Resume Writing Tips for Freshers & Experienced OUTSIDE RESUME :: Resume Format Always have a .

.doc (Microsoft Word) format and .txt format of your resume with you. When you are filling your resume in websites, you need the text format and when you are sending resume through mail, it's better to send the .doc format. Few companies may ask specifically for .rtf format. In such case, you don't have an option anyway.

If the company mentions that a specific 'Job Code' has to be written in Subject Line, write that. If nothing specific, then give a proper subject line for your mail. Example: Resume - J2EE - 3 Years Experience - INFOSYS Bangalore

Covering Letter Always try to include a "short" covering letter just containing your experience, current location, contact details (address & phone number) current company name, technology you are working in. Don't write too long covering letters. No HR will spend time on reading your long letters.

Resume Size Short is Sweet Try to see to it that the .doc resume file size is less than 100 KB. Don't make the resume too long. Keep it short & sweet. It should be less than 3 pages (and up to a maximum of 4). The HR will hardly have 1 minute to glance at your resume. He won't have the time to read story-like resume. So, be precise, clear and straight to the point. Better use bullets for mentioning important points.

Resume File Name Don't give some junk names as file name for the resume. If you keep use junk names, there is every possibility that your mail will travel to bulk/trash folder of recruiter. Your resume's file name should ideally denote your name, experience, technology, years of experience and company name. Keep some valid name for your resume. Example: Resume_Chetana_J2EE_3 Years_INFOSYS.doc Example: Resume_Chetana_FRESHER_B Tech_Computers.doc

Check BULK mail folder Check the BULK mail folder before blindly emptying it. I have seen people who lost call letters because of it.

Exclusive Mail IDs Use only one (or maximum of 2) mail Ids exclusively for the purpose of recruitments. Do NOT use those mail Ids for any other purpose (Especially you should not use it for subscribing to any GROUP mails or FORWARD mails).

INSIDE RESUME :: www.ChetanaSinterview.com Header & Footer ! Always have a header & footer in your resume. Header can contain a simple heading of your resume. Footer should preferably contain the page number.

Standard Mail Service Providers You must be careful about the service providers in which you open a mail account. Don't use the mail Ids/accounts from non-standard service providers. If they disconnect services suddenly, your mail ID fails and you need to resend resumes with new mail Id to all the companies you have already applied. So, always try to create mail Ids with standard service providers like Yahoo, Rediff, Google etc. Choose both mail Ids from different mail service providers. In case, if one service provider experiences technical problems, you can use the other service provider. www.chetanasinterview.com

First Page is the best page to convey all about you ! Typically the HR expects all the important details in the first page. He receives hundreds of resumes and hardly gets 1 minute to look at your resume and so he won't bother to search your resume for the required details, if the details are not found in his first glance at your resume. The first page of resume must contain the following things: Personal Details : Full Name, Date of Birth, Passport Number. Current Contact Details : Full Contact Address, Contact Phone Numbers, Mail ID & Alternate Mail ID. Work Experience Summary : All the companies you have worked so far, Company Address, Website, Dates of Duration in each Company. Don't assume that everyone knows about your company. (You can highlight if your current company has any good quality levels like CMM/CMMI) Job Responsibilities : Your job profile in your past companies. For example, you should highlight that you are working as 'Module Leader leading a team of 6 people' in your current company. Skill Set Summary : Highlight all the technologies you know well. Don't include any technologies you have not worked on. Certifications : Include any relevant certifications you have. That gives you an edge over others. www.chetanasinterview.com Education Details Summary : Your Post Graduation, Graduation, Intermediate, 10 th details, Aggregate Percentage, Year of Pass out (Most important).

Mail Space Always see to it that at least 50 % of your mailbox size is free. Delete unnecessary mails periodically.

Send from same mail ID While sending the resume, preferably send it from the mail ID you have mentioned in your resume.

Always keep a copy While sending the resume, always keep a CC/BCC to your mail ID (or at least keep your sent items ON) so that you will know whether the resume is attached properly and/or whether it's traveling to bulk mail folder. www.chetanasinterview.com

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Contact Details at the top, not at bottom ! Contact Details should be at the top of resume, not at the bottom. Never include the contact details in Header or Footer. They won't be visible properly.

lengthy. Write only the crux of the information. Following details would be enough. Project Name, Team Size, Client Name, Duration of Project. Short description of project (Not more than 5 to 6 lines). Your role in project (This is very important). Technologies used in project.

Always provide an alternate mail ID ! Always provide an 'Alternate Mail Id' also (in case your original mail Id fails, it will be useful). Do NOT give more than 2 mail Ids in resume. The recruiters as well as you will get confused which mail Id to send/receive call letters.

You should convey where you want to work ! Always include the following clearly in resume: 'Current Location' (mandatory). I have seen resumes in which there is no clue of where they are working currently. How can they expect a call letter ? 'Desired Location' (if you have a preference). Anyway freshers typically will not have a choice for the desired location. They better not to include it.

No one can save you if your Mail ID fails ! Check the mail Ids you provided in CV by sending a trial mail. (I have seen people giving Yahoo.com instead of Yahoo.co.in. If the mail Id fails when HR sends you call letter, no one can save you in this world. No HR will resend the call letter if your mail ID fails.)

Experience ! Project Training done in your final academic year does not come under professional work experience. You can mention it, but not under 'Work Experience' section. Always highlight your onsite (customer interaction experience) in your resume. That gives you an edge over others.

Never use official mail ID ! (for Experienced people) NEVER use OFFICIAL MAIL ID or OFFICIAL PHONE NUMBER in the resume. You must always provide the Personal mail Id & Personal Phone/Mobile Number. You can give the OFFICIAL MAIL ID for reference at the end the resume. www.chetanasinterview.com

Salary Details Better not to include current & expected compensation details in resume. You can convey them when you are asked to provide them during interview.

Spell Check ! Always perform a spell check and grammar check on the resume. You don't deserve a job if you can't write your resume without mistakes. There is nothing wrong in getting your resume reviewed by someone else. They might catch the mistakes that your eyes can never detect.

You are not submitting the application for matrimonial ! Do not include any photos in the resume unless specifically asked by the company.

You are not writing a love letter ! Educational details are important ! People (especially experienced people) think that they don't need to give the educational details. But they are important. If not all details, at least give the highest qualification, college/university name and aggregate percentage. (Some HR people simply delete the resumes without educational details.) Avoid unwanted graphics: Either in resume or the covering letter, avoid jazzy graphic images, emoticons or multiple colors. Avoid jazzy fonts: Preferably use some professional font (Arial or Times or Verdana) and use the same across. Use same font size across the resume (except for headings). Don't write each line in a different font and size. However, you can use some decent shades (preferably gray color), to highlight important information. That makes the resume to look good when a printout is taken.

Reverse Chronological order ! Your latest job profile is more important than your first one. So, always write the details in reverse chronological order (start with the latest) especially when you are listing previous company details or educational qualification details.

Take a print and see ! Take a printout of your resume and see. If you do not like it in the first look, the same will be with recruiters. (I know HR people who called candidates based on attractive resume.) So, revise it again.

Avoid Irrelevant Details ! Write straight to the point and only the details relevant to the job. (You don't need to include your family tree or how many children you have or what your wife does.) Do not write stereotype sentences like 'I am sincere, intelligent, hardworking' etc. That's childish. Who in this world is not hardworking by the way?

SOME INTERVIEW PREPARATION GUIDELINES FOR FRESHERS Some resume writing tips The first important thing is your resume should not have any grammatical or spelling mistakes. I see many resumes without any proper alignment of the text. Use a good font and size. For a fresher it is always must to mention their percentages in the resume. Some people mention only for their highest degree and not for all. This is not acceptable in most of the companies. Try to keep your highest degree as the first in the table. Your e-mail and phone number should be visible at first sight. Please do not expect HR to search and find your

Use simple Language ! Use simple English. You don't need to write complex jargon in the resume.

Write the Crux of Projects ! Don't write all about your projects. That will make the resume very

mail-id in the resume. Some people keep their mail-id in the header of the doc. Try to avoid this practice. Double check your mail-id and phone number before sending your resume Save the mail in your sent items whenever you apply to a company. Do not apply to multiple companies in one mail. If you cannot avoid it at least use "BCC" instead of "To" Do not keep your passport number in the resume, nobody will ask for that. Do not keep more than three pages in your resume. Make sure that your resume contains at least two very good projects but do not keep more than three. Generally two are enough. The more the projects you keep the more the questions you face.

I hope I am not wrong in the above points and will help at least one fresher to get a job. Please let me know if someone wants very clear info about the books to refer, topics to concentrate more and any other doubts you have. I will try my best to answer you. www.ChetanaS.com Do not keep hopes on trying on a fake experience; many companies started doing background verification... You can work hard if you can just imagine software life, money and comforts you are going to get...Interviews are always simple it just depends on how confident you are... Infosys Interview December 31, 2010

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Preparation www.ChetanaS.com You must be familiar with C, C++ and basic JAVA concepts Following is the descending order of number questions from each subject interviewer will ask. Data Structures (Very important) - Try to exercise simple programs on all types of data structures Operating systems - Should be familiar with all basic concepts and definitions, try to learn some OS algorithms Computer Networks (TCP/IP, ISO-OSI, Congestion, etc...) DBMS (Basic definitions, Normalization with examples) Software Engineering (s/w paradigms, types of testing and its definition and SDLC)

Apart from the above you should exercise RS Agarwal Objective Aptitude, Sukunthala Devi Puzzles and some math and English in old GRE book. For a fresher no one will ask for J2EE, .NET and some other software in the market. Once you are selected they will train you according to their requirement. Please remove it from your resume unless if you get a call based on those software. www.ChetanaS.com Interview The most important thing is confidence. Just attend the interview that you will get the job. Be clear in your answers Ask twice if you are unable to understand the question Use paper if you are unable to explain. It is always easy explaining using a paper If you do not know something, say frankly. But the answer should not be "NO" to basic questions. Try to know about the company before attending the interview. If a company is working on networking concentrate more on Computer networks and Data structures. You should plan your preparation according to the area of working. You should be very familiar with your projects. Please do not keep some application projects in your resume if you are an engineer. This is ok for MCAs. Please keep in mind that interviewer does not know anything about your projects, he will ask questions only from your explanation. Be well prepared about your projects. I have personally seen many resumes got rejected in my company even after they cleared the written test because of bad resume and projects. For management and HR rounds you should expose yourself that taking you into their company will be a big asset to them Try to know about the company history, their area of working, no.of people, number of countries they work, CEO of the company and etc... Everything is available in their web site.

This is Devesh from Graphic Era Institute of Technology Dehradun, recently Infosys came to our college on Jan 13th 2010. Around 385 students have appeared for the written test and 200 students got cleared their written test and 161 students finally selected for Infosys. Friends just follow my suggestions you can easily crack the Infosys interview. Luckily I also got selected in Infosys. First of all they will go for PPT (Pre Placement Talk), in which they will tell you about Infosys and your career growth. Ater that they will make you sit in the classrooms and distribute HR forms, its very easy and even self explanatory so fill it very carefully using BLUE or BLACK BALL POINT PEN in BLOCK LETTERS. Dont bother about this there will be people available from Infosys who will tell you how to fill the form. ($TIP$ try fill this form quickly as they will start the test in 10mins).There are 2 rounds in all. 1)Written Test a)Reasoning part (30 ques in 40 min) VERY EASY. i) Puzzle (5 ques). (Tough, attempt it at the last). ii) Data sufficiency (5 ques) iii) Picture puzzle (5 ques). VERY EASY, start from this only. iv) Data Interpretation (5 ques) v) Syllogism (5 ques) vi) Puzzle (5 ques). (Easy, generally on blood relation). b) Verbal part (40 ques in 35 min) TOUGH, TIME MANAGEMENT IS REQUIRED. i) 2 long reading comprehension (10 ques) ii) Sentence Completion (8 ques) iii) Underlined part (i.e. sentence correction 8 ques) iv) Re-phrasing part (i.e. sentence correction again 8 ques) v) Critical reasoning (6 ques) First they will start with reasoning test, try to solve it in this order, first picture puzzle or DS or syllogism then DI then go for last puzzle, and at last solve 1st puzzle. After 40 min they start collecting reasoning question paper and will ask you start with verbal test.In Verbal test NEVER start with RC, first try to solve underlined part, re-phrasing part and sentence completion then critical reasoning then RC. In this part time management is very important.There is no negative marking so attempt all the questions but dont mark same options f you are going for fluke, because my friend lost due to this only. They dont check your copy if they feel that you have marked fluke a lot.Then after 3 hrs the names of those students who have cleared written test was started to be called out. Then form 385 students, 200 got selected for the HR Interview.HR round: the basic questions like tell me about yourself, why Infosys, your family background n questions based on your strengths, weakness n hobbies n final year projects. No technical questions were being asked. Just prepare for your hobbies n strengths properly, and you should have examples to quote at that time. They can also ask you about your final year project, you should have a good knowledge of it. They also gave me puzzle whic I was not able to solve... but not to worry... Even if you give a wrong answer, just explain them your logic.And during whole interview try o smile n be confident n just say AAL IS WELL when you start feeling nervous... ok. And at the end they will ask you that if you want to ask any thing to them do prepare 2 or 3 questions to ask them like what are the chances of my growth... or any such other questions... Friends I have taken pain to write all these for you because I want you all to know... by doing silly mistakes how we can lose a lot. Friends if any of You got

selected because of my suggestions Friends while answering any question think for 5 seconds dont reply without thinking. Remember that 5 seconds will change your life. Dont reply that my aim is CAT, MBA, GRE all that sort of nonsense... 5 seconds have decided my life. Dont allow those 5 seconds to dictate you... bye my dear friends... ALL THE BEST. JUST BELIEVE IN GOD... KEEP SMILING. ITS MUST FOR ANY INTERVIEW Devanshu Pandey Central Titans NFOSYS TEST PREPARATION - FEB 2004 Infosys test preperation ----------------------------Follow the books, 1. shakuntala devi "puzzles to puzzle you" 2. Shakuntala devi "more puzzles" 3. puzzles and teasers from goerge summers 4. GRE from Barron's 14th edition. (Dont buy the latest GRE 2004 edition, the pattern has changed, u may not find analytical questions on that). then finsh the following topics from Quantitative Apptitude (R.S.Agarwal) 1.Clocks, 2.Time and distance, 3.Numbers, 4.Problem on ages 5.Problem on trains & 6.Average The previous Question papers from infosys will also help you, so get it from chetena group. English paper is very easy..u don't need any additional preparation. I don't think that method important...but show all the steps because they do see the rough sheet. steps to follow in the exam --------------------------------1. first do the puzzles that u know clearly. 2. nealty show the steps. 3. Try to solve it fast. 4. do not over write or dash out. 5. atleast solve 2 problems on one side of the answer sheet, or u wont find enough space. 6. In steps show (Given: , solution:) Remember speed & Accurancy does matter. Keep cool and don't panic..and u'll surely get through... Work hard, u will be an infy soon. INFOSYS TIPS & INFO - JUN 2003 SOME TIPS AND INFO ABOUT INFOSYS PREP... Hi Chetanaites Infosys tests arent very difficult. but they require some amount of preparation. all the sums are based on fundamental class 10-12 concepts. very simple speed distance problems. u need to follow the foll. books. these 3 books are more than sufficient.

more or less these questions are reframed or the same concepts are tested. initially when one starts preparing he may find it very difficult. but i guess it wud be only a starting problem. one shudnt get demoralised by this starting problem. u can always refer to the solutions (only after having tried ur best at solving them w/o help). at times the solutions may also sound a lil greek and latin, but u need to spend time on it... u shud know this book in and out. SPEED PROBLEMS, TRAIN PROBLEMS, SIMPLE PROBABILITY AND PERMU-COMBI problems are frequent. once ur thro with PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI u can move over to MORE PUZZLES - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI. most of the problems here are repeated or rephrased from (PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI). then u can use the GEORGE SUMMERS BOOK. try working out a 2-3 problems from the GRE BARRONS book - analytical section - the ones with 4 subdivisions. - any person who has taken up his/her GRE can easily help u loacte such questions in the book. these are very simple questions. they dont involve much time or thinking. and these always feature in ur test. they are generally with 4 subdivisions carrying 8 marks on the whole. after all this is over u can move over to THE QUESTION papers. start off with the latest available papers and then move on to the old ones. u have plenty of them put up on the yahoo groups. . once ur thro with 4-5 papers itself, u'd have a clear idea of what problems are asked and what fundas are tested. but REMEMBER NEVER START OFF WITH THE QUESTION PAPERS, it will never help. take the exam witha cool-head. FAALTU KA TENSION will never help u. u shud be able to time urself. initially scan the paper, if u come acros any stereo type problem just finish it off phat-a-phat. it wud boost ur confidence. then approach the rest proble.s dont get stuck anywhere. MBA aspirants (ppl who have given CAT and mock cats) wud have an edge in this paper timing stuff.. Hi Chetanaites this is abhishek and here are tips to crack infosys test 1. Study hard these books: more puzzles, puzzles to puzzle u and george summeres puzzles and teasers. Also solve infosys papers u get on www.chetanasinterview.com 2. The questions come from shakuntala devi are esy and for less marks 3. The questions come from george summeres are for higher mark and hard 4. The test is of 50+50 marks 50 for aptitude and 50 for english 5. Time is total 90 min 60 for aptitude 10 questions 30 for english 50 or 30 questions 6. first u get aptitude paper and when time finishes they take the q.paper and give the english q.paper 7. The main thing u must do is if u are less in time in last five min copy questions to ur ans. paper and after the time (90min) is over solve those remaining questions. bcause they take long time to check the forms and collecting the papers note: try to sit as far as in sitting arrangemets so u will get extra time for these papers

1. PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI q.no. : 2,3,11,12,17,23,27,37,38,45,51,63,66,108,117,124,128,130,145,14 8 2. MORE PUZZLES - By SHAKUNTALA DEVI q.no. : 193,221,244,275 3. GEORGE SUMMERS BOOK starte with the puzzles to puzzle book importance to each and every question. genrally problems having comaplex figures and 2page questions will not be asked. u need to give importance to the questions ive listed above.

the interviews r on next day of exam i just failed because of time gamble 10 Day Guide To Infosys Hello Chetanaites, I am a fresher who just finsiehd my final year B.Tech Information Technology. Being fully prepared for the selection test for Infy on June 19th, and with God's grace I was able to get an appointment Order form Infosys. I would like to give back to the group the 10 day schedule that i followed, which may be of use in CRACKING the Infy test. If 10 days arent there for you, then you coudl leve out the days that i have used for Ravi Narula and the quantitaive Aptitude. That would bring down the number of days to 7 or 8. You need to manage your time very effeciently. Spend your itme in studying, and prayers. Prayers do help a lot . Usually when you register with Infosys, you would get a mail atleast 10 to 12 days before the written test either by email, or by Post. Let us keep this as 10 days. Before we start off, three rules must be kep in mind. FIRST RULE : While job hunting , check your mail on a daily basis, so that you dont get delayed info regarding test or other such details . Even the appointment order comes by email. SECOND RULE : Once you do receive the intimating or hall ticket, check for the following books.Not all chapters need to be followed in each book and i have given the need ones in the daily schedule . (1) Puzzles to Puzzle you - Shakuntala Devi (very Important) (2) More Puzzles - Shakuntala Devi (very Important) (3) Puzzles and Teasers - George Sammers (very very Important) (4) Brain Teasers - Ravi Narula (Optional, but few old sums are here) (5) Quantitative Aptitude - R.S Agarwal ( Important) (6) Verbal Reasoning - R.S Agarwal (very very Important) (7) Previous Papers - ChetanaSinterview.com, KoolKampus.com, Mail me for more (Important) THIRD RULE : YOU must forget all your previosu failures and start afresh with firm determination and enthusiasm. Once you do this, solving puzzles become easy . I solved 9 out of 10 puzzles. Concentrate on the bigger puzzles first . This may be the way the marks are distributed: 8 marks and 6 marks - George Sammers and Verbal Reasoning (R.S Agarwal) 4 marks and 5 marks and 3 makrs - Shakuntala Devi books and Ravi Narula and Quantitative Aptitude(R.S Agarwal) Some questions from Previous Papers Now lets start of with the schedule : DAY 1 : Start off with Puzzles to Puzzle you - Shakuntala Devi and finish as mush as possible.Decide to only finish the book and call the day off. Note down the sums which you are not able to solve or need the answers to solve and keep this list safely. After you go through the whole book, go back to thses questions and just check out the way they are solced. Sometimes they will not be explained. In this case you have no choice but to leave them. But some sums will have some funny explanations.Just rememeber the way or method. DAY 2 : Now take a break off from Shakuntala Devi and then start Verbal Reasoning - R.S Agarwal . In this you just have to do the Puzzle Test Chapter fully , and have a look at the Number, Ranking and Sequence Test chapter. I contains fully George Sammers type question on easier scale but you woudl be able to uderstand the basic logic of solving George Sammers type questions. Finish off the whole book during the second day.There is just one or two methods to solve these sort of questions and the explanation is very clear . Once you get the method , you can solve al the puzzles in this, but

just in case do go through all the puzzles. there have been puzzles in previous papers from here.Once ou get the method well, there will not be any revision necessary in this book . But you will have to concentrate on the method. DAY 3 : Now back to More Puzzles - Shakuntala Dei and follow the same procedure you followed for the first book. DAY 4 and DAY 5: Get your George Sammers book and start off solving the puzzles. The first half is kind of easy, btu dont be worried if your not able to solve much. Even one or two is enough . The Rest, you just have to use the scheme and the solutions and then understand the puzzle thoroughly. Many papers have similar sums with the names changed. Try to finish the first half in a day . And start off the second half . The second half is relatively tougher, and it will be very confusing. Just try to solve some. The second half, even the solutions will confuse you more. So just solve as many as you can. The rest you can make use of the soultions . If they are too complex, Leave them aside. Note down all sums you could not solve or could solve only using the solutions and list them . When you are through the whole book, just revise all the sums, giving preference to the ones that you have listed . It si okay even if you sit with George Sammers for three days. But you must fully be able to undertsand all the question in the First part. The second part, atleast maybe few sums are optional. DAY 6 : Take your quantitative Aptitude book by R.S Agarwal and work out the following chapters fully. Note down tough sums and their solutions and come back to solve thme and revise them. The chapters to be done are : (1) Time and Distance (very important) (2) Time and Work (3) Pipes and Cisterns (4) Trains (5) Boats DAY 7 : Revise Shakuntala Devi book-1 and revise it well. Not necessary to wokr out the porblems. Just check if your method is correct . The sums you have listed, give them extra importance. By the end of this day , you must Shakuntala Devi book-1(Puzzles to Puzzle you ) on your finger tips. DAY 8 : Revise the book-2 of Shakuntala Devi , just how you revised the first book.End of this day you shoudl ahve both Shakuntala devi books at your finger tips. DAY 9 : Revise George Sammers, such that you can easily solve the whole first part . The second part , leave ii , if it is tough. DAY 10 : Check out Ravi Narula. The sums are very tough . It will be enough if you just c the solutions and understand them . Some sums are asked in some papers.( There is one questin abt some ANYMAN reaching ANYWHERE. His tyre gets punctured and he reaches late. If his tyre got punctured earlier / later then he would have reached earlier/later. How far did he travel..soemthing like that).that is form this book . Many papers have this sum repeated. But the names are changed. Ravi Narula is just optional, but I suggest that you go through all sums and their solution atleast once.Dont take too much time on Ravi Narula. Just three or four hours would be sufficient. Lastly, Check out old papers. INTERVIEW : Interview is Casual.If you have done excellently well in the test , your interview process is very simple and a walkthrough if you have good communication skills ( Speak clearly, frankly). My Interview Panle consisted of one Madame and one Sir. They asked me abt Team Wokr, Abt my College, Abt my family, My hobbies, My interests, Certain changes i would like to bring out in the current socio-economic development (I said to remove unemployment).I was nto asked any puzzles in my interview. But I do have a list of puzzles that coudl be possibly asked. I would post them too on this forum .

Interview was very friendly. You are free to ask the panel your performance and expectation of your order. Be positive. Thats a very very big Point in your HR interview.My friend had a stress interview. Be cool, Dont react. Pls do mail me in case you have any doubts. Also mail me if this post has helped you become an Infosion. I would be very happy if this post has helped few fellow Infosions out there. pls do lemme know if you do get selected. You can also add me in your messenger. I will be online everyday, and u can send me offlines to clarify certain doubts . Every Problem has a Solution. INFOSYS INTERVIEW PUZZLES WITH ANSWERS INFOSYS INTERVIEW PUZZLES WITH ANSWERS I HAVE COLLECTED THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE MAILS IN THE GROUP ONLY. FOR 3-4 QUESTIONS ONLY I HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER WITH THE HELP OF MY TEACHERS. SO KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE ANSWERS MAY NOT BE 100% CORRECT. TRY TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF. 1. You are given two candles of equal size, which can burn 1 hour each. You have to measure 90 minutes with these candles. (There is no scale or clock). Also u r given a lighter. Ans: 1. First light up the two ends of the 1st candle. When it will burn out light up one end of the second candle. (30+60=90)

7. If one tyre of a car suddenly gets stolen.... and after sometime u find the tyre without the screws how will u make ur journey complete? Ans: Open 3 screws, 1 from each tyre and fix the tyre. 8. How can u measure a room height using a thermometer?Ans: temp varies with height. but its dependent on various other factors like humidity, wind etc.

9. What is the height of room if after entering the room with a watch ur head strikes a hanging bulb? Ans: Oscillate the hanging bulb. Calculate the time period for one complete oscillation by Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) of the handing bulb. Put it in the formula T=2 * 3.14 * (L/G)^1/2 L will be the length of the hanging thread.Add the L with ur height to get the height of the room. ORAns: Drop it from the room and find the time at which it strikes the floor. Using physics formula s = (at^2)/2 (IM NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ONE) 10. Color of bear.... if it falls from 1m height in 1s. Ans: We get 'g' perfect 10 which is only in poles...hence polar bear...color White 11. How will you measure height of building when you are at the top of the building? And if you have stone with you.ns: Drop the stone and find the time taken for the stone to reach the ground. find height using the formulas = a + gt ( s = height, a= initial velocity=0, g=9.8m/s, t = time taken) 12. How wud u catch and receive a ball in same direction? (Dropping is from north And receiving from bottom not accepted, as it is 2 directions) 13. 25 statements given. Some tell truth, some false and some alternators. Find out the true statemnts. Ans: ? 14. Can u make 120 with 5 zeros?Ans: Factorial (factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)+factorial (0)) = 120 15.There are three people A, B, C. Liars are of same type and Truth speaking people are of same type. Find out who is speaking truth and who is speaking false from the following statements: a) A says: B is a liar. b) B says: A and C are of same type. Ans: lets assume A is speaking truth. It means B is a liar then it means A and C are not of same type. 16.5 swimmers A, B, C, E, F and many conditions of their positions like there are Two b/w A & F, B doesn't win etc the question was to find who was b/w like E & D? Ans: 17. in a race u drove 1st lap with 40kmph and in the second lap at what speed u must drive so that ur average speed must be 80kmph. Ans: its impossible! if u drove the first lap in 40 kmph, its impossible that the average speed of both the laps is 80kmph. for eg. consider one lap distance = 80km. time req. to cover 1 lap = 80km/40kmph = 2 hrs. if the avg. speed is 80kmph, then the total time would have taken = 160kms/80kmph = 2 hrs. same is the case with any other distance u consider. so the avg to be 80kmph is impossible 18. You have to draw 3 concentric circles with a line passing thru their center without lifting hand. Ans: Start the line complete one circle move inside circles along the line and then draw second crcle. Like wise rest. 19. A rectangular paper is there. At a corner a rectangular size paper is taken from it. Now you have to cut the remaining paper into two equal halves.Ans: try it on the paper. You must fold the part that has complete paper and select Half of it and then fold the

2. Try the similar problem to measure 45 minutes. Ans: First light-up the two ends of the 1st candle and one end of the 2nd candle. When the 1st candle will burn out ,then light up the both ends of the 2nd candle (15+30=45) 3. You r given a thermometer. What can u do by this without measuring the temperature? Ans: if u put thermometer into a tree it won't grow anymore, will just die off 4. How it is possible to place four points that are equidistance from each other? OR U r a landscape designer and your boss asked u to design a landscape such that you should place 4 trees equidistance from each other. (Distance from each tree to the other must be same) Ans: Only 3 points can be equidistant from each other. But if u place points in the shape of a pyramid then its possible 5. You are given a cake; one of its corner is broken. How will u cut the rest into Two equal parts?

Ans: Slice the cake

6. How will you recognize the magnet & magnetic material & nonmagnetic material?

Ans: Drag one piece of material over another. There is no attractive force in the middle portion of the magnet. OR Get a piece of thread and tie up with the one bar and check for poles. If it iron bar then it moves freely and if it is magnetic bar then it fix in one direction according to poles.

part that cut and selects half of it and then cut along the folding. (I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS ONE!!) 20. Value of (x-a)(x-b). . . . (x-z) Ans: 0 as there's X-X term 21. There are 9 coins. 8 are of 1 gm and 1 is of 2 grams. How will you find out the heavier coin in minimum number of weighing and how many weighing it will need? Ans: 2 weighing ( Divide the number of coins into 3 parts at each weighing)

2. If 5/2 artists make 5/2 paintings using 5/2 canvases in 5/2 days then how many artists r required to make 25 paintings using 25 canvases in 25 days? Ans=5/2 3. If the digits of my present age are reversed then i get the age of my son.If 1 year ago my age was twice as that of my son.Find my present age. ans. father-73, son-37 4. There are 6561 balls out of them 1 is heavy.Find the min. no. of times the balls have to be weighed for finding out the haevy ball.ans. 8 5. If i walk with 30 miles/hr i reach 1 hour before and if i walk with 20 miles/hr i reach 1 hour late.Find the distance between 2 points and the exact time of reaching destination is 11 am then find the speed with which it walks.ans. 120miles and 24 miles/hr 7. If A,B,C,D,E r 5 members of a family.4 of them give true statements : 1. E is my mother in law 2. C is my son in law's brother 3. B is my father's brother 4. A is my brother's wife Who made the stmt. and what r the realtions among them ans. E | A<-->B--C | D <--> denotes husband-wife -- denotes brothers 8. The product of 5 different temperatures is 12.If all of then r integers then find all the temperatures ans. -2,-1,1,2,3 9. If a flight travels between India(IST) and Toronto(TST).There r 2 types of flights slow and fast. IST TST SLOW - FAST - TST IST SLOW - FAST - ? These are the departure times and arrival times for slow and fast flights in IST and TST. then find the time in ?ans. 22:40 10.There r 9 cities numbered 1 to 9.From how many cities the flight can start so as to reach the city 8 either directly or indirectly such the path formed is divisible by 3. eg. 1368-Flights goes through 1-3-6-8. 1. I participated in a race.1/5th of those who are before me are equal to 5/6th of those behind me. What were the total number of contestants in the race? (3 Marks) ans=32(6,1,25) 2. Find the 3 digit number. Third digit is square root of first digit. Second digit is sum of first and third digits. Find the number.(3 Marks) ans=264 5. A girl has 55 marbles. She arranges them in n rows. The nth row consists of n marbles, the (n-1)th row consists of (n-1) marbles and so on. What are the number of marbles in nth row?(3 Marks) ans=1,2,3..10 (10) 10. Problems on time and distance. 1. From a vessel on the first day, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates. On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates. What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the second day? Ans=1/2 2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has apple juice. Both are of equal volume. 50 ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple juice. 50 ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass. Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange juice in

the white glass, which one is greater and by how much? Ans=equal 3. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. This is cut into number of 1 inch cubes. What is the number of cubes which have no painted sides? Ans=8(2^3) 3. Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40. Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me. Now Sam says you are atleast 39. All the statements by the two are false. How old are they realy? Ans=38/37,41 5. Ram singh goes to his office in the city every day from his suburban house. His driver Mangaram drops him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every evening Ram singh reaches the station at 5 o'clock. Mangaram also reaches at the same time. One day Ram singh started early from his office and came to the station at 4 o'clock. Not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up on the way and takes him back house, half an hour early. How much time did Ram singh walked? Ans=45m 6. In a railway station, there are two trains going. One in the harbour line and one in the main line, each having a frequency of 10 minutes. The main line service starts at 5 o'clock. The harbour line starts at 5.02 AM. A man goes to the station every day to catch the first train. What is the probability of man catchinhg the first train?Ans=0.8 7. Some people went for vaction. Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there. But whenever it rained in the morning, they had clean afternood and vice versa. In all they enjoyed 11 morning and 12 afternoons. How many days did they stay there totally? Ans=18(11+12+13/2) 1. A person needs 6 steps to cover a distance of one slab. If he increases his foot length (step length) by 3 inches he needs only 5 steps to cover the slabs length. What is the length of the each slab.Ans: 31 inches. 2. There are 19 red balls and one black ball. Ten balls are put in one jar and the remaining 10 are put in another jar. What is the possibility that the black is in the right jar. Ans: 1/2. 3. There is one lily in the pond on 1st june. There are two in the pond on 2nd june . There are four on 3rd june and so on. The pond is full with lilies by the end of the june. (i) On which date the pond is half full? Ans: 29th. --the june has 30 days). (ii) If we start with 2 lilies on 1st june when will be the pond be full with lilies. Ans: 29th June. 4. A lorry starts from Banglore to Mysore at 6.00 A.M, 7.00 A.M, 8.00 am.....10 pm. Similarly one another starts from Mysore to Banglore at 6.00 am,7.00 am, 8.00 am.....10.00pm. A lorry takes 9 hours to travel from Banglore to Mysore and vice versa. (i) A lorry which has started at 6.00 am will cross how many lorries. Ans: 10. (ii) A lorry which had started at 6.00pm will cross how many lorries. Ans: 14. 5. A person meets a train at a railway station coming daily at a particular time . One day he is late by 25 minutes, and he meets the train 5 k.m. before the station. If his speed is 12 kmph, what is the speed of the train. Ans: 60 kmph. Refer--Shakuntala Devi Book. 7. A theif steals half the total no of loaves of bread plus 1/2 loaf from a backery. A second theif steals half the remaing no of loaves plus 1/2 loaf and so on. After the 5th theif has stolen there are no more loaves left in the backery. What was the total no of loaves did the backery have at the biggining. Ans: 31. 3. & 4.th problems on Venn diagram 1) a) 10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 2 _ _ ans 9 1 b) 2 4 16 512 _ ans 2^16 Write the next elements in the series. 2) A Man is sitting in the last coach of train could not find a seat, so he starts walking to the front coach ,he walks for 5 min and reaches front coach. Not finding a seat he walks back to last coach and when he reaches there, train had completed 5 miles. What is the speed of the train. Ans 30 mph 3) The Old car of Mary requires tyres to be changed after each 24000 km. If she wants to go for 42000 km journey then how many minimum number of tyres she will need. Ans=7 4) A coin is so unbalanced that it may come both heads in 2 tosses as it may come tails in a single toss. What is the probabality of getting a head in a single toss. Ans 2/3

1. A begger collects cigarette stubs and makes one ful cigarette with every 7 stubs. Once he gets 49 stubs . How many cigarettes can he smoke totally? Ans: 8. 2. A soldier loses his way in a thick jungle at random walks from his camp but mathematically in an interesting fashion. First he walks one mile east then half mile to north. Then 1/4 mile to west, then 1/8 mile to south and so on making a loop. Finally how far he is from his camp and in which direction. Ans: In north and south directions 1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on = 1/2/((1-(-1/4)) similarly in east and west directions 11/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on = 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4)). Add both the answers. 3. How 1000000000 can be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros? Ans: 2 power 9 x 5 ppower 9 (check the answer). 4. Conversation between two mathematcians: First : I have three childern. The product of their ages is 36. If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbour's door number on my left. The second mathematician verfies the door number and says that the clue is not sufficient. Then the first says " OK, one more clue is that my youngest is the youngest". Immmediately the second mathematician answers. Can you answer the question asked by the first mathematician? What are the childeren ages? Ans: 2 and 3 and 6. 5. Light glows for every 13 seconds. How many times did it between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 AM? Ans: 383 + 1 = 384. 6. 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns. ALL tallest among each row are asked to fall out. And the shortest among them is A. Similarly after resuming that to their originaal positions that the shortest among each column are asked to fall out. And the longest among them is B. Now who is taller among A and B? Ans: A. 7. A person spending out 1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travelles. He is left with Rs 100/-. How he had in the begining?Ans: Rs 250/-. 8. There are six boxes containing 5, 7, 14, 16, 18, 29 balls of either red or blue in colour. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue . One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says "I have the same number of red balls left out as that of blue". Which box is the one he solds out? Ans: Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2 = 60/2 = 30 and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30. 9. A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lengths, containing 3 links each. It is taken to a blacksmith to join into a single continuous one. How many minimum number of links are to to be opened to make it?Ans: 2. 10. Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 for 30 cows. How many cows can eat away the same in 96 days?Ans: 20 11. There is a certain four digit number whose fourth digit is twice the first digit. Third digit is three more than second digit. Sum of the first and fourth digits twice the third number. What was that number?Ans: 2034 and 4368. This paper contains INFOSYS Interview Questions. 1. Person1: Most of us are satch J. Person2: Most of us are jute S. Person3: Two of us are satch J. Person4: Three of us are jute J. Person5: I am satch J we have to find who is satch and who is jute.Ans: S: Satch J:Jute. 2. Four persons are there to cross a bridge they have one torch light. Person A can cross in 1 min. Person B can cross in 2 min. Person C can cross in 5 min. Person D can cross in 10 min. They have to cross bridge with in 17 min. At a time only two persons can cross. I. A & B ----> 2. II. A <---- 1. III. C & D ----> 10. IV. B <---- 2. V A & B ---> 2 ______________ Total 17. 3. 7 hours hour glass 11 hours hour glass you have to boil one egg for 15 hours. 4. What is the maximum number of slices can you obtain by cutting a cake with only 4 cuts? Ans: 16. 5. Three are three boxes. In first box, two white balls. In second box, 2 black balls. In third box, 1 white & 1 black ball. The lables on the boxes are not correct. Then you have to open one box and to find the colour of the balls in all boxes. Ans: Open the box labled black & white. If white balls are there

then the box labled with white balls contain black balls and labled with black balls contain one black and one white ball and vice versa, if two black balls are there. 1. BE * BE = ACB. A, B, C, E are non zero numbers. Find B, E. Ans: B=1 E=9. 4. A person went to a shop and asked for change for 1.15 paise, but he said that he could not only give change for one rupee but also for 50p, 25p, 10p and 5p. What were the coins he had? Ans: 1->50p 4--->10p 1--->25p. 1. There is a robery and four persons are suspected out of them one is actual thief, these are the sentences said by each one of them. A says D had done. B says A had done. C says I have not done. D says B lied when he said that I am thief. Out of these, only one man is true remaining are false. Marks : 3. Ans: C is theif, D is true. 2. How many four digit numbers, divisible by four, can be formed using 1,2,3,4. Repetions are not allowed. Marks : 4. Ans: 6 3. A vender solds two things at same cost 12 Rs with one item at 25% profit and other at 20% loss, by this transaction he made profit or loss by how much? Marks : 3. Ans: Loss,60%. 4. Two friends A and B are running up hill and then to get down. Length of road is 440 yards. A on his return journey met B going up at 20 yards from top. If A has finished the race 5 minutes earlier than B,then how much time A had taken to complete the race?. Marks : 8. Ans: 6.3 minutes 5. Barons question diagnostic test question 8-12, 5 men and 5 women went for foot ball match......... Marks : 8. 6. Write a five digit number, which will be having two prime numbers, and some two more conditions, like first digit greater than second etc. Marks : 5. Ans: 71842. 7. Two employees were there. Employee one says to employee two -- your work experience twice as me amp; employee2 to employee1 but two years before you said that your work experience is thrice as me. Employee2 said yes its also true. What are their work experience?Marks : 3. Ans: 4,8. 3 8. There are four persons A,B,C,D and four languages english ,french , german, italian. Conditions:1. Only one language is spoken by more than two men. 2. A dont know english. 3. A man can speak either french or german but not both. 4. All man cannot spek in a group (no common language). 5. A can mediate when B and C want to speak with each other. 6. Each men can speak two languages?Marks : 7.Ans: A french italian B english french C german italian D german italian. 2. Four persons have to cross the bridge they are having one torch light. Four persons take 1,2,5,10 minutes respectively, when two persons are going the will take the time of the slowest person what is the time taken to cross all of them.Ans: 17 minutes. 3. A non uniform rope burns for one hour. How you will measure half an hour?Ans: Lit it from both the sides 1. In the month of october in a year has exactly four mondays and four fridays, find what day of week wiil be on the 20th of November of that year. Ans: 20th November was a wednesday. 2. Six persons A,B,C,D,E & F went to solider cinima. There are six conseutive seats. A sits in one of the seats followed by B, followed by C and soon. If a taken one of the six seats , then B should sit adjacent to A. C should sit adjacent A or B. D should sit adjacent to A, B,or C and soon. How many possibilities are there?Ans: 32 ways. 4. In mathematica country 1,2,3,4....,8,9 are nine cities. Cities which form a no. that is divisible by 3 are connected by air planes. (e.g. cities 1 & 2 form no. 12 which divisible by 3 then 1 is connected to city 2). Find the total no. of ways you can go to 8 if you are allowed to break the journies. Ans: 5. 5. ABCDE are sisters. Each of them gives 4 gifts and each receives 4 gifts No two sisters give the same combination ( e.g. if A gives 4 gifts to B then no other sisters can give four to other one.) (i) B gives four to A. (ii) C gives 3 to E. How much did A,B,C,E give to D? Ans: Donor no of gifts A 1 B - C 1 D 2 6. There are some bulbs,which are numbered from 1 to 100.all the bulbs are in on conditions. The following operations are performed:1. Those bulbs number which are divisible by 2 are switched OFF.

2. Those bulbs numbered which are divisible by 3 are switched ON (which are already OFF) and OFF bulbs are switched ON. 3. Similarly bulbs numbers divisible by 4 are either switched ON or OFF depending upon there previous condition. 4. This procedure is adopted till 100th bulb. At the end there were how many bulbs which were in ON condition? Ans: 10 ( only perfect squares ). 7. There are different numbers related with A,B,C,D,E.such that, AB*CD=EEE. E*CD-AB=CC. Find AB*D. Ans: BE. 1) Henny, Axie, Amie are friends. Conditions:- a) Herry or Axies is the oldest. b)If Axie is the oldest, Amie is the youngest. Who is the youngest & who is the oldest? Ans: Amie is the youngest, Axie is oldest. 2) A, B, C are 3 girls and there are 770 Apples. For every 4 Apples, A takes,B takes 3. For ever 6 Apples, C takes 7 Apples? Ans: 261:145:303. 3) T, U, V are 3 friends digging groups in fields. If T & U can complete i groove in 4 days &, U & V can complete 1 groove in 3 days & V & T can complete in 2 days. Find how many days each takes to complete 1 groove individually. Ans: 24 days. 4) 4 mathematician has x apples. If he arranges them in rows of 3 one will be left. The same is the case with 5,7,9 apples. But when he arranged them in rows of 11, non will be left. Find the no. of apples. Ans: 946. (Hint: 11*6 11*11 11*16 11*21 =2E......11*76 =3D946). 1. An escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. How many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating. Ans=150. 2. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straignt before the crossing and both are travelling in the same direction. Cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train. 60 kmph. 2. Five persons muckerjee, misra, iyer, patil and sharma, all take then first or middle names in the full names. There are 4 persons having first or middle name of kumar, 3 persons with mohan, 2 persons with dev and 1 anil. -- Either mukherjee and patil have a first or middle name of dev or misra and iyer have their first or middle name of dev. -- Of mukherkjee and misre, either both of them have a first or middle name of mohan or neither have a first or middle name of mohan. -- Either iyer of sharma has a first or middle name of kumar but not both. Who has the first or middle name of anil? Today is Mukherjee. q1] A frog jumps 3 ft comes back 2ft in a day. In how many day it will come out of 30ft deep well? 2 Marks. Ans: 28 day. q2] A-B=C D/E=F G+H=I C.F=I Ans: A=9, B=5, C=4, F=2. I=8 D=6 E=3 G=1 H=7 q3] When the actual time pass 1 hr, wall clock is 10 min behind it. When 1 hr is shown by wall clock, table clock shows 10 min ahead of 1 hr. When table clock shows 1 hr, the alarm clock goes 5 min behind it. When alarm clock goes 1 hr, wrist watch is 5 min ahead of it. Assuming that all clocks are correct with actual time at 12 noon, what will be time shown by wrist watch after 6 hr? Ans: 5:47:32.5 (n X 60 )50/60 X 70/60 X 55/60 X 65/60. q4] A software engineer just returned from US, has eaten too much fat & put a lot of weight. Every sunday he starts walking 4 km/hr on level ground, then up at 3 km\hr, then back down hill at 6km\hr, then again on level ground at 4km\hr till he reaches his destination. If he returned home at 9 p.m., what distance did he covered? Ans: 24 km. 1. SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK : PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU. Problem no: 3. ( Brothers and Sisters) A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there? Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls. 2. Number of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the no. of birds were the no. of animals and no. of animals were the no. of birds (ie., interchanging no.s of animals and birds.), the total no. of

legs get reduced by one fifth (1/5). How many no. of birds and animals were there? Ans: Birds: 11, Animals: 22 3. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At the end of the day you have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured? Ans: 22 + 2+ 1 = 25. 4. 2 * * 3** ---------------5** **2* *43** ---------------***** ---------------Number "7" does not occur in this multiplication. Find the product. Ans: 281 322 -----------562 5620 84300 -----------90482 ----------5. There is a 5 digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. Third digit is 3 less than the second. 4th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit. Ans: 25296. 6. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total no. of the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th also did the same. After the fifth one, no. of breads remained are 3. Initially how many breads were there? Ans: 31. 7. ESCALATOR PROBLEM OF SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE'book. Problem No: Problem 27 (Down the escalator) Ans: The no of steps in the stair way : 46. 1. 9 cards are there. You have to arrange them in a 3*3 matrix. Cards are of 4 colors. They are red, yellow, blue, green. Conditions for arrangement:One red card must be in first row or second row. Two green cards should be in third column. Yellow cards must be in the three corners only. Two blue cards must be in the second row. Atleast one green card in each row. Ans: Yellow Red Green Blue Blue Green Yellow Green Yellow. 1) Mr. X got Paramvir Chakra in 1971. He died when his age was 1/59th the year of birth. What was his date of birth? Ans: 1947. 2) There are 6561 number of balls in a bag. Out of which one is heavy ball. In how many minimum number of weighing you can find the heavy ball. Ans: 8. 3) The profit made by a company in one year is enough to give 6% return on all shares. But as the preffered shares get on return of 7.5%, so the ordinary shares got on return of 5%. If the value of preferd shares is Rs 4,000000, then what is the value of ordinary shares? Ans: Rs. 6,000000. 5) A & B two places. C & D are two people. C started from A and D started from B. When they meet each other in the way C traveled 18 m more than D. Then C takes 13 and half a minute and D takes 24 minutes to reach the other end. What was the distance between A & B. Ans: 126. 1) Mr. X got Paramvir Chakra in 1971. He died when his age was 1/59th the year of birth. What was his date of birth? Ans: 1947. 2) There are 6561 number of balls in a bag. Out of which one is heavy ball. In how many minimum number of weighing you can find the heavy ball. Ans: 8. 3) The profit made by a company in one year is enough to give 6% return on all shares. But as the preffered shares get on return of 7.5%, so the ordinary shares got on return of 5%. If the value of preferd shares is Rs 4,000000, then what is the value of ordinary shares? Ans: Rs. 6,000000.

4) There were 50 players playing a game among themselves. Each player is out of the game when lose 3 matches. What is the number of matches should be played in order to get the winner. 5) A & B two places. C & D are two people. C started from A and D started from B. When they meet each other in the way C traveled 18 m more than D. Then C takes 13 and half a minute and D takes 24 minutes to reach the other end. What was the distance between A & B. Ans: 126. 6) I have been hearing a girl singing a song for last two score. Song: If seven times five and three times seven is added to my age it would be as far above six nines and four as the difference between twice of my age and a score. Given-A score is 20 yrs. 7) A tourist wants to go from A to B. There are four ways to do this:1. To take a wagon. The wagon stops for half an hour at a station in between a & b and then goes to b. 2. To walk to B. If he leavs A at the same time the wagon leaves, he will be between by the wagon by 1 mile to reach B. 3. To walk from A at the same time the wagon leaves from A. He will arrive at the mid station at the time when the wagon is prepared to leave. He can take the wagon from there. This will take shortest time. 4. To go on upto the mid station & to walk from there. He will reach at B 15 minutes before the wagon. What is the distance between A & B?. 8) In a train there is one brakeman, conductor, engineer & fireman. Their names are Art, John, Tom & Pete given in this order or in reverse order. You have to tell the occupation of the four, w.r.t. these conditions:1. Brakeman has no relatives. 2. John is older than art. 3. Engineer & fireman are brothers. 4. John is pete's nephew. 5. Fireman is not conductor's uncle. 6. Conductor is not engineer's uncle. Ans: Pete & Tom are brothers. Tom--Father and John is his son. Art--Brakeman. John--Conductor. Tom--Engineer. Pete--Fireman. 9) There is a 18 strong building and 4 people live in it. They are dentist, lawyer, accountant, architect. Dentist floor is 5 times the lawyer's floor. Account is below dentist. If archetect moves two floors up he will be midway between dentist and account. If architect moves to midway of the building (9th floor) then he will be middle of dentist & lawyer. Ground floor can be ignored i.e. floor 0. Ans: Dentist 15. Accountant 13. Archetect 12. Lawyer 3. [Q:1] Find a five digit number subject to following conditions:a. It contains 2 prime no digits. b. 3rd digit is the lagest. c. 1st digit = (3 rd digit - 1). c. Sum of 4th digit and 5th digit is less than 1st digit. d. Value of the 5th digit lies between t he value of 1st digit and 2nd digit, 5th digit is one half of the 4th digit. Ans: 71842 6 Marks. [Q:2] 1, 2 , 3, 4 digits are available. How many number of 4 digited numbers which are divisible by 4. (There should be no repetition of digits in the numbers) can be formed? Ans: 6 numbers. [q:3] Conversation between two employees is as follows:EMPLOYEE-1: Hello! Now your experience is twice the my experience. EMPLOYEE-2: Exactly two times. EMPLOYEE-1: But at the last meet, you said that your experience is thrice of my experience. EMPLOYEE-2: That is when we met at 2 years back, your experience is thrice that of yours. What is the experience of two employess with the company? Ans: EMPLOYEE-1: 4 years EMPLOYEE-2: 8 years. [Q:4] A hill of 440 yards is there. Two competitors JACK and JILL go up the hill, first JACK reaches the topmost and immediatly starts back and meet JILL 20 yards from the topmost point. Finally JACK reaches the starting point 0.5 minutes earler than JILL. Speed while coming down is 1.5 times the speed of going up. Find the time

taken by JACK for whole journey (880 yards)? Ans: 6.3 minutes. [Q:5] A merchant in the last day sells 2 lamps for Rs.12 price. He finds that he has got 25 % gain on one and 20% lost on the other. Did he loose or gain overall? If so how much? Ans: 60 paise Loss. [Q:6] 4 persons are there caledd JOHN, JACOB, PITER, and WILLIAMS. 4 laungages are there named ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, FRENCH. Conditions:a. There is no common language for all. b. Except one language, no language is spoken by more than two. c. One can know either German or FRENCH but not both. d. John can't speak ENGLISH But John can act as interpreter between JACOB and PITER. Jacob knows GERMAN but he can tailk with WILLIAM who doesn't know a word of GERMAN. e. No common language between JOHN, PITER, and WILLIAMS. Which two languages does each person speaks? 8 Marks. Hint: ITALIAN IS SPOKEN BY THREE PERSONS (This hint is given in Question paper) 1)There r some bees in a garden..1/5th of them went to a particular flower,1/3rd went to another flower,3 times the difference of the above two went to third flower..n one was remaining n it was roaming around..how many bees were there? (3 marks) Ans:15 2)Jim n Harry have the same number of marbles when they start playing..n then afterwards...Jim gains 20 marbles and later he loses 2/3rds of what he had..now Harry has 4 times as many marbles as Jim has..What r the initial number of marbles that each of them had?Ans:100 each 3)F,G,H,J,K are some juniors and P,Q,R,S are some seniors...and there are 3 communities Cultural,Recreation n Ethics..n each contained 3 members each..n each one was a member of only one committee.. i)F,Q are in Cultural committee. ii)P is in recreation committee. iii)J wont be in a committee where H or Q are there. iv)G will be in recreation committe if S also works in recreation committee. v)there will be atleast one senior in each committee. vi)R wont be in a committee is S is there In this 4 parts were there they gave some conditions and asked to choose from the options.. *4)There was a community in which there were 1000 couples.In that 2/3rd of men who r taller r also heavier n 3/4th of the men who r heavier r also taller n there were 120 women who were both heavier n taller than men.So how many men r both taller n heavier than men? (3 marks) 5)A man drives with constant speed..n he after some time he sees a milestone with 2-digits..then he travels for an hr n sees the same 2 digits in reverse order..n then after an hr he sees that the milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them..so whats the man speed? 45km/hr 6)There were 2 systems A n B.14 degrees in A is equivalent to 36 in system B.and 133 in A is equivalent to 87 in B.now what is the temperature where they both r equal? Ans:51.25 (conversion A=(7/3)B-70) 7)X Y Z XYZ AB+ AB----------- ------------CDEF BGA find X,Y,Z,G 8)A women buys some shoestrips n then 4 times of that she buys packet pins n then 8 times of shoestrips she buys handkerchiefs..n she has a bill of Rs3.24..n she pays for each article as many paise as there r articles(of tht particular item).Now whats the number of handkerchiefs? Ans:16 9)Ms.Anitha got her salary n she spent half of it in shopping n gave 1RS to a beggar.After that 1/2 of the remaining money she spends in a hotel n she gives Rs.2/- as a tip to waiter.n then 1/2 of the remaining she spends again n she gives 3 RS as charity..n after thatfinally she is left with Rs 1/- when she comes out.Whats the actual money she had? Rs 42/(3 marks) 10)There r 2 children..one of them lies on Monday,wednesday n friday n tell truth on every other day.the other will lie on Tuesday,thursday n saturday.n always tells truth on other days..n both of them tell the truth on sundays.. then which of the following can be deduced?

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i)If its a sunday both will say so ii)if one of then says a correct day then other will lie everything Aptitude Questions 1)A software engineer returns from America. As he is fat he decided to have evening walk.....he started at 3pm. he walks along the road at 4km/hr for some time then he climbs a upward slope area at 3km/hr then downwards at the rate of 6km/hr. then back to the home through the road at 4km/hr. what is the distance he covered in one way if he reaches back home at 9pm. Ans: 12 km (one way )( total distance:12* 2 = 24 km) 2)men and lodge related question a)1 man related to 2lodges.b)each lodge has 3 men.c)only 1 man common b/w 2 lodges Ans: 6 men and 4lodges 3)A child questions his father, "What is your father's age", to which the father answers "He was aged X in year X^2 (X square) ". If the context is 20th Century, What is his Date of Birth? Ans: 1892 4)A man rides cycle for two third of the distance to be covered. then his tyre got punctured. he walks the rest of the distance and found he took twice the time for walking compared to riding. How fast he can ride compared to walk. Ans: V(riding)=4*V(walking)[4 times] 5)51 teams are there and they are to play basketball matches. A team is out of the tournament if that looses 2 games. what is the maximum number of games to be played to decide one winner. Ans:101 matches 6)who was the murderer(of smith) roger,o'neil,wait the waiter poisened smith with which friend. each of the friends tells 3 stmts 1 of which is false (1 stmt of each friend is false) Ans: Roger was the murderer.(not sure) 7)Nalanda,Rampur, Triloknagar, Maninagar etc some conditions are given....then u have to find which has the population below 5 lakhs.. whic is not the capital 2 industrial towns,2 harbours,longitude relation,latitude relation......etc (four questions based on these) 8)Another one on A,B,C , D and E younger and older relation + occupation of each nutritionist, doctor,planner etc. find who is who ? 9)Two lamps sold for Rs.12 each profit of 25% on 1 and loss 0f 20% on other? did he gain or lose?by how much? Ans=0.60p loss 10)A,B,C are persons and thy r div into three groups: Sororrean [always truth] , Nororrean [always lie] and Midrorrean [alternatebut not in any order as they speak truth first of false first]--repaet from earlier papers. Ans:A:midrorean B: nororrean C:sororrean -------------------------------------------------1)Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40 Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me Now Sam says you are atleast 39 All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really? Answer Sam is 41 and Mala is 37. Let's invert the teaser and read it like this : Sam says I am certainly over 40 Mala says I am not 38 and you are atmost 4 years older than me Now Sam says you are atmost 38 From first statement it is clear that Sam is over 40. Also, from next 2 statements it is clear that Mala is less then 38. Hence the possibilities are Sam = 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, ...... Mala = 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, ...... It also says that the difference between their age is maximum 4 years. Hence, there is only one possible pair i.e. 41 and 37, all other combination have differences more then 4. Hence the answer - Sam is 41 and Mala is 37. 1)A shopkeeper arranges his fruits in such a way that putting say either 3,or 9,or 7 apples in a row each time one apple is left. but when he puts say 11 apples in a row no apple is left.find no. of apples. ans: take l.c.m. of earlier three nos. add 1 if divided by 11 fine else multiply by 2 add 1 divide by 11 .if not divisible keep on repeating. i got ans. in 2 steps.Apples-253 2)A problem of staircase:if i start going down, having gone down 4 steps i see x coming up.i meet x in way going down.when i had still 7 steps to go down x had gone up .find no. of steps in the staircase.condition: for each of my one step down x goes up 2

steps. ans:22 solution:say total no. of steps x 2(x-11)==x x=2 3)Problem of merrygoround.tom on a merrygoround finds that one third of people ahead of him and three fourth of people behind him is equal to the no. of people on the merrygoround.find the no. of people on the merrygoround.ans:13 since merry gorund is circular so 3/4x+1/3x==x+1. 4)A problem of cards .four persons sitting on a table.infront of each one of them one card is lying not having same colours on both sides.2 blue,2 red,2 green faces. each one guesses the color of unseen face of card .(guesses i dont remember) exactly 2 are lying. the front faces of card are red,blue,green,red respectively.find the colors of unseen faces of card. 5)five persons in a conference.a & b can communicate in english.when d joins the only coomon language of communication is spanish. a ,b,e can talk to each other in french only.exactly 3 people know portugese. the number of languages known by different persons are 1,2,3,4,5. some other similar conditions . you have to find answers to four questions based n these facts. 6)say ona sacle of 100: 85 have phones,80 cars,75 married,70 have houses. how many minimum persons are married,have phone car and houses on a scale of 100. 7)some series given 3 10 20 27 54 61 _ ans .162 some other series trick: find suare root then add some number etc. some conditions on x<y<==1,xy==z choose which option would be incorrect. options like:x<y,x>z etc. 6)afternoon temperatures of five days are recorded.each temperature is different.multiple is 12. ans:-1,1,2,-2,3 Infosys Interview Tell us something interesting about urself . A: i talked about my education. Now about ur extra-curricular activities .say about dancing ? A:Yes , I like dancing very much. What r the things necessary 4 a good dancer ? A:ex-pression,movements,understanding the lyrics. What attracts u to dancing? A:Music,rhythm. Now about Debates.What topics did u speak in debates? A:I can't recall all. some were related to education ,some were social topics. What was the topic related to education? A:Whether literacy is necessary for Politicians. If u r made the Head of Education Council of India , What changes will u bring about so as to improve the quality and efficiency of future engineers ? A: I wud see that more importance is given to practical aspects.syllabus may be modified eg 4 comp sc students, instead of teaching out dated languages , those in demand in the industry shud be taught.and 4 that quality teachers shud b recruited.(I said little more elaborately on that but this was the jest) Be more specific.What exactly can be changed about the study pattern to ensure the efficiency? A:teachers shud try to develop reading habits in students.In India we students don't do much of reading. Most of us only go thru the syllabus. Instead of loading students with a burden of assignments,they shud be given a particular topic to study and read about in a fixed time, say in one day find out about this Xyz topic. they will then go to library or search thru net and in this way learn something outside the syllabus. How will u ensure they r reading ? By holding tests on that topic. Now about sports.What sports did u play? Tell us about Arunachal Pradesh.(my college is there) what r the industries that can b promoted there? what r the problems u face there? how will u arrange a trip 4 four days to AP? Your final yr project in layman's language.did u test it ? 1) There are two balls touching each other circumferencially.The radius of the big ball is 4 times the diameter of the smallball.The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise directioncircumferencically

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over the bigger one at the rate of 16 rev/sec.The bigger wheel also rotates anticlockwise at Nrev/sec. what is'N' for the horizontal line from the centre of small wheel alwaysis horizontal. 2) 1234

2)A hotel has two,the east wing and the west wing.some east wing roomsbut not all have n ocean view(OV).All WW have a harbour view(HV).Thecharge for all rooms is identical, except as follows * Extra charge for all HV rooms on or above the 3rd floor * Extra charge for all OV rooms except those without balcony * Extra charge for some HV rooms on the first two floor&some EW roomswithout OV but having kitchen facilities. (GRE modrl Test 3questi 1J-22) 3)Post man has a data of name surname door no.pet name of 4 families.But only one is correct for each family.There are a set of statements&questions. 4)4 couples have a party.Depending on the set of statements,find whoinsulted whom and who is the host of the party. 5)5 women given some of their heights(tall,medium,short)Hair( long,plainted),stards(Black or Brown), sari,2 medium,2-short.Tall>nosari.Plainted->medium.Answer the combinations. 1) A person has to go both Northwards&Southwards in search of a job.He decides to go by the first train he encounters.There are trains forevery 15 min both southwards and orthwards.First train towards south is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrivesat any random time,what is the probability that he gets into a traintowards North. 2) A person has his own coach&whenever he goes to railway station hetakes his coach.One day he was supposed to reach the railway stationat 5 O'clock.But he finished his work early and reached at 3 O'clock.hen he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately.e came to know that the coach has left just now to tje railway station. He thought that the coach has left just now to the railway station.Hethought that he should not waste his time and started moving towardshis residence at the speed of 3mi/hr.On the way,he gets the coach andreaches home at 6 o'clock.How far is his residence from railwaystation. 3)Radha,Geeta&Revathi went for a picnic.After a few days they forgot thedate,day and month on which they went to picnic.Radha said that it was onThursday,May 8 and Geeta said that it was Thursday May 10.Revathisaid Friday Jun 8.Now one of them told all things wrongly,others onething wrong and the last two things wrongly.If April 1st is tuesdaywhat is the right day,date and month? INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED. (1) 9 cards are there. u have to arrange them in a 3*3 matrix. cards are of 4 colors.they are red,yellow,blue,green. conditions for arrangement: one red card must be in first row or second row.2 green cards should be in 3rd column.Yellow cards must be in the 3 corners only. Two blue cards must be in the 2nd row. Atleast one green card in each row. Solution: Yello Blu Yello Red Blu Gren Gren Gren Yello

+3455 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 for 30 cows . How many cows can eat away the same in 96 days.? Ans : 18 or 19 3.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????nd digit. Sum of the first and fourth digits twise the third number. What was that number ? Ans : 2034 and 4368 is 4 greater than second digit, while 3rd digit is 3 less than 2nd digit. The 1st digit is thrice the last digit. There are 3 pairs whose sum is 11. Find the number. Ans) 65292.

4) there are 2 guards Bal and Pal walking on the side of a wall of awearhouse(12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point andBal says to Pal " See you again in the other side". After a few momentsof walking Bal decides to go back for a smoke but he changes his direction again to his previous one after 10 minutes of walking inthe other(opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waitingfor to meet.If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, howmuch distance they would have travelled before meeting again. 6) Afly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall lengthis 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feetabove floor right across the long wall eqidistant from both the ends.f the width of the room is 12m and 12m, what distance is to be travelled by the spider to catch the fly? if it takes the shortest path. 7) Ramesh sit around a round table with some other men. He has one rupee more than his right person and this person in turn has 1 rupeemore than the person to his right and so on, Ramesh decided to give1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupeesto his right & so on. This process went on till a person has 'no money' to give to his right. At this time he has 4 times themoney to his right person. How many men are there along with Rameshand what is the money with poorest fellow. 8)Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from abasket,given that two balls are removed from the basket and the otherball is red. The basket contains blue,red,yellow balls. 9)Venkat has 1boy&2daughters.The product of these children age is 72.The sum of their ages give the door numberof Venkat.Boy is elder ofthree.Can you tell the ages of all the three. ANALYTICAL 1)L:says all of my other 4 friends have money M:says that P said that exact one has money N:says that L said that precisely two have money O:says that M said that 3 of others have money. P:Land N said that they have money. all are liers.Who has money&who doesn't have?

2. 4 cards are placed on a table, each card has two colors. U don't know the color of the back side of eachcard.4 persons A B C and D are sitting on the table before the cards. They can see Red, Green Red and blue .Out of the 4 poeple 2 always lie. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment A: Yello/green B: Neither Blue/nor Green

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c: Blue/Yello D: Blue/ Yello find out the color on the other side of the 4 cards. 3.Red and brown tribes [FROM BARRONS GRE] Conditions to get married with each other. 4. Venn diagram regarding Rich, muscular, soft-skinned, employed, etc.,( Refer BARRONS GRE GUIDE) PART 2. 1. SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK : PUZZLES TO PUZZLE YOU. problem no: 3. ( Brothers and Sisters) A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there? ans: 4 boys and 3 girls. 2. No. of animals is 11 more than the no. of birds. If the no. of birds were the no. of animals and no. of animals were the no. of birds( ie., interchanging no.s of animals and birds.), the total no. of legs get reduced by one fifth (1/5). How many no. of birds and animals were there? ans: birds:11,animals:22 3. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At the end of the day u have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured? ans: 22 + 2+ 1 = 25. 4. 2** 3** ---------------5** *4* **3 ---------------***** ---------------| | No. 7 does not occur in this | | multiplication. | | Find the product. | | | PART 1

90482 --------5. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the second. 4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit. ans : 25296. 6. There are five thieves, each loot a bakery one after the other such that the first one takes 1/2 of the total no.0 f the breads plus 1/2 of a bread. Similarly 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5fth also did the same. After the fifth one no. of breads remained are 3. Initially how many breads were there? ans : 31. 7.ESCALATOR PROBLEM OF SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE'book. Problem No: Problem 27( Down the escalator) ans : the no of steps in the stair way : 46. 8.Harbour line and Main line Problem of Sakuntala Devi Puzzle book. Ans : 4/5. ( More Puzzles book) 9.There are some chicken in a poultry. They are fed with corn One sack of corn will come for 9 days.The farmer decides to sell some chicken and wanted to hold 12 chicken with him. He cuts the feed by 10% and sack of corn comes for 30 days. So initially how many chicken are there?

10.Two people X & Y walk on the wall of a godown in opposite direction. They meet at a point on one side and then go ahead. X after walking for some time, walks in opposite direction for 15 mtrs.Then again he turns back and walks in the original direction. What distance did Y walk before they met again, if X walks 11 mtrs by the time Y walks 8 mtrs. 11.Problem from SAKUNTALA DEVI 'PUZZLES TO PUZZLE U'. Problem no: 23( Walking back to happiness.) The walking time : 55 mins.

1). A beggr collects cigarette stubs and makes one ful cigarette with every 7 stubs. Once he gets 49 stubs . How many cigarettes can he smoke totally. ans 8 2). A soldiar looses his way in a thick jungle at random walks from his camp but mathematically in an interestingg fashion. First he walks one mile east then half mile to north. Then 1/4 mile to est, then 1/8 mile to south and so on making a loop. Finally hoe far he is from his camp and in which direction.ans: in north and south directions 1/2 - 1/8 + 1/32 - 1/128 + 1/512 - and so on = 1/2/((1-(-1/4)) similarly in east and west directions 1- 1/4 + 1/16 - 1/64 + 1/256 - and so on = 1/(( 1- ( - 1/4))

-------------------------------------------------ans 2 8 1 322 ----562 5620 84300 ---------

add both the answers

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3). how 1000000000 can be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros Ans 2 power 9 x 5 ppower 9 ( check the answer ) 4). Conversation between two mathematcians: first : I have three childern. Thew pproduct of their ages is 36 .. If you sum their ages . it is exactly same as my neighbour's door number on my left. The sacond mathematiciaan verfies the door number and says that the not sufficient . Then the first says " o.k one more clue is that my youngest is the youngest"Immmediately the second mathematician answers . Can you aanswer the questoion asked by the first mathematician?What are the childeren ages? ans 2 and 3 and 6 5). Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it between 1:57:58 and 3:20:47 am ans : 383 + 1 = 384 6). 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns . ALL tallest among each row aare asked to fall out . And the shortest among THEM is A. Similarly after resuming that to their originaal podsitions that the shorteest among each column are asked to fall out. And the longest among them is B . Now who is taller among A and B ? ans A 7). A person spending out 1/3 for cloths , 1/5 of the remsaining for food and 1/4 of the remaining for travelles is left withRs 100/- . How he had in the begining ? ans RS 250/8). there are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in colour. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue . One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says " I have the same number of red balls left out as that of blue ". Which box is the one he solds out ? Ans : total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2 = 60/2 = 30 and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30 9). A chain is broken into three pieces of equal lenths conttaining 3 links each. It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single continuous one . How many links are to tobe opened to make it ? Ans : 2. 10). Grass in lawn grows equally thickand in a uniform rate. It takes 24 days for 70 cows and 60 for 30 cows . How many cows can eat away the same in 96 days.? Ans : 18 or 19

evaporates. what fraction of the volume is present at the end of the II day. 2. an orange galss has orange juice. and white glass has apple juice. Both equal volume 50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the apple juice. 50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass. Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange juice in he white glass, which one is greater and by how much? 3. there is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides. this is cut into no of 1 inch cubes. what is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides. 4. sam and mala have a conversation. sam says i am certainly not over 40. mala says i am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me. Now sam says you are atleast 39. all the statements by the two are false. How hold are they realy. 5. ram singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburbun house. his driver mangaram drops him at the railway station in the morning and picks him up in the evening. Every evening ram singh reaches the station at 5 o'clock. mangaram also reaches at the same time. one day ramsingh started early from his office and came to the station at 4 o'clock. not wanting to wait for the car he starts walking home. Mangaram starts at normal time, picks him up on the way and takes him back house, half an hour early. how much time did ram singh walk. 6. in a railway station, there are two trains going. One in the harbour line and one in the main line, each having a frequency of 0 minutes. the main line service starts at 5 o'clock. the harbour line starts at 5.02a.m. a man goes to the station every day to catch the first train. what is the probability of man catching the first train

7. some people went for vacation. unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there. but whenever it rained in the morning, they had clean afternood and vice versa. In all they enjoyed 11 morning and 12 afternoons. how many days did they stay there totally 8. exalator problem repeat 9. a survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching t.v. programmes. there are 3 channels. given no of people who watch atleast channel 1 " " " " 2 3

no channels at all atleast channels 1and 3 " " " " 1 and 2 2 and 3

find the no of people who watched all three.. 11). There is a certain four digit number whose fourth digit is twise the first digit. Third digit is three mor than second digit. Sum of the first and fourth digits twise the third number. What was that number ? 10. albert and fernandes they have two leg swimming race. both start from opposite end of the pool. On the first leg, the boys pass ach other at 18 mts from the deep end of the pool. during the II eg they pass at 10 mt from the shallow end of the pool. Both go at const speed. but one of them is faster. each boy rests for 4 sec to see at the end of the i leg. what is the length of the pool. 11. T H I S IS -------------XFXX XXUX Each alphabet stands for one digit, what is the maximum value T can take

Ans : 2034 and 4368 If you qualify in the first part then you have to appear for the second i.e the following part. art 2. 1. From a vessel on the first day, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates. On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid

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-------------XXNXX 1. an escalator is descending at constant speed. A walks down and takes 50 steps to reach the bottom. B runs down and takes 90 steps in the same time as A takes 10 steps. how many steps are visible when the escalator is not operating. 2. every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. the road is straight before the crossing and both are travelling in the ame direction. cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day he cyclist comes late by 25 min. and meets the train 5km efore the crossing. what is the speed of the train. 3. five persons muckerjee, misra, iyer, patil and sharma, all take then first or middle names in the full names. There are 4 persons having I or middle name of kumar, 3 persons with mohan, 2 persons withdev and 1 anil. --Either mukherjee and patil have a I or middle name of dev or misra and iyer have their I or middle name of dev --of mukherkjee and misre, either both of them have a first or middle name of mohan or neither have a first or middle name of mohan --either iyer of sharma has a I or middle name of kumar hut not both.who has the I or middle name of anil 4. reading comprehension 5. a bird keeper has got P pigeons, M mynas and S sparrows. the keeper goes for lunch leaving his assistant to watch the birds. a. suppose p=10, m=5, s=8 when the bird keeper comes back, the assistant informs the x birds have escaped. the bird keeper exclaims oh no! all my sparrows are gone. how many birds flew away. b. when the bird keeper come back, the assistand told him that x birds have escaped. the keeper realised that atleast2 sparrows have escaped. what is minimum no of birds that can escape.6. select from the five alternatives A,B,C,D,E AT THE end of each question ,two conditions will be given. the choices are to filled at follows.a. if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condtion 1b. if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 2c. if a efinete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 and 2d. if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 or 2e. no conclusion can be drawn using both conditions1. person 1 says N<5 person says n>5 person 3 says 3N>20 person 4 says 3n>10 person 5 says N<8whaT IS value of N) 1. no of persons who speak false being less than no of persons who tells the truth. 2. person 2 is telling the truth.b) 1. no of persong telling the truth is greater than no of persons telling lies 2. person 5 is telling the truth. 7. there are N coins on a table. there are two players A&B. you can take 1 or 2 coins at a time. the person who takes the last coin is the loser. a always starts first--1. if N=7 a) A can always win by taking two coins in his first chanse b) B can win only if A takes two coins in his first chance. c) B can always win by proper play d) none of the above --2. A can win by proper play if N is equal to a) 13 b) 37 c) 22 d) 34 e) 48 ans. e. --3. B can win by proper play if N is equal to a) 25 b)26 c) 32 d) 41 e) none --4. if N<4, can A win by proper play always 8. Two turns have vertain pecular charcteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. the other always lies on Tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. On the other days they tel the truth. You are given a conversation.

person A-- today is sunday my name is anil person B-- today is tuesday, my name is bill answers for selected questions 2. equal 3. 8 4. 37(M),41(S) 5. 45 min. 6. 0.8 7. 18 11. T max value = 4 1)A,B,C,D,E related.4 of them made these statements each. i)C is my son in law's brother. ii)B is my father's brother. iii)E is my mother in law. iv)A is my brother's wife. who made these statements?(person mentioned is one of A,B,C,D,E)(10 marks). 2)e means belong. All members of E e D. All members of D e A. Not all members of D e E. Not all members of A e D. All members of C e both A and B.some questions are asked about relation.use venn diagram.(5 marks). 3)complete the table. Played won lost draw A 2 B 2 C 2 2 1 2 3 1 4 7 for against 1. 150 2. 60 kmph 3. Mukherjee 8. today is tuesday

A,B,C are 3 hockey teams.(2 marks). 4) A says Party was held on :Thursday ,May 8th. B says Party was held on :Tuesday,May 10th. C says party was held on :Friday ,June 8th. Given April 1 st was Tuesday.one of A,B,C says 1 correct.one says 1 wrong.and one was completely wrong of date,Month and day. Find the Day the party held. (5marks). 5) A ship is away from the shore by 180 miles.A plane is travelling at 10 times speed of the ship.How long from the shore will they meet? (2marks) 6) Every station in N railroad issue everyother station's ticket. some stations are added.Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. say the No.of stations after and before added.(5 marks). 7) 3 persons say these statements. A says either Democratic or liberal wins the elections. B says Democratic wins.C says neither democratic nor liberal wins the election.of these only one is wrong.who wins the election? (5 marks). 8) A clock showing 6 o'clock takes 30 secs to strike 6 times.How long will it take to strike 12 at midnight?Ans.66 secs.(2marks) 9) Only boys aged > 16 wear coats. Boys aged > 15 go to watch football.some more statements are given. What can be said about those who are watching football ? (age and costume) 10) There are 3 societies A,B,C having some tractors each. A Gives B and C as many tractors as they already have. After some days B gives A and C as many tractors as they have. After some days C gives A and B as many tractors as they have. Finally each has 24 tractors.what is the original No.of tractors each had in the beginning? Ans.A -39. B- 21. C- 12 .(7 marks).

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11) 4,5 statements.From that find the answer.(7 marks). 1)At 6'o clock clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks was 30sec. How much time it takes at 12'o clock. Ans. 66 sec. 2 marks.

(N+x)(N+x-1)

= t+46;

trail and error method x=2 and N=11 4 marks 7)Given that April 1 is tuesday. a,b,c are 3 persons told that their farewell party was on a - may 8, thursday b - may 10,tuesday c - june 8, friday Out of a,b,c one is only correct one of the regarding month,day,date. Other told two correct and the third person told all wrong.What is

2)Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of them shot 4 bullets the total no.of remaining bullets is equal to that of one has after division. Find the original number divided. Ans. x x-4 x x-4 x x-4

3x-12 = x correct date,month,day. x= 6 (ans may be MAY 10 SUNDAY. check once again) ans is 18 2 marks 8)There are 4 parties. df,gs,dl(depositloss),ew ran for a contest. 3)A ship went on a voyage after 180 miles a plane statrted with 10 Anup,Sujit,John made the following statements regarding results. timesspeed that of the ship. Find the distance when they meet fromstarting point. Ans. 180 + (x/10) = x x = 20 ans is 180+20=200miles. 2 marks Anup said either df or ew will definitely win sujit said he is confident that df will not win John said he is confident that neither ew nor dl will win the result has come. only one of the above three has made a correctstatement. Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest. 5 marks. (ans DL ) 9)Five people a,b,c,d,e are related to each other. Four of them make one true statement each as follows. i) b is my father's brother. B C 2 2 *0 *0 *1 *1 1 *1 2 3 4 7 ii)e is my mother-in-law. (ans. d said this) ( b e ) ) 5 marks

4) Fill the empty slots. Three FOOTBALL teams are there. Given below the list of maches. played won A 2 2 *0 lost draw Goals for *0 *7 1 Goals against

iii)c is my son-in-law's brother. ( iv)a is my brother's wife. (c)

the slots with stars are answers. 4 marks BC drew with 2-2 A won on B by 2-0 a won on C by 5-1 ( YOU HAVE TO FILL THE BLANKS AT APPROPRIATE STAR SYMBOLS.)` 5) There are 3 societies a,b,c. a lent tractors to b and c as many as they had. After some time b gave as many tractors to a and cas many as they have. After sometime c did the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24. Find the tractors each orginally had. Ans a had 39, b had 21, c had 12, 4 marks

) All members of d are also members of a All '' all '' not all '' not all '' e '' c '' d both a and b

a are members of d d '' e

Some questions on these conditions.(5questions 5 marks)

11) boys are allowed to watch football at c.v.Raman auditorium subjected to conditions. i)the boy over age 16 can wear overcoat ii)no boy over age 15 can wear cap iii)to watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap or both iv) a boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater.

6) There N stations on a railroad. After adding x stations 46 additional tickets have to be printed. Find N and X. Ans. let N(N-1) = t;

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v) boys must either not watch football or wear sweater. What is the appearence of the boy who is watching football. Try to solve this question................. INFOSYS PAPER AT RANCHI Infosys came to our campus on 2nd august. It was a hectic day.They gave PPT at around 9:00am. and immediately written test followed. Pattern of the test was very much similar to that of the other places. It contained: 1.10 puzzles 2.Verbal test a)RC b)Fill with correct words c)A story was given.We had to fill in the blanks with appropriate verb forms. d)Choose the correct sentence among two. e)Choose the incorrect sentence among four. f)Fill with appopriate phrases. Details: PUZZLE TEST. Duration--60 minutes Marks-- 50 No of Questions-10. I think 6-7 were repeated ones.So guys please take one adviceDOWNLOAD ATLEAST 10 PREVIOUS PLACE PAPERS.I assure you that things will be easy then.Because i think to get selected in any company is to have their papers in advance. Brief idea of questions: 1) one statement was given regarding the details of age of an old man.it contained twisted information about his sons death. like I lived certain part(it was given) of my life as child, certain as youth ,certain part as bachelor.then after 5 years of marriage my son was born and my son died 4 years before my death at half my age.what is my age but the question was vey easy.(ans was 84) 2)In a party, there one man dances exactly with 3 ladies & 1 woman dances exactly with 3 men . there are exactly two pairs are common with every men. how many people are there in party? ans 8.its easy one. 3)It was a long question.8-9 conditions were given regading grades of 4 persons. it was like a conversation of 4 friend about each others grades and we had to determine their grades.it was tough man! 4)It was to determine a five digit number. various conditions were given a)two digits are prime b)no repeated digits c)digit 5 is half of digit 4 d)digit 1 is one less than digit 3 e)digit 3 is the largest. f)digit 2 is the smallest. g)digit 5 lies between digit 1 and digit 2. ans is 71842 5)one question was from venn diagram. A survey was conducted among consumers who use products in liquid and powder form.one third of them dont use liquid.two fifth of them dont use powder.427 use both powder and liquidand one fifth use neither of products.what is the total no of consumers. Ans 735

6)This one was based on logical resoning.it was a long question barrons type. names of five men and women were given.they go to cinema hall.conditions regarding their seating arrangement were given.it took time but it can be solved.

7)There are three teams ? DoIt, ActIt & ThinkIt ? playing basketball in a championship. Three friends are speculating about the result: A : Either DoIt or ThinkIt will make it B : DoIt is not going to make it C : Neither ThinkIt or DoIt will make it Only one of them turned out to be correct. Which team won? Ans: ActIt 8) There are 3 tribes. Sorobean aways speaks truth. Narobean alwaz lies. Midorean speaks truth and false alternatively but whether he speaks truth or lies first cannot be detemined. From the statements find who belongs to which tribe. A: I am a sorobean B is a narobean B: I am a sorobean C is a midorean C: I am a sorobean A is a midorean Ans: A-Midorean, B - Narobean, C - Sorobean

9) There are two trains. One from New York to Washington and second from Washington to New York. The total journey to a destination takes 5 hours. A train from New York to Washington leaves on hour at every hour The train from Washington to New York leaves an hour and on half an hour. How many trains will be passing if you are traveling from New York to Washington? Ans : 19 trains (please confirm ) 10)question on clock and time. quarter of time from midnight to present when added to half the time from present to midnight gives the present time.what is the present time. Ans 9:36 Analysis: questions were repeated.rest were a bit tough.i managed to solve 9 questions out of 10.there was no upper cutoff.lower cutoff was around 30 marks.i scored 45 in this. VERBAL: Duration:30 minutes Marks:45 No of Questions:45
Attempt the RC after solving other 40 questions coz they are damn easy.A bit of grasp on grammer can help anyone.Choosing the incorrect among 4 sentences was the only tough part.then simply read RC at one go and you can finish 5 leftover questions.I was able to answer 38 out of 45 questions correctly. After about 2 hrs results of the written test was out. No of candidates appeared:300(apprx). Selected after written : 84. As soon as results were out we were asked to appear for interviews immediately.They told in PPT that there will be no technical intrview.They asked only puzzles and some HR questions.My turn was at 3:15 pm. I entered the room with a smiling face and greeted the HR person.The HR person was in his mid 40s.He looked very cool and asked me take the seat.

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HR: So Mr Manish!introduce youself. I: i spoke about 2 minutes confidently. Hr:Tell me about your father and his occupation I:told him HR: tell about your brothers and sisters. I:told him. HR:Your percentage is good in 10th(89%) but it dipped to 81(%) in 12th.can you expain why I:make any excuse.like i utilised my time in othher works HR:what was your rank in AIEEE. I:i told him it was 11602. HR:at 11602 you got BIT MESRA! I: sir i was offered Polymer for the first year.but i worked hard and honestly to earn good grade points in two semesters.then i changed my branch to EEE. HR:you have left some blank spaces in your form?? I:(we had to fill a form before written!please fill it with care.coz they pay attention to it)sir this is a colomn for passport and i will apply soon for it. HR:then you shoud write NA(not applicable) I:sorry sir i forgot(with a smile) HR:tell me about your birthplace. I:told HR:what are your hobbies that are different from others?? I:sir i like playing volleyball,watching F1,Quizzing and "informations" HR:is "information" is your hobby? I:yes sir i love to collect informations from various sources and diversified fields.i try to analyse them. HR(he looked impressed):ok Mr Manish!Define leadership. I:just whatever came to mind i just spoke for 2 minutes. HR:what qualities a leader should have? I:I told some qualities. HR:Tell me two instances where you acted as leader. I:sir i was volleyball school captian in class 8.team had seniors also.so i had to manage them.again in my project work in 6th sem i took the initiative. HR:Ok!what are ethics and morals in your opinion? I:{i was not expecting this kind of question)sir to me ethics and morals means to be respectful to our elders,underprivilegd,society and nation and blah blah....... HR:ok solve this puzzle.(he drew a simple figure and asked to count the no of squares) I:i easily did. HR:Wall is 30 m high.frog climbs 3m and slips 2 in one hr.what is the time to reach the top. I:i almost instantly replied 28. HR:one bag 10 red.other 20 blue.to take out 1 red and 1 blue how many balls to be taken out. I:answered it. HR:tell the diameter of earth. I:told it is 6400*2=12800km. HR:he asked me hand over my resume. then he wished me good luck It was such a cool interview i cant imagine how nicely it went. Friends you must have good communication skills and creative thoughts to face interview. Finally at 9:00 PM results were out. only 51 was selected among 84 who cleared written (Among 300). At the end of the day I was an Info scion. This came after disappointment that i could not make it to TATA MOTORS after the final interview.

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