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a) 6
b) 7
c) 8
d) 9
e) None of these
Q2) There are two pipes A and B. If A fills 10 litres per hour,
B’s filling rate doubles after every hour starting with 10 litres
in first hour (i.e. 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 litres and so on per
hour). If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how many
hours will it take to fill the tank completely?
a) 9
b) 18
c) 27
d) 46
e) None of these
Q3. Four men are standing in a market. The average age of

all, four years ago was 45 years. Now one man joins them
and his age is 49 years. What is the new average age (in
years) of all combined together?
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a) 43
b) 45
c) 47
d) 49
e) None of these
Q4) A person is climbing a rock at an altitude of 800 m. He

goes up at 7 mph. and comes down at 9 mph. What is his
average speed?
a) 7.875 mph
b) 7.125 mph
c) 7mph
d) 7.5 mph
e) None of these
Q5) Smita was making a cube with dimensions 5*5*5 using

1*1*1 cubes. What is the number of cubes needed to make
a hollow cube, of the same shape and size?
a) 98
b) 104
c) 100
d) 61
e) None of these
Q6) Find the missing term in the following series: 5, 3, 12,

7, 26, 15, ?
a) 54
b) 27
c) 108
d) 31
e) None of these
Q7) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models
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which come out of the final testing area at random. What

are the odds (probability) that five consecutive cars of same
colour will come through the test area at any one time?
a) 1 in 16
b) 1 in 125
c) 1 in 32
d) 1 in 25
e) None of these
Q8) 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?
a) 280.5625cm²
b) 240.5625cm²
c) 280.125cm²
d) 240cm²
e) None of these
Q9) Usha bought a linen cloth and a rope to build a tent. If

the rope is 153 m long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1m
length, then how many cuts are to be made to cut the rope
into 153 pieces?
a) 153
b) 152
c) 154
d) 155
e) None of these
Q10) A person buys a horse for 15 pounds. After one year,

he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the
same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is
the overall profit percent for that person over both the
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transactions?
a) 15%
b) 33.33%
c) 45%
d) 60%
e) None of these
Q11) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told
that they are having equal number of brothers and sisters
and girls told that they are having twice the number of
brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls are present
in the family?
a) 4 boys and 3 girls
b) 3 boys and 4 girls
c) 2 boys and 5 girls
d) 5 boys and 2 girls
e) None of these
Q 12) If 10 boys meet at a reunion and each boy shakes

hands exactly once with each of the others, then what is the
total number of handshakes?
a) 10!
b) 10*10
c) 10*9
d) 45
e) None of these
Q13) My name is PREET. But my son accidentally types the

name by interchanging a pair of letters in my name. What is
the probability that despite this interchange, the name
remains unchanged?
a) 5 %
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b) 10%
c) 20%
d) 25%
e) 12.5%
Q14) If there are only 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in

a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4
wheelers parked there if the total number of wheels is 58?
a) 10
b) 33
c) 22
d) 44
e) None of these
Q15) The ages of two friends is in the ratio of 6:5.If the sum
of their ages is 66. Then after how many years will the ratio
become 7:6?
a) 11
b) 6
c) 10
d) 12
e) None of these
Q16) A volume of 10936 liters water is in a container of the

shape of a sphere. How many semi spheres of volume 4
liters each will be required to transfer all the water into the
small semi spheres?
a) 2812
b) 8231
c) 2734
d) 4222
e) None of these
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Q17) A person is building a house. He bought 20 ropes of

wire that has a density of 300 Kg/m3.The height of the
building to be constructed is 40 m. If the capacity of the
current passed in the wire is 20 A and the voltage capacity
is 80 Volts. Then what will be the opposing force to the
current of the wire used?
a) 2 Ω
b) 4 Ω
c) 8 Ω
d) 1600 Ω
e) None of these
Q18) A man walks 50km towards north, then he turns left

and walks 40km, then he turned right. In which direction is
he facing now?
a) North
b) South
c) East
d) West
e) None of these
Q19) In T.Nagar the buildings are numbered from 1 to 100.

How many 6’s will be present in the numbers?
a) 18
b) 19
c) 20
d) 21
e) None of these
Q20) If the Valentine’s Day in 2005 falls on Monday, then on

which day will the Valentine’s Day fall in 2010?
a) Saturday
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b) Thursday
c) Wednesday
d) Sunday
e) None of these
Q21) A man has 3 grand children. The age difference

between any two children is 3 years. The eldest child’s age
is 3 times the youngest child’s age and the eldest child’s
age is two times the sum of the ages of the other two
children. Find what is the age of the eldest child?
a) 18
b) 22
c) 30
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these
Q22) Find the value of sin
75° + sin 15°

=?
cos 75° + cos 15°
a) 1
b) 2
c) √3/2
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these
Q23) In a circular racetrack of length 100 m, three persons

A, B and C start together. A and B start in the same
direction at speeds of 10 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. While
C runs in the opposite direction at 15 m/s. When will all the
three meet for the first time on the track after the start?
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a) After 4 s
b) After 50 s
c) After 100 s
d) After 200 s
e) None of these
Q24) On planet Zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps
on its equator. Eight years after the ice melts, tiny
planetoids called Echina start growing on the rocks. Echina
grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between
the diameter of this circle and the age of Echina is given by
the formula d = 4 * √ (t – 8) for t ≥ 8, where d represents the
diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar
blast. Jagan recorded the age of some Echina at a
particular spot as 24 years. What is diameter of the Echina
circle?
a) 8
b) 16
c) 25
d) 21
e)None of the
Q25) A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named John,

Jill and Jack. He visits a park twice in a week. He loves his
sons very much. On a certain day, he found the
shopkeepers selling different things. An apple costs 1
penny, 2 chocolates cost 1 penny & 3 bananas cost 1
penny. He has bought equal number of apples, chocolates
& bananas for each son. If the total amount he invests is 7
penny, then how many fruits has he bought for each son?
a)1 apple, 1 chocolate, 1 banana
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b)1 apple, 2 chocolates, 3 bananas

c)1 apple, 2 chocolates,1banana
d) None of these
Q26) The vertices of Δ ABC are point A (7,9), B(3,-7),

C(3,-3). Which of the following is true?
a) ABC is a right-angled triangle
b) ABC is an equilateral triangle
c) ABC is an isosceles triangle
d) Both (a) & (c)
e) None of these
Q27) From the top of a 9 metres high building AB, the angle
of elevation of the top of a tower CD is 30° and the angle of
depression of the foot of the tower is 60°. Find the height of
the tower?
a) 9m
b) 18m
c) 20m
d) 27m
e) None of these
Q28) If x+y=25 and x2y3 + y2x3=25, what is the value of

xy?
a) 0
b) +1
c) 5
d) 4
e) None of these
Q29) A person is entitled to receive an annual payment

which for each year is less by 1/10th of what it was for the
year before. If the first payment is Rs. 100, then find the
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maximum possible payment which he can receive however

long he may live?
a) Rs.900
b) Rs.9999
c) Rs.1000
d) Rs.9000
e) None of these
Q30) In the reading room of a library, there are 10 reading

spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 4
chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that
in each table there are different numbers of people seated.
If in all there are 10 readers, then how many reading spots
do not have even a single reader?
a) 8
b) 6
c) 2
d) 7
e) None of these
Q31) A girl has to make pizzas with different toppings.

There are eight different toppings. In how many ways can
she make pizzas with two different toppings?
a) 16
b) 56
c) 112
d) 28
e) None of these
Q32) Read the following statements and answer the

questions that follow?
a) Seeta, Rajinder and Surinder are children of Mr. and Mrs.
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Maudgil
b) Renu,Raja and Sunil are children of Mr. and Mrs.
Bhaskar
c) Sunil and Seeta are married and Ashok and Sanjay are
their children
d) Geeta and Rakesh are children of Mr. and Mrs. Jain
e) Geeta is married to Surinder and has three children
named Rita, Sonu
and Raju.
How is Rajinder related to Raju?

a) brother
b) uncle
c) brother in law
d) cousin
e) maternal uncle
Q33) There are 1000 pillars in a temple. Three friends

Linda, Chelsea and Julia visited that temple. Linda is taller
than Chelsea, who is taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is
shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?
a) Linda is shorter among them
b) Chelsea is taller than Julia
c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia
d) Cannot determine who is taller between Chelsea and
Julia
e) None of these
Q34) Fred is a researcher at the Sun Computer Centre. He

is also a jazz musician. He wrote a program that recognized
his pattern of musical play and predicted his notes. Notes
were first converted to numbers through complex statistical
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techniques. The first few numbers are 26,25,23,20 and 16.

What should come next?
a) 13
b) 12
c) 11
d) 10
e) None of these
Q35) For a journey the cost of a child ticket is 1/3rd of the

cost of an adult ticket. If the cost of the ticket for 4 adults
and 5 children is Rs. 85, what is the cost of a child ticket?
a) Rs.5
b) Rs.6
c) Rs. 10
d) Rs.15
e) None of these
Directions for Q36 to Q40: Read the following passage

carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Mr. Harding was not a happy man as he walked down the

palace pathway, and stepped out into the close. His position
and pleasant house were a second time gone from him; but
that he could endure. He had been schooled and insulted
by a man young enough to be his son; but that he could put
up with. He could even draw from the very injuries which
had been inflicted on him some of that consolation which,
we may believe, martyrs always receive from the injustice of
their own sufferings. He had admitted to his daughter that
he wanted the comfort of his old home, and yet he could
have returned to his lodgings in the High Street, if not with
exultation, at least with satisfaction, had that been all. But
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the venom of the chaplain's harangue had worked into his

blood, and sapped the life of his sweet contentment.
'New men are carrying out new measures, and are carting
away the useless rubbish of past centuries!'
What cruel words these had been- and how often are they
now used with all the heartless cruelty of a Slope! A man is
sufficiently condemned if it can only be shown that either in
politics or religion he does not belong to some new school
established within the last score of years. He may then
regard himself as rubbish and expect to be carted away. A
man is nothing now unless he has within him a full
appreciation of the new era; an era in which it would seem
that neither honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which
success is the only touchstone of merit. We must laugh at
everything that is established. Let the joke be ever so bad,
ever so untrue to the real principles of joking; nevertheless,
we must laugh - or else beware the cart. We must talk,
think, and live up to the spirit of the times, or else we are
nought. New men and new measures, long credit and few
scruples, great success or wonderful ruin, such are now the
tastes of Englishmen who know how to live! Alas, alas!
Under such circumstances, Mr. Harding could not but feel
that he was an Englishman who did not know how to live.
This new doctrine of Mr. Slope and the rubbish cart sadly
disturbed his equanimity. 'The same thing is going on
throughout the whole country!' 'Work is now required from
every man who receives wages!' And had he been living all
his life receiving wages, and doing no work? Had he in truth
so lived as to be now in his old age justly reckoned as
rubbish fit only to be hidden away in some huge dust-hole?
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The school of men to whom he professes to belong, the

Grantlys, the Gwynnes, are afflicted with no such self-
accusations as these which troubled Mr. Harding. They, as
a rule, are as satisfied with the wisdom and propriety of
their own conduct as can be any Mr. Slope, or any Bishop
with his own. But, unfortunately for himself, Mr. Harding had
little of this self-reliance. When he heard himself designated
as rubbish by the Slopes of the world, he had no other
resource than to make inquiry within his own bosom as to
the truth of the designation. Alas, alas! The evidence
seemed generally to go against him.
Q36) The main cause of Mr. Harding’s unhappiness as he

leaves the Bishop’s Palace is
a) the loss of his house

b) the loss of his position
c) the need to live with his daughter
d) the thought-provoking words of the chaplain
e) the injustice he has suffered
Q37) Mr. Hardings is talking of an era where what matters is

only
a) either truth or honesty
b) belonglin to the new school in Politics or religion
c) Success as a Touchstone
d) not to make fun of the established
e) all of the above.
Q38) The word ‘equanimity’ (line 20) most nearly means

a) status
b) happiness
c)justice
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d)complacency
e) composure
Q39) It can be inferred that Mr Harding is especially

disturbed because he
a) does not feel himself to be old
b) is offended by the young man’s impertinence
c) believes no one else feels as he does
d) believe his life’s work has been worthwhile
e) feels there may be some truth in regarding himself as
‘rubbish’
Q40) Mr. Harding differs from others of his ‘school’ (line 23)
because they
a) do not believe Slope
b) have never been called ‘rubbish’
c) are sure their conduct is irreproachable
d) have already examined their consciences
e) feel that Mr. Harding is not one of them
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7-8 minutes
TCS PAPER
Synonym and antonym

1.Harbinger forerunner, portent, indication
2.Cacophony dissonance, disharmony
3.Divulge reveal, disclose
4.Clutch grasp, grab, clasp, hold
5.Acronym short form, contraction, ellipsis
6.Illustrious memorable, wellknown, famous
7.Prolific productive, abundant
8.Divergent different, deviating, conflicting
9.Jaded world-weary, tired, lackluster, worn-out, exhausted,
bored, fed up
10. Mien appearance, demeanor
11. Mitigate alleviate, ease, lessen, soften, allay, moderate
12. Ambitious determined, grand, striving
13. Aberration deviation, abnormality, eccentricity, oddness
14. Foray raid, sortie, incursion, attack, venture
15. Denounce condemn, accuse, criticize
VERBAL SECTION:Directions for questions 1-15:Find the
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synonyms of the following words.

Synonyms: (Ref: Barrons Synonyms and
Antonyms)
Ponderous heavy, tedious, cumbersome
Mundane ordinary, dull, monotonous, dreary
Icon image, idol, emblem, symbol
Brackish salty, briny
Mollify placate, pacify, calm, appease, soothe
Depreciation reduction, decline
Equanimity composure, poise, calmness, self-control
Gist general idea, substance, essence
Gaudy garish, flashy, extravagant, loud, showy, colorful
Awry skewed, crooked, wrong
Repartee banter, joking, word play
Boisterous energetic, animated
Ungainly clumsy, awkward, ungraceful, miserly, mean,
inelegant, gawky
Whimsical fanciful, unusual, quirky, capricious
Asperity roughness, severity, brusqueness
Cavil quibble, complain, niggle, split hairs, carp
Quixotic idealistic, romantic, dreamy, unrealistic,
impracticable
Profound deep, intense, thoughtful, reflective,
philosophical, weighty, insightful
Incorrigible - habitual, persistent, inveterate, hopeless
Musty mildewed, moldy, stale, rank, fusty, stuffy
Waif stray, thing, lose, urchin, orphan
Irk displease, vex, annoy, trouble, bother, nag, rile
Interdict prohibit, veto, injunction, bar, embargo
Cohere - hold together
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Rupture - break
Moribund dying, declining, waning
Décolleté low necked, revealing
Callow inexperienced, immature, youthful
Balmy mild, clement, pleasant
recalcitrant unruly, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn
guile cunningness, deviousness, slyness, cleverness,
wiliness, astuteness
Antonyms
1.Compose x disturb
2.Pristine x sullied
3.Turbid x limpid
4.Monetary x non-economical
5. Revere x threaten
6.Hamper x facilitate
7.Transient x permanence
8.Fascinate x mundane
9.Fickle x loyal
10.Contraband x legal goods
11.Repellent x attractive
12.Slur x grace
13.Protean x constant
14.Hidebound x broadminded
15.Precipitate x dilatory/contradictory
Sentence completion
A passage is given with multiple blanks. There was a
passage abt Artists,abt Money mgmt,abt Cleanliness
SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS.

Censure fault, criticize
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Optimum best, most favorable

Candid frank, open, blunt, upfront, forth-right
Cite quote, name, mention, refer to, allude to
Effusive demonstrative, fussy, talkative, overenthusiastic,
vociferous, extroverted
Voluble articulate, vociferous, talkative
Banal commonplace, trivial, predictable, trite, hackneyed
Standing rank, permanent, position, duration, status,
reputation, eminence
Nascent budding, emerging, blossoming, embryonic
Clutch grasp, grab, hold
Generic general, basic, common
Empirical experimental, pragmatic, practical
Anomaly irregularity, glitch, difference
Circuitous roundabout, twisty, meandering, indirect,
winding, tortuous
Surveillance observation, watch, shadowing
Objective aim, impartial, real, purpose, goal
Raucous rough, wild, hoarse, guttering
Voracious insatiable, avid, hungry, big, rapacious, greedy
Pedigree rare-breed, full-blooded, lineage
Fidelity loyalty, reliability
Augment supplement, boost, add to, bump up
Precarious unstable, shaky, risky, uncertain
Derogatory disparaging, critical, insulting, offensive
Onus responsibility, burden, obligation, duty
Analogous - similar, akin, related
Expedient measure, convenient, device, maneuver
Compliance fulfillment, obedience
Diffident shy, insecure, timid
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Plaintive mournful, sad, melancholic, nostalgic, lamenting

Insinuate imply, suggest, make-out, ingratiate yourself
Misdemeanor wrong, sin, crime, offense
Exonerate clear, forgive, absolve
Gregarious outgoing, extroverted, sociable, expressive,
unreserved
Benign kind, benevolent, compassionate
Attenuate satisfy, calm, soothe, ease
Sonorous loud, deep, resonant, echoing
Bolster boost, strengthen, reinforce, encourage
Heterodox unorthodox, dissenting, contrary to accepted
belief, heretical, deviating
Restiveness impatience, restlessness, nervousness
Effigy image, statue, model
Retrograde retrospective, traditional, conservative,
nostalgic,forward-looking(antonym)
Sacrosanct sacred, holy, revered
Dangle hang down, sway, droop, swing, suspend
Cryptic mysterious, enigmatic, puzzling, hidden
Debilitate incapacitate, weaken, hamper, encumber, hinder
Divulge reveal, disclose
Spendthrift wastrel, squanderer, compulsive shopper
Indigenous native, original, local
Erroneous mistaken, flawed, incorrect
Minion follower, subordinate, underling, gofer
Veracity reality, truth, sincerity
VERBAL REASONING
SYNONYMS:
1. CIRCUMSPECT
(i) CONDITION (ii) INSPECT (iii) CAUTIOUS (IV)
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RECKLESS
2. ABYSMAL - terrible
(i) SLIGHT (ii) DEEP (iii) ILLUSTRIOUS (iv)
PROLIFIC
3. DILIGENT hardworking, industrious, meticulous, careful
(i) INTELLIGENT (ii)..(iii)(iv)
4.VEHEMENT
(i) PASSIONATE (ii) CONFESY (iii) NOISY (iv)
MOQULIS
5) IMPETUS
(i) CONNECT (ii) CRUCIAL (iii) STIMULUS
(iv) IMMEDIATE
6) ACRONYM
(i) ABBREVIATION (ii) SIMILAR
7) DISSEMINATE
(i) FORECAST (ii) SPREAD (iii) BRANSP
8) HARBINGER
(i) NAVAL (ii) UNCOMMON (iii) FORE RUNNER
(iv) GLORY
ANTONYMS:
1) TRACTABLE
(i) OBJECTIONABLE (ii) ENJOYABLE (iii)
ADAPTABLE (iv) OBSTINATE
2) COVERT
(i) MANIFEST (ii) INVISIBLE (iii) SCARED (iv)
ALTER
3) PENSIVE
(i) REPENTENT (ii) SAD (iii) THOUGHTLESS
(iv) CARELESS
4) MITIGATE
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(i) AGGRAVATE (ii) RELIEVE (iii) ELEMINATE

(iv) EXHUMAN
5) DIVERGENT
(i) CONTRARY (ii) COMING TOGETHER
(iii) CONVERSANT (iv) CONTROVERSY
6) DOGMATIC
(i) SCEPTICAL (ii) RESILIENT (iii) STUBBORN
(iv) SUSPICIOUS
7) CLUTCH
(i) HOLD (ii) GRAB (iii) RELEASE (iv)
SPREAD
8) MOTLEY
(i) BULKY (ii) SPECKLED (iii)
HOMOGENEOUS (iv) DIFFERENT
9) RELINQUISH
(i) PURSUE (ii) VANQUISH (iii)
DESTROY (iv) DEVASTATE
10) TRANSIENT
(i) PERMANENT (ii) REMOVED
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2 minutes
TCS PAPER AT NIT,BHOPAL
You can refer to Barrons most frequently used words list for
a close recap. Vocabulary Section: (Time : 28 mins)
Synonyms -
1.Moribund declining, dilapidated, waning
2.Repudiate reject, disclaim, renounce, deny
3.Translucent transparent, semi- transparent, lucid, lucent,
clear, see through
4. Mitigate- alleviates, lessen, ease, alley, tune down, dull,
Assuage
5. Inundate flood, overwhelm, swamp
6. Bilk deceive, trick, swindle, con
7.Nettle annoy, irritate, vex
8.Impugn hold responsible, charge, censure, accuse
9.Mulch
10.Tenacity stubbornness, resolve, firmness, persistence,
insistence, determination
11.Sobriety temperance, moderation, abstemiousness,
soberness
12.Degrade shame, disgrace, mortify, humiliate
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13.Hidebound - narrow-minded, conservative, prejudiced

14.Waif stray, sole, thing
15.Hamper basket, hinder
16.Retrograde nostalgic, retrospective, traditional and
conservative
17.Despondent hopeless, low, dejected
18.Debacle disaster, tragedy, catastrophe
19.Nebulous vague, hazy, unformulated, tenuous
20.Inconsistent conflicting, contradictory, unreliable ,
incompatible, inhoherent
21.Paradox inconsistency, irony, absurdity
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Aug 2019
5-6 minutes
Complete tcs selection procedure consists of :

1) Online Test 2) Technical Interview 3) M.R.
Round 4) H.R. Round
(PAPER) TCS Online Test
The test was divided in three sections as:

1. Verbal reasoning (20 min - 32 Qs )
2. Quantitative aptitude (40 min 36 Qs)
3. Critical reasoning (30 min - 3 passages - 12 Qs)
No Sectional Cut off.

No Negative Marks.
No Psychometric Test was there for us.
1. Verbal reasoning: (20 min 32 Qs)
synonyms and antonyms
hi,guys pls refer Barron's for english and critical
resoning.
prepare for 5 Model test and the Practice exercise,if u
have time then also prepare for 750 high frequency
word.
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,don't remember ,only practice it other wise u will be in
trouble,
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3) Which of the following set of numbers has the highest
Standard deviation?
a)3,0,3,0,3,0 b) -3, -3, -3, -3, -3, -3
c)3,3,3,3,3,3 d) -3,3,-3, 3,-3, 3
Ans : D
4) (momentum * velocity)/(force * time) = velocity
5)33). In the word ORGANISATION, if the first and second,
third and forth, fifth and sixth, etc words are interchanged,
what would be the 8th letter from right? (Ans: I)
6) If A, B, C are the mechanisms used separately to reduce
the wastage of fuel by 30%, 40%, 10%.What will be the
fuel economy if they were used combine?
1.68.4 2.62.2 3.58 4.27
(Ans- 62.2) sol: (70/100)*(60/100)*(90/100)*100=37.8
Eco = (100-37.8) =62.2
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7) What is the value of the following expression

M(973,5)+T(7.7)+R(4.4)-T(3.6)
Where M- MODULAS R- ROUNDOFF T- TRUNCATE
(Ans : 11) Sol: 3 + 7+ 4 - 3 ==11
8) FIND THE MISSING NO. IN SERIES ?
3 8 15 ? 61 124
Ans: 30
9) If G(0) = 1 and G(N)=N*G(N-1) then
What is the value of G(4)?(Ans: 24)
10) Match the following (this type of question but not same)
AB
1. Mammal, cow ---> a. A type of
2. Snake reptile ---> b. A part of
3. Roof - Building ---> c. Not a type of
4. Mushroom - Vegetables ---> d. A superset of
(Ans: 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a)
11)In Chennai , temperature at noon varies according to
-t^2/2 + 8t + 3, where t is elapsed time. Find how much
temperature more or less in 4pm to 9pm.
Ans. (put 9 & 4in eq. n subtract )
12). Find the value of @@+25 - ++@16, where @ denotes
"square" and + denotes "square root".
Ans. 621
13) Find the fourth row, having the bit pattern as an integer
in an 8-bit computer, and express the answer in its decimal
value.
A00001111
B00110011
C01010101
(A AND B )OR C)) ?
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Ans: 47
14) An aircraft takes off from A (89o N Lat, 10o E ) at 6.00
AM local time to B (50o S , 70o W ). If the flying time is 10
hours what is the local time of landing at B?
Ans:10:40am
(if plane is going frm west to east then then Add those hrs)
15). Select the odd one out

a. SMTP b.WAP c. SAP d.ARP
Ans : c
16). select odd one- sql,db2,sybase,http {ans-htttp}
17). select odd one-sybase,db2,oracle,unix {ans-unix}
18-20)THREE QUESTION FROM VENN DIAGRAM(like 30

speaks eng,42 speaks french,.......)
21-23)THREE QUESTION FROM PIE CHART......
24)What is the largest prime number that can be stored in

an 9-bit memory?
Ans: 509
25)In a triangle which one is not possible. A(30*,60*,90*),

B(47*,69*,64* ), C(30*,50*,110* ), D(60*,80*,40*)?
Ans: C
26)11) A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900

meters width. A cable is made from power unit to power a
plant opposite to that of the river and 3000mts away from
the power unit. The cost of the cable below water is Rs.
5/-per meter and cost of cable on the bank is Rs.3/- per
meter. Find the the cable from which it will cut.
Ans:
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27)10) In which of the system, decimal number 194 is equal

to 1234?
Ans: 5
so on.............................
Critical reasoning (30 min - 3 passages - 12 Qs)

For the Critical reasoning section refer barons 12th edition
critical reasoning and solve all the model question papers
that are given there. don't try to mug of the answer because
in the exam u will face difficulty.
Out of the 12 questions 8 are from the model test papers .

As I think all the 10 answers of this section is of mine are
correct.
RESULT OF THE ONLINE TEST DECLARED AT 10:45

pm
I am one of the candidates who was short listed for the

Technical Interview.
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Aptitude-General Contributed by
2-3 minutes
TCS PAPER AT NIT,DURGAPUR
I m sending u almost all the critical reasoning qs. giving just

brief idea because I cant recall .Though I will suggest u to
consult all the qs from anna university and all model test
papers (edition 12th)becoz they made the database from
that edition .though I m giving the aptitudes given here
1six floor is given .there are 7 or 8 people .each floor

contain two apartments. each apart there would be 2 or
persons. We have to determine the person what floors they
are staying (REFERENCE 12 TH BARRON)
25 PERSONS ARE IN ACOMITTEE . THERE A,B,C,D,E,F

,G,H.A&C and C&E,D&F &D&G cant go together From this
there are easy questions # barron page 487 sec 6 analytical
ability prob 8-12 abt 6ix American city.
# barron page 435 sec 5 analytical ability problem 1-4 about

city a ,b and c .
#3Toll in a high way is given .The peoples cant remind the

data. It s also from Barron Book(12th Barron edition).
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Refer Barron for these problems. There were 3 of those.

One of them We have given below:
A project to consolidate the programs of a large university

and a small college is set up. It is agreed that the
representatives work in small committees of 3, with 2 from
the large university. No committee should be represented
by faculty members of same subject area. The professors
were: Large University: J (English), K (Maths.), L, (Natural
Science) Small college: M (Maths.), N (Latin), O, P (Both
English)
Questions:
1. Which of the following represents a properly composed

committee?
(KLN,KLM,JKL,JON,JKM)
akln
2.Which of the following may serve with P?

(KM,KL,KO,JK,MN)
bkl
3. Which of the following must be true?

a. if J serves,P must be assigned.
b. if J can't serve,M also can't be assigned
c. if J can't serve,L must serve.
c
4. If L is not available,which two must be available ?

MJ,OJ,NJ,NO,PJ
c
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3 minutes
TCS PAPER ON 21ST FEBRUARY AT NIT,BHOPAL
CRITICAL REASONING SECTION The critical reasoning

section consists of some passages followed by 4 to 7
questions per passage. The questions are such that they
require ability to read fast and comprehend. The questions
asked in this section have three choices TRUE, FALSE,
CAN'T SAY. Some examples of questions are given below.
Please note that these passages are not the exact
passages asked. The passages used a good deal of difficult
words which have been removed in this reproduction. Also
the passages appearing in the actual paper are much
lengthier.
1.Eight players have to be seated. G, J, L are in the varsity

baseball team. H, M, O are both in the varsity baseball team
and the football team. K and N are in the varsity baseball
team as well as the basketball team. You have to seat them
in such a way that two players who play in two teams never
sit adjacent to each other. Now answer the following
questions: -(There were four questions. I can’t recollect
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them but once u make the initial arrangement it becomes

pretty easy.)
2. You have to make seating arrangements for 8 people.

Andy and Goldberg have to leave early so they must be
seated next to the door, which is on the right rear end of the
table. Cooper and D’ameto are enemies so they have to be
seated as far as possible in the table. Edmund and Farley
always sit together. Burns always occupies the center
position.
Answer the following questions.
1.If Edmund and D’ameto never sit opposite Burns then in

how many ways can the arrangement be made? Etc.
3.A person needs to get himself affiliated to the Nambrian

Consulate. He must be either a US citizen or a neutralized
person. He has to get the certificate from the Nambrian
Consulate, which is open only on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday from 12 to 4 o’clock. For this he also needs to get
himself vaccinated from the Alabama Clinic, which is near
the consulate and is open on Wednesday till 5 pm. He may
also get the vaccination from The Beryl Clinic, which is
open on Mondays to Thursdays from 9-12 pm. And on
Fridays from 4-5 pm. However it takes one hour to get to
the clinic from the Nambrian Consulate. Also he must show
a notarized bank account of more than $1000, which can be
done from Monday to Friday from 9am to 3pm.
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22-28 minutes
TCS PAPER ON 15TH APRIL,2008
PART I For each of the words in Capital letters, choose

from among the answers, the word that is closest in
meaning:
(1) INDUBITABLY
(A) flagrantly (B)doubtfully (C)carefully (D)carelessly
(E)certainly
(2) INEBRIETY
(A) revelation (B)drunkenness (C)felony (D)starvation
(E)gluttony
(3) INEPT
(A) outward (B)spiritual (C)foolish (D)clumsy
(E)abundant
(4) INFALLIBLE
(A)final (B)unbelievable (C)perfect (D)inaccurate
(E)inquisitive
(5) INFIRMITY
(A) disability (B)age (C)inoculation (D)hospital (E)unity
(6) INGENUOUS
(A) clever (B)stimulating (C)naive (D)worried
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(E)cautious
(7) INIMICAL
(A) antagonistic (B) anonymous (C)fanciful (D)accurate
(E)atypical
(8) INNOCUOUS
(A) not capable (B)not dangerous (C)not eager (D)not
frank (E)not peaceful
(9) INSINUATE
(A) resist (B)suggest (C)report (D)rectify (E)lecture
(10)INSIPID
(A) witty (B)flat (C) wily (D) talkative (E)lucid
For each of the words in Capital letters, choose from among

the answers, the closest word that has the opposite
meaning:
(11)VIRULENCE
(A) pallor (B)orderliness (C)femininity (D)harmlessness
(E)cowardice
(12)ADHERENT
(A) fugitive (B)dissembler (C)opponent (D)educator
(E)witness
(13)OSCILLATE
(A) entreat (B)intensify (C) remain fixed (D)expand
gradually (E)wither away
(14)ASPERITY
(A) gentility (B)superiority (C)kindness (D)clarity
(E)vagueness
(15)UNSCATHED
(A) honest (B)gathered (C)injured (D)cleansed
(E)forgiven
(16)FETTER
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(A) diminish (B)enervate (C)liberate (D) return

(E)cure
(17)AUTONOMY
(A) dependence (B)animation (C)renown (D)altruism
(E)antipathy
(18)SLACK
(A) rough (B)active (C)liberal (D)dependent (E)familiar
(19)RECOIL
(A) plunge forward (B)cease firing (C) skirt an issue
(D)facilitate (E)surrender
(20)ENCUMBER
(A) disburden (B)perform easily (C)challenge boldly
(D)observe with care (E)suppress
Read the following text. The passage contains some blank

spaces. Choose the sentence from the list A – I, that best
fits in each of the blank spaces. The numbers in brackets
refer to Question numbers.
In the art of Middle Ages, we never encounter the
personality of the artist as an individual; rather it is diffused
through the artistic genius of centuries embodied in the
rules of religious art. ______. The circular halo placed
vertically behind the head signifies sainthood, while the halo
impressed with a cross signifies divinity. By bare feet, we
recognize God, the angles, Jesus Christ and the apostles,
but for an artist to have depicted the Virgin Mary with bare
feet would have been tantamount to heresy. ______. A tree,
which is to say a single stalk with two or three stylized
leaves, informs is that the scene is laid on earth. _____;
and should an angel be watching from the battlements, that
city is thereby identified as Jerusalem. Saint Peter is always
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depicted with curly hair, a short beard and a tonsure,

_______.
Through this system, even the most mediocre talent was
elevated by the genius of the centuries.______. When they
are not outstanding, they are scarcely able to avoid
insignificance and banality in their religious works; and even
when they are great _____.
A. An artist who faithfully followed the rules of religious at
was not recognized during his lifetime
B. Art of the Middle Ages is a sacred script, the symbols
and meaning of which were settled
C. They are no more than the equal of the old masters who
passively followed the sacred rules.
D. Religious art has greater value than the secular art of
the Renaissance
E. while Saint Paul always has a bald head and along
beard.
F. Several concentric, wavy lines represent the sky, while
parallel lines represent water or the sea.
G. If there were no unemployment compensation, artists
could be induced to accept such unstable works
H. A tower with a window indicates a village.
I. The artists of the early Renaissance broke with tradition
at their own peril.
The curtain rises; the cardinal and Daniel de Bosala enter

from the right. In appearance, the cardinal is something
between an EI Greco cardinal and a Van Dyke noble lord.
He has the tall spare form –the elongated hands and
features – of the former; the trim pointed beard, the imperial
repose, and the commanding authority of the latter. But the
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EI Greco features are not really those of asceticism or inner

mystic spirituality. They are the index to cold, refined but
ruthless cruelty in a highly civilized controlled form. Neither
is the imperial repose an aloof mood of proud detachment.
It is a refined expression of satanic pride of place and
talent.
To a degree, the cardinal’s coldness is artificially cultivated.
He had defined himself against his younger bother Duke
Ferdinand and is the opposite to the overwrought
emotionality of the latter. But the Cardinal’s aloof mood is
not one of bland detachment. It is the deliberate
detachment of a methodical man who collects his thoughts
and emotions into the most compact and formidable shape-
that when he strikes, he may strike with the more efficient
and devastating force. His easy movements are those of
the slowly circling eagle just before the swift descent with
the exposed talons. Above all else, he is a man who never
for a movement doubts his destined authority as a governor.
He derisively and sharply rebukes his brother, the Duke, as
easily and readily as be mocks his mistress Julia. If he has
betrayed his hireling Bosola, he used his brother as the tool
to win back his “familiar”. His court dress is a long brilliant
scarlet cardinal’s gown with white cuffs and a white collar
turned back over the red, both collar and cuffs being
elaborately scalloped and embroidered. He wears a small
cape reaching only to the elbows. His cassock is buttoned
to the ground, giving a Richelieu would have adored his
neatly trimmed beard. A richly jeweled and ornamented
cross lies on his breast, suspended from his neck by a goal
chain.
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Bosala, for his part, is the Renaissance “familiar” dressed

conventionally in somber black with a white collar. He wears
a chain about his neck, a suspended ornament, and a
sword. Although a “bravo,” he must not be thought of as a
leather-jacketed, heavy-booted tough, squat and swarthy.
Still less is he a sneering, leering, melodramatic villain of
the Victorian gas light tradition. Like his black-and-white
clothes he is a colorful contradiction, a scholar –assassin, a
humanist-hangman; introverted and introspective, yet
ruthless in action; moody and reluctant, yet violent. He is a
man of scholarly taste and subtle intellectual discrimination
doing the work of a hired ruffian. In general effect, his
impersonator must achieve suppleness and subtlety of
nature, a highly complex, compressed, yet well-restrained
intensity of temperament. Like Duke Ferdinand, he is
inwardly tormented, but not by undiluted passion. His
dominant emotion is an intellectualized one: that of disgust
at a world filled with knavery and folly, but in which he must
play a part and that a lowly, despicable one. He is the kind
of rarity that Browning loved to depict in his Renaissance
monologues.
(27) The primary purpose of the passage appears to be to

(A) Provide historical background on the Renaissance
church
(B) Describe ecclesiastical costuming and pageantry
(C) Analyze the appearances and moral natures of two
dramatic figures
(D) Compare and contrast the subjects of two historical
paintings
(E) Denounce the corruption of the nobility in Renaissance
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Italy
(28) It can be inferred from the passage that the Cardinal

and Bosola
(A) are feuding brothers
(B) are noble lords
(C) together govern the church
(D) are characters in a play
(E) resemble one another in looks.
(29) The author most likely umpires the movements of the

cardinal to those of a circling eagle in order to emphasize
his
A. Flightiness
B. Love of freedom
C. Eminence
D. Sense of spirituality
E. Mercilessness
(30) As used the word bravo most nearly means

A. a shout of approbation
B. a medallion
C. a clergyman
D. a humanist
E. a mercenary killer
(31) The author of this passage assumes that the reader is

A. Familiar with the paintings of EI Greco and Van Dyke
B. Disgusted with a world filled with cruelty and folly
C. Ignorant of the history of the Roman Catholic church
D. Uninterested in psychological distinctions
E. Unacquainted with the writing of Browning
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(32) Which of the following best characterizes the author’s

attitude toward the Cardinal?
A. He deprecates his inability to sustain warm familial
relationships
B. He esteems him for his spiritual; and emotional control
C. He admires his grace in movement and sure sense of
personal authority
D. He finds him formidable both as an opponent and as
dramatic character
E. He is perturbed by his inconsistencies in behavior
PART II
Q1. Fill in the missing number in the sequence
37 27 19 ?? 9 7
(a) 15 (b) 12 (c) 13 (d) 18 (e) 10
Q2. In the following series, how many Bs are there such

that each B is followed by an F next to it if the F is not
followed by a P next to it.
B F B P Q M B F P M F B F F B
Q M B B
F Q B F P F B A M F B F M
(a)3 (b)2 (c)5 (d)4 (e)6
Q3. If VWDWLRQ is coded as STATION how will ILOWHU

be coded?
(a) DISPLAY (b) CENTRAL (c) FILTER (d) SURMISE
(e) DISPLAY
Q4. Suppose the first and second letters in the word

PROCASTINATION were interchanged, also the third and
fourth letters, the fifth and sixth etc. Print the letter that
would then be the twelfth letter counting from the right.
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(a) T (b) S (c) A (d)

O (e) c
Q5. How would the decimal number 194 be represented in

a base -5 number System?
(a) 1342 (b) 1674 (c) 1234 (d)
1634 (e) 1324
Q6. What is the largest prime number that can be stored in

a 9-bit word computer?
(a) 511 (b) 513 (c) 517 (d)
509 (e) 469
Q7. If n = 10 x 18 x 38, which of the following is NOT an

integer?
(a) n / 95 (b) n / 90 (c) n / 40
(d) n / 76 (e) n / 39
Q8. Which of the following is a power of 5?

a. 3225 b. 3575 c. 3125 d.
3625 e. 3525
Pick the odd one out

Q9. (a) UNIX (b) WINDOWS NT (c)
SYBASE (d) MVS (e) LINUX
Q10. (a) SMTP (b) HTTP (c)

WAP (d) SAP (e) ARP
Q11. The three numbers in brackets represent the angles of

a triangle. Which of these does not represent a proper
triangle?
(a) (50º,51º,79º) (b) (60º,90º,30º) (c) (73º,67º,40º)
(d) (40º,60º,50º) (e) (60º,54º,66º)
Q12. The three numbers in brackets in each of the following
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options represents the number of edges, the number of

faces and the number of vertices respectively. Find out
which of these represents a solid planar cube?
(a) (4,8,6) (b) (8,6,12) (c) (8,4,6) (d) (6,6,6) (e)
(12, 6,8)
Q13. Which set of data exhibits a higher Standard

Deviation?
(a) 9, 0, -9, 9, 0, -9 (b) 9, 9, 9, 0, 9, 9 (c) -9, -9, -9,
-9, -9, -9 (d) 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 (e) 9, -9, 9, -9, 9, -9
The three circles below represent the number of students

passing in Science, Hindi and History. Answer the next
three questions based on the diagram
Q14. How many more (or less) students passed in Science

than students who passed in History?
(a)2 (b)3 (c)1 (d)4 (e)5
Q15. What percentage of students is passing in English

also pass in History but not in Science.
(a)16 (b)18 (c)19 (d)12 (e) 17.4
Q16. What percentage of total passed in all three subjects.

(a)4 (b)5 (c)7 (d) 6 (e)8
Q17. A hypothetical physical quantity is defined as

(Energy X Velocity)
(Mass X Acceleration)
In what fundamental units would this quantity be
expressed?
(a)Time (b) Power (c) Velocity (d) Mass
(e) Distance
Q18. A certain job was assigned to a group of men to do it
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in 20 days. But, 12 men did not turn up for the job and the
remaining men did the job in 32 days. The original number
of men in the group was:
(a) 20 (b) 32 (c) 10 (d) 24 (e) 16
Q19. Which of these matrices is singular

12 3 2 3 4 0 9 15
A= B= C=
D=
9 2 -4 6 0 4 3 5
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D (e) None
Q20. Match the following relationships:

(i) Female – Girl (1) Not a type of
(ii) Bug – Reptile (2) Part of
(iii) Beagle – Dog (3) A type of
(iv) Piston – Engine (4) Superset of
(a) i-3,ii-1,iii-4,iv-2 (b) i-4,ii-1,iii-3,iv-2 (c)i-4,ii-1,iii-
2,iv-3
(d) i-3,ii-2,iii-1,iv-4 (e) i-1,ii-4,iii-3,iv-2
Q21. If * stands for squaring and > stands for change of

sign what is the value of
* > * (2) - > * > (2)?
(a)24 (b)-20 (c) 20 (d)28 (e)21
Q22. A sequence is defined recursively as

g(0) = g(1) = 1
g(n) = g(n-1) + g(n-2).What will be the value of g(6)?
(a)18 (b)16 (c)13 (d)9 (e)5
Q23. What curve best suits the following data:
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0.99
0.00001
10.04
1.02
99.98
1.997
1000
3.0
9990
4.004
(a) y = logn x (b) y = log10 x (c) y = ex (d) y = -log10 x

(e) y = - ex
Q24. A Two-dimensional array X(7,9) is stored linearly

column-wise in a computer's memory. Each element
requires 8 bytes for storage of the value. If the first byte
address of X(1,1) is 3000, what would be the last byte
address of X(2,3)?
(a) 3247 (b) 3567 (c) 3088 (d)
3225 (e) 3765
Q25. Of the four straight lines A, B, C, D find out which pair

forms an orthogonal set
A: 5x+4y-7 = 0, B: y = -x , C: y = 7x+3, D: 4x = 5y+5
(a)AD (b) AC (c) BC (d) BD (e)AB
Q26. Evaluate the expression

M(843,11) + R(5.8) + T(7.7) - R(3.4) where
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M stands for Modulo arithmetic, R stands for Round-off

operation and T stands for Truncation Operation
(a)15 (b)13 (c) 17 (d)16 (e)12
Q27. Three independent mechanisms A, B and C have

been incorporated for power saving in a plant producing
respectively 30%, 40% and 10% efficiency. Assuming that
they operate independently, what is the net power efficiency
achieved?
(a) 62.2% (b) 68% (c) 61% (d) 64%
(e) 56%
Q28. The log values of two numbers to the base 10 are

given as below:
X log10X
3.141 cc
3.142 0.4972061807
Find log103.143.
(a) 0. 49734 (b) 0.59720 (c) 0.49110 (d)
0.49420 (e) 0.49440
Q29. The temperature at Kochi is given by the function:

-t2/6+4t+12 where t is the elapsed time since noon. What is
the percentage rise (or fall) in temperature between 3.00
PM and 6.00 PM?
(a) 37.9% (b) 32.9% (c) 36% (d) 39%
(e) 30%
Q30. An aircraft takes off from A (89o N Lat, 40o E Long)

at 2.00 AM local time to B (32o N Lat, 40o W Long). If the
flying time is 11 hours what is the local time of landing at B?
(a) 6.40 AM (b) 4.00 AM (c) 7.40 AM (d) 7.00AM
(e) 8.00AM
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Q31. Fill in the last row of the following Truth Table:
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(A Ç C ) È B
Interpret the resulting bit pattern as an integer in an 8-bit

computer and write the decimal value.
(a)53 (b)51 (c)65 (d)59 (e) 55
Q32. A file is transferred from one location to another in

'buckets'. The size of the bucket is 10 kilobytes. The bucket
gets filled at the rate of 0.0001 kilobytes per millisecond.
The transmission time from sender to receiver is 10
milliseconds per bucket. After the receipt of the bucket the
receiver sends an acknowledgement that reaches sender in
100 milliseconds. Assuming no error during transmission,
write a formula to calculate the time taken in seconds to
successfully complete the transfer of a file of size N
kilobytes.
(a) 10.11 N (b) 11.011 N (c) 11.01 N (d) 10.101 N
(e) 10.011 N
Q33. The productivity of a team of engineers is given by

the function
P(N) = 4000 √N, where N is the total strength. Find the
percentage change in productivity if the strength of the team
is increased by 1%.
(a) 0.75% (b) 0.5% (c) 0.25% (d) 1%
(e) 2%
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Q34. A optical cable is to be run from a junction point on the

bank of a river 900 meters wide to an office that is located
3000 meters downstream on the opposite bank. If the cost
of laying cable under water is Rs. 5 per meter and that of
laying overhead on land is Rs. 4 per meter, find the point
downstream where the cable is to cut across the river.
(a) 450 (b) 3900 (c) 2700 (d)
2100 (e) 1800
END OF PART II
PART III
Read the following passages and answer questions under
each passage
(1) For a panel of professors to assess the State of Union
message on public TV, the producer must choose two
Republicans and Democrats. Atleast one professor must be
an economist and at least one must be a military expert.
Available Republicans are Abbott, Bartlett, Catlett, Dorset,
and Everett; available Democrats are Fawcett, Ganlet,
Heflet and Insett. Catlett, Fawcett and Gantlet are
economists, Dorset and Insett are military experts, Fawcett
will not sit in the same room as Catlett and will take part
only if Abbott is on the panel. Dorset refuses to take part
with Gantlet, and Everett refuses to take part with Insett.
1. Which of the following is not an acceptable panel?
(A) Fawcett, Helfet, Abbott, Dorsett
(B) Fawcett, Insett, Abbott, Dorsett
(C) Gantlet, Heflet, Abbott, Catlett,
(D) Gantlet, Insett, Abbott, Catlett,
(E) Heflet, Insett, Bartlett, Catlett,
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2. If Abbott and Bartlett are chosen as the Republicans,

who can be chosen as the Democrats?
(A) Fawcett and Insett only
(B) Fawcett and Insett or Gantlet and Insett only
(C) Fawcett and Gantlet or Gantlet and Helfet only
(D) Fawcett and Insett, Gantlet and Insett or Helfet and
Insett
(E) Gantlet and Helfet, Gantlet and Insett, or Helfet and
Insett
3. If Gantlet is chosen, which of the following must be true?

I. Any acceptable panel must contain Insett
II. Any acceptable panel must contain Abbott
III. There is no acceptable panel which contains Bartlett
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II and III
4.How many acceptable panels can the producer put

together?
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
(E) 10
(2) The Hotel Miramar has two wing, the Eats Wing and the
West Wing.
Some East Wing rooms, but not all, have an ocean view. All
West Wing rooms have a harbor view. The charge for all
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rooms is identical, except as follows:

There is an extra charge for all harbor view rooms on or
above the third floor.
There is an extra charge for all ocean view rooms, except
for those without a balcony
Some harbour view rooms on the first two floors and some
East Wing rooms without ocean view have kitchen facilities,
for which there is an extra charge.
Only the ocean and harbour view rooms have balconies.
1. A guest may avoid an extra charge by requesting
(A) a West Wing room one of the first two floors
(B) a West Wing room on the fourth floor without balcony
(C) an East Wing room without an ocean view.
(D) an East Wing room without a balcony.
(E) Any room without kitchen facilities.
2. Which of the following must be true if all conditions are as

stated?
(A) All rooms above the third floor involve an extra charge
(B) No room without ocean or harbour view or kitchen
facilities involves an extra charge.
(C) There is no extra charge for any East Wing room
without an ocean view.
(D) There is no extra charge for any room without kitchen
facilities.
(E) There is an extra charge for all rooms with an ocean or
harbour view.
3. Which of the following must be false if all conditions are

as stated?
(A) Some ocean view rooms do not involve an extra charge
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(B) All rooms with kitchen facilities involve an extra charge

(C) Some West Wing rooms above the second floor do not
involve an extra charge
(D) Some harbour view rooms do not involve an extra
charge.
(E) Some rooms without balcony or kitchen facilities
involve an extra charge.
4. Which of the following cannot be determined on the basis

of the information given?
I. Whether there are any rooms without a balcony for which
an extra charge is imposed
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a view involves
an extra charge
III. Whether two extra charges are imposed for any room.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and III only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II and III
(3) In order to conduct the work of a mail order concern it is

necessary to have a minimum of three workers each day.
The staff consists of 5 person’s who work on a part time
basis. Alice can work on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays. Betty cannot report for work on Wednesdays. Carol
can report for work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only.
Dorothy cannot work on Fridays. Edith is available anytime
except on the first Monday and Thursday of the month.
1. Which three are available on any Monday?
(A) Dorothy, Batty and Alice
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(B) Alice, Edith and Carol

(C) Betty, Edith and Carol
(D) Edith, Carol and Dorothy
(E) Betty, Carol and Dorothy
2. Which three would you count on to report for work on

Friday?
(A) Alice, Betty and Dorothy
(B) Alice, Carol and Dorothy
(C) Betty, Carol and Edith
(D) Carol, Betty and Alice
(E) Alice, Betty and Edith
3. During which day of the week might it be impossible to

obtain a full complement of workers?
(A) Monday
(B) Tuesday
(C) Wednesday
(D) Thursday
(E) Friday
4. During which day of the week might it be impossible to

obtain a full complement of workers?
(A) Monday
(B) Tuesday
(C) Wednesday
(D) Thursday
(E) Friday
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21-27 minutes
TCS PAPER ON 20TH MAY,2008
PART I
the answers, the word that is closest in meaning:
(1) FLORID
(A) Ruddy (B) rusty (C) ruined (D) patient
(E) poetic
(2) FOIL
(A) bury (B)frustrate (C)shield (D)desire (E)gain
(3) FOMENT
(A) Spoil (B) instigate (C)interrogate (D)spray
(E)maintain
(4) FOOLHARDY
(A) strong (B)unwise (C)brave (D)futile
(E)erudite
(5) FOPPISH
(A) scanty (B)radical (C)orthodox (D)dandyish
(E)magnificent
(6) FORAY
(A) Excursion (B) contest (C) ranger (D) intuition
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(E)fish
(7) FORMIDABLE
(A) dangerous (B)outlandish (C)grandiloquent
(D)impenetrable (E)venerable
(8) FOSTER
(A) accelerate (B)fondle (C)become infected (D)raise
(E)roll
(9) FRANCHISE
(A) subway (B)discount (C)license (D)reason
(E)fashion
(10)FRITTER
(A) Sour (B) chafe (C) dissipate (D)cancel (E)abuse

the answers, the closest word that has the opposite
meaning:
(11)COMPLY
(A) simplify (B)strive (C)rebel (D)unite (E)appreciate
(12)CREDIT
(A) believe false (B)treat as equal (C) make more difficult
(D)underemphasize (E)forget
(13)STILTED
(A) informal (B)verbose (C)secretive (D)senseless
(E)tentative
(14)UNGAINLY
(A) slender (B)graceful (C)restrained (D)inaccurate
(E)unnoticed
(15)QUIXOTIC
(A) slow (B)abstemious (C)pragmatic (D)benevolent
(E)grave
(16)DISPARITY
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(A) timidity (B)complacency (C)bigotry (D)likeness

(E)influence
(17)CRITICAL
(A) unimportant (B)uncertain (C)silent (D)coherent
(E)destructive
(18)SOBRIETY
(A) influence (B)nonchalance (C)holiness (D)civility
(E)mirth
(19)RESTIVENESS
(A) Completeness (B) conviction (C) concern (D) docility
(E)petulance
(20)HALLOW
(A) keep silence (B)prove incorrect (C)accuse openly
(D)desecrate (E)instigate
Read the following text. The passage contains some blank

spaces. Choose the sentence from the list A I, that best
fits in each of the blank spaces. The numbers in brackets
refer to Question numbers.
Desertification in the arid United states is
flagrant.____________. Whole river systems have dried up;
others are choked with sediment washed from denuded
land. Hundreds of thousands of acres of previously irrigated
cropland have been abandoned to wind or weeds.
_______________. All told, about 225 million acres of land
are undergoing severe desertification.
Federal subsides encourage the exploitation of arid land
resources.___________. Federal disaster relief and
commodity programs encourage arid land farmers to plow
up natural grassland to plant crops such as wheat and,
especially, cotton. ___________. The marker, too, provides
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powerful incentives to exploit arid land resources beyond

their carrying capacity. When commodity prices are high
relative to the farmers or ranchers operating costs, the
return on a production enhancing investment is invariably
greater than the return on conservation investment.
_________
If the United States is, as it appears, well on its way toward
overdrawing the arid land resources __________ when
productive benefits from arid-land resources have been
both realized and largely terminated.
A. Federal grazing fees that are well below the free market
price encourage overgrazing of the commons
B. And when commodity prices are relatively low, arid-land
ranchers and farmers often have to use all their available
financial resources to stay solvent
C. Government Programs provide irrigation and water
delivery system
D. Then the policy choice is simply to pay now for the
appropriate remedies or pay far moiré later
E. Several million acres of natural grassland are eroding
at unnaturally high rates as a result of cultivation or
overgrazing.
F. Policies help the farmers to obtain loans for their crops
G. Groundwater supplies beneath vast stretches of land
are dropping precipitously.
H. Low interest loans for irrigation and other water
delivery systems encourage farmers, industry, and
municipalities to mine groundwater.
I. It is still the case that those who ultimately benefit from
affirmative action.
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Like her white friends, Eleanor Roosevelt and Aubrey

Williams, Mary Bethune believed in the fundamental
commitment of the New Deal to assist the black Americans
struggle and in the need for blacks to assume
responsibilities to help win that struggle, Unlike those of her
white liberal associates, however, Bethunes ideas had
evolved out of a long experience as a race leader. Founder
of a small black college in Florida, she had become widely
known by 1935 as an organizer of black womens groups
and as a civil and political rights activist. Deeply religious,
certain of her own capabilities, she held a relatively
uncluttered view of what she felt were the New Deals and
her own peoples obligations to the cause of racial justice.
Unafraid to speak her mind to powerful whites including the
President, or to differing black factions, she combined faith
in the ultimate willingness of whites to discard their
prejudice and bigotry with a strong sense of racial pride and
commitment to Negro self-help.
More than her liberal white friends, Bethune argued for a
strong and direct black voice in initiating and shaping
government policy. She pursued this is her conversations
with President Roosevelt, in numerous memoranda to
Aubrey Williams, and in her administrative work as head of
the National Youth Administrations Office of Negro Affairs.
With the assistance of Williams, she was successful in
having blacks selected to NYA posts at the national, state
and local levels. But she also wanted a black leaders in
demanding appointments to the selective service Board
and to the Department of the Army; and she was
instrumental in 1941 in securing Earl Dickersons
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membership on the fair Employment Practices committee.

By 1944, she was still making appeals for black
representation in all public programs, federal, state, and
local, and in policy-making posts as well as rank and file
jobs.
Though recognizing the weakness in the Roosevelt
administrations response to Negro needs, Mary Bethune
remained in essence a black partisan champion of the New
Deal during the 1930s and 1940s. Here strong advocacy of
administration policies and programs was predicated on a
number of factors: her assessment of the low status of
black Americans during the Depression; her faith in the
willingness of some liberal whites to work for the inclusion
of blacks in the governments reform and recovery
measures; her conviction that only massive federal aid
could elevate the Negro economically; and her belief that
the thirties and forties were producing a more self-aware
and self-assured black population. Like a number of her
white friends in government, Bethune assumed that the
preservation of democracy and black peoples full
integration into the benefits and the responsibilities of
American life were inextricably tied together. She was
convinced that, with the help of a friendly government, a
militant, aggressive New Negro would emerge out of the
devastation of depression and was, a New Negro who
would save America from itself, who would lead America
toward the full realization of its democratic ideas
(27) The authors main purpose in this passage is to

(A) Criticize Mary Bethune for adhering too closely to New
Deal Policies
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(B) Argue that Mary Bethune was too optimistic in her

assessment of race relations
(C) Demonstrate Mary Bethunes influence on black
progress during the Roosevelt years.
(D) Point out the weaknesses of the white liberal approach
to black needs
(E) Summarize the attainment of blacks under the auspices
of Roosevelts New Deal.
(28)It can be inferred from the passage that Aubrey

Williams was which of the following?
I. A man with influence in the National Youth Administration
II. A white liberal
III. A man of strong religious convictions
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only
(F) I,II, and III
(29) The author mentions Earl Dickersons primarily in order

to
(A) Cite an instanced of Bethunes political impact.
(B) Contrast his carrier with that of Bethune.
(C) Introduce the subject of a subsequent paragraph
(D) Provide an example of Bethunes New Negro
(E) Show that Dickerson was a leader of his fellow blacks
(30) It can be inferred from the passage that Bethune

believed the New Negro would save America from itself
(A) Joining the army and helping America over through its
Fascist enemies
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(B) Helping America accomplish its egalitarian ideals

(C) Voting for administration antipoverty programs
(D) Electing other blacks to government office
(E) Expressing a belief in racial pride
(31) One of the authors discussion of Bethune is best

described as
(A) deprecatory
(B) sentimental
(C) ironic
(D) objective
(E) recriminatory
(32) The author uses all the following techniques in the

passage EXCEPT
(A) Comparison and contrast
(B) Development of an extended analogy
(C) Direct quotation
(D) General statement and concrete examples
(E) Reiteration of central ideas
PART II
Q1.Fill in the missing number in the sequence
9 10 11 13 15 ?? 21 28
(a) 17 (b) 20 (c) 19 (d) 18 (e) 16
Q2.In the following series, how many Vs are there such that
each V is followed by an L next to it if the L is not
followed by a D next to it.
V L V D Q M V L D M L V L L V
Q M V V
L Q V L D L V A M L V L M
(a)2 (b)3 (c)1 (d)4 (e)5
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Q3.If FURZG is coded as CROWD how will DODUP be

coded?
(a)MIND (b)ALERT (c) ALARM (d) BRAVE
(e) GAIN
Q4.Suppose the first and second letters in the word

DESTABLISATION were interchanged, also the third and
fourth letters, the fifth and sixth etc. Print the letter that
would then be the tenth letter counting from the right.
(a) T (b) I (c) B (d)
S (e) A
Q5.How would the decimal number 232 be represented in a

base -5 number System? (a) 1234 (b) 1432
(c) 1412 (d) 1456 (e)1664
Q6.What is the largest prime number that can be stored in
an 9-bit word computer? (a) 507 (b) 511
(c) 513 (d) 509 (e) 489
Q7. If n = 10 x 18 x 26, which of the following is NOT an

integer?
(a) n / 130 (b) n / 78 (c) n / 90 (d) n/
66 (e) n / 40
Q8.Which of the following is a power of 4?

a. 4148 b. 4196 c. 4096 d. 4244 e.
4248
Pick the odd one out

Q9.(a) ORACLE (b) C++ (c) INGRESS (d)
DB2 (e) SYBASE
Q10.(a) JAVA (may be answer) (b) WINDOWS

NT (c) UNIX (d) MVS (e)LINUX
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Q11. The three numbers in brackets represent the angles of

a triangle. Which of these does not represent a proper
triangle? (a) (60º,51º,79º) (b) (60º,90º,30º) (c)
(73º,67º,40º) (d) (100º,60º,20º) (e) (70º,55º,55º)
Q12.The three numbers in brackets in each of the following
options represents the number of edges ,the number of
vertices and the number of faces respectively. Find out
which of these represents a solid planar cube?
(a) (4,8,8) (b) (8,12,12) (c) (12,8,6) (d) (4,4,6) (e)
(12,6,4)
Q13. Which set of data exhibits a higher Standard

Deviation?
(a) 6, 0, -6, 6, 0, -6 (b)6, 6, 6, 0, 6, 6 (c) -6, -6, -6,
-6, -6, -6 (d) 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 (e) 6, -6, 6, -6, 6, -6
The three circles below represent the number of people

eating Indian,Chinese and Continental. Answer the next
three questions based on the diagram
Q14. How many more (or less) people eat Chinese than
people who eat Indian?
(a)2 (b)3 (c)1 (d)4 (e)5
Q15. What percentage of people eating Continental also eat

Indian but not Chinese.
(a) 17.4 (b)16 (c) 18 (d) 21 (e) 24
Q16. What percentage of total people eat all three items.

(a)4 (b)5 (c)6 (d)7 (e)8
Q 17. A hypothetical physical quantity is defined as

(Momentum X Velocity) / ( Force X Time )
In what fundamental units would this quantity be
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expressed?
(a)Time (b) Distance (c) Velocity (d)Mass
(e) None
Q18. A is thrice as good a workman as B and takes 10 days

less to do a piece of work than B takes. The number of days
taken by B to finish the work is :
(a)15 (b)5 (c)20 (d)12 (e)30
Q19.Which of these matrices is singular

14 6 12 8 1 0 10
12
A= B= C=
D=
4 3 6 4 1 2 3
4
(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D (e) None
Q20.Match the following relationships:

(i) Male Boy (1) Not a type of
(ii) Mushroom Vegetable (2) Part of
(iii) Snake Reptile (3) A type of
(iv) Sentence Paragraph (4) Superset of
(a) i-3,ii-1,iii-4,iv-2 (b) i-4,ii-1,iii-3,iv-2 (c)i-4,ii-1,iii-
2,iv-3 (d) i-3,ii-2,iii-1,iv-4 (e) i-1,ii-4,iii-3,iv-2
Q21. If * stands for squaring and > stands for change of

sign what is the value of * > * (5) - > * > (5)?
(a)675 (b)625 (c) 650 (d)-650 (e)600
Q22.A sequence is defined recursively as

f(0) = 1; f(1) = -1
f(n) = 3 * f(n-1) 2 * f(n-2), where * stands for multiplication
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What will be the value of f(4)?

(a)-29 (b)29 (c)27 (d)19 (e)24
Q23. What curve best suits the following data:
0.99
0.00001
10.04
1.02
99.98
1.997
1000
3.0
9990
4.004
(a) y = logn x (b) y = log10 x (c) y = ex (d) y = -log10 x

(e) y = - ex
Q24. A Two-dimensional array X(7,9) is stored linearly

column-wise in a computer's memory. Each element
requires 4 bytes for storage of the value. If the first byte
address of X(1,1) is 3000, what would be the last byte
address of X(2,3)?
(a)3123 (b)3433 (c)3044
(d)3544 (e)3564
Q25. Of the four vectors A,B,C,D find out which pair forms
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an orthogonal setA = i+j, B = 5i+4j, C = -7i+j, D = 4i-5j

(a)BD (b)BC (c)AB (d)AD (e)AC
Q26. Evaluate the expression M(373,11) + R(5.8) + T(7.7) -
R(3.4) where M stands for Modulo arithmetic, R stands for
Round-off operation and T stands for Truncation Operation
(a)18 (b)15 (c) 20 (d)24 (e)27
Q27.Three independent strategies A, B and C have been

initiated for cost cutting in a company producing
respectively 20%, 40% and 10% savings. Assuming that
they operate independently, what is the net saving
achieved?
(a) 51% (b) 56.8% (c) 64% (d) 68%
(e) 45%
Q28. The hourly declination of moon for a given day is as

follows:
Hour Declination
3 7o 59 54.8
4 7o 53 6.1
Find the declination of the moon at hour 2.
(a) 8o 6 43.5 (b) 7o 56 54.5 (c) 9o 46 33.5 (d) 7o16 12.5
(e) 8o 39 28.7
Q29.The temperature at Kolkata is given by the function:

-t2/6+4t+12 where t is the elapsed time since noon. What is
the percentage rise (or fall) in temperature between 3.00
PM and 9.00 PM?
(a)64 % (b) 55% (c)58.6% (d) 69%
(e) 51%
Q30.An aircraft takes off from A (89o N Lat, 10o E Long) at

2.00 AM local time to B (32o N Lat, 70o W Long). If the
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flying time is 11 hours what is the local time of landing at B?

(a)5.40 AM (b) 4.00 AM (c) 6.40 AM (d) 7.00AM (e)
7.40 AM
Q31.Fill in the last row of the following Truth Table:
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(A - C ) È B
Interpret the resulting bit pattern as an integer in an 8-bit

computer and write the decimal value.
(a)51 (b) 59 (c)63 (d)68 (e)55
Q32.A file is transferred from one location to another in

'buckets'. The size of the bucket is 10 kilobytes. The bucket
gets filled at the rate of 0.0001 kilobytes per millisecond.
The transmission time from sender to receiver is 10
milliseconds per bucket. After the receipt of the bucket the
receiver sends an acknowledgement that reaches sender in
100 milliseconds. Assuming no error during transmission,
write a formula to calculate the time taken in seconds to
successfully complete the transfer of a file of size N
kilobytes.
(a) 10.11 N (b) 11.011 N (c) 11.01 N (d) 10.011 N
(e)10.101 N
Q33 The size of bucket required is given by the function
P(N) = 4000 √N, where N is the volume of water. Find the
percentage change in size of bucket if the volume of water
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is increased by 1%.
(a) 0.75% (b) 0.25% (c) 1% (d) 0.5% (e) 2%
Q34. An optical cable is to be run from a junction point on

the bank of a river 900 meters wide to an office that is
located 3000 meters downstream on the opposite bank. If
the cost of laying cable under water is Rs. 5 per meter and
that of laying overhead on land is Rs. 4 per meter, find the
point downstream where the cable is to cut across the river.
(a) 450 (b) 3900 (c) 2100 (d)
1800 (e) 2700
END OF PART II
PART III
Read the following passages and answer questions under
each passage
(1). The organiser of local 58 of the hospital workers is

forming a 5-person team to leaflet a nearby hospital. The
team must contain 2 persons to distribute leaflets, one
speaker to address the workers who stop, and a 2-person
defense squad.
A, B, and C are possible leafletters; C, D and E are possible
speakers; F, G and H are possible members of the defense
guard. A and C prefer to work with each other on the same
team. E prefers to work only if F works.
1. Which is a possible team if all preferences are respected.
(A) A, B, C, D, F
(B) A, C, D, E, F
(C) A, B, C, F, G
(D) A, C, E, G, H
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(E) B, C, D, F, G
2. Which choice of personnel is impossible if all preferences

are respected?
(A) A and B as leafletters, C as a speaker
(B) B and C as leafletters
(C) A and C as leafletters, F and H on defense
(D) Either D or E as speaker, with F on defense
(E) G and H on defense
3. If A and B are leafletters and all preferences are

respected, which is/ are true?
I. C is the speaker
II. F is on defense
III. Either F or G is on defense
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and II only
(E) I and III only
4. How many different possible teams can the organizer

assemble, if all preferences are respected?
(A) 5
(B) 8
(C) 9
(D) 13
(E) 15
(2) Delegations from Wallachia and Rumelia are meeting to

discuss military, trade and diplomatic problems. Each
delegation consists of a chairperson, 2 military attachés
and 2 trade experts. The Wallachian delegation consists of
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A, B, C, D and E ; the Rumelian delegation of F, G, H, I and

J.
Each chairperson is to occupy a rectangular table. The two
delegations sit on opposite sides of the rectangular table.
1) A insists on being seated at the opposite end of the table
from B
2) G, who is deaf in his right ear, must be at the right end if
the table.
3) Neither D nor F is a chairperson
4) The Wallachian military attachés, one of whom is B, are
seated together, and neither is opposite either of the
Rumelian military attachés, neither of whom is G.
5) C, a trade expert, is seated opposite H.
1. F may be a:
A. trade expert seated next to I
B. military attaché seated next to I
C. military attaché seated next to J
D. trade expert seated next to H
E. trade expert seated opposite B
2. About which of the following do the stated conditions

provide the least information?
A. The identity of the Wallachian chairperson
B. The identity of the Rumelian chairperson
C. The identities and the positions of the Wallachian military
attaches
D. Which delegate is immediately to the right of the
Wallachian chairperson?
E. Which delegate is immediately to the right of the
Rumelian chairperson?
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3. If J is a military attaché, which of the following must be

true?
I. The Rumelian chairperson is I
II F a trade expert
III I is a trade expert
A.I only
B. II only
C. I and II only
D. I or III but not both
E. II or III but not both
4. Which of the following can be deduced form the

introductory paragraph plus statements ( 1), (2), (4), (5)
only?
A The identities of the Rumelian trade experts
B The identifies of the Wallachian military attachés
C The identity of the Wallachian chairperson
D Which two delegates are seated between G and H ?
E Which two delegates are seated betweenB and C ?
(3) Byram and Adoniram are code clerks at the Pentagon.

They are also secret agents for foreign governments. One
is in the pay of the Sulgravians and the other is in the pay of
the Carolingians. If a document is stolen, it will take four
days to reach the Sulgravian government and 5 days to
reach the Carolingian government
Byram is given top secret documents to encode on October
19 and 22.
Adroninan is given a top-secret document to encode on
October 21.
Byram and Adoniram have lunch together on October 20.
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Agents of foreign governments do not transmit documents

directly to governments that do not employ them, but may
sell documents to an agent of another government. An
agent who transmits a document always does so on the day
he receives it.
1. If Adroninan is working for the Sulgravians, the
Sulgravian government may receive documents on :
I. October 24
II. October 25
III. October 26
(A) I only
(B) III only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II, and III
2. A top secret document is received by thee Carolingians

on October25. It could have been:
(A) stolen and transmitted by Byram
(B) stolen and transmitted by Adoniram
(C) stolen by Adoniram and sold to Byram , who
transmitted it
(D) stolen by Byram and sold to Adoniram, who transmitted
it
(E) stolen by either Byram or Adoniram and sold to the
other , who transmitted it.
3. If Adoniram is working for the Carolingians, which must

be true?
(A) The Sulgravians may receive documents only on
October 23
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(B) The Carolingians may receive documents only on

October 26
(C) The Sulgravians may receive documents only on
October 24, 26, and 27.
(D) The Carolingians may receive documents only on
October 24, 25 and 26
(E) No documents received by the Sulgravians can have
been bought at Byram and Adonirams lunchtime meeting.
4.Which of the following is /are possible given the

conditions as stated?
I. Documents are received by one of the governments, 2
days in a row.
II II. Documents are received by both the governments, 2
days in a row
II. Documents are received by one of the governments, 3
days in a row.
(A) I only
(B) III only
(C) I and III only
(D) I, II and III
(E) Neither I, II nor III
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11-14 minutes
TCS PAPER ON 9TH MAY AT SRKR ENGG.

COLL.,BHIMAVARAM
Hi friends this is chaitu from srkr engineering

college,bhimavaram…recently TCS came to our college on
may 9th and 10th of this month .Around 430 members have
appeared for the written test and nearly 230 members got
cleared their written test and 91 members finally selected
for TCS …Friends just follow my suggesitions u can easily
crack the TCS interview …really don’t take my words
silly.Even though I have not selected for tcs I can tell better
than others because I have lost it..u shouldn’t loose it by
doing silly mistakes..First of all through online registration
students should get registered for the written test .Don’t
bother about this your placement officer will inform about
this.
The interview consists of 4 rounds

1)Written Test (Online)
Verbal part : 10 synonyms
10 antonyms
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1 reading comprehension with 4 questions

6 fill in the blanks with appropriate sentences.
Quant (30 questions)
Critical Reasoning(12 marks 3 reasoning paragraphs)
2) Technical Round ( Majority Elimination Round)
3) Management Round (Elimination Round)
4) HR Interview ( Not an elimination round)
Now follow the above suggesitions.These suggestions are

not for the students who have prepared well from months
these are for the students who are worried about how to
clear the tcs written test with no preparation until now ..
For clearing the written test u should follow barrons 12th
edition don’t worry its not necessary to read the entire
book.I will tell you which parts u should cover
For Quant questions: Just practice the questions present in
all 2008 posts it is more than enough no need of doing rs
agarwal ..all 30 out of 30 questions will come from the
freshers world first 25 tcs posts only just data will change .
For antonyms : There are around 180 antonyms in barrons
which u should compulsory byhatt them .around 8 to 9
sometimes even 10 out of 10 antonyms will come from
these 180 antonyms. After you are thorough with these
180 antonyms then only go for other stuff ok..Barrons 12th
edition page no 122 to 129 here there are 100 antonyms
out of 180 ..remaining around 80 antonyms are from the 5
model papers at the end of book .Don’t take it silly just go
through it….in the test if u had kept 10 out of 10 antonyms
then u will get lot of confidence..practise these 180 a lot and
lot…
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99% the anotnyms will come from these 180 only
For Reading Comprehension:

Just go through the reading comprehension in the 5 model
test papers .Don’t leave the paragraphs with 6 questions
see them also. If you have 1 or 2 days time don’t waste time
by doing the paragraphs on your own .90 % they will give
the paragraph from barrons only. So for each paragraph sit
with your friends .For a paragraph write down the answers
at one place and just form a simple story on these
answers.This is the most effective way to remember the
answers without headache.For Rc’s don’t take the risk of
byhatting the options .They may change the sequence
some times.Ok do u feel some what relaxed because the
headache of rc’s and antonyms had gone .
For synonyms:
First of all read all the synonyms from the 5 model papers
.Then go for high frequency word list. U can answer around
5 to 6 . I don’t know from where u can get the remaining
synonyms.
Sentence Completion:
Don’t be in a illusion that a sentence will come n u should
identify the appropriate word.This is the toughest part in the
verbal section .They will give a paragraph with 6 blanks . U
should identify the missing sentences not the missing words
. Identify the appropriate sentence . go for this section only
at the end of the test.Maximum , time wouldn’t be there to
do this section.Even u have not scored much don’t bother u
can do well in other sections.
Critical Reasoning:
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This is my favourite section. With in a short time u will know

why I called it as my favourite section.
This is the most easiest section for some guys because
some people may get all the reasoning paragraphs from
barrons.and for some they may not get even single
pargraph like me ( I am the most unlucky person) . But the
paragraphs which are not from barrons will be easy to do.. I
have done around 10 questions easily.
If u have time to do the reasoning paragraphs then practice
them from barrons model papers before the exam.
But if didn’t have time to practice the reasoning section and
if you dare to leave them don’t do so. I will tell u how to
byhatt them . maximum 99.9 % they will give the reasoning
paragraphs from the barrons model papers as it is , without
changing the order so just byhatt them.
This is the way I have byhatted the reasoning paragraphs
from barrons model papers. They are around 25 reasoning
paragraphs with 4 questions leave the reasoning paras with
6 questions .
Concentrate on highlighted word. Non Andhra students just
skip this section and read the other suggesitions…
1) If any word like motorist appeared in the reasoning
paragraph .then remember this short story : Motorist
addamga(From this remind AD) velli company CEO( Ceo
numchi CE gurthupettukovali) ne guddisadu
so answer is :ADCE
u can form the stories of your own like this to remember
.this is the way I byhatted them.
2)if the words marriage in the society appears in the
paragraph then story is Pelli kuthurni ne cab lo ante pallaki
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lo (From this CAB) lo mosukuntu dum dum dum ani (From

this D) thesukuvelthunnaru.
So answer is :CABD
3) if the word Pentagon appears in the paragraph then story
is Us lo pentagon meda attack jariginappude pakkane idea
cell tower vundatanta appudu adi kuda padi poyindanta
attack lo .eppudu cell lo c thesi idea lo i place lo pettandi
cdea vasthundi
So answer is :CDEA
4) if the word Latin,Sanskrit appears in the paragraph then
story is Dady (from this DAD) Sanskrit, latin nerchukomani
books (From this remind B) thesukuvacharu
So answer is: DADB
5) if the word Baseball players appears in the paragraph
then story is Base ball players addamga (From this AD)
beer ( from this BE) thagesi ishtamvachinattu
aaduthunnaru
So answer is: ADBE
6) if the word Novels appears in the paragraph then story
is popular novels anni kuda bead meda (from this bead)
podukuni chaduvutham kada
so the answer is :BEAD
7) if the word Delegations appears in the paragraph then
story is Delegates vachinappudu ammayalu (from this
remind A) boquets echi vallaki welcome chepthu ECE
department(From this ECE) ki thesukuni vellaru
So answer is : AECE
8) if the word Formal Dinner appears in the paragraph then
story is dinner lo mulakaada (drum stick from this CADA)
vaddincharu
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So answer is : CADA
9) if the word Visa appears in the paragraph then story is
Visa vachindi, so us velladu . us velli a to e anni chusesi (
place A first and E last) Madhya madhalo cinemalu
,appudappudu college ke vellevadu(so remind CC in the
middle) .
so answer is : ACCE
10)if in the paragraph either museum or eight caves
appears
answer is :CCBB( c square b square)
museum or eight caves ccbb(c square b square)
11)if in the paragraph either memorial day appears
Answer is: ccba ( c square b a)
Horizontal row,vertical row answer:ccac(c square a
c)
Basket ball dccb(d c
square b)
Democratic conservative party ddbc(d square
b c)
Hotel Miramar dbca
Story for this is in dhaba (from this DB) cat walk(from this
CA) is going on so answer is DBCA
Three worker each day aede
Six school board members dbde
Official hoster of newyork city eade
A is the father of two children deeb (d e square
b)
A,b,c,d,e ,f,q edbc
A,b,c,w,d,e,x,f aabc ( a
sqaure b c)
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After cracking the written they will give u a 3 page

application form be very careful with it ..don’t struck any
column , fill it without any strikeoff...it is damn
important.Don’t fill the application form in hurry. One of my
friend he filled the application form by referring to another
frnds appli form he in hurry put the dob of other person n
striked in the appli form had rewritten. After going to HR
round i.e 4th round HR rejected due to this silly mistake
they consider these sort of mistakes as
irresponsible,negligence and arrogance.And one of other
friend he forgot to write the place name at place column. He
got rejected at the end of second day ..so silly mistakes
may end ur interview be very very careful..Don’t put the
neck button without wearing a tie..in personal skills don’t
write meaning less sentences like I am optimistic,object
oriented mind setup these sort of dirty sentences..ur
resume should be as simple as possible..
Now Technical Round:
Always remember no HR or any person they not even see
ur file or certificates u got .they wont even touch them.
Whole interview process will go based on ur resume.the
students who have selected for online test will have the
technical round on the next day of the exam. Be prepared
the first question is
tell me abt urself . then be thorough with ur resume don’t
place unnecessary stuff in the resume if ur not confident
with them. If u have a project then if u are confident with the
project then only keep it in resume otherwise forget abt it.
Because of my project in resume I lost the job. He didn’t ask
me how did u do the project tell me he asked the questions
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based on his knowledge . I couldn’t answer them .He asked

me tell me how did u done data base configuration in
apache tomcat server I have never touched it infact we do
nothing like that . its my fate ..
all CS N IT STUDENTS be thorough with these questions
write logic for implementins
Palindrome
Swapping of two variables without using temp variables
Fibonicci series with n without recursion
Factorial with n without recursion
Pascal triangle
N some other easy programs
String length finding without using functions
Concatenate n comparision of two strings
What is os
Imp: diff b/n dbms and rdms
What is cn
Normalization
Remodel
Entity set ,er model
Like these all basic questions
Don’t worry technical interview will be very easy . Once u

have got through this round u have maximum got the job
..but don’t be over confident … I came back in this round
only..
3)Management Round(MR): this is an eliminating round for

students only who feel shy to answer some questions like
do u have girl friend or do u smoke or drink..whatever they
have asked just answer them confidently without feeling
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shy.. Hr asked my friend do u talk with girls he with a smile

answered no ..thats all he told that we don’t want students
who doesn’t have interaction..
4) HR round: the basic questions like tell me abt urself

,why tcs,ur family backgroung n questions based on
preplacement talk …that’s all …u are in tcs….
Friends I have taken pain to write all these for u because I

want u all to know ..by doing silly mistakes how we can
loose a lot…Friends while answering any question think for
5 seconds don’t reply without thinking …remember that 5
seconds will change ur life …don’t reply that my aim Is
cat,mba,gre all that sort of nonsense..5 seconds have
decided my life …don’t allow that 5 seconds to dictate
u…bye my dear friends ….ALL THE BEST…JUST
BELIEVE IN GOD ..KEEP SMILING …IT’s must for any
interview…
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Tata Consultancy Services Aptitude-General Contributed by ... about:reader?url=http://placement.freshersworld.com/tcs-pla...

V.Dinesh Babu updated on Aug
2019
2 minutes
TCS APTITUDE PAPER
If log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364 then find log

0.319
log 0.317=0.3332 and log 0.318=0.3364
then
log 0.319=log0.318+(log0.318-log0.317)
0.3396
A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg

packets. Total weight of box is 264kg. How many 2kg
packets are there
x= 2 kg Packs
y= 1 kg packs
x + y = 150 .......... Eqn 1
2x + y = 264 .......... Eqn 2
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solve the Simultaneous equation;
x = 114
using Eqn 1,
114 + y = 150
so, y = 36
ANS : Number of 2 kg Packs = 114.
..
My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and

landed 10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N70W.
What is the local time when my plane landed?
6:00 am b) 6:40am c) 7:40 d) 7:00 e) 8:00
The Answer is 6:40 AM
The destination place is 80 degree west to the starting

place. Hence the time difference between these two places
is 5 hour 20 min. (=24hr*80/360).
When the flight landed, the time at the starting place is 12

noon (2 AM + 10 hours).
Hence, the time at the destination place is 12 noon - 5:20

hours = 6: 40 AM
A plane moves from 9˚N40˚E to 9˚N40˚W. If the plane starts

at 10 am and takes 8 hours to reach the destination, find
the local arrival time.
Since it is moving from east to west longitide we need to

add both
ie,40+40=80
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multiply the ans by 4
=>80*4=320min
convert this min to hours ie, 5hrs 33min
It take
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