TCS Aptitude 2012 pattern on Thiagaraja College of Engg

TCS Aptitude New Pattern 2012 : Drive on 08.09.2012

College : Thiagarajar College of Engineering ,Madurai

Round 1 : Day 1 : Aptitude

Type of Test : Online

Pattern : Totally 30 questions only Quants and Reasoning  . Majority of the questions kept varying student to student.

Time Limit : 80 minutes

Negative Marking : 1/3

Expected interview call cutoff : 15

1. Simple quant questions – around 10

Areas : Average, Age, Time Speed Distance, Time and Work( 2 people working at a time independently), Percentage etc.

Most importantly all the answers were interim say if we get an answer in time and work question, that answer had to be used in an equation. The answer to the time and work question was not the final answer.

2. Geometry – Circle properties, Line properties

 

3. Prime factors based question
4. Tenali Raman Flower type question. There is a garden with n flowers. A person picks 2 flowers on Monday, it is replaced by 5 flowers on Tuesday. On Tuesday he picks 3 flowers, it is replaced by 7 flowers , …. Find the final number of flowers in the garden on Sunday.
5. 3 people in a family, all the 3 stand on the weighing machine then the weight is  = some number + variable, then 2 on the weighing machine then the weight is  = some number + variable and then 1 person on the weighing machine then the weight is  = some number + variable. Find each person’s individual weight. All the measurements were given in a comparative mode.
6. Functions based question. F[n] = ….. then F[100]= ?
7. Data Arrangement question with overall directions and 3 to 4 questions with directions and inputs changing for each question.
8. Cubes with a,b,c what is on the opposite side, diagram based
9. Cubes painted with 2 colours. Cut and then painted and not painted faces.
10. Series question AP and GP based. Say a frog jumps x distance and in 2000 jumps it will cover --- distance and then the AP/GP question
11.   A$A = 0

(A$B)$C = (A$B)+C

2012$0+2012$(10$1)=?

12. 1^st person said one of us is lying

2^nd person said two of us are lying

3^rd person said three of us are lying

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5^th person said all of us are lying

Who is saying the truth or who is lying?

13. Puzzles
14.  Sudoku  with 3 or 4 numbers given. The numbers to be found were marked as x, y. Then there was an equation which had to be solved. The answer was a 3 digit number.

TCS Pattern : 05.09.2012 Drive

College : SASTRA University, Tanjore.

Each student gets different questions, but of same pattern and type.

Duration: 80 minutes

No. of Questions: 30

 Negative marking: 0.33

Topics tested in the written test:

Time and work - 2Q

Pipes and cisterns- 2Q

Permutation, combination - 2Q

Probability - 3Q ( Question was something like'bottle filling')

Number system-3Q (equations, products, square roots)

Determinant-1Q

Coding, decoding-1Q (difficult)

Number series - 1Q (unusual)

Critical Reasoning-1Q (strengthening, weakening)

Data Arrangement-2Q

Puzzles - 2Q

Sudoku-1Q

Calendars-1Q (Find the direction of the needle?, which year is having same calendar?)

Clocks-2Q

Percentages-1Q (complicated like story)

Profit and loss-1Q

Time, speed, Distance-2Q

Popular TCS question starting with 'mice'-1

Mensuration-1Q (easy)