SATYAM PAPER ON 18th MAY AT ANDHRA PRADESH.

HI FRIENDS, THIS IS KRISHNA PRABHAKAR PINGALI ,3RD ECE, FROM SIDDHARTH INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERIG AND TECHNOLOGY (S I E T K ), PUTTUR,ANDHRAPRADESH. I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCES BESIDES DISCUSSING THE WHOLE TEST TAPER I FACED WHICH INCLUDES ALL THE THREE STAGES. LET ME EXPLAIN THE SATYAM PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT. RECRUITMENT PATTERN 1. WRITTEN EXAM - COMPRISES OF 15 QUESTIONS AND EACH RIGHT QUESTION CARRIES 1 MARK AND WRONG ANSWER REDUCES 1/4th MARK FROM THE SCORED MARKS. 2. GROUP DISCUSSION 3.HR AND TECHNICAL INTERVIEW NOW LET ME DISCUSS IN DETAIL, I DIDNT REMEMBER THE FIGURES BUT I AM GIVING THE MODEL QUESTIONS. STAGE 1: 1. A PROBLEM ON FIGURE SERIES AND WE SHOULD FIND THE NEXT SUCCESIVE FIGURES BASED ON THE GIVEN SERIES OF FIGURES. 2. A PROBLEM ON THE COMPOUND INTERESTAS THEY GAVE THE PRINCIPAL AS RS.20,967/- (approx) AND THE RATE OF INTEREST AS 7.76% AND 2 YEARS TIME. NOW WE SHOULD FIND THE AMOUNT. HINT: AMOUNT = PRINCIPLE * (1 + RATE/100 )^NUMBER OF YEARS. 3. A PROBLEM ON THE TIME AND WORK . 4. A PROBLEM ON THE AGES OF FATHER AND SON. THEY GAVE THE PRESENT AND FIFTEEN YEARS LATER AGES RATIOS AND WE NEED TO FIND THE AGE OF FATHER. ANS: 45 YEARS. 5. THE SELLING PRICE AND THE AFTER ALLOWING THE DICOUNT THE PROFIT ON A ARTICLE IS GIVEN.BY FINDING THE COST PRICE WE NEED TO FIND THE GAIN PERCENTAGE. ANS : 8%. 6. A PASSAGE RELATED TO A BOY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY IS GIVEN WITH THE DETAILS OF HIS FRIENDS ARRIVAL AND THE GIFTS THEY BOUGHT BY GIVING SOME CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND WE NEED TO FIND THE TIME OF PETER'S ARRIVAL AND THE GIFT HE BOUGHT AS HE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE BOY'S FRIENDS. 7. A PROBLEM ON THE PROBABILITY. 8. A PROBLEM ON THE SEQUENCE AS AG, BH, CC, -ANS : EL. 9. A QUADRILATERAL IS A RECTANGLE? STATEMENT 1 : THE SIDES AB AND CD ARE UNEQUAL. STATEMENT 2 : THE DIAGONALS AC AND BD ARE UNEQUAL. ANS : ONLY STATEMENT 1 IS ENOUGH. 10. A PROBLEM ON FINDING THE ANGLE ON A GIVEN QUADRILATERAL. HINT : SUM OF THE ANGLES IN THE QUADRILATERAL IS 360. ANS : 80.

11. A PROBLEM ON THE CLOCKS. 12. A PROBLEM ON THE C PROGRAM ........ ANS: 40 THAT'S ALLL I CAN REMEMBER FRIENDS.......BY GOD'S GRACE I CLEARED THIS WRITTEN IN FLYING COLOURS. STAGE 2: GROUP DISCUSSION TOPIC : " INTERNET USAGE AND ITS MIS USAGE ". I TOOK THE PRIVILEGE OF INITIATOR IN THE DISCUSSION BESIDE ACTING AS TEAM LEADER AND I SPOKE THRICE DURING THE ENTIRE SESSION BUT WELL IN RELATION TO THE GIVEN TOPIC AND I FOLLOWED THE PRICIPLE OF BEING A GOOD LISTENER. I HERE BY REQUEST THE GUYS AND GALS WHO WERE SUPPOSE TO ATTEND THIS IS ATLEAST GRAB THE CHANCE ATLEAST TWICE IN THE MIDDLE BUT DONT KEEP QUIET AND YOU ALL ACHEIVE SUCCESS IN THIS SESSION AND MOST OF THEM WILL GET FILTERED IN THIS SESSION. AGAIN HERE ALSO I WAS MOVED TO THE FURTHER STAGE......... STAGE 3: HR AND TECHNICAL INTERVIEW. THIS WAS THE STAGE IN WHICH I SCARED A LOT TO ATTEND. BUT TO MY SURPRISE THERE WAS A A SINGLE HR PERSON INTHE ROOM AND AS AND I WAS CALLED I WENT NEAR HIM BY PUTTING ALL MY EFFORTS TO SMILE BESIDE ALL MY MENTAL TENSIONS. IT WAS AROUND 2.45PM THEN. THE HR ASKED ME THAT WHETHER I HAD MY MEAL OR NOT? I TOLD NO SIR. THEN HE REPLIED THAT I WILL TAKE ONLY TEN MINUTES AND CAN U WAIT? I SAID WITH PLEASURE SIR. HE THEN GAVE ME PAPER AND ASKED ME WRITE ALL MY 3RD YEAR 2ND SEM SUBJECTS WHICH I COMPLETED THE EXAMS JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE THEY CONDUCTED THIS INTERVIEW. I WROTE THEM ALL NEATLY. THEN ASKED ME TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THE " MICRO WAVE ENGINERING " WHICH IS THE MOST TOUGH SUBJECT I FEEL. BUT I EXPLAINED THAT TO MY KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT GIVING VAGUE INFORMATIONS. HE THEN ASKED ME ABOUT THE DEVICES WE USE IN THAT. I SAID ISOLATOR, GYRATOR AND CIRCULATOR. TO MY LUCK HE ASKED ME TO EXPLAIN ABOUT GYRATOR WHICH IS ONLY DEVICE I LEARNT FOR MY SEM EXAMS AND I EXPALINED ABOT THAT IN DETAIL WITH THE NEAT FIGURES. THEN HE MADE TO CHOOSE ANY ONE OF THE WRITTEN SUBJECTS. I ASKED HIM THAT CAN I CHOOSE MY INTERSTED SUBJECT IN THE CURRICULM. THEN HE SAID U CAN HAVE YOUR OWN CHOICE. I SID THANKYOU SIR, AND REPLIED AS THE ANALOG COMMUNICATIONS AS MY AREA OF INTERESTED SUBJECT. HE THEN ASKED WHAT COCNEPTS WE COME ACROSS THE ANALOG COMM.. . I REPLIED AMPLITUDE MODULATION , PHASE MODULATION ETC,. THEN I STARTED EXPLAINING THE AMPLITUDE MOD ..DOUBLE SIDE BAND SUPPRESSED CARRIER ( D S B S C ) , S S B S C , VESTEGIAL SIDE BAND ( V S B ) CONCEPTS WITH NEAT BLOCK DIAGRAMS AND RELATED WAVEFORMS . HE WAS THOROUGHLY OBSERVING ME WITH FULL ATTENTION AND AT THE END HE HAD TAKEN THE PAPER IN WHICH I EXPLAINED ALL THE CONCEPTS AND PRAISED ME A LOT FOR MY LEGIBILITY AND SAID MR. KRISHNA , YOU ARE EVRY MUCH ATTENTIVE IN WRITING THE NAMES OF YOUR SUBJECTS ONWARDS UPTO THE EXPLAINATIONS YOU MADE REGARDING THEM AND I CAN NOW ABLE TO KNOW THAT IF I ALLOT A PROJECT TO YOU, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT MORE EFFECTIVELY FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END LIKE THIS AND THIS IS THE THING WE MOSTLY EXPECT FROM THE FRESHERS AND YOU DESERVE IT NOW AND I AM SELECTING YOU FOR " S A T Y A M ". HE THEN GAVE ME A SHAKEHAND AND I CAME OUT WITH FULL OF

JOY AND PLEASURE. NOW I GOT THE PLACE IN DREAMLAND ............... " S A T Y A M ". ONE THING FRIENDS I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU ALL WHICH ALL MAY SKIP IN GENERAL. FOR ALL MY SUCCESS THERE WAS MY FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS , ESPECIALLY MY SISTER " PINGALI MADHAVI " AND OUR HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT SRI " USHA ESWARAN ". THEY ARE THE REAL PLAYERS WHO GAVE ME FULL SUPPORT AT EACH AND EVERY STAGE BY EMPOWERING THE CONFIDENCE IN ME THAT I CAN ACHIEVE BESIDE OUR COLLEGE MANAGEMENT TOO. Mahindra Satyam 1. Which of the following statement(s) is(are) not true a. Literate workers have small families than illiterate workers. b. Families with 2 or less than 2 children are commoner than families with 3 or more children. c. 2 children families constitute 60% of the families of workers. d. More the no. of children a worker has the more illiterate he is. e. None the above statement is true. Ans: e 2. In simple interest what sum amounts of Rs.1120/- in 4 years and Rs.1200/- in 5 years. Ans: Rs.800/3. Sum of money at compound interest amounts of thrice itself in 3 years. In how many years will it take 9 times itself. Ans: 6 4. Two trains in the same direction at 50 & 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes him. What is the length of faster train ? Ans: 75m 5. x% of y is y% of ?

Ans: x 6. A man spending half of his salary for house hold expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, a man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50. What is his monthly salary ? Ans: 1000 7. The population of a city increases @ 4% p.a. That is an additioanl annual increase of 4% of the population due to this influx of job seekers, the % increase in population after 2 years is 8. The ratio of no. of boys & girls in a school is 3:2 Out of these ?% the boys & 25% of girls are scholarship holders. % of students who are not scholarship holders.? 9. 15 Men take 21 days of 8 hrs. each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hrs. each would do if 21 women take. If 3 women do as much work of 2 men. Ans: 30 10. a cylinder ingot 6cms in diameter and 6 cms in height is and spheres all of the same size are made from the material obtained.what is the diameter of each sphere? Ans:3cms 11. rectangular plank of sqrt(2)meters wide can be placed so that it is on either side of the diagonal of a square shown below.what is the area of the plank? Ans:7sqrt(2) 12. the difference b/w the compound interest payble half yearly and the simple interest on a certain sum cont out at 10% p.a for 1 year is Rs 25 what is the sum Ans:10,000 13. what is the smallest n0 by which 2880 must be divided in order to make it a perfect square ? a)3 Ans: c b)4 c)5 d) 6 e)8

14.a father is 30 times more than his son however he will be only thrice as old as the son what is father,s present age ? Ans: 40 15. If a boat is moving in upstream with velocity of 14 km/hr and goes downstream with a velocity of 40 km/hr, then what is the speed of the stream ? (a) 13 km/hr (b) 26 km/hr (c) 34 km/hr (d) none of these Ans: A 16 . Find the value of ( 0.75 * 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.001 ) / ( 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.075 + 0.01) (a) 0.845 (b) 1.908 (c) 2.312 (d) 0.001 Ans: A 17. A can have a piece of work done in 8 days, B can work three times faster than the A, C can work five times faster than A. How many days will they take to do the work together ? (a) 3 days (b) 8/9 days (c) 4 days (d) can,t say Ans: B 18. A car travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during the return journey increased speed 12km/hr takes the times 5 hrs.What is the distance travelled (a) 210 kms (b) 30 kms

(c) 20 kms (c) none of these Ans: B 19. Instead of multiplying a number by 7, the number is divided by 7. What is the percentage of error obtained ? 20. Find (7x + 4y ) / (x-2y) if x/2y = 3/2 ? (a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 7 (d) data insufficient Ans: C 21. A man buys 12 lts of liquid which contains 20% of the liquid and the rest is water. He then mixes it with 10 lts of another mixture with 30% of liquid.What is the % of water in the new mixture? 22. If a man buys 1 lt of milk for Rs.12 and mixes it with 20% water and sells it for Rs.15, then what is the percentage of gain? 23. Pipe A can fill a tank in 30 mins and Pipe B can fill it in 28 mins.If 3/4th of the tank is filled by Pipe B alone and both are opened, how much time is required by both the pipes to fill the tank completely ? 24. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage. (a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30% Ans: D 25. A certain number of men can finish a piece of work in 10 days. If however there were 10 men

less it will take 10 days more for the work to be finished. How many men were there originally? (a) 110 men (b) 130 men (c) 100 men (d) none of these Ans: A 26. In simple interest what sum amounts of Rs.1120/- in 4 years and Rs.1200/- in 5 years ? (a) Rs. 500 (b) Rs. 600 (c) Rs. 800 (d) Rs. 900 Ans: C 27. If a sum of money compound annually amounts of thrice itself in 3 years. In how many years will it become 9 times itself. (a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 12 Ans A 28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train ? (a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m Ans B

16 . Find the value of ( 0.75 * 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.001 ) / ( 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.075 + 0.01) (a) 0.845 (b) 1.908 (c) 2.312 (d) 0.001 Ans: A 17. A can have a piece of work done in 8 days, B can work three times faster than the A, C can work five times faster than A. How many days will they take to do the work together ? (a) 3 days (b) 8/9 days (c) 4 days (d) can,t say Ans: B 18. A car travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during the return journey increased speed 12km/hr takes the times 5 hrs.What is the distance travelled (a) 210 kms (b) 30 kms (c) 20 kms (c) none of these Ans: B 19. Instead of multiplying a number by 7, the number is divided by 7. What is the percentage of error obtained ? 20. Find (7x + 4y ) / (x-2y) if x/2y = 3/2 ? (a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 7 (d) data insufficient

Ans: C 21. A man buys 12 lts of liquid which contains 20% of the liquid and the rest is water. He then mixes it with 10 lts of another mixture with 30% of liquid.What is the % of water in the new mixture? 22. If a man buys 1 lt of milk for Rs.12 and mixes it with 20% water and sells it for Rs.15, then what is the percentage of gain? 23. Pipe A can fill a tank in 30 mins and Pipe B can fill it in 28 mins.If 3/4th of the tank is filled by Pipe B alone and both are opened, how much time is required by both the pipes to fill the tank completely ? 24. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage. (a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30% Ans: D 25. A certain number of men can finish a piece of work in 10 days. If however there were 10 men less it will take 10 days more for the work to be finished. How many men were there originally? (a) 110 men (b) 130 men (c) 100 men (d) none of these Ans: A 26. In simple interest what sum amounts of Rs.1120/- in 4 years and Rs.1200/- in 5 years ? (a) Rs. 500 (b) Rs. 600 (c) Rs. 800

(d) Rs. 900 Ans: C 27. If a sum of money compound annually amounts of thrice itself in 3 years. In how many years will it become 9 times itself. (a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 12 Ans A 28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train ? (a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m Ans B 32. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary ? (a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900 Ans C 33. The population of a city increases @ 4% p.a. There is an additional annual increase of 4% of the population due to the influx of job seekers, find the % increase in population after 2 years ?

34. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3:2 Out of these 10% the boys and 25% of girls are scholarship holders. % of students who are not scholarship holders.? 35. 15 men take 21 days of 8 hrs. each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hrs. each would it take for 21 women if 3 women do as much work as 2 men? (a) 30 (b) 20 (c) 19 (d) 29 Ans: A 36. A cylinder is 6 cms in diameter and 6 cms in height. If spheres of the same size are made from the material obtained, what is the diameter of each sphere? (a) 5 cms (b) 2 cms (c) 3 cms (d) 4 cms Ans C 37. A rectangular plank (2)1/2 meters wide can be placed so that it is on either side of the diagonal of a square shown below.(Figure is not available)What is the area of the plank? Ans :7*(2)1/2 38. The difference b/w the compound interest payble half yearly and the simple interest on a certain sum lent out at 10% p.a for 1 year is Rs 25. What is the sum? (a) Rs. 15000 (b) Rs. 12000 (c) Rs. 10000 (d) none of these Ans C

39. What is the smallest number by which 2880 must be divided in order to make it into a perfect square ? (a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6 Ans: C 40. A father is 30 years older than his son however he will be only thrice as old as the son after 5 years what is father,s present age ? (a) 40 yrs (b) 30 yrs (c) 50 yrs (d) none of these Ans: A 41. An article sold at a profit of 20% if both the cost price and selling price would be Rs.20/- the profit would be 10% more. What is the cost price of that article? 42. If an item costs Rs.3 in ,99 and Rs.203 in ,00.What is the % increase in price? (a) 200/3 % (b) 200/6 % (c) 100% (d) none of these Ans: A Directions: For questions 43-52 fill the missing number or letter in the given series 43. a, c, e, g, _ (a) h (b) i (c) d (d) j

Ans: B 44. a, e, i, m, q, u, _, _ (a) y,c (b) b,f (c) g,i (d) none Ans: A 45. ay , bz , cw , dx ,__ (a) gu (b) ev (c) fv (d) eu Ans: D 46. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, __ (a) 15 (b) 9 (c) 13 (d) 12 Ans: C 47. kp , lo , mn , __ (a) nm (b) np (c) op (d) pq

Ans: A 48. R,M,__,F,D,__ (a) I, C (b) A, Q (c) L, N (d) B, Q Ans: A 49. ___, ayw, gec, mki, sqo (a) awx (b) usq (c) prs (d) lmn Ans: B 50. 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 27, __ (a) 60 (b) 59 (c) 43 (d) 50 Ans D 51. 0, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 15, 17, 24, 26,__ (a) 45 (b) 55 (c) 35 (d) 48 Ans: C

52. 2, 5, 9, 19, 37,__ (a) 64 (b) 55 (c) 75 (d) 40 Ans C Directions for questions 53 to 58: Select the alternative that logically follows form the two given statements. 53. All scientists are fools. All fools are literates. (a)All literates are scientists (b) All scientists are literates (c) No scientists are literates (d) Both (a) and (b) are correct Ans: B 54. No apple is an orange. All bananas are oranges. (a) All apples are oranges (b) Some apples are oranges (c) No apple is a banana (d) None of the above Ans: A 55. All pens are elephants. Some elephants are cats. (a) Some pens are cats (b) No pens are cats (c) All pens are cats (d) None of the above

Ans: D 56. All shares are debentures.No debentures are deposits. (a) All shares are deposits (b) Some shares are deposits (c) No shares are deposits (d) None of the above Ans: C 57. Many fathers are brothers. All brothers are priests. (a) No father is a priest (b) Many fathers are not priests (c) Many fathers are priests (d) Both (b) and (c) Ans: B 58. Some green are blue. No blue are white. (a) No green are white (b) Some green are white (c) No green are white (d) None of the above Ans: B 59. If the word "CODING" is represented as DPEJOH , then the word "CURFEW" can be represented? (a) dvsgfx (b) dvshfx (c) dgshfx (d) dtsgfy Ans: A

60. If in a certain code "RANGE" is coded as 12345 and "RANDOM" is coded as 123678, then the code for the word "MANGO" would be (a) 82357 (b) 84563 (c) 82346 (d) 82543 Ans: D Directions for questions 61-63: In a class of 150 students 55 speak English;85 speak Telugu and 30 speak neither English nor Telugu 61. How many speak both English and Telugu? (a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 12 Ans: C 62.How many speak only Telugu? (a) 55 (b) 45 (c) 65 (d) none of the above Ans:C 63.How many speak at least one of the two languages? (a) 120 (b) 100

(c) 250 (d) 50 Ans: A 64. What is wrong in the following problem main() { int i,j; j = 10; i = j++ - j++; printf("%d %d", i,j); } ans: 0, 12 65 . What is the output of the following problem main() { int j; for(j=0;j<3;j++) foo(); } foo() { static int i = 10; i+=10; printf("%d\n",i); } /* Out put is (***since static int is used i value is retained between * 20 function calls ) * 30 * 40 */ 66. What is wrong in the following code

main() { char * c; c = "Hello"; printf("%s\n", c); } ans:- Hello, The code is successfully running 67 . What is the final value of i and how many times loop is Executed ? */ main() { int i,j,k,l,lc=0; /* the input is given as 1234 567 */ printf("Enter the number string:<1234 567 \n"); scanf("%2d%d%1d",&i,&j,&k); for(;k;k--,i++) for(l=0;l printf("%d %d\n",i,l);} printf("LOOPS= %d\n", lc-1); } /* Ans: I 16, and loop is executed for 169 times 68. What is the output of the following program */ main() { union { int a; int b; int c; } u,v; u.a = 10; u.b = 20; printf("%d %d \n",u.a,u.b); } /*

Ans : The latest value assigned to any of the union member will be present in the union members so answer is 20 20 69. main() { float i, j; scanf("%f %f", &i, &j); printf("%.2f %.3f", i, j); } Ans:- 123.34 3. 234 70. What is the out put of the following problem ? */ main() { char * str = " 12345"; printf("%c %c %c\n", *str, *(str++), *(str++)); } /* Ans: 3 2 1 71. Write a macro statement to find maximum of a,b #define max(a,b) (ab)?a:b main() { int a,b; a=3; b=4; printf("%d",max(a,b)); } output : 4 72. What is the output of the following coding

*/ main() { int len=4; char *st="12345678"; st = st -len; printf("%c\n",*st); } /* Ans :It will print some junk value 73. main() { func(1); } func(int i){ static char *str ={ "One","Two","Three","Four"}; printf("%s\n",str[i++]); return; } Ans:- Two 74. #include main() { int i; for (i=1;i<100; i++) printf("%d %0x\n",i,i); } Ans:- I is from 1 to 99 for the first format, for the second format 1to9, ato f, 10 to 19,1ato1f, 20 to 29, etc 75 . In the following code please write the syntax for assing a value of 10 to field x of s and id_no 101 of s struct {

int x; int y; union { int id_no; char *name; }b; }s,*st; main() {s t = &s; st-x=10; st-b.id_no = 101; printf("%d %d\n",s..x,s.b.id_no); }