) :
Don’t think that it is enough time to solve this section. Actually this section is from the model test papers of Barron’s 12 th edition. It consists of 3 paragraphs containing 4 questions each. If you have practiced a lot than you will able to do this section within 5 minutes, otherwise the case may be that you will not able to answer even a single question from it, because some questions are very tricky and you can do them if you are doing them first time. So please prepare the questions form 5 test papers and only solve those paragraphs which contain 4 or more questions. Don’t let this work pending till last day. Don’t need to mug up all the answers just know the method. Only some questions need to be mug up. There is no important passage as we had paragraphs form all test papers. So don’t take chance in this section. I think that in this section the weightage was higher than other sections. In my paper they asked the question on Prithu and Brithu marriages from test paper 5(they changed some name, but don’t worry if you know how to attempt then you will able to solve it and those who have mugged up it also don’t worry because the starting alphabet of the name of the characters was same, so still you can attempt it. Second paragraph was on Scurvy problem and it was also form test paper 5. Third passage was and selecting two professor form large university and one form small college.

TCS

About Company:

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of the world's leading information technology companies. India’s NO.1 Software Company and a mass recruiter.

Test:

There will be online test. No sectional cutoff .There will be three sections in the online test.

1. Aptitude

For aptitude solve previously available papers on net. You can also follow R S Aggarwal.

2. Critical reasoning

Solve critical section portion of 5 model test papers of Barron’s 12th edition only.

All questions will be from model test papers.

3. English

Score well in above 2 sections u need not to worry about English.

There will be 10 synonyms, 10 antonyms, one question containing 10 fill in the blanks from a paragraph and one question of comprehension reading.

Unsolved exercises of GRE BARRON’s 12th edition are more than enough for English section.

If you follow above guidelines, you will be surely through the test

Interview:

For interview prepare basic language like c or c++.

They will ask you branch specific questions also like if u r electronics student then they will ask questions from digital electronics, semiconductor devices etc.

If you are through technical round, HR round is just a formality. So prepare well for technical interview.

Books Recommended:

1. GRE BARRON’s 12 th edition

2. The complete reference C/C++ by Helbert Scheildt.

1.WRITTEN TEST-

This was an online test 90 questions ,90 minutes. The test comprised of three sections in the online test you have to go in serial order for three sections. Within the section you may revert back to any question within that section. Time is limited for each section.

SECTION A – verbal section 32 questions,20 minutes. 10 antonyms 10 synonyms, 1 sentence complition , 1 read comprehension . it is very difficult to manage time in this section. Prepare GRE barrons high frequency word list (330 words) for this section from 12th addition.Also words given in five model test papers you may not be able to score much in this section .

SECTION B- Quantitative aptitude

Q-1 In a two dimensional array X(9,7) ) with each element occupying 8 bytes of memory with the first element X(1,1) z 3000.find address of X(8,5)? ( ans: X(m,n)=X(9,7) ;(i,j)=(8,5) FORMULA ((n*(i-1)-j-1) *memory bytes )+base address where base address is 3000 memory bytes=8 )

Q-2 A long word may b given such as ORGANISATIONAL u hv 2 interchange d 1st and 2nd,3rd and 4th,5th and sixth words so on.what will be d 9th or 10th word from d right?

Q-3 Largest prime no in 8-bit memory.

Q-4 Select the odd one out a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP ANS: SAP (rest of dem are protocols).

Q-5 The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square root of 4000N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied? (ans : 0.5%)

Q-6 simple questions on time and work.like A andB can do a work in x days.Acn do it in y days.In how many days will B do it?’or’if A works for z days in how many days will b funish the remaining work?

Q-7 simple questions on number systems.like In which of the system, decimal number 194 is equal to 1234? ANS:5

Q-8 Find the value of the 678 to the base 7. ANS:1656

Q-9 Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube ANS:6,8,12

Q-10 A question like %#%x+#%#y.where x and y may be some values stands for change in sign ,# stands for reciprocal.find d value for d above expression.

Q-11 Find the result of the following _expression if, M modulus operation(remainder), R denotes round-off, T denotes truncation(to shorten):
M(373,5)+R(3.4)+T(7.7)+R(5.8) ANS:19

Q-12 G(0)=-1, G(1)=1, G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2), G(5)= ? ANS:-2

Q-13 Coding –decoding (2 questions) practice these 4m verbal, non-verbal.

Q-14 A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 750 meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 15/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.12/- per meter. Find the total of laying the cable. (ans: 38250)

Q-15 Which of the following are orthogonal pairs? a. 7i+6j b. i+j c. 6i-7j d. -7i+j ANS: (A)& (C).

Q-16 temperature varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much temperature more or less in 3pm to 6pm.

Q-17 A, B and C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 30%, 20% and 40%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used combined.

Q-18 Powerof 3.options will be given.

Q-19 A, B and C are 8 bit no?s. They are as follows:
A 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
B 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
C 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
Find ( (A-B) u C )=? (ans: 1st find 2’s compliment of B add it to A.now perform OR operation of d result wid C).

Q-20 A is thrice as efficient as B.A and B can do a work in xdays.In how many days will B alone do it?

Q-21Which of the following are possible sides of a triangle: (a) (3,3,3) (b) (4,5 9) (c) (3,5,7) (d) (9,7,8)? (ans: sum of smaller 2 sides is greater than the other one which is larger).

Q-22 Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?(ans: determitant(A)=0)

Q-23 My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?
6:00 am b) 6:40am c) 7:40 d) 7:00 e) 8:00.(I got a question similar to this for which I got dans 5.40).

Q-24 standard deviation: which of d following has highest standard deviation: (a) 0,5,5,0,5,5 (b) 5,5,5,5,5,5 (c) 5,-5,5,-5,5,-5 (d) 0,5,0,5,0,5(ans: (c))

Q-25 A curve is given u hv to identify which curve is it : tan x, y=log x curves.

Q-26 On units like ( momentum * velocity)/ (force * time).some thing like dis my ans I got was velocity.

Q-27 The size of the bucket is N kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.1 kb per millisecond. A programmer sends a program to receiver. There it waits for 10 milliseconds. And response will be back to programmer in 20 milliseconds. How much time the program takes to get a response back to the programmer, after it is sent?(ans: 30 milliseconds)

Q-28 A file is transferred from one location to another in 'buckets'. The size of the bucket is 10 kilobytes. Each bucket gets filled at the rate of 0.0001 kilobytes per millisecond. The transmission time from sender to receiver is 10 milliseconds per bucket. After the receipt of the bucket the receiver sends an acknowledgement that reaches sender in 100 milliseconds. Assuming no error during transmission, write a formula to calculate the time taken in seconds to successfully complete the transfer of a file of size N kilobytes.
(ans:(n/1000)*(n/10)*10+(n/100). May be dis is ans u can mug it up.i cud not write dis ans dere).

Q-29 If log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364 then find log 0.319 ?
Sol) log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364, then
log 0.319=log0.318+(log(0.318-0.317)) = 0.3396. (a question matching to this . not same dis is just an idea).

Q-30 A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is 264kg or 260 kg. How many 2kg packets are there ?(ans: 114 for 264 and 40 for 260).

Q-31 Three companies working independently receive the savings of 20%,30%,40%.if d companies work in combine ,what will be there net savings? (ans: suppose total income 4 each company be 100,
Amount for x: 80 (100-20); y:70 ;z:60
x+y+z =210 .total income for 3 companies =300.so,300-210=90.
(90*100)/300=30%.)

Q-32 With 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full tank how much distance travels?(ans:4/5 full tank= 12 mile
1 full tank= 12/(4/5)
1/3 full tank= 12/(4/5)*(1/3)= 5 miles)

Q-33 Wind blows 160 miles in 330min.for 80 miles how much time required
(ans: 160 miles= 330 min
1 mile = 330/160
80 miles=(330*80)/160=165 min).

Q-34 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 travelling at a speed of 35 mph. find the speed limit?(ans: 15mph)

Q-35 A sales person multiplied a number and get the answer is 3 instead of that number divided by 3. what is the answer he actually has to get? (ans: 1/3).

Q-36 In 8*8 chess board what is the total number of squares? (ans:204)

Q-37 what is d number of zeroes at d end of product of numbers from 1 to 100? (ans:24)

Q-38 Gavaskar’s average in 1st 50 innings was 50.after the 51st innngs his average was 51.How many runs did he score in 51st innings?(ans: (x1 +x2+….+x50)/50 =50;
(x1+x2…….+x50+x51)/51= 51; (x1+x2+……+x50)=2500
(x1+x2+ ….+x51)=2601; x51=2601-2500;x51=101).

Q-39 Question like how many B’s are followed by F’s dat are not followed by U. series like: A B F U S A B F F D B F F F G B F U D B F C

Q-40 match d following :
(a) ----------- 1.a type of
(b) ------------ 2. a part of
(c) bug-reptile 3.not atype of
(d) -------------- 4. a superset of

Q-41 Question on venn diagram wid 3 sub-parts.like English, Bengali,Hindi….

Q-42 question on data interpretation (bar graph) 3 sub-parts.simple

This section is very simple if u hv prepared previous papers properly.These are availiable on dis site.Almost all questions are 4m previous papers.The figures may be changed.Do data interpretation 4m r.s.aggarwal (quant), venn diagrams 4m r.s.aggarwal (verbal, non-verbal).

SECTION C-CRITICAL REASONING

Prepare all 5 model test papers 4m GRE-Barrons (strictly 12th edition) critical reasoning part.Questions are cut, copy,paste 4m dere.prepare dis part very well.its MUST.

NOTE: WITHOUT GRE-BARRONS (12th EDITION) ITS VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO CLEAR THE WRITTEN TEST.

2.TECHNICAL (T.R.):To I&C students its my suggestion prepare atleast 1 subject really well.I prepared micro processors.They asked me to explain 8085 block diagram and also abt programming while performing practicals. Prepare C and C++ as per ur resume.they asked me differences between C and C++. Also I was asked to write a program on factorial.

3.H.R.:Here situations were given to me like on customer satisfaction.Basically they are checking ur confidence.why TCS ? why TCS should hire you? Strengths, weakness.

FEW POINTS:

1. Prepare ur resume wid utmost care.

2. Refer to papers on this site .These are really very beneficial.

3. Greet them well when u go for inter-view.

4. Keep smiling.

5. Eye-contact is very important.

6. Do not argue.Remember they know much more than u do.Be polite.

7. They will be very nice and will try keep u calm.

8. Do not give excuses.just BE CONFIDENT when u answer.Confidence is most important .Also be careful wid ur mobile phones.TCS looks 4 discipline.

For Further Reading,

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