Hi

I'm Nagarjuna Reddy. I've completed my MCA. I've taken my TCS Test on 07th October 2006 at
Kohinoor Park, Hyderabad. It's a large recruitment drive. I'm eagerly waiting for results now and
confident of making it into TCS in my first attempt for job itself.

I got SET Y. Almost all the quantitative questions of this set are same as of previous papers. Only
values got changed. Any how here I'm giving you all of those questions which I got in my paper.

Test Pattern:

As usual, totally three sections

1. Verbal (32 marks --> Synonyms-10, Antonyms-10, Sentence Completion-6, Comprehension

passage-6)

2. Quantitative and logical reasoning (38 marks)

3. Critical Reasoning (12 marks) (3 problems each having 4 questions)

Totally 82 questions and 90 minutes is the time limit. (Almost 1 min per question)

Section-1: Verbal

Synonyms: Some are from Barron's high frequency words list

Antonyms: GRE Barron's 13th edition Model papers (given as it is)

Sentence Completion: A passage has been given with 6 blanks in it. 9 choices have been given.
We've to fill that passage with appropriate 6 options. Beware that 3 options were given additionally.
Don't get confuse here. Ch etan aS

Comprehension passage: Barron's 15th edition Comprehension passage exercise C. page no: 98.
(Like her white friends, Eleanor Roosevelt and Aubre Williams, Mary Bethune believed in the
fundamental commitment of the new deal...). My friends said that the same passage has been given
in SET Z also.
Section-2: Quantitative and Logical Reasoning

1. Complete the series 26, 19, 17, 13, 11,--, 8, 7 (Ans: 10- not sure).

2. Convert the decimal number 562 into base 7. (Ans: 1432)

3. If QJFBTF is coded as PLEASE then HBJO can be coded as --------

(Ans: GAIN)

4. a) SQL Server b) Ingress c) Oracle d) DB2 e) JAVA

5. a) SMTP b ARP c)WAP d)HTTP e)BAAN

6. Which of the following is exact power of 4

a) 4192 b) 4096 c) d) e)

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in a 6 bit register.
Ans: 61

8. Which will give good standard deviation?

a). 4,0,-4,0,4 b) 4,-4,4,-4,4 c) 4,4,4,4,4

9. Which shape will be obtained by using the following values for X and Y
X 0 10 100 1000 9999
Y 0.00001 1.02 1.72 3.00 4.72
10. What are the number of edges, number of vertices and number of faces of a planar cube among
the following options?

a) 6, 6, 6 b) 4,8,12 c) 12, 8, 6 d) .. e)..

11. What is the value of the following expression M(373,5)+T(7.7)+R(4.4)-T(3.6) http://

where M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE
(Ans: 11)

12. What is the value of the expression % # % (6) + # % # (6)

Where % means DOUBLING and # means RECIPROCAL (Ans: 19/6)

13. Match the following

A B

1. GEAR, VEHICLE 1. TYPE OF

2. BASMATI, WHEAT 2. A PART OF
3. BROTHER, SISTER 3. NOT A TYPE OF
4. BREIGAL, DOG 4. SIBLING
ANS: 1-> 2 2->1 3->4 4->3

14. If G(0) = -1 G(1)= 1 and G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2) then what is the value of G(6)?

(Ans: -3)

15. If A= 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

B= 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1

C= 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

Then find the value of [A U C] U B and express it in decimal.

(Ans: 151)

16. Three companies are working independently and receiving the savings 20%, 30%, 40%. If the
companies work combinely, what will be their net savings?

17. Which of the following straight lines are perpendicular to each other?
1)2x+y=8 2)x=4 3)y=6 4)2y=x+3
a)1, 3 b)2, 3 c)1, 4 d)3, 4 e)None

(Solution: Write the equations in x+y+c=0 form. Multiply the coefficients of x terms and coefficients
of y terms of any two given equations and add them. If the result is zero, then those two lines are
perpendicular. Here in this problem, those two equations are 1 and 4)

18. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/2 + 4t + 12 (Read is as: t square /2 +
4t +12), where t is elapsed time. Find how much percentage of temperature is increased (or
decreased) between 5pm and 8pm.

19. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square
root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much more memory is
required now?
a) 1.0% b)2.6% c)0.5% d)1.4% e)2.7%

20. A power unit is there by the bank of a river of 900 meters. A cable is made from power unit to
power a plant opposite to that of the river of 2000mts. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 5/-
per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs. 4/- per meter. Then find out the amount to be
invested to connect those two stations.

21. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then how
many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?
(Ans: 13)

22. A sequence of letters is given. We've to find out how many V's are there under the condition
that, S should be followed by V and should not be followed by F....

V,S,F,T,W,E,L,B,V,S,L,L,K,S,M,S,V,F,L,S,D,I,.... Like that.

(I got 4 as answer)

23. In a two-dimensional array, X (7, 9), with each element occupying 8 bytes of memory, with the
address of the first element X (1, 1)=3000; find the starting address of the element at X (5,8).

24. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, fifth and sixth, etc words
are interchanged, what would be the 12th letter from right? (Ans: 'A')

25. A Flight takes off at 4 A.M from North-East direction and travels for 7 hours to reach the
destination in the North-West direction. Some latitude and longitude of source and destination
given. Find the local arrival time of destination? (I don't know how to find it)

26. Four 2X2 matrices were given. We've to find out which of them is a singular matrix? (Hint: try
for which matrix det(A) becomes zero (ad-bc).

27. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance)

a) Newton b) Mass c) Force d).. e)..

28. Based on a Venn diagram. 3 problems were given. All are so easy. No need to worry.

29.

30.

31. A bar chart was been given. Two questions based on this. Easy ones. Don't fear.

32.

Section-3: Critical Reasoning

Questions 1 to 4: Small University and Large University problem of GRE Barron's 13th edition. This
can be found in the model papers.

Three persons J, K, L belongs to Small University with some subjects like English, Mathematics and
Electronics assigned to them. M, N, O and P belongs to small university and M deals Maths, N deals
Psychology. O and P have been assigned Latin. Then four questions based on this data. Its so easy.
(Not same data, but names of persons are same and pattern is also same).

Even no need to do any arrangements with the given data to solve problems based on this. We
need to just write down the given data in a conventional form. That's all. We can answer the
questions very easily.

Questions 5 to 8: A group of 5 people A, B, C, D, E are there.

A knows Telugu and Hindi.

B knows Oriya and Malalayalam
C knows Telugu and Malayalam
D knows English and Oriya.
E, who is a native of Andhra Pradesh, also can speak Oriya.

(Not same assignments, but pattern is same)

Q1. If A and B need to communicate, whose help they should take. (Ans: C, Since C know one
language of A and another language of B... like this)
Q2. Among all of these languages, what are the languages that are known to many people?
(Ans: Telugu-3 and Oriya-3)

The questions are like that. Even there is no need to do any arrangements are also. So, no need
to worry about this section also.

Questions 9 to 12: Sorry. Third passage I didn't remember it. Even I didn't get time to see it. But it
seems to be some what difficult. I didn't have time to answer this question, so I left it.

Also I want to share a few more details with all of you regarding the TCS test. I thought of it to be
online test. But because it was a large recruitment drive, they are not capable of conducting online
test for that many numbers of aspirants. It was manual test.

And coming to the test, for verbal section, GRE Barron's of any edition is enough. And for
Critical Reasoning, Barron's 12th or 13th is enough. Then finally, for Quantitative section, the same
problems will be given with only changes to the data. These problems can be solved by even a 7th
class student also. But the thing here is the Time Factor. How fast we are able to do them is the
thing here. The same problems can be given every time. So don't neglect to solve each and every
problem of previous papers, if you want to crack TCS test. After that, try to improve the speed in
solving the problems. If you do so, I'm sure that you'll be half way into TCS, one of the top IT firm
in the world

Hey

I was asked to appear for the TCS Recruitment process for the first round a few days back. I was
sent a username and password and asked to log on to the a website and fill in a few more details
and then generate a Hall Ticket ( PDF ) format. I took 2 prints of the hall ticket and 2 copies of my
resume along with me. A photo identification proof is also required ( Driver's License / Voters ID /
College ID card / Passport etc)

The test was an Online Test consisting of 3 phases as usual. The first round was a General English
round with Antonyms and Synonyms. The second round was General Aptitude and qualitative
analysis and finally the 3rd round was Critical Reasoning.

Since the test was an online test I might not be able to remember some of the questions.. but heres
what I can recall

Vocabulary
Candid
Buxom
Mollify
Hallow
Tantamount
Degrade
Wastrel
Equanimity
Assuage
Retrospective
Ameliorate

There are more but I cant seem to remember. I would suggest that you download the file
Synonyms_Antonyms.doc available under the misc download category in the TCS 2006 section and
go through it. If you are familiar with everything on this well you should score more than 90% in
this section.

For the Quants Please refer older papers and you should do fairly well.

* One popular question is if GFGFD is coded as SHOVEL what is BVCJT coded as? I suggest that you
try to find out the displacement of the charcters. I personally drew up an alphabet table. It was
much easier.

* One other question that seems to reoccur is the biggest prime number that can fit inside a 9 bit
number. Some of my friends had trouble with this one even though its quite simple. Take the
number of bit ( 9 here ) and calculate 2^bit number ( 2 power 9) which is 512. Now look at the
closest option from the list. Make sure its prime.

* What is 576 to the base 5 or something similar

* One question on physics - (Momentum X Veloctiy) / Accelration X Distance is measured in what

units

* if M represent Modulo Arithematic, R represent Round off, T represents Truncation calculate the
following M(737,5) - R(6.6) + T(7.1) etc

* if @ - represent square and * represents Square root then calculate the following @@-*16+@*8

* A can do a work in X days less than B. B does the same work in Y days. Both of them can do the
work in Z days. Calculate X ( or Y)

* Given a Venn diagram they ask a few questions based on that

* A passage is given with blanks in the middle. You are given many options. You need to choose the
right ones. Make sure that the choices you make fit the context of the passage.

There were more questions .. I just cant remember them at the moment

Critical Reasoning

Given Details:
(1) Ashland is north of East Liverpool and west of Coshocton
(2) Bowling Green is north of Ashland and west of Fredericktown
(3) Dover is south and east of Ashland C h et an aS
(4) East Liverpool is north of Fredricktown and east of Dover
(5) Fredricktown is north of Dover and west of Ashland
(6) Coshocton is south of Fredricktown and west of Dover

1)Which of the towns mentioned is furthest to the northwest ?

(a) Ashland
(b) Bowling Green
(c) Coshocton
(d) East Liverpool
(e) Fredericktown

2). Which of the following must be both north and east of Fredricktown?
(I) Ashland
(II) Coshocton
(III) East Liverpool
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) III only
(d) I and II
(e) I and III

3. Which of the following towns must be situated both south and west of at
least one other town?
(a) Ashland only
(b) Ashland and Fredricktown
(c) Dover and Fredricktown
(d) Dover,Coshocton and Fredricktown
(e) Dover,Coshocton and East Liverpool

4. Which of the following statements, if true, would make the information

in the numbered statements more specific?
(a) Coshocton is north of Dover
(b) East Liverpool is north of Dover
(c) Ashland is east of Bowling Green
(d) Coshocton is east of Fredericktown
(e) Bowling Green is north of Fredericktown

One more question was given. Very vague details

O,P,Q can cause R

P,Q can cause S
R or S can cause X or Y only if R or S was caused by P or Q
etc etc

Which event has the longest chain of events?

Which event has the shortest events etc.

There was no sectional cut off and no negative marking. Each section had fixed time. 20 minutes,
40 minutes, 30 minutes If i remember. Results are instantaneous. You are either shown a
Congratulations message or a best of luck next time message.

Feel confident and be cool about the test. Its not hard at all... infact its probably the easiest among
all the other aptitude tests. Lot of people suggested that we go thru Baron's GRE book ... I dont
have a copy of the book. So I couldnt refer it. The material from this site is more than sufficient.
Most people could have made it in .. but it was only because of their tension and mental strain that
they missed out on a lot of answers. That reminds me... the time limits are for sections and once
the time runs out you are automatically forwarded to the next section. ONCE YOU ARE ON TO THE
NEXT SECTION YOU CANNOT CHANGE OR ATTEMPT THE PREVIOUS SECTION ANSWERS. If you
have extra time left you can re-check and change your answers. You can answer any question you
have attempted or left behind before easily by simply clicking on the question number in the right
side pane. Green coloured ones are the ones you have answered. Yellow coloured ones are the
questions you have looked at but not answered and Red ones are the ones you have not looked at.
TIME MANAGEMENT is very important. I couldnt attempt 4 questions over all in the end.

I however managed to clear the test. I was told I would be intimated about the details for the next
round via e-mail.

So When I get thru my next round I will post more about this. Meanwhile I understand that there
are more recruitment drives underway ( one even tomorrow in the same venue ). So I hope this
helps those people, For now.
TCS Database Questions

1. What are the different types of joins?

2. Explain normalization with examples.

3. What cursor type do you use to retrieve multiple recordsets?

4. State the difference between a "where" clause and a "having" clause

5. What is the difference between "procedure" and "function"?

6. How will you copy the structure of a table without copying the data?

7. How to find out the database name from SQL*PLUS command prompt?

8. Tadeoffs with having indexes

9. Talk about "Exception Handling" in PL/SQL?

10. What is the difference between "NULL in C" and "NULL in Oracle?"

11. What is Pro*C? What is OCI?

12. Give some examples of Analytical functions.

13. What is the difference between "translate" and "replace"?

14. What is DYNAMIC SQL method 4?

15. How to remove duplicate records from a table?

16. What is the use of Analyzing the tables?

17. How to run SQL script from a Unix Shell?

18. What is a "transaction"? Why are they necessary?

19. Explain Normalization and Denormalization with examples.

20. When do you get constraint violation? What are the types of constraints?

21. How to convert RAW datatype into TEXT?

22. What is the difference between Primary Key and Aggregate Key

23. How functional dependency is related to database table design?

24. What is a "trigger"?

25. Why can a "group by" or "order by" clause be expensive to process?

26. What are "HINTS"? What is "index covering" of a query?

27. What is a VIEW? How to get script for a view?

28. What are the Large object types supported by Oracle?

29. What is SQL*Loader?

30. Difference between "VARCHAR" and "VARCHAR2" datatypes.

31. What is the difference among "dropping a table", "truncating a table" and "deleting all records"
from a table.

32. Difference between "ORACLE" and "MICROSOFT ACCESS" databases.

33. How to create a database link ?

RE: TCS Database Questions

1. What are the different types of joins?

Inner Join

outer join (left outerjoin , right outer join)

full outer join

2. Explain normalization with examples.

First Normal Form : Avaoids relation within a relation
Second Normal Form : Fully functional depended on each key
Third Normal Form : Avoids Transitivity dependency

3. What cursor type do you use to retrieve multiple recordsets?

ref cursors'

4. State the difference between a "where" clause and a "having" clause

having comes along with group by

5. What is the difference between "procedure" and "function"?

procedure doesnot return a value thru return statement

6. How will you copy the structure of a table without copying the data?

select * from table_naem where 1 > 3

7. How to find out the database name from SQL*PLUS command prompt?

8. Tadeoffs with having indexes

9. Talk about "Exception Handling" in PL/SQL?
10. What is the difference between "NULL in C" and "NULL in Oracle?"
11. What is Pro*C? What is OCI?
12. Give some examples of Analytical functions.
13. What is the difference between "translate" and "replace"?
14. What is DYNAMIC SQL method 4?
15. How to remove duplicate records from a table?
16. What is the use of Analyzing the tables?
17. How to run SQL script from a Unix Shell?
18. What is a "transaction"? Why are they necessary?
19. Explain Normalization and Denormalization with examples.
20. When do you get constraint violation? What are the types of constraints?
21. How to convert RAW datatype into TEXT?
22. What is the difference between Primary Key and Aggregate Key
23. How functional dependency is related to database table design?
24. What is a "trigger"?
25. Why can a "group by" or "order by" clause be expensive to process?
26. What are "HINTS"? What is "index covering" of a query?
27. What is a VIEW? How to get script for a view?
28. What are the Large object types supported by Oracle?
29. What is SQL*Loader?
30. Difference between "VARCHAR" and "VARCHAR2" datatypes.
31. What is the difference among "dropping a table", "truncating a table" and "deleting all records"
from a table.
32. Difference between "ORACLE" and "MICROSOFT ACCESS" databases.
33. How to create a database link ?

TCS PAPER - 07 OCT 2006 - HYDERABAD

Hi

I'm Nagarjuna Reddy. I've completed my MCA. I've taken my TCS Test on 07th October 2006 at
Kohinoor Park, Hyderabad. It's a large recruitment drive. I'm eagerly waiting for results now and
confident of making it into TCS in my first attempt for job itself.

I got SET Y. Almost all the quantitative questions of this set are same as of previous papers. Only
values got changed. Any how here I'm giving you all of those questions which I got in my paper.

Test Pattern:
As usual, totally three sections

1. Verbal (32 marks --> Synonyms-10, Antonyms-10, Sentence Completion-6, Comprehension

passage-6)

2. Quantitative and logical reasoning (38 marks)

3. Critical Reasoning (12 marks) (3 problems each having 4 questions)

Totally 82 questions and 90 minutes is the time limit. (Almost 1 min per question)

Section-1: Verbal

Synonyms: Some are from Barron's high frequency words list

Antonyms: GRE Barron's 13th edition Model papers (given as it is)

Sentence Completion: A passage has been given with 6 blanks in it. 9 choices have been given.
We've to fill that passage with appropriate 6 options. Beware that 3 options were given additionally.
Don't get confuse here. Ch etan aS

Comprehension passage: Barron's 15th edition Comprehension passage exercise C. page no: 98.
(Like her white friends, Eleanor Roosevelt and Aubre Williams, Mary Bethune believed in the
fundamental commitment of the new deal...). My friends said that the same passage has been given
in SET Z also.
Section-2: Quantitative and Logical Reasoning

1. Complete the series 26, 19, 17, 13, 11,--, 8, 7 (Ans: 10- not sure).

2. Convert the decimal number 562 into base 7. (Ans: 1432)

3. If QJFBTF is coded as PLEASE then HBJO can be coded as --------

(Ans: GAIN)

4. a) SQL Server b) Ingress c) Oracle d) DB2 e) JAVA

5. a) SMTP b ARP c)WAP d)HTTP e)BAAN

6. Which of the following is exact power of 4

a) 4192 b) 4096 c) d) e)

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in a 6 bit register.
Ans: 61

8. Which will give good standard deviation?

a). 4,0,-4,0,4 b) 4,-4,4,-4,4 c) 4,4,4,4,4

9. Which shape will be obtained by using the following values for X and Y
X 0 10 100 1000 9999
Y 0.00001 1.02 1.72 3.00 4.72

10. What are the number of edges, number of vertices and number of faces of a planar cube among
the following options?

a) 6, 6, 6 b) 4,8,12 c) 12, 8, 6 d) .. e)..

11. What is the value of the following expression M(373,5)+T(7.7)+R(4.4)-T(3.6)

http://www.www.careerenclave.com/www.careerenclave.com/.com
where M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE
(Ans: 11)
12. What is the value of the expression % # % (6) + # % # (6)
Where % means DOUBLING and # means RECIPROCAL (Ans: 19/6)

13. Match the following

A B

1. GEAR, VEHICLE 1. TYPE OF

2. BASMATI, WHEAT 2. A PART OF
3. BROTHER, SISTER 3. NOT A TYPE OF
4. BREIGAL, DOG 4. SIBLING
ANS: 1-> 2 2->1 3->4 4->3

14. If G(0) = -1 G(1)= 1 and G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2) then what is the value of G(6)?

(Ans: -3)

15. If A= 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

B= 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1

C= 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

Then find the value of [A U C] U B and express it in decimal.

(Ans: 151)

16. Three companies are working independently and receiving the savings 20%, 30%, 40%. If the
companies work combinely, what will be their net savings?

17. Which of the following straight lines are perpendicular to each other?
1)2x+y=8 2)x=4 3)y=6 4)2y=x+3
a)1, 3 b)2, 3 c)1, 4 d)3, 4 e)None

(Solution: Write the equations in x+y+c=0 form. Multiply the coefficients of x terms and coefficients
of y terms of any two given equations and add them. If the result is zero, then those two lines are
perpendicular. Here in this problem, those two equations are 1 and 4)

18. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/2 + 4t + 12 (Read is as: t square /2 +
4t +12), where t is elapsed time. Find how much percentage of temperature is increased (or
decreased) between 5pm and 8pm.

19. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square
root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much more memory is
required now?
a) 1.0% b)2.6% c)0.5% d)1.4% e)2.7%

20. A power unit is there by the bank of a river of 900 meters. A cable is made from power unit to
power a plant opposite to that of the river of 2000mts. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 5/-
per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs. 4/- per meter. Then find out the amount to be
invested to connect those two stations.

21. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then how
many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?
(Ans: 13)

22. A sequence of letters is given. We've to find out how many V's are there under the condition
that, S should be followed by V and should not be followed by F....

V,S,F,T,W,E,L,B,V,S,L,L,K,S,M,S,V,F,L,S,D,I,.... Like that.

(I got 4 as answer)
23. In a two-dimensional array, X (7, 9), with each element occupying 8 bytes of memory, with the
address of the first element X (1, 1)=3000; find the starting address of the element at X (5,8).

24. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, fifth and sixth, etc words
are interchanged, what would be the 12th letter from right? (Ans: 'A')

25. A Flight takes off at 4 A.M from North-East direction and travels for 7 hours to reach the
destination in the North-West direction. Some latitude and longitude of source and destination
given. Find the local arrival time of destination? (I don't know how to find it)

26. Four 2X2 matrices were given. We've to find out which of them is a singular matrix? (Hint: try
for which matrix det(A) becomes zero (ad-bc).

27. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance)

a) Newton b) Mass c) Force d).. e)..

28. Based on a Venn diagram. 3 problems were given. All are so easy. No need to worry.

29.

30.

31. A bar chart was been given. Two questions based on this. Easy ones. Don't fear.

32.

Section-3: Critical Reasoning

Questions 1 to 4: Small University and Large University problem of GRE Barron's 13th edition. This
can be found in the model papers.

Three persons J, K, L belongs to Small University with some subjects like English, Mathematics and
Electronics assigned to them. M, N, O and P belongs to small university and M deals Maths, N deals
Psychology. O and P have been assigned Latin. Then four questions based on this data. Its so easy.
(Not same data, but names of persons are same and pattern is also same).

Even no need to do any arrangements with the given data to solve problems based on this. We
need to just write down the given data in a conventional form. That's all. We can answer the
questions very easily.

Questions 5 to 8: A group of 5 people A, B, C, D, E are there.

A knows Telugu and Hindi.

B knows Oriya and Malalayalam
C knows Telugu and Malayalam
D knows English and Oriya.
E, who is a native of Andhra Pradesh, also can speak Oriya.

(Not same assignments, but pattern is same)

Q1. If A and B need to communicate, whose help they should take. (Ans: C, Since C know one
language of A and another language of B... like this)

Q2. Among all of these languages, what are the languages that are known to many people?
(Ans: Telugu-3 and Oriya-3)

The questions are like that. Even there is no need to do any arrangements are also. So, no need
to worry about this section also.

Questions 9 to 12: Sorry. Third passage I didn't remember it. Even I didn't get time to see it. But it
seems to be some what difficult. I didn't have time to answer this question, so I left it.
Also I want to share a few more details with all of you regarding the TCS test. I thought of it to be
online test. But because it was a large recruitment drive, they are not capable of conducting online
test for that many numbers of aspirants. It was manual test.

And coming to the test, for verbal section, GRE Barron's of any edition is enough. And for
Critical Reasoning, Barron's 12th or 13th is enough. Then finally, for Quantitative section, the same
problems will be given with only changes to the data. These problems can be solved by even a 7th
class student also. But the thing here is the Time Factor. How fast we are able to do them is the
thing here. The same problems can be given every time. So don't neglect to solve each and every
problem of previous papers, if you want to crack TCS test. After that, try to improve the speed in
solving the problems. If you do so, I'm sure that you'll be half way into TCS, one of the top IT firm
in the world.

Hi

I'm Nagarjuna Reddy. I've completed my MCA. I've taken my TCS Test on 07th October 2006 at
Kohinoor Park, Hyderabad. It's a large recruitment drive. I'm eagerly waiting for results now and
confident of making it into TCS in my first attempt for job itself.

I got SET Y. Almost all the quantitative questions of this set are same as of previous papers. Only
values got changed. Any how here I'm giving you all of those questions which I got in my paper.

Test Pattern:

As usual, totally three sections

1. Verbal (32 marks --> Synonyms-10, Antonyms-10, Sentence Completion-6, Comprehension

passage-6)

2. Quantitative and logical reasoning (38 marks)

3. Critical Reasoning (12 marks) (3 problems each having 4 questions)

Totally 82 questions and 90 minutes is the time limit. (Almost 1 min per question)

Section-1: Verbal

Synonyms: Some are from Barron's high frequency words list

Antonyms: GRE Barron's 13th edition Model papers (given as it is)

Sentence Completion: A passage has been given with 6 blanks in it. 9 choices have been given.
We've to fill that passage with appropriate 6 options. Beware that 3 options were given additionally.
Don't get confuse here. Ch etan aS

Comprehension passage: Barron's 15th edition Comprehension passage exercise C. page no: 98.
(Like her white friends, Eleanor Roosevelt and Aubre Williams, Mary Bethune believed in the
fundamental commitment of the new deal...). My friends said that the same passage has been given
in SET Z also.
Section-2: Quantitative and Logical Reasoning

1. Complete the series 26, 19, 17, 13, 11,--, 8, 7 (Ans: 10- not sure).

2. Convert the decimal number 562 into base 7. (Ans: 1432)

3. If QJFBTF is coded as PLEASE then HBJO can be coded as --------

(Ans: GAIN)

4. a) SQL Server b) Ingress c) Oracle d) DB2 e) JAVA

5. a) SMTP b ARP c)WAP d)HTTP e)BAAN

6. Which of the following is exact power of 4
a) 4192 b) 4096 c) d) e)

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in a 6 bit register.
Ans: 61

8. Which will give good standard deviation?

a). 4,0,-4,0,4 b) 4,-4,4,-4,4 c) 4,4,4,4,4

9. Which shape will be obtained by using the following values for X and Y
X 0 10 100 1000 9999
Y 0.00001 1.02 1.72 3.00 4.72

10. What are the number of edges, number of vertices and number of faces of a planar cube among
the following options?

a) 6, 6, 6 b) 4,8,12 c) 12, 8, 6 d) .. e)..

11. What is the value of the following expression M(373,5)+T(7.7)+R(4.4)-T(3.6)

http://www.www.careerenclave.com/www.careerenclave.com/.com
where M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE
(Ans: 11)

12. What is the value of the expression % # % (6) + # % # (6)

Where % means DOUBLING and # means RECIPROCAL (Ans: 19/6)

13. Match the following

A B

1. GEAR, VEHICLE 1. TYPE OF

2. BASMATI, WHEAT 2. A PART OF
3. BROTHER, SISTER 3. NOT A TYPE OF
4. BREIGAL, DOG 4. SIBLING
ANS: 1-> 2 2->1 3->4 4->3

14. If G(0) = -1 G(1)= 1 and G(N)=G(N-1) - G(N-2) then what is the value of G(6)?

(Ans: -3)

15. If A= 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

B= 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1

C= 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

Then find the value of [A U C] U B and express it in decimal.

(Ans: 151)

16. Three companies are working independently and receiving the savings 20%, 30%, 40%. If the
companies work combinely, what will be their net savings?

17. Which of the following straight lines are perpendicular to each other?
1)2x+y=8 2)x=4 3)y=6 4)2y=x+3
a)1, 3 b)2, 3 c)1, 4 d)3, 4 e)None

(Solution: Write the equations in x+y+c=0 form. Multiply the coefficients of x terms and coefficients
of y terms of any two given equations and add them. If the result is zero, then those two lines are
perpendicular. Here in this problem, those two equations are 1 and 4)

18. In Madras, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/2 + 4t + 12 (Read is as: t square /2 +
4t +12), where t is elapsed time. Find how much percentage of temperature is increased (or
decreased) between 5pm and 8pm.

19. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square
root of 100N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much more memory is
required now?
a) 1.0% b)2.6% c)0.5% d)1.4% e)2.7%

20. A power unit is there by the bank of a river of 900 meters. A cable is made from power unit to
power a plant opposite to that of the river of 2000mts. The cost of the cable below water is Rs. 5/-
per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs. 4/- per meter. Then find out the amount to be
invested to connect those two stations.

21. A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then how
many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?
(Ans: 13)

22. A sequence of letters is given. We've to find out how many V's are there under the condition
that, S should be followed by V and should not be followed by F....

V,S,F,T,W,E,L,B,V,S,L,L,K,S,M,S,V,F,L,S,D,I,.... Like that.

(I got 4 as answer)

23. In a two-dimensional array, X (7, 9), with each element occupying 8 bytes of memory, with the
address of the first element X (1, 1)=3000; find the starting address of the element at X (5,8).

24. In the word ORGANISATIONAL, if the first and second, third and forth, fifth and sixth, etc words
are interchanged, what would be the 12th letter from right? (Ans: 'A')

25. A Flight takes off at 4 A.M from North-East direction and travels for 7 hours to reach the
destination in the North-West direction. Some latitude and longitude of source and destination
given. Find the local arrival time of destination? (I don't know how to find it)

26. Four 2X2 matrices were given. We've to find out which of them is a singular matrix? (Hint: try
for which matrix det(A) becomes zero (ad-bc).

27. (Momentum*Velocity)/(Acceleration * distance)

a) Newton b) Mass c) Force d).. e)..

28. Based on a Venn diagram. 3 problems were given. All are so easy. No need to worry.

29.

30.

31. A bar chart was been given. Two questions based on this. Easy ones. Don't fear.

32.

Section-3: Critical Reasoning

Questions 1 to 4: Small University and Large University problem of GRE Barron's 13th edition. This
can be found in the model papers.

Three persons J, K, L belongs to Small University with some subjects like English, Mathematics and
Electronics assigned to them. M, N, O and P belongs to small university and M deals Maths, N deals
Psychology. O and P have been assigned Latin. Then four questions based on this data. Its so easy.
(Not same data, but names of persons are same and pattern is also same).

Even no need to do any arrangements with the given data to solve problems based on this. We
need to just write down the given data in a conventional form. That's all. We can answer the
questions very easily.
Questions 5 to 8: A group of 5 people A, B, C, D, E are there.

A knows Telugu and Hindi.

B knows Oriya and Malalayalam
C knows Telugu and Malayalam
D knows English and Oriya.
E, who is a native of Andhra Pradesh, also can speak Oriya.

(Not same assignments, but pattern is same)

Q1. If A and B need to communicate, whose help they should take. (Ans: C, Since C know one
language of A and another language of B... like this)

Q2. Among all of these languages, what are the languages that are known to many people?
(Ans: Telugu-3 and Oriya-3)

The questions are like that. Even there is no need to do any arrangements are also. So, no need
to worry about this section also.

Questions 9 to 12: Sorry. Third passage I didn't remember it. Even I didn't get time to see it. But it
seems to be some what difficult. I didn't have time to answer this question, so I left it.

Also I want to share a few more details with all of you regarding the TCS test. I thought of it to be
online test. But because it was a large recruitment drive, they are not capable of conducting online
test for that many numbers of aspirants. It was manual test.

And coming to the test, for verbal section, GRE Barron's of any edition is enough. And for
Critical Reasoning, Barron's 12th or 13th is enough. Then finally, for Quantitative section, the same
problems will be given with only changes to the data. These problems can be solved by even a 7th
class student also. But the thing here is the Time Factor. How fast we are able to do them is the
thing here. The same problems can be given every time. So don't neglect to solve each and every
problem of previous papers, if you want to crack TCS test. After that, try to improve the speed in
solving the problems. If you do so, I'm sure that you'll be half way into TCS, one of the top IT firm
in the world.

Hi

I am Abhijit Chakraborty, recently I have been campus recruited from GNIT kolkata by TCS.I am a
third year student from electrical background and as you know it's a tough competition for us to
enter the software profession..I have found that there is no material for electrical department so I
am compiling and sending my preparation to you all.

The test was online and written both.

I am sending you the questions.

Paper consisted of three sections.They are as .

Verbal-30Q-20mins

Logical/Quantitative-38Q-40mins

Critical-12Q-30mins

So the total exam is for 50mins and not 60 mins as it had been told by most of the passouts who
got through..For online test there is a specific time cut-out based on the qubex software they have
used but for the written there is no time scheduling you can start anywhere you like..

Cut off for written was 50 and for online it was 42 and not 38 as told by the others..

Now the questions that came.

Verbal: Synonyms:
Brim
Renounce
Caprice
Brash
Limber
Admonish
Tranquil
Moribund
Mundane

Antonyms (This came mostly from GRE Barron's Antonyms exercise)

Encumber
Opacity
Bilk
Luminary
Spur
Stupefy
Pulchritude
Slack
Occlude
Ambiguity

Logical/Quatitative:
Complete the series 2, 7, 24, 77, ----? Ans: 238

find value ##+25-++# 16 , where # denotes double and + denotes square root
Ans: 621

in a two dimensional array X(9,7) which each element occupying 4 bytes of memory with address of
the first element X(1,1) is 3000, find the address of X(8,5).
Ans: 3212

In the word ORGANISATIONAL if the first and second, third and fourth, fourth and fifth, fifth and

sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right?
Ans:I

What is the largest Prime Number that can be stored in 8-bit memory?
Ans:251

Select odd one out Java, LISP, SMALLTALK, EIFFEL Ans: effiel

Select odd one out sql, DB2, SYBASE, HTTP Ans:HTTP

The size of program is n. and the memory occupied by the program is given by M= square root of
4000n.if the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now occupied?
Ans:0.5%(SQRT 101N)

A and B do a work in 7 days. If A does double as B the how many days take A to do? Ans: 10.5

Find the value of the 678 to the base 7. Ans: 1656

Which of the following highest Standard deviation

7, - 7, 7,-7, 7,-7 b) 7, 7, 7,7,7,7 c) -7, - 7, -7,-7,-7,-7 d) -7, 7, -7, 7,-7, 7 Ans: d)

Which of the following is power of 3 a) 2345 b) 9875 c) 6504 d) 9833

Ans: c)

Which of the following is integer? a) 451/45 b) 8765676/17 c) 34567/76 d) 567845/19 Ans: b)

find the result of the following expression if , M denotes modules operation, R denotes round-off, T
denotes truncations M(373,5)+R(3.4) +T(7,7)+R(5,8)
Ans: 19

If TAFJHH is coded as RBEKGI then RBDJK can be coded as?

Ans: qcckj

16.g(0)= -1, G(1)=1 ,G(N) = G(N-1)-G(N-2) , g(6)=? Ans: -2

A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 mtr width. a cable is made from power unit to
power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000 mtr away from the power unit. The cost of the
cable bellows water Rs5 / mtr and cost of cable on the bank is Rs 4/ mtr. Find the total of laying the
cable.
Ans: 12900

In madras, temperature at noon varies according to -t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find
how much tem more or less in 4 pm to 9 pm.
Ans: At 9pm 7.5 more www.careerenclave.com/ana-jobs

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

Which of the following do not form triangle? a)5,5,5 b) 3,4,7, c) 3,5,9 d) 81,8,5
Ans: c) options are not right

Which of the following are orthogonal pairs a) 3i+2j b) i+j c) 2i-3j d) 7i+j
Ans: a) + c)

If A, B, C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 30%, 20%, 10%.
What will be the fuel economy if they were used combine?
Ans: 49.6

What is the max possible 3 digit prime number?

Ans: 997

If the vertex (5,7) is placed in the memory. First vertex (1,1) s address is 1245 and then address of
(5,7) is ----------
Ans: 1279

A can copy 50 papers in 10 hours while both A & B can copy 70 papers in 10 hours. Then for how
many hours required for B to copy 26 papers?
Ans: 13 hours

My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with
coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?
Ans: 6.40 am

The number 384 in decimal system is given by (1234) x in the X System of numbers find the value
of X a} 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9
Ans: a)

A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days.
Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work? Ans: 16

Complete the series. 3, 8, --, 24, --, 48, 63. Ans: 15,35

WHICH SHAPE WILL BE OBTAINED BY USING THESE VALUES OF X ,Y

X Y
0 0.00001
10 1.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
9999 4.72
Ans: Y= log10(X)

33. VENN DIAGROM below HOW MANY PERSON KNOW ENGLISH MORE THAN FRENCH. HOW MUCH
% OF PEOPLE KNOWS ALL THE 3 LANGUAGES. HOW MUCH % OF PEOPLE THOSE WHO KNOWS
FRENCH AND GERMAN AND NOT ENGLISH

34. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube Ans: 6,8 , 12

35. A, B and C are 8 bit no's. They are as follows:

A -> 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
B -> 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
C -> 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 (n=intersection, u=union)
Find ((A n B) u C) =? Ans: 29…. A-B is {A} - {A n B}

36. A finishes the work in 10 days & B in 8 days individually. If A works for only 6 days then how
many days should B work to complete A's work? Ans: 3.2 days

And few questions from venn diagram..

Critical:
1> Puzzle of a motorist going for the shortest route from city A to city C..

2> Puzzle of the two marriage group in a community,i.e Red and Green..

3> Puzzle that all K's are J's..

All the three are repeated from the model testpaper 1 from GRE Barron's 12th edition.

Regarding the aptitude please go through the GRE barron's antonym exercise and model test
papers.This will also do for critical reasoning. Other that this for logical or quatitative go through the
past papers you will get through..

Interview:

There was only one person in my panel.But he was more that enough..

Person:Intoduce yourself?
Me:bla bla..
Person:So you r from electrical,and subjest of interest is digital?
Me yes
Person:But how about machine?
Me: I know the basics.
Person:Draw the torque slip grap for single and 3 phase induction motor?
Me: Drawn and explained
Person:Convert the number 32 to octal and hexadecimal?
Me:Done with no problem.
Person:Do you know corona in power system?
Me:Yes,sir and I explained it to him.
Person:How to reduce them?
Me:I explained the various method of reducing corona.
Person:Why do we use octal number system?
Me:To get the tedious long binary data into small memory of the digital circuits.
Person:How in microprossecor 8085 the instructions are executed?
Me:Explained the whole working of 8085 microprocessor

Person:What is stack in data structure and its repective operation?

Me:Explained it and its push pop algorithms explined properly
Person:What do you know in 'C'?
Me:Just the Basics
Person:Write a programe using structure to draw the result for a class?
Me:Written it with no trouble..

At this he was very much impressed and asked me if I am feeling comfortable as I was smiling at
his every word. I said I am all right. He bid me best of luck and recommended me to HR.

HR Interview:

As I have given 'HANDWRITING ANALYSIS' as my hobby so the two HR person kept on writing
pages after pages and gave me to analyse,as I was strong in this groun so I hit the bulls eye and I
was selected..To get success through HR write a peculiar hobby and grow interest for it and you are
sure to clear it with no doubts..e.g- stock market,finding information about super computers..

FINAL RESULTS:

TOTAL SAT FOR THE EXAM:112

WRITTEN CLEARED:24
TECHNICAL CLEARED:12
HR CLEARED:10

Things to remember:

**plz don't visit the companies site the day before campussing for collecting
information.You will get the latest update through preplacement talk.
**Practice GRE barron's more than the question papers.
**Be confident in what ever you are saying.

Hi

In BIT MESRA, TCS came on 24th July 2006. They conducted online exam for some and paper exam
for others by randomly selecting of us. Now we r having our interview on 31th july and 1st aug. In
between we r having microsoft oracle tvs, maruti etc.

Written:-
Verbal: 20 min
Comprehension
14th edition:- like her white friends(page no :- 106)
for comprehensive it is better 2 learn or go through all the passage of the comprehensive part.
14th edition page no 97 to 113

fill in the blank

set y:-observe the dilemma of fungus of the comprehensive part
set z:- some university problem.

Antonyms
Comply
Cavil
Repugnance
Desultory
Assuage
Vouchsafe
Protract
Revile

Reasoning: 30 min
Verbal :-
All words i.e. synonyms(10) was from gre model test paper and antonym exercise. so verbal section
was very easy for me
Aptitude:-
Nothing new all the questions was from previous paper some of those r as:--

1. the bit operation question was given

A 10010010
B 01110010
C 10100010
Find Au(BnC) , (A-B)uC all value were in decimal value?

2. find odd one out:-1. Sybase 2.DB2 3.Oracle 4.Unix

3. 5 quest. Was based on DI

7. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in an 8-bit

8. Base of 1234 which is 194 in decimal.

9. g(0)=1 g(1)= -1 g(n)=3*g(n-1)-2*g(n-2) find g(4)

10. one coding was given

11. one number series has to fill

12. The size of a program is N. And the memory occupied by the program is given by M = square
root of 4000N. If the size of the program is increased by 1% then how much memory now
occupied?

13. In calcutta, temperature at noon varies according to t^2/6 + 12t + 12, where t is elapsed time
from noon.Find how much temperature more or less in 3pm to 6pm.

14. A 2D array is declared as A[9,7] and column wise each element requires 8 byte. If A[ 1,1 ] is
stored in 1200. Find the memory of A[8,5] ?
(Note:- all set contain column wise)

15. 3 Venn - diagram was given related to bangla ,Punjabi,&gujarati questions were asked
Ans, 17.4, 1, 6

21. recognize the equation of curve related to cosx and sinx curve

22. Number of faces, vertices and edges of a cube 6 8 12

23. A and B do a work in 7 days. If A does double as B the how many days take A to do?

24. find the result of the following expression if , M denotes modules operation, R denotes round-
off, T denotes truncations M(363,5)+R(5. +T(7,7)-R(3.

25. The size of the bucket is 10kb. The bucket fills at the rate of 0.0001 kb per millisecond to fill
bucket it takes 100 milisecond to reach to destination.it takes 100 milisecond to passack so calc.
how much time will it take to pass n kb write formula(I don't know the exact figure)

26. Which of the following are orthogonal pairs a) 2x+3y=6 b) 2x+5y=0 c) 2y=3x+6 d) 7x+y=4

27. If A, B, C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce the wastage of fuel by 25%, 20%,
10%. What will be the fuel economy if they were used combine? Ans :-46

28. WHICH SHAPE WILL BE OBTAINED BY USING THESE VALUES OF X ,Y

X Y
0 0.00001
10 1.02
100 1.72
1000 3.00
9999 4.72
Ans: Y= log10(X)

29. Find the value of <@<4-<@4, where < denotes "square" and @ denotes "change in sign".

30. What is the power of 2? a. 2068 b.2048 c.2668 ANS: (B). 2048

31. My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 45E and landed 9 Hrs later at a place with
coordinates 36N45W. What is the local time when my plane landed. www.careerenclave.com/
www.careerenclave.com/

32. A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 meters width. A cable is made from power
unit to Power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from the power unit. The cost
of the cable below water is Rs. 5/- per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.2/- per meter. Find
the length where the cable is to be cut. ANS: 2100m

33. Find the singularity matrix from a given set of matrices?

34. Which of the following set of numbers has the highest Standard deviation?
5,0,5,0,5,0
-5,-5,-5,-5,-5,-5.
5,0,5,0,5,0
-5,5,-5,5,-5,5

35. Match the following:

1. Mammal, cow ---> a. A type of
2. Snake reptile ---> b. A part of
3. Roof - Building ---> c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables ---> d. A superset of

36. a , b, c can do a work in 4 days. if a does twice as much as work in 12 and b can work in 18 in
how many days c can do?

37. b g b d q m b g d m g b g g b q m b g q b g
dgbamgbgm
How many b 's are such that each b is followed by g next to it, if the g is not followed by d
next to it.

Reasoning:-

1.model test 3-section 6 Quest 1-4

2. model test 1- tunnel-bridge- highway problem
3. model test 1- red and brown problem
All the reasoning was from GRE sets