1) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.

e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2 2) Paul the octopus who has been forecasting the outcome of FIFA world cup matches with tremendous accuracy has now been invited to predict ICC world cup matches in 2011. We will assume that the world cup contenders have been divided into 2 groups of 9 teams each. Each team in a group plays the other teams in the group. The top two teams from each group enter the semi finals (after which the winner is decided by knockout). However, Paul has a soft spot for India and when India plays any team, Paul always backs India. Alas, his predictions on matches involving India are right only 2 out of 3 times. In order to qualify for the semi finals, it is sufficient for India to win 7 of its group matches. What is the probability that India will win the ICC world cup? a) (2/3)^10 b) (2/3)^9 + 8/3 * (2/3)^9 c) 8/3 * (2/3)^9 d) (2/3)^10 + 8/3*(2/3)^9 3) Toy train produces at least 10 different tunes when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 meters at 10 meters per minute. However , the toy train is defective and it now produces only two different tunes at random. What are the odds that the toy train produces 4 consecutive music tunes of the same type? a) 1 in 16 b) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 8 4) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21 . What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D? a) 13 Ans: c b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42

5) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10 6) One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal 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 Alice pal. 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) Thursday Ans: a b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday

7) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area completely at random. What are the odds that 5 consecutive cars of the same color will come through the test area at any one time? c) 1 in 16 ci) 1 in 12 cii) 1 in 32 ciii)1 in 25 8) 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 four 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) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85 9) Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it Ms RAPETEKA a) Bird b) Vegetable c) City d) Fruit 10) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 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 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 Ans: b b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 12.06

11) In the reading room of a library, there are23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a single reader? a) 8 Ans: d b) None c) 16 d) 15

12) 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 in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a) 20.72 b) Ans: b

5.18 c)

238.25 d) 6.18

13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. Ans: b 14) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 Ans: D 15) A research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75 sterilized cages for a certain set of laboratory experiments . To identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1 to 100 , by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requires that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius. Also , not more than 2 mice can be caged together and each cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times is the tag numbered '4' used by the lab in numbering these mice? a) 9 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21 Ans: b 16) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs Ans: a 17) Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of the following statement holds now? a) b) c) d) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumbler. There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumbler There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumbler None of the statements holds true.

18) Francois Pachet , a researcher at Sony Computer Science laboratories is also a jazz musician. He decided to build a robot able to improvise like a pro. Named Continuator, the robot can duet with a live musician in real- time. It listens to a musical phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between materials , labour and overheads in the ratio of 4:6:2.If the materials cost $108. the cost of the robot is a) $270 Ans: b b) $324 c) $216 d) $ 648

19) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour? a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42 20) A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph Ans: d b) 4 mph c) 4.8 mph d) 5 mph

21) Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up . The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month? a) $27 b) $ 18 c) $45 d) $ 486 22) Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are necessarily true? A. The points in P lie on a circle. B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than the distance between X and a point in P a) A and B b) Neither A nor B c) B only d) A only 23) In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras one for every 14 people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogates two suspects . The ratio between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55 years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7.? a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 5 24) Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block? a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71

25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true? a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy.

_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ 1.In the reading room of a library, there are 23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a roundtable with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spotthere are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do nothave even a single reader?a)8 b)none c)16 d)15 Solution: 23 reading spots, Each reading spot consists of 9 chairs placed around it so There are somereaders such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. For each tabledifferent no of persons are sat,so for first table 1 person is sit,2nd table 2 persons are sit 36 readersmeans(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 so 8 tables are filled so 23-8=15 reading spots does not have single reader. 2.A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is hisaverage speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y) 3.A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings ? a )16 b)56 c)112 d)28 Solution: 8c2 4.A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only 2 different tunes at random. What are the odds that the train produces for consecutive music tones of the same type? a) 1 in 16 B)1 in 4 c)1 in 8 d)1 in 32 Solution: initially it produces 10 sounds and the defect came and now it produces only 2 different sounds and consecutively so there are totally 2 sounds and we have to select on sound and the probability is and it produces the same sound consecutively for 2 times so the probability becomes *1/2 ie

5.A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only 2 different tunes at random. What are the odds that the train produces for consecutive music tones of the same type? a) 1 in 16 B)1 in 4 c)1 in 8 d)1 in 32 Solution: initially it produces 10 sounds and the defect came and now it produces only 2 different sounds and consecutively so there are totally 2 sounds and we have to select on sound and the probability is and it produces the same sound consecutively for 2 times so the probability becomes *1/2 ie 6. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boys a)1/64 b)1/32 c)1/128 d)1/256 7.John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged thecheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced.Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/lossfor shop keeper? a)loss 23 b)gain 23 c)gain 54 d)Loss 54 Solution: loss =change of money given to john(4$)+actual cycle cost 19$=23$ loss 8. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she takeout to make sure she has a pair of each color? a)50 b)8 c)60 d)42 Solution : 32r+24y+1y+1b+2b= 60 9.Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, wherein every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played ? a )257 b)256 c)72 d)255 Solution: perfect logic 2^8 10.There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all without repeat. How many handshakes possible? a)6 b)21 c)28 d)7 Solution :For handshakes type question i am confirming u that if the there are n members are there Handshakes are given in linear manner =n-1(last person cannot give hand shake to first person)Handshakes are given in cyclic manner =n(last person can give hand shake to first person)But i

do not know perfectly for repetition it is nc2 11. 20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made? a) 190 b) 210 c) 150 d)2502. 12.If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 20 two wheelers parked the area? a)48 b)50 c)52 d)64 Solution: proceed with answer is best in question they will give total no of wheels 13.A volume of 10936 l water is in a container of sphere. How many hemisphere of volume 4l each will be required to transfer all the water into the small hemispheres? a)2812 b)8231 c)2734 d)4222 14.A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 3 hours to reach the pony .If the average speed of the horse is 81Kmph.Then what is the average speed of the pony? a)46.4 b)51 c)53.4 d)48.6 Solution:Horse takes 3 hours to cover the distance Pony takes 3+2 =5 hours to cover the same distance, Velocity=distance/time, distance travelled by them is equal it is 81*3=243km,speed of pony=243/5=48.6 15. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tinyplanetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and therelationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jaganrecorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blastoccur? a) 17 b)21.25 c)12.25 d)14.05 Solution: radius =7mm,then diameter 2*radius,substitude diameter d in above equation u will get answer

16)Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrariin 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before movinginto production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company hasbeen noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employedgreat success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If thespeed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the totaltime taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Solution: speed of Ferrari =4*35=140,time=distance/velocity,

17)A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement nsays ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. Which statements are true and which arefalse? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. 18) If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisonedcan? a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1 19)In a hotel we can order two types of varities,but we can make 6 more variteis in home.One can choosethe four varities with two from hotel as must.Find how many ways one can order. a)14 b)15 c)56 d)28 20)Thebacteria has the probability of split into 3 and probability to die is 1/3rd of the total bacteria.Let theprobability is P.Some of them survived with probability 1/5.Then which among the following relation istrue? solution : P=1/3+1/5*3 b)P=1/5*(1/8-3) 21)How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if therepetition is allowed? a)57 b)56 c)59 d)58 22)Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? a)4 b)9 c)3 d)5 Solution: for answer solve via options 23)Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take onespoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of thefollowing statement holds now?a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblersb) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumblerc) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumblerd) None of the statements holds true Solution :think wisely and answer these are asked in my paper 2 or 3 questions 24)Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the restby a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number

of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in theplane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) isa)3 b)5 c) 2 d) Ans:For the minimum value the answer is 3 whatever the given no . of points. And for the maximum value the answer is the no. of points given in the question. 25)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) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans: 192 - Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9) 26)Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that tooleisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes inone direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. Bywhat factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5 Ans: 37.80 27)Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. Howmany programmers are needed? a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60 Solution: (men*time)/work)Ans: 10 This type of Q's repeated 3 times for me but values are different. 28)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 Bhanuwould like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes thisfor a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable tosubstitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play totheir optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 Solution : Simply substitute the following value for the given equation if the equation is X+Y+Z then substitute the value 11 if the equation is X*Y+Z then substitute the value 18 if the equation is X-Y-Z then substitute the value 2 Now the answer for the given question is 9 + 11=20 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 tothe 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 belowthe top coin (0

= i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The provisois that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turnsneither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn thenthe player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then find the valid game between alice and bob. a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move. c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move. d) Alice has no winning strategy.Ans: d 30)After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly intothe envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in animproper envelope? a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12 Ans: b

Though I completed my written on 28th sunday , I faced my second round on Technical Round on 30th morning at 10.30 AM. To accomplish TR , one should thorough with the basics of their subjects . Especially computing branches should thorough with C , C++, DataStructures, OS , DBMS and Java. My TR went for 50 mins where the first question is Tell me about yourself .Everyone should practice the tell me about yourself question for atleast 20 times. Because as it's the first question ur facing the way you answer impresses the hr as we know that first impression is the best impression. interviewer: Tell me about yourself me : answered well first my alma-mater, after my mini projects that I have done in my entire btech later about my family details. Please be thorough about your projects because some times the hr will ask only about your projects. interviewer: what your interesting subjects? me : I answered dbms. Interviewer : He asked me five queries and also about normalization , anamolies, ACID properties , joins. me : I answered almost all the questions. It was lasted for 20 mins interviewer: Later he asked me OS concepts like memory management topics like paging , deadlocks, Critical Section problem, Bankers algorithm , dining philosophers algorithm me : answered quite well interviewer: asked about my projects me : answered interviewer : why only tcs? me : answered interviewer : what are your weaknesses me : answered

I concluded my second round at 11.20 AM and waited for the result for 3 hours. Finally my result was displayed in notice board where I was selected to the third round. I faced my third round at midnight 11PM and also the last person in my college to face the interview and also the hr was also very cool and friendly. I completed my hr round with very confidently. And finally the result was announced on the next day and I was among the 301 students selected for tcs. Finally I want to glad the placement papers website which helped me a lot. One final message to the people who are going to attend the interviews be sure and confident with what you answer to the interviewer don't bother about your answer that is either correct or not answer confidently that is the key factor to face the interviews succesfully. Thank you Meet you in TCS and all the best. 1. For the kings revelry 30 barrels of beer have b een ordered . howerver, it was found that one of them is poisoned. The poison takes effect even if consumed in the tiniest amount after 14 hours. Yhou need to find within 24 hours the poisoned barrel and have at your disposal some beer guzzling mice. The smallest number of mice required to find the poisoned barrel is 1) 2 2) 1 3) 4 4) 3 hint: 2^n> no of barrels ans:4 2. Given a collection of points P in the plane a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e the pint lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P) . The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 15 points in the plane is 1) 5 2) 10 3) 15 4) 9 Ans: 15(Same as given number of points) 3. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints for men the formula n/P=190 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where n= number os steps per minute and P= CX in meters. Bernard knows his Pace Length is 104cm the formula applies to Bernards walking. Calculate Bernards walking speed in kmph. 4. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare I the other. The hare starts after the tortoise had coveredc 1/7 of its distance and that tooo leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor shoul the hare increase its speed so as to ties the reace?

8 41.00 56 7 Ans: 1/7, 1/8 7*8=56 56-7=49 49-8=41 49*41/7^2=41.00 5. Mr bean visited a magic shop and bought some magical marbles of different colours along with other magical items. While returning home whenever he saw a coloured light he took out marbles of similar colours and counted them. So he counted the pink coloured marbles and found that he has bought 25 of them . then he counted 10 green marbles and then 32 yellow marbles. He later counted 30 purple coloured marbles with him. But when he reached a crossing, he looked at a red light and started counting red marbles and found that he had bought 34 red marbles. As soon as he finished counting, it started raining heavily and by the time he reached home he was drenched. After reaching home he found that the red, green, and yellow marbles had magically changed colours and became white, while other marbles were unchanged . it will take 1 day to regain its colo9urs, but he needs to give atleast one pair of marbles to his wife so as to ensure that there is atleast one pair of red, yellow and green marbles? 70 42 68 40 Ans: 34+32+2=68 6. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40,80, 160..in tank B. 1/16 th of the tank B is filled in 21 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully? a) 26 (b) 25 (c) 5 (d) 27 7. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 20. For all values of n from 1 to 20. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? (a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. (b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

(c) The first 6 statements are true and the last 6 are false. (d) The first 13 statements are false and the last 13 are false. Ans. c Note: For this type of Questions, follow this: --At least- I'st half are true, Last half are false --Exactly- Last second one is true or (N-1)th Statement is true --Almost- All are true. 8. 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? Hint: m1*h1/w1=m2*h2/w2 9. 45 people {a1, a2, , a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, , {a11, a12}, {a12, 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) 12 (b) 10 (c) 18 (d) 15 Ans. d hint: ceiling[N/3] 10. 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. leftmost suspect is guilty. C. leftmost suspect is guilty (a) A only (b) A and C (c) A and B (d) B only ans: b

11. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + 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? Ans. 15+18 =33 Note: For this type of questions: x+y-z=11 x-y-z=2 x*(y+z)=18

12. How many four 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) 100 (b) 125 (c) 75 (d) 85 Ans:. 5^n-1= 5^4-1=125, n= no of digits 13. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*v (t9) for t = 9 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 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b)21.25 c)12.25 d)14.05 Ans: b 14. 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 in 1947 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 employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Ans: b 15. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? a)loss 23 b)gain 23 c)gain 54 d)Loss 54 Ans: a hint: 19+4=23

16. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played? a)257 b)256 c)72 d)255 And: d

17. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9 Ans: d 18. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 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 = 100). 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 its a players turn then the player wins the game. A. Alice has no winning strategy. B. Initially, the gold coins the third coin from the top. Then C. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 0-move. D. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 1-move. Ans. D 19. 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) 0 (b) 12/212 (c) 11/12 (d) 1/12 Ans. a 20. 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 ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 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) 72 (b) 432 (c) 12 (d) 144 Ans. b (This question is two times repeated in my question paper)

21. A circular dartboard of radius 2 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) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5 Ans: 0.25

22. Planet Fourfe resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape shile their coins are spherical. However the

coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins. A. The diamere of the coins should be at least 4 mm and not exceed 16mm. B. given a coin the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater. C. the diameter of the coin must always be na integer. You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with thers requirements and your goal is to desigh as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design? 1 2 4 3 Ans: 1 23. There are two boxes, one containing 24 red balls and the other containing 38 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 ball is maximized. This maximum probability is .50 .39 .69 .19 24. Subha patel is an olfactory scientist working for internation flavors and fragrances. She specializes in finding new scents recorded and reconstituted from nature thanks to living flower technology she has extracted fragraned ingredients from different flowering plants into bottles labeled citrus lilac, woody, anisic and casis . she has learned that a formula for a perfume is acceptable if and only if it does not violate any of the rules listed: if the perfume contains citrus, it must also contain anisic, and the amount of anisic must equal the amount of lilac. Woody cannot be used in combination with anisic. Anisic cannot be used in combination with casis. If the perfume contains casis, the amount of casis must be greater than the total amount of the other essence or essence used. Which of the following could be added to and unacceptable perfume consisting of two parts woody and one part casis to make it acceptable? 1. Two parts woody 2. One part lilac 3. One part citrus 4. Two parts casis Ans: Two parts casis 25. exp(m,n)= m to the power of n, if exp(10,m) = n exp(2,4),what is the value of n? (i dont remember the options) 26. The citizens of planet Oz are 6 fingered and thus have developed a number system in base 6. A

certain street in Oz contains 1000 buildings numbered from 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? Express your answer in base 10. Ans: 3 * n2=108 (n=6,....if n= number system given)

27. The dynamics of crowd behaviour are hard to study because usually people are not reliable witness of their own behaviour. Now consider 4 people standing in the queue of a supermarket. You want to predict their behaviour based on their age group. You get to know fro the supermarket records that their average age 3 years ago was 48 years. After a while, another person joins the queue and the present average of all the 5 is 46 years. The present age of the last person in the queue is: Ans: 26 years 28. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y) 29. A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he travelled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear? a) White b) Black c) Gray d) Brown Solution is: White. above all the matter is nonsense 30. In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in the 8th subject. what is the average of all the subject? a) 76.251 b) 80.25 c) 74.265 d) 74.625 Solution: Total marks=74*7=518, then average=(518+79)/8=74.625 31. A boy got 224 points out of 300, but he had to score atleast 79%. Now he has one more exam left with him how much he have to score in remaining exam to score atleast 79% if it is of 100 points.

Ans: 92 marks 32. The bacteria grows in exponential manner, the bacteria proportion at 3.00 P.M is 300 then at 7.00 P. M it raise to 153600. By how much will be the proportion of bacteria at 10.00 P.M? Ans: 39321600 (just solve it). 33. Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10 Solution: Calculate how many times 8,9,10 will come when we throw 2 dice, and answer 34. Bhanu spends 30% of his income on petrol on scooter. ? of the remaining on house rent and the balance on food. If he spends Rs.300 on petrol then what is the expenditure on house rent? a) Rs.525 b) Rs.1000 c) Rs.675 d) Rs.175 (ans 175) 35. 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 side of the square to radius to the circles. You may assume that squate toot of 2 is 1.4 (a) 13.90 :1 (b) 10.40 :1 (c) 11.80 :1 (d) 15.90 :1 Ans: b Explanation: (2+6root(2)) : 1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1) Technical Round... I had my technical round 7.45 P.M on 25th. It was about 20-25 minute. 1. Tell me about yourself ? 2. What is data structure expailn with real life example ? 3. Write a program for Ascending data structure ( that means sorting of array using any sorting technique. i wrote by using bubble sort) 4. Explain the logic behind it ? (had the long debate of 5-10 min on it.) 5. Write a program to swap the value two variables without using third variable.( wrote by simple logic but he wants different one.) 6. WAP to swap two variables with XOR ing of two variables(Wrote after giving hint by him). 7. What are ranges of int, unsigned int, float,long ? 8. What are the Extra curricular activites hav u done ?? 9. Do u hav any questions ?? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) Managerial Round: It was very cool for me. He didnt ask the hackneyed questions. He asked me about the favourite subject and busy in looking at my app form resume and the program the i wrote in previous interview. It was about 10-15 minutes.

1. So how u doing? 2. What is ur favourite subject ? 3. What is array? (Explained in deep...he said now I`ll not ask the techincal questions....) 4. tell me about ur family? 5. What is IT industry?

6. Who are famous personalities of IT industry? 7. Why should we Hire u? 8. Why TCS? 9. Do u hav any questions( had the debate.....). -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3) HR Round HR was also normal. it was about 7-10 minutes 1. Where do u live? 2. How often u go home?? 3. What u do in hostel in ur leisure time? 4. Asked about the extra curricular activities that i had mentioned in the resume? 5. Any plans for P.G? 6. Why TCS why not infosys?? 7. Are u ready for relocation?? 8. Are u ready to sign the bond of 2 years?? All three round were very cool and had free talk with interviewer.. the interviewers were very lenient. On 26th of august the results were declared at 1.15 A.M. We were at the college at midnight. And the results were banged on the notice board. My name was in that list. There were no bounds to my hapiness....It was the happeist moment of my life. _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________

1). 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 and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?

a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true. c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false. d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. Sol:- ans:c Trick:-* atleast- first half s true n rem s false * exactly: 1 statement s true and rest r false * atmost : all statement r true If given: 1)"At least n of the statements on this sheet are false" A)First half are true and last half are false. 2)"Exactly n statements on the sheet are false" A)Last but one is true and rest are false 3)"At least n of the statements on this sheet are true" A)In this case first x statements are true and remaining false. x can be any integer. you can get it in options. In this case it is 13. C is right. 2)Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1 ans:-5 3)A hare & a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter.the tortoise goes in 1 direction & hare in another.after the tortoise has covered 1/5th of its distance & that is too leisurely.the hare & tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 th of the distance.by what factor should the hare increase its speed so as it to tie the race? a)5 b)8 c)37.80 d)40

ans:-37.80 Trick:-look for da answr wid decimal. 4)QThe citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 buildings numbered 1 to 1000 in base 8. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?Express your answer in base 10 a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans:-192 Trick:-b/w 1 to 1000 3 appears 300 times.so ans is 3*8^2+0*8^1+0*8^0.

5)There are 40 barreals are there and one is poisoned. If a drop is consumed he will die in 14 hrs then how many least mice are required to find the poisoned barreal? sol:The option was not "1".Search for this question I left it. 6) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 50 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. 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 coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) In order to win, Alice first move should be a 0-move. b) In order to win, Alice first move should be a 1-move. c) Alice has no winning strategy. d) In order to win, Alice first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move

7)Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of the following statement holds now?

a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblers b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumbler c) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumbler d)None of the statements holds true ans:-(c) alws equal 8)Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed? a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60 b) Ans:-10 9)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)1/12 b)0 Ans: b 10). 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 * sqrt (t 8)for t = 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter? a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21 b) Ans:-16.smply put t=24 c)12/212 d)11/12

11)By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 12 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4, repetation of no. is allowed? Ans: (5)^11 Trick:-(5)^(n-1).n=no. of digits(12)

12)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) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 Ans:-20 Trick:-der r generally 3 types of eqtn:-N=N1+x+y-z. here add 11 to N1 n u get ur answr N=N1+x*(y-z) Here add 18 to N1 n u get ur answr N=N1+x-y-z. Here add 2 to N1 n u get ur answr.

The Q's concept is same but the equation of N's is changing.

13) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Sol:Formula is 2xy/(x+y)

14)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)A and C ans:-(b) A and B

15). 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 111cm. The formula applies to Bernards walking. Calculate Bernards walking speed kmph. Sol:-n/p=144,p=111 so n=144*111. N=speed in cm/min.cnvrt to kmph.approx9.6kmph Speed=144*111*60/100000

16)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. 2)a) 1:(2 + 7 3)b) 1:(4 + 7 2):1c) (2 + 7 d) 2) ( For me they changed 7 circles to 9 circles)1:(2 + 6

17)A lady has fine gloves and hats of different colours of hats in her closet-18 blue,32 red and 25 yellow.the lights are out and it is totally dark.In spite of thr ddarkness,she can make out of the difference which is hat and a glove.she takes an item out of the closet only if he sure that it is glove .how many gloves must she take out make sure that she has a pair of each color.

a)6 b)8 c)60 d)59 ans:-59

18)There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. 1/8 th of the tank B is filled in 22 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully?

a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27 b) Ans:-25

19)Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35 kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he took? Easy one try it.

20)) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false

Ans: A Trick given above.

21). 33 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 33 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? (ans is 11)

22) 10 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) 7 b) 6 Ans: c dis type of sum was also in some papers. c) 9 d) 8

23) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round, half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 ans:-2^8-1 matches=255 matches n 256 teams. 24)der was an 18 hr clock sum.dnt rembr xctly.do it nicly bcoz it coms evry year. 25) der was a sum on coins which increases by 150%.how many times can it be increased in a given range say 500-2000. Some ques. were repeated.Ques on Atleast, atmost n xactly no. of statements was repeated den da xprsn sum was repeated like N= N1+x+y-z kind of.Do min m of 31 n maxm 34 correct questns if u wanna succeed.If u hav any other queries u cn tak my help. 1. From a circular sheet of paper with a radius of 20 cm, four circles of radius 5cm each are cut out. What

is the ratio of the uncut to the cut portion? [1] 1 : 3 [2] 4 : 1 [3] 3 : 1 [4] 4 : 3 2. Two liquids A and B are in the ratio 5 : 1 in container 1 and in container 2, they are in the ratio 1 : 3. In what ratio should the contents of the two containers be mixed so as to obtain a mixture of A and B in the ratio 1 : 1? 3. Out of two -thirds of the total number of basket-ball matches, a team has won 17 matches and lost 3 of them. What is the maximum number of matches that the team can lose and still win three-fourths of the total number of matches, if it is true that no match can end in a tie? [1] 4 [2] 6 [3] 5 [4] 3 4. A closed wooden box of thickness 0.5 cm and length 21 cm, width 11 cm, and height 6 cm, is panted on the inside. The cost of painting is Rs 70. What is the rate of painting in rupees per sq. cm? [1] 0.7 [2] 0.5 [3] 0.1 [4] 0.2 5. If a number 774958A96B is to be divisible by 8 and 9, the values of A and B, respectively, will be: [1] 7,8 [2] 8,0 [3] 5,8 [4] None of these 6. Once I had been to the post-office to buy stamps of five rupees, two rupees and one rupee. I paid the clerk Rs 20, and since he did not have change, he gave me three more stamps of one rupee. If the number of stamps of each type that I had ordered initially was more than one, what was the total number of stamps that I bought? [1] 10 [2] 9 [3] 12 [4] 8 7. Given the quadratic equation x2 - (A - 3) x - (A - 2), for what value of A will the sum of the squares of the roots be zero? [1] - 2 [2] 3 [3] 6 [4] None of these 8. I sold two watches for Rs. 300 each, one at a loss of 10% and the other at a profit of 10%. What is the percent loss (- ) or the percent profit (+) that resulted from the transaction? [1] (+) 10 [2] ( -) 1 [3] (+) 1 [4] 0 9. The price of a Maruti car rises by 30% while the sales of the car came down by 20%. What is the percent change in the total revenue? [1] - 4 [2] - 2 [3] + 4 [4] 0

10. In triangle ABC, angle B is a right angle. If AC is 6 cm, and D is the mid-point of side AC, the length of BD is: A D BC [1] 4 cm [2] ? 6 cm [3] 3 cm [4] 3.5 cm DIRECTIONS for Questions 11 and 12: Answer the questions based on the following information:A, S, M and D are functions of x and y, and they are defined as follows: A(x, y) + x + y S(x, y) = x - y M(x, y) = xy D(x, y) = x/y, where y ? 0. 11. What is the value of M(M(A(M(x, y), S(y,x)), x), A(y, x)) for x = 2, y = 3 [1] 50 [2] 140 [3] 25 [4] 70 12. What is the value of S(M(D(A(a, b), 2), D(A(a, b),2)), M(D(S(a, b), 2), D(S(a, b),2))) [1] a + b [2] ab [3] a - b [4] a/b 13. In the figure O is the center of the circle and PT is the tangent to the circle at T. If PC = 4 cm and PT = 8 cm, find the radius of the circle. T BOCP [1] 5.5 cm [2] 6.5 cm [3] 6 cm [4] 7 cm 14. Which of the following value of x do not satisfy the inequality (x - 3x + 2 > 0) at all? [1] 1 ? ? ? 2 [2] - 1 ? x ? - 2 [3] 0 ? x ? 2 [4] 0 ? x ? - 2 15. A man travels three-fifths of distance AB at a speed of 3a, and the remaining at a speed of 2b. If he goes from B to A and back at a speed of 5c in the same time, then: [1] 1/a + 1/b = 1/c [2] a + b = c [3] 1/a + 1/b = 2/c [4] None of these Answer the questions based on the following data: A salesman enters the quantity sold and the price into the computer. Both the numbers are twodigit numbers. Once, by mistake, both the numbers were entered with their digits interchanged. The total sales value remained the same, i.e. Rs. 1148, but the inventory reduced by 54. 16. What is the actual price per piece? [1] 82 [2] 41 [3] 56 [4] 28

17. What is the actual quantity sold? [1] 28 [2] 14 [3] 82 [4] 41 In a locality, there are five small towns, A, B, C, D and E. The distances of these towns from each other are as follows: AB = 2km AC = 2 km AD > 2 km AE > 3 km BC = 2km BD = 4 km BE = 3 km CD = 2 km CE = 3km DE > 3 km 18. If a ration shop is to be set up within 2 km of each city, how many ration shops will be required? [1] 2 [2] 3 [3] 4 [4] 5 19. If a ration shop is to be set up within 3 km of each city, how many ratio shops will be required? [1] 1 [2] 2 [3] 3 [4] 4 Choose the best alternative: 20. The cost of a diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. Once, this diamond broke into four pieces with weights in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 : 4. When the pieces were sold, the merchant got Rs. 70,000 less. Find the original price of the diamond. [1] Rs. 1.4 lakh [2] Rs. 2.0 lakh [3] Rs. 1.0 lakh [4] Rs. 2.1 lakh 21. A cube of side 12 cm is painted red on all the faces and then cut into smaller cubes, each of side 3 cm. What is the total number of smaller cubes having none of their faces painted? [1] 16 [2] 8 [3] 12 [4] 24 22. The points of intersection of three lines, 2X + 3Y - 5 = 0, 5X - 7Y + 2 = 0, and 9X - 5Y - 4 = 0: [1] form a triangle. [2] are on lines perpendicular to each other. [3] are on lines parallel to each other. [4] are coincident. 23. If n is any odd number greater t han 1, then n(n - 1) is [1] divisible by 48 always [2] divisible by 24 always [3] divisible by 6 always [4] None of these Each item has a questions followed by two statements. Mark [1] if the question can be answered with the help of statement 1 alone Mark [2] if the question can be answered with the help of statement 2 alone. Mark [3] if the question can be answered with the help of both statements but not with the help of either statement alone. Mark [4] if the question cannot be answered even with the help of both the given statements.

24. What is the radius of the inscribed circle of triangle ABC? I. The area of the triangle is 20 cm II. The perimeter of the triangle is 20 cm. 25. What is the value of K? I. 9x + kx + 25 is the perfect square.

II. |k| = - k

26. Is the area of triangle ABC equal to that of triangle DEF? The triangles are inscribed in the same circle. I. Their perimeters are equal. II. The angles of triangles ABC are respectively equal to the angles of triangle DEF. 27. ABC is a right triangle, with the right angle at B. BD is the bisector of angle B. Is AD > DC? I. C = 40 II. Hypotenuse AC = 15 cm. 28. Which has the greater area: rhombus ABCD or square PQRS? I. Perimeter of rhombus = 8 and one angle measures 30. II. Perimeter of square = 4.

hi guys myself gaurav gupta c.s.e. 2008-12, A.Z.I.Tech. Kerala.........this time ques paper was quite different as compared to earlier ones......some ques have slipped out of my mind .....there were total 35 ques which had some verbal ques &ome from english .i remember some words like- foray,banal...........thats all i remember i got selected yahoooooooooooo.......... ALL THE BEST........see u in tcs.........

1. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/3 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/5 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? Ans. 4.40 2.How many 4 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2,3,4 ,5 ( but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Ans. 5^3 3. 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 in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari

. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a)20.72 b) 5.18 c)238.25 d)6.18 ans:(b)(time=distance/speed=953/4*46 4. keywords: alok, bhanu, want to maximize nd other want to minimize. 15+X*Y-Z For these type of ques, remember dis thumb rule.. X*Y-Z=18 X+Y-Z=11 X-Y-Z=2 here Ans: 15+18=33 This question was repeated three times in my paper. 5. 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 ans 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? ans 12 min prgrmr*min/ loc= prgmr *min/ loc This question was also repeated thrice. a) no of programer b) no lines of codes c) how much time they will take. 6. On a sheet of paper, there are 40 statements. Each n statement states that "Atleast n number of statements on this sheet is false". Then which of the following is true. ans first 20 statements are true and last 20 are false. This question was also repeated thrice.

a) Atleast wid false ans first 20 r true and last 20 r false.. b) Exactly wid true ans 39th z true nd rest r false c) Atmost wid true or false ans all statements r true 7.There are 6 circles on a diagonal of square such that their centre lie on diagonal. Consider that radius of each circle is equal. Find the ratio between side of square and radius of circle. 10r+ 2sqrt(2)r= sqrt(2)a nw find a/r. 8. There are 6 beer bottle nd one is poisoned. we have mice who will die within 14 hrs after drinkin poisned beer. In 24 hrs we have to find poisoned beer bottle. How many no of mice we require to find out poisoned bottle. options a) 6 b) 4 c) 3 d) 1 i hav not answered dis question 9. keyword: Alok Bhanu, stack of 20 coins. i move can play. dat z 1th move means to put top coin 1 postion below. gold coin. initialy gold coin is at 3rd position from top. if itz player turns nd player brings gold coin to the top then player z winner. alok starts. which of the following is true. a) alok must play 1th move to win. b) alok must play 0th move to win c) alok has no wining strategy ans (a) 10 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number? Ans:18 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)0 b)12/212 c)11/12 d)1/12 Ans:a (since 1 letter is in improper envelope other would definitely be in improper envelope) 12 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 ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a)3/4 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)1/2 ans:b (probability of selecting a box=1/2.now keep 1 red ball in box a and transfer 9 red balls to b,so probability=1/2(1+9/19) 13 On 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 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 9:40 am. a. 251 b.111 c.29 d.89 ANS: c For 12:40 am ans z 89 14 Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e. the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 9 points in the plane is a.10 b.9 c.3 d.5 ans: b ( m nt sure) 15. .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 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? 5 9 6 8

Ans: c(hint:first coin has length 64 mm,2nd coin diamter length 64+(50/100)*64,3rd coin 2nd coins diameter length+50/100 of 2nd coinds lenght,in that way go till you reach maximum diamter length 512!now think! 16. 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. 23.62 11.39 8.78 236.16 ans:a

17.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 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? 800 500 488 900 ans:side of cube = 5 cm its thichness = 1 cm so volume of outer cube = 5*5*5 volume of inner cube = 3*3*3 volume of the hollow cube = 5*5*5 - 3*3*3 = 98 so total no of small cubes of the size 1 cm = 98/1*1*1 = 98 we know a cube has 6 faces so total no of face = 98*6 = 588 one surface of outer cube contains a total of 25 surface of smaller cube , so when 4 surface of outer cube is painted total no of surface of small cubes i.e supposed to be painted is 4*25 = 100 so the total no of surfaces of small cube that will be remained unpainted is 588-100 = 488 no of faces remain unpainted: 588-( 25* no faces painted) 18. 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 . A only B only Neither A nor B Both A and B 19. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if

it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? a)50 b)8 c)60 d)42 ans:60 There can be lots of logic for this, but approach the simplest one so that we approach to one of the solutions. Suppose the lady first picks 32 Red gloves, and then 24 Yellow gloves. The next pair she pics will be one Yellow and One Blue which does not make a pair. The next two will be blue gloves. So she make a total of 32+24+1+1+2 = 60 picks. 20. 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]Thursday b]Tuesday c]Sunday d]Monday ANS:: Thursday Explanation : On Thursday, Dwarf says truth. i.e Yesterday(Wednesday) was one of those days when I lies. Its true. On the other hand, On Thursday, Byte lies. i.e Yesterday(Wednesday) was one of those days when I lie too. Its a lie.... So both satisfied. Hence its Thursday. 21 The citizens of planet nigiet are 5 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 5) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? Express result in terms of base 10. a) 54 b)64 c) 75 d) 100 I didnt ans it.. For base 8.. (8^2)*3 i dont know how to xpress it base 10 Out of 35 question i had attempted 33 question nd cut off was around 27. Accuracy matters. Put R. S. Aggarwal in ur drawer. For TCS RS Aggarwal is not required. Technical Interview On next day first we had PPT by TCS. TCS recruiters were 3 hrs late :D We were divided into IT and ITIS. IT is core progarmin nd ITIS networkin nd cloud computin etc etc. i waz selected for IT. Please Please take complete sleep before interview day. My name was called at 8:20 pm about 15 times and i was listening to music in my hostel room at fifth floor 63 stairs above ground ( i was exhuasted upto 8 pm dats y dis rest helped me a lot) Special Thanx 2 Akash as he called on my mobile. When I reached there collecting my breathe, luckily it waz dinner

time at 9.20pm. TR call me. TR: ( he opened door for himself as well as for me) aao... kya naam hain aapka.. ( he asked me in hindi) Me: told TR: aao batho.. Me: Thnk, Sir. Good Evening, Sir TR: aapne dinner kara Me: Yes Sir, Mane dinner kara.. TR: Kya bana tha Me: told (actuly i didnt eat my dinner, it waz just a fruit n nut choco) TR: Tell me about yourself Me: told ( he noticed my hobbie) TR: Elaborate ur hobbie Me: told TR: What are ur major subjects?? Me: C, C++, SE, DBMS ( he noted it down) TR: tell me about your project. ye aapne khud kiya hain ya banwaya hain ya bas padh ke aaye ho.. Me: told TR: ( completely satisfy nd smiled) gud. explain joins.. ME: told TR: write query for joins Me: Sorry Sir, I dont remeber it rite nw ( confidently) TR: Ok, koi baat nahi. expalin ACID properties of DBMS. Me: told wid example TR: What have u read in SE??? ME: told TR: gud.. Why should we hire you?? Me: told TR: If i reject you in this interview, wht would u do??? Me: ( lose confidence, but regain it widin fractions of second) told TR: What are ur limitations in this interview??? ME: Nothing

TR: ( Smiled nd give a nod ) okay m finished.. thank ME: thank ( still sit) Sir, May i ask you question??? TR: Yes why not... bolo kya baat hain... Me: Wht would be my work profile?? TR: told ( he showed me a ppt which had just received from a client) Me: May i kno ur intro??? TR: told ( he z a very very xprncd person) if i know it before my interview might be i waz nervous before him.. Me: Thank you Sir, Nice to meet u TR: Same here At 9.30 am next day, TR result was declrd and i was in HR. HR round: She is a young lady, perhaps 27 or 28, but her face waz expresionless. Again, I waz expectin dat my HR would be around 10 am. But i waz called at 9.35 am. i waz not prepared for it at dat tym. It proved beneficial for me. NEVER CRAM ANYTHING FROM UR CV. one of my friend lost dis oppurtunity only due to it. HR: Tell me about yourself?? Me: told ( noticed hobbie) HR: Tell me about ur hobbie?? Me: told HR: What ur career objective?? Me: told HR: Where do u see urself after 10 yrs??? Me: Told HR: relocation, bond etc??? ME: close ur ear, eye, nose nd say yes ( if u want dis job) Me: Ma'am ur intro??? HR: told Me: ask sum personal question ( nothin deep personal, only bout her job) HR: told ( it waz d last nd first tym she smiled during whole placement process while interviewing other students) Me: Thanku ma'am, nice to meet u. Hr: same here. At 7 pm, I got my first job nd again it waz informed by my friend while i waz taking nap. :)

Note: For ITIS, study CN, OS nd ur project. For IT, Java, c,c++ nd ur project. For toppers, u vil be put in IT nd Recruitment team head will take ur interview. It is d test of maintain cool, confidence and spontaneity. Never lose hope. If it would nt hire u den another one vil hire u.

glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? ans.- Here the tricks is at first take the ball is max. and then take second max. no. and 2. here ans is 32+25+2. 27.- A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he travelled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear? ans.- ans is white bear. Thats all I have attend 34 questions and I just cleared my aptitude test. now my interview is on 7th jan. I have my interview of about 30 min. he just asked every thing from me. don't get tensed just give all the answer confidently. my HR and technical question is 1.- Why TCS? 2.- Whats ur week point and strength. 3.- What the question u got from the students. 4.- Draw the circuit diagram of induction motor. 5.- What is short term and long term sheduling. 6.- What is the diff. between malti tasking and multithreading. 7.- Who is the owner of microsoft and linux. 8.- Proof the equivalant resistance of parellel circuit. 9.- Name the os which have u used in ur life. 10.-What is pointer and panildrom.write program. ______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________
Q1) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e. the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e. no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2

Q2) Paul the octopus who has been forecasting the outcome of FIFA world cup matches with tremendous accuracy has now been invited to predict ICC world cup matches in 2011. We will assume that the world cup contenders have been divided into 2 groups of 9 teams each. Each team in a group plays the other teams in the group. The top two teams from each group enter the semi finals (after which the winner is decided by knockout). However, Paul has a soft spot for India and when India plays any team, Paul always backs India. Alas, his predictions on matches involving India are right only 2 out of 3 times. In order to qualify for the semi finals, it is sufficient for India to win 7 of its group matches. What is the probability that India will win the ICC world cup? a) (2/3)^10 b) (2/3)^9 + 8/3 * (2/3)^9 c) 8/3 * (2/3)^9 d) (2/3)^10 + 8/3*(2/3)^9 Q3) A toy train produces at least 10 different tunes when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 meters at 10 meters per minute. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only two different tunes at random. What are the odds that the toy train produces 4 consecutive music tunes of the same type? a) b) c) 1 in 16 1 in 4 1 in 8

Q4) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21. What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D? a) 13 b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42 (solution:c) Q5) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulate a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

Q6) One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal 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 Alice pal. 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) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday (solution:a) Q7) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area completely at random. What are the odds that 5 consecutive cars of the same color will come through the test area at any one time? a) 1 in 16 b) 1 in 125 c) 1 in 32 d) 1 in 25 Q8) 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 four 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) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85 Q9) Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it Ms RAPETEKA a) Bird b) Vegetable c) City d) Fruit Q10) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 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 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 12.06 (solution:b)

Q11) In the reading room of a library, there are23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a single reader? a) 8 b) None c) 16 d) 15 (solution:d) Q12) 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 in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 6.18 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) (solution:b)

Q13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. (solution:d) Q14) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 (solution:d) Q15) A research lab in Chennai requires 100 mice and 75 sterilized cages for a certain set of laboratory experiments. To identify the mice, the lab has prepared labels with numbers 1 to 100, by combining tags numbered 0 to 9. The SPCA requires that the tags be made of toxin-free material and that the temperature of the cages be maintained at 27 degree Celsius. Also, not more than 2 mice can be caged together and each cage must be at least 2 sq.ft in area. The 5 experiments to be conducted by lab are to be thoroughly documented and performed only after a round of approval by authorities. The approval procedure takes around 48 hours. How many times the tag is numbered '4' used by the lab in numbering these mice? a) 9 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21 (solution:b) Q16) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B.( At the

end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs (solution: a) Q17) Consider two tumblers, the first containing one litre of coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following statement holds now? a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumbler. b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumbler c) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumbler d) None of the statements holds true. Q18) Francois Pachet, a researcher at Sony Computer Science laboratories is also a jazz musician. He decided to build a robot able to improvise like a pro. Named Continuator, the robot can duet with a live musician in real- time. It listens to a musical phrase and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between and then computes a complementary phrase with the same playing style. If the cost of making the robot is divided between materials, labour and overheads in the ratio of 4:6:2.If the materials cost $108. the cost of the robot is a) $270 b) $324 c) $216 d) $ 648 (solution:b) Q19) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour? a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42 Q20) A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4 mph c) 4.8 mph d) 5 mph (solution:d) Q21) Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These

seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up . The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month? a) $27 b) $ 18 c) $45 d) $ 486 Q22) Given a collection of 36 points P in the plane and a point equidistant from all points in P, which of the following are necessarily true? A. The points in P lie on a circle. B. The distance between any pair of points in P is larger than the distance between X and a point in P a) A and B b) Neither A nor B c) B only d) A only Q23) In the year 2002, Britain was reported to have had 4.3m closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras one for every 14 people in the country . This scrutiny is supposed to deter and detect crime. In one criminal case, the police interrogates two suspects . The ratio between the ages of the two suspects is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 6:5 and the sum of their ages is 55 years. After how many years will the ratio be 8:7.? a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 5

Q24) Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block 3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block? a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71 Q25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true? a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy. Q26) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160.if B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours

After half an hour our results have been announced. Its very exciting moment when they declare the names list in the alphabetical order. I start praying to GOD for being selected. Finally my name was announced and I am so excited that I have cleared first round. Then we start preparing for technical round by filling the employment form given by TCS and we start dressing ourselves but I have no tie and I searching for tie from my friends. And I start finding my friend Sunny who have extra tie when I go upstairs and search him. I found that my name had been announced there and still I had not found my friend for tie. And the volunteer that our juniors force me to go immediately to the panel for technical round. I got inside the conference hall many interviewers are sitted on different panels and take the technical rounds simultaneously. When I got inside one sir give me the path to go the middle panel for interview and I reached there. Now I pleasantly wish good afternoon to him. HR: Good Afternoon. Have a seat. Tell m something about yourself. Me: I told about me, my hobbies, and my interests. HR: OK.As you have mentioned u know C++, java Me: yes sir. HR: tell me the basic difference between C++ and java. Me: A basic difference is pointers. In java there are no pointers while in C++ there is pointer. In java there is no multiple inheritances while in C++ there is. HR: what are multiple inheritances? Me: explained with diagram and i explained about some virtual functions. HR: What is TCP? Me: its the connection oriented protocol and some more points learn about it. HR: draw TCP/IP model. Me:i draw it completely also explained about some points about it. I explain IP. HR: ask about IP and their types. Me: told some point about IP4 and IP6. HR: you have mentioned Oracle also? Me: yes sir, HR: what is oracle? Me:it is database software and some more told about it. HR: ask difference between delete, truncate, drops. Me:i explained only about delete and drop. I forget about truncate. Sir I am not sure about truncate. Please prepare well

HR: ok.tell me about your experience about your life. Me: told my strong points about my struggled life. HR: why do you want to join TCS? Me: Sir, It is one of the toppest IT company around the world. Its my dream company. Also my friends and seniors suggest me to join TCS.It has global exposure for overall improvement HR: Do you have any questions? Me: Yes, What do you think about me and weakness points? HR: Be cool and calm and dont be nerous.Because in future you have to face lot of problems. You are an honest person. Ok you may go now. Me: thank you. Sir Then I come out from the hall and i got so worried about my result because i have given average performance in this round. I prayed to GOD for the best of me. And finally the technical list has been declared and heart beats got higher and higher. Finally my name was announced at last and I take long breathe thanks god that i got selected. Then i find my friend and got tie of light pink color. And start preparing for HR round. We start learning some points about TCS about their members, chairman [Ratan Tata] CEO [Natarajan Chandrasekharan], their tag line. Experience Certainty" Then i call for the HR round at about 7:00 pm evening. I wished him good evening. He pleasantly shakes hands with me and start interview. HR: tell me something about yourself. Me: again told about myself to him. My hobbies, good points. HR: Tell me something about our family. Me: old about my family members. My father's and mothers occupation. HR: Do you about the bond? Me: Yes sir, it is bond signed for 2 years otherwise the penalty fees is Rs.50, 000 HR: ok .fine you may go now. Me: thank you Sir. And finally the results come out on 17 Jan 2011 at 7 pm. There is list of selected students in TCS. My friend told me that you have selected I TCS. Thats the moment when my dreams come true to be a TCSer

This is my story about my experiences on campus drive. Hope you will also get selected in TCS. All the best for your future. Good Bye Q1. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b) 7 c) 8 d) 9 Solution: Let the number be x, ((1/2)*x)=3+(1/6)*x, Then solve x Q2. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required to fill it completely? a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27 Solution: for every hour water in tank in B is doubled, Let the duration to fill the tank B is x hours. x/32 part of water in tank of B is filled in 21 hours, Next hour it is doubled so, 2*(x/32) part i.e (x/16) part is filled in 22 hours, Similarly (x/8)th part in 23 hours,(x/4)th part is filled in 24 hours, (x/2)th part is filled in 25 hours, (x)th part is filled in 26 hours So answer is 26 hours. Q3. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boys a) 1/64 b) 1/32 c) 1/128 d) 1/256 Solution: Probability of a boy or girl is So for remaining 6 its {1/2}^6= 1/64 Q4. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 14 blue, 20 red, and 18 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? a) 50 b) 8 c) 40 d) 42 Solution: This is the most repeated question in Tcs so prepare it well. It has no logic but its answer comes like this Firstly add 2 max values i.e 20+18=38 Then add 2 to answer i.e. 38+2=40 so this is the answer. Q5. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that coin shows correct option? a) 1/2 b) 1/6 c) 1/12 d) 6/10 Solution is . Q6. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form

of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9 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 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05 Solution: radius =7mm, then diameter 2*radius, substitude diameter the in above equation you will get answer Q7. 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 in 1947 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 employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Solution: Speed of Ferrari =4*35=140,time=distance/velocity, Q8. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7 Solution: Will be 5. For 31p, we divide it 1,2,4,8,16. Q9. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? a) loss 23 b) gain 23 c) gain 54 d) Loss 54 Solution: 23 loss as he has to pay 35 dollar to neighbor he has only 31 remaining so 35-31=4 and cycle costs 19 dollar so total loss=19+4=23 dollar Q10. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisened if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisened can? A) 3 B) 2 C) 6 D) 1 Solution: 1 Because in that problem they didn't mention the details like,one mice take 2 hr or 3hr etc. They told only 24 hr to test. So 1 mice is enough rest are useless words. Q11. A Sheet of paper has statements number from 1 to 20. Statement n says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true". Which statements are true and which are false.

a. The even no statements are true and the odd no statements are false. b. The 1st 13 statements are false and rest are true. c. The 1st 6 statements are true and rest are false d. The odd no statements are true and even no. are false. Solution: This type of question was repeated 3 times but for different case. For this type of Questions, follow this: At least- Ist half are true, Last half are false Exactly- Last second one is true or (N-1)th Statement is true Almost- All are true. So correct answer is (C) Q12. On 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 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 12:40 am. Solution: 89 deg 36 hours a day mane the clk will be of 18 hours. 18 hours covrs 360 deg Thus 1 hour covrs 20 deg 12 hours covers 12*20=240 deg ekhon,1 hour in 90 min thus in 90min the hour hand goes 20deg tai, for 1min hr hand goes 2/9deg sei jonne, for 40 min hour hnd goes (2/9)*40deg=80/9deg=9deg(approx) thus hr hand covrs total of 240+9=249deg now min hand covrs=40*4=160deg (karon, 90min=360deg 1min=4deg) hus angle betwn them 249-160=89deg Q13. There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that is not needed for the question) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac Solution: First is acceptable for perfume since balsamic and liliac are given to be present and second is also acceptable as lemon can be added with any of four, third is also acceptable as given in question left fourth is not acceptable as MI mosaic is always with woody and balsamic is always with liliac. Therefore combination of MI mosaic and liliac cant occur because woody and balsamic are never together Q14: Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + 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? Note: For this type of questions: x+y-z=11 x-y-z=2 x*(y+z)=18 What should be the approach to do such type of prob? Solution: This question was repeated 3 times for different cases Yeah TCS has this 3 type of questions where there is x+y-z,=11 x-y-z ==2 and x*(y+z)=18 If an integer is added to any of the above equations just add the integer to the value of the equations. For example in this case it would be 15+18=33. (don't ask me for explanations why this value comes for those equations. It took me some gruelling sessions to understand that) Q15. Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler. Which one of the following statement holds now? a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblers b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumbler c) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumbler d)None of the statements holds true Solution: a There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water Q16. Shreya writes 1st 100 whole num. let A and B be the num of times she writes 0 and 9 respectively, find the value of A+B Solution: First 100 whole nos=0 to 99. thus A=no.of 0's=(0,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90)=10 B=no. of 9's=(9,19,29,39,49,59,69,79,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99)=20 A+B=30 Q17. When my uncle died, he left a will instructing his executers to divide his estate of 19,80,000 in this manner.Every son should receive 3 times as much as a daughter and that evry daughter should get twice as much as their mother. what is my aunt's maximum share if my uncle has atleast one son and one daughter? (a) 19,80000 (b) 9,90,000 (c) 3,30,000 (d) 2,20,000 (e) 1,98,00 Solution: 1+2+6=9 1980000/9=220000

220000(mother) 440000(daughter) 1320000(brother) Answer is 220000(d) Q18. There are 3 boys A,B,C and 2 girls D,E. D always sit right to A.girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. who is sitting immediate right to E? Solution: ADBEC right of e is c Now come to interview part: Technical Interview: Only thing you need to keep in mind while interviewing is you should be confident while replying. And English is must. Ok so as I am a Electronics student Ill suggest some topics from which interviewer asks questions: 1. Digital electronics basic 2. Diodes basic 3. Terms like amplifier, IC, filter just their definition 4. C/C++ 5. Different between 8085 and 8086 6. Communication basics 7. 1G, 2G, 3G, GSM, CDMA etc just basics 8. OSI layer model 9. LAN, WAN, MAN 10. Router and Topologies, TCP/IP model. Be confident while replying and prepare technical well. Dont go in deep just take overview of all subjects. HR round: Then for HR interview you must prepare yourself well. Some key questions that are asked are: 1. Strengths, weakness, Ans: You should prepare your strengths and weakness a few days earlier from interview. And you should also make examples of your strengths and weakness. Like when you say you are a good learner then you should be capable of giving a relevanr real life example where you can say you was a good learner. 2. Hobbies Ans: Dont make fake hobbies. Always make real hobbies that you actually do in free time. Because they are going to ask a lot of questions from your hobbies part. Like my hobbies include Photography so they asked me which camera do you use, features of that camera, latest photo you shoot, what you do with the photos, etc. So be prepare.

3. Extra co-curricular activities Ans: Explain work you have done apart from your studies. 4. Tell me about yourself: Ans: Tell your whole Bio data and try to bring fluency while speaking about yourself. 5. What experience do you have in this field? 6. What do you know about this organization? Ans: This is most important part. You should search about TCS and know latest happenings, awards won by TCS and a little history of TCS. You can go to www.wikipedia.org for that information. 7. Are you a team player? 8. Why should we hire you? Ans: Here also you need to tell your strength. And how company is going to benefit from it. 9. What is your greatest strength? 10. Tell me about your dream job? 11. What is more important to you: the money or the work? 12. Are you willing to work overtime? Nights? Weekends? 13. Would you be willing to relocate if required? 14. Do you have any questions for TCS? Ans: This is also important to ask a question at last of the interview so prepare a question in your mind before going to interview. And never ask about Payscale, working hours and all these cheap thinkings that comes in your mind. You can go for socialism if you like social services. And many other questions are there. But what is more important is, to ask a question because that shows your interest in company. Last point Finally I would say that you should prepare yourself for HR interview few days earlier by having interviews with your friends and preparing for questions. Remember one thing friends dont create fake hobbies/strengths otherwise theyll caught you. Common yaar they are doing all India recruitment you cant lie with them. They have got experience in this interviewing field. Ok friends I think thats sufficient. Only thing that I would like to say is that: Sucess is the first thing that should always be in your mind 1) How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? 5^(n-1) Can you help Alok find the answer? a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85

2) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t 9where 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 12mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12 d) 12.06 Ans: c

3) 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 in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 Ans: b b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

4) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the
rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 26 hrs Ans: a b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs

5)There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/16 filled after 4 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 8hrs Ans: a b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs

6) Unnecessary data. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red , 10 white , 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30 orange. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow? a) 59 b) 8 c) 50 d) 42

Ans: a(32+25+2)

7) 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 ans 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) 6

b) 18 c) 72 d) 12

Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2) 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 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 256 Ans: d 9) 12 people {a1, a2, , a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, , {a11, a12}, {a12, 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) 12 Ans: B 10) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 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 = 100). 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 its a players turn then the player wins the game. A. Alice has no winning strategy. B. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then C. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 0-move. D. In order to win, Alices first move should be a 1-move. Ans: D b) 4 c) 18 d) 11 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108

11) 10 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)7 Ans: c 12) 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) 0 Ans: a 13) 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. leftmost suspect is innocent . C. leftmost suspect is guilty a) A only Ans: c 14) 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 b) A or C c) A or B d) B only b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8

a) 4 b) 3 c) 0 d) 1 Ans: a 3 lines are given so ans is 4 one incenter and 3 excenters. If it is 3 line segments then ans would be 1 15) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression - N = 15 + 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

Ans: 15+18 =33 16) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the 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 the win the race?(for this values are changed) a) 8 b) 5 c) 37 d) 80

Ans: c 17) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45. For all values of n from 1 to 45, statement n says At most n of the statements on this sheet are false. Which statements are true and which are false? A. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. B. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. C. All statements are true. Ans: c 18) 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 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 900 b) 488 Ans: c 19) 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 ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 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) 72 Ans: b 20) The teacher is testing a students proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? a) 12 Ans: b b) 18 c) 6 d) 21 b) 432 c) 12 d) 144 c) 563 d) 800

Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N=XYZ 21) 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) 2 Ans: a 22) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km, Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier). Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr Ans: 16.5km/hr. 23) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning? a) 5 red and 1 blue faces. b) 1 red and 5 blue faces. c) 3 red and 3 blue faces. Ans: c 24) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40? a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89 Ans: 89 Technical and managerial Round: 1. Programs on Fibanoci, Reversing a string, sorting techniques normally and by using double pointers, programs on pointers, swapping normally and by using pointers. 2. Difference between C and C++? b) 4 c) 9 d) -18

3. Inheritance, polymorphism? 4. Why do we use header files, how are they created? HR1.About urself? 2. r u mobile? 3. Why TCS??