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TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES SAMPLE TEST
INFOSYS SAMPLE TEST 1
INFOSYS SAMPLE TEST 2

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

SAMPLE TEST

NOTE:EACH OF THE QUESTIONS GIVEN BELOW APPEAR AS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS IN THE ACTUAL PAPER.

VERBAL SECTION

Directions for questions 1-15: Find the synonyms of the following words

1. Depreciation

Ans. Deflation, Depression, Devaluation, fall, slump in value

2. Deprecate

Ans. Feel and express disapproval of

3. Incentive

Ans. Thing one encourages a person to do something

4. Echelon

Ans. Level of authority or responsibility

5. Innovation

Ans. To make changes or introduce new things

6. Intermittant

Ans. Externally stopping and then starting

7. Detrimental

Ans. Harmful

8. Aberration

Ans. Deviation

9. Conciliation

Ans. To make less angry or more friendly

10. Orthodox

Ans. Conventional or superstitious

11. Fallible

Ans. Liable to err

12. Volatile

Ans. Ever changing

13. Manifestion

Ans. Clear or obvious

14. Connotation

Ans. Suggest in addition to the fundamental meaning

15. Reciprocal

Ans. Reverse, Opposite

QUANTITATIVE SECTION

1. There are 150 weights .Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg weights. The sum of the weights is 260.What is the number of 1kg weights?

Ans. 40

2. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for overspeeding and exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr. At the same time B is fined for overspeeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit. If he was driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road?

Ans. 15 kmph

3. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point. He then travels 5 kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east. How far is A from his starting point?

Ans. 13 kms

4. A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank. How far will the car travel with 1/3 filled tank?

Ans. 5 kms

5. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number?

Ans. 35


6. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32. How much will three pencils, three pens and three erasers cost?

Ans. 27

7. Fathers age is 5 times his son's age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than son.Find the fathers' present age.

Ans. 40 years

8. What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the ratio 17 : 24 so that it becomes equal to 1 : 2.

Ans. 10 should be subtracted

9. What is the 12th term of the series 2, 5, 8, ....

Ans. 35

10. If 20 men take 15 days to complete a job, in how many days can 25 men finish that work?

Ans. 12 days

11. In a fraction, if 1 is added to both the numerator at the denominator, the fraction becomes 1/2. If numerator is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the fraction.

Ans. 3/7


12. If Rs.1260 is divided between between A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4, what is C's share?

Ans. Rs. 560

13. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit percentage?

Ans. 25%

14. What percent of 60 is 12?

Ans. 20%

15. Hansie made the following amounts in seven games of cricket in India: Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.21, Rs.12, Rs.18, Rs.19 and Rs.17(all figures in crores of course).Find his average earnings.

Ans. Rs.16 crore

CRITICAL REASONING SECTION

This section is basically just a reading comprehension section. The critical reasoning section consists of some passages followed by 4 to 7 questions per passage. The questions are such that they require ability to read fast and comprehend.The questions asked in this section have three choices TRUE, FALSE, CAN'T SAY. Some examples of passages are given in test 1.For further practice you may go through any GRE or CAT book which will provide you with ample practice regarding these kinds of questions.

PYSCHOMETERIC TEST

This test consists of 150 questions and is just a pyshcology test which should be answered confidently and doesn't require any preparation. One must try being consistent while answering as the same questions are repeatedly asked in different forms. Also one must answer all questions. Questions are of yes or no kind.

Example:

Are you sincere?

If you find a purse in the market with loads of money would you return it to the rightful owner?

While climbing up the stairs do you take two steps at a time?

Do you drink and smoke more than you think you should?

Are you the life of the party you attend?

Are you shy?


INFOSYS SAMPLE TEST1

1. At 6'o a clock ticks 6 times.
The time between first and last ticks is 30 seconds.
How long does it tick at 12'o clock.

Ans: 66 sec.


2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.
After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had after division.
Find the original number divided.

Ans: 18
Initially . x x x
Now x-4 x-4 x-4
Equation is 3x-12 = x

3. A ship went on a voyage.
After it had travelled 180 miles a plane statrted with 10 times the speed of the ship.
Find the distance when they meet from starting point.

Ans: 200miles.
Distance travelled by plane = 1/10 distance travelled by ship + 180

4. Complete the Table given below:
Three football teams are there. Given below is the group table. Fill in the x's



Ans: The filled table is given below


5. There are 3 societies A, B, C.
A lent cars to B and C as many as they had already.
After some time B gave as many tractors to A and C
as 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 cars each orginally had.

Ans: A had 39 cars, B had 21 cars & C had 12 cars

6. There N stations on a railroad.
After adding X stations on the rail route 46 additional tickets have to be printed.
Find N and X.

Ans. x=2 and N=11
Let initially, N(N-1) = t
After adding, (N+X)(N+X-1) = t+46
By trail and error method

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 5, friday

Out of A, B, C only one made a completetly true statement concerning date,day and month
The other told two one told the day right and the other the date right..
What is correct date, month, day.

Ans: B - (May 10) SUNDAY
C - June 6 (Friday).

8. The Bulls, Pacers, Lakers and Jazz ran for a contest.
Anup, Sujit, John made the following statements regarding results.

· Anup said either Bulls or Jazz will definitely win
· Sujit said he is confident that Bulls will not win
· John said he is confident that neither Jazz nor Lakers will win

When the result cameit was found that only one of the above three had made a correct statement.
Who has made the correct statement and who has won the contest.

Ans: Sujith; Lakers

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.
(ii) E is my mother-in-law.
(iii)C is my son-in-law's brother
(iv)A is my brother's wife.

Ans: (i) D
(ii) B
(iii) E
(iv) C

10. Some statements are given below:

· L says all of my other four friends have money
· M says that P said that exactly one among them has money
· N says that L said that precisely two among them have money
· O says that M said that three of the others have money
· P, L and N said that they have money

All the above statement are false..

Who has money & who doesn't have any money?


INFOSYS SAMPLE TEST2

1. Replace each letter by a digit.

Each letter must be represented by the same digit and no beginning letter of a word can be 0.

O N E
O N E
O N E
O N E
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T E N

Ans: 0 =1, N = 8 ,E = 2, T = 7

2. Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly business meeting.
Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in that order.
Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with doughnuts.
Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist.
The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent's to choose,but didn't say anything.

What is each person's occupation?

Ans: Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to the chemist and across the doctor, Cathy must be the author
and Ann the biologist.
The doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the doctor and Dave the chemist.

3. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place.
A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the time of the shooting.
It was later found that the postion of both the hands were the same but their positions had interchanged.
Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).

Ans: Time of shooting = 11:54 PM
Claimed Time = 10:59 PM

4. Next number in the series is
1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ?

Ans: 224.
No number has digits more than 4. All of them are 1 , 2, 4, 8 , 16 , 32 , 64 converted to numbers in base 5

5. Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the afternoon, whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon. A says that B is Shahrukh. Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman.

Ans: Afternoon ; A is Salman.

6. Two trains starting at same time, one from Bangalore to Mysore and other in opposite direction arrive at their
destination 1 hr and 4 hours respectively after passing each other. How nuch faster is one train from other?

Ans: Twice

7. There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( ie vol.1, vol. 2 and so on ).
Give the position after the following changes were noticed.

· All books have been changed
· Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2
· Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at Vol.3's place
· Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left
· An even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place

Find the order in which the books are kept now.

Ans: 2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4

8. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence plate which on reversing could still be read.
On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were different?

Ans: Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on rearranging these digits we get the answer as 10968

9. UNAVAILABLE

10. Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. How mlong will it take to strike 10?

Ans: 10 1/2 seconds.