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hi all....
TCS conducted a campus recruitment drive in our college.. before the test day.. students were given two doc files containing some aptitude questions : 451 sample questions.. n majority of the actual test questions were same as those present in that 451 sample questions file. The paper consists of quant, verbal ability, reasoning & data interpreatation! level was OK.. Therer was negative marking.. dont know the exact marking scheme.. main thing is the apti qstns were very long but the real qstn is only at the end of the story! :) they never reveal the selection criteria.. i have heard that there is some upper & lower cutoff provision. & they recruit less 4m core branches like mech,civil,electrical.. :) I think..now, they have changed the test pattern..but, apti qstns were quite intstng.. here are some of the questions :
1: There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? ( 1 of _____) ?
Answer: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32 32 will be the answer.
2: Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter?
Answer: 20 years.
3: The ages of two friends is in the ratio 6:5. The sum of their ages is 66.After how many years will the ages be in the ratio 8:7?
Answer: 12 years.
4: (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsalmic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsalmic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together, Woody and Balsalmic 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's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume EXCEPT: 1) Balsalmic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) Mimosaic and Woody 4) Mimosaic and Lilac
Answer: Mimosaic and Lilac.
5: 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.
Answer: 8 * 7 = 56
6: A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 25 cm, 11 cm and 31 cm. What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?
Answer:280.5625
7: What is the distance between the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0. (I do not remember the values of a,b,c,d)
8: An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed?
Answer: 33.33%
9: A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what s the average speed of the pony?
10: There is 7 friends (A1,A2,A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all with out repeat. How many hand shakes possible?
11. 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? ..................... ...........etc..etc..
All d best n gud luck!! :)
