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TCS PAPER ON 1st APRIL 2008

Hi friends..I am Geetha from SIT, Tumkur. TCS came to our campus on 1st april. 550 were appered for written test.350 were short listed for interview,finally 234 were selected. first day ppt and online test.

It consists of three sections
1.verbal--synonyms,antonyms,sentence completion and passage.
2.aptitude
3.critiacal reasoninig.

1.verbal section--
most of synonyms and antonyms were from previous papers, go through that perfectly and also practice GRE high frequency words. sentence completion not a big problem and there was a big passage, you should be very fast in reading that.
2.aptitude section--
almost all question from previous papers,only data may change.
example: series completion- 8,10,12,17,??,26,22
>348 in base 6
>DPNQVUFS is coded as COMPUTER then EJTQMBS
>ORGANISATIONAL, first is interchanged with sec,third with fourth and so on,then which is 10th char from right
>a=10*18*22 which is one is integer a)n/39 b)n//132..
>(momomtum*distence)/(velocity*velocity)=?
>f(0)=-1,f(1)=1 f(n)=f(n-1)+f(n-2),then f(6)=?
>@represents square and + represents square root whats yhe value of @@+25-++@p
>A is twice efficient as B and A complets work in three forth of time as B, A & B together complets the work in 18 days,hw many days required for A to complete the work.
>problem on venn diagram.
>problem on pie chart.
>finding out eqution of curve
>odd man out:a.linux b.unix c.db d.xp
>HTTP,SMTP,ARQ,SAP and 2 more
>problem on latitude.etc

3.critical reasoning
three paragraph each three questions. all from GRE 12th edition model test paper.
>model test paper 5,section 7,question 1-4
>model test paper 1,section 5,queston 8-11
>model test paper 4,section 6,question 17-21. practice makes man perfect.

out of 550,350 were short listed.interview on 2nd april. for those selected they will give TCS form fill that carefully dont make any mistakes.wht ever u write in ur resume fill d same in that bcoz they will see both. TCS interviewrs are very cool and friendly..

I tech interview first and then mr and hr.he was so cool,in d beggining v had a casual talk bcoz to make me comfortable.
he: good morning geetha
me: good morning sir. casula chat..
he: whats ur subject of interest
me: data structures,DBMS and operating system
he :whats operating system?
me: answered.
he: what all OS u know?
me: XP and Linux.
he: whats d diff b/n linux and unix
me: answered.
he: how c program gets stored in memory?
me: answered
he: whats data structures?
me: answered.
he: whats stack and queue?
me: answered.
he: write any program,if u write u will be in TCS,r u confident?
me: yes sir (with confidence).written to insert element into q and delete from queue and explained. finally he said u r selected do well in next rounds.

they will check confidence in u.. what ever u tell,tell confidently..

next round in mr
it was so so so cool,v had casual chat.about my name,its meaning,my family background, hobbies,etc.. be specific in ur hobbies,if u put singing they may ask u to sing,r monoact they ask u to do,cooking they may ask receipe,.they asked many of us to draw,sing monoact receipe,about rules of outdoor games etc..

finally hr..
there also v had casual talk..but be confident...

there was elimination after each round especially technical. final results was announced on 3rd april.234 were selected, I was also one of them.

ALL THE BEST..



TCS PAPER ON 2nd APRIL 2008

Hi friends, I am Sankalp S Rao from SRI SIDDHARTHA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,TUMKUR. TCS had come for campus recruitment in our campus on April 2 and 3.The written rounds started at 10:15 am. I was the first to register for TCS in our col. I got my unique loginid and password.The written section consisted of 3 sections with a total duration of 90 min.

The written consists of 3 sections and is an online test of 90 min. It is conducted with Qubex (Quantitative Banking Examination ) Software developed by CMC.You have to open the internet explorer and the QUBEX SOFTWARE window opens. It is just like rediffmail pop up window. So, all students get different set of question papers.On the right side of the Window you have the timer and and question number with the link. The questions will appear in 3 different colours depicting the following

Red -- questions not answered.
Yellow- questions attempted but not answered.
Green -- questions answered.

1) Verbal (10 synonyms,10 antonyms ,1 sentence completion paragraph with 6 blanks and 1 reading comprehension with 6 questions) --- 32 questions, 20min.
2) Aptitude section (32 questions ,40 min)
3) Critical Reasoning questions.(3 Problems with 4 questions on each ie 12 marks ) -- 12 questions,30 min

Verbal
The verbal consisted of 10 synonyms,10 antonyms ,1 sentence completion paragraph with 6 blanks and 1 reading comprehension with questions. Five options will be there for each question. You have to mark the correct one.Some of the words i got were from previous papers and some were new. The reading comprehension was copy paste from GRE BARRONS 12th edition.Be very quick in this section as the reading comprehension and sentence completion are very lengthy. Guys and Gals please mark all the answers as there is no negative marking.If you dont know the answer mark all B's or all A's or all C's for the options. it gives you more probablity of passing the written..

Quantitative Aptitude
This section consisted of questions from previous papers with slight modification of data.Practice bar graph, pie charts and Venn diagram.

Critical Reasoning
This section consisted of 3 Problems with 4 questions each.This section is copy paste from GRE BARRON 12TH EDITION.ALL THE 3 PROBLEMS I GOT WERE COPY PASTE FROM BARRONS.I COULD SOLVE THE 3 PROBLEMS IN 4 MIN. I CHECKED THE 3 PROBLEMS 4 TIMES IN THE REMAINING TIME.So friends practice barrons 12th edition problems.if you dont get answers memorise them.the questions and options appeared in the same to same order...

The results were announced at 7 PM .and we were given TCS RECRUITMENT forms. The next day we had technical round mr and hr round..The technical questions were
1) diff between 85 and 86?
2) What is an OS?
3) Types of OS? Real time, Multi tasking ,Multiuser,etc
4) What is normalization?
5) What are primary , foreign and reference keys?
6) Can primary foreign and reference keys be given NULL value? primary key null value cannot be given.
7) What is polymorphism?
8) Types of polmorphism? run time and compile time polymorphism

The hr was not conducted due to shortage of panel and time constraints. the mr was easy with only 3 questions
1) Tell me about yourself?
2) Where do u see urself in 5 years?
3) Why TCS?

The hr round was cancelled and a group discussion round was arranged.Friends TCS does not have GD. But they conducted gd because of shortage of time.so plz be prepared for that. Just speak something.

Finally the results were announced at 1030 at night. 85 people got through and ofcourse I got into my dream company TCS..We got the initial selection process letter from TCS. I am now a TCS associate and proudly say " EXPERIENCE CERTAINTY".

ALL THE VERY BEST FRIENDS






TCS PAPER ON 27th FEBRUARY AT KOLKATA

HI Guys This is MANSOOR student of Electronics & Communication from Guru Nanak Institute Of Tech ……….TCS came to our campus on 27/02/08….. I know u don’t wanna know who I m…So Let me come straight to the point…..

The paper was divided into 3 sections…
1) ENGLISH,
2) QUANTITUDE,
3) LOGICAL REASONING -Puzzle part…..

It was an online test so u didn’t have the choice to choose a part in which u r comfortable in,u have to start with English, then Quant and then Puzzle….

For ENGLISH see the ANTONYM given in (Barron's Gre (12th edition) Chapter-6 Antonym Exercise) some of the words I can remember are 1) GAUCHE- lacking social polish, 2)DISCREETNESS- prudence, 3)CHURLISH- rude

There were also couple of passages(where u have to fill the missing sentences) which were a bit tricky so I will advice u guys to solve that first and den come to Synonyms and Antonyms (which are 10 each in total)

For QUANT some of them were quite easy such as

1) Interchange “MEASUREMENTS” the first with 2nd letter, 3rd with 4th and so on., and den get the 12th letter from right
Ans :) E

2) There was a table where for certain values of X., there were some values of Y…
Ans :) y=log(x)

3) How many zeros are there in 100!
Ans ;) 24(get LCM of 100 and add the no.’s)

4) the sides are given which triangle is not possible……..
(A) (2,3,6) (B) (3,2,4) (C) (3,4,5) (D) (3,3,3) (E) (5,3,5)

Some other Q’s were:

5) Select the odd one out
a. Oracle b. Linux c. Ingress d. DB2



6) Select the odd one out
a. SMTP b. WAP c. SAP d. ARP



7) Select the odd man out.
a. Java b. Lisp c. Smalltalk d. Eiffel

Some of the other questions were exactly of the same pattern like previous years papers (Data’s are changed of course)…

Say it finding the no.’s from one base to another as in NUMBER SYSTEM, STANDARD DEVIATION, PROFIT AND LOSS, PERCENTAGE, PROBABLITY, TIME AND WORK, NUMBERS, AVERAGE.AGES, RATIO AND PROPORTION, ALLIGATION OR MIXTURE, SIMPLE INTEREST, COMPOUND INTERSET, PERMUTATION & COMBINATION etc

For PUZZLE part it was exactly from Barron's Model Test papers (Data’s not changed)..it was basically from model test papers.

Model test 1- Section 5: 1-4, 5-6, 8-12, 13-16, Section 6: 8-11, 12-18, 19-22
Model test 2-Section 1: 1-4, 12-18, 19-22, Section 6: 8-12, 13-16, 24-25
Model test 4- Section 5: 8-11, Section 6: 8-12
Model test 5- Section 3: 1-4, 8-11, 23-25, Section 7: 1-5, 6-9, 16-20, 21-25

When I cleared my aptitude I was quite relieved

Then I went for my interview at around 8.00pm HR and TECHNICAL was taken together…first of all I was made to wait for around 7 min outside the room which was quite nerve wrecking and then it started

Me:) Good Evening Sir
Interviewer) Nodded and asked me to sit
Interviewer) Tell me about urself
Me) Told with poised…
Interviewer) asked me about my favourite subject
Me) Digital Electronics
Interviewer) OK tell me the diff between a digital and analog signal
Me) explained with diagrams
Interviewer) What is the discrete value of a digital system
Me) 0 and 1 Sir
Interviewer) OK tell me where u do u see yourself in next five years
Me) Told
Interviewer) what kinds of transistors are there
Me) about to say but another sir came in and interrupted me and den he asked
Interviewer) What do you mean by AM and FM
Me) Explained
Interviewer) have u seen a radio and how we have to tune it…what exactly happens:
Me) explained with élan
Interviewer) Do you know about Mobile Communication
Me) A bit sir… but not in details as I will study this in the next semester
Interviewer) Do you know HLR or something
Me) I didn’t understand as it was from Mobile Communication but I told him about CDMA technique coding, PCM etc So he got impressed and asked me
Interviewer) OK u know ur subject lets go into programming language… Which language u know ?
Me) C
Interviewer) OK what is meant by local, global, static variable, what is static global variable (everything abt storage class)
Me) explained thoroughly
Interviewer) Do u know pointers
Me) Yes sir
Interviewer) Take two pointers string and concatenate them
Me) I did it with strcat()
Interviewer) very smart
Interviewer) Do it without using functions
Me) I tried.. but couldn’t get it
Interviewer) then asked me to declare integer and assign an integer pointer and then print the post increment of it and get the output
Me) done
Interviewer) do you why have we asked u to fill the languages column
Me) said because of some preferences and topographical restrains…
Interviewer) was satisfied and ……….shook hands

When the result was declared I felt like floating in the sky… it was an out of this world kind of feeling

My advice will be to all aspirants is that back ur knowledge…ur ability and belief in urself…try to get the first few lines in the interview to be perfect and rest u will sail through….

NOTE: For Non CSE students my advice is to know ur core subjects properly and hav only sound knowledge of C, data structures etc.

Hope to meet in TCS…….Have a nice day