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ACCENTURE PAPER ON 29th JUNE AT PUNE

First of all a BIG THANKs to freshersworld.com for being a great platform for all reviews and papers for placement....

Guys this was my 4th cmpy after TCS,INFY,CONGNI.... for you guys who havent got placement for first few cmpys.....I strongly advice u to BE POSITIVE....just give your fight for watever cmpy u r applyin.... I know how it feels lookin at peers whoz got placed.....but tell u itz just tht u just DONT GET DEPRESSED...GIVE FIGHT and very very imp HAVE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE..... it helps....think MAY BE u r DESTINED for a much better cmpy.....i can say it from my exp..i m feelin really better to be placed in ACCENTURE, a truly MNC compared to TCS....

now let me tell u the total procedure..........
ACCENTURE believes in havin a good English..so better improve yr English speakin skills...many ppl were thrown in HR just because they werent able to speak eng properly or may be they had done many grammatical mistakes in ESSAY writing....

they had...
1.APTITUDE TEST(55q in 1hr)
  ESSAY WRITING
2.GD
3.TI
4.PI

1. APTITUDE TEST: 
just dont worry.....do chk as many papers from net....n read more n more questions....so tht u get aa proper idea abt howz paper and further prepare yrself for the same....i did the same....day before test i used to browse thru those papers,reviews n NO RS or any stuff like tht...though many of my frnds did refer to RS....may help...but not necessary....

APT includes da same ie verbal,quant,logic..

within verbal 2 passages(go for it atlast),further choose the correct sentence or wring one from those 4 sentences mentioned......
then bit of fill in blanks for fillin appropriate words...(bit vocabs req here)
over n above if u have good grasp over english i dont thk u really need to put in much efforts...

as far as quant is concerned....there are some5-6 venn diag related qs
further some of data sufficiencies...
logic is easiest ....go for it at first ....u r supposed to identify same options for eg: which of these are same
1>123.8989  2>123.8998  3>123.8998  
mark 1. if 1st and 2nd are same
         2. for 2nd and third same
         3. 1,2,3  are same
         4. none are same

so here ans 2.
der r some other qs as well in logic...but most of them r gettable.....dont worry!!!!

Now how to crack.....
see 55qs in 1 hr
2 big passages(1 gen techy other non techy)
normally cutoff 35 out off 55
so now solve all qs in paper whichever reqs less time....
but do try to solve from each section....i dont know but ya they may consider sectional cutoff.....so better be cautious

Once APTs got over...u are supposed to write ESSAY for just 5min
I know u might gettin panicky.....but dont worry...
topics are very simple ..i got IT INDUSTRY IN INDIA...
generally topics are WHY ACCENTURE...IT GROWTH...normally reltd to IT
what they chk in essays is whether u have good english,how many grammatical, spellin mistakes u have made....this may cost u yr job even if reached till yr HR....so better work over your spellings and grammatical mistakes......sum of my classmates shown gates for the same......

generally ACCENTURE takes apt first then give PPT while chkg of papers take place.....after ppt selected candidates are informed and groups for gd are formed ...gen 10 ppl in 1 grp
u better go prepared wit a topic of yr interest...may be u r lucky....and u might be asked as to wat topic u want to discuss...
We chose....IMPACT OF MOVIES ON YOUTH
IN GD they normally select all the candidates who speak....SO just speak and make a pt....then u r through....but still remember if u initate the discussion and summarize atlast and just make relevant  points in between then theres just no chance of u gettin dropped in GD.....i did it just tht way....

after GD we had our TI or PI(like sum ppl were asked to go for TI first while others HR)

NOW my TI Exp.....
1.put all prjts and PPs n seminars in yr resume.....n ofcourse know enough of it so tht u can convince the person concerned.
I had written to 2 prjts -one on C++, other in  VB.....i had also mentioned of winning prize in robotics n prize in seminar
interviewer started wit normal ""tell abt yrself" then he asked me regardin seminar....i told...but(not quite convincinly)....then he then went over my robotics prjt....abt wat prgm,wat lang,wat microcontroller used.....i was screwed.. i had done this in 1st sem of 2nd yr....n actually didnt knew much abt it....i told sir i did this long back...he told arent u supposed to remember wat u learnt for 4 years....i asked him,sir u might knowin abt engg schedule being engg...he said i have phd in phy....i was feeelin i will be totally screwed... but just then i turned up the page of my resume n told him abt my prjt in VB...i had prepared properly for this one..  he asked me wat part of prgm was difficult to code...fyurther abt tables used.... etc... then other C++ prjt.....but still he wasnt quite convinced abt me.....
i told him of 1 idea abt a project i had like to make....gave him a total detailed prespective abt it....dis went around for long(abt 10-12min)....
then i told sir i feel its goin to be a bit difficult but i ll try my best abt it....
he then gave some directions as to how to go abt it.......after tht he told me to go to HR.....i thought tht was it...n thought tht idea made the game and tht HR wont be tht difficult. HENCE I SUGGEST ALL U GUYS WHO AREN'T GOOD AT TECHNICAL....GO FOR SOME SOME GOOD PRJTS....N SPECIALLY THINK ABT A NEW INNOVATIVE IDEA WHICH U COULD TELL N IMPRESS INTERVIEWER...DIS WAY U CAN ACTUALLY GIVE THE DIRECTION TO INTERVIEW...N ULTIMATELY INTERVIEWER DONT GET INTO TECHY PRGMS N CONCEPTS MUCH....SO U IMPRESS HIM AS WELL AS PAVE A WAY TO AVOID THOSE TECHY QS

HR (just the icing on cake)
after sometime i was called for HR....a lady was there...asked me abt my mini prjt...told her abt the prjt...then asked me a few qs abt hackin...as i had attended as i had attened a seminar on hacking...asked whether u do hackin....i told straightly i dont but told tht im interested....
futher she asked abt my family....told her all smiled in between....was very comfortable......atlast she offered me a biscuit....n tht was it....i knew i was selected.....

but ya some of frnds who werent tht confident were really put to stress test in hr.....one of frnds whoz really good at c...was told how did he come to computers..u know nothin....i ll kick u offf if i get a better candidate....so u better be calm and cool ..they check whether u can handle such stressful situations....so dont worry just be confident in watever u speak...n be cool and dont get panicky......sum were asked whether he would like to marry shilpa shetty...give a logical ans for such qs...

this was it after gettin screwed in TI in TCS,HR in CONGNI, i was ultimately thru......felt relly good to be part of ACCENTURE,$16 bn cmpy much bigger then tcs n infy or cogni....

"  BEST OF LUCK  " N DONT FEEL DISHEARTENED IF ARENT SELECTED .....
REMEMBER SOMETHGS GOOD DEFINATELY LEFT FOR U.....

ANKUR