Syntel Paper pattern:

Verbal(25 questions), Quantitative (45 questions), analytical (30 questions)

For verbal refer to Barons most frequently used words...
Quans : R.S Agarwal (Quantitative Aptitude)...
Analys: Barons... 
E.x:
Raios and proportions, Train problems, Simple and 
Compound interest, Area Volume problems, Ages problem
Venn Diagram problems, Graphical problems ( e.x Bar 
chart ) , Seating arrangement problem, Flow Chart.
Next round is Interview:
Basically a General Interview
Questions on ur Project details, Questions on personal 
details....
Patteren is same as set no 1 
1.English ( 25 ques, 15 mins) 
2. Aptitude.(45 ques, 30 mins)
3. Reasoning and a flowchart(30 ques, 30 mins)
some of questions i rememberd are
===================================
( English)
1 celeberate:marriage::
a. window:bedroom b. lument:barevemant
c. pot:pan d. face:penalty
2. neglegent:requirement::
remises:duty cognet:argument
easy:hard careful:position
3 Germ:disease::
man:women doctor:medicine
war:destrustion shopkeeper:goods
4 bouquet:flower::
skin:body chain:link
product:factory page:book
5.letter:word::
club:people page:book
product:factory picture:paper
=====================================
select most oppsite word from the list (there are 5 options)
1 sedate answer=a. unify, b. inmmunize, c. recupenate, d. stimulate, e. injure
2 sequester ( options not known) 
3 equanimity
4 apathetic
5 dislodge
====================================== 
some questions repeated from aptitude (earliar) 
1 One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min 
and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60 mts , 
how much time it will take to reach the top?
a. 31 b.33 c.37 d.40 (ans: 37)
2 Two successive discounts of 20% and 15% is equal to a net 
discount of .....
a 30 b 35 c d 

3 A person starts with the speed of u/1 kmph and returns with 
the speed of u/2 kmph, what is his average speed.
4. X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can 
produce Y products in ---- days.
We had a Syntel test. The test had 3 sections:
1. English (25 questions in 15 minutes).
2. Quantitative Ability (50 questions in 30 minutes).
3. Reasoning (25 questions in 30 minutes).
For English, practice the Test Papers of Barrons GRE Guide. The entire paper was copied word-by-word from there.
Also few questions were a repeat from the old papers.
The toughest part was the Maths section. TIME IS A REAL CONSTRAINT. Practice to attempt questions real fast.
The questions were of R S Agarwal pattern. Some of them were a repeat. I remember few questions:
1. If A can do a work in 12 days, B in 24 days and C in 6 days, then how many days will they take to finish the job
together.
2.Travelling at 3/4 of his speed, a man is 20 minutes late. Calculate his original speed.
The reasoning part was easy. Most of the questions were on the alphabet series. Like if the alphabets of English are
reversed then which would be the letter from the 7th and so on.
Try to attempt 50% questions from each section if you wich to get a cll for interview. Trying to attempt all the
questions is foolishness.
Then they give Section 1- Verbal-15mins
Lastly,Section 3- Logical Reasoning.-45mins.
The questions are quite easy,if u go thru RSAgarwal u wud be able to answer the questions but the problem is u need
to be really really fast in answering the question...Verbal was also quite tough u need to go thru GRE book I
guess....Logical Reasoning was quite cool for most of the questions the choice 'a' was the answer so didn;t have to
bother going thru the other choices.I wasn't able to complete the paper as I told u Speed is essential...
To be specific there were qns on
"Trains","Compound Interest"(4-5 qns in this),"Time and Work"(if A does in so many days,B does in so many days
how long will A+B take kinds!),"Proportion"(if u mix so much sugar in -litres of water what is the percentage of
sugar in the soln...!),
a,b are prime nos, a=b+2 is a an odd number(yes/no?)
I think the answer is Yes.
In Verbal give antonyms for waffle,dissonance,Chagrin....
Relations:- Sartorial:Tailor ; Feud : ----------; 
and Some fill in the blanks.
They selected some 38 ppl for the Interview by 1.30pm .I got selected for the Interview.Interview was held the same
day.
Interview was purely HR he asked questions like;
Brief me about what u have done after ur 12th
What do u consider as ur Strengths
What was ur project on?
What are ur software skills?
Are u strong in ur Technical Skills(I said yes,he didn't ask me tech. qns.)
The placement was for the position of "Programmer",placement will be in Mumbai or Pune.
1st one month will be Training on Mainframes,Languages etc....from 9am to 11pm!!!!!
Then u wud be put into live projects.
Pattern
3 sections
No Negative Marking
Section I - Verbal - 25 qns - 15 mins
Section II - Quantitative Aptitude - 30 qns - 45 mins
Section III - Logical Reasoning - 30 qns - 30 mins
Total 85qns - 90 Mins
Section - I - Verbal - 25 qns in 15 mins, refer Barron's GRE guide.
Synonyms
Analogies
Fill up the sentences
Find the Word that has to be replaced
Form a Sentence and find the last word
Section - II - Quantitative Aptitude 30 qns in 45mins - please refer Quantitative Aptitude by R.S.Agarwal to prepare.

few qns i remember are

The highest Score in an innings was 3/11 of the total and the next highest was 3/11 of the reminder. If the scores
differed by 9, find the total score.
a) 151 b) 161 c) 121 a d) 101 e) 137
Ans: c
A boy was asked to multiply a certain number by 53. He multiplied it by 35 and got his answer less than the correct
one by 1206. Find the number to be multiplied.
a) 37 b) 67 a c) 87 d) 97 e) 107
Ans: 67
A Problem like this not exactly the same but on same model.
If the manufacturer gains 10 %, the wholesale dealer 15 % and the retailer 25 % then the cost of Production of a
table, if the retail price is Rs.1265
a) 632.50 b) 800 c) 814 d) 834.24
Ans: b
A trader marks his goods up by 50% and declares two successive discounts of 20% each. What is his overall gain? 
a) 10% gain b) 4% gain c) 4% loss (A) d) 10% loss e) No loss No gain
Train Problems - 3 as finding speed of train, how many secs it will cross each other etc.

Age problems -3 , find mothers age,fathers age etc.

Statistics Problems(probability) as A-this much , B-This Much, A n B-this much and A u B - ?
Angle Problems which deals with triangle - 3 problems.
Section III - Logical reasoning - 30 qns in 30 mins.
Tower of Hanoi Problem - Ans : 7
problem on fig. find the shaded area, square of size 14cm.. ans: 42 
problem on symmetric fig ;; ans less than the 1172(check) . 
Blood Relation Problems - 3
Then a passage is given on blood relation and 4 qns asked
how many male: ans -4 and few etc.
Find odd man out of the given series - 3 problems 
pretty simple put A-Z and number them 1-26 and then u can find easily odd man out.
Find the missing letter - was a bit tough to establish relation - 3 problems
u have 3 figure -based on the figures ques asked.. easy one.. 
eg: Fig Triangle means Strong Fig Square means Tall Fig Circle means Fair.
Ques asked is find the number that represents Strong Tall and Fair persons.. easy one ..
ANs : 4
ANother question Women,Sub inspector,graduates - Ans: 3

An Flow Chart - GIven Units - 250 

find final Value with formulae - (units*1.25) and few calculations like this Ans:506.25

And two tedious flow charts couldn't remember them and the answers.Syntel
Technical Test Questions:
1. Graphics:Painters algorithm is used for………..
2. Graphics:Why is ‘Lighting’ operations done on World Coordinates?
3. Graphics:One more question
4. Some question on C External Variables.
5. How can you call a function written in FORTRAN from a C program ?
6. Normal question on pointer addition
7. Another question on pointer addition
8. A question on 64 bit OS’s and Virtual Memory it will be having
9. Another question on 64 bit OS
10. A structure was given and it contained normal data as well as some bit-wise data.You had to find the total size
taken up by the structure
11. A big code with lots of pointers. There was a struct which contained 2 arrays. Then an array of that structure was
declared. The code used these structures and you had to find the values of a variable ‘j’ at various points inside the
code
12. A code which had some declarations of some data items. There were a couple of normal data items(char,int..)
and some pointers as well and a malloc call. You have to find the total memory taken up in the stack(Hint:Pointers
and all are allocated in heap, not in stack, so dont count them).Also in most of these questions, they were specifying
that the OS was 32 bit.
13. A question on nesting of pointers. There was this pointer to a function which returned an array of char
pointers…..You had to give the exact definition of the function
14. Value of 2 particular variables in C(MAXINT and some other constant)
15. What do you need to do to open more than 10 files simultaneously in MicrosoftOperating System? -change
stdio.h/change CONFIG.SYS/compiler dependent
16. A question on Macro( consisted of something like CTRL&037)
17. Another question on Macro expansion
18. Yet another question on Macro expansion
19. UNIX question on ‘who’ output and then doing some other operation and then asking you whats the output.
20. UNIX question on ‘awd’ operation.

Analytical Test Questions:

21. 101^100 -1 is divisible by…..
22. Question on boat ( stream velocity given…)
23. Train Question( Goods and Passenger train.. their speeds given..)
24. Pipe question (with leak at the bottom..)
25. Salary & Proportion problem
26. Another problem on Salary & Proportion
27. Age question-father and son
28. Another age question
29. Question onratios(Sachin:Saurav=Saurav:Rahul=3:2….together they scored some runs,you had to find the runs
scored by Sachin)
30. Angle between hands when time is 2:20
31. x^2 + 4 y^2 =4xy.Find x:y
32. A question on Arithmetic Progression(something like 5 times the 5th term is 8 times the 8th term..find 12th
term…)
33. A and B’s work units given.They were together gievn Rs.720.When C joined,they together completed the work
in 5 days.Find C’s wages
34. There was a circle.A square of max size was cut from it.From this square,a circle of max size was cut.What was
the ratio of this final size w.r.t initial size?
35. A runs 3/4th faster than B.One of them was placed some metres ahead.How far should the finishing post be
placed so that both of them finish at the same time?
36. Longest time one has to wait for next birthday?(366/365/4 years/8years)
37. Next no: in the seq: 7,11,__,19,23
38. Some question on steps…it was 10 ft high…an ant travelled upwards..and total time taken
39. Cricket-some data on runrate of the opposition being 15%….
40. Time & Distance..somebody was travelling along the circumference…. The questions are not at all complete
because lack of memorySyntel Inc. is a globally reputed company. The company provides IT solutions and
outsourcing services to many well known companies all over the globe. Syntel is headquartered in Mumbai. The
company is well equipped with latest technological tools like ETL, OLAP and many higher end technologies.
The company recruits engineers from many colleges of our country. The selection procedure of the company is
described below:
There is a written test followed by an interview as the selection process of Syntel.
There are three sections in the written test of the company. First section consists of verbal questions. There are 25
questions in this section with time given 15 minutes.
The second section is quantitative aptitude section. The number of questions is 30 and the time is 45 minutes.
The third section is logical reasoning. The number of questions in this section is 30 with time allotted 30 minutes.
So the total number of questions is 85 and the total duration of the test is 90 minutes.
One god thing is that generally the written test does not have negative marking. The verbal questions can be
prepared from any GRE guide book and for aptitude and reasoning any good book will do.

APTITUDE:
1.)  Maximum numbers that can be formed using all the 4 digits 6 4 8 1without repetition and which is divisible by
9.(Ans: none)
2.) Find the number of sides of a regular convex polygon whose angleis 40degrees.
3.) a+b+c=0, then roots of ax^2+bx+c=0 is
1.imagenary   2.real    3.coincidental    4.zero
4.) Difference b/w the compound interest and simple interest forRs.2500 for 2 years is given. find the rate of interest.
5.) there was one more question on S.I and C.I
6.) The minimum number by which 60 is to be multiplied to generate a square.
Ans: 15
7.) A monkey climbs 6 mts and falls 3mts in alternate minutes. Then time taken to climb a tree 60metres high?
a. 35   b.37    c.32   d.34   (answer is 37)
8.)  A bucket contains z drops. and it leaks x drops in t secs.then the time required to empty the bucket (in minutes).
9.) 6 pipes fill or empty the cistern. find the number of emptying pipes if it takes 18hrs to fill and 18 hrs to empty.
10.) The largest no: which is a factor of 1080 and 729
11.) No: of spheres of radius 1 that can be got from sphere of radius.
12.)Travelling at 3/4th the speed a man is 20 minutes later then speed is?
13.) there are 6 keys and 6 locks. then number of combinations to be tried out to get the actual solution
14.) choosing 2 people out of 10 in how many combinations can a particular person (some name) be always
included....
15.) from 6 white balls and 7 black balls probability that 2 balls drawn at random are of the same color?
16.) if a sales man gets successive gain of 15% and 20% then his actual gain?
ans. 38
17.) a string of pearls such that 1/3 is lost and of that 1/4th is missing, remaining is 20 then actual number of pearls?
ans. 40
18.) a man gets a gain of x%. but if he had sold at twice the cost price, what will be his gain?
19.) a clock was 7minutes behind the actual time on 3 p.m. on Wednesday and 8 minutes ahead of actual time on
(not sure) 4 p.m. Friday. when will it show the correct time?
20.) boat moves upstream in 6 hrs and covers the same distance downstream in 5 hrs. then speed of a raft floating?
accuracy of question not sure)
21.) (this was the last question) no idea what it stands for........ some kind of notation like
S(P(M((D(a,b),2))):P(M(S(D(a,b),........
1. ab   2.(a-b)^2    3.(a+b)^2    4.none
22.) if x men working x hrs per day can do x units of work in x days, then y men working y hrs/day would be able to
complete how many units of work i y days?
ans. y^3/x^2 (question in R.S. Agarwal)
23.) ( this was a question in the first page of the section II booklet) a cone with radius----- and height -----. a
hemisphere covers the cone such that base of hemisphere meets that of the cone. then the enclose volume.....(R.S.
Agarwal consists of similar questions)
24.) there was one more question on volume and surface area.
25.) 1 Rs, 50 ps , 25 ps coins are in the ratio ---------, then the number of 50 ps coins if they sum to ------Rs. (similar
question in R.S.Agarwal)
26.) there was one more question on coins i.e. about getting a change of 10ps and 25 coins for ------Rs. (how many
possible combinations or so possible)
27.) x/y+y/x=40/21(don't remember the exact value, believe this is the one) find x and y there were 2 questions on
train and one was like:
28.) a goods train starts and after 2 hrs a passenger train at 4km/hr starts and overtakes the goods train after 4 hrs,
then the speed of goods train?
29.) 15hrs of boys work=6 hrs of women's work. 3/5 of the work is done by -----boys and -----women. How much
time would be?
30.) there was one question on triangle
31.) a figure was given a square with four corners shaded and asked to find the area of the shaded portion.... ie area
of square-area of the regular octagon.

Syntel Placement Pattern : Syntel recruits both experienced and fresher Engineers. The selection of them is on
basis of written test and interview.
In the written test, there are approximately 85 questions and time allotted for this is 90 marks. There is no negative
marking. Written test is divided into 3 sections. Section I contains 25 verbal questions. The time given for this is 15
minutes. Section II is on Quantitative Aptitude. There are 30 questions in this which are to be solved in 45 minutes.
Section III is on Logical reasoning. There are 30 questions in this and time allotted for this is 30 minutes.

SYNTEL PAPER ON 29th MARCH 2008 AT BHOPAL 

Hello, This is preeti.It was a open campus drive.I have gone through all the rounds of syntel & by the grace of God I
have been selected in syntel. I am here giving u the pattern of question paper & questions asked in interviewes.

There are 3 rounds in syntel:

1:Written test paper with eassy writting
2:HR(elimination round)
3:Technical inter. 

Written::50 questions for 45 minutes

Q1 to Q5 Analogy
Eg 1Hourse:Mare::Husband:?
options:: wife,daughter.......etc
2 ) Doct.:treatment::advocate:? Like this 

further they have given some jumbled letters and we have to put that into a correct sequence
Eg: KAAABHSR =43335126
options: 12345633 
54321633 
51324363(Correct option)=(Ans BHASKARA) 

Next 5 questions : a puzzle was given :

Puzzle: There r 6 teachers ABCDE & a&b is teaching history &english b&c is teaching maths&hindi & so
on...................
Q: How many teachers r teaching maths?
Q: How many r taking more than 2 subjects? etc (Easy but concentrate with time management ) 

Next 5 questions were from aptitude:

Time &Work(Go through R.S Agarwal) easy but Logic must me clear to U
Next 10 Q were the tabulation Problem similar to one given in the R.S Agarwal(Go through it) 

Now VERBAL PART (15 QUESTIONS)

Fill in the blanks(3-4Q)
Fill with appropriate articles.
Vocab: a word was given & we have to choose from the given options its opposite or its related meaning(Little
vocab Power required) 1. The grammar for A, B, S is given below.

S->Ax|By

A->Ax|y

B->x|y

possible ans is xy|xy
2. In n*n matrix , there non zero numbers in diagonal and either side of the diagonal. If represented in one
dimensional array, assign thevalues which are non zeros.

find relation with i,j iteration and linear array like a[2*(i-1)+j] this the matrix will be

x x 0 0 0 0 --------

x x x 0 0 0 0 -----

0 x x x 0 0 0 ------

0 0 x x x 0 0 -------

0 0 0 x x x 0 0 ----

remumber n*n matrix

3. In-order of the letters is given as below: If written in pre-order like given below: write the post-order:

4. fun(n)

{if(n<=2)return (1); else

return ((fun(n-1)*fun(n-2));}

find the order of complexity of the programme.

answer ---- N(2^n)

6. If a and b are given. write the results of the programme given below.

a=a XOR b;

b=a XOR b;

a= a XOR b;

answer is swaping of a and b

so b, a is answer

7.for a given CMOS the voltage is halved frequency doubled capacitance halved what is the present CMOS power

ans (b)---- dynamic power is 1/2 *C*f*V^2

8.if a row dominated two dimensional array in the following which one is advantage and why?

a) for(i=0;i<1000;i++)

for(j=0;j<1000;j++)

temp=temp+a[i][j];

b) for(j=0;j<1000;j++)

for(i=0;i<1000;i++)
temp=temp+a[i][j]

9. what is area of a Hexagon with side as 1unit

ans is 3*(sqrt(3))/2

10. If traverse in a chess board right and down from one corner to another corner how many possible ways will be
there

ans is C(16,8) or (16!/(8!*8!))

11. Tick the below which can bipartite (graph theory)

1)tree   2)forest of trees   3) even cycle graph   4) odd cycle graph

ans is 1,2,3

12.The fig shown in below is a SRAM (1K* 4 bits) ,how many of this SRAMS are required to design 16K of one
byte

Ans is 32 SRAMS and one 4 to 16 decoder

13. suppose two persons entering into one room in the morning 5 to 6 A.M. what is the probability they will enter in
10 minutes gap.

14. In a binary tree what is the height and lowest no of levels for N nodes.

Ans: is highest is N and lowest is log(N+1) base 2

15.represent 3 and -3 in base -2 form taking two states (0,1) only

After this 10 minutes were given to us for eassy writting. 

TIME MANAGEMENT REQUIRED 

Results were announced after 6 hrs & out of 1300 students 200 students were shortlisted for HR round 

HR:
Advice ::Go through all the core questn.
q asked to me:
SHE: Speak about UR self for 1 min. 
She: Tell me UR biggest strength U feel proud with
I: told
She: Biggest weakness
I: told
she :told me to discuss the topic given for eassy
She: Asked for queries 

To my some friends other questions asked were Talk abt UR hairstyle

What will u do if U will be given the powers similar to God for 1 day? etc Depends 

Lots of people got eliminaed from HR 

Technical:
There were 2 panels 4 technical inter. They had our written test paper with them .My interviewer asked me 2 solve
the questions from written test paper 
I: Good afternoon sir.
He: Stood up & shaked hands with me & introduced himself.
He: Have a seat preeti 

Checked my resume & all the certificates.Futher he asked me to solve the Q from written test paper.

Further he helped in a q i was uncomfortable with & given me another q similar to that also asked me some more Q
to related logic.He asked me about my teachnical skills & asked me 1 Q from loops.He also asked for questions 4
him. Again he shaked hands with me & said "Preeti looking forward to see U at pune". 

So I had a strong hope for my result.The interviewers were so polite & cooperative just B what U R. final selections
were 51 out of 200. 

Never ever loose UR heart .GOD is great & their is always a second oppurtunity.(It was my 5th campus) "ALL THE
BEST" 

Ok bye see u at SYNTEL (consider IT done)

 
1. Graphics:Painters algorithm is used for...........
2. Graphics:Why is 'Lighting' operations done on World Coordinates?
3. Graphics:One more question 
4. Some question on C External Variables. 
5. How can you call a function written in FORTRAN from a C program ?
6. Normal question on pointer addition
7. Another question on pointer addition 
8. A question on 64 bit OS's and Virtual Memory it will be having
9. Another question on 64 bit OS
10. A structure was given and it contained normal data as well as some bit-wise data.You had to find the total size
taken up by the structure 
11. A big code with lots of pointers. There was a struct which contained 2 arrays. Then an array of that structure was
declared. The code used these structures and you had to find the values of a variable 'j' at various points inside the
code 
12. A code which had some declarations of some data items. There were a couple of normal data items(char,int..)
and some pointers as well and a malloc call. You have to find the total memory taken up in the stack(Hint:Pointers
and all are allocated in heap, not in stack, so dont count them).Also in most of these questions, they were specifying
that the OS was 32 bit
13. A question on nesting of pointers. There was this pointer to a function which returned an array of char
pointers.....You had to give the exact definition of the function 
14. Value of 2 particular variables in C(MAXINT and some other constant)
15. What do you need to do to open more than 10 files simultaneously in Microsoft Operating System? -change
stdio.h/change CONFIG.SYS/compiler dependent 
16. A question on Macro( consisted of something like CTRL&037)
17. Another question on Macro expansion 
18. Yet another question on Macro expansion
19. UNIX question on 'who' output and then doing some other operation and then asking you whats the output. 
2u. NIX question on 'awd' operation. 
Analytical Test:
21. 101^100 -1 is divisible by.....
22. Question on boat ( stream velocity given...)
23. Train Question( Goods and Passenger train.. their speeds given..)
24. Pipe question (with leak at the bottom..) 
25. Salary & Proportion problem
26. Another problem on Salary & Proportion 
27. Age question-father and son
28. Another age question
29. Question onratios(Sachin:Saurav=Saurav:Rahul=3:2....together they scored some runs,you had to find the runs
scored by Sachin) 
30. Angle between hands when time is 2:20 
31. x^2 + 4 y^2 =4xy.Find x:y 
32. A question on Arithmetic Progression(something like 5 times the 5th term is 8 times the 8th term..find 12th
term...) 
33. A and B's work units given.They were together gievn Rs.720.When C joined,they together completed the work
in 5 days.Find C's wages 
34. There was a circle.A square of max size was cut from it.From this square,a circle of max size was cut.What was
the ratio of this final size w.r.t initial size? 
35. A runs 3/4th faster than B.One of them was placed some metres ahead.How far should the finishing post be
placed so that both of them finish at the same time? 
36. Longest time one has to wait for next birthday?(366/365/4 years/8years)
37. Next no: in the seq: 7,11,__,19,23 
38. Some question on steps...it was 10 ft high...an ant travelled upwards..and total time taken
39. Cricket-some data on runrate of the opposition being 15%.... 
40. Time & Distance..somebody was travelling along the circumference.... The questions are not at all complete
because lack of memory :-) 
Paper: Syntel Placement Paper (Aptitude, Verbal & Reasoning)

Part 1: (Verbal/English)

Antonyms:

1. equanimity
2. sequester
3. apathetic
4. dislodge
5. sedate 
Analogies:
1. celeberate:marriage::
a. window:bedroom b. lument:barevemant
c. pot:pan d. face:penalty
2. neglegent:requirement::
remises:duty cognet:argument
easy:hard careful:position
3. Germ:disease::
man:women doctor:medicine
war:destrustion shopkeeper:goods
4. bouquet:flower::
skin:body chain:link
product:factory page:book
5. letter:word::
club:people page:book
product:factory picture:paper 
Part II
1. One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60
mts , how much time it will take to reach the top? a. 31 b.33 c.37 d.40 (ans: 37)
2. X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in - - - - days. (ans: y^3/x^2)
3. sqrt(12 + sqrt(12) + ((sqrt(12) +......................infinity) = ? (ans: 4)
4. consider a square ABCD, in which E is the mid-point of BC & F is that of CD. Now find the ratio of area of
triangle AEF to the area of square ABCD. (ans: 3/8) 
Prt III (Reasoning)
1. There are 4 buses - A,B,C,D. There are 220 students in a school. A can carry 60 students. B can carry 50 students.
C can carry 40 students. D can carry 35 students Cost of travelling in the 4 buses were given, A - 160 , B- 140, C-
125 , D- 95 (not exact values)
a) Find the bus combinations, so that all the students can be carried in the minimum cost (One can use any no. of
buses of a particular type)
b) Find the min. no. of buses required to carry all students etc.
2.  P speakes Italian & French Q speakes Spanish & English R speakes Italian & German S speakes Spanish &
French T speakes English & German etc. Find a) Mediator between P & Q b) Most popular language etc
3. All P's are Q's some R's are not C's Some C's are P's & so on ( 5 Q's based on these facts)
4. One Logical Venn diagram problem
5. One simple flow chart 
1.)  Maximum numbers that can be formed using all the 4 digits 6 4 8 1without repetition and which is divisible by
9.(Ans: none)
2.) Find the number of sides of a regular convex polygon whose angleis 40degrees.
3.) a+b+c=0, then roots of ax^2+bx+c=0 is
1.imagenary   2.real    3.coincidental    4.zero
4.) Difference b/w the compound interest and simple interest forRs.2500 for 2 years is given. find the rate of interest.
5.) there was one more question on S.I and C.I
6.) The minimum number by which 60 is to be multiplied to generate a square.
Ans: 15
7.) A monkey climbs 6 mts and falls 3mts in alternate minutes. Then time taken to climb a tree 60metres high?
a. 35   b.37    c.32   d.34   (answer is 37)
8.)  A bucket contains z drops. and it leaks x drops in t secs.then the time required to empty the bucket (in minutes).
9.) 6 pipes fill or empty the cistern. find the number of emptying pipes if it takes 18hrs to fill and 18 hrs to empty.
10.) The largest no: which is a factor of 1080 and 729
11.) No: of spheres of radius 1 that can be got from sphere of radius.
12.)Travelling at 3/4th the speed a man is 20 minutes later then speed is?
13.) there are 6 keys and 6 locks. then number of combinations to be tried out to get the actual solution
14.) choosing 2 people out of 10 in how many combinations can a particular person (some name) be always
included....

15.) from 6 white balls and 7 black balls probability that 2 balls drawn at random are of the same color?
16.) if a sales man gets successive gain of 15% and 20% then his actual gain?
ans. 38
17.) a string of pearls such that 1/3 is lost and of that 1/4th is missing, remaining is 20 then actual number of pearls?
ans. 40
18.) a man gets a gain of x%. but if he had sold at twice the cost price, what will be his gain?
19.) a clock was 7minutes behind the actual time on 3 p.m. on Wednesday and 8 minutes ahead of actual time on
(not sure) 4 p.m. Friday. when will it show the correct time?
20.) boat moves upstream in 6 hrs and covers the same distance downstream in 5 hrs. then speed of a raft floating?
accuracy of question not sure)
21.) (this was the last question) no idea what it stands for........ some kind of notation like
S(P(M((D(a,b),2))):P(M(S(D(a,b),........

1. ab   2.(a-b)^2    3.(a+b)^2    4.none

22.) if x men working x hrs per day can do x units of work in x days, then y men working y hrs/day would be able to
complete how many units of work i y days?
ans. y^3/x^2 (question in R.S. Agarwal)
23.) ( this was a question in the first page of the section II booklet) a cone with radius----- and height -----. a
hemisphere covers the cone such that base of hemisphere meets that of the cone. then the enclose volume.....(R.S.
Agarwal consists of similar questions)
24.) there was one more question on volume and surface area.
25.) 1 Rs, 50 ps , 25 ps coins are in the ratio ---------, then the number of 50 ps coins if they sum to ------Rs. (similar
question in R.S.Agarwal)
26.) there was one more question on coins i.e. about getting a change of 10ps and 25 coins for ------Rs. (how many
possible combinations or so possible)
27.) x/y+y/x=40/21(don't remember the exact value, believe this is the one) find x and y there were 2 questions on
train and one was like:
28.) a goods train starts and after 2 hrs a passenger train at 4km/hr starts and overtakes the goods train after 4 hrs,
then the speed of goods train?
29.) 15hrs of boys work=6 hrs of women's work. 3/5 of the work is done by -----boys and -----women. How much
time would be?
30.) there was one question on triangle
31.) a figure was given a square with four corners shaded and asked to find the area of the shaded portion.... ie area
of square-area of the regular octagon.
1. one pipe fills in 4 hrs and another in 5hrs when they both work alternately how much time will be taken to fill the
tank.

2. LCM of 3 no's is 120 which of the following no must not be their HCF
a. 8    b.24  c.12   d.24   e.  30

3. Two trains from the points A and B moving in opposite direction , at the point they meet the second train travels
120 kms more than the first. The speeds are 50kmph and 60kmph respectively find the distance between A and B?

4. One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60
mtrs , how much time it will take to reach the top?

a. 31   b.33   c.37  d.40   (ans: 37)

5. a number when multiplied by 7/18 instead of 7/8 and got the result 770 less than the actual result , find the
original number?

6. The volume and the radius of both cone and sphere are equal , then find the ratio of height of the cone to the
diameter of the sphere?

7. A and B started a business with 1500 and 2500 and got a profit 800 rs. Half of the profit is shared equally the
remaining is shared according to their investment. Find their profits.

8. The difference between the simple interest and compound interest for 2 years?

A:B =2:3 and B:C=5:6 then find A:B:C

9. an amount of 64 Rs has to become 125 in 3 years in compound interest , find the rate of interest?

10. a similar to the above problem find the time(rate of interest is given)

11. the prime no., which is greater than 6 when divide by 6 will always gives the remainder

ans: 1 or 5

12. Length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and breadth is decreased by 25% what is the difference in the area

13. Mr X position in a class is 13th from first and 17th from last, and 8th from the first and 13th from last in passed
candidates list, then how many candidates failed in the exam

14. Two successive discounts of 20% and 15% is equal to a net discount of .....

15. A two digit number is 4 times to its sum of digits , when 9 is added to the number, the digits will get reversed.
Then what is that number?

Ans: 12

16. The length of the following rectangle is '4a' and its breadth is '2a'. Radius of the two circles is 'a'. Then find the
ratio of total area of the rectangle to the area not covered by the two circles with in the rectangle

17. A person starts with the speed of u/1 kmph and returns with the speed of u/2 kmph, what is his average speed.
18. A cistern will be filled in 9 hrs, but becoz of an outlet it is filled in 10 hrs, if the cistern is filled, then how much
time the outlet takes to empty the cistern.

19. In a right angled triangle ABC angle B = 90 , BM is the median to AC , then AB2 + BC2 (in terms of BM)

20. Three circles with same radius r are drawn with centres as three vertices of a triangle. What is the sum of areas
of the intersections of these circles with the triangle.

21. X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in ---- days.

22. The compound interest for first and second years is 200 and 220 on a certain amount. Find the sum.

23. Marked price of a commodity is 35% above the cost price. If he gives a discount of 15%, how much he gains on
the deal.

24. 5 mangoes + 4 oranges = 7 mangoes + 1 orange. Find the ratio of mango to orange.

25. A man starts a work, after some time some one joins him..............like this

26. Food is sufficient for 100men for 60days. For how many days the food is sufficient for 500men?

27. If 8men 8hrs per day works for 8days get 45/- then how many men required if the work is 5hrs per day
for10days they get 60/-?

28. A person sold an item at a profit of 12% .If he sold it at a loss of 12% then he would get Rs.6/- less. What is the
cost price?

29. (1 ½ /((3/4-2/5 )/(2/3+4/5))) * ((2 ¾/((4/3-2/5 )/(5/3+6/5))) (Numbers different)

30. Avg age of X number of adults in a class is 30yrs. If 12 new adults with avg age of 32 joined with them then the
avg age increases by one. Find X?

31. A sphere of radius 2cms is dropped into a cylinder of radius 4 cms containing water upto certain level. The raise
in the water level is (not sure)

32. find the average of reciprocals of x and y :

33. In a school there are 1000 students in the year 1999. The number of students increased by 20% in the year 2000.
And it is increased by 15% in the year 2001. But it is decreased by 18% in 2002. Then what is the strength in 2002.
(numbers may diff

REASONING

1. Odd man out

a) stem b) fruits c) flowers d) tree e) root
2. 9, --, 15, 18, 21, 24
3. seating arrangement(2 puzzles)
4. books arrangement (puzzle)
5. flowchart
6. If 3rd day of a month is Monday. Then what is the 5th day after 21st of that month?
7. blood relation
APER : SYNTEL Campus Placement & Interview Pattern (Technical And HR)
Hello Friends,
I?m S.Anith From Hello Friends, I?m S.Anith From Mepco Schlenk Engg., College, Sivakasi.
Here is my SYNTEL campus placement Experience(JUNE 2008). Almost 170 students attended. Among them 34
students are shortlisted for technical interview. Finally 15 students are shortlisted for HR Interview. Finally 8
Students are selected. It is my 5th company. In first 4 companies I hadn?t cleared my written test. Recruitment
Process consists of : 
PLACEMENTPAPERS.NET
1.Online Test 
2.Technical Interview 
3.HR Interview
PLACEMENTPAPERS.NET
1. Online Test: 
It consists of 5 sections which include Quantitative Aptitude, Series Completion&Coding, Comprehension,
Correcting Sentence, Articles & Prepositions. For Quantitative Aptitude, Series Completion ? R.S. Agarwal is more
than sufficient. Only thing is that you must complete within very short time. Each section contains 14 questions to
be answered within 6min. For this hand practise and logical thinking is very essential. For success in aptitude you
should think as an Engg., and solve as a 10th std., student. Time management is very essential. For Correcting
Sentence, Articles&Prepositions ?Wren & Martin is more than sufficient. Practise tenses, articles and prepositions
on Wren & Martin. Regular pracise and Speaking correct English will make u to clear this section very easily.
Correcting Sentence ? in the test they have asked us to identify the wrong parts in the Sentence. Reading
comprehension is very easy. For this u must fast reading & understanding habit. Each section has sectional cutoff. 
PLACEMENTPAPERS.NET
2.Technical Interview: 
I am an ECE student. So my interviewer asked me related to the subjects that i have come across. At first he had
asked me about my area of interest. My area of interest is Computer networks. He asked me about network, diff.,
between bus and star ,internet,browser, lan. Then he asked me about TLW subject, wifi, working of cellphone,
losses in transmission lines and how to overcome it. And some more questions that i can?t remember now. My
interview lasted morethan 40 min. Most important thing is that u should have parctical knowledge about the things
that u have come across. In my panel almost 15 students attended, among them only 2 are selected. In other panel
C,C++ are asked.
PLACEMENTPAPERS.NET
3.HR Interview: 
It lasted for 20 min. The questions are: 1.Introduce urself. 2.Why want to hire u. 3.Tell about the website u come
across to know about syntel: I said Freshersworld .com. He then asked me the procedure to go the syntel profile. I?
ve explained him. Finally he was satisfied about my performance. He asked me to wait for the result. English
grammar is more essential thing while speaking. More students are eliminated becuse of this in this round. The
result was announced by 7:15pm. I?m the 4th person among the 8. I felt very happy, no words to express my joy. Do
well. I pray the almighty for all of ur success in placement. See u all at SYNTEL.
Nos. of rounds : Screeing Test, Techincal Round-1, Client/Manager
Garbage Collection, when Generation 2 is FULL will the object ever be
created. or Gen 2 will be collected?
Why we have two types of memory, what is heap memory ?
Difference between Virtual and Abstract Method ?
What is Runtime Polymorphism ?
What is Overiding ?
WHat is the use of a Static Constructor ?
What is the use of a private constructor ?
What is a Delegate ?
How do you call a Asynchronous method from a Delegate ?
What design patterns you used in the project ?
What is difference between new and virtual ?
what is the difference betweem stringbuilder and string
What is an interface ? Is there any relation betweem interface and
performance ?
what is an abstract class ?
Scenario where you used Delegate ?
What is a Generic Class ?
What is the difference between DataSet and DataReader ?
When you wil go for a DataReader or DataSet ?
What is CommandBuilder ?
How do you manage session, session mode ?
How do you incremnet the signed in users count in a website ?
Wht is the diff between server.transfer and response.redirect ?
how to improve asp.net performance ?
what are diff types of caching ?
Difference between Application and Sesssion ?
What is Channel Factory ?
How do you Host a Service ?
What is setting the client config when working on WCF Service ?
what is the difference between TCP and http bindidng ?