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Infosys Sample Test

1. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age.
After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.
What is the father's present age.

NOON
SOON
+MOON
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JUNE

3. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole

A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.
How much will it take to reach the last pole.

Ans: 41.45 seconds (2 marks)

Let the distance between two poles = x
Hence 11x:24::19x:?

4. A car is travelling at a uniform speed.

The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
After travelling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in
reverse order.
After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits.
What is the average speed of the driver.

Ans: 45 kmph (4 marks)

5. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes.
How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how much?

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6. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.

Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care of him.
Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and looks after his house.
Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town.
Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly
expenses equally.

During their first month of living together, each person contributed Rs.25.
At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the expense so the remaining
amount was distributed equally among everyone.

The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole number of Rupees.
How much did each person recieve?

Ans. Rs 2 (4 marks)
(Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's wife are the same person)

7. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.

Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different
colours on either side.
The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.

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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 marks)

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2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.

After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the
Find the original number divided.

Ans: 18 (2 marks)

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. (2 marks)

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

A22xxx1
B2xx124
C2xxx37

A220071
B201124
C201137

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.

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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.

Let initially, N(N-1) = t

By trail and error method (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 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). (5 marks)

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 (5marks )

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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 marks)

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?

(5 marks)

1. Mr.Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank locker .

The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4
columns like:

1234
5678
9 10 11 12

The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK'S locker and directly above
MILLAR'S.
BOOTH'S locker was directly above MILLAR'S.
SMITH'S locker was also above GRAY's (though not directly).
GREEN'S locker was directly below SMITH'S.
WILSON'S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.
MILLAR'S locker was on the bottom row directly to the right of HERD'S.

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WHITE'S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH'S.
Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?

Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.

2. Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock,how many
minutes is it to six o'clock?

Ans: Twenty six minutes.

3. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to strike 10?

Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6 intervals-
thus for one interval time taken=7/6.
Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time taken is 9*7/6=10 and 1/2
seconds.
4. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting.
However, when interrogated only one told the truth in both his statements, while the other
two each told one true statement and one lie.
The statements were:
ALBERT :(a)Chander passed the merchandise. (b)Bruce created the diversion.
BRUCE :(a)Albert passed the merchandise. (b)I created the diversion.
CLIVE :(a)I took the goods out of the shop. (b)Bruce passed them over.

Ans: Albert passed the goods.Bruce created the diversion..Clive took the goods out of the
shop.

5. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts from 1 kg to 121 kgs, to the
nearest kg.
What are the minimum number of weight required and how heavy should they be?

Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 1,3,9,27 and 81 kgs.

6. A hotel has 10 storeys.Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the floor
above the floor, below the floor above the fifth.

Ans: The sixth floor.

7. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference.
The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram.
The meetings were chaired by Vikram.
On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically.
On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have
Abhishek as near to him as possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he could.
On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been
his neighbour.

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How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third
evenings?

Third evening :Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.

8. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same time and speed.
As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on reaching the
second train, it flies back to the first train.This is repeated till the trains collide.
If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h.
How much did the bird travel till the collision.

9. Four prisoners escape from a prison.

The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North head towards different directions
after escaping.
The following information of their escape was supplied:
None of the prisoners took the road which was their namesake.
Mr.East did not take the South Road
Mr.West did not the South Road.
The West Road was not taken by Mr.East
What road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?

10. Complete the series:

5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

Ans: 12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).

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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.
ONE
ONE
ONE
ONE

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TEN

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.

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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
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

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

Infosys Sample Test

1) A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs.
If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.

Ans: 8+1=9

2) A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he 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: Distance travelled in north and south directions

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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))

3) How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing
zeros

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 it is not sufficient.
Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest".
Immmediately the second mathematician answers .
What are the childeren ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6

5) Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it glow 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 according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming that to their original podsitions that the shortest among each
column are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among them is B .
Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A

7) A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4
of the remaining for travel.
He is left with Rs 100/- .

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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 containing 3 links each.
It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single continuous one .
How many 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 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass.
How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days.?

Ans: 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

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1. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day.

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: 50%

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2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has apple juice both of equal volumes.
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 the white glass, which one is greater and by how much?

3. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides.

This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes.
What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides.

Ans: 8

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?

Ans: Mala = 38 yrs

Sam = 41 yrs.

5. Ram Singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburban house.
His driver Gangaram 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.

Gangaram 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 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 10 minutes.
The main line service starts at 5 o'clock and the harbour line starts at 5.02A.M.

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A man goes to the station every day to catch the first train that comes.
What is the probability of the man catching the first train?

Ans: 0.8

7. A family X went for a vacation.

Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there.
But whenever it rained in the mornings, they had clear afternoons and vice versa.
In all they enjoyed 11 mornings and 12 afternoons.
How many days did they stay there totally?

Ans: 18

8. A survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching T.V.
programmes.
There are 3 channels. Given the no of people who watch

at least channel 1
at least channel 2
at least channel 3
no channels at all
atleast channels 1and 3
atleast channels 1 and 2
atleast channels 2 and 3

Both start from opposite ends of the pool.

On the first leg, the boys pass each other at 18 m from the deep end of the pool.
During the second leg they pass at 10 m from the shallow end of the pool.
Both go at constant speed but one of them is faster.
Each boy rests for 4 seconds at the end of the first leg.
What is the length of the pool?

10. Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication.

THIS
xIS
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XFXX
XXUX
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XXNXX
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Ans: T max value = 4

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Infosys Sample Test #7

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 steps

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 same direction.
The 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?

Ans: 60 kmph

3. There are five persons with surnames Mukherjee, Misra, Iyer, Patil and Sharma.
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 Misra, either both of them have a first or middle name of Mohan or
neither have a first or
middle name of Mohan.
Either Iyer or Sharma has a first or middle name of Kumar but not both.
Who has the first or middle name of Anil?

Ans: Kumar Misra Dev

Mohan Iyer Dev
Kumar Patil Mohan
Mohan Sharma Kumar

4. Boys are allowed to watch football at C.V.Raman auditorium subjected to conditions.

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The boy over age 16 can wear overcoat

No boy over age 15 can wear cap
To watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap or both
A boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater.
Boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.
What is the appearence of the boy who is watching football.

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.

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?
When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant told him that x birds have escaped. The
keeper realised that atleast 2 sparrows have escaped.
What is minimum no of birds that can escape?

6. Answer the following questions based on the conditions from the choices A, B, C, D, E
as described below:
(A) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1
(B) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 2
(C) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 and 2
(D) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 or 2
(E) no conclusion can be drawn using both conditions

person 1 says N<5

person says N>5
person 3 says 3N>20
person 4 says 3N>10
person 5 says N<8
What is the value of N?

a) 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 and 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.

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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

(a) Yes (b) No

8. Two twins have vertain peculiar charcteristics.

One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
On the other days they tell 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
What day is today?

9. There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key.

The 4th digit 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

10. A hotel has two wings,the east wing and the west wing.

Some east wing rooms but not all have an ocean view.
All west wing rooms have a harbour view.
The charge for all rooms is identical, except as follows :

Extra charge for all harbour view rooms on or above the 3rd floor
Extra charge for all ocean view rooms except those without balcony
Extra charge for some harbour rooms on the first two floor & some east wing rooms

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without ocean view but having kitchen facilities.

Which of the following cannot be determined on the basis of the nformation given:
I. Whether there are any rooms without a balcony for which an extra charge is imposed.
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a view involves an extra charge.
III. Whether two extra charges are impsed for any room.

(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II and III

(This question is from 1999 Barrons GRE Guide model Test 3 - section 6, question 22)

Ans: (A)

Infosys Sample Test

1) There are two balls touching each other circumferencically. The radius of the big ball
is 4 times the diameter of the smallball.The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise
direction circumferencically 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 always

is horizontal.

2) 1 2 3 4

+3455

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4689

-2345

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2344

+1254

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3698

Q) Strike off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not be at same place) and
combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers to get the same addition. After this
strike off another digit from all and add all the No.s to get the same 2 digit No. perform
the same process again with 1 digit No.s. Give the ' no.s in 7 rows at each stage.

3) there is a safe with a 5 digit No. The 4th digit 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 a

wearhouse(12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and

Bal says to Pal " See you again in the other side". After a few moments

the other(opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waiting

for to meet.If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how

much distance they would have travelled before meeting again.

5) xxx)xxxxx(xxx

3xx

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xxx

x3x

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3xx

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Hint: 5 is used atleast once in the calculation.

6) Afly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length

is 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet

above floor right across the long wall eqidistant from both the ends.

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 rupee

more than the person to his right and so on, Ramesh decided to give

1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupees

to 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 the

money to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh

8)Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a

basket,given that two balls are removed from the basket and the other

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 of

three.Can you tell the ages of all the three.

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ANALYTICAL

all are liers.Who has money&who doesn't have?

2)A hotel has two,the east wing and the west wing.some east wing rooms

* Extra charge for all OV rooms except those without balcony

* Extra charge for some HV rooms on the first two floor&some EW rooms

without OV but having kitchen facilities. (GRE modrl Test 3-question

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.

plainted),stards(Black or Brown), sari,2 medium,2-short.Tall->no

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every 15 min both southwards and northwards.First train towards south

is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrives

towards North.

2) A person has his own coach&whenever he goes to railway station he

takes his coach.One day he was supposed to reach the railway station

at 5 O'clock.But he finished his work early and reached at 3 O'clock.

Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately.

He 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.He

thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards

his residence at the speed of 3mi/hr.On the way,he gets the coach and

station.

3)Radha,Geeta&Revathi went for a picnic.After a few days they forgot the

date,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.Revathi

said Friday Jun 8.Now one of them told all things wrongly,others one

thing wrong and the last two things wrongly.If April 1st is tuesday

what is the right day,date and month?

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INFOSYS Release : '97

ROBERT,RAJ AND RASUL ALWAYS TAKE DINNER TOGETHER.AFTER
DINNER EACH

(iii)ALL (iv)------- ans:ALL

(2) MAJOR RAJ ,HIS BROTHER ,DAUGHTERS AND SON ARE ALWAYS
PLAYING

MIXED DOUBLES

(i)MJ.RAJ BROTHER IS PLAYING ACROSS THE NET DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TO

MJ.RAJ'S DAUGHTER.

WORSTE

PLAYERS SIBLING.

(1) THERE ARE NINE CARDS NUMBERING 1-9.

(i)CARD 5 IS IN CENTRE

(ii) CARD 9 IS IN ROW IN WHICH CARD 5 IS THERE

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(vi) SUM OF EACH DIAGONAL IS ALSO 15

(A) NINE CARDS ARE ARRANGED IN THREE ROWS AND THREE COLUMNS;

(*) ADJACENT MEANS TWO CARDS ARE IN SAME ROW OR SAME COLUMN
NEXT

TO EACH OTHER.

ANS;(1&5)

OTHER a) 5&4

POSSIBLE TABLES

276627

951159

438384

ii) MARGON MAN CAN'T MARRY DRAVID WOMAN

iii) IN A FAMILY SON WILL GET HIS FATHER'S CASTE AND DAUGHTER WILL

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QUESTIONS:

i) ii) iii)

i)TO HAVE

A) B) C) D) E)

This is 2005 - Chennai PaperTotally 10 questions to be answered in 1 hour.

1. four family names are given clark ,flure,miller ,jac… and their members name are
given Stacy ,robin,Erica,mandy . but not in order.( u hav to find which frend belongs to
which family) Each friend prepares salad using 3 different fruits . they are given apple,
cherry, grape, banana., no two friends uses the same combination.
Various conditions are given and 4 ques asked.

1. Robin is not belonging to miller family he used apples.

2. Erica is not a miller not a Clark.
3. Clark family used cherries and grapes but flure used one of these not both.
4. Mandy and miller used apples and cherries

1. Which fruit did Mandy didn't used?

2. What are the fruits used in miller salad?
3. Robin belongs to which family?
4. What r the Common fruits used in robin and Erica salads?

2. there r some bees in a garden..1/5th of them went to a particular

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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)

Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.

Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which
has
two different colours on either side.
The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the following
comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the
cards each person.

4. In a dark room, there is a box containing 5 white balls, 5 black balls, 5 yellow balls, 5
blue balls, and 5 red balls. What is the least number of balls to be chosen so as to ensure a
pair of socks has been drawn ?

How many people had all of these… ?

6. 6. A and B together had set their watch at showing same time. Unknowing to both of
them, A’s watch is fast by 1 minute and B’s watch is slow by 2 minutes. After the couple
of hours, when they looked at their watch ,, it was found that A’s watch was 1 hour ahead
of B’s watch.. Can you say how long it is before their difference in time is 1 hour..but
after setting their watch at same time..

7. Ajit was driving down the country side when he saw a farmer tending his pigs and
ducks in his yard. Ajit asked the farmer how many of each he had.

The farmer replied that there were 60 eyes and 86 feet between them.

How many ducks and how many pigs were there ?

8. This question about footprint in kitchen.. three brothers annie, danny, fanny. Their
mother asks them about something stolen from the kitchen.. From these children, one
tells truth, and other two tell lies .Annie says “I didn’t do it “, Fanny says “ Danny did it”,
and Danny says “ fanny says lie “.. the question is to find whose footprint in the
kitchen…

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9. This question is about to find the ages of three persons.. Three statements from each
person will be given. And from the 3 statements from each person, one statement will be
false and the other two will be truth. So totally 9 statements there. With the help of these
information , we have to find the ages of these 3 persons.

10. In a box, there will be a certain number of papers in some order, each containing
person name. A manager was asked to choose the people from the box randomly, say
5%.(ie., 5% of people should have to be taken). The manager picks first one and left the
next, picks third one and left next 2 , and picks sixth one and left next 3. and goes on.
When he picks the last one, it is actually the final one in the box.!!.. so he got 5% people
from the box.. what was the total no of papers in the box ?

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Infosys Placement Paper and Sample Paper Exam 15th May 2005

10 puzzles

==========

1>( 3 marks)

Sandy's uncle died leaving 1000 rs behind to be distributed among his five nephews.

The money is to be divided among the nephews according to their ages. A person gets

Rs 20 more than his immediate younger brother.Sandy being the youngest what was his
share?

Ans. Rs 160.0

let sandy's share be x

x+x+20+x+40+x+60+x+80=1000

5x+200=1000

x=800/5

x=160

2> ( 4 marks)

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Rohit was descending from the elavator which was not working. When he had stepped
down

7 steps his sir started from the bottom of the elevator and they passed each other and
when Rohit had still 4 steps to go down, his sir reached at the top. Taking into
consideration that sir’s 2 steps took same time as Rohit’s one what were the total no of
steps?

Ans

22 steps

let no of steps be x

speed=distance/time

Distance covered by Rohit = x-7-4 (7 steps already covered and 4 were still to go)

Distance covered by sir = x

Speed of Rohit =s

Speed of sir = 2s

Time taken is equal in both the cases so

Time(rohit)=time(sir)

(x-7-4) / s = x / 2s

2x – 22 = x

x=22

3> ( 3 marks)

A vendor who is an ex-mathematician has a number of apples and when he arranges them
in rows of 3 he is left with one more, when he arranges them in rows of 5 again he is left
with 1 more, Same happens with when he tries to arrange them in rows of 7 and 9 that is
1 apple is left extra.

But when he arranges them in a row of 11 he is left with none. Can u tell me how many
apples were there?

Ans

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946

the no is a multiple of 3,5,7,9 + a remainder of 1. So

3* 5* 7* 9= 945 + 1 =946

946 /11= 86

so it is divisible by 11 also.

4> ( 4 marks)

A theft was reported in a p[olice station and police detained 3 persons – Tommy, Lee and
Andy on the basis of doubt. However everyone said that he did not steal and one among
the other two is the thief. Later on police came to know that Tommy was lying. Who was
the real thief?

Ans

Tommy

1: he didn’t steal though he was the thief.

2: one among the other two did it. If he is the thief how can other 2 do it.

It was very easy and infact that created a doubt n everyone cross checked it again n again
to be sure as nobody was expecting such a simple puzzle.

5> (6 marks)

The temperature is noted for 5 consecutive days and it is noted that no two days have the
same temperature. Moreover the product of all the 5 readings is 12. The difference is
noted to the nearest degrees. What were the readings of the temperature?

2*2*3 bt 2 cant b repeated so –2 and to nullify -ve sign –1 is there

so –2 *-1 * 1 * 2 *3 = 12

6> ( 8 marks)

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There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker,
manager,cashier.

Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post.

Among the 5 two have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 –
1:30
Mrs Allen and Mrs Benett are sisters.
Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.
Two Bachelors share their rooms.
Davis and Ewinger doesn’t face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the
Manager when he returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for
lunch before time.
Ans:

I m not sure about the answers bt question was like this

Clark:Cashier

Allen: Manager

Benett:Clerk

Ewinger:Footwalker

Lunch 11:30 – 12:30

Two

Davis ( from the 5th point he takes lunch in the earlier session)

three

Ewinger cant be manager

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7> (4marks)

A dice has faces 1 against 6, 3 against 5 and 2 against 4 always. How many such
combinations of faces are possible in a dice?

Ans

24

keeping 1 and 6 fixed, we can have two combinations of 6 and 3, and two of 2 and 4 that
means four. And interchanging 1 and 6 we can have two more combinations that means
with one pair 8 combinations are there : 4*2=8. Similarly with other two also 8 combos.
So in all 8*3=24 combos are possible.

8> (4 marks)

A boy’s age is 5 times as old as his sister. His father’s age is twice to that of his mother
who is five times as old as the boy. The sum of all of them equals to that of his
grandmother who is celeberating his 81st birthday. How old is the boy?

Ans:

5 years old

sister’s = x/5

mother’s=5x

fatther’s=2(5x)

grandmother’s=81

81=x/5+x+5x+10x

81*5 = x+5x+ 25x +50x

405 = 81x

x= 405/81

x=5

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so boys age is 5 years

9> (6 marks)

It was something like 4persons take part in a race and got different ranks.what weretheir
ranks: John, black, Wee, Anthony

Conditions were given like

If John stood first then wee cant be on 4th position and Anthony at 2nd postion.
Similarly 4 5 conditions were given

10> (8 marks)

An easy question with 4 subparts

A painter has 7 paintings and he follow certain rules while exhibiting the paintings:

U is there if and if only w is there

Following these constraints 4 questions were asked based on the possible combinations in
the exhibit

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After the puzzle round half an hours general english test was there . It was very easy
having 45 questions

Result was anounced the same day

Next day in the morning I had my intrview . It was very general hr round .Two persons

Questions of intrvw:

what is the difference u faced while working in a team during ur training? Don’t u think
more options and suggestions mean confusion.
What if a person in ur team is always talking against u in all matters without listening to
ur part?(leave it to team leader)

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Why 5th gear is provided in new cars?(for speed)

My dad was frm army.So they asked wat u like abt army.(uniform, respect, discipline)
What all places have u been during the transfers and how did that affect u in ur life and y
They gave me one sequence of numbers and without giving much time asked me the
approach I was following to solve that. I was nt able to solve it bt I explained d approach
to them.
Asked my hobbies .My toughest time in whole life an happiest moment.
Questions u want to ask from us.

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Infosys Placement Paper and Sample Paper Exam on 6 th Feb 2005

Ref. Books
· QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE - RS AGGARWAL(For basic knowledge in all
concepts-Atleast just see the formulae and examples)

· Puzzles Insight -Y.R.K.Mahesh (This is a very good book)

50/- A Bookstal atl Avenue road,Bangalore

Questions were marked as 3,3,3,4,4,6,6,5,8,8

1). A frog falls down in a well 30 ft deep. Every day it jumps 3 ft up and

every night it falls down by 2ft. How many days it takes to come out

of the well.

Ans 28 days.

2). There is a 1 km long wire placed on some no. of poles which r in equal distance. If the
no of poles

increases 1 2/3.how many poles are there initially.

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Then the distance betn two adjacent poles is =1000/(N-1)

After removing one pole distance betn two adjacent poles is= 1000/(N-2)

(N-1) * (N-2) =600

Solve it ans is 26

G is younger than H and older than F

Like this few more stmts were there .It was so easy..... (3 m)

Ans Edward

4). For every one hour two trains will start at the same time ,one from Bangalore to

from Madras to Bangalore On parallel tracks. All trains travel with same speed and each
train will

take 5 hours to reach the other station.How many trains, one train will meet during the
journey?

Ans l—------l—------l—------l—------l—------l

1 2.5 hrs

2 3.0 hrs

3 3.5 hrs

4 4.0 hrs

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5 5.0 hrs

5). A jeweller is having a left and right window display cases and some gems like
amethyst A, diamond D,E,S,R,G,O

4 questions were there like

1.What is the possible case on the left window , from the following

ans A,R,O

2.What is the possible case on the right side window

3.I f X,Y pair occurs on left side window, what r the possibilities for right hand window

4.I f P,Q pair occurs on right side window, what r the possibilities for left hand window

Ans suppose there r total x Qs then

( x * 2/3 ) + ( x –5 ) = ( 2x * ¾ ) => x= 30

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druggists,grocer,butcher,policeman.find out who is who (8 m)

1)clark and jones are neighbours and they drive each other to work.

4) clark always beats smith while bowling ,

5) the police man earns more than the druggists and the grocer.

6) the policeman never met druggist.

7) policeman met the grocer only once when he caught by the policeman for speeding.

(Means he was caught driving his vehicle crossing the speed limit )

i hope i did not miss any conditon

8). Natives of one town always Lie.Visitors always tell truth.One day I went to the
town,and I met one Sales Person and soon he became my friend.We went to one hotel to
have lunch. I wanted to know whether the sales person is a visitor or native to that town
without asking directly.I told him to go and ask a woman in the hotel as”ARE YOU A
VISITOR?”.He went to her and asked her,and he came back and said”She Said
YES”.Now can u tell me whether the salesperson is visitor or Native?

Ans : Suppose take the below cases

N-NATIVE ,V-VISITOR

SalesPerson Woman

N N No

N V No

V N YES

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V V YES

9) 3 people M,H,G gave 3 statement each, of which 2 are true and 1 is false.

what are M,H,G 's ages.

M: 1. m=22

2. h=m+2

3. g=m-1

H: 1. H is not youngest

2. H,G difference is 3

3. H=g+1

M: 1.

2. m=23

3.

ans: m=23,g=22,h=25

10). In how many ways you can arrange the numbers on the die .There is only condition
that

1,6 and 2,5 and 3,4 will always be on the opposite sides.

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 marks)

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2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.

After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the
Find the original number divided.
Ans: 18 (2 marks)
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. (2 marks)
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
Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A22xxx1
B2xx124
C2xxx37
Ans: The filled table is given below (4 marks)
Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A220071
B201124
C201137
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.

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
By trail and error method (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

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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). (5 marks)

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 (5marks )

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 marks)

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?
(5 marks)

INFOSYS PLACEMENT PAPER

>
> > There are 5 q papers with them. this is only one of those.
> > All otheres were more or less of the same model but different
> > qs. This is just to give U an idea.
>>
> > The questions are not in order.

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>>
> > 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 mar
ks).
> > 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 relatio
n.use venn diagram.(5 marks).
>>
> > 3)complete the table.
>>
> > Played won lost draw goals goals
> > for against
>>A221
>>B2124
>>C237
>>
> > 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).

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>>
> > 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)
> > (5 marks).
>>
> > 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).
> > 11) 4,5 statements.From that find the answer.(7 marks).
>>
>>
> > Reference books
> > 1.) Puzzles and teasers by summer's
> > 2.) Shakuntala Devi. (puzzles).
>>
c.v.
> We do not remember the questions exactly, here we just tried to cover
> the major areas.
>
> Paper consists of two sections : 1. analytical (20 marks)
> 2. C skills (20 marks)total time 45 min
>
> Analytical:
> -------------
>
> 1. Given a cube, with different colors on its faces, and then is cut
> into 64 pieces, and the questions relate to the colors of different
> colored small cubes.
>
> 2. A few ladies and gents sit around table in some given order and 4
> questions are about their seating arrangement with some restrictions.
>
> 3. Draw a venn diagram for 3 items : white, flowers, cloth
>
> Ans : draw 3 circles each intersecting the other , with white kept in the

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> middle.
>
> 4. A problem related to seating arrangement of 4 people ( 2 ladies and
> 2 gents) with some restrictions
>
> 5. problem related to milk with water added to it for three times
>
> Ans: 20.5 litres
>
> 6. Problem related to diagrams . Five diagrams were given and asked to
> find the sixth one.
>
> C-Skills:
> --------
>
> 1. Max number of nodes in a binary tree with height 3 is 20 : Ans: False
>
> 2. 10,20,30,40,50,60 : give the order when put in a queue and in a stack
>
> Ans : Queue : 10,20,30,40,50,60
> stack : 60,50,40,30,20,10
>
> 3. Debugging is the process of finding
>
> Ans : logical and runtime errors
>
> 4. trace the error:
>
> void main(){
> int &a;
> /* some other stuff here */
>}
> Ans: syntax error
>
> 5. a problem with a function named 'myValue' will be given and asked to
> find the value of main() for an argument of 150,
>
> Ans : 150
>
> 6. Some problems related to 'for' loops.
>
> 7. problem on conditional inclusion.
>
> 8. problem related to depth first and breadth first search (DSA subject)
>
> 9. study the syntax of malloc function

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>
> 10. locate the error
>
> int arr (20);
> Ans: syntax error.
>
>
>

HCL SYSTEM SOFTWARE PAPER: 60 qs; 90 min. (4 sections)

******************************

section 1.

1.which of the following involves context switch,

a) system call b)priviliged instruction
c)floating poitnt exception
d)all the above
e)none of the above
ans: a

2.In OSI, terminal emulation is done in

a)semion b)appl.. c)presenta... d)transport
ans: b

3....... 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction which needs
3 clock cycles,
a)120 nano secs b)120 micro secs
c)75 nano secs d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MBmemory no of address lines required,

a)11 b)16 c)22 d) 24

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ans: 16

c)box d) none
ans : a

a) 2 member in class A,B shouldnot have same name

b) 2 member in class A,C " '' '' ''
c) both
d) none

ans : a

7. question related to java

8. OLE is used in

a)inter connection in unix

b)interconnection in WINDOWS
c)interconnection in WINDOWS NT

10.macros and function are related in what aspect?

a)recursion b)varying no of arguments
c)hypochecking d)type declaration

11.preproconia.. does not do one of the following

a)macro ...... b)conditional compliclation
c)in type checking d)including load file

ans: c

SECTION B
__________

1.enum day = { jan = 1 ,feb=4, april, may}

what is the value of may?
a)4 b)5 c)6 d)11
e)none of the above

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2.main
{
int x,j,k;
j=k=6;x=2; ans x=1
x=j*k;
printf("%d", x);

3. fn f(x)

{
if(x<=0)
return; ans fn(5) ....?
else f(x-1)+x;
}

4. i=20,k=0;
for(j=1;j<i;j=1+4*(i/j))
{
k+=j<10?4:3;
}

printf("%d", k); ans k=4

5. int i =10
main()
{
int i =20,n;
for(n=0;n<=i;)
{
int i=10
i++;
}
printf("%d", i); ans i=20

6. int x=5;
y= x&y
( MULTIPLE CHOICE QS)
ans : c

7. Y=10;
if( Y++>9 && Y++!=10 && Y++>10)

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printf("........ Y);
else printf("".... )

ans : 13

8. f=(x>y)?x:y
a) f points to max of x and y
b) f points to min of x and y
c)error
d) ........

ans : a

9. if x is even, then

(x%2)=0
x &1 !=1
x! ( some stuff is there)

a)only two are correct

b) three are correct
c), d) ....

a) <=
b)?:
c)==
d)*

ans: b and d

SECTION.C (PRG SKILLS)

--------
(1) STRUCT DOUBLELIST
INT DET; LIST VOID
STRUCT PREVIOUS; BE GIVEN AND A PROCEDURE TO DELETE
STRUCT NEW; AN ELEMENT WILL BE GIVEN
}

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DELETE(STRUCT NODE)
{
NODE-PREV-NEXT NODE-NEXT;
NODE-NEXT-PREV NODE-PREV;
NODE
}
IN WHAT CASE THE PREV WAS
(A) ALL CASES
(B) IT DOES NOT WORK FOR LAST ELEMENT
(C) IT DOES NOT WORK FOR-----
(2) SIMILAR TYPE QUESTION
ANS: ALL DON'T WORK FOR NON NULL VALUE

(3) VOID FUNCTION(INT KK)

{
KK+=20;
}
VOID FUNCTION (INT K)
INT MM,N=&M
KN = K
KN+-=10;
}
SECTION D
--------
(1) a=2,b=3,c=6 c/(a+b)-(a+b)/c=?
(3) A B C D E
*4
---------- find E ANS: 13
EDCBA
------------
(4) GRE-MODEL TEST-1, SECTION-6(19-22)
(5) M HAS DOUBLE AMOUNT AS D, Y HAS RS. 3 MORE THAN HALF OF
AMOUNT OF D
THE ORDERING A,B,C M C D C Y
ANS:DATA INSUFFICIENT D C M C Y
(6)IN STASTIC MEN CAUSE MORE ACCIDENTS THEN ONE CONCLUSION
(A) MEN DRIVE MORE THAN ONCE
(B) STASTICS GIVE WRONG INFORMATION
(C) WOMEN ARE CAUTION THAN ME ANS; C(VERIFY)
(D)-----ETC
(7) P,Q,R,S,T,U -SECURING GRANT;TWO TOURIST PARTIES AND THEN TWO
SECURITY
GAURDS SHOULD GO WITH EACH PARTY
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_
P AND R-ARE ENEMIES, Q DOES NOT GO SOUTH
P&S-ARE WILLING TO BE TOGETHER
______________________________________________________________________
THE TWO PARTIES MAY GO SOUTH&NORTH RESPECTIVELY
AT ONE POINT EACH MAY PASS EACH OTHER THEN GAURDS CAN
EXCHANGE
6 Q BASED ON THIS
(8)pq-r/s =2 what is q inference a,n&d
(a) a can do n units of work in strs,a&b can do n units of work in 2 hrs
in how many hrs n units of work ans:3 hr 30 min p = (2s+r)/q
____________

main()
{
int var=25,varp;
varp=&var;
varp p = 10;
fnc(varp)
printf("%d%d,var,varp);
}
(a) 20,55(b) 35,35(c) 25,25(d)55,55

[ c++,c,dbms interview]
[fundamentals]
this is new paper
_______________________________________________________________________
____
application -software
____________________
part-1:
28-questions
(5)ingless ans:RDMS
(1)bit program-ans d
(2)c ans
(3)+ 0 ans
(5)------
(6)-------
(9)25--45 even no. ans--10
(10) >10 <100 ---ans=n+9

7.Interchanging strings and numbers Ans C

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8. Matricide:Mother:: Homicide:? AnsHuman

9.Some Mammels are Vertebrates
Some Vertebrates are....... Ans d
10. Figure patteren: --|--.......etc. direction changes problem.
11. work problem.........etc. (not clear).

C TEST

1. main()
{
int arr[100];
int c:
int N;
for(i=-:i<N;i++)
arr[i]=i;
minvalue i = .....
Maxvalue i = ..... Ans 0,100 resp

2. Union Problem ..... Ans : a or c

3. for n=2 the following fn returning value is
int fun(int n)
{
for(i = 1;i<=n;i++)
for(j=i;j<=i;j++)
sum=sum+j;
return(sum);
} Ans 6

4. Calculate sum=1+1+2+1+2+3+1......
Ans i<=x;j<=i
5. for x=2 y=3 z=1
the following fn return
int fun(int n; int y; int z)
{
int sum
for(i=x;i<=y;i++)
for(j=1;j<=z;z++)
sum=sum+z;
return sum
}

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Ans 0(check)

6. The values of sum from above fn

for x=0; y=0;z=1 Ans 1
7.how can you insert the following values in stack and numbers 10,20,30,40,50.60
stack [][][][][][]
numb [][][][][][][]

Ans
60 50 40 30 20 10
10 20 30 40 50 60
check.

8. # ifndef XYZ

#include "XYZ.h"
#endif
what is meaning ?
Ans:
if XYZ is not defined then only include the header file XYZ.h.

9. p:malloc(int*sizeof(int));

ans: a

10.a=5 b=10 c=7

(a>c)?a:((b>c)?b:c) ans 10
11. debugging eliminates Ans[c]
ans: both logical & ruin time errors.
12. int term (int x)
{ int sum=0;int i;
for(i=0;i<=5;i++)
sum+=x; /*problel is wrong but Ans is 650.*/
return(sum);
} Ans 650
the above fn value for x=150
13.int x;
scanf("%d",x);
-------------
--------------
what is error in the above program

14.int a[] = { 1, , 9,2.......}

int *p;
p=&a[2];
printf("%s",p);

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a)7 b)2 c)4407 d)none

ans: d
15.a[][] = {1,2},{3,4}
b[] [] ={
void fun(A,B)
int i,j;
for(i=1;i<N;i++)
for(j=1;j<N;j++)
sum=sum+A[i][j];
return sum;
}
what is wrong in the above function?

16. OTHER QUESTIONS ARE MAINLY CONCENTRATED ON ERRORS LIKE

(i)syntax (ii) runtime (iii) logical (iv) debugging.

17. A binary tree with depth of '3' has max kof 20 nodes ans: no.
18. breadth search and depth search in binary tree.
ANALYTICAL

1.20%loss;20 % gain Ans 4% loss

2.Order problem Ans : Bo,Ka,A,Tp Ans Bo
3.10%5+3*2-3 ans:5
4.Calls:Tissus::Atom:? Ans:Molecules
5.cube problem( 32 bigger+4 smaller cubes)-> R.S.Aggrawal nonverbal
->pg 92: 5 questions
6 PQRSTU->problem-> Verbal Reasoning -> .......do.......pg 430 : 5 question.
7 problem -> verbal reasoning -> rs aggrawal pg 207 Quest 17 to 21.

C TEST

1. malloc ? 2. char * p =" hwllo world " , what is wrong?

3. char *(*(*a(N))())();?
4.*p++ = ?
5 int i=7
printf( "%d \n",i++ i++) o/p =? ans 56
6.n=2 pow((2.0,n),++n)?
7 #define macro for ( i,g) ?
8. int reg=2 is there any wrong ? write a reason
9. #define max 10
p=&(a+b);
q=*max;
} what is wrong

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10. strcat( string,'O');

wrong? werite reason?
11.char *s=char * ....
else (string)....? wrong? write reason?

1. Venn diagram for white, clothes,flowers

2.Male members ABCDEF, female members PQRSTU
This problem is same as in rs aggrawal [5questions]
3. not clear.

4. IMS material A sales person problem.

[5 question] conditions: M must visit before P&Q
R " " " MNOPQRS
5. A containor contains 40 lt milk, 8 lt water

ans:( 0.80)^3 * 40 = 20.41lts.

6. direction problem (playing cards) Ams south-west.

*********************************************************************

[Part 2, "" Text 150 lines]

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1) B is the middle number

2) D is 3 less than c
3) the difference between F & A is equal in magnitude and sign
to the difference between E & C
4) Neither F nor C lie between E & G

a) What is the value of B-F

1 2 -1 -2 cannot be determined

b) which is greatest

F C A E cannot be determined

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8 6 9 12 cannot

2) Given that a,b,c,d,e each represent one of the digits between

1-9 and that the following multiplication holds

abcde
4
----------
edcba

a) 4
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8
e) none

1. How many butes does an array A(1:8,-2:2,1:5) require for storage if

each element of the array is 24 bits long.

200 480 600 800 none

2. begin

i:=0;
j:=0; | block d

loop:

if(i != 0)
i := i-1;
else
i := i+1;

i := i+1; | block a
j := j+1; | block b

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if (j <= 25)
goto loop;

end | block c

a) What is the value of i at [c]

2?
b) How many times is the goto executed
25 ?

c) How many times is the loop executed if i is initialized to 1

in [d] 26
d) How many times is the loop entered if the block [b] is changed
to j=j+1 ?

2?

2. F occurs only if B occurs

3. D occurs if B or C occurs

5. J occurs only if E or F occurs

6. H occurs if E occurs

7. D causes G, H or Both.

8. G occurs if F occurs.

Questions
---------

1. F & G (ii) E & H (iii) D

Ans

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---
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 1,2,3 or 2 & 3 but not 1

2. If B occurs which must occur

Ans
--- (a) F & G (b) D & G (c) D (d) G & H (e) J

3. If J occurs which must occur

Ans
---
(a) E (b) Both E & F (c) Either B or C (d) B (e) Both B & c

(I) D (II) A (III) F

Ans
(a) I only (b) II (c) I & II (d) II & III (e) I,II,III

(a) F (b) A (c) D (d) C (e) J

#include<stdio.h>
int SumElement(int *,int);
void main(void)
{
int x[10];
int i=10;
for(;i;)
{
i--;
*(x+i)=i;

}
printf("%d",SumElement(x,10));
}
int SumElement(int array[],int size)

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{
int i=0;
float sum=0;
for(;i<size;i++)
sum+=array[i];
return sum;
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
int printf(const char*,...);
void main(void)
{
int i=100,j=10,k=20;
-- int sum;
float ave;
char myformat[]="ave=%.2f";
sum=i+j+k;
ave=sum/3.0;
printf(myformat,ave);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
int a[10];
printf("%d",((a+9) + (a+1)));
}

#include<stdio.h>

void main(void);
void main(void)
{
struct s{
int x;
float y;
}s1={25,45.00};
union u{
int x;
float y;

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} u1;
u1=(union u)s1;
printf("%d and %f",u1.x,u1.y);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
{
unsigned int c;
unsigned x=0x3;
scanf("%u",&c);
switch(c&x)
{
case 3: printf("Hello!\t");
case 2: printf("Welcome\t");
case 1: printf("To All\t");
default:printf("\n");
}
}

#include<stdio.h>
int fn(void);
void print(int,int(*)());
int i=10;
void main(void)
{
int i=20;
print(i,fn);
}
void print(int i,int (*fn1)())
{
printf("%d\n",(*fn1)());
}

int fn(void)
{
return(i-=5);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)

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{{
char numbers[5][6]={"Zero","One","Two","Three","Four"};
printf("%s is %c",&numbers[4][0],numbers[0][0]);
}

int bags[5]={20,5,20,3,20};
void main(void)
{
int pos=5,*next();
*next()=pos;
printf("%d %d %d",pos,*next(),bags[0]);
}
int *next()
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
if (bags[i]==20)
return(bags+i);
printf("Error!");
exit(0);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
int y,z;
int x=y=z=10;
int f=x;
float ans=0.0;
f *=x*y;
ans=x/3.0+y/3;
printf("%d %.2f",f,ans);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
double dbl=20.4530,d=4.5710,dblvar3;
void main(void)
{
double dbln(void);
dblvar3=dbln();
printf("%.2f\t%.2f\t%.2f\n",dbl,d,dblvar3);
}
double dbln(void)

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{
double dblvar3;
dbl=dblvar3=4.5;
return(dbl+d+dblvar3);
}
#include<stdio.h>
static int i=5;
void main(void)
{
int sum=0;
do
{
sum+=(1/i);
}while(0<i--);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
int oldvar=25,newvar=-25;
int swap(int,int);
swap(oldvar,newvar);
printf("Numbers are %d\t%d",newvar,oldvar);
}
int swap(int oldval,int newval)
{
int tempval=oldval;
oldval=newval;
newval=tempval;
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
int i=100,j=20;
i++=j;
i*=j;
printf("%d\t%d\n",i,j);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
int newval(int);
void main(void)
{
int ia[]={12,24,45,0};
int i;
int sum=0;

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for(i=0;ia[i];i++)
{
sum+=newval(ia[i]);
}
printf("Sum= %d",sum);
}
int newval(int x)
{
static int div=1;
return(x/div++);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
int var1,var2,var3,minmax;
var1=5;
var2=5;
var3=6;
minmax=(var1>var2)?(var1>var3)?var1:var3:(var2>var3)?var2:var3;
printf("%d\n",minmax);
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
void pa(int *a,int n);
int arr[5]={5,4,3,2,1};
pa(arr,5);
}

void pa(int *a,int n)

{
int i;
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
printf("%d\n",*(a++)+i);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void print(void);
void main(void)
{
print();
}
void f1(void)
{
printf("\nf1():");

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#include "6.c"
void print(void)
{
extern void f1(void);
f1();
}
static void f1(void)

{
printf("\n static f1().");
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
static int i=50;
int print(int i);
void main(void)
{
static int i=100;
while(print(i))
{
printf("%d\n",i);
i--;
}
}
int print(int x)
{
static int i=2;
return(i--);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
typedef struct NType
{
int i;
char c;
long x;
} NewType;
void main(void)

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{
NewType *c;

c=(NewType *)malloc(sizeof(NewType));
c->i=100;
c->c='C';
(*c).x=100L;
printf("(%d,%c,%4Ld)",c->i,c->c,c->x);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
const int k=100;
void main(void)
{
int a[100];
int sum=0;
for(k=0;k<100;k++)
*(a+k)=k;
sum+=a[--k];
printf("%d",sum);
}

*********************************************
INFOSYS PLACEMENT PAPER
*********************************************

1) There are two balls touching each other circumferencically.

The radius of the big ball is 4 times the diameter of the small
ball.The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise direction
circumferencically 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 always
is horizontal.

2) 1 2 3 4
+3455
----------
4689
-2345

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----------
2344
+1254
------------
3698

Q) Strike off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not
be at same place) and combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers
to get the same addition. After this strike off another digit from all
and add all the No.s to get the same 2 digit No. perform the same
process again with 1 digit No.s. Give the ' no.s in 7 rows at
each stage.

3) there is a safe with a 5 digit No. The 4th digit 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 a
wearhouse(12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and
Bal says to Pal " See you again in the other side". After a few moments
of walking Bal decides to go back for a smoke but he changes his
direction again to his previous one after 10 minutes of walking in
the other(opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waiting
for to meet.If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how
much distance they would have travelled before meeting again.

5) xxx)xxxxx(xxx
3xx
-------
xxx
x3x
------
xxx
3xx
------

Q) Find the 5 digit No.

Hint: 5 is used atleast once in the calculation.
6) Afly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length
is 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet
above floor right across the long wall eqidistant from both the ends.
If 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.

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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 rupee
more than the person to his right and so on, Ramesh decided to give
1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupees
to 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 the
money to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh
and what is the money with poorest fellow.

8)Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a

basket,given that two balls are removed from the basket and the other
ball 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 of
three.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)A hotel has two,the east wing and the west wing.some east wing rooms
but not all have an ocean view(OV).All WW have a harbour view(HV).The
charge 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 rooms
without OV but having kitchen facilities. (GRE modrl Test 3-question
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 who
insulted 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->no

1) A person has to go both Northwards&Southwards in search of a job.

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He decides to go by the first train he encounters.There are trains for

every 15 min both southwards and northwards.First train towards south
is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrives
at any random time,what is the probability that he gets into a train
towards North.
2) A person has his own coach&whenever he goes to railway station he
takes his coach.One day he was supposed to reach the railway station
at 5 O'clock.But he finished his work early and reached at 3 O'clock.
Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately.
He 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.He
thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards
his residence at the speed of 3mi/hr.On the way,he gets the coach and
reaches home at 6 o'clock.How far is his residence from railway
station.

3)Radha,Geeta&Revathi went for a picnic.After a few days they forgot the

date,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.Revathi
said Friday Jun 8.Now one of them told all things wrongly,others one
thing wrong and the last two things wrongly.If April 1st is tuesday
what is the right day,date and month?

I attended the Infosys Test on July 2nd at Meenakshi college, Chennai..

9 out of ten questions were repeated..the 10th question was the one I didn't find in any old
papers or in books.. I may be wrong so u people better search for the exact question..
Well am hoping to clear it.. if u don't have enough time to prepare for infosys written test..
u better solve all the previous papers available in here
http://discussionsworld.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=33. I refered two shakunatala devi
books, George summers "Puzzles and teasers"..and R.S.Agarwal verbal reasoning..all the
best for u all..

1. A man fixed an appointment to meet Mr.X, X asked him to meet two days after the day
before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. Whats the appointed day. --> 3 marks

2. Two friends were flipping coins, they bet \$1 apiece. At the end of the game One

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person won \$3 and another person won 3 times of the money his/her fren has won.. How
many games it took them to come to this amount... --> 3 marks

3. Triplets Annie, Danny and fanny spoiled their kitchen with mud on their socks.. Their
mother was furious and she couldn't find it who was the culprit as foot print size of the
triplets were same.. when she asked the triplets.. Annie said "I didn't do it"...Fanny said
"Danny did it".. Danny said "I didn't do it, Fanny is lying".. Among the triplets only one
speaks truth..the other two always lie..find the culprit who spoiled the kitchen--> 3 marks

4. chocolate bars problem was given like i had some bars,i gave half the bars to my
mother n half more to my father then half of the remaining n half more to my pet and i
ended up with 1 bar with myself.how many bars did i have initially?(its not exact but was
very much like this only) -->4 marks

5. Apples cherries bananas,grapes. 4 girls-robin,mandy,stacy,erica . 4 families

miller,jacob,flure,clark.Each girls uses 3 fruits in her salad.No body have same
combination.
- robin not a miller girl uses apples.
- miller and mandy uses apples and cherries.
- 3.clark uses cherries and grapes but flure uses only one of them.
- erica is not clark or flure.
a. Guess robins family: (Options are not remember)
b. Which fruit not used by mandy? C he ta naS
c. Which combination by erica?
d.Which is robin fruit combination?--> 8 marks

6. Jim Planted some grass right at the centre of his garden.. Each n every day the size
occupied by the grass doubles..( such that if its two metres on first day then its 4 metres
on second day).. So it took 50 days for the grass to fully occupy the garden... at which
day half of the garden was filled with grass..my answer was 49th day as the amount of
grass doubles when compared to previous day..-->3 marks

7. There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker,
manager,cashier. Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post. Among the 5 two
have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 - 1:30 Mrs Allen
and Mrs Benett are sisters.

Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.

Two Bachelors share their rooms.
Davis and Ewinger doesn't face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the

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Manager when he returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for
lunch before time. --> 8 marks

8. Two sequence problems I remember only one of them..-->6 marks 1,2,3,8,_,224

9. Jan robinson, kate jones, john smith are engineer, pilot & biochemist not in the
order .they have three martian assistants . as they find difficulty with martian names they
gave them nick names as smith, robinson, jones as their masters name. 1.robinson is an
yomi 2. martians speak uti. 3.the martians name is the same as the bio chemist 4.robinson
beats engineer in the chess (conditions I don't remember properly) who is the pilot?
Ans :Jan robinson , U have to work out the conditions and analyze some 2 conditions r
imp u get the idea so concentrate and do.--> 6marks

10. Some stamps problem..don't remember exactly..-->5marks

that the x replied "my friend has 3 more than the half if .
Its pretty confusing stuff..so am not able to trace the exact question..
The question is to find the number of stamps judy has sent to two of his friends..

1. a cube whose surface is painted red is sliced six times such

that it is divided into 27 smaller cubes. how many of smaller cubes
have: a. no red sides b. 2 red sides c. 3 red sides d. 1 red side

2. 2 men r playing tossing a coin. if one of them wins he gets 1\$

frm the loser. at the end of a no. of games one of them had 3\$ and the
other won 3 times. how many games did they play?

3. a man goes for a walk. he starts at 3 pm. he walks at 4kmph for a

distance then climbs a hill at 2 kmph then decends the hill at 6 kmph
then walks back at 4 kmph.he reached home at 9pm. what is the distance
he covered one way?

4. There are seven gems Amethyst, Diamond, Ruby, Garnet, Emerald,Sapphire and Opal,
which have to be placed for a window display.There are 2 cases, left case and right case.

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Only three gems can beplaced in one case at a time.Based on the conditions only the
gems must be placed in each case.Conditions.1.Amethyst must be included in the case
and kept in left case.2.Diamond must be included in the case and kept in left case.3.Ruby
cannot be placed in the case while Diamond or Garnet is placed.4.Emerald and Sapphire
are to be placed together in the same case.

Questions were like:a. If Amethyst is placed in the left case what other gems should
beplaced along with it.Options : abcde

b.Emerald and Sapphire in right case then what must be placed in left case.(i dont
remember the rest)

Q5. a woman says " my age is my husbands age reversed. if u take the
diffrence between my age and my husband's it will be equal to one by
eleventh of the sum of our ages. what is my age? "

Q6. There are two different temperature measurement systems, similar

to Celsius and Fahrenheit, say A & B. If A=14 then B=36 and if
A=133 then B=87. What value will be equal in both systems?

comment: i dont remember the rest. but all were really simple. the
fact is, i didint get even 7 perfectly right. but i had wrote how i got
to the answer, roughly ofcourse, on the rough sheets (for example i
didint even reach near the temprature scale question. but i wrote that
taking the two points as two st. lines on xy plane and the point of
intersection as the answer). i think they must have given weightage to
the thought process. the written round is the main elimination round.
after that its a breeze. they really seemed nice people at the
interview, smiling and all, and it was over quickly. i was asked
questions frm my resume. thats all. so take care of the written test
and u r in. best of luck.

1) Find the value of X,Y and Z in the following

XXXX

YYYY

ZZZZ

YXXXZ

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2) A man starts walking at 3 pm . ha walks at a speed of 4 km/hr on level ground and at a

speed of 3 km/hr on uphill , 6 km/hr downhill and then 4 km/hr on level ground to reach
home at 9 pm. What is the distance covered on one way?

Ans: 12 km

3) A grandma has many sons; each son has as many sons as his brothers. What is her age
if it’s the product of the no: of her sons and grandsons plus no: of her sons?(age b/w 70
and 100).

Ans: 81 (I think)

4) An electric wire runs for 1 km b/w some no: of poles. If one pole is removed the
distance b/w each pole increases by 1 2/6 (mixed fraction). How many poles were there
initially?

5) There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350
feet from it which is 200 feet tall. There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers.
They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the towers at the same time.
At what distance from the church is the grain?

Ans: 90 (I think)

6) Days Cows

40 40
60 30
X 20
Find the no: of days ie X.

Puzzle on languages and people.

9) Find out a five digit no: which has two prime nos: and , its highest digit is 3 and lowest
digit is 2 bla bla bla………………..

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10) Some question on truth and lie ….. I don’t remember the question but I think Andrew
was the ans.

Total no of Students attended:2400

Shortlisted :800
selected : 596

The paper was very easy,mostly old Questions.same pattern(questions not in order)

2.Refer shakuntala q.no 45 (same pattern) (ans:64)

3.Four persons A,B,C,Dare playing cards.Each person has one card, laid down on
table ,which has two different colours on either side.The colours visible on the table are
red,green,red and blue.
they see the colour on reverse side and give folling comments.
A:yellowor green
B:neither blue nor green
C:blue or yellow
D:blue or yellow
Given that out of 4 people 2 always lie .find out colours on the cards of each.

4.There few diamonds 1st thief takes half diamonds +2, 2nd thief takes half diamonds
+2,3rd thief takes half diamonds +2,4th thief takes half diamonds +2. when 5th thief
comes no diamonds.Find the no of diamond (ans:60)

5.There was a person whose age was 80 in year 490, and in year 500 his age was 70. find
his year of birth(values may not be correct) Che ta naS
ANS:510 B.C (since age decreases with year increase its B.C ,its very important)

6.Some statements were given and Q were asked from that (sorry i forgot)but very easy.

7.A man travels at speed of 12m/h and at return speed was 15m/h (data not correct)
ans:2xy/x+y x=12, y=15

8.Two train starts from two town for each hour. it takes 5hours to rach oter town.how
many trains does the train come across.(ans i dont know)

9.sum on series (easy) 10. sory i forgot .

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Next day shortlisted students had interview. mainly HR questions were asked very rarely
technical. Each panel has only one person. The person who came for me was the head of
global recuirement for infy. He was very friendly, soft spoken and Very smart.
ME:Excuse me sir.(my slot was 10.15, but called at 12.30)
HE:sorry shobana,waiting for such long time!(he might have seen me waiting)
ME:full of smiless!!!!!!!!!!
ME:said in 7 minutes.
he:why u want to join IT field (I belong to mechanical background)
me:gave very smart ans
he :(visibly he was satisfied)VERY GOOD!!!!!!!!
HE: if posted outside chennai ,will u be happy?
me: very very happy sir and explained it(Iam bit jovial and so said that iam bored with
chennai!!!!!! blah blah)
HE: (With all smiles )VERY GOOD!!!!!!Any Question to me?
HE: (explained very well). then asked to submit my mark sheets.THEN gave shake
hands and asked 2 wait till evening
Me:THank u sir!!!!!!!!!!(i was confident that i will be selected)

For interview they mainly see our confidence level, english, our commitement to join
infy and personality also matters!!!!! (Be well dressed with light colour formal dress its
very important). Some times being short listed from written test might need luck also . so
dont loose hope if not shortlisted. This year every IT company need about 20,000 -30,000
enggs. So if not in one company u will be placed in another. I pray to god that all
members of this wonderfull group will be placed within this year. ALL THE BEST
SAY 'U'CAN AND 'U' WILL!!!!!!!!!

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-11 June 2006-Chennai

Here are the questions that appeared in the test. I tried to give the exact words from the
test & I think I did well. Also I had given detail answers.

Q.1) Dr. Watson has 5 nephews. After he died he mentioned in his will that each of his
brother's sons should get money according to their ages. The difference between each son
is Rs. 20 & youngest son got least money. Total money to be shared is 1000. How much
youngest son will get?

Ans:
Let the third i.e. middle son will get Rs. x then youngest son will get Rs. x-40.
=> Adding their shares = 1000
=> (x-40) + (x-20) + x + (x+20) + (x+40) = 1000

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=> x = 200
=> x - 40 = 160
=> Youngest son will get Rs.160

Q.2) In a party there r total 1275 handshakes assuming each person did handshake with
other fellow. How many people attended the party?

Ans:
Let number of people attended the party = x then
Number of handshakes =xC2 = 1275
=> x * (x - 1) = 1275
2*1
=> x2 - x - 2550 =0
=> (x - 51)(x + 50) = 0
=> x cannot be negative
=> x = Number of people attended party = 51

Q.3) If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the rose flower, one third flew to the lotus
flower, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to slandbara & one bee
continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant of ketaki & malati, what was
the total number of bees?

Ans:
X + X + 3( X - X ) +1 = X
3535

=> X = 15 = Number of bees.

Q.4) Due to some defect in our elevator, I was climbing down the staircase. I had climbed
down just 7 steps when I saw professor Zorkoski on the ground floor. Continuing to walk
down, I greeted him & I was surprised to see that when I was yet to get down 4 steps to
reach the ground floor, professor had already finished the climbing up 2 steps for every 1
of mine. How many steps did the staircase have?

Ans:
7X4
|-------------- |------------------|----------------|

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=> X = 11

Q.5) Complete the following series:

a) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ?

Ans:
3*2=6
6 + 7 = 13
13 * 2 = 26
26 + 7 = 33
33 * 2 = 66
66 + 7 = 73
73 * 2 = 146
Series : 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, 76, 146

Ans:
364 - 3 = 361
O(364) = 19
19 - 3 = 16
O(16) = 4
4-3=1
O(1) = 1
1 - 3 = -2

Series: 364, 361, 19, 16, 4, 1, 1, -2

Q.6) A man was asked to meet a lady lawyer who had a good logical skill. Today is
Saturday. A man wanted her appointment. She called her three days after the day before
the day after tomorrow. What is the appointment day?

Ans:
Today = Saturday
Day after tomorrow = Monday
Day before the day after tomorrow = Sunday
Three days after the day before the day after the tomorrow = Wednesday

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Therefore, Appointment day is Wednesday.

Q.7) Find the values of X, Y, Z & B using following equations. Substitute values from 0
to 9 without repetition.

XYGXYG
+-
ABAB
-------------- -------------
CDEFBGA

Ans: 9 4 5 9 4 5
+-
7878
--------------------- -------------------
023867

young according to age of wizards. Let me tell u, I m thrice my son's age & my father's
age is 40 more than twice of my age. Total of our ages is 1240 years. What is the age of
wizard?

Ans:

Let wizard's son age = X then wizard's age = 3X & his father's age = (6X+40)
=> X + 3X + 6X + 40 = 1240
=> X = 120

Wizard's age = 360 years

Q.9) This was 8 marks question regarding the committees of 5 juniors & 4 seniors they
have to form 3 committees. Some conditions had given & based upon that we have to
answer 4 questions. I solved it last. Sorry for not remembering the question.

Q.10) A man enquires a person about the past 5 day's temperature at noon in that region.
The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different
temperature on each day & their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the
nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days in Celsius?

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Ans: Temperatures on 5 consecutive days are: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3 in degree Celsius.

HR interview was cool. They didn't ask me to explain myself, a most imp question. Being
a chemical engineer they keep asking me why you are not interested in chemical industry
& what u did in last 1 year. I explained them all truly & they look convinced. So my
advice is be true to them, they are among top mind readers. They will easily catch your
bluffs. They asked me which concept from computer u like most. I told them about
OOPS & explained it. They also asked me how u will adjust within a team. Such HR
questions. Then they had given me a simple puzzle.

Well this is all about my Infosys experience. I am waiting for the result.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-11 June 2006-Chennai

Here are the questions that appeared in the test. I tried to give the exact words from the
test & I think I did well. Also I had given detail answers.

Q.1) Dr. Watson has 5 nephews. After he died he mentioned in his will that each of his
brother's sons should get money according to their ages. The difference between each son
is Rs. 20 & youngest son got least money. Total money to be shared is 1000. How much
youngest son will get?

Ans:
Let the third i.e. middle son will get Rs. x then youngest son will get Rs. x-40.
=> Adding their shares = 1000
=> (x-40) + (x-20) + x + (x+20) + (x+40) = 1000
=> x = 200
=> x - 40 = 160
=> Youngest son will get Rs.160

Q.2) In a party there r total 1275 handshakes assuming each person did handshake with
other fellow. How many people attended the party?

Ans:
Let number of people attended the party = x then
Number of handshakes =xC2 = 1275
=> x * (x - 1) = 1275

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2*1
=> x2 - x - 2550 =0
=> (x - 51)(x + 50) = 0
=> x cannot be negative
=> x = Number of people attended party = 51

Q.3) If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the rose flower, one third flew to the lotus
flower, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to slandbara & one bee
continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant of ketaki & malati, what was
the total number of bees?

Ans:
X + X + 3( X - X ) +1 = X
3535

=> X = 15 = Number of bees.

Q.4) Due to some defect in our elevator, I was climbing down the staircase. I had
climbed down just 7 steps when I saw professor Zorkoski on the ground floor.
Continuing to walk down, I greeted him & I was surprised to see that when I was yet to
get down 4 steps to reach the ground floor, professor had already finished the climbing up
2 steps for every 1 of mine. How many steps did the staircase have?

Ans:
7X4
|-------------- |------------------|----------------|

=> X = 11

Q.5) Complete the following series:

a) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ?

Ans:
3*2=6
6 + 7 = 13

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13 * 2 = 26
26 + 7 = 33
33 * 2 = 66
66 + 7 = 73
73 * 2 = 146
Series : 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, 76, 146

Ans:
364 - 3 = 361
O(364) = 19
19 - 3 = 16
O(16) = 4
4-3=1
O(1) = 1
1 - 3 = -2

Series: 364, 361, 19, 16, 4, 1, 1, -2

Q.6) A man was asked to meet a lady lawyer who had a good logical skill. Today is
Saturday. A man wanted her appointment. She called her three days after the day before
the day after tomorrow. What is the appointment day?

Ans:
Today = Saturday
Day after tomorrow = Monday
Day before the day after tomorrow = Sunday
Three days after the day before the day after the tomorrow = Wednesday
Therefore, Appointment day is Wednesday.

Q.7) Find the values of X, Y, Z & B using following equations. Substitute values from 0
to 9 without repetition.

XYGXYG
+-
ABAB
-------------- -------------
CDEFBGA

Ans: 9 4 5 9 4 5

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+-
7878
--------------------- -------------------
023867

young according to age of wizards. Let me tell u, I m thrice my son's age & my father's
age is 40 more than twice of my age. Total of our ages is 1240 years. What is the age of
wizard?

Ans:

Let wizard's son age = X then wizard's age = 3X & his father's age = (6X+40)
=> X + 3X + 6X + 40 = 1240
=> X = 120

Wizard's age = 360 years

Q.9) This was 8 marks question regarding the committees of 5 juniors & 4 seniors they
have to form 3 committees. Some conditions had given & based upon that we have to
answer 4 questions. I solved it last. Sorry for not remembering the question.

Q.10) A man enquires a person about the past 5 day's temperature at noon in that region.
The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different
temperature on each day & their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the
nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days in Celsius?

Ans: Temperatures on 5 consecutive days are: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3 in degree Celsius.

HR interview was cool. They didn't ask me to explain myself, a most imp question.
Being a chemical engineer they keep asking me why you are not interested in chemical
industry & what u did in last 1 year. I explained them all truly & they look convinced. So
my advice is be true to them, they are among top mind readers. They will easily catch
OOPS & explained it. They also asked me how u will adjust within a team. Such HR
questions. Then they had given me a simple puzzle.

Well this is all about my Infosys experience. I am waiting for the result.

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INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 17 May 2006

These were my test questions.10 puzzles for 1 hour n then English section for 30 minutes.
English consists of passage and filling the blanks with correct phrase from options. Every
question was repeated. At some centers the same question paper was repeated as such. So
all infy aspirants plz make sure to go thru previous question papers even if u don't have
time for Shakuntala Devi or George Summers. PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS WILL
DO IT..

<!
1. A man starts walkin at 3pm from his home. He walks at 4km/hr thru plains and climbs
a hill at 3km/hr. he climbs down at 6km/hr and walks back at 4km/hr thru the same path.
He reaches back home at 9pm. What is the distance he covered in one way?

Approach: x - distance thru plain, y - distance thru hill

x/4 + y/3 + y/6 + x/4 = 9-3 = 6
x+y = 12km

<!2. A cyclist travels 2/3 of distance on cycle. Then his cycle gets punctured. He covers
remaining distance walking. He calculatd that he walked twice the time he cycled. How
fast did he cycle than he walked?

Approach: total dist = x

dist on cycle = (2/3) x dist on foot = (1/3) x
time on cycle = tc time on foot = 2tc
speed on cycle/ speed on foot = (2/3) x/tc/ (1/3)x/2tc = 4 times

<!3. Today is Saturday. A man goes to see a lawyer. Lawyer asks him to come 3 days
after the day before day after tomorrow. On which day should he come?

Approach: today - Saturday

Day after tomorrow - Monday
Day before day after tomorrow - Sunday.
3 days after Sunday - Wednesday.

4. 4. A and B play a game. Loser of each game has to give a coin to the winner. At the
end A gains 3 coins even though B won 3 games. How many games did they play?

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Approach: A lost 3 games (given B won 3 games)

To compensate A has to win 3 games.
To gain 3 coins A has to win 3 more games.
So total = 3+3+3 = 9 games.

5. 5.There are two systems A and B. 14 degrees in A is equivalent to 36 in system B. 133

in A is equivalent to 87 in B. What is the temperature at which they both are equal?

Approach: I am not sure of this one. But there is a similar one in Shakuntala Devi - Qno.
31.
0 C ~ 32 Fahrenheit,
100 C ~ 212 F
(212-32)/(100-0)X = X-32 gives X= - 40 C = - 40F. Try in similar way

6. A cube is painted red. It is then cut into 27 equal cubes with 6 lines. Find no. of cubes
with

a) 3 sides painted
b) 1 side painted
c) 2 sides painted
d) no sides painted
Draw a cube and cut it breadth wise, lengthwise and height wise using 2 lines on top, 2 in
front and 2 on the side faces to form one large cube with 27 small cubes in it.

Each corner cube has 3 sides painted.1*8corners = 8 cubes with 3 sides painted.

On each face there is one cube with only 1 side painted. 1* 6faces = 6 cubes with 1 side
painted.

Each edge has 1 cube with 2 sides painted.1* 12edges =12 cubes with 2 sides painted.

1 cube at the center has no side painted. Else 27 - (8+6+12) = 1 cube with no side painted.

7. A woman says 'if you reverse my age you get my husbands age. He is
of course senior to me and the difference between our age is one-eleventh of their sum.'
What is the age of the woman and her husband?

1/11(10x + y + 10y + x) = (10y + x - 10x + y)

xy = 45(woman) yx = 54(husband)

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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

Assume one person as sorobean at a time and try match his statements with that of others.
If the statements match, the assumption is right else wrong. Eg. Take A as sorobean.
Then his statements must be true. So B is narobean and C midorean. Then one of the
statements of C should support A. But here C contradicts A. So our option is wrong.
Similarly take B and C.

Ans: A-Midorean, B - Narobean, C - Sorobean

9. A person climbs down 7 steps when he sees his professor starting to climb from the
bottom of the stairs. They pass each other and moving down he finds that he has 4 more
steps to go when his prof reached the top. Considering prof takes 2 steps to one step of
the person, calculate no. of steps.

Approach: total steps = x

Steps covered by person after Prof starts climbing from bottom = x - (7+4)
Bcoz already 7 steps over and 4 more steps remaining.
Steps covered by prof in the same time = x
Persons speed = s , Profs speed = 2s
x-(7+4)/s = x/2s.
x= 22 steps

1110. A jeweler makes a window display. He has 7 gems of which he display 6 at a time.
3 on left pane and 3 on right with following conditions. The Gems are armanet, diamond,
sapphire, garnet, opal, and ruby.

Armanet should alwaz be displayed on right.

diamond alwaz on right
ruby should not be displayed with diamond or garnet
Emerald and sapphire should be alwaz displayed together.

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i. What are the possible combinations for left pane?

a) armanet,garnet,opal
b) armanet,ruby,garnet
c) diamond,emerald,sapphire
d) armanet,emerald,garnetii What are the possible combinations for the right pane?
a) Diamond,garnet,opal
b) Diamond,ruby,opal
c) Armanet,emerald,sapphire
d) Diamond,garnet,ruby iii If diamond, opal.. in right pane what is the possible combntn
in left pane. 4 or 5 options

iv If 2 other gems in one pane, possible combi in the other. I don't remember exactly But
ans for the whole question was like
1. a)
2. a)
3. b)
4. e)

1) "How old are you,Alchemerion?" asked one of the wizards apperences.the wizards
answer with a riddle, "I am still Very young as wizards go.I am only three times my son's
age. My father is 40 year more than twice of my age. Together the three of us are a 1240
year old".how old is Alchemerion?.
ans.360

2)A problem related to bees like some bees are travelling to some flower while some
other travels to other. while one flower remain in one flower. How many bees are there ?
ans.

3)There are 1275 handshakes in a party.How many people are there in the party.
ans. n(n-1)/2=1275 => n=51

4)a)3,6,13,26,33,66,__ ans.73
b)364,361,19,16,4,1,__ ans

5) Easy question,

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John to meet her three days after the day before day after the tomarrow. Which day
should John meet her?
ans.wednesday

6) for 8 Marks
XYZXYZ
+A B - A B
------- -------
CDEFBGA
find X,Y,Z,G

Ans: 945
+ 78
----------
1023

945
- 78
------
867

8)a problem related to ladder.Mr X is moving down 7 steps while see another person
coming up.He greeted him while crossing him.Mr X saw that he had 4 steps to go while
the person had reached the floor.Mr X thought that the person's speed was twice the
speed of him. Find the number of steps in the ladder.
Ans.

10) the temparature of the city when multiplied get to 12 and each day the temparature
was distict find each days temperature..
ans : 1,2,3,-1,-2

Best wishes for all the Job Seekers, Never loose Hope, keep Trying and one day u will
surely make it

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-11 June 2006-Chennai

Here are the questions that appeared in the test. I tried to give the exact words from the
test & I think I did well. Also I had given detail answers.

Q.1) Dr. Watson has 5 nephews. After he died he mentioned in his will that each of his
brother's sons should get money according to their ages. The difference between each son

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is Rs. 20 & youngest son got least money. Total money to be shared is 1000. How much
youngest son will get?

Ans:
Let the third i.e. middle son will get Rs. x then youngest son will get Rs. x-40.
=> Adding their shares = 1000
=> (x-40) + (x-20) + x + (x+20) + (x+40) = 1000
=> x = 200
=> x - 40 = 160
=> Youngest son will get Rs.160

Q.2) In a party there r total 1275 handshakes assuming each person did handshake with
other fellow. How many people attended the party?

Ans:
Let number of people attended the party = x then
Number of handshakes =xC2 = 1275
=> x * (x - 1) = 1275
2*1
=> x2 - x - 2550 =0
=> (x - 51)(x + 50) = 0
=> x cannot be negative
=> x = Number of people attended party = 51

Q.3) If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the rose flower, one third flew to the lotus
flower, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to slandbara & one bee
continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant of ketaki & malati, what was
the total number of bees?

Ans:
X + X + 3( X - X ) +1 = X
3535

=> X = 15 = Number of bees.

Q.4) Due to some defect in our elevator, I was climbing down the staircase. I had
climbed down just 7 steps when I saw professor Zorkoski on the ground floor.
Continuing to walk down, I greeted him & I was surprised to see that when I was yet to

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get down 4 steps to reach the ground floor, professor had already finished the climbing up
2 steps for every 1 of mine. How many steps did the staircase have?

Ans:
7X4
|-------------- |------------------|----------------|

=> X = 11

Q.5) Complete the following series:

a) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ?

Ans:
3*2=6
6 + 7 = 13
13 * 2 = 26
26 + 7 = 33
33 * 2 = 66
66 + 7 = 73
73 * 2 = 146
Series : 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, 76, 146

Ans:
364 - 3 = 361
O(364) = 19
19 - 3 = 16
O(16) = 4
4-3=1
O(1) = 1
1 - 3 = -2

Series: 364, 361, 19, 16, 4, 1, 1, -2

Q.6) A man was asked to meet a lady lawyer who had a good logical skill. Today is
Saturday. A man wanted her appointment. She called her three days after the day before

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the day after tomorrow. What is the appointment day?

Ans:
Today = Saturday
Day after tomorrow = Monday
Day before the day after tomorrow = Sunday
Three days after the day before the day after the tomorrow = Wednesday
Therefore, Appointment day is Wednesday.

Q.7) Find the values of X, Y, Z & B using following equations. Substitute values from 0
to 9 without repetition.

XYGXYG
+-
ABAB
-------------- -------------
CDEFBGA

Ans: 9 4 5 9 4 5
+-
7878
--------------------- -------------------
023867

young according to age of wizards. Let me tell u, I m thrice my son's age & my father's
age is 40 more than twice of my age. Total of our ages is 1240 years. What is the age of
wizard?

Ans:

Let wizard's son age = X then wizard's age = 3X & his father's age = (6X+40)
=> X + 3X + 6X + 40 = 1240
=> X = 120

Wizard's age = 360 years

Q.9) This was 8 marks question regarding the committees of 5 juniors & 4 seniors they
have to form 3 committees. Some conditions had given & based upon that we have to
answer 4 questions. I solved it last. Sorry for not remembering the question.

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Q.10) A man enquires a person about the past 5 day's temperature at noon in that region.
The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different
temperature on each day & their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the
nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days in Celsius?

Ans: Temperatures on 5 consecutive days are: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3 in degree Celsius.

HR interview was cool. They didn't ask me to explain myself, a most imp question.
Being a chemical engineer they keep asking me why you are not interested in chemical
industry & what u did in last 1 year. I explained them all truly & they look convinced. So
my advice is be true to them, they are among top mind readers. They will easily catch
OOPS & explained it. They also asked me how u will adjust within a team. Such HR
questions. Then they had given me a simple puzzle.

1. In cycle race held in circular ground, there are 1/5 ahead of arun and 5/6 after him.
Find the total number of cyclists.

2. Reema and Mona went to shopping, they had spent half of the money plus Rs.2 in
butcher shop, then they had gone to xxx spent half of the remaining +Rs.5.then they went
to bakery and spent half of the remaining amount. finally Rs.5 was left with them. how
many rupees did they carry.

Ans: 64

3.A person started two watches, he observed that after one hour, one watch gains 1
min/hr and the second watch loses 2 min/hr. After how much time will the two watches
have a difference of one hour.

4.In a match Sachin scores 78 runs more than azhar,dravid's score exceeds azhars score
by 76 runs. total of azhar's and robins runs is 94.robin exceeds jadeja s score by 26 and
dravid exceeds robins score by 26 runs. Calculate the total score.

Ans: 338

5.A large cube is painted red on its outer surface and cut into 27 cubes by 6 straight cuts.
a) No of cubes whose 3 sides r painted
b) No of cubes whose 2 sides r painted
c) No of cubes whose 1 sides r painted

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ans: a-8,b-12,c-6 d-1

6.On a holiday a,b,c,d,e plan to have a picnic, they had a running race.c beats d. a&e
overtake b.e is not the last.d overtakes e.who won the race.

Ans:c(not sure)

7.a) 46636,3125,256,27, --, 1 Ans:4=2^2

b) 3,10,7,8,--,12,9,16 ans:11(may be)

8.A motorcyclist says "I drove with the sped of ten miles/hr while going.while returning
traffic was less so I drove the same didstance with 15miles/hr." what is his average speed.

Ans: 12miles/hr.

9. There are 2 systems And B.14 degrees in A equal to 36 in B.133 in A equivalent to

87.at what temperature both shoe equal readings.

Ans:52.5 (A=7/3B-70.)

10.5 persons A,B,C,D,E go for a meeting B and C are talking in English, when D joined
they used Spanish which was the only common language.A and E can speak only
Italian.and some conditions. one person can speak 5 languages, another 4 languages,one
3,one 2 and one can only speak one language. 4 QUESTIONS BASED ON THIS.

1)There are A, B, C, D, E, F students they speak one are more than one of english, itali,
french, Spanish, portueges; B, C speak English. But after D joins they have Spanish as
the common language
Spanish is most common language
A, B, E have French as common language
C, E has Italian as common language
3 speak portueges
Out of all 1=all speaks 5 Langs, 1= speaks 4 Langs, 1= speaks 3
Langs, 1= speaks 2 Langs,1= speaks 1 language?

then 4 questions were asked based on above data like

1) A knows which languages? 4 options were given (one can easily get the answer from
the above data and given options)

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2) B knows how many languages

a) English, French b)English, French Spanish c)English, French, Spanish Italian
d)English, French, Spanish, Italian,Portugese
3)and 4) I am sorry i fogot

8 Marks

2) question............Dennis beat jim,Samantha was beaten by Jack

and Tom orderly..........Jim was forwaded by jack and Tom

and so on.......Jack was not the last to reach....Jim was not the first...Who won the race??
Ans) Its simple any one can answer this, the ans is Dennis Jim jack
Tom and Samantha. (may be i missed out some thing in the

Question)
3 Marks

3).A cube has its 6 faces painted red. It is cut by 6 straight lines into 27 smaller cubes.
Find how many smaller cubes are there having:
(i) 3 faces painted red.
(ii) 2faces painted red.
(iii) 1 face painted red.
(iv) 0 faces painted red???

8 Marks

4) Some children were going for a ride in a "Merry-go-round" rider in an amuzement

park.
Among the Bretty told that"Sum of One-Fifth of the guys in front of me and 5/6 of the
guys
behind me equals to the total no.of children in the ride. Can anybody find out the total no.
of students in the ride"
Ans) 1(n-1)/5 + 5(n-1)/6 = n on solving we get the total no. as 31
4 Marks

5)Marie went to a restaurant She spent half the money she had and 2 for the waiter,
Went for shopping spent half the money she had and a choclate for 3rs and then
Spent half the money so on...... Repeated model from previous papers

4 Marks

6)There are two systems for temperature.The temperatures are no way related to
practical connection,Their equivalents were shown below. At what value both are equal.
AB
14 26
133 87

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3 Marks

7)A series Problems

a)3125 256 27 __ 1 (ans-4---2^2)
b) i forgot this but one can easyly solve if they familiar with the RS agarwal series
problems

6 Marks

8) There are two clocks , I set them both for the present time, one watches losses 2 min
per hour and the other gains 1 minute per hour, When will both the watches show same
time
3 Marks

9) Sachin Score 76 more than Azhar, Azhar beats 26 less than Dravid
Robin scores 28 more than Dravic, some sort of this type.
Find the total Score of all the players.

10) I forgot this Question

Best wishes for all the Job Seekers, Never loose Hope, keep Trying and one day u will
surely
make it

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 28 May 2006-Kolkata

1.In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than
Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than
zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?
Ans: 338

2. a) 10.7.8,_,12,9,16 Ans: ?

3. 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:::52.5

4. A cyclist is cycling in a circular path.he is at some point on the path,at that point 1/5th
of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists
participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?Ans:31

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for

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each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in
the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our
watches to the same time? Ans : 20 hours

6. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish,they also took up
spanish.The only common language between A, B and E is French.The only common
language between C and E is Italian.Three people speak Portuguese. Most common
language is spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person
knows 3. One person 2. One person 1. Who speaks what ? Ans: C does not know -
French , A-3 languages. B-5 languages. C-4 languages. D-1 languages. E-2 languages
7. There is a large cube whichis painted in blue. Now this large cube is cut into 27 small
cubes in 6 largecuts. How many cubes have (i) all threesides painted (ii) two sides
painted (iii) one side painted (iv) no sidepainted Ans a) 8 b) 12 c) 6 d) 1
8. ..In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race? Ans:::::: Andrew(Pattern is same but name and
sequence is changed and according to the Question in Infosys exam, answer is Dennis )

9. . A man travels to his office at 10kms/hr. On his return journey he travels the same
distance at the speed of 15kms/hr as the road was empty. What was the average speed?
Ans: 12kms/hr

10. One lady have some money,he spend money to some stores, at last she had some
money,What is his initial money? Something like this .easy one

Like

FOURTY

TEN

TEN

SIXTY

Value of each alphabet? Range is 0-9, no repeat

One more

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8 litre full jug , 5 and 3 ltr empty jug.

Make such that two empty jug at last have 4 ltr and 4 ltr water

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 28 May 2006-Kolkata

1.In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than
Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than
zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?
Ans: 338

2. a) 10.7.8,_,12,9,16 Ans: ?

3. 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:::52.5

4. A cyclist is cycling in a circular path.he is at some point on the path,at that point 1/5th
of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists
participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?Ans:31

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for
each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in
the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our
watches to the same time? Ans : 20 hours

6. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish,they also took up
spanish.The only common language between A, B and E is French.The only common
language between C and E is Italian.Three people speak Portuguese. Most common
language is spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person
knows 3. One person 2. One person 1. Who speaks what ? Ans: C does not know -
French , A-3 languages. B-5 languages. C-4 languages. D-1 languages. E-2 languages
7. There is a large cube whichis painted in blue. Now this large cube is cut into 27 small
cubes in 6 largecuts. How many cubes have (i) all threesides painted (ii) two sides
painted (iii) one side painted (iv) no sidepainted Ans a) 8 b) 12 c) 6 d) 1
8. ..In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race? Ans:::::: Andrew(Pattern is same but name and
sequence is changed and according to the Question in Infosys exam, answer is Dennis )

9. . A man travels to his office at 10kms/hr. On his return journey he travels the same
distance at the speed of 15kms/hr as the road was empty. What was the average speed?

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Ans: 12kms/hr

10. One lady have some money,he spend money to some stores, at last she had some
money,What is his initial money? Something like this .easy one

Like

FOURTY

TEN

TEN

SIXTY

One more

8 litre full jug , 5 and 3 ltr empty jug.

Make such that two empty jug at last have 4 ltr and 4 ltr water

1. In cycle race held in circular ground, there are 1/5 ahead of arun and 5/6 after him.
Find the total number of cyclists.

2. Reema and Mona went to shopping, they had spent half of the money plus Rs.2 in
butcher shop, then they had gone to xxx spent half of the remaining +Rs.5.then they went
to bakery and spent half of the remaining amount. finally Rs.5 was left with them. how
many rupees did they carry.

Ans: 64

3.A person started two watches, he observed that after one hour, one watch gains 1
min/hr and the second watch loses 2 min/hr. After how much time will the two watches
have a difference of one hour.

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4.In a match Sachin scores 78 runs more than azhar,dravid's score exceeds azhars score
by 76 runs. total of azhar's and robins runs is 94.robin exceeds jadeja s score by 26 and
dravid exceeds robins score by 26 runs. Calculate the total score.

Ans: 338

5.A large cube is painted red on its outer surface and cut into 27 cubes by 6 straight cuts.
a) No of cubes whose 3 sides r painted
b) No of cubes whose 2 sides r painted
c) No of cubes whose 1 sides r painted
d) No of cubes whose 0 sides r painted

ans: a-8,b-12,c-6 d-1

6.On a holiday a,b,c,d,e plan to have a picnic, they had a running race.c beats d. a&e
overtake b.e is not the last.d overtakes e.who won the race.

Ans:c(not sure)

7.a) 46636,3125,256,27, --, 1 Ans:4=2^2

b) 3,10,7,8,--,12,9,16 ans:11(may be)

8.A motorcyclist says "I drove with the sped of ten miles/hr while going.while returning
traffic was less so I drove the same didstance with 15miles/hr." what is his average speed.

Ans: 12miles/hr.

9. There are 2 systems And B.14 degrees in A equal to 36 in B.133 in A equivalent to

87.at what temperature both shoe equal readings.

Ans:52.5 (A=7/3B-70.)

10.5 persons A,B,C,D,E go for a meeting B and C are talking in English, when D joined
they used Spanish which was the only common language.A and E can speak only
Italian.and some conditions. one person can speak 5 languages, another 4 languages,one
3,one 2 and one can only speak one language. 4 QUESTIONS BASED ON THIS.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-28 May 2006-Chennai

Q1) In a Race Davis beats Jim.Jack is not the last .Samantha loses to both Jack and Lucia
in the order.Jim beats Jack.Who Won the race?.(4 marks)

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Q2) There was a cycle race going on. 1/5th of the those in front of a person and 5/6th of
those behind him gives the total number of participants. How many people took part in
the race? (3 marks) Ans : 31

Approach:
Let the total number of participants be X
So, [(x-1)/5 + 5(x-1)/6] = X

Q3)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?

(4 marks) Ans: 51.25 (conversion A=(7/3)B-70)

Q4) A cube, which is painted red on all its sides, is cut into 27 cubes with three straight
cuts. Now how many cubes have i)No red face ii)1 red face iii) 2 red faces iv) 3 red faces

Q5) 5 Marks question, easy one. Some facts were given like:
a) Dravid scores 26 runs more than Robin.
b) Robin and Azhar together score 94 runs.

Like these around 5/6 facts were given. Only equations had to be formed and total runs
scored by all the batsmen had to be found

Q6)A, B, c, D are from different countries. They speak English, Italian, French and
German. Only one language is spoken by more than two persons. Following conditions
were given.
-> A speaks German but can converse with D who doesn't know a single word of German.
-> No person can speak both German and French together.
-> A and B can't converse with each other but they C can act as interpreter between them.
-> B, C, D don't have any common language between them.
-> Each person speaks two languages.

Find out the languages which each person speaks

Q7)there were two clock one is getting slow by two minutes/hr and another one is
gaining 1 minute every hour and exactly after how many hours there two clock has a 1hr
difference. ans(20hr)4marks

Q8)a person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while
returning as there is no much traffic they came with a speed of 15mph what is their
average speed? a: 12mph (avg speed=2xy/x+y)

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INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 28 May 2006-Kolkata

1.In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than
Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than
zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?
Ans: 338

2. a) 10.7.8,_,12,9,16 Ans: ?

3. 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:::52.5

4. A cyclist is cycling in a circular path.he is at some point on the path,at that point 1/5th
of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists
participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?Ans:31

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for
each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in
the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our
watches to the same time? Ans : 20 hours

6. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish,they also took up spanish.The
only common language between A, B and E is French.The only common language
between C and E is Italian.Three people speak Portuguese. Most common language is
spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person knows 3.
One person 2. One person 1. Who speaks what ? Ans: C does not know -French , A-3
languages. B-5 languages. C-4 languages. D-1 languages. E-2 languages
7. There is a large cube whichis painted in blue. Now this large cube is cut into 27 small
cubes in 6 largecuts. How many cubes have (i) all threesides painted (ii) two sides
painted (iii) one side painted (iv) no sidepainted Ans a) 8 b) 12 c) 6 d) 1
8. ..In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race? Ans:::::: Andrew(Pattern is same but name and
sequence is changed and according to the Question in Infosys exam, answer is Dennis )

9. . A man travels to his office at 10kms/hr. On his return journey he travels the same
distance at the speed of 15kms/hr as the road was empty. What was the average speed?
Ans: 12kms/hr

10. One lady have some money,he spend money to some stores, at last she had some
money,What is his initial money? Something like this .easy one

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Like

FOURTY

TEN

TEN

SIXTY

One more

8 litre full jug , 5 and 3 ltr empty jug.

Make such that two empty jug at last have 4 ltr and 4 ltr water

1)There are A, B, C, D, E, F students they speak one are more than one of english, itali,
french, Spanish, portueges; B, C speak English. But after D joins they have Spanish as
the common language
Spanish is most common language
A, B, E have French as common language
C, E has Italian as common language
3 speak portueges
Out of all 1=all speaks 5 Langs, 1= speaks 4 Langs, 1= speaks 3
Langs, 1= speaks 2 Langs,1= speaks 1 language?

then 4 questions were asked based on above data like

1) A knows which languages? 4 options were given (one can easily get the answer from
the above data and given options)
2) B knows how many languages
a) English, French b)English, French Spanish c)English, French, Spanish Italian
d)English, French, Spanish, Italian,Portugese
3)and 4) I am sorry i fogot

8 Marks

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2) question............Dennis beat jim,Samantha was beaten by Jack

and Tom orderly..........Jim was forwaded by jack and Tom

and so on.......Jack was not the last to reach....Jim was not the first...Who won the race??
Ans) Its simple any one can answer this, the ans is Dennis Jim jack
Tom and Samantha. (may be i missed out some thing in the

Question)
3 Marks

3).A cube has its 6 faces painted red. It is cut by 6 straight lines into 27 smaller cubes.
Find how many smaller cubes are there having:
(i) 3 faces painted red.
(ii) 2faces painted red.
(iii) 1 face painted red.
(iv) 0 faces painted red???

8 Marks

4) Some children were going for a ride in a "Merry-go-round" rider in an amuzement

park.
Among the Bretty told that"Sum of One-Fifth of the guys in front of me and 5/6 of the
guys
behind me equals to the total no.of children in the ride. Can anybody find out the total no.
of students in the ride"
Ans) 1(n-1)/5 + 5(n-1)/6 = n on solving we get the total no. as 31
4 Marks

5)Marie went to a restaurant She spent half the money she had and 2 for the waiter,
Went for shopping spent half the money she had and a choclate for 3rs and then
Spent half the money so on...... Repeated model from previous papers

4 Marks

6)There are two systems for temperature.The temperatures are no way related to
practical connection,Their equivalents were shown below. At what value both are equal.
AB
14 26
133 87
3 Marks

7)A series Problems

a)3125 256 27 __ 1 (ans-4---2^2)
b) i forgot this but one can easyly solve if they familiar with the RS agarwal series
problems

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6 Marks

8) There are two clocks , I set them both for the present time, one watches losses 2 min
per hour and the other gains 1 minute per hour, When will both the watches show same
time
3 Marks

9) Sachin Score 76 more than Azhar, Azhar beats 26 less than Dravid
Robin scores 28 more than Dravic, some sort of this type.
Find the total Score of all the players.

10) I forgot this Question

Best wishes for all the Job Seekers, Never loose Hope, keep Trying and one day u will
surely
make it

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 5 Feb 2006

1.One villege,each villeger have even no of dishes,no two man hav same no of dishes,and
total not more than 274.....
find no of villegers in villege
Ans=137

2.on interest.company give 6%,interest....7 1/2%......5%......etc

i cant recall and could not solve it completely but i write ans=3255

3.prisoner,will get 7 rs for work and 3 rs deduct from it.All days are 60.he got
170RS.How many days he worked
Ans=35 days work and 25 days idle

4.repeated
Four friends,4 languages(italian,french,english,german)
who speak which?
5.x z y
+x y z
-----------
yzx
Find xyz
Ans=459

6.Repeated
sold for 12 Rs on one 25%profit ,on other 20% loss
total loss or gain ?and how many

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Ans=60paise

7.
Joxie and pixie, r two stations .two come from each side
.one is 18miles farther of other and cover dist in 13 1/2 hr
and other in 0 hr.
find dist in 2 stations
Ans=128 4/7

8.50 teams ,triplicate elimination(that is one team will out after 3 loose)
Find total no of matches
Ans=147

9.Repeated
Diamonds.% thiefs ech take half and 2 more.last has no diamonds left.
Find no of daimonds
Ans=60
10.Some what time consuming
5 dolls one inside other
ie largest doll contain 3rd largest then 2nd and smallest
Colors r given
5 statments r given
Find Largest 2nd largest,3rd largest with color
u will do it .

English
45q in 30 min.
Very easy not to worry

(Memory based)

There were a panel of two an Elder man and a women of 40.

1) they saw my project and started with it.

2) lots of questions on my project relating the project with other applications.

3) then i was to choose a topic from the list and asked to speak for One minute.the topic
were

i) BPO ii) fossil fuel iii) TATA and ........

then they asked me about the team work in my project how i handled them what
difference i had with my team mates.

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6) i was given a spring with a ring in it and was asked if it can be separated i had told no
but they can be separated . ie as the ring was big in radius than that of spring , slowly get
the spring into the center and remove it .

7) they asked what mistakes i had done in the last interview that i was not selected.

8) then a match stick problem was given with three squares in first row and two in the
second i was asked to remove two sticks and replace them to make only four squares

Puzzles : As far as i remember...

1. Two marble sellers A and B plan to play a marble game. Initially they have the same
no. of marbles
in the stock, before starting the game. Now the game starts.
A wins 20 marbles in the first run and loses (2/3)rd of the stock in the play-off. What was
the no. of marbles
with each of them, before they started the game ?

Ans : 300 Marbles (Not sure)

2. There is a wall clock which rings after every precise one hour. When it was 8 o'clock,
it rang for 7 seconds.
Calculate the total no. of seconds the clock rings for, in the whole day.

Ans : 132 seconds (Not sure)

3. Four people with last names as Conner, Morghan, Smith and Wills have their first
names as Tom, Jack, Al
and Bell, NOT RESPECTIVELY. They play a game in which the winner collects some
money from all others.
They played the game four times. In the first game, the winner will collect Rs. 10 from all
others, in second game,
the winner will collect Rs. 20 from all others, in the third, the winner will collect Rs. 30
from all others and in the
fourth game, the winner will collect Rs. 40 from all others.
Jack takes the first game, morghan the second, smith the third and Al the fourth. Tom had
the maximum cash
in the beginning, and Wills had the maximum at the end.
Match their first names and surnames. Give their full names.

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4. A bag with 100 kgs potatoes have 99% water. It is kept in the open under the sunlight.
After sometime, little amount of water got evaporated and reduced to 98%. What is the
weight now ?5. 5 boys - A, B, C, D and E go to catch some fishes.A&B catch 12B&C
catch 20C&D catch...D&E catch...A and E catch equal no. of fishes.Now they plan to
pool and divide the fishes.D pool with A&C and fishes were divided in the ration of 1/3
similarly E pools with B&C...and so on. The fishes were perfectly divided within the
guys evenly.(actually i don't remember)Calculate the no. of fishes caught by A, C and E.6.
A girl buys a grandfather clock two weeks back. This clock loses 24 mins in every one
hour time. You set the time at 12 midnight and the clock now displays 3.00 am and it was
stopped one hour back from now. So what is the actual time now ?Ans. 6.00 am (not
sure)7. (Repeated) A 10 digit no. has its first digit equal to the no. of 1's , second digit
equal to no. of 2's ....till 9th digit equal to no. of 9's and 10th digit equal to no. of 0's.
What is the number ??Ans. 2100010006 (not sure) Rest of the questions i don't remember.
actually i didn't attempt.Then there was the english test. neither too easy nor too tough.So
my advice will be just go through the previous questions and shakuntala devi's puzzles.
It's not too hard to crack the infy test.Thanks...All the best guys...Glad to be a part of this
group...(Paper Submitted By :pankaj)

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-8 Jan 2006-Chennai

I gave the test on 8th Jan in Chennai at 9.30am - paper was quite easy enough - It went on
well. Results were announced at 4pm - I'm shocked to see that I was 1 among 45 people
who were short listed & had got my interview on the next day at INFOSYS
(Sholinganallur).
TEST:

Those who rs waiting for their turn - jus go thru latest papers (available in groups) & of
course

Go thru Shakuntala Devi puzzles - I think that will do for the test. Along with this mail-
I'm sending the questions.

1. At 6 'o' clock, the clock ticks 6 times. The time taken between first & the last tick is 30
seconds. How long does it take to tick at 12 'o' clock?

Ans: 66 secs.

2. A boy asked his sister that "how many chocolates are with you now out of what I gave
you yesterday". She replied him in confusing way "I gave half of those to mom and half
more to dad. Then, from remaining chocolates, I gave half of those and another half of a
chocolate to our pet dog. After that, one chocolate was remaining and I ate that
gracefully". How many chocolates did the boy give to his sister?

Ans: 7

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3. Mr. X (who got the Param veer charka in 1948), died at the age which is 1 / 39th of his
year of birth, in which year did he born?

Ans: 1872 (I think so).

4. In a party, all together there were 11 guests. If each of them clink their glasses with
one another only once, what is the number of clinks that were exchanged?

7. A train starting from Amristar at 0900hrs reaches Delhi by 0930hrs after 3 days.

If a train starts from Delhi to Amristar, how many trains will it meet on its way to
Amristar?

Ans: 4 trains (not sure).

6. In a Park, there were certain birds in each tree. Number of birds in each tree equals to
the number of trees in the park. The gate keeper is sure that there are around2000 - 2100
birds altogether in the park.What is the total number of trees in the park?

Ans: 45 trees.

Remaining 3 questions were quite lengthy; I'm not able to recollect them.

- One was about 4 different events - there are abt 6 people - 4 different people won each
event. You gotta find out who won which event given the conditions.

- Other question was 4 different people - 4 different profession - u gotta find who is who,
given the conditions. (Like druggist, architect, grocer Etc)

- Last one was about the houses & different typed peoples (like English, german,
norwagean..) - in the same way u gotta find who is in which house (given some
conditions).

INTERVIEW:

Panel had 2 persons (females) - aged around 35 to 40..it was cool - they started asking
about my extra curricular activities -then went on with the work profile..at last they gave
me some 2 puzzles (simple ones) to solve.

1. There are two vessels of same size with water in it and one is 20 degree Celsius and
other is 20 degree Fahrenheit. When a coin is put in both vessel which will reach bottom
first.

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Ans: As 20 degree Fahrenheit is definitely a freezing pt, at this time none can be be
immersed so at 20 degree Celsius the coin will immerse first.

2. In a knock out game of chess, how many games will be played when there are about 43
players?

Ans: Winner gotta defeat remaining 42 players which means total game played is 42.

1 t.

Ans: As 20 degree Fahrenheit is definitely a freezing pt, at this time none can be be
immersed so at 20 degree Celsius the coin will immerse first.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 8 Jan 2006-Mumbai

I took an infosys aptitude test on 8th jan at mumbai and i got selected for interview also. i
will like to share my experience.this is how the logoc paper was(dont remember all the
questions exactly)

1.a clock strucks 6 times at 6'O clockand it takes 30 secs for that.how much time would it
take to struck at 12'O clock? ans:66 secs
2.two types of tea(say) are sold at 5pnds and at 3 pnds per kg each.40 kg mixture of tea is
sold at pnds 240 with the profit of 33n1/3%.how many kgs of 5pnds tea was sold?
ans:30kg (average profit loss n mixture and allegations sum)

3.a train leaves from mumbai to patna n vice versa at 9 am everyday and reaches patna at
9:30 am after 3 days.a train left from mumbai to patna then how many trains did it come
across while the journey?ans:5 trains (not sure)
4.there are as many trees in the garden as no of mangoes on each tree.if number of
mangoes are between 2000 and 2100 then how many trees are there in the garden?ans: 45
trees

5.it was logic problem.something like 4 persons have some amount each andsome
conditions were given.we had to find the profession of the each person from those
conditions.(bit tricky problem but i got it right).

6. mr ajay singh got paramveer chakra award in 1948.his age when he died was one
thirtyninth the year in which he was born then find the year in which he was born? ans:
1899

7.it was that famous problem.dane drinks tea n drinks malbero white (cigarate),english
stays in the house next to the swedish and has pet cat,norwegian has dog and stays in the
middle house and all that information was given about house no,drink cigarate (no

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straight forward)in about 15-20 sentences.this is one of the very toughest problem i
couldnt solve it.
8.then some chocolate bars problem was given like i had some bars,i gave half the bars to
my mother n half more to my father then half of the remaining n half more to my pet and
i ended up with 1 bar with myself.how many bars did i have initially?(its not exact but
was very much like this only)

9.then some logic problem was given .something like 4 persond A,B,C,D participate in
sports and some conditions were given like who participates in which events and winner
of some event participated in only two of the sports (given with sports names)n all.n u
had to find winner of 4 sports(given with names).average logical reasoning problem.

i got seven right(surely)and 1 more half and guessed other two.

INTERVIEW: almost 600 ppl gave the exam(thats what i heard)and around 100 got
selected for an interview.i expected the call and i got it for the 9th of jan 10'O clock in the
morning.
i reached for an interview by 9:20 and they asked me to sit in the waiting room.there were
5 panels with 2 persons on each.on an average interviews were going for 20 -25 mins.i
walked in for an interview at 10:30.there were 2 ladies sitting over there one around 33-
34 and other of around 45years old.
me:i am an honest optimistic and hardworking person and i try to persue my goals till the
end i just dont like to give up.(she smiled a bit)
they were mainly asking with respect to my resume.
lady:ur hobbies r cricket and football? so have u been part of the college team?
me:yup i have represented the college football team.
then she asked me about my BE project and my role in that.i had prepared this question
very well so i explained it properly.
me:no,actually i was getting job in couple of small companies but i wanted to start my
career with bigger platform like infosys or such so i rejected those offers.
lady:so dont u think one should start from small opprtunities and move on towards bigger
ones?so why didnt u take those?
me: see i think u should get a good industrial experience after doing engineering for 4
years and generally u dont get exposed to various aspects of industry in the small
companies and u learn them only in bigger companies like infy and also u should work
for atleast 2-3 years to get that experience so i dont think that there is any point in doing a
job for 6-7 monthes n then leave it so i was waiting for the right opprtunity.(both the

me:i generally read daily news papers and if i get time then i like to read scientific
books.like the one i read recently A LIFE IN THE NUTSHELL and A BRIEF HISTORY

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OF TIME from stephen hawlkings.

me:actually they r about our universe and black holes n all,and the other 1 is bit like his
autobiography like how did he do his journey after getting afftected by motor nuron
desease at very early age,,its quite fascinating.

lady: so whom would u like to become for a 1 day if u r given a chance?

me: ummm well i will like to be someone like mr abdul kalam.

me:he is the no 1 scientist of our country and he is our president now.the fact i admire
him a lot is even with so much of success and fame he is very simple human being and
down to earth and always try to help poor ppl.

then she asked me to solve 1 st prob from the test n i explained it properly.the other lady
gave me 1 more puzzle like write 1 using all ten digits.i approached it with addition and
interview i realised the simplest way to do is:9^0+8^0+7^0+6^0+5^0-4^0-3^0-2^0-1^0=1.

lady:if u r going on highway and all the 4 tyres get punctured and u lose all nuts also,u
dont have spare nuts so what will u do?suppose u r on mumbai pune highway.

me:well i will use spare tyres and i will fix them up with something like nuts ,like..like..
like..
lady:common u said u r optimistic so u should find some way and suppose u have very
imp meeting to attend then how will u get ur car done?
me:well mam then i will ask for lift ,out of ten atleast 1 will give me a lift n i will try to
get myself at the nearest spot like lonavla n then take a volvo or something n wont bother
for my car at that moment as i have to reach for the meeting 1st.

lady:so u have written that u like to explore new things in ur life.so what r they?

lady:n where did u go for very last time n when?

me:i went in june or july n i had gone for raigad fort.its very nice place n shivaji maharaj

me:we took ST from mumbai central for mahad n then took another ST for an hour or u
can take a tamtam also.
lady:so if i want to go there n i dont have any knowledge of trecking then how will u plan

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it?

me:mam if u r coming then i will better hire sumo so no halts r requiredn i will ask u to
take 2-3 sarees or whatever u r comfortable wearing with plus some medicines n firsr aid
box n some water,u shouldnt carry too much of luggage for treck as it will create
problems for u plus u get everything on raigad.(she actually asked me to specify every
thing)

lady:ok so if u r group of 10 with old and young ppl n there is a risky pasage on treck for
5 mins then what will u do?where would u locate yourself in the group?

me:i will lead the group.i will go first so that i can give instructions to others which spot
is slippery and where should u be carefull.also i will make groups of 2 with young n old
person in each group so that young person can help old ppl while crossing the passage.

me:no mam.thank you.

it was approximately 25 mins interview and i think i did quite well in the interview. atlest
ladies were happy on their faces and looked satisfied.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 15 Jan 2006

I Attended the test on 15 th janury 2006 and was shortlisted today I attended my
interview
I hope I did well in that. By gods grace I am expecting for the result. They told me that
they will get back to me in 3 weeks
mostly the paper contained all the old questions
n the paper goes like this

1.Taxi driver problem from shakuntala devi

ans:121
2.a man has seven frens 1 st one visits him all the seven dasy of a week ,2 fren on every 2
day like that
on which day all frens r together
ans:
I wrote it is 420 I t8 of taking the l.c.m but I am not sure

3.One man goes ot railway station at 5.00 am and 5.02 am

freqency of trains is every 10 mins and ........
Wat is the probability
ans:

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0.8

4.Tehrhe r 6561 balls and one is heavier in how many weighings

ans:8
5.one rich person has some gold coins he had 5 sons n daughters n one car driver.
He gave 1 st coin to car drver n 1 /5 th of remaining to the 2 nd son 1 more coin to driver
n 1/5 th same n remaining money to equal amts to 5 daughters.
Let the 5 th son person have y rs
4 th 1+5y
....1 st person 156+625y
let the y value be 1
so coins r 781.
Let the daughers got 100 rs
so he had a total 881 coins

6.A big question abt directions I didnt answered it

7.Xyz
+ab..........this problem
ans is 945+78 and 945-78

9. Cabbages problem I dont remeber

10.Its a big anlatycal question but its easy......

All the best

Interview is very cool but I donno what basis they will select. Plz pray for me.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 15 Jan 2006

I Attended the test on 15 th janury 2006 and was shortlisted today I attended my
interview
I hope I did well in that. By gods grace I am expecting for the result. They told me that
they will get back to me in 3 weeks
mostly the paper contained all the old questions
n the paper goes like this

1.Taxi driver problem from shakuntala devi

ans:121
2.a man has seven frens 1 st one visits him all the seven dasy of a week ,2 fren on every
2 day like that
on which day all frens r together

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ans:
I wrote it is 420 I t8 of taking the l.c.m but I am not sure

3.One man goes ot railway station at 5.00 am and 5.02 am

freqency of trains is every 10 mins and ........
Wat is the probability
ans:
0.8

4.Tehrhe r 6561 balls and one is heavier in how many weighings

ans:8
5.one rich person has some gold coins he had 5 sons n daughters n one car driver.
He gave 1 st coin to car drver n 1 /5 th of remaining to the 2 nd son 1 more coin to driver
n 1/5 th same n remaining money to equal amts to 5 daughters.
Let the 5 th son person have y rs
4 th 1+5y
....1 st person 156+625y
let the y value be 1
so coins r 781.
Let the daughers got 100 rs
so he had a total 881 coins

6.A big question abt directions I didnt answered it

7.Xyz
+ab..........this problem
ans is 945+78 and 945-78

9. Cabbages problem I dont remeber

10.Its a big anlatycal question but its easy......

All the best

Interview is very cool but I donno what basis they will select. Plz pray for me.

This was the infy paper offcampus conducted on 8th jan at HYDERABAD. there were
few repeated qns, n I felt logical was bit tough ,so concentrate on logical qns, other qns u
can do.

1.A coffee seller has two types of coffee Brand A costing 5 bits per pound and Brand B
costing 3 bits per pound. he mixes two brands to get a 40 pound mixture. he sold this at 6

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bits per pound. the seller gets a profit of 33 1/2 percent. how much he has used Brand A
in the mixture? (Previous one)

Ans: 30ponds.

price-cheaper) refer R.S.Agarwal for this question.

2.There are 11 people at a party with a glass. Eachone clinks glass with evey other
person once.how many times did the glass clink?

Ans:nc2=11c2=55 times.

3. There are x trees in woods. Y is no. of birds. Gate keeper tellson each tree no of birds
is equal to total no. of trees in woods.tellthe number of trees. Given total number of birds
is between 2000 and2100.Ans:there are x noof trees.n no of birds=x*x, so check out d
perfect square b/w2000 n 2100. ans is 45(45*45=2025)4.choclates problem.sister gives
half of d chocolates to her mom n half a bar, then she gives half of d remaining to her dog
n half bar, then she left with one choclate , how many no of chocolates r there?

Ans:7

Chocolates=x,mom=x/2+1/2,remaining=x-(x+1)/2=(x-1)/2;

dog=(x-1)/4+1/2 she left with one choclate, total=x=x/2+1/2+(x-1)/4+1/2+1 ,so x=7

5.a person got paramveera charka in 1948. he died when his age was one thirty ninth of
his year of birth, when he was born?

Ans:I dint solve this but my frd told dat it was 1/39 th of (x)where x is year of birth.
Check which yr is divisible by 39, before 1948.its 1911.

6.a clock ticks 6 times at 6 o'clock how many times does it tick when it is 12 o'clock?
Ans:66seconds.at 6 the time gaps b/w ticks=5, at 12 gaps=11

5???.6

11???.?

7.train starts from amritsar to Bombay at 9am. It reaches destination after 3days at
9:30am. Every day a train starts. How many trains does it come across on d way ?

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8. Carter,milne,savage,Flynn are 4 people architect,banker,druggist and grocer in not

thatorder, Income of milne=3776+income of savage.Income of drugg=2*income of
grocerIncome of architect=2*income of druggistIncome of banker=2*income of
architectCarter is older than every one who earns more than Flynn but Flynndoes not earn
double the amount of carter.find who's who?

9.little bit time consuming n confusing one. 4 persons , color of their house, their pet
names like one has horse, other one has cat etc,type of cigar they smoke, type of drinks
they take , like one takes coffe, other one tea, others beer,..?3qns?

10.this is also logical, for me this was very tough I didt do this.

I passed with an above average aggregate. I had my first interview in a relative s

company in Chennai-post of software trainee-programmer in C and C++. But it was
under recommendation that I was called to attend the test. So did not accept their offer. I
applied for Infy, CTS and TCS and many more MNCs. I attended caritor off campus and
lost in final round.

On 27th Dec., I got the long awaited Infy call letter for test on jan 8th which I attended
yesterday. I prepared very sincerely for a 9-10 days. Finishing Shak.Devi book, George
book and Ravi Narula, I went through loads of puzzles from brain vista and old papers. I
was through with 2004,2004 and 2005 papers.
45/1254 were short listed. Due to stiff competition, I lost in the test. I did a 8 correct.

I am not giving the answer, try yourself that's the best way to solve puzzles.

1.(2 marks)
A clock strikes 6'o clock 6 times with an interval of 10 sec. between last and first strike.
How much time would be taken by the clock to strike 12'0 clock midnight?
(an easy q. which u can see in Shak.Devi book-1)

2.(4 marks)
In a grocery shop, the master prepares tea granules by mixing 5 bits/pound and
3bits/pound components. He prepared tea mixture (with some proportion. I forgot but I
remember he made 240 pounds) and made a 33 and half % profit. How many 5
bits/pound component he used? (simple one)

3.(3 marks)
There are many trees in a certain wood.(this s the reverse of wood in tree. it was given

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like tht to confuse you).The owner observes that there are as many birds in each tree as
there are trees in the wood. He also knows that total number of birds is 2000-2100. Find
the number of trees in the wood?
(i.e.,Bird in each tree=total no. of trees)

4.(3 marks)
A girl has x chocolate bars. She gives half of what she has to mother, a half to
dad(beware its1/2 or 0.5), gives half more to dog and has one herself. Whts X?
Ans. 7..( check the proportion I have given. am not sure of the q. so, I have given the

5.(6 marks)
An Army official got param vir charka in 1948.The year he died is 139th of the year he
was born. when was he born?(Ths is in some of the book with different humbers..check )

6.(4 marks)
In a party attended by 11 persons, each clinch their glass with every other. How many
glass clinches?( very easy one imagine being asked in Infy)

7.(6 marks)
SLOW COACH EXPRESS problem from Ravi Narula chapter10=q.4 ans.7 trains

8.(6 marks)There are 4 persons and 4 professions- drugist, architect, barber and chemist.
ones salary is twice of other and similar statements like this. you are asked to find the
profession of each person.

9.(8 marks)
It was a very complex problem. Different country people live in diff. Color houses who
drinks diff., beverages and who have diff., pets and smoke different brand cigars. Nearly
15 statements given
Sample:
The English lives in green house.
The person who smokes blend lives next to yellow house.

1.who has zebra?

2.who lives in the white house?
3.Who smokes Blend?

10.(8 marks) 6 (Elfum,Eskum,..persons compete in games. 4 of them are allowed to play

3 games each. Distance run, axe throw, 2 other competition.

Certain statements given like:

1.the one who wins distance run participates in one more game.Etc.
We have to find who is the winner of the 4 games?

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9th and 10th problems took time. So, gals and guys work Barron's GRE-pattern of such q
and get practiced with TABLE METHOD. George.K.Summers alone wont help in such
problems.

I have 2 more MNC tests in the coming two months. I have not lost hope or confidence
after I lost in caritor and infy. Today I am again starting preparation with more
determination for up coming tests.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-8 Jan 2006

Infosys questions

1.a clock gongs 6 times at 6 o'clock.the time from first to last gongs is 30sec.How long
does it take to strike at 12 mid.

2.tea bought for 5bits per pound and 3 bits per pound and made a mixture to grt
40pounds.each sold at 6 bits per pound leading to 33 and 1/3 percent profit.how many
pounds of 5 bits /pound was taken?

3.there are certains trees in a wood on which certain no. of birds sits...the no. of birds on
each tree = no. of trees in de wood.the no. of birds is b/w 2000 and 2100.

4.a brother asks his sis abt de chocolate bars he had given.. it is there in old papers.

5.some personaliti (awarded param veer in 1948)who died is now 1/138 th of his birth
year. find his year of birth.

6.in a party, the guests clinked there glasses against each other there are 11 guests.find

8.a architct,a grocer,a draggist, a banker- Mr.A,Mr.B,Mr.C,Mr.D....

salaries in de order x,2x,4x,6x...
cldnt remember exactly...

9.an athelete race...-a big paragrah...

cldnt remember...

10. trains from hoerah starts at 09oohrs and reach bombay at 0930 hrs after 3 days..same
way in de opposite direction.. a person travels from bombay to howrah... how many trains
he ll cross on his way to howrah..

Only 45 were shortlisted...

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I passed with an above average aggregate. I had my first interview in a relative s

company in Chennai-post of software trainee-programmer in C and C++. But it was
under recommendation that I was called to attend the test. So did not accept their offer. I
applied for Infy, CTS and TCS and many more MNCs. I attended caritor off campus and
lost in final round.

On 27th Dec., I got the long awaited Infy call letter for test on jan 8th which I attended
yesterday. I prepared very sincerely for a 9-10 days. Finishing Shak.Devi book, George
book and Ravi Narula, I went through loads of puzzles from brain vista and old papers. I
was through with 2004,2004 and 2005 papers.
45/1254 were short listed. Due to stiff competition, I lost in the test. I did a 8 correct.

I am not giving the answer, try yourself that's the best way to solve puzzles.

1.(2 marks)
A clock strikes 6'o clock 6 times with an interval of 10 sec. between last and first strike.
How much time would be taken by the clock to strike 12'0 clock midnight?
(an easy q. which u can see in Shak.Devi book-1)

2.(4 marks)
In a grocery shop, the master prepares tea granules by mixing 5 bits/pound and
3bits/pound components. He prepared tea mixture (with some proportion. I forgot but I
remember he made 240 pounds) and made a 33 and half % profit. How many 5
bits/pound component he used? (simple one)

3.(3 marks)
There are many trees in a certain wood.(this s the reverse of wood in tree. it was given
like tht to confuse you).The owner observes that there are as many birds in each tree as
there are trees in the wood. He also knows that total number of birds is 2000-2100. Find
the number of trees in the wood?
(i.e.,Bird in each tree=total no. of trees)

4.(3 marks)
A girl has x chocolate bars. She gives half of what she has to mother, a half to
dad(beware its1/2 or 0.5), gives half more to dog and has one herself. Whts X?
Ans. 7..( check the proportion I have given. am not sure of the q. so, I have given the

5.(6 marks)
An Army official got param vir charka in 1948.The year he died is 139th of the year he

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was born. when was he born?(Ths is in some of the book with different humbers..check )

6.(4 marks)
In a party attended by 11 persons, each clinch their glass with every other. How many
glass clinches?( very easy one imagine being asked in Infy)

7.(6 marks)
SLOW COACH EXPRESS problem from Ravi Narula chapter10=q.4 ans.7 trains

8.(6 marks)There are 4 persons and 4 professions- drugist, architect, barber and chemist.
ones salary is twice of other and similar statements like this. you are asked to find the
profession of each person.

9.(8 marks)
It was a very complex problem. Different country people live in diff. Color houses who
drinks diff., beverages and who have diff., pets and smoke different brand cigars. Nearly
15 statements given
Sample:
The English lives in green house.
The person who smokes blend lives next to yellow house.

1.who has zebra?

2.who lives in the white house?
3.Who smokes Blend?

10.(8 marks) 6 (Elfum,Eskum,..persons compete in games. 4 of them are allowed to play

3 games each. Distance run, axe throw, 2 other competition.

Certain statements given like:

1.the one who wins distance run participates in one more game.Etc.
We have to find who is the winner of the 4 games?

9th and 10th problems took time. So, gals and guys work Barron's GRE-pattern of such q
and get practiced with TABLE METHOD. George.K.Summers alone wont help in such
problems.

I have 2 more MNC tests in the coming two months. I have not lost hope or confidence
after I lost in caritor and infy. Today I am again starting preparation with more
determination for up coming tests.

INFOSYS PLACEMENT PAPERS 2007

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INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th MAY

Date:10th may
No of students appeared:120
Written cleared:33
HR cleared:28

Ques paper format:

aptitude test: 40 min(30 ques)
Verbal test:30 min(40 ques)

APTITUDE TEST:
1) A,B,C,D,E,F,G are seven friends..each of them hv a 7 digit phone no. with nos in cylic
manner ...none of d nos get repeated..no phone number has digits 0,1 or 9....B has d ph no.
in strictly ascending order..2 is the second last digit of A's phone no....2 is the middle
digit of C's no...and sm more data were given... u need to find the phone nos of all the
friends..and answer 5 ques that follow..easy one..

2) ques n Data Interpretation...5 ques to b answerd tht follow..easy one..

3)question on logical reasoning..very easy...there r 4
batsmen..sachin,ravi,kambli,dravid.....n info about each of them was given..cud b solved
easily..just prepare the rows and columns n complete the table..5 ques to be answered that
follow..
4) 5 ques on triangle congruency and similarity,basic maths..
5) 5 ques on Data sufficiency
6) spot the odd fig out(5 ques)

VERBAL TEST:
1) 10 ques
two passages..5-5 ques to be answered for each..

2) 5 ques
choose the grammatically correct sentence from the options given below(5
ques)........ refer either ren n martin or sm good CAT material..atleast brush up the basics
b4 appearing for the test cuz the options look nearly similar..

3) 5 ques
choose the optiion which makes the sentence grammatically correct..that is, a part of the
sentence is underlined and u r to choos e frm the option ,the phrase which is
correct...again refer gud CAT material..

4)5 ques
fill in the blanks with a proper word...easy ones

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5) 10 ques
Read the small para given..and conclude the para with a proper option..

HR INTERVIEW:
I was called twice for the interview..probably cuz i made many blunders in the first
interview..

1ST INTERVIEW:(LONG ONE,LASTD FOR 45 MIN)

1)tell me bout urself..
tell him bout ur strengths n ur qualities ..he doesnt want ur formal intro..
2)tell me smthin u did creative in ur school days
3)do u have a boyfriend??
4)what all qualities wud u wish ur spouse shd have??
5)will u marry a guy who si honest but poor??
will u marry a guy who is poor cuz he s honest?
6)wud u lie for the company?
7)what wud u do if ur father is very sick and u rnt granted the leave cuz there is tonnes of
work left??
9)wud u join the company now??
10)tell me if u hv workd in a grp??
11)what will u do if sm1 keeps sending u vulgar messages on ur cell and doesnt stop at ne
cost??

2ND INTERVIEW: (askd mainly from the resume)

1)why did u take up electronics engg?
4)some simple hr ques frrm rthe resume..
5)wud u like to ask ne ques??

By,
Neelam

Hi friends , I m Indrajeet yadav ,a student of BE 3rd year electronics from MITS

Gwalior . I have selected in Infosys on 4th may when infy visited in our college
for campus recruitment., i M VERY VERY THANKFUL OF THOSE GUYS WHO
HELP ME A LOTS BY SHARING THERE VIEWS ON fresherworld.com

Well, the test comprises three stages

1. PPT (Pre placement talks)
2. Written test
3. HR interview

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Eligibility: through out 65% in 10th, 12th,degree/diploma

All branches of BE /B.arch and ME/M.tech are allowed with no backlogs.

The test is started at 9:30 in morning ,a 1 hour lengthy PPT where they tell us about the
infosys , test pattern ,how to fill the form and package (2.7 lakhs per annum) At about
11:30 they gave us a form ,in 30 minutes we have to fill this form ,it requires the
information abt ur academic ,degree, family .U must carry ur documents with one
photograph with u b/c it required at the time of form filling.
At around 12:00 the written test is started
The test consist of two section
1. Reasoning test
2. English test

WRITTEN TEST:
u all must be knowing pattern of infy...
two papers 1st RESONING IN THIS 30 QUES TO BE ANSWERED IN 40
MINUTE......

PATTERN OF RESONING:
QUES 1 TO 5 : A,B,C,D ,E,F r five cities , their populaton r given ,and a problem is
given based upon some many condition like two cities have industry ,industry r in the
cities wherae population is greater than 20 lakhs,position of these five cities according to
the latitude ,longitude is given then they ask some q. from those conditions.its a
analytical reasoning type Q. …. Do’t try it first if u r not perfect in it.
QUES 6-10: find the figure which is dissimilar in the given five figures…Very easy
QUES 11-15 : DATA SUFFICIENCY…seriously check the conditions they r belongs to
elementary maths ………. AGAIN EASY
QUES 16-20 : Data Interpitation …….pi chart Q.
PI CHART JUST DO SOME CALCULATION BASED ON % AND U CAN GET
QUES 21-25: a analytical problem
a bit tricky corelate the facts wit the help of table and u can get the ans.....
ques 26-30 logic : EASIEST AND TIME SAVING SEGMENT IF U KNOW THOSE 9
RULES of syllogoism ....

THIS IS FOLLOWED BY ENGLISH: THIS SEGMENT IS LENGTHY AND

TOUGH....
40 QUES IN 35 MIN
ques - 1 to 10 : long and big comprehension,,,,they r easy but dont try to solve it first
ques--11-20 : find the correct sentence among four sentences...long sentences r there so
ques 21-27 one sentence is given with underlined phases correct that phrase....easy
ques 28-35 fill in the blanks (purely grammer based segment) …….easiest
ques36-40 : paragraph and inferences easiest part in this whole tough and lengthy english
paper...

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dont take english lightly as there is section cutoff..........try to learn all the grammer rules
and practie as much as possible....
time factor is the key for written exams and try to answer all the ques as there is no
negative marking specially in english...
OUT OF AROUND 150 + CANDIDATES ONLY 32 QUALIFY IN WRITTEN

INTERVIEW:
as far as interiew is concerned if u can speak english clearly and have good
communication skills then u r in…………..
prepare national,international,business and political news From gk it is very important to
have knowledge of gk in infy’s interview....
chief ministers of states, chief justice,governor of rbi etc...
he may ask puzzle tell him the approach even if ur approach is wrong then also tell him
that wrong approach.
THEY ASK ALL WHICH U MENTION IN UR RESUME. SO WE PREPARE FOR IT

MY INTERVIEW:
Q.HAVE U SELECTED IN ANY OTHER COMPANY?
A.YES SIR ,IN TECH MAHINDRA (SINCE INFY IS IN DREAM SLOT IN OUR
COLLEGE).
Q.HOW IS UR ENLISH?
Q. WHO IS OUR PRESIDENT,FINANCE MINISTER,DEFENCE MINISTER?
Q WHO IS THE CHIEF OF ARMY, AIR FORCE,NAVY?(sincc I m a NCC cadet)
QWHICH TYPE OF LENSES R THERE IN UR SPECK?
Q.TELL A MOVEMENT OF UR LIFE WHERE U SHOW THE LEADERSHIP
QUALITY?
Q. WHO WROTE OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM AND NATIONAL SONG?
Q. WHO IS THE CAPTAIN OF WEST INDIES , BANGLADESH CRICKET TEAMs?
Q COMMENT ON CAPTAINSHIP OF RAHUL DRAVID?
Q. HOW MANY cm. R THERE IN AN inch?
Q. A PUZZLE IN WHICH THEY ASK ME ABOUT THE MASS OF A CUBOID
WHEN ITS DENSITY (IN gm./cc)&DIMENSIONS IN
INCHES ARE GIVEN?
Q.QUES. ABOUT MY HOBBIES AND EXPLANATION OF EACH?
Q.NAME ANY FIVE STRONG CURRENCIES NAME?
Q.AT WHAT ANGLE A GUN IS FIRIED TO REACH MAX.DISTANCE? ANS. 45
DEGREE
Q.WHAT IS THE MEANING OF BRIC? ANSWER:( BRAZIL , RUSSIA , INDIA ,
CHINA )
I ANSWER THESE ALL Q. WELL

THE 2 Q. WHOM DO I NOT ANSWER

Q. WHAT IS THE NAME OF A FIGURE remaining after WE CUT A CONE FROM
TOP PARALLEL TO ITS BASE?
Q .WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF WESTINDIES?

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infosys is not very difficult to crack just concentrate on written exam specially in english
if u get through written then u can easily get through HR.... FINALLY 22 R SELECTED
FROM OUR COLLEGE,WHEN RESULT IS ANNOUNCED AT 7:00 PM AROUND.
WISH U A VERY GOOD LUCK GO AND CRACK THE INFY,NOW ITS EASY TO
CRACK IT…………….

INFOSYS PAPER ON 8th MAY AT BANGALORE

Infosys came to our college for on campus recruitment but it was not just for our college
but also for 6 other colleges and itz called pool campus Complete recruitment process
was finished in 1 day and it was done in a well organized manner. There were around 500
students who wrote the aptitude test out of which around 90 students got through the
aptitude test. Finally around 60 out of 90 students who attended the interview got the job.

Now i will brief about my experience,

The aptitude test consists of 2 sections Logical Reasoning and English. First, the logical
reasoning paper will be given which contains 30 questions and the time given is 35 mins.
Next the english paper will be given which consists of 40 questions and the time given is
35mins.

The two question papers will be given separately and you dont have have to worry much
about time management for different sections since you will be attempting the two papers
one after the other separately. The reason they conduct this way is becoz they are looking
at our skills separately and they give preference to English score. We were asked to keep
our application form on top and then the english answer sheet and then logical reasoning

As far as the logical reasoning was concerned it was quite a normal paper and r.s
aggarwal wil be sufficient to do it well. Honestly i dint prepare from any book but for
those of you who like to prepare, the book i mentioned will be more than enough. there is
no negative marking and plzz attempt all the questions. I dint do this section great but i
was confident that i would be able to clear the cut offs which i guess was around 15.

Now, english paper is tuff and has all sorts of questions including comprehension, fill in
the blanks, to find out the grammatically correct sentence etc. now people you have to be
fast and dont do the passages in the beginning but come to it in the end. once again attend
all the question as there is no negative marking. This English paper is important, so do it
well. Well english needs good vocabulary, reading speed, ability to comprohend a certain
given material etc. i did this English paper really well as i love English and i am always
comfortable with this section. I guess the english cut off was 20+.

Altogether the aptitude paper is definitely standard especially the English part.

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The aptitude test finished at 2 pm. the results were announced at around 4pm. The only
other round and the final round was HR. so people, this is your chance and dont spoil it.
they simply dont ask even a single technical question but definitely they are looking at
good communication skills, confidence and personality.

My interview was at around 5pm and it was like this

ME: may i come in?
HR: plz come in ... take your seat (dont sit until he tells you to)
ME: good afternoon sir
HR: thank you

ME: introduced myself (i did this with great confidence, i told a bit about myself, my
family, my background and my schooling and college and in the end of introduction i
gave him a quote in which i completely believe in , Henry Ford said "IF YOU THINK
YOU CAN DO SOMETHING OR IF YOU THINK YOU CANT DO SOMETHING,
EITHER WAY YOU ARE CORRECT")

HR: (quite impressed with my introduction he went on to ask ) So adith tell me

being a leader in a certain group etc etc, one can also mention if he or she has taken part
in co-curricular activities etc)

ME: answered this (i told him about my dot net course that i did from niit)

HR: ok tell me adith WHY SHOULD INFOSYS HIRE YOU?

ME: answered this yet again with great confidence (told him everything about my
personality traits, gave him enough positive points about myself and finally i went on to
say that i deserve the job in every way)

HR:ARE YOU READY WORK ANYWHERE IN INDIA?

ME: YES (you dont have an option, if you want to get placed you have to say yes )

HR: (was completely convinced and smiled and said) THANK YOU ADITH . DO YOU
HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US?
ME: i asked him about the system followed in infosys to evaluate an employee's
performance (i asked this question specifically as i indirectly wanted to give him a clue
that i wanted to join them and perform well and hence wanted to know )

ME: i said THANK YOU

HR: again smiling , offered a hand shake

ME: happily shaked hand (who wouldnt do this?)

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ME: again said thank you (i put the chair back in its place and left the interview room

Atlast my interview was over and i was very happy when i came out. Although i was
confident i will be offered the job, i kept my fingers crossed until the results were
announced. At 9pm the results were announced and when they read my name ......... i was
simply blown away and felt on top of the world......... couldnt beleive it for a few minutes
and then the feeling started exploding. IT WAS A GREAT MOMENT

THE ONLY THING I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL "FEEL GOOD...................FEEL

GOOD...................FEEL GOOD" SO ALL THE VERY BEST FRIENDS, WHO
ATTEND INFOSYS PLACEMENT IN FUTURE

INFOSYS PAPER ON 3rd MAY

hi friends i am deivanai
infosys came to our college for on campus recruitment ya

it was a one day process. i had a wonderful experience

first slot in our college is given to TCS they have selected 110 students among 330 but i
had not been placed there. but infy have selected only 28 students among 263 i got there
so frds dont get depressed if u loss one opportunity . there r lot of opportunities for us. so
try try try and keep on trying

i will giv u some of my experience here. the selection process contains only two stages
first one is the written exam and the next is the H.R
for the written exam pls refer R.S. Agarwal. but the questions are not the exact replica of
that We should have the presence of mind and we should be brisk enough to face the new
questions so dont worry for infy no preparation is necessary just see the model thats
enough

Non verbal section comprises(30 q 45 min) time is more than enough

-Data sufficiency
-finding the odd figure from the given series
-syllogism
-critical reasoning

Verbal section(40 q only 35 min)

Time is not enough so hurry up be fast dont do the passage first it will lead u to trouble.
so solve the questions from the last
-grammatically correct sentence
-deriving the inference from the given information
-replacing the part of the sentence with the correct phrase or some other part

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So i have cleared the written exam everything becaz of god's grace. among 263 only 40
were short listed

then the H.R. interview

here they will check only the communication skills and no technical they will ask the
technical question if u dont know dont worry frankly say i dont know. they only check
whether u r ready to accept the questions r u r hesitating and they will ask questions
based on ur resume so be thorough with ur resume and they will give one puzzle. if u cant
answer dont worry they will check the way u proceed. so it was very easy . i have cleared
it also ya

so all the best friends who r going to attend infy

We will meet in infy

Hello Gal Friends

I m Mazher Mahmood from Northern India Engg. College Lucknow. Here in LKO
Infosys have visited SRMCEM on 26th of April .Students from 10 Colleges Have Come
For Campus.

The Written Test was consisting of 2 papers:-

1. Aptitude Test (30 questions in 40 mins)
2. Verbal Test (40 questions: 35 minutes)

Paper # 1 was simply based on simple reasoning and aptitude questions:-5q from
Syllogism,5q from Figure series,5 q were from puzzle test from R.S.Agarwaal,5 q based
on averages (A passage were given & we have to answer the 5 q)……5 q on data
sufficiency..5 question from Average speed and distance………………

I Have attempted 24 qs. From 30 questions.

Paper # 2 was a little bit tough. those who are from ISC Board need not to worry. But
also don’ t take it lightly as only 35 minutes have been provided 4 it. Time Management
is also necessary .But friends from U.P. Board n other Regional boards can consult he
CAT material of TIME, career launcher…{I was also from U.P. Board} The Paper
consisted of 2 bulky passage and consisting of 10 q (5 q per passage).Don’t dare to do it
in the beginning as it will kill your ample of time. After that there were 5q form 4 choices
were being provided and we have to choose the most logically correct sentence.

After that there were qs from Correction of sentences. After that there were qs
from..Inference Writing etc..I have done 35 question form 40….

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By 4:30 in the evening the results were announced .The have decided to take the
interview on the very same day. By 6:30 in the evening the HR Interviews started I was a
little bit nervous but building myself I entered the room…..

HR: So Mazher take ur seat.

ME Thank you sir! (Then he offered me a piece of paper and asked me to Write my name
and to do my Signature. Then he asked me to sign in URDU {As I was a Mohhamedan}I
have Done that and described each n every letter of Urdu to him) .

HR: So Mazher it seems from ur performance that u have worked hard for the written test.
But what preparations do u have made for he Interviews…?
ME: Sir to gain Confidence and Tackle nervousness I have taken the help of Meditation

HR: Which kind?

ME: Sir I regularly practice yoga..

HR: Which kind of yoga? Can you name some of them?

ME; Sir I practice the asans of BABA Ramdev like KAPALBHARTI aasan….(I have
asked him for the permission and in the interview room on the seat I have given him a
demo in front of him. HE was smiling ……….OK)

HR: What is ur career goal…

ME: Sir I want to grow my skills in a big software company..

HR: Which Qualities one should have for being a good software Engr.?
ME: Group skills, Confidence, Good communication skills, hard working…..

HR: What does the name Mazher mean?

ME: Sir which is in the stories and which is being discussed by the people. In short
‘famous’.

HR: Mazher how many times do you offer NAMAZ in a day?

ME: Sir two times…..But whenever I get my time I practice it five times a day…..

HR: Here is a puzzle for you…

COCA
+COLA
OASIS
ME Solved it within 1 minute..As I have practiced a lot this kind of questions….

HR: Have you ever involved in any group activity?

ME: Sir as, a part of our syllabus we have MINI projects. I have worked with 4 of my
friends. and also….I described the whole project in front of him….

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HR: Any other questions?

ME: SIR how I m presenting in front of you….

Smiling: you are having good personality…….For rest others you will have to wait for
the Results OK best of luck 4 the results…
Thank you sir..

My interview Continued for about 30 minutes. As it was a good experience so I was

SOME TIPS FOR THE INTERVIEW>>>>>>>
· BE confident.
· Don’t get nervous…Practice thro Mock interviews with your friends, seniors…
· Maintain decency
would be my Pay scale???
· Practise good quality English conversation…
· Don’t reply on that domains which are not of your concern. like I LIKE
MOTORACING..then he will going to as what will be the size of tyre of a F1 car.

Alright By 9:30 in the evening the results were out. I was Lucky enough to be selected It
was really a memorable event.. my head was among the stars. surely this kind of
occasions come once in blue moon.

I owe my success to blessings of my parents, encouragement by teachers and my

seniors& cooperation by my friends…..So don’t loose hope is the moral of the story Keep
faith in GOD>He will surely gift u.

I would also like to thank this is just like a BOON for the freshers. I hope my experience
will help a lot of my friends across d country, hope we’ll meet at INFOSYS.

HI FRIENDS, I AM SHIVRAJ PYATI FROM M.I.T.AURANGABAD.I RECENTLY

GOT SELECTED IN INFOSYS ON 26th APRIL 2007.

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I AM ENTHUSIASTIC TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE WITH YOU ALL. TO GET

SELECT IN INFOSYS IS NOT SO TOUGH BUT YOU HAVE TO BE SURE IN
THREE FIELDS:

40MARKS 35 MINUTES ENGLISH: PASSAGES,PARAGRAPHS,MISSING

WORDS,SELECTING APPROPRIATE PHRASE
30MARKS 40 MINUTES LOGICAL REASONING

1:LOGICAL
2:ENGLISH

NEARLY 800 STUDENTS APPEARED FOR THE CAMPUS RECRUITMENT OUT

OF WHICH 52 CLEARED THE TEST .

THE SECOND ROUND WAS THE INTERVIEW. THE INTERVIEW WAS

PURELY H.R. AND NO TECHNICAL QUESTIONS WERE ASKED. PUZZLES
WERE ASKED SO PRACTICE MORE ON PUZZLES FROM SHAKUNTAL DEVI.

ONCE YOU ARE CLEAR WITH APTITUDE YOUR 90% IN INFOSYS REST

THE INTERVIWERS WERE FRIENDLY AND WERE PHYSICATRISTS SO DO

NOT TRY TO BLUFF THEM AT ANY STAGE OF THE INTERVIEW. REMAIN
CONFIDENT FROM THE TIME YOUR ENTER THE PANEL .

BE CLEAR WITH YOUR HOBBIES, AIM, AREAS OF INTRESTS,CURRENT

AFFAIRS. AT LAST BEST OF LUCK.HOPE THAT WE WILL MEET AT
INFOSYS.EVEN IF ONE OF YOU GET SELECTED BY THIS FEEDBACK IT WILL
BE MY ACHIEVEMENT.

BEST OF LUCK THOUGH I DONT BELIEVE IN LUCK.DO NOT FOLLOW LUCK

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND MAKE LUCK FOLLOW YOU.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 19th APRIL AT BANGALORE

Hi people......So infosys held its placement prog in BTLIT col on 19th april n there wer
two rounds....

1---WRITTEN
a.logical reasoning----this part included syllogisms,data sufficiency, figure series,
percentages n general aptitude.....although i don remember the questions, i can say that
solving the mentioned topics from R.S.Aggarwal(verbal n non verbal reasoning) would b

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of 100% help....der wer no puzzles....40 questions to be solved in 30 MINS...TIME

MANAGEMENT IS VERY IMP...!!

b. English----eng lish was not al that easy....but not very difficult....can say had a good
standard!! GRE books would b of gr8 help...ther wer two passages...fill in the
blaks...correct the sentence....

der wer 450 students out of which 78 cleared the first round....
Later der was a HR....only personal...no technical...
puzzles wer asked for some ...
the hr questions wer....

7----and finally asked me whether i hav any questions n asked me to leave

Secret is.....B urself....originality matters....d moment u start bein some1 else they can
catch u...they try to keep a serious face lik dey don lik us or they are not satisfied wid ur
answers....never let it affect u.....b free n confident....

all the process got over bu 7 pm n results wer announced by 8:30....61 ppl made it out of
78 n i was one of them...agreat moment....!

i hope this has been of some help to ppl who read it.....all the very best to all the
aspirants!!!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 17th APRIL AT NOIDA

HELLO FRIENDS I M TANMAYA Infosys had Visited our college (iec-cet )on 17th of
april...

following process.....
1.reporting time --- 8:00 am

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2. PPT ----around 9:30 am

3.form filling followed by written exam ---- 11:00 am
4.results of written---- 2:00pm
5.interiew(h.r non technical)---2:30 pm
6.final list of selected students--- 9:00 pm

ELIGIBILITY: FOR CBSE AND ICSE: 65,65,65 IN 10th 12th AND B.TECH
(RELAXATION IN ONE)
FOR U.P AND BIHAR BOARG 60,60 IN 10TH AND 12TH AND 65
IN .TECH(NO RELAXATION)

FORM FILLING : U MUST HAVE ONE PHOTOGRAPH...AND IF U HAVE ANY

REFERENCE WHO IS IN INFY THEN U CAN MENTION IT ALSO.......

NOTE: be careful in formfilling because in hr interview they will check the form and ask
ques from that only.my hr havent asked for my resume but u have to carry ur resume...

WRITTEN TEST:
u all must be knowing pattern of infy...

two papers 1st RESONING IN THIS 30 QUES TO BE ANSWERED IN 40

MINUTE......CONC. ON THIS PART AS PUZZLES ARE NOT REALLY TOUGH IF
U CAN MAKE TABLE AND CORELATE ALL THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN
PUZZLE.

PATTERN OF RESONING:
QUES 1 TO 5 : A,B,C,D ARE 4 PERSON.ALL AE SOME MONEY THEIR SUM IS
100 AND A AND B HAVE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT C AND D HAVE.A
HAS MORE MONEY THAN B.C HAVE HALF OF MONEY TAT D HAVE.AND A =

1.who has the highest amount?

2.how much money does B have.
3. what is the ratio of C:D.
4.who have second highest money.

QUES 6-10: find the 6th figure in the series.

QUES 11-15 : DATA SUFFICIENCY AGAIN EASY
QUES 16-20 : D I
BAR CHART JUST DO SOME CALCULATION AND U CAN GET THE ANSWERS
QUES 21-25; PUZZLE
a bit tricky corelate the facts wit the help of table and u can get the ans.....
ques 26-30 logic : EASIEST AND TIME SAVING SEGMENT IF U KNOW THOSE 9
RULES....

THIS IS FOLLOWED BY ENGLISH: THIS SEGMENT IS LENGTHY AND

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TOUGH....
40 QUES IN 35 MIN
ques - 1 to 10 : long and big comprehension,,,, dont try to solve it first
ques--11-20 : find the correct sentence among four sentences...long sentences r there so
ques 21-27 one sentence is given with underlined phases correct that phrase....
ques 28-35 fill in the blanks (purely grammer based segment)
ques36-40 : paragraph and inferences easiest part in this whole tough and lengthy english
paper...
dont take english lightly as there is section cutoff..........try to learn all the grammer rules
and practie as much as possible....

as far as interiew is concerned if u can speak english clearly and have good
communication skills then u r in...prepare national,international,business and political
news From gk.... chief ministers of states, chief justice,governor of rbi etc...
he may ask puzzle tell him the approach even if ur approach is wrong then also tell him
that wrong approach.
he asked me 1 puzzle i told him two appraoches both were wrong but now i m in
infosys.....time factor is the key for written exams and try to answer all the ques as there
is no negative marking specially in english...
in interview try to answer all the ques confidentally which he ask even if u r wrong then

infosys is not very difficult to crack just concentrate on written exam specially in english
if u get through written the u can easily get through hr....

TANMAYA GUPTA

Hello fellow friends and INFOSYS aspirants

i am "Ashish Kaushik" from "IEC college Gr. Noida" INFI was here at 17th of April
2007 i have been selected in the company, and wanna extend a helping hand to all of my
fellow friends who are on the same/ or wanna be on the same side.. but before i start i
would like to express my sincere regards and wana thank to all those friends/colleagues
and seniors who always had their advices and moral building attitude to help me in
preparing for my Placement..

"ALL THE VERY BEST MY FRIENDS ... KEEP UP THIS SPIRIT.. " NOW COMING
TO THE TOPIC INFI and its procedure:::::

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plz NOTE that there was NO NEGATIVE MARKING IN ANY OF THE TESTS INFI
TOOK...SO ATTEMP FULLY

Step1: First of all there was a form given to us to fill.. it included all the details like Sem
marks, 10th , 12th marks, working experience, address details etc etc.. u r given 30 mins
to fill it correctly(especially the SEM aggregate Marks) and are Required to have a
passport size photo along with it..

Step2: after the Form was filled we were given the Test Answer Sheet And Paper

test::1 APTITUDE AND REASONING..

The Paper Consisted Of 30 Questions (all one marks):::and time alloted was 45 min::::::
the paper consisted of the Following topics::

1. Data Interpretation:: 5 ques.

i advice u to prepare the pie chart(which came in my paper) and tabular chart Questions
thorughly as they give good marks on a carefull observation

2. Logical Reasoning::5 Ques

It consisted of the PET syllogic Ques.. like 1. all Charts are Wire 2. all wires are frames
and some conclusions were given
#Advice# use VENN Diagrams for solving them.. they ae faster and accurate.

3. Puzzles :: 5Ques
they consisted of Ques like A,B,C,D,E had a sum of money, the total was Rs.100
->>the total of money A+B had was equal to that of C+D..
>A had half the money B had, D has more money than C..
>> D has 5 more than B..
and Ques were like:: Who HAS THE MOST/LEAST AMOUNT OF
MONEY
HOW MUCH MONEY DID 'c' HAVE... and three other (i dont rem exacxtly )
#ADVICE# do not attempt to solve fully .. in most cases "solving" is not as imp as
"observation"
#ADVICE# TIME MANAGEMENT is the key resource to crack Infi exam
so try to observe Ques(not only this but all) Carefully and examine the fact it helps to
save Time.. and improves accuracy.. only when it is needed factually u should do the
cacluations

4. IMAGE QUESTIONS ::: NON VERBAL.. 5QUES..

some were easy n some were tricky.. we had to find the Next Figure in the series ..i mean
we were given 5 figures following a definite pattern and we had to find the next
Succeeding Figure..
#ADVICE# the Key again lies in Carefull observation
>>>>some of them i would like to share with u >>> --->>> Rotation(clockwise or anti)
--->>Degree (the degree to which the figure has moved)-->>whether some lines or figure
is being constantly added or subtracted and if yes then in which manner

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5 it Was a mix of DATA INTERPRETATION+DATA SUFFICIENCY+PUZZLE ::::::

5qUES
% note% THAT WE DID NOT GET ANY PROBLEMS REGARDING BLOOD
RELATiONS but i wud recommend u to go through it also, as it has come in previous
papers... so u shud be well prepared for Infi...

##ADVICE## U CAN REFER TO R.S.AGGARWAL VERBAL AND NON VERBAL

(ITS SUFFICIENT TO CRACK INFI) IF U WANNA PRACTICE MORE, TRY
ABHIJEET GUHA IT IS ALSO A NICE BOOK..

test:: 2 english Test 30QUES & 35MINS.

friends i would like to remind u that English in INFI has a good level so prepare it in a
better way.. its not that its tough.. but ur preperation will give u the time margin so that u
can score well..
it was Divided in the following::
1. LONG Comprehension.. and Short Comprehensions ( avoid doing them first as they
consume a lot of time... attend them later)
2. Sentence Correction..given will be three long sentences and u will have to choose the
best of them grammatically and logocally correct..
3. Fill in the blanks..choose the best phrase that would fit in
4. WORD meaning.. there was only one Ques on It ----The word was CALUMNIOUS
and we had to find the meanings closest to it..
##ADVICE## u can practice comprehension by reading the editorial coloumn of ur daily
newspaper and for the rest try "Wren And MArtin" it's worth it.. Trust me!!

and thats all it was on the written side... REST was my interview..
THE INTERVIEW..
went for about (20-22 min) the procedure was..
I Entered the room after his( the interviewer's) permission and sat on the chair when he
insructed(never sit without his permission it creates a bad impression) he gave me an
attendance sheet to fill.. after that he asked me to sign on two places on the form which i
had filled in the written phase.. Now that all formalities were done.. the interview started:
the questions i was asked (Not sequentially) were::
1. Tell me something about urself..
2.. how can u say ur creative(it was on mu CV so he asked me), what creative work u
have done; quote an example
3. give an example of u being ADAPTABLE...
4. Do u read newspapers, which one and magazines if yes, which,
5. why U read Tachnical magazines , name some of them
6. HAVE u faced any problem in ur life, if yes what was it and how did u get out.
7. He gave me a puzzle.. i solved it after examining it..
8. what is the one thing u dont like about that place u belong to ( I said It was traffic
problem)
9. how can u solve that problem if u were made the incharge..(it was a long discussion
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10. Why Do u like to Join Infosys.

.(i told him the points (ofcourse in my own way) that we were told by the infocian lady
during our PPT)
11. Family Background..
12. what do u speacialise in computers..
13. what is your ambition in life...
14. some 2-3 ques were from my CV and EVents that i wrote..

and there are some of the questions my fellow friends were asked::
1. form General Awareness. like TOI Editor?? Chief Justice Of india.. Latest Deals and
News..
2. From the world Cup.??
3 What do u know about Infosys.. etc etc..
##ADVICE## the jist of the interview is
that..
1. Be aware of ur social atmosphere.. read newspapers
daily
2. write ur CV in a manner u can handle best make it interesting but precise..
3. Be honest and dont lie
4. Be TruthFul and Be urself
5, THE MOST IMPORTANT;;;;; BE
CONFIDENT ::::::
6. Quote ur Hobbies and strengths d way
they u can explain well, quoting examples..

This Is all From myside.. hope my Paper has helped u in ur preperation.. plz do
contribute when u are selected and even when ur not..
UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL ... we must remember..
with all the best wishes for ur Future and ambitions...

Regards :
ASHISH KAUSHIK.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 15th APRIL AT HYDERABAD

MARKS: 50
TIME: 1Hr

This paper was for experienced people ( with 12 Months to 24 Months of Experience for the
post of Entry Level Software Engineers).
As I have seen previous years papers of 2006 & 2007 the pattern was from RS Agarwal
(Verbal & Non Verbal) so did't prepare puzzles.
The paper which I have written consist of only 10 puzzles of 50 Marks, Time was 1 Hr. No
English.

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***Never take a Chance***

So Friends be prepared with

• Previous Year Papers- Puzzles(important)

• Shakuntala Devi Puzzles
• RS Agarwal - Verbal & Non-Verbal

1) A jeweller prepared a window display each displaying 3 of the 7 jems at a time . (8

They were methyst, opal, sapphire, emerald, ruby and garnet. Displayed Marks)
according to the following conditions:-
1 A sholud always be displayed on the left window and D on the right.
2 Ruby should never come with any of D or G.
3.E should always be with S.
then some 4 questions were asked on this.
#1 which combination is appropriate?
#2 which condition is correct in the right window?
#3 Ruby can be displayed with following other two?
#4 S can be displayed with the following other two on left side window?
2) Yesterday my mother asked me to buy some stamps. Stamps are available in 2 (4
paise,7paise,10paise,15paise and 20paise denominations. For three types of Marks)
stamps I was asked to buy five of each. For the other two types of stamps. I was
five of and which to buy six of Luckly my mother had given me the exact
money required to buy the stamps , Rs. 3.00 and the shopkeeper was able to
give me the correct stamps. Which stamps did I buy?
3. A cyclist covered 2/3 of his distance by cycle ,then his type was punctured. after (3
that he covered the remaining distance by walk. He felt that he had walked twice Marks)
the time of he cycle. how fast he cycled than he walked. Ans:4 times
4) Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. They have one card in their hand. (8
Each card has two different colours on each of its side. In total there are 2 red, 2 Marks)
green, and 3 blue colours. They made following statements about their hidden
colour of the card. and exactly two among them are lying.
A -> Blue or Green
B -> Neither Blue nor Green
C -> Blue or Yellow
D -> Blue or Yellow
The visible colours are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively in that order. Tell
the hidden colour of card for each of the person.
5) M is sister of P, O`s husband is L`s brother, N is father of K & grandfather of P (6
There are two fathers and one mother and 3 brothers. Find Marks)
1) Group of brothers
2) How many Male candidates?
3) who is husband of O ?

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6) There are two workers ,each takes 10 hrs & other for 9 hrs.Both can work (3
together with 5 bricks laid for 1 hr.. The owner knows this but in a hurry he Marks)
assigned a work to both..........How many Bricks they constructed for 1
hr.......(Some thing like that)
7) There are seven friends. First one goes to his friends house on first day. Second (4
one goes to his friends house on second day. Third one goes to his friends house Marks)
on third day. Fourth one goes to his friends house on fourth day. Fifth one goes
to his friends house on fifth day. Sixth one goes to his friends house on sixth
day. Seventh one goes to his friends house on seventh day. Altogether all people
can meet on which day?
8) Some puzzle question on ages (like S is older than T, but younger E.F is older (6Marks)
than S, but greater than T, etc)
9) Cricket Scores: Find the Number of runs altogether by the cricket team....As (4
Sachin scored 74 less than Dravid. Dravid greater than Jedeja...............Rahul Marks)
and Azar togther 76................(Something like that)
10) There are 3 Men, in a party...... Each men dancing with three women.. (4
if one women has two pairs of men how many attended the party? (Not Marks)
Remember the exact question)

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL

Hi frnds, On 10th & 11th Infosys visited the Amritsar college for placement of Engg.
Students . There were more than 1500 student who were present at the campus . After the
apt. round only 142 got thru . In the end i.e after the interview around 70 of them were
selected. By god grace I was one of them.
Firstly in the morning we had a seminar in which we were told wht our designation
would be after getting thru( i.e Software Engg.),what was the pay scale, duration of bond,
facilities in Infosys , abt scope of future studies etc. After the seminar we had a break of
abt 1hr and then apt test.

APTITUDE TEST :
It consisted of 2 sections :
1 --- logical reasoning: The paper consisted of 30 question to be answered in 40 mins.
The paper were based on topics :
Maths
Figures
Data sufficiency
Data interpretation
Puzzles(not in our paper but mostly present)

The level of this paper was medium. Maths questions were typical and required practice
before hand.

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2 --- English :
The paper consisted of 40 question to be answered in 30 mins. The paper were divided in
Best fitting phrase
Word meanings
Conclusion based questions (a small story was given)

The level of this paper was medium if u r a CBSE student . It was more like the CAT
English paper . Reading speed was a crucial part of success in this section . After this
paper we were given a rest of abt 2 hrs , then our result was out and 142 out of us were
selected . then we had an interview.

INTERVIEW DETAILS :
This was the last stone which was to be turned so as to get into Infosys . my interview
was taken by a IIM –A professor . he asked general question on current affairs , ur basic
knowledge, politics etc. Your CV /

Resume holds the key to ur success and to most of the question that will be asked to u . In
the end the rslt was declared and luckily I was one of the selected candidates. For
preparation , Study:--
1- R.S.aggrawal (logic reasoning )
2- Shakuntla devi (puzzles to puzzles)
3- Geogre Summers

I wld like to thank my family for supporting me day in and day out (Specially my
Mom) ,and hope one day u will also bring smile on ur family’s face . Best wishes from
my side

hi friends....i m mohammad asif.doing B.Tech in cse from G.N.D.U.

asr,punjab..............................first of all i would like to thnx freshersworld for providing
me the ryt path to crack the infy............the test was on 10th april .it was a joint campus
and around 800 students participated..........................

NOTE- students who dont clear the infy test for the first time r not allowed to sit within 9
months after test.......................so prepare well........

TEST PATTERN-
APTITUDE .........30 Q(40 MINS)
( Data sufficiency-5q,
Syllogism-5q,
puzzle test-5q,
Data interpretation-5q,

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series-5q,(five figures given and we have to fing the next figure...........do first chapter of
3rd section of rs aggrawals verbal n nonverbal)

NOTE- for aptitude plz refer "R.S.AGGRAWAL'S VERBAL AND NON VERBAL"
(DS,SYYLOGISMS,PUZZLE TEST,SERIES) for DI..........refer r.s.aggrawal..quant
aptitudes last section..................

ENGLISH------40 Q(35 MINS)

(SENTENCE CORRECTION TYPE Q,CHOOSING GRAMTICALLY CORRECT
SENTENCES,and two long comprehension passages)

sample questions u can find in sahils experience ...from amritsar....

NOTE--- try to attempt passages at last as they were very lengthy...........and if attempted
then.just read the questions first and then go for the answers ........it will save
time.............

INTERVIEW-
NOTE-- if u clear the written test then 80% of ur work has been done and the rest
depends on ur interview......

tips--ALWAYS BE CONFIDENT IN INTERVIEW....AS THEY

BASICALLY TEST THE CONFIDENCE LEVEL OF THE CANDIDATES.........

my interview-
INTERVIEWER(IW)- have a seat.
me- thankyou sir.
me- yes sir.
iw- humm ..........i ma great fan of yours........
me- thank you sir ...............i know he is the fast bowler of pakistan cricket team..............
iw- (laughs..........)
iw- so will u take me through ur resume?
me- answered well...............(including my family ,educational backgroung,including my
hobbies)
iw-so r u a bowler?(as i told him that cricket is my hobby)
me- sir i m an allrounder.
iw- at which level u have played?
me- sir i have played national level cricket twice ..........(dont say ur hobby as playing
cricket unless u have not played at any level)
iw- so what do u think abt the early exit of indian team from world cup?
me-.......gave a reasonable answer........................(with utmost confidence)
iw- (after seeing my resume.........).......so u have not applied for army?(as my father is in
army)
me-.sure sir ,...............but didnt cleared the ssb interviews...........
iw- how u see urself as an employee of infosys?
me-.......gave a solid answer (.try to impress him ..........and show him that u r very eager

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to join infosys.)
iw- how u prepared yesterday for infosys?
me-.....described well.......................
iw-ok ..................tell me the five uses of a cricket bat...............apart from
playing..........................
me-...........told four......................and the last one was little hillarious---------(sir it can
also be used to put a puzzle on someone as u r doing ryt now...........)
iw-(laughs loudly.........) ...................................(i was sure on that time that i m a selected
student)
iw-u want to ask me anything?
me-.........sir actually the ppt was not clear so i want to know more abt ur company(.as an
online ppt was going on
iw-ok u can go..................then our result were announced at 1 am.........and i was one of
the selected candidate.....

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL AT GHAZIABAD

Hi, everyone preparing for INFOSYS. here i would try 2 give u the whole question paper
and also an insight of the Hr round.

CRIETERIA:- 65% in 10,12,B.Tech/MCA with a relaxation in any one from

10,12,B.Tech/MCA.

PRESENTATION
At about 10 a.m the ppt. started which was nice. It provided the whole intro of the
company which followed an audio+video presentation too n that was really awesome. U
have to fill a form before taking the wriiten test in which u have 2 fill in ur personel
details and also the aggrgate marks out of the total marks along with the % of
10,12,B.Tech/MCA. So I advice u to keep ur documents handy as u hav 2 fiil in a lot of
details.

Keep a passport colour photograph also as its attached in the form.

WRITTEN TEST
Prepare the following things 4 cracking Infosys paper(Analytical)All is in R.S Agarwal
Verbal n Non-Verbal and D.I. in Aptitude R.S.

1st paper is of following(35 ques.)

1. Data Interpretation(2 ques.)
2. Picture Series(5 ques.)
3. Data Sufficiency(5 ques.)
4. Syllogism(5-6 ques.)

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5. Logical Reasoning(1 ques.)

6. Puzzles from R.S.Agarwal Verbal n Non-Verbal

2nd paper is of English (40 ques. Total)

1. 2 passages (10 ques.)
2. Fill in the blanks
3. Sentence Corrections.

Time is really very less 4 eng. paper so start it from back and do the passages afterwards.
No Negative marking in both papers.
Some of the questions I remember are:-
Q1. 2 friends hired a piece of land and invested money in ratio of 3:1. They harvested
coconuts and lemon in ratio of 2:1.Lemon trees were 100. In 1996 the profit was
28,000.In 1998, it was 5% of the total amount(I dont rem. it full). (Aptitude R.S.)
5 ques. followed it
Q2. 4 figures and next was to be found which completed the series.(R.S Agarwal
Verbal n Non-Verbal )
Q3. Data Sufficiency of Mathematical types.
Q4. Ram,Shyam,Rajesh r frnds.They r engg. ,doctor ,teacher not in that order. they
married Ria ,Sita,Gita not in that order
(5 ques. followed. very easy one) (R.S Agarwal Verbal n Non-Verbal )
Q5. Syllogisms All cloud is white No sky is blue. 4 These type of ques. just learn
the 9 rules and u will certainly do it. ( R.S Agarwal Verbal n Non-Verbal)

Now the Eng part

If u r good at eng. then u won't hav any probs doing it.Anyways if u could get some cat
material u may practice from it.

At our college result was declared at 5 p.m. and 138 were students qualified from nearly
450-500 students. I was also selected and the next round is HR. Remember there is no
Tech. round in it ,just a HR round.

HR ROUND
Generally it was a cool experience.Some of my frnds HR lasted 4 just 8-10 min.But mine
lasted for 35 min.Questions are:-
A- I told him but he said what else? Then I gave my family background. he asked what
else? I told my strengths.Again what else? My hobbies........What else?
Then I told him about my projects and said sir I think that's it.He smiled and said O.k. I
think he was testing my Patience and confidence.
Here I would like 2 tell that my tell me abt urself lasted for 18-20 min. but generally its
not so. But always expect d unexpected :-)

Q2. What good books hav u read in last 1 year?

Q3. How do ur enemies/friends describe u?
Q4. U hav mentioned in ur resume that u r creative giv me 2 examples

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Q5. 7 news of last 1 month?

Q6. In latest MCD polls how much did BJP and CONGRESS scored?
Q7. Why should I hire u?
Q8. Mergers in steel market(Tata-Chorus,Mittal-Arcelor)
Q9. Any other merger other than steel(Hutch -Vodafone)
Q10. Something u ask from me?
Q11. How did u felt when India lost to Bangladesh?
I don't remember but there were 2-3 more questions.

Learn all the states-capitals and names of imp.ministers of india and capitals of some
neighbouring countries and try to summarize news of last 1 month.

The result was declared at 11.15 p.m. and I was a lucky one to get selected. Through the
entire day and until the whole procedure was carried out till the result was declared a very
dear friend of mine stayed with me and prayed 4 my selection. I m very thankful to him
as without his support and motivation I wouldn't b able 2 believe in
myself. and......................yes he was also selected in Infosys.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL

hi friends... i m vikas bansal from B.Tech ECE 3rd year from G.N.D.U Main Campus
Amritsar.Infy visited Acet Amritsar nad we were also invited. They selected approx 120
candidates and i also got selected. Now i will share my experince with you.

Firstly they gave their PPT then written test Started at 12:00 noon. It consisted of 2
papers. first was reasoning. It consisted of 6 sections of 5 ques each and 30 ques to be
solved in 40 min.

It consisted of following Sections:-

1. Puzzle on classsification from RS agarwal.
2.Ques on finding next image from given sequence.
3. Data sufficiency.
4. Data Interptation.
5.Syllogism
6.Puzzle on Blood relation from RS Agrawal.

Next was English Test. In that there were 40 ques to be solved in 35 min.
1. 5 ques on long paragraph.
2. 5 ques on short paragraph.
3.7-8 ques on Filling the Blank/Completing sentence.
4. 7-8 ques on Sentense correction.

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5. 7-8 ques on deriving conclusions from given paragraph.

6. 5 ques on finding best alternative for underlined sentence.

i attempted 28 from 1st test and 35 from 2nd test and cleared test.

After that there was interview round. It was Very simple and just like One-to-one talk.
They asked simple ques like meaning of ur name, ur family background, ur city, ques on
ur hobbies and they asked puzzle to some candidates too.

Tips:- for written Prepare above chapters from Verb-non Verbal from Rs agarwal and
from Objective English too. for Interview Remain Confident, say with confident
whatever u say and keep smiling. while solving puzzle in interview don't hesitate, keep
on solving until they ask u to stop and give answer with confidence whether right or
wrong. No need to refer Shukantla devi for puzzles in written test bcoz pattern of Infy
has been changed. maintain eye contact too.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL

hello friends ,,,, i m sahil from g.n.d.u. i would like to thank the whole fresherworld
members and those who submitted there experiences and questions of exams they
appeared for,,, i will also like to thank all my friends and off-course my nears and
dears .,,,,,,

i gave infy. exam on 10th april in amritsar luckily i made through it...
a total of about 800 students gave the written test out of which only 143 were shortlisted
for interview and out of them 92 were declared placed.

Written test:
duration- 45 min
questions -30
the test was tough but can be cleared with not much trouble if one lays emphasis on time
management .....and off-course c2d policy can give help

Q 1-5 data interpretation (need presence of mind) i don't remember the full question but
it was almost like ----
gopal and mohan bought 2 types of trees lemon and coconut in the ratio 1:5
gopal spent 2 lacs in other thingd like levelling,labour etc,,they totally invested 12 lakhs
after they sold coconuts they got 5,00,000.as revenue ,,, total field was 5 hectares ,, and
the output of fields were in the ratio 2:3 ,,they sold a coconut for Rs.5 ques. were on to
find the number of coconuts , the number of lemons total revenue of lemon etc ....ths was
quite time consuming question

Q6-10images question five figures were given in each question ,, and we have to find the
6th of it from the options ,,(do it carefully)

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Q11-15data sufficiency(very easy)

one quest was :: is g+3>h+2?
1.g>0and h>0 2.cube of g >cube of h
these question test the basics of a person these can be simple quadratic equation to even
plus or minus questions...
Q16-20 a mix of data interpration and puzzle test (easiest ,,, mostly candidates did it
orally )mainly it was like puzzle test but a tabular data was given to give it data
interpretation type look,,,, i m sure everybody might have done it without much trouble

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

---------------------------------------------------
a 30 31 20 27 32
---------------------------------------------------
b
----------------------------------------------------
c
----------------------------------------------------
d
some data was given like that i don't remember exactly
1. brand for which shares increases 3 times in a row is called 'strogn brand '
2. almost same sentence as 1 with consistent brand
3.
4.
5.
6.
some data as same as 1st was given ,, questions was to find the most consistent brand, to
find the strongest brand..

Q20-25 puzzle test (tricky one)

ram ,lakhan and kishan are doctor,teacher and enggineer respectively ,, all are married
with wives sita, gita and radha not in the same order ,,also working and some conditions
were given such as
1.techer's wife also teaches
2.a secret affair of 2
3.
4.
5.
rest i can't remember sorry
the quest was to find -1who is doctor ,2 who is married to ram 3 who is martried to engg.
4. 5.aomething like that

Q26-30 syllogism (easy )

remember all nine rules given in R.S.Aggarwal verbal and non-verbal

the test can be cleared with ease and comfort but ensure that u keep it exactly in time ,,
first do syllogism 5 questions will be done in atmost 2 minutes thn do data sufficiency

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(these 2 sections are straight forward quetion with no link to each other hence max.
chance to get max. correct) then do puzzles as most students are strong in this region
atmost 5-7 minutes after wards do as u like to other questions as all other are more time
consuming

English : duratin-30 min question-40

English was basic but you have to be very careful
Q1-5 a big reading comprehension (need a lot of concentration)
Q6-10 reading comprehension but not so big
rest i don't remember the sequence
some 5 questions were on sentence correction (be careful ,all options are almost
alike )you have to gramatically strong to get on these one's

soem 5 questions were on inference ,,( deduce wht the paragraph say)
i remember one was like ---- jim corbett was a famous tiger hunter ,he went to some
forest in search a girl whom a tiger has taken with it ,, when he got to the tiger, he was
with a colie,,, tiger has just finished eating the girl ,, despite of seeing jim corbett the
tiger did't moved ,,,
options were lik
1' tiger was used to see jim corbett
2' animals unlike humans are not greedy and kill only when they are hungry
3' tiger was scared of jim corbett's colie (a name was given a don;t remember)
4'

other questins were grammer like fill in the blanks with appropriate words ,, etc i can't
remember more queations sorryyyyyy

Interview
interview was simple and could be easily cleared unless you create a havoc or do some
blunder inside the cabin tips--- they were least interested in percentage , so don;t fear
even if you are in relaxation category ,, they did't even saw mine file ,, just asked for
copy of my resume , so keep an extra copy of resume with you and also they will make
you sign a attendane sheet , so have a pen of you,, (it doesn't look nice when you ask
them for pen)
i entered
interviewer(s) -- so have a seat
me-- thank you sir
s-so ...... sahil, sign it here
me-yes sir (and i took out my pen and signed where he said)
s-can you tell me the president of west-indies
me-sir, i hav in my information ,that west indies is not ruled and some islands have
joined ... collaborated to make one west indies and they do not hav a single leader
s-excellent , not many students hav got it so far
me-thank you , sir.
how many centimetres go for an inch?
me- sir, two and a half

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s-good
me thank you, sir
me- told( be precise,, specially if you belong to bussiness family )
s-(he looked on resume and....excited to see cricket in my hobbies )
cricket,
me-yes sir
s-so which big event on cricket in going on these days?
me -sir, world cup is on
s-can you tell me who mada the fastest century this time?
me-(i as not watching matches for last some days but i knew about mathew hayden a little
bit) sir, mathew hayden , in 66 no 67 balls.(still am not sure 66 or 67 or 65 wht is it )
s- who is the leading wicket taker?
me-sir, actually i m not follwing the matches for last 10-20 days,so i don't have any
s- (he saw my percentage and asked me ) are you sure you got the exact %age ,is it exact
what you hav mentioned here.. we are selectring you on these details , nothing should be
fake (i think he tried me on with my confidence here)
me- (i was scared a lot at ths point but somehow i managed to say.. )yes sir, i m sure ,,
only a difference of some fractions can be there but itcannot not be that much which can
change or my eligibility.
s-ok,sign it here(he mede me sign on tht form under my %age )
me -yes sir(i signed)
s-tell me the currency of china?
me-sir, yen.
s- tell me currency of japan?
me - sir, i don't hav any idea .
s- yen is the currency of japan nad yawn is of china.
me -thank you ,sir(i think he liked this thing )
s- tell me currency of france?
me -sir , i don't hav any idea
s-three big indian deals hav been signed in recent past , name them?
me -sir, arcelor mittal
s- is that an indian deal ?
me - no sir ,sorry sir,, it is tata chorus
sir,i can't remember any other now.
s-who is the prsident of india?
me-sir, he is Dr,A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
s- ok sahil; you can leave now
me -than you sir

(i think he basically looked on general awareness ,even my answers were not ful correct ,
and he also might have noticed i only told which i got inmind straight away ,, be it arcelor
mittal deal, or yen ,, but he corrected me with that and imediately i also regretted for i
was wrong,, i think he liked this thing )
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together went to give the exam all cleared written exam ,, and three made it to placement
but unfortunately a friend of our's couldn't make it through the interview,, please pray for
him that he also getplaced as soon as possible

hi friends... my name is manohar...

Firstly..i have to thank the Freshersworld site which not only gave the patterns of the
paper,but gave me the confidence of attending the campuses.. and the candidates
experience's..which made me mentally prepare for exam...thanq for the team of
freshersworld...

i have attended the Infosys Off campus drive dat was conducted at KIET...the criteria was
65,65 and 68 in 10th,12th,PG... and no errears in academic.... Around 600 were attended
the written at 11am and ended at 12:30....

Hey Guys....the pattern of infosys exam has changed..its like..2 papers...one is fully
aptitude,logical and simple reasoning...the 2nd one is purely English...which was very
tough..bcoz u have less time...

By GOD's GRACE i have cleared the written...and the results of written were released at
3:00pm and gave the time slots for interview...i was very tensed....about the
interview..bcoz..the company is like that. about 120 students cleared the written..

i was one of them.... i have got a call for interview...and went into the room where the HR
executive is sitting.... first i asked him the permission..he told to come in..
1)i went inside and wished him and in response he wished me too and told me to sit..and
gave a shake hand.. he asked me CV and i gave it.. the HR sir was very very very cool.....
it was about 8:30pm....he offered me fruits..i said thanq...and he told me to eat a piece of
apple..so that he cud start the interview.
2)i ate n he gave me some topics and to thnk for a minute and the speak on the topic for a
minute..i chose one and spoke on it.
3)then he asked me 2 puzzles....i tried the first one but didnt get the answer..then he gave
another one and i have done it perfectly...
4)then he asked if i were a team leader and a guy in my team was not working well..then
wat wud u do? i answered....
5)then he asked ..that i was staying in room which was on 3rd floor and suddenly fire was
put up..then wat r the 3 thngs u'll take and u have only 2 minutes... i answered...
for the first puzzle he asked me.
he told dat im the last person dat day he is interviewing.. and again he gave a shake hand
and i thanked him adn he wished me good luck and again i thanked him for offering me
the fruits...he told welcome...

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i came out...with cool mind... this was the process for my interview...i was told that my
results will b through mail in 2-3 weeks...

I WAS SPENDING MINUTES LIKE DECADES AND WAITING FOR

RESULTS...AND PRAYING ONLY TO GOD...HE PUT IN TEST ..IN INTERVIEW
AND HOPE IN "INFOSYS"...

i hope my experience can mentally help u... and dont forget to pray about me...b coz
some day..u'll get the chance of praying...GOD's THERE watching every moment of
us...do good ...b good...All the Best..

INFOSYS PAPER ON 8th APRIL AT DELHI

hi all..... i appeared for the test on 8th april,2007 at cambridge foundation school,new
delhi........my experience was really unusual........i reached the test centre one hour before
the scheduled time.....after half an hour three or four students walked in....i was of the
view that....there must be around 1000 students( as i had gone through diff candidates
expe.) but was astonished to c that we were just 7 students who had to appear for the
test.....n a staff of around 14-15 were standing to welcome us....they were gossiping n
same were we doing...as both the parties were surprised...as infy had send call letters to
1700 students....may be that was my luck that just 7 reached there......we took the
test.....analytical part was very easy....it had 6 questins with 5 internal questions.......

1). data interpretation...:: in this question few missing figures were there in the table.....n
hints were given to find them...then 5 questions were there on that data......it was bit
tricky...may be i had not much time to solve that ...otherwise...it was easy....

2) there were 5 questions based on figures...like 5 figures were given we had to find the
missing figure from the options...it was easy...n i think it depends on how cool minded u r
at that point of time....otherwise it doesnt need practice....

3) there were 5 syllogisms...most of them were from RS aggarwal.....

4) again data interpretation....based on sale of food items...it was an easy one .....this
again was a simple table....no graphical data was there....

5) there was puzzle...it was also easy......

6)data sufficiency : it was mathematical questions based....but i would like to tell u...that
RS aggarwal is more than sufficient.....many people advised me to do times material...or
cl...but i think once you solve RS aggarwal fully...its more then sufficient...ya what u
wont get in RS agggrwal is DI questions...for that saolve few from any cat material...ya
for data sufficiency....solve mathematics based data sufficiency...questions....

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next english paper was very lengthy...it had two passages...leave them for last....then error
finding,incorrect sentences,choose the correct option kinds question were
there.....remember to be calm through out....don't loose patience....remember it doesnot
have negative marking so if anything is left out...you can make guesses also.....just keep
track of your speed.......my advise will be that when few days r left 4 exam...just set
timers 4 forty minutes n try to solve 40 questions...i mean just practice to work fast.....

after the test we were asked to wait 4 half an hour.....all of us were in a very strange
state...coz we were very few...n were not clear what would be the criteria of short
listing...suddenly...a gentleman walked in our room n called my name....i was not atall
prepared for what was going to happen next...n to my surprise he took me to a
room....where my interview started.....it was without notice...in a hurry i switched off my
mobile...they were sitting in a class room...so atmosphere was also not suggestive....i
wished them...they started with...tell us about yourself...told

then my strengths....where did i show my leadership skills in real time scenario....all of

the sudden one of them started taking my technical...that was again a shock...as i was a
fresher...n that too unexperienced...i had done msc stats....n he was also 4m stas
backgroung...so i was caught....anyhow i managed...then there was bombardment of
mixed questions...technical as well as hr.....then they gave me a vicarious situation and
asked me to add innovations...i did...atlast they said that i ll be intimated within 2 or three
weeks.....i thanked them and came our...few other staffmembers were standing there... i
asked them about other candidates they said only i was shortlisted...that was again a
surprise....then they told us that test will again be conducted there on 15th april for those
called 1700 students as they didnt get call letters.....thank god i was saved........now lets
see what happens.......i m just praying to GOD that everything ends well.....coz ours
situation was really strange....i dont know whether they will consider our test or not....just
pray 4 me please...all the best to all of you...trust yourself you ll do it... i was also very
phobic about the test....but its not actually that tough...remember its based on CAT style
but not difficult as that....so trust yourself.......u can do it.....and for interview....dont cram
anything...just be clear what to say ...let it come direct from ur heart...coz thaey people r
experienced ...n will rightly judge if u have cramed anything.......dont lie anywhere...be
honest.....no body can beat you then......they just see how confident you are n how honest
you are...all the best

INFOSYS PAPER ON 6th APRIL , Agra

Hi friends,

Tips:
1) crack wriiten test with a good score there is no chance for cheating because infosy will
not allow u to do that as they have there pannel to conduct the exam ur collage have no
role on it.
2) Have ur Acedemic records over 70%(u r eligible to sit if u hv 65% in C.B.S.E or 60%

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in state board)it really matters at the time of interview.

3) Be Confidant n dont lie them.

On pool campus derive of infosy on 5th April out of 962 students 203 had successfuly
cracked the written paper in which 44 r from our college (I.E.T Agra)

The test is conducted under two sections:

(A) The analytical reasoning part(40 min & 30 questions)
(B) English usage (30 min & 40questions)

Infosys is following the cat pattern and is concentrating on the candidates time
management, general aptitude And vocablury.

(1)English paper was tough one but conains questions from our daily English usage,a
person with average english speaking skills have to work more in this section, no
antonyms ,synonyms were asked so no need learn those from barons for infy atleast. it
consis to two passage one is easy n other is not so easy as it was too long so preferable do
it at last. there are some question to correct the sentance n like this be prepeared for ur
gramatical skill if u r lacking it in urs than forget abt infy, so start prepearing for it frm a
good grammer book like wren n martin.

(2) Analytical portion was quite easy one only u have to think abt is for time managment
i will suggest u to do Data intepretations at last. there r questions frm missing figure n
odd man out like this.u just refer too R.S.Agarwaal it will help u to crack it.

On next day (6th April)all shortlisted candidate r asked to report at the college at 10 am
sharp for college wise interview. The interview was really cool one there are 13 pannels
who r taking the interviews of 13 different students at one time. they simply want to
judge ur speaking n communication ability,so if u r good on that then there is abt 90%
chance of getting shortlisted in final list.

on my interview they simply ask question frm my resume espessialy frm my hobbies so
be prepeared for it with a good example. for example if ur hobbie is listening music then
u must know what type of music n who is the singer of tht music who composed the song

at 5 pm sharp they announsed the result out of 203 the final list consist of 122 sucessful
candidates(including me).
From our college I.E.T agra we 27 students are finally got selected and i thanx to all my
teachers n friends who coperated with us.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 6th APRIL AT BANGALORE

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Hi …
Infosys visited BIT on April 6th 2007 and I got thru…
Here I’m giving you the details abt the test and all u wanted to knw…

DETAILS
1) As of now Infy is offering 2.7 p.a. They said tat there are 90% chances of increasing
the pay to a max of 3.0 p.a.
2) Infy has a bond for 1 yr.
3) The training is at Mysore
4) If you are not selected then you cannot write for Infy for a period of 9 months

ELIGIBILITY
I think it is 65% in 10th, 12th n BE with a 5% relaxation in any one…

PROCEDURE

STEP 1:
PPT
The PPT is for abt 90 min..
Go through the company website on the day before…collect all the relevant details and
make a note…it will be much easier for u to follow the PPT..
Make a note of the HR’s name..
Be prepared to answer questions like “Why Infosys?” or “What do u knw abt Infosys?” in
the HR round…

STEP 2
FILLING OF THE APPLICATION FORM
You will have to fill an application form…make sure u fill it accurately…
Take 2 recent passport size photographs (imp)
The form will include the following details …
1)Personal details
Like name, address, phone no etc
2) Family details
Like name n occupation of parents..
3) Educational background
Like marks, university, month n yr of passing..
U will have to include all languages, pracs, and optionals in the total
And avg is calculated as
Total marks obtained in all sems/total max marks
4) Other details like
Vision: It is 6/6 for normal vision
Major Illness + date: write NA if not applicable
References of people working at Infosys : if any

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You get 30 min to fill the application form

STEP 3:
TEST OF ARITHMETIC REASONING AND ANALYTICAL THINKING
30 QUESTIONS
45 MINUTES

We had 5 sections each with 5 divisions

1) Puzzle based on direction sense…easy
Something like…
P,Q,R and S are standing at the 4 corners of a square…n/w ,n/e,s/w n s/e respectively…
N something like…If P and R move one and a half distance in the clockwise
direction…Q and S one n a half in the anticlockwise direction then in
which direction is P with respect to S…something like tat
All the sub questions were based on the similar pattern

2) Figure Completion….tricky…a little tough

5 figures in a series were given n we had to find the missing figure
It was a little tough …try n go through RS Aggarwal Verbal n Non Verbal Reasoning to
get a hang of these kinds of questions..

3) Data Sufficiency….easy
A question was given followed by 2 statements We had to mark
1) If the first statement alone was enough to answer the question
2) If the second statement alone was enough to answer the question
3) If the both the statements were required to answer the question
4) If the question cld not be answered using both the statements
5) If either statement alone was sufficient to answer the question

A little practice from RS Aggarwal Verbal n Non Verbal or any CAT material will help u

4) Data Interpretation….questions were direct but need quick calculations

We were given a table tat had the info abt the sales of 3 companies A,B n C for different
years..1990 to 1998..
The total sales n price/unit was given..
We had to calculate stuff like
1) avg price/unit of company C
2) the percentage increase in the no. of units produced by Company A from 1991 to
1992
3) the year in which the no. of units produced by Company C decreased a second time
4) The year in which maximum no of units were produced…something like tat
The price/unit was given in decimals like 3.4 n the sales something like 501 etc.. hence
there was a lot of division to do…try to approximate the values n calculate wherever
comparison is involved… Practise from RS Aggarwal Quantitative Aptitude ..try timing
ur self…

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5) Puzzle based on Blood Relations…easy

A family with members A,B,C,D,E and F….2 married couples…3 females…n the
relations among them were given…
N questions like..Which of the following pairs represents a married couple?Etc were aske

Draw a family tree…it’ll help u answer the questions

6)Logical deductions
In this section abt 5 statements were given n we had to find out which of them were
logically related…
These were not the usual syllogism(all,some etc) type..
It was more like..
a) T is taller than Q
b) R and S are of the same height
c) T is taller than S
d) R is shorter than T
e) Some other statement

Which of these are logically related?

Others had statements like The avg salary was increased by 15%...etc
I think it is best to go with the answer options n choose the most appropriate one…

STEP 4:VERBAL 40 QUESTIONS 30 MIN

You get 2 comprehensions both were quite simple…but do the comprehensions at the
understanding each statement…u can easily answer the questions 5 in each
10 Sentence Completion
4 statements almost the same but with some difference..mark the one which is
grammatically correct..look for spelling mistakes..grammar errors etc…
10 questions based on choose the best option to replace the underlined part..
Simple paragraphs were given n questions were asked like which of these statements can
be inferred from the para, which is false according to the para etc…

STEP 5: HR INTERVIEW
In the HR round u are basically asked abt ur self, ur résumé. There are no tech questions
They also ask puzzles…u need not solve them..they only look at ur approach..

1) Tell me abt ur self
2) If u were to organize an activity in our company that is fun, stressful and involves
physical activity wat wld u organize n how wld u go abt doing
it??
3)Abt any project or computer course tat I had attended

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4) Any questions??

They hardly eliminated people in the HR..it is enough if u speak confidently..

Getting thru Infy is not tough at all…If ur good with ur Apti n have a good command
over English its enough..

INFOSYS PAPER ON 5th APRIL , TUMKUR

hi friends i appeared for infosys campus selection on 5th april 2007.....though i dont
remember all the ques but some information about my test and interview may help u
there were two papers

1.)analytical and logical reasoning-around 35 ques(no aptitude).....very easy

ones...including 5 data interpretation questions....some questions on figures....4 figures
were given and the next in series was to be found....(they were from R.S aggarwal verbal
non-verbal) questions on puzzels(R.S aggarwal verbal non-verbal).....
eg.. there are 6 buses making trip of 4 hrs....from monday to friday....1st bus starts at
8a.m and 2nd follows it after 45 min..third follows 2nd after 30 min sat nd sunday they
start at 7.30a.m...and each follows after 30 mins......(i dont remember the rest) then 5
ques were there like if 1st bus started 1 hr late which bus will be about to leave when
first rteturns back....

few questions were....of logically related sentences....

a.) eggs are rich in protein
b.) breakfast should include proteins
c.) lunch should not include proteins
d.) one should have eggs in breakfast
e.) breakfast is not necessary part of diet.
which of the above sentences are logicaaly relate
1.)b,a,d
2.)a,c,d
3.)e.a.b

similar 5-7 questions were thr very easy ones...

data interpretation do at end....and if u r sure of accuracy of other questions u may leave
few in that cos they r quite time taking..... i dint do them just guessed two of them few
question from data sufficiency... very easy......sorry i dont remember them......was busy
in solving

2.)english ...two passages ....no antonym synonyms......some fill in the blanks.......short

passages u have to choose one sentence tht inferred to the meaning of passage there was

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no technical interview.....only hr.....people from infosys are very cool and friendly....they
may ask few puzzles from shakuntala devi.....

they may ask all about u....they want to see how good u r in expressing urself......

INFOSYS PAPER ON 3rd APRIL

The paper format was same as provided for other off campuses in 2007.The company
changes its pattern into objective type contrary with last year's.It was as follows:

LOGICAL PART::(30 QUESTIONS 40 MINUTES)

1.a simple puzzle from R.S aggarwal on Position of books.....5 subparts...
2.syllogism...5 subparts......practice well from R.S.A the format of question may be little
entwined.
3.D.I ...very simple one...5 parts
4.data sufficiency......prepare from M.tyra or abhijit guha...as in R.S aggarwal the
approach is not mathematical......
5.another puzzle ......a lengthy one.......
6.5 very simple figures...next find ones...all based on clockwise acw appproach..........r.s
agg is more den enough........

ENGLISH:(40 QUESTIONS 30 MINS)

1.PASSAGE...AND 5 QUESTIONS......
2.GRAMMATICAL PORTIONS :about 20 QUESTIONS ON TENSES AND
CORRECTIONS.......
3.AGAIN A PASSAGE........5 QUESTIONS

AFTER 2 OR 3 HOURS OU RESULT FOR WRITTEN CAME..............I DIDN'T

QUALIFIED......BUT SURELY U CAN.....JUST PREPARE AND GIVE UR BEST
SHOT...........

I am Priyesh Mishra student of CS 3rd yr BSACET, Mathura . I am glad to inform you

that I placed in Infosys.
Reporting time was 8am but as usual ppt started at 10.30 for 1 hour. After ppt , test was
started at 11.55. before test there was a general form that will take 35 mins. There were
round about 700 students appeared out of which 91 cleared for HR round and finally
there was an unexpected result -- only 45 got selected(usually infy doesn’t rejects that
much in HR). test was over at 1.15 n result of written was announced at 4pm. Selected
students r called on next day ie 4th April for HR at 8am..

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REASONING 6 sections --- 30 ques --- 5 ques in each section --- 35 mins.

Section 1. Simple Puzzle—

6 books – economics, English, Sanskrit, bio, phys, chem. – total pages of few books were
given – order English book is first place from bottom having pg 476 Something like
that ……. Easy one.

Section 2. Figure series 5qs. Bit tricky….R.S.Agr(sec 3) more than suff.

Section 3. Data Sufficiency 5qs. Very easy ….R.S.Agr more than suff.

Section 4. Data Interpretation 2 figures — line and chart graph of a coal industry.
Attempt at last with open mind 2-3 right ans in this section wil make a grt difference

Section 5. Tough Puzzle – time consuming – complicated – confusing….but don’t make

pure guesses try to extract answers.

Section 6. Very Easy Logic – 5qs -- ….R.S.Agr (Chapter LOGIC)more than suff.

After 5 min gap you wil get English paper

40 ques --- 30 mins --- DECIDING FACTOR
2passages, error rectification , substitution in sentences with correct option …………..

i was first one to my HR, male – cool person but tried to pressurize me at initial stage.
HR- tell me abt urself
Me- told
Hr given me a situation that if u r a bank manager and a MLA forces u to do a illegal
loan ,then wot would I do?
Me – I wil not do it and I wil report the incident to my seniors etc etc(show ur
confidence bcoz HR definitely wil make cond more critical don’t
alter ur ans at any cost)
Hr given me again a situation if u alone in house n it catches fire etc et
Here also don’t alter ur ans .
Also PREPARE curr affair, currencies, capitals,…
General qs like ur strength n weakness with practical examples, why infy, why we hire u
etc…

Exhibit all your qualities in your ans it creates a grt impression . confidence is must ,
smiling face…
At last I like to thanx fresherworld.com n, students who subm der exp., my GF,
friends…don’t lose hope as b4 infy I was even unable to clear the apti of 4-5 companies.
Have faith in GOD.

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INFOSYS PAPER ON 3rd APRIL AT NOIDA

hi frends..........i attended campus selection process of infosys here at NIET gr. noida on
3rd april.........firstly they give ppt............in wriiten there are two sections....now coz
selection process has changed a lot......
1) Reasoning 30 ques. 40 min
2) English 40 ques.35 min.

i think both the sec has separate cut off.....so be careful frends........
reasoning was easy.......ques werefrom deductive reasoning,puzzle test dat given in rs
agrawal...,DI.........they ask either pie chart or line graph ....i got line graph as well as bar
graph....and 5 ques were from non verbral series........dat is u have to predict the next
figure.......

around 622 students appeared for the test from 8-9 different college.......and finally they
took jus 91 in wriiten........thank i was also thr....and this is my 6th trial....earlier i
apperaed for ustech,i-GATE,birlasoft,convergys,syntel.....i could not clear even
written.....so iw as very upset..bt my advice is dont worry jus do hard work and wait for
ue day.....and have faith in god.....

our interview was on 4 april....i reached thr at 8:30 am.....i was called for my turn around
12:30 pm......i ws a bit nervous....as it was my first interview....
iwas last from my college to give interview....thr were around 8-10 different HR taking
interview....
as i entered the room i said good afternoon sir..
he checked my documents.....then he asked me to describe myself..
some qoes were ....y u want to join infy...since my father has a sares business at
varanasi....then he went to ask abt my family.......
he also gave me 2 puzzles..to solve
1) (ABCD)*D =DCBA..you have to find a,b,c,d.....
2)abc=def find ther values all r between 1-9.....

though i couldn't solve...but i was trying........then i said sorry sir......

he asked how u have cleared written.......i said by own....he was smiling........
then finally he said to ask any ques...
then he shaked hand with me ans said alll the best............
i ws thinking i may get through...........

and i was also thr......thanks to god.....

this site was very helpful to me............plz see all latest pattern before going for any

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campus selection...

Place: Bhubaneswar , Orissa

By: Sundeep Kumar Mallick

Before going to give written test they gave a presentation on their Organisation.When U
will see that presentation then u'll become more desperate to do job their.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
1]written:
two papers: Reasoning & English(Having different cutoff) This time pattern was changed
from puzzles to reasoning.

Reasoning:30Qns in 40mins
Blood relation,playing card,on-verbal reasoning,Datasufficency(based on aptitudes),Data
Interpretation,

English:40Qn in 30mins
3 long passages(wastage of time),Grammar(easy)
NO NEGATIVE MARKING WAS THERE

2]PI(HR)
->Are u strong in Math (As I had solved all most all reasoning part)?
->Explain how our voice goes from one place to other through our telephone.
->Explain both for analog & digital signal.
->Which method of transmission is better- Data cable or Tower?
->Why we are using tower mostly?
->he gave me an aptitude to solve me based on percentage.
->Tell interesting news of previous year.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 24th MARCH

Hi Friends, I am Sourav Kundu, 3rd Year Computer Science and Engineering, from
Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, Bankura and I am proud to be so. I have got
selected in Infy through a pooled campusing and I want all of u to be my Friend there.

At the Very Beginning let me make u very clear about the fact that the Ques pattern of
Infy have changed totally, and to some extent puzzles free. Their will be a single set.
First Part Reasoning:- It consisted of 6 sections of 5 ques each and 30 ques to be solved
in 40 min.

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It consisted of following Sections:-

1. Puzzle on classification from RS agarwal.
2.Ques on finding next image from given sequence.
3. Data sufficiency.
4. Data Interptation.
5.Syllogism
6.Puzzle on Blood relation from RS Agrawal

Puzzles were of Type:..... A,B,C,D,E three persons having dogs Jim,Con,Tom.... having
freinds X,Y,Z,F,G and their doctors were h,j,k,l,v........etc.

Five condition were given like:- Jim is not A's dog, Y is D's Friend....etc.
Now Five Questions were their from the above hints.It was very time killing and I did it
at the end.

Data interpretation was a Pie chart along with a table.It was fairly very easy.
100% can be scored from Data Sufficiency part: include ages,average,Time dist,Blood
Relation.
The rest sections were easy too, preparing R.S. Aggarwal will be more than enough.

Second Part English:-

Next was English Test. In that there were 40 ques to be solved in 35 min.

1. 5 long paragraphs including Comprehension.

2. 5 short paragraphs.
3.7-8 ques on Filling the Blank/Completing sentence.
4. 7-8 ques on Sentense correction.
5. 7-8 ques on deriving conclusions from given paragraph.
6. 5 ques on finding best alternative for underlined sentence.

7. 6-7 ques of Type Like:---- All bangles are ring,all rings are not diamond,...etc
Then which of the Statements are correct:- All rings are Diamond....etc.

Paragraphs were too big, I didn't have much from the paragraphs, one of the was on
Evalution of OS,Windows,Dos,Macintosh,etc. Sentence correction part,etc. were too easy.
Catagory &. as stated above can be scored fully.

PPT:- 0ne hour, It was excellent.

HR Interview:-
It was one of the most easiest round and eliminating too....Once you get nervous, you are
gone...

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I entered the room with a wonderful smile and the person came out of his seat and
aplauded me heavily saying "What a wonderful smile Gentleman". I almost got through
at the First site.

They may give U small brain teasers,like I was given:-- I ate 100 rasgullas for the past 5
days, each day i ate 6 rasgullas more than the previous day. 2day is the 5th day and i have
completed 100 sweets.How many did i eat yesterday.

The are definitely going to ask U to speak on Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for 2mins. Then I
was asked to compare him with Daud Ibrahm.

At the middle he told me that "You haven't impressed me. I give you a last chance, you
have 2 mins, now impress me".My communication was very good, I have given all the
questions confidently. So I understood he was trying to make me nervous. But I then
boomeranged him with a puzzle and he said "Bravo, Bravo...".
From small questions they will go on testing your presence of mind. No trace of technical
is there in the whole procedure.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 26th MARCH ,TRICHY

Hai friends,
First of all i thank this website for helping me a lot for getting selected in infosys.I
attended this campus interview in 26th march 2007 in saranathan engg college trichy and
i got selected one among the 125 students. Totally 1250 students participated in this
interview and 200 students cleared the aptitude test and finally 125 students got selected.

The aptitude part consists of data sufficiency, data interpretation, figure series, logical
questions. My suggestion is please go through the non verbal reasoning by R.S.Aggarwal.
It is enough for you. During the exam please be relax don't be tensed . It is of 30 minutes.

The another part is the verbal part it consists of two paragraphs with
questions,phrases,tenses,fill in the blanks with appropriate words and some more i forgot
those. It is of 40 minutes.

The second round is the HR interview and it is very easy. They expect the good
communication skill and be bold. Don't be nervous and they gave some puzzles and
asked me to try out. If you don't know the answer don't worry try hard to find out the
answer until they asked you to stop. They give me one situation and asked me how u
will solve it and you have to tell how u solve it.

The HR questions include,

1.Introduce yourself

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2.ask some questions regarding the details given in the resume

5.some technical questions
7.give some puzzles
8.significance of the birth place
9.give situation and ask us how to solve that

Hi frz.. I am Reekodipto (REEK’) from College Of Engineering & Management

Kolaghat.

My experience… It was a long journey from KOLKATA. We reached the venue by 7:30.
The PPT was supposed to start at 9:30 but it was delayed to 10:20 when finally the HR

The PPT was of a duration of more than an hour, which made most of us restless. Around
10 colleges participated and around 1200 students turned up for the occasion. But as the
cut off was declared, around 500 were eliminated.

So friends please heed to the criterion very well. Even a one mark short or a 0.1 % short
was not entertained by any means.
The cut off was as follows…
ICSE / ISC / CBSE --- 65% throughout. (All 6 Subjects).
WB Board --- 720/1200 (H.S).
Other Boards --- 65% throughout.
B.Tech --- 65% or 6.5 (average).
Diploma Holders should have 65% in class 10, 65% in B.Tech and 65% in any one in
Class-12 or in their diploma results; whichever is higher can be considered. However
there was a 5% relaxation for all in one of the examinations except for Diploma Holders
and WB Boards.
So please be careful with the eligibility criterion & note it well when INFOSYS
announces the same.

APTITUDE TEST :
One student in the PPT asked Padma about the cut off in the aptitude test but she blindly
refused to utter a single word about that, instead she said, “ It is strictly Confidential and
under no circumstances we will declare the cut off ”.

The Paper comprises of two parts – firstly the logical reasoning part, which was of a
duration of 40 minutes and secondly the English part was of a duration of 30 minutes.
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photograph. You will not get the TWO PAPERS together. Only after the completion of
the stipulated time, you will get the next paper.

The Logical reasoning part was a bit difficult. Also you have to manage your time very
well. Don’t waste too much time for a single question.
There were two puzzles, one was easy and another one was a 20 variables puzzle, which
many of my friends couldn’t solve. I don’t know how I manage to solve it. The puzzles
was not of the R.S. Aggarwal standard. It was quite difficult. I solved almost all puzzles
from R.S. Aggarwal but neither of them was of that standard. But if you proceed in the
correct manner, I don’t think it will be difficult to solve. Remember well to use the rough
sheet as during evaluations, they make check your rough sheet.

There was one problem from blood relations, which was easy. There were 5 picture series,
which were of below standard. I think this everybody has done it correctly. Then there
was a problem from PIE CHARTS, but it was too confusing but not difficult. Read the
question very well before answering. There were 5 syllogisms, which comprises of 5
different interpretations for each. You have to choose the correct option. For this you can
practice from R.S.Aggarwal. But the laws there given never went into my head.

The second paper is the English aptitude. This comprises of two comprehensions, which
was too lengthy. The best way to solve this in quick time is to go through the questions
first and then try to find the answer from the comprehension. Because if you start reading
the whole comprehension, be rest assured that you are not clearing the aptitude test of
INFOSYS. You can try it out. The other questions were from sentence completion, fill in
the blanks with an appropriate word, preps etc. This section was very easy to score.

I being a student from ISC board, didn’t find any difficulties in solving the English
section, but some of my friends who have come from Bengali medium, found the paper
to be a difficult one.
The results were declared after 3 hours. Out of around 800, only 95 cleared in the
aptitude test and 22 cleared from my college. Luckily I was one of them.

PERSONAL INTERVIEW :-
There were 10 panels and hence this round was moving at a brisk pace. Though each was
interviewed for at least half an hour .
Now let me share my experience…

Panel number one called me.

The interview..
I: Thank you, Sir.
Interviewer : So Reekodipto..What a good name. Can you say the meaning of your name?
I: It means that I am being enlightened from the Rig Veda.
Interviewer : So you are from Electrical Engineering Department, right? How can we fit
you in INFOSYS?
I: I also know C, C++, which are also my favorite subjects.

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Interviewer : Good. So Reek shall I ask you general questions or technical questions?
I: As you wish Sir. I am comfortable with both.
Interviewer : What is DBMS?
I: hm…Sir I don’t know.
Interviewer : So, I should proceed with general questions.
I: As you wish Sir.
Interviewer : As I can see from your aptitude test, you scored very well. Good. Can you
explain me how did you solve this puzzle? (The 20 variables puzzle)
I: I explained.
Interviewer : Good. Can you solve this series?
I: (It was a combination of 4 series & I solved it with an ease and turned the
paper in his direction and said 6 is my answer which was followed by my justification.)
Interviewer : Have you seen yesterday’s match? (Ind Vs SL) Do you know the Score?
I: No, Sir I couldn’t see India’s batting, but I have seen SL’s batting and I
told the score.
Interviewer : Don’t you think that the Indian players are overpaid?
Interviewer : You have quite an interesting email id . Can you say why have you used
such name?
I: In my school days my friends use to call me by that name. That is the only
reason that I have used such name.
Interviewer : Any special reasons behind that? Your friends were boys or…
I: No…No…No…I used to study in a mono-ed school.
Interviewer : Which school were you in?
I: DON BOSCO.
Interviewer : What are your Hobbies?
I: Playing Sudoku and Photography.
Interviewer : Quite an interesting hobby…good. One last question- Do you think audio-
many more and lastly concluded citing an example)
Interviewer : Ok reek, Thanks you may leave..
I: Thank You Sir, It was a pleasure to interact with you.

The results were declared at 10:10 pm by Padma Kini and only 45 cleared out of 95, out
of which 8 were from our college and I was one of them. Padma exclaimed to us by
saying INFOSCIONS…We were very happy.
Some Important Findings:
Ø Whatever you say, you should have proper justification at the back of your mind
because the next question can be that
Ø You can expect some current affairs questions specially the names of our ministers.
Ø Though many says that Shakuntala Devi is not required but some of my friends
were asked some questions from that book in their interview.
Ø Good communication skill is a must in INFOSYS, which are not so important in
other companies.
Ø You can expect some situational questions in your interview.

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Ø Do not try to bluff the interviewer as they are very quick in reading your minds.
Ø Be confident in whatever you are saying.
Ø Do not try to use many ornamented words as that can lead you to trouble.
Ø Believe in yourself and then believe in ALMIGHTY.

VENUE – UNITED COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, NAINI, ALLAHABAD

By- Swapnil Dubey

Two sections –
1.quantitative + verbal ability(30 questions-40 minutes)
2. English(40 questions-30 minutes)

QUANITATIVE + VERBAL ABILITY

Total questions- 6(5 subparts each)

1. A puzzle which involved 7 athletes and 100 mts and 200 mts event. 5 situations
were provided.5 questions were asked,like who came first in 100 mts etc. One of
the toughest question.

2. In this 5 figures are given and we have to strike the odd one out. Easiest among
the questions. even a 5th class student can do it.

Refer –R S Agarwal.

3. Data interpretation Easy but involved lots n lots of, big n complex calculation
involved. Good for nothing. Try this at the last.

4. Another puzzle involving 5 question. It was such we cant solve it randomly i.e.
if You didn’t solve the 1st part and add its info in the list you wont be able to
solve 2nd question. Not very tough.

5. Data Sufficiency. Very easy ,but do atleast 50 question in this otherwise it might
prove difficult. Question involved basic geometry,age problems. Simillar to the

6. Data Redundancy. Again very easy. But practice is key. Refer CAT question
paper.

NOTE:- To know whether ur preparation is alright, try to solve the question in CAT
paper. Any CAT material is more helpful the R S Aggarwal.

ENGLISH

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• Reading comprehension. Don’t need to practice much. Very easy English. Direct
Note:- There is a big para and a small one .Do the small one n leave the
bigger one
• Fill in the blanks. Involved use of tenses, good vocab is not a must , hence people
having good basics of grammar can fancy their chances.
• Correct the sentence
• Inference and assumption. Toughest part and a very strong analytical skills are
required.
• Note:- People just mug up all grammar book of CAT preparation material of
Career Launcher. Have a good knowledge of prepositions, articles and
tenses(most important). Good vocab is not must.

INTERVIEW ONLY HR
1.Tell me the most hilarious moment of ur life.
2. Lot of questions on hobby.
3. Why INFOSYS should take u.
4. Two puzzles.

Main thing is show what u actually are? Try to create something humorous. Try to add
“making others laugh” as one of ur strengths and it in ur resume. Or from some where try
to sing something. Try to write a innovative hobby like I added one as “watching james
bond movies”.

Just remember the rule – never be negative

Hello To All The People who are visiting the Freshersworld website and the infy
placement papers. Just read the above line in bold carefully and make it in your mind and
then no one can stop you entering infy or any of the company.

Guys I am from SIR CHHOTU RAM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY, Meerut. I am very thankful to my college because it give me the
opportunity to attend the off campus of Infosys at NIET, GREATER NOIDA.

We attended the off campus of Infy on 3RD of April. We were, as I think 4 or 5 colleges
and two colleges were not able to come because of chaotic environment of Kanpur. Out
of 622 students 91 were selected in the written phase, and from the 91 students 45 were
finally selected to be trained at Mysore centre. And I am one of them. I was very happy to
hear that from 19 students of our college selected in written, 13 were at last selected in
Infy.(our selection number was the highest)

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Our PPT(Pre -Placement Talk) was given at 09:10 am. And after that we were allotted
Room no.’s acc. to colleges. The result of written exam was announced at 4:30
pm(although they told us that they will give the result at 3:00 pm ). The interview was on
the next day at 08:30 am.

1 Quantitative test : (30 ques. 45 min.):

The quantitative test consist of :

A-Puzzles (not of Sakuntla devi type R.S agg is sufficient)(2) One was very easy solved
in seconds other was bit hard but u can do(10 ques)
B-Ques on Graphs(5) They were also from R.S agg.(these were time consuming)
C-Non-Verbal series solving i.e which picture will be next in series(also from R.S agg.)
(5)
D-Syllogism(5)

2 Verbal test(English) : (40 ques. 30 min.)

It consist of two passages. The first one was a bit lengthy and hard but the next one was a
piece of cake. Another ques. Were based on Fill in the blanks with app. Idiom, or
fragments that are grammatically correct. To sum up the verbal test was the easy one and
one who is good at English can do it very well.

On 4th april we were to given the HR at 08:30 am. The HR round was just a piece of
cake but u have to be confident with positive attitude. Plus a good smile will add beauty
to your HR. The HR round was not more than 15-20 min.

The result was announced at 2:00 pm.

That’s all to say see u at Infy

INFOSYS PAPER ON 24th MARCH AT DURGAPUR

Hi Everybody.
This is Souvik from Calcutta Institute of Engg. and Mangement, ECE IIIrd Yr. I appeared
for the pooled campus recruitment process held by Infosys at BC Roy Engg. Collg ,
Durgapur.

As I stay in kolkata and the campuss time was 9:00 am sharp , it was a hectic reaching
Durgapur from 180 km away ,at kolkata on time. But we had to as "the employers" as all
of you know were from India's No. 1 company.

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THE ENTRY :- We entered the college campuss at 9:00 am sharp and had to register in
front of separate respective college counters. Then we were escorted to the presentation
venue which was a huge pandal made on the ground premises.

THE PPT. :- The PPT. started around 9:30 am by a mam(asstt. HRD recriuting ). It went
uptil 10:30 am or a few mins. more.

THE APTI. :- The aptitude test consisted of two parts, namely :-

1) General Aptitude test
Duration:-30 min.
Full Marks:-30
Sections:-4

>Puzzle
>Logical reasoning
>Quantitative
>Qualitative

2) English Aptitude Ability

Duration:-30 min.
Full Marks:-30
Sections:-4

>Big Comprehension passage

>Moderate Comprehension passage
>Grammatical and Vocabulary Skills
>Writing and Sentence Construction Skills

The Aptitude test started at about 11:45 am and got over within 12:45 pm. We then
returned to the ppt. hall and waited for the results. The results came out at about 5:15 pm.
evening. I was happy to find my name in the list.

THE H.R INTERVIEW :- The HR interview started quickly at 5:30 pm. I was the
second person for the interview and was introduced in Panel-2. My interviewer was
a who was very friendly to me. The HR was the coolest of its kinds. I was given a
puzzle and an arithmetical problem to solve. The HR session ran for 30 to 40 mins. in my
case. But I found many sessions ran only for 4 to 10 mins.

THE GRAND RESULT :- The overall result was finally declared at 10:00 pm and my
joy knew no bounds!!!!

BEST of LUCK to all of aspiring candidates..

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Dear Friends, My Name Is Amit Desai, Student Of 3 Year Electronics Engineering Of

Rizvi College. I Got Placed In Infosys Technology Ltd. on 3rd Of March. Campus
Interview was Held In Dob-Bosco College OF Engineering. Selection Process Was As
Followed:-

Apptitude Test:-1) Maths 30 Q should be solve in 35 min

2) English 45 Q should be solve in 40 min

HR Inteview:- Quite Easy One. They will Ask u One Puzzled And something About
Urself. if u can solve Puzzle then Ur chance of Selection in this round is very high.

Maths Q were Quite Easy and less time consuming. But as far as English Is concern You
should have High Reading Speed+Strong Grammer. One thing is comman In both The
Exam IS that U should Have Logical Way to Reach towards The Answer. And as you
know No one is Born Genious. To Increse Ur Reading speed u need to Read Novels,
News Papers on regular Basis. To aquire Logical Way U need to solve Lots of Aptitude
Q Papers Which Are Present On Different Sites For Maths Try To Solve R.S.Agrawal.
But As Far As Infosys Is Concern concentrat on English. Also For Maths U Required
Speed And U Can aquire Sufficient Speed By solving Problems On Internet.

At the Time Of Our 2 Year of Engineering We Come to know From our TPO Mr.
Prectising For OUR CARRIER, OUR FUTURE AND OUR LIFE. Actually Our TPO
told Us That Shar Ur Thoughts Still Mr. chandran is Very Helpfull to us who got placed
by guiding us WHAT TO DO IN OFFICE?, WHAT IS PROFESSIONALISM? He is
also helpfull In HOW TO GIVE HR INTERVIEW? HOW TO BEHAVE?.

so from the Day U Received This Mail Start Practising for Aptitude and English under
the help Of Our TPO Mr. Chandran to Get placed in Nice Co.

hi friends, i attended infosys apptitude test held at trichy on 26th of march,2007.iam

really thanking this website.it helped me a lot.actually abt 1250 members attended the
apptitude test.

so first we have to attend the PPT pgm.in that pgm they will give intro abt infosys &
atlast they will give instns to fill up the application form.pls note tht correctly.bcoz it will

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create confusions while u r filling the application form.thn in the exam hall they will give
abt 20 min for filling that application.thn

APTITUDE TEST
FIRST WE HAVE TO ATTEND THE NON VERBAL PART they will give arnd 40
min for completing the 30 non verbal questions.
just refer R.S.AGARWAL'S non verbal book.thts enough.

a) puzzle test
b) data interpretation. for tht refer R.S.AGARWAL'S quantitaive appti book.
c) syllogism (deductions) they gave abt 6 conclusions.
d) data sufficiency.
e) blood realtions(they will gv.but we didnt get any quesions)
f) finding next fig in the given series or picking out the diff fig.we had picking the diff fig
frm the given series.

after that they will give VERBAL PART two reading comprehensions.,lots of small
passages were given.we have to choose the correct option frm the ckoices given there.thn
filling the correct tenses. for verbal part just refer any CAT material.time management is
very important.dont take reading comprehension first.

they annouced results by 5:30.i got selected for HR round.i was one among the 200
students.thn i had HR next day only.

so first they will check our confidence level & boldness & our communication skill.plz b
bold.dnt show ur tension there.b cool.HR was very cool.they will b friendly with us.i had
stress interview.so plz b bold.so atlast they annouced result by 1:30 pm.they selected abt
100 students only.i was also one among that 100 students.

take photo copies with u while u r writing ur appti exam.they will ask us to paste a
passport size photo.

all the best friends!!!b bold.thts it .u can make it easily. meet u all soon!!!!!

Hi friends, I am vivek doing MCA 4thsem from Pondicherry University, Pondicherry,

belongs to PATNA , Bihar

First I would to like to thank this site and all those who share their experiences… In my
university INFOSYS came at 23 march total 700 student (university + affiliated college)
appeared, total 84 cleared written and finally 47 got selected.

I also cleared all round but finally they consider AGE Limit. They are taking maximum
22 years old only. Anyway I got selected in Accenture next day (24 march).

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In written there is 2 section

1: Verbal (English ) – 40 question ( 35 min)
2: Aptitude -- 30 question (40 min)
No negative marking Here total cutoff was 37. There is also sectional cutoff 50%.

English –
A 2 comprehension 5 ques each. Easy u can do it at least one u have to do. First is big
second is little easy than first direct question. So first read the question and direct search

Find correct sentence 10 ques. One sentence will given and one part will underline then
find what will be correct from given option.
For this refer "English is Easy – BSC publication book chapter 14" it is very useful.
find correct/incorrect from 4 given statement – 10 question. mainly grammar like article ,
preposition and tense.
Find inference from given short passage 10 question. easy.

English section is really easy if u work on grammar from .

1.English is Easy – BSC publication book
2. Objective general English – R S Aggarwal

Aptitude : 30 question – 40 min

A one puzzle 5 question from R S Aggareal VERBAL-NON VERBAL book puzzle
chapter, u solve this chapter then it is very easy. They have given me question of There
is six friend arun,sourabh,gaurav,kiran,,….,…. And arun and gaurav play golf, Kiran and
arun play cricket and golf both …………like this six game ..

Just to solve this draw table and u can solve it very easily.
One cube problem – 5 question that is One cube of 3X3, then remove 1,3,5,7,9 column
then painted then tell how many both side painted, all three side painted….
Data sufficiency – 5 question.
Data interpretation ..-5 question very lengthy do it in last
Binary coded – 5 question very easy . do it first
Then five question from predicate calculus, there are six statement given u have to search
3 related sentence.

And after written only HR interview no technical interview they will not ask single
technical question actually written and interview both conducted by some agency
mindtrack.

In interview be confident, cool, not aggressive and knowledge of current affair. Question
are:

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Indian team

Then they gave me two puzzle (easy) I solve it both.

One is that In news Paper style suppose1st page no have 1 and it other part have 72 no.
then 2nd page no have other end 71 page then what will page no on other end of 13.
simple 1+72 = 73 , sum from both side will be equal so 73-13 = 60 is the answer.

Second is that a checker game two player is playing can it possible that both win equal no
of game if they played total 5 game. And is yes if one game is draw and both win 2-2
match.

And at last do u want ask any question. So HR interview is Easy. Only written is
important mainly English. Ok

INFOSYS PAPER ON 24th MARCH, Karunya University

Hai everyone... Iam Dahlia... Infosys' new pattern is very very simple.... So its very easy
to get into infosys...

The test cosist of two parts

1.Logical Reasoning(30 Qns 40 Min)
2.English(40 Qns 35 Min)

Time management is very very necessary while doing the English part... You will be
given two long passages and some questions below that.. You have to read the Passage to
answer the questions.. Attempt this part at last... If you attempt this first you wont have
time to read the remaining questions... So be carefull in this... Be thorough with
Grammars... Especially tenses...
And for Logical reasoning just follow any CAT book or RS Agarwal's non verbal
reasoning...
1.Syllogism
2.Data Sufficiency
3.Data Interpretation
4.Missing Figures
5.Blood Relation
6.Cubes and Indices
7.Puzzle. Puzzles in RS Agarwal is enough... No need to study Shakuntala devi..

Then have patience...Bcoz it takes hell lot of time for the results to be out..We finished
the written test at 12.30 and they were supposed to announce the result at 3 but they
announced only at 6... I was very happy when they called out my name.. 500 student

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were attended.. 49 cleared the aptitude..So this round is very very important... 47 cleared
the HR..

Then i called for HR at 9.30 pm....It was a stress interview.. But i made him cool... I
greeted him.. He asked my name and the meaning of my name... Many questions were
about my native.... Infosys was the second company coming to my college.. First was
Wipro.. And he asked me why you were not selected for wipro.. I told him that i didnt
perform upto their mark... And he asked me what do you know about Infosys? I told
something which i have heard in PPT..Then he asked me do you ever visit the website of
Infosys? I told no.. Then he told me that iam not interested in learning new things... For
that i replied, Sir! for the last two weeks i was very busy with my internals and
Preparation for Wipro.. Then he started asking some questions about wipro..Just to
check whether iam telling truth or not.. He asked me the name of the Chairman and Vice
Chairman of Wipro..And some questions regarding Wipro.. I answered him.. I think
he was satisfied with my answers..And my friends were given some puzzels to solve...
And finally he told that he likes my name very much and told me to wait for the
result...Finally they announced the results at 11 pm...My name was one among the 47..It
was one of the happiest moment in my life...

No technical, they just test your confidence,presence of mind and general awareness...So
update yourself... Dont be tensed... Just have a smiling face.. Thats enough.. Be truthfull...
If you dont know just tell i dont know sir.. Dont pretend as you know.. They will easily
find out...

Pray well and attend with Confidence....This is more important than anything... All the
best... See you in Infosys

INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st MARCH

Hi guys this is Rakesh Ranjan a student of Dr M.G.R Engg College.We had an off camus
drive conducted by Infosys

In the written section there were two prts...first was da reasoning and next vocabulary test
the reasoning paper was very easy but one needs to work out the problems as fast as
possible...there will b 30 ques and u will get 40 mins for tat i am givin here da chapters
tat are very important. each of the topics contain 5 ques each...

1)data sufficiency (from any where u can do those are tricky)

2)data interpretation--(Simple Enough)...
3)puzzle involving blood relations.. (R.S Agarwal verbal book)
4)a miscellaneous puzzle (R.S Agarwal verbal..)
5)next figure in the series (R.S Agarwal nonverval---chap series and analogy)
6)syllogisms(R.S Agarwal verbal book)

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time management is very important.. next part consists of english...and it involves purely
grammar...and u need to very strong in that..
The result was announced at 7'O Clock .177 candidates were selected from 1445
students.
I Was one among the selected students.....

Next day we had HR interview in the morning...it was cooll and here they expect us to b
vry bold nd enthusiastic.. dnt panic or blabberor stammer...jus b freee .. after that we had
2 wait for 4 hours till da results wer announced....this was the period when I will felt
tensed.....at last results were announced...we thought around 150 students will b selected
but to out dismay only 104 students were selected....out of which 78 were from our
clg.....i was one of them again.....so friends dont take the exam .leisurely....be very fast
while doing aptitude...practice reading the news papers.

And out of all these take help of your friends......I was helped by my friends named
Abhijeet Kumar, Ram Pratap, Vishal, Varun,Vishal(sardar)and of the seniors from
Infosys I was helped by Sudeep Sir

Paper pattern was same

Reasoning 30 ques. – 40 min
English 40 ques - 35 min.

B4 reading this u must know that DI questions were easy enough to be attempted so don’t
leave DI ques . they r easy sometimes and can provide an upper hand over others

In a college hostel there are 100 rooms for 100 boys during holiday all boys returned
home and every room of hostel was locked .after holidays when 1st boy returned he
opened all 100 doors when 2nd boy arrived he closed every 2nd door when third boy
arrived he operated on every third door (if door was opened he closed it and vice versa )
This process continued toll the 100th boy arrived
q.1) which of the door was opened at the end of process?
a)80 b)68 c)75 d)100

q2)find the odd one out in the following doors 81st ,16th , 96th , one more
a) 81 b)16 c)96 d)one more

and three more questions

Q6-Q10 direction find the odd figure in following
Q6)
a)a pentagon inside a hexagon
b)a rectangle inside a pentagon
c)a triangle inside a rectangle

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d)a pentagon inside a rectangle

e ) a hexagon inside a septagon

Q7)
a)two intersecting circles
b)two intersecting squares
c)two intersecting triangles
d)one square intersecting with triangle
e)two intersecting pentagons

Q8) there were 5 diff . figures every fig has one circle intersected with square and there
were two dots every fig has dot in intersection apart from the ans which does not have the
the dot in intersection area

Q11) –Q15 mark a if ques can be answered using a only b if ques can be answered using
b only c if either of them d if neither of them

11)X2Y3-XY)/(X2-Y2)
a)X=2
b)Y-=5

Q15) ram lent rs 5000 at certain rate of interest

What will be the interest?
a) if he had lent it for 2% more he would have received 500 rs more
b) I don’t remember

Q16-Q20 )
A DI ques 3 graphs were given one for steel prod. Second for automobiles production and
third one for ship building
All were in millions so it became easy to solve
From my point of view a questioned which must be attempted

Q20-Q25)
There are 4 frnds meena , meera ,anju, (one more say rita ) two frnd lived in mumbai and
there hobies were gardening , the girl who lived in Chennai has the hobby of clay
modeling and singing , meera has the hobby of painting and she live in Mumbai ,anju
likes gardening as her hobby and some more statements ………..every gal has two
hobbies

This ques was easy

Meena meera anju rita

Delhi
Mumbai
chennai
gardening

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singing
clay modeling

by making the above table ques can easily b answered

ques 25-Q30 were bit complex 6 statements were given a-f and 4combinations like
ABC , DEF,BCA were give so we have to mark the set which which logically combines
to give some meaning.

REMEMBER THAT ENGLISH IS DECIDING FACTOR FOR INFY TEST BCOS

REASONING WAS AVERAGE

1.Pre-placement talk(9 am)

2.Form filling(11 am)
3.Written test(12 pm)
4.Written results(around 4 pm)
4.HR interview.(5 pm)
5.Final Results(around 10 pm)

1.Aptitude test
2.English test

In aptitude test we hd 30 ques wid 40 min time. It had questions like:

1). there r 5 children. they go 2 buy choclates.... then two of them buy at same at same
price n others at other price bt the two boys hd more choclates than other 3. bt there price
was less. n some more data. then there were ques like
a>.wat was d no. of chocos those two boyz hd
b>watwas the price of those chocos
c>etc d>etc e>etc

3).5 questions 4m Data sufficiency(R.S.Aggarwal) like they hd a question n two

succeeding sentences n u hd 2 choose which of them goes as the solution of dat quesn
like

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a>.if opttion1 is d only ans

b>.if opt 2 is correct
c>.if either of them is correct
d>.if both r wrong
e>.if both r correct

4).5 questions 4m an easy DI pie chart(R.S.Aggarwal)

5).5 ques 4m an irritating long puzle(table making kind of 4m R.S.Aggarwal) like there
were 5 students 4m 5 cities at 5 different coaching classes then they give exams at 5
centers n get selected at 5 cities. then u hv 2 find who's 4m which city,coaching, who
came 1st, n which city he got admission etc etc

1).2 very long n irritating RC passages

2).Ques like correct the underlined part of sentence 4m the options.
3).small passages n just there conclusions
4).etc etc

then finally out of approx 500-600 students 71 were selected 4 interview including me.

Then we had HR interview(just be confident n consistent of what u say) where i faced

questions like:

1. What is innovation?

2. How innovative r u?

4. few gk ques like currencies of different countries n GDP of india etc

5. 2 puzzles like
a>measuring 4 litres wid 5 litre, 3 litre, 20 litre containers
b>solving a series both were pretty easy

6. how good r u at teamwork n how?

7.Regarding hobbies?

8. some more HR ques like y do u want 2 join INFY etc etc

my interview was of approx 35 mins. and as we say "All is well that ends well"

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final results were out at around 10 pm n finally 45 were selcted 4m our college n I GOT
SELECTED. So prepare well, use R.S.Aggarwal 4 aptitude, n a gud CAT material 4
English, n Confidence n communication skills 4 interview n u can definitely make it!!!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 25th MARCH

Hello friends
My name is Ramakrishna raja doing B.tech Bioinformatics III year...first of all i give my
hearty thanks for this website www.123eng.com .it really helped me for not only Infosys
but also for clearing apti in Wipro and TCS....if you are loking to get in a company make
sure you go through the maximum papers in this site...

The test consisted of two sections..

1.Logical test(40 min)
2.English test(30 min)

first they will ask you to fill a pesty formwhich will take about 15or20 min ..have your
photo and idcard ready..make sure that you make it clean without any mistakes or
strikings..also know the correct spelling of your sur name..you eye power and the info
about recent operations or medical probs you have undergone...make it neat and
clean..you haave to keep the form with you

Then the will give you the answer form where you have to fill the answers and within
two mins they will start the logical test..sorry i dont remember most of the questions

See you predict the type of questions you will get..the questions for me were from

1. DI(5),
2. DS(5),
3. syllogism(5),
4. logic reasionag (5),
5. 2 puzzle test(10)

there were 30 questions total from these topics...it was pretty ok ..make sure you have
good practice from Verbal and nonverbal RS AGARWAL..and some CAT prep
material...see the hardworkl matters more here than luck..

when the time is over..the will get the ques paper from you...not the answer sheet..you
will have it with you then they will give you aht answer sheet for english ....then the ques
paper ..you will get 40 ques...

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iam telling you the test will be very easy if you have very good grammar skills...if you
have time refer Wren and martin book..or else you can anser them logically

1. two comprehension ques..definitely one will be easy(10 ques).

2. finding the correct sentence from 4 sentences(4-5 ques)..somewhat tough
3. replace a phrase in the sentence from a list of sentences(3-5)
4. fill in which has a more appropriate meaning(3-5)
5. arranging the sentences in order(3-5)
6.

OUT OF 946 STUDENTS ONLY 122 GOT SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW..

REMEMBER IF YOU MAKE IT THROUGH APTI YOU CAN BE 50% SURE OF
PLACEMENT

Next is the HR interview...it will be very easy..you should very confident and
enthusiastic there..have good practice to common interview questions...

1. know abt the company very well

2. you know what you have in your resume
3. if you have specifed and skills make sure that you've a pakka example for that
4. try to sove simple puzzles from Shakuntala devi book...see the thing is that you
have to find the logic behind you question...most of are based on quan apti
basics...they will see how you will try to solve the ques not the answers....
5. try to impress the panel..but dont brag about yourself too much...
6. stay calm and cool which may sound weird but you have to maintain a smile on
your face till the last min

the results were announced by 5pm..out of 122 studs only 90 got selected..and i was one
among them..

I am a 2006 Passout i attended Infosys in 3rd march at Marian College

Kuttikanam,Kottayam Abt the Test they changed the pattern. I failed in the test,but am
giving my experience.
Test consists of Two parts

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1.Aptitude(Reasoning)- 30 questions 40 minutes

2.English - 40 questions 35 minutes

Aptitude
1-5.A puzzle frm R.S Agarwal Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning just go thrgh "Puzzle
test" chaptr
6-10.Series questions set of figres wre given you hve 2 find the Odd one Out frm the
series.(bit tuff)
11-15.Data Sufficiency prpre frm R.S agarwal Verbal and Non verbal reasoning
16-20.Data Intrepretation - Very tough.in my question paper two tables cntain the deatils
of compny which produce s/w and h/w and thre total revenue etc.set of 5 qstions wre
given.(attnd if u hve engh time)
21-25.p and q play cricket,p and s play football, q and r play hockey like 5 cnditions wre
gven find who play max. game? which one play footbal and crickt? etc. (No prepration
needed 4 this type of qstins)
26-30 usual Syllogism stdy 9 rules frm R.S agarwal thts engh.

English
It was a tuff section 4 me( need sme prepartion) it contain 2 RCs vry lng essay and 10
qstions regarding the essay.
thn Correction of sentences 10 qustions anther 10 qustions on find the conclusion
frm small pargraph. thts all i Remmebr.....

time mangmnt is the main factor,so prepare hard !! Definetly u will get the Result
All the Best!!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 26th MARCH , Trichy

hai friends,
As u all know the pattern has changed in infosys and there were two stages one is apti not
like usual apti but having cat pattern let me tell u

1.puzzle(in R.S.aggrawal)easy
2.odd man out(picture)
3.data sufficiency(somewhat easy)
4.syllogism(but with 4 to 5 conclusion given and to find which combination will be
logically correct)

then in verbal
2.sentence correction(easy)
3.fill in a suitable verb
4.reasoning

for eg: a man has to cross a bridge he has a cat,dog and a fish. he can take only one with
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dog the cat will eat the fish so how will he take everyone with him.
ans : first takes the cat then dog then fish

in our coll we are 250 participated and in that 83 where selected. do well in both verbal
and mental ability.they said some had done well in mental ability but not in verbal and
they were rejected. so read some GRE books for verbal.

we wrote the test at 11.30 and finished by 12.45. results were announced at 5.30pm.

next day we had HR interview(no technical)

from past to present.
gave me a puzzle very easy(he helped me to solve the puzzle)
and he asked me any questions and then he said ok u can go.

results were announced at 1.30pm. be cool in the interview and u can surely make it
through infosys. all the best to all wishing to join infosys
meet u all in infosys

INFOSYS PAPER ON 17th MARCH

hi
starting with d written examination.it was divided into two parts:
1)Aptitude
2)English

The aptitude was peace of a cake (provided done homework on that).it had 30 qiestions.

There were two puzzles(5 questions each puzzle), 5 questions on syllogism, 5 on data
suficiency, 5 on data interpretation and other five questions were from series detection.

just go for R.S.Aggarwal(verbal & non-verbal) for the aptitude part.its more than enough.

Now here comes the english section(40 questions), it was the deciding factor in the
written test.
Had two comprehensions(5 questions each), appropriate sentence for the given phrase,
alternative sentence for underlined words in a given sentence.

Take my advice brush up ur tenses n grammer.The level of english test is gonna be high
from usual.Stick to basics n u'll crack it. If sittin in a joint campus, then have patience.coz
it takes hell lot of time for the results to b out.

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V were over with our test at 3:15 pm n d results were out at 9:00 pm Crack the written n
ull easily clear the interview.no technical, they jus test ur confidence,presence of mind n
general awareness.n one thin b true to dem.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 1st APRIL AT GHAZIABAD

Hi Friends,,
This is Kush Agarwal...I would like to tell you that by God's Grace I have been placed in
Infosys...

On 1st April Infosys came to ur college..Out of 600 students 120 were shortlisted gor HR
interview ..Finally 85 students wre placed out of which 65 students wre AKGECIANS...

There were 3 PUZZLES,,,5 SERIES QNS(IN THIS WE HAVE TO FIND THE ODD
PICTURE FROM 5 GIVEN QNS),,Data Sufficency qns,,,and Logical venn diagrams
qns...(But there was no qn from DI AND 9 RULES OF LOGIC. REASONING./..)...BUT
PREPARE IT...

Paper1..(40 mins.)..(Aptitude)..
Puzzle1)A starts from point 'A' and walk 10m towars south to reach point 'B'..Then he
turn right and wlk 10m to reach point C'..Then he turn left and wlk 10m to reach point
'D''..Then he turn right and wlk 10m to reach point 'E'..Then he turn left and wlk 10m to
reach point 'F''..Then he turn right and wlk 10m to reach point G''..Then he turn left and
wlk 10m to reach point 'G'./Then he turn right and wlk 10m to reach point 'H'..He kept on
walking 50m further toward west to reach point 'I'...AND THE WALK TOWARS NOTH
60M TO REACH POINT 'K'..

QUESTIIONS..1)FIND THE SHORTEST DISTANCE FROM POINT 'A' TO 'H'..

2)FIND THE SHORTEST DISTANCE FROM POINT 'I' TO 'K'..
QUESTIONS OF THIS TYPE..

PUZZLE 2>.....A MAN USED TO ROB THE COMPUTERS AND HE IS ACTIVE

ONLY FOR QUARTER OF A YEAR.....HE ROB THREE
COMPUTERS .....VAYU,,TEJAS AND AGNI..,....JANUARY WAS UNFORTUNATE
MONTH FOR TEJAS...VAYU WAS STOLEN IN MARCH....NOW HE USED THREE
TOOLS PLIER,, SCREWDRIVER AND HOOK TO ROB ALL THE PARTS FROM
THE COMPUTER AND MAKE HIS OWN COMPUTER....HE ROB MONITOR
FROM TEJAS BUT DOESNOT USE HOOK...HE ROB PRINTER FROM VAYU
AND USE PLIER....AND FROM THIRD COMPUTER HE ROB KEYBOARD....

QUESTIONS3> 1..IN WHICH MONTH WAS AGNI...??

2) WHICH TOOL WAS USED FOR TEJAS..
QNS OF THIS TYPE....

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PUZZLE 3 >>WAS VERY DIFFICULT AND IT WAS VERY TOUGH TO SOOLVE

IT WITHIN LIMITED TIME...I EVEN DONT REMEMBER IT.....

DATA SUFFICIENCY LIKE....1)...a^2+b^2+c^2=0...Is b>a;...(TWO OPTIONS WRE

GIVEN RELATED TO THIS..)
2)...OTHERE QNS I DONT REMEBER..

OTHER QNS WAS FROM ,,,LOGICAL VENN DIAGRAMD AND SERIES ONE...

Paper 2..(English)--30 Mins..

THE SECOND PAPER WAS OF ENGLISH...IT CONSISTS OF 2 READING
COMPREHENSION....,,,FIND THE CORRECT SENTENCE FROM GIVEN 4
SENTENCE,,,,FILL IN THE BLANKS,,,, ,FIND THE CORRECT SENTENCE
RELATED TO UNDERLINED SENTENCE...

OUR ENGLISH PAPER WAS SERIOUSLY VERY TOUGH...IT WAS NOT SO

EASY... AFTER THE WRIITEN TEST....ONE MIDDLE AGE PERSON TOOK MY
INTERVIEW...

GENERAL QNS LIKE "WHAT IS OPERATING SYSTEM,WHAT IS THE
DIFFERENCE BTEWEEN XP AND VISTA....3 QUALITIES OF VISTA WHICH
MAKE IT GOOD,,..3 WEAK POINTS OF LINUX....THEN SOME GENERAL
QUESTIONS LIKE.....CAPITAL OF NAGALAND,MANIPUR,MEGHALAYA,,
INDIANS WHO HAVE GOT NOBEL PRIZE ,,WHO IS KIRAN DESAI...CAPITAL
OF ITLAY,,GERMANY,,SWITZERLAND,,,3 STATES OF INDIA WHERE
ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN CURRENTLY HELD...I WAS ABLE TO ANSWER 90
PERCENT OF THE QUESTIONS...BE CONFIDENTS.IF YOU DONT KNOW THE
ANSWER OF ANY QUESTIION THEN STRAIGHTWAY SAY "DONT

SUGGEST YOU TO LEARN THE CAPITAL OF ALL STATES OF INDIA,,,SOME

CAPITALS OF FAMOUS COUNTRIES OUTSIDE INDIA.....You should know each

Hi Friends!!!

This is ANUP JHA from Rustamji Institute of Technology

(RJIT),BSF ,Tekanpur,Gwalior,M.P.
Infosys selected me at the campus placement held at ITM,Gwalior on 21st March ,2007
along with 30 other candidates from various colleges of Gwalior. I would like to share
my whole experience with you guys coz i really owe my success to this site.

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PPT...
Was very nice.Motivated us enough to join the company at any cost.The pics of campus
of Infosys were shown and various instructions were given esp. about filling up the
Application Form.

The selection procedure consisted of two parts:

1) WRITTEN
a: Quant+DI+Syllogisms+Data Sufficiency etc.... 30 questions 40 minutes
b: English (RC+Sentence completion+Choose most correct sentence+small passages) 40
questions 35 minutes

2) HR
About 300 students wrote the Aptitude Test out of which 38 were shortlisted for the next
round and 31 were finally selected
Here are some of the questions which i remember...

QUANT:
1-5: There is a cuboid of dimensions 7 X 6 X 5. It is painted on two opposite faces of
7X6 with red color,one 6 X 5 face with violet and the face opposite to it with green
color.and the remaining two with 5X7 with Blue and Yellow .Now it is cut into small
cubes of 1 cm sides.then answer the following questions on the basis of above facts:
a)How many cubes are there with no face painted?
b)How many cubes are there with 3 face painted with Red ,Yellow and Green?
c)How many were painted with one face RED?
d)How many wid two face painted ?
e) how many ....

so in all there were five questions based on this wid four options each.Although i don't
remember the options but the questions were like this only
6-10: The second set of questions was about finding the odd one out from the given set of
five fig.It also had 5 parts.
11-15: The third set of questions was of Data sufficiency type where a and b two options
A A alone is sufficient to come to the conclusion
B. B alone is sufficient
C. Both A and B are Required.
D. Data Insuffficient.
like
x3 = x5
a) x>-3 b) x<0
some fig . with dimensions was given and one side PQ couldn't be deduced frm that .so
they asked what would be reqd to calculate the Area.
a) PQ=3 b) PS=6.
For three nos. a,b,c in A.P condition required
a)a+c=2b b)a+b>c and two more such type of questions..

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product Machine A Machine B

A 4 hours 2 hours
B 3 hours 5 hours
C 4 hours 4 hours

The table looked like above..The data may be different .then 5 questions were asked.. like
if efficiency of machine A is double to that of B ,then what is the ratio of a nd b
drawings
some question on Horsepower rating of these machines,
some question on most efficient way to utilize the machines.

20-25
abt lectures A,B,C,D,E,F and some data related to it like
a ,c must not be on alternate days .
.and holiday except saturday and questions based on that.... like
Which Day was holiday?
On which Day lecture A took place? etc...

25-30
SYLLOGISM

a) all a are b
b) some b are c
c) no b are c
d) all c are a
e) some a are c.
and then one has to identify the valid arguement??
frm variousoptions like
abc bcd cda abe cdf.. like this there were five...

English SECTION:
Two passages...
One was on GATT(General Agreement on Tarrif and Trade ) and WTO. 5 questions
other one was on Humans and Animal Communication and also on cognition between
predators and prey.. 5 questions.
then there was sentence completion.. 5 questions
then there was substitution of the underlined phrase by the most appropriate option.. 5
questions
then there were very samll passages 4-5 lines and one question on the basis of each of
them 5-10 questions
then there was choose the most grammatically correct sentence.5 questions.

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INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st MARCH

Hi people there,
INFOSYS had come to St.Peters Engineering college on 21st and 22nd.I was one among
the some 1400 who took up the test and got placed..

By now most of u would ve known tat pattern s changed......The test was not quite so
easy but can clear if u ve good reasoning n verbal knowledge...so people jus keep
preparing over the CAT materials and GRE books...it helps a lot.

And also get to know the concepts of various chapters in RS AGARWAL VERBAL N
NONVERBAL.....Prepare well Blood Relations, Puzzles, Series Completion, Figures,
Syllogism............

First it started with a PRE-PLACEMENT TALK n ten the test started around 11.30...The
application process went on for 20mins and then we had those 2 tests one on
REASONING n other on VERBAL.........They ten said tat results will b announced at
4...But tests our Patience was tested till 7......5 coll had appeared n tey read out my coll
last n i God i was one among those who was selected for HR.

PUZZLE-5m
BLOODRELATIONS-5m
LINE GRAPH-5m
Syllogism-5M
DATA SUFFICIENCY-5m

i don exactly rem ques but....verbal consisted of 2 reading comprehension n some

sentence corrections...

HR was the most critical thing of al.. Remember be COOL, pray GOD and keep smiling
(not laugh)....it was stress interview for me but i cleared it....out of 460 totally in our coll
around 105 were selected in HR...thanx to this site, my PARENTS, FRIENDS who had
contributed to my success...

INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st MARCH AT BANGALORE

Hi guys,
Here are some tips to crack Infy. As you know the exam pattern of infy has been changed
recently. Before we used to have a lot of puzzles and then basic English. Now the pattern
is somewhat easy. 100 % Presence of mind and 75% intelligence can get you through.
Mine was an online exam. Guys the questions cannot be solved fully in their provided
time. Some questions need lot of thinking and consumes time. Just skip those questions

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taking lot of time and finish others.. 'coz you can solve others with ease and after gaining
confidence by solving those questions.. surprisingly the question you left will seem easier.
So just carry on with the easier ones as fast as possible. The Non- English session
has questions from the following....

1. Data sufficiency
2. Data Interpretation.
3. SYLLOGISM - - Very important. and somewhat difficult. Refer the 9 rules from R.S
Aggarwal. Memorise those. However the question is in different manner from that of RS
Aggarwal. Here i give an example however this is not the same question but the same
pattern...

Question:
statement A: Some men are educated.
B: Educated persons prefer small families
C: All small families are educated.
D: some men prefer small families.
E: bla bla bla bla.... ( this is not the exact sentence man... just some other
sentences.. i cant remember..)
Choose from the following which is logically correct..
1. ABC
2. EBC
3. ACD
4.ABD
Here the answer is ABD. Like wise some 5 questions.. If you prepare it throughly you
can easily get 5/5 in less time. saving time for others.

4. Puzzle test-- This does not mean the puzzles we see in Shahuntala devi but they'll give
a passage and we must get the details from that and solve the questions following it.
These examples can be found in RS Aggarwal verbal and Non verbal reasoning.
Concentration is the key !.

5. Spot the odd figure out:

This session was somewhat tough guys... Also you should have good pair of eyes to view
the images correctly.. If possible get a lens !!! Observe deeply and mark the answers.
Refer RS aggarwal for this too...

For all the above portions refer RS Aggarwal verbal and non verbal... Its enough. But
work out all the examples... and test yourselves with some hard exercise. RS Agg is more
than enough. Also refer.. from the asme book ... series completion, direction sense test,
Blood relation, cubes and dice...

Regarding English session. It was a bit tough. Attempt the passage comprehension at the
last else you'll be reading it till next batch comes !! Long passages.. Good grammar can
get you through in this session.

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After the finish of online exam we were asked to wait for 1/2 an hour.... FInally the
shortlisted candidates list were exhibited. By God's grace i was fortunate to be in it. Out
of 30.. 5 were shortlisted....

Soon we were called for HR round... I went last... i was interviewed by 2 fems... Just
1. there was a water bottle in front of us.. they asked me give 10 examples how you can
use it other than filling liquid...
me: blah.. blah... blah...

2. If i drink some water from this bottle how can you measure the reamaining amount
without any conventional measurement !!!
said -- can be done by counting the number if stripes in that bottle... But they were not
impressed asked me someother way... I surrendered!!

3. Gave me a puzzle....
Bring 100 out of seven 3's.... another boy in my batch was asked bring 23 from five 5s.
However we both ddnt solve it... Its not a problem they just see how you proceed ....
Later i found the answer to be as 333/3 - 33/3 = 100 and 5*5 - 5/5+5/5 = 23

Be confident and loud in speaking to them. They just check your comm. tats all...
Finally i'm asked to wait for 3 weeks to get the result... However i have no confidence
personally gettin in... Pray for me !!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 17th MARCH AT DELHI

Hey guys,
There were around 1400 students who appeared for the written test. Out of those, around
260 were selected for the interview. Finally around 100-150 were selected.

There were 2 rounds:-

1) Written test which consisted of 2 parts:-

a. Reasoning (30 questions in 40 minutes)

· Puzzle(something like…there were 6 bikes, A,B,C,D,E,F. C was sold atleast before 4
bikes. D was sold immediately after C. B and E were sold atleast before 1 bike. …etc.
There were 5 questions on this puzzle).
· 5 questions on Data Interpretation.
· 5 questions on Data Sufficiency.
· 5 questions on finding odd one out from a given series of 5 figures(very easy).
· Puzzle(tricky one…5 questions based on that).
· 5 questions on syllogism(there were 5 premises given in each ques, and options
consisted of a combination of 3 premises. We had to choose the one which was a logical
combination out of the given choices).

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b.Verbal ability (30 questions in 35 minutes) (very easy paper…ur grammar should be
good).
· 2 reading comprehensions with 5 questions each(quite easy, but passages were lengthy,
so attempt in the end).
· 10 questions on sentence completion.
· 10 questions on replacing the underlined portion of a sentence with one of the options
given.

Firstly, they gave us an application form to fill up. We had to affix a passport size photo n
fill up personal details n marks as well as aggregate from 10th to pursuing or qualified
course(make sure u write exact percentage n marks). Also, details of eyesight n last major
illness/surgery in the last 1 year, n work experience(if any). If u know somebody
presently working in Infosys, then u’ll have to provide his name, relation n location
where he’s presently working.

2) HR interview
Interview lasted for about 5-7 minutes. There were 15 HR personnels simultaneously
interviewing 15 students in different rooms. I was not given any puzzle to solve, but other
candidates were asked to solve puzzles(so be prepared for that). Questions that I was
· How do ur friends describe u?
· How do ur enemies describe u?
· Tell me something about urself.
· Tell me about some disturbing moments in ur life in last 1 yr.
· Tell me about some happy moments.
· Tell me some news headlines from the next 2 weeks.
· If u win Rs.1 crore lottery, how will u spend that money?
· If u r made the dean of a college, what r the 5 things that u’d like to change in the
college?
· What r the books that u’ve read in the last 1 year?(I mentioned reading novels as a
hobby in my CV)
· Would u like to ask any question? (make sure u ask a question, that too a genuine one).

In the interview, they just check ur confidence level and ur communication skills, so
don’t be nervous and answer questions confidently. If u don’t know the answer, just say u
don’t know, don’t panic.

I am Pulkit Gupta, 6th semester studentof Information Technology branch of GPMCE

affiliated to IP university,Delhi. I gave infosys on campus test for freshers on 17th, 18th
March.2007, and cleared it. total 1500 students came from different colleges of IP univ
and finaaly 170 were selected out of 220 shortlisted for HR interview(very low
percentage for infy).the paper was tough especially english section.
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Let me thank this site first for giving me a guidance and opportunity to get placed at
Infosys. To start with, let me tell u one thing. The selection procedure of Infosys (New
Pattern) is not that easy compared to previous pattern(quiz) and you have to work a little
harder(especially for english as it is totally CAT pattern and time management is the key
to crack infosys) to ensure that u r placed. More over, your luck also plays a major part.
Let me describe the selection procedure and my experiences. I think it might help you to
focus in a correct direction .

The Selection Procedure had three phases:

PPT presentation on INFOSYS made by the head of the HR recruiting team
Aptitude and Verbal Reasoning
HR Interview

In the morning (around 10 am), after the arrival, u will be exposed to a ppt presentation
on Infosys. I am sure that this will motivate enough to get placed at Infosys.

Next, we were allowed to disperse and we were allotted rooms for our test. After we are
settled in our rooms, we were given an application form to fill it up(if u have anyone in
infosys,write it as reference it may help you in HR). The instructions to fill the
application form will be announced prior. Be careful in filling those forms and provide
accurate statistical data of your marks as far as possible.

Next comes the Aptitude test. It was started at 11.50 am. The time limit for aps is 40 mins
within which u have to complete 30 q's. The aptitude session consists of the following
sub groups.
A puzzle and 5 objectives based on the puzzle.
5 Problems on finding the next figure in the series.
5 Problems on data Sufficiency( Little tricky)
Data Interpretation: A bar graph was given and 5 questions followed it.(mine was an easy
one) but dont do it first, keep it for the end it takes time.
Once again a puzzle which is little tough as compared to the previous one with 5
questions followed it
Last 5 questions on logical arrangment.

1 puzzle was: Exam is to be held between Monday to sunday. There is 1 holiday in

between papers. 9 papers were: english, hindi, math, history, civics geography, biology,
physics, chemistry.
Conditions were:
1) exams will start either on sunday or wednesday with biology and no other paper will b
there on that day.
2) Geography paper can be followed by 1 other paper but not on Monday.
3) Hindi & English cannot be accompanied by others.
4) Saturday is a half day and sunday is after the holiday.
5) Number of papers before holiday is less than that after the holiday.

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5 questions were there like:

1) when the exams start??
a) Sunday b) Wednesday c) Monday d) Friday
ans: b) Wednesday

2) when is the holiday?

a) Sunday b) Friday c) Saturday d) Thursday
ans: b) Friday

rest i dont remember but the sequence was like this

sol: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
biology history holiday English Hindi civics geography physics maths
chemistry

1 question i remember of data sufficiency was: i suggest do data suffiency from rs

aggarwal quantitative book because dey wont ask u theoritical questions so go thru ques
on data sufficiency at the back of each chapter.

Find the area of quadilateral ABCD.a right angled quadilateral figur was given.
1) AC=5
2) BC=13
ANS was b) both are required to find the area

sorry friends i dont remember all questions as they were too long. After 40 mins they
collected the question paper for aps and gave us verbal(english) q paper. Here is where u
have to put more effort. The verbal part is very tough as compared to aptitude. If u are
strong at basic grammar (particularly tenses and phrases) u will have this cleared.

There will be 40 q's which u have to finish in 30 mins. Time management is very much
essential here. The pattern of this question is:
2 Passages (R C) followed by 5 q's each. The first one was easy( mine was on womens, i
didnt read it but it expressed the positive aspect of women, i answered on this basis only)
and the second one was little tough( i didnt even got the time to look at it, do not leave
any question attempt all) .
Selecting the correct option which is grammatically correct from the available four
options.
fill in the blanks type questions
Replacing the underline phrases with suitable ones( phrases were too long so were the
options, time consuming)
Deriving conclusion from small passages(tricky one).

For english, you can refer any CAT material like CL,ims etc. and prepare well for it, dont
take it lightly as it is the main eliminating section in written test, aptitude is easy. in our
case, 220 were shortlisted out of 1500 for interview n english section played a major part
int it).

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Remember friends the preset cut-off of infy's test is 15 out of 30 for aptitude and 20 out
of 40 for english and these dont vary with performance. If all students get more than 50%
in test, all are selected and if no one gets it, then no one is selected.

The tests are over by 1 pm. the results were be announced by 9.30 pm. There were 1500
students appeared for test and 220 were shortlisted for HR round which held next day.

HR round:
it is of 20 minutes per person on an average. Try to drive the interview to ur field of
interest(personal profile) to maximum time so that he gets less time to interview you as
they ask u to leave after 20 minutes sharp, they have a clock in front of them.

Prepare some questions in advance like:

1) your introduction. Finish the answer conciously on to ur field of interest as next
question will be from ur last line of the answer.
2) strengths and weakness. say the weakness that looks like your strength, dont say m
emotional, less patient,hot tempered. you may say that i become irritated when my
teammembers do not work efficiently. it looks like a strength.
3) role model. it would be great if u say ur father or mother as this reflects your honesty,
dont say person from the company like Mr. Murthy, it looks fake.
4) Hobbies. u should know everything about it like if u say reading then he may ask u
5) your objective. dont repeat the line written in ur resume.twist it and then say.
6) 1 question about the company.

now i will tell my experience there were 15 panels from different colleges of Delhi
university(infy members dont take freshers interview).
I was allotted to a gent HR who was really experienced and may be english professor.
Confidence and smiling face is the key to clear HR round.
he asked me to fill the attendance sheet. I didnt wrote the time of my interview n then he
told me to write it as 1:25pm. then asked me wat is PM in 1:25 pm.i didnt knew. so
friends dont give him any chance to ask u such questions.

puzzles. he asked me to find the volume of the sprite bottle kept there(300ml). it didnt
strike me and then he gave me various hints and then i said 300ml but i kept on trying,
smiled in between.
after that he gave me a puzzle:

FORTY
+TEN
+TEN
=S I X T Y
Find the value of each alphabet. i solved it. ans was N=0, e=5.
They just see if u are trying or not. Never say "i dont know" in the first place, just keep
trying and he will himself change the question after 2-3 minutes.

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Then he asked me tat do I have any question? Aways ask some question never say i dont
have any and the question concerning the company. i asked why infosys has most of its
centres in south india only? the question should be such that reflects your concern
towards the company.

He answered me tat it is too early to concerned abt those issues and he commented that it
was a very good qn and he liked my attitude. Then he asked me to check my mails
regularly( which is an indirect sign tat I got placed). Then he wished me for my bright
future.. I came out with confidence.

The results were announced by 7pm. I was very happy to hear that I got selected. 170/220
were selected. They have a pattern, they were selecting 75% of students from each
college on an average.

So friends, The main thing is to belief in yourself and confidence. Use your innovative
and creative ideas and make sure tat it is exhibited. Be yourself and be confident and
smiling(thad important) and if your interview is not good then dont say it there, it goes in
ur negative, may be he liked u, so don't break down till the end, show confidence. Hope

INFOSYS PAPER ON 14th MARCH AT BHOPAL

Hello friends
I am Nitin Gaykwad, Sixth Semester, B.E. (Electronics & Instrumentation) student
of S.A.T.I. VIDSHA(M.P.).I m selected in INFOSYS campus conducted at R.G.T.U.
BHOPAL( Technical university of m.p.).
It feels great to be a part of INFOSYS. I hope I’ll b able to help you guys with my
experience..
First and foremost important thing is to be confident. If u trust yourself, you have won
half the battle. Even if you don’t get through, don’t get disappointed. The world does not
end here, may be you a better opportunity is waiting for you
As you all must be knowing , the recent format for the Infy exam is as follows:-
1.Written test.
2.HR interview
Written test is in two parts:
A)Reasoning(30 ques, 40 mins.)
B)English(40 ques,35 mins.)
Reasoning:
It comprised of 30 ques to be solved in a span of 40 mins. There were 6 questions with
approx 5 subparts each. The questions we got are as follows:
First collect the following books when u start preps for reasoning section.

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1) R.S. AGRAWAL- Verbal & non verbal reasoning

2) R.S. AGRAWAL- Quantative aptitude( ONLY FOR DATA INTRPRETATION
QUES.)
3) Any CAT Coaching material, TIME ,CL, PT...........etc.
starting with the paper, the questions are as follows:
1)PUZZLE :-( 5 questions based on puzzle):A simple puzzle was asked, an easy
one............do practice by R.s. agrawal.( verbal n non verbal) in the chapter (PUZZLE
TEST).PUZZLE IS THAT :-
There are 100 cards distributed into 7 friends n 6 are got same no. of cards n remaining
one got 5 less than others. simply they exchange cards among them. And 5 ques. On this
puzzle.
2)VISUAL REASONING:-(5 questions): There are 5 ques. of this type is there.they r of
odd man out type.the figure which is not like the other 4 figures is selected as
answer.remember this is the most easiest part of the paper,if u practice well these type of
ques. given in non verbal reasoning part of R.S.AGRAWAL.Then no one stops from
doing all 5 ques. right.THUS,this part should be attempted first as they required less time
than others
3) DATA SUFFICENCY: -( 5 questions):
You have to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering
a) alone is sufficient to answer the question.
b) II alone is sufficient to answer the question.
c) either I or II are sufficient to answer the question.
d) both are not sufficient to answer the question.
e) both are needed to answer the question.
FOR e.g.,one question i remember.........
a)what is the two digit number if?
1) sum of the digits is something....?
2)difference of digits is something......?
4) DATA INTERPRETATION(5 QUESTIONS):-
Two LINE GRAPHS were given & 5 quest based on this are given......Its little time
consuming and a bit tough also. practice R.S AGRAWAL DI questions of all types which
are given.......but i suggest u all to attempt it at last as very lengthy calculations r there. I
also attempted it last. Also if u are practicing well i advice u to use guess
work...............some ques . does not demand full calculations..........they can be solved
visually also...................I make 2 of them by this method. Especially it works in line
graph type questions................
5) LOGICAL PUZZLE (5 QUESTIONS):-
Again a puzzle was there, but it was slightly lengthy...............
It was about 6 persons (3 male & 3 female) preparing for banking exams of 3 diff. banks.

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Each 2 of them are good in three diff. parts i.e. English, quanta, & reasoning. We have to
determine the right combination. Questions are based on these combinations. Similar
problems are given in R.S.AGRAWAL. You practice from there.
6).LOGICAL DEDUCTION(5 QUESTIONS):-
These are problems in which logical deduction capability was checked. Questions are like,
5-6 sentences are given like some As are Bs, Bs are Cs, Ds are Es,..................you are
supposed to find the group of logically correct sentences .i. e. ABC, CDF,BCE etc.
This is all about the reasoning part.
They do not disclose the cut off. I solve about 20-22 ques correct .but my friends with 17
score was also selected. So, don t worry about the cut off, just do ur best.
if it was tough then it was tough for all. So, keep ur mind free from tension.
IMPORTANT: there was no negative marking. but that doesn’t means that u attempt all
the ques. without some approach. Beware that they check ur rough work & so even if
u dont know the solution of some problem, then please show some approach in rough
work provided with paper. Remember that they do not check the wild guesses without
some approach. So if u wants to get checked ur wild guesses, THEN PLEASE DO UR
ROUGH WORK NEAT & CLEAN& SHOW SOME APPROACH
That’s all about reasoning section. now they put the English paper before u.
ENGLISH PAPER (40 questions - 35 minutes):
It contains 40 ques. to be completed in 35 min.it consist of following type of ques.
Time management is very much essential here. The pattern of this question is:
1)2 Passages( R C) followed by 5 q’s each. The first one was easy and the second one
was little tough.
2)Selecting the correct option which is grammatically correct from the available four
options.
3)fill in the blanks type questions
4)Replacing the underline phrases with suitable ones
5)Deriving conclusion from small passages.
if u have good knowledge of basic fundamentals of english grammer then u can easily get
through it.
For grammar, you can refer WREN & MARTIN book.
The tests are over by 1 pm. They told us that the results will be announced by 3.30 pm.
There were 700 students from 11 colleges attended the tests.It was third day of three days
mega campus drive of INFOSYS.(from 12 to 14march).All colleges of MP are invited.
The results for our college was announced at 4 o clock and soon after that we were called
to attend the HR Interview. There were 51 students who are shortlisted for the Interview.
The Interview started Immediately after the announcement of written tests.
There were 12 panels and the segregated us into various groups. All the 12 panel HR’s
were so cool and they asked just simple questions from the Resume. Some of our panels

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I was allotted to a gent HR who was very senior official of INFOSYS.He was really cool
and jovial. He made me comfortable and offered me water as i was slightly nervous. I
accepted it and said thanks. Then he started asking some simple questions from the
Resume like
1. Tell me abt urself?
4. about the cricket match?(since my hobby is cricket & world cup is going on.)
5.who is ur favourite player & why ? which quality?
6.about my achievements in various areas?(i will explain fully).
7.at last ,he asked a silly ques about the uses of bricks.( i explained it).
then he asked me if i have some questions to him.then my H.R. was over & he said " well
done" to me & i wished him before coming out of the room.
then, after the wait of 3 long hours ,mthe result was declared & 41 were finally selected.i
was one of them by god`s grace.
So friends, The main thing is to prepare a little and project a lot. Use your innovative and
creative ideas and make sure tat it is exhibited. Be yourself and be confident. Hope this
Given a text passage, determine:
    1. If it contains a mathematical question (including word problems or calculations)
    2. If an answer to that mathematical question is provided in the text

First, describe the content structure you found in 1-2 sentences.

Then provide your analysis in the following format:
TYPE: <one of the following values>
- NO_QUESTION
- SINGLE_QUESTION
- SINGLE_QUESTION_WITH_ANSWER
- MULTIPLE_QUESTIONS
- MULTIPLE_QUESTIONS_WITH_ANSWERS
system
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Infosys Sample Test

1. Father's age is three years more than three times the son's age.
After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.
What is the father's present age.

NOON
SOON
+MOON
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JUNE

3. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole

A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.
How much will it take to reach the last pole.

Ans: 41.45 seconds (2 marks)

Let the distance between two poles = x
Hence 11x:24::19x:?

4. A car is travelling at a uniform speed.

The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
After travelling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in
reverse order.
After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits.
What is the average speed of the driver.

Ans: 45 kmph (4 marks)

5. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes.
How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how much?

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6. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.

Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care of him.
Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and looks after his house.
Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town.
Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly
expenses equally.

During their first month of living together, each person contributed Rs.25.
At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the expense so the remaining
amount was distributed equally among everyone.

The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole number of Rupees.
How much did each person recieve?

Ans. Rs 2 (4 marks)
(Hint: Ram's sister, Shyam's neice and Gumnaam's wife are the same person)

7. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.

Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different
colours on either side.
The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.

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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 marks)

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2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.

After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the
Find the original number divided.

Ans: 18 (2 marks)

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. (2 marks)

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

A22xxx1
B2xx124
C2xxx37

A220071
B201124
C201137

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.

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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.

Let initially, N(N-1) = t

By trail and error method (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 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). (5 marks)

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 (5marks )

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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 marks)

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?

(5 marks)

1. Mr.Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank locker .

The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4
columns like:

1234
5678
9 10 11 12

The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK'S locker and directly above
MILLAR'S.
BOOTH'S locker was directly above MILLAR'S.
SMITH'S locker was also above GRAY's (though not directly).
GREEN'S locker was directly below SMITH'S.
WILSON'S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.
MILLAR'S locker was on the bottom row directly to the right of HERD'S.

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WHITE'S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH'S.
Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?

Ans: Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.

2. Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock,how many
minutes is it to six o'clock?

Ans: Twenty six minutes.

3. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to strike 10?

Ans: The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6 intervals-
thus for one interval time taken=7/6.
Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time taken is 9*7/6=10 and 1/2
seconds.
4. Three criminals were arrested for shop lifting.
However, when interrogated only one told the truth in both his statements, while the other
two each told one true statement and one lie.
The statements were:
ALBERT :(a)Chander passed the merchandise. (b)Bruce created the diversion.
BRUCE :(a)Albert passed the merchandise. (b)I created the diversion.
CLIVE :(a)I took the goods out of the shop. (b)Bruce passed them over.

Ans: Albert passed the goods.Bruce created the diversion..Clive took the goods out of the
shop.

5. Everyday in his business a merchant had to weigh amounts from 1 kg to 121 kgs, to the
nearest kg.
What are the minimum number of weight required and how heavy should they be?

Ans: .The minimum number is 5 and they should weigh 1,3,9,27 and 81 kgs.

6. A hotel has 10 storeys.Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the floor
above the floor, below the floor above the fifth.

Ans: The sixth floor.

7. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference.
The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram.
The meetings were chaired by Vikram.
On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically.
On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have
Abhishek as near to him as possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he could.
On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been
his neighbour.

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How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third
evenings?

Third evening :Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol.

8. Two trains start from stations A and B spaced 50 kms apart at the same time and speed.
As the trains start, a bird flies from one train towards the other and on reaching the
second train, it flies back to the first train.This is repeated till the trains collide.
If the speed of the trains is 25 km/h and that of the bird is 100km/h.
How much did the bird travel till the collision.

9. Four prisoners escape from a prison.

The prisoners, Mr East, Mr West, Mr South, Mr North head towards different directions
after escaping.
The following information of their escape was supplied:
None of the prisoners took the road which was their namesake.
Mr.East did not take the South Road
Mr.West did not the South Road.
The West Road was not taken by Mr.East
What road did each of the prisoners take to make their escape?

10. Complete the series:

5, 20, 24, 6, 2, 8, ?

Ans: 12 (as 5*4=20, 20+4=24, 24/4=6, 6-4=2, 2*4=8, 8+4=12).

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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.
ONE
ONE
ONE
ONE

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TEN

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.

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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
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

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

Infosys Sample Test

1) A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs.
If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.

Ans: 8+1=9

2) A soldier looses his way in a thick jungle. At random he 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: Distance travelled in north and south directions

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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))

3) How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing
zeros

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 it is not sufficient.
Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest".
Immmediately the second mathematician answers .
What are the childeren ages?

Ans 1,6 and 6

5) Light glows for every 13 seconds . How many times did it glow 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 according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.
And the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming that to their original podsitions that the shortest among each
column are asked to fall out.
And the tallest among them is B .
Now who is taller among A and B ?

Ans A

7) A person with some money spends1/3 for cloths, 1/5 of the remaining for food and 1/4
of the remaining for travel.
He is left with Rs 100/- .

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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 containing 3 links each.
It is taken to a backsmith to join into a single continuous one .
How many 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 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass.
How many cows are needed to eat the grass in 96 days.?

Ans: 20
g - grass at the beginning
r - rate at which grass grows, per day
y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day
n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days
g + 24*r = 70 * 24 * y
g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y
g + 96*r = n * 96 * y
Solving, n = 20.

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1. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day.

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: 50%

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2. An orange glass has orange juice and white glass has apple juice both of equal volumes.
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 the white glass, which one is greater and by how much?

3. There is a 4 inch cube painted on all sides.

This is cut down into of 1 inch cubes.
What is the no of cubes which have no pointed sides.

Ans: 8

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?

Ans: Mala = 38 yrs

Sam = 41 yrs.

5. Ram Singh goes to his office in the city, every day from his suburban house.
His driver Gangaram 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.

Gangaram 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 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 10 minutes.
The main line service starts at 5 o'clock and the harbour line starts at 5.02A.M.

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A man goes to the station every day to catch the first train that comes.
What is the probability of the man catching the first train?

Ans: 0.8

7. A family X went for a vacation.

Unfortunately it rained for 13 days when they were there.
But whenever it rained in the mornings, they had clear afternoons and vice versa.
In all they enjoyed 11 mornings and 12 afternoons.
How many days did they stay there totally?

Ans: 18

8. A survey was taken among 100 people to find their preference of watching T.V.
programmes.
There are 3 channels. Given the no of people who watch

at least channel 1
at least channel 2
at least channel 3
no channels at all
atleast channels 1and 3
atleast channels 1 and 2
atleast channels 2 and 3

Both start from opposite ends of the pool.

On the first leg, the boys pass each other at 18 m from the deep end of the pool.
During the second leg they pass at 10 m from the shallow end of the pool.
Both go at constant speed but one of them is faster.
Each boy rests for 4 seconds at the end of the first leg.
What is the length of the pool?

10. Each alphabet stands for one digit in the following multiplication.

THIS
xIS
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XFXX
XXUX
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XXNXX
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Ans: T max value = 4

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Infosys Sample Test #7

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 steps

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 same direction.
The 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?

Ans: 60 kmph

3. There are five persons with surnames Mukherjee, Misra, Iyer, Patil and Sharma.
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 Misra, either both of them have a first or middle name of Mohan or
neither have a first or
middle name of Mohan.
Either Iyer or Sharma has a first or middle name of Kumar but not both.
Who has the first or middle name of Anil?

Ans: Kumar Misra Dev

Mohan Iyer Dev
Kumar Patil Mohan
Mohan Sharma Kumar

4. Boys are allowed to watch football at C.V.Raman auditorium subjected to conditions.

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The boy over age 16 can wear overcoat

No boy over age 15 can wear cap
To watch the football either he has to wear overcoat or cap or both
A boy with an umberella or above 16 or both cannot wear sweater.
Boys must either not watch football or wear sweater.
What is the appearence of the boy who is watching football.

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.

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?
When the bird keeper comes back, the assistant told him that x birds have escaped. The
keeper realised that atleast 2 sparrows have escaped.
What is minimum no of birds that can escape?

6. Answer the following questions based on the conditions from the choices A, B, C, D, E
as described below:
(A) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1
(B) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 2
(C) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 and 2
(D) if a definete conclusion can be drawn from condition 1 or 2
(E) no conclusion can be drawn using both conditions

person 1 says N<5

person says N>5
person 3 says 3N>20
person 4 says 3N>10
person 5 says N<8
What is the value of N?

a) 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 and 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.

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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

(a) Yes (b) No

8. Two twins have vertain peculiar charcteristics.

One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
On the other days they tell 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
What day is today?

9. There is a safe with a 5 digit number as the key.

The 4th digit 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

10. A hotel has two wings,the east wing and the west wing.

Some east wing rooms but not all have an ocean view.
All west wing rooms have a harbour view.
The charge for all rooms is identical, except as follows :

Extra charge for all harbour view rooms on or above the 3rd floor
Extra charge for all ocean view rooms except those without balcony
Extra charge for some harbour rooms on the first two floor & some east wing rooms

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without ocean view but having kitchen facilities.

Which of the following cannot be determined on the basis of the nformation given:
I. Whether there are any rooms without a balcony for which an extra charge is imposed.
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a view involves an extra charge.
III. Whether two extra charges are impsed for any room.

(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II and III

(This question is from 1999 Barrons GRE Guide model Test 3 - section 6, question 22)

Ans: (A)

Infosys Sample Test

1) There are two balls touching each other circumferencically. The radius of the big ball
is 4 times the diameter of the smallball.The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise
direction circumferencically 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 always

is horizontal.

2) 1 2 3 4

+3455

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4689

-2345

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2344

+1254

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3698

Q) Strike off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not be at same place) and
combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers to get the same addition. After this
strike off another digit from all and add all the No.s to get the same 2 digit No. perform
the same process again with 1 digit No.s. Give the ' no.s in 7 rows at each stage.

3) there is a safe with a 5 digit No. The 4th digit 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 a

wearhouse(12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and

Bal says to Pal " See you again in the other side". After a few moments

the other(opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waiting

for to meet.If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how

much distance they would have travelled before meeting again.

5) xxx)xxxxx(xxx

3xx

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xxx

x3x

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xxx

3xx

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Hint: 5 is used atleast once in the calculation.

6) Afly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length

is 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet

above floor right across the long wall eqidistant from both the ends.

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 rupee

more than the person to his right and so on, Ramesh decided to give

1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupees

to 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 the

money to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh

8)Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a

basket,given that two balls are removed from the basket and the other

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 of

three.Can you tell the ages of all the three.

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ANALYTICAL

all are liers.Who has money&who doesn't have?

2)A hotel has two,the east wing and the west wing.some east wing rooms

* Extra charge for all OV rooms except those without balcony

* Extra charge for some HV rooms on the first two floor&some EW rooms

without OV but having kitchen facilities. (GRE modrl Test 3-question

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.

plainted),stards(Black or Brown), sari,2 medium,2-short.Tall->no

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every 15 min both southwards and northwards.First train towards south

is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrives

towards North.

2) A person has his own coach&whenever he goes to railway station he

takes his coach.One day he was supposed to reach the railway station

at 5 O'clock.But he finished his work early and reached at 3 O'clock.

Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately.

He 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.He

thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards

his residence at the speed of 3mi/hr.On the way,he gets the coach and

station.

3)Radha,Geeta&Revathi went for a picnic.After a few days they forgot the

date,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.Revathi

said Friday Jun 8.Now one of them told all things wrongly,others one

thing wrong and the last two things wrongly.If April 1st is tuesday

what is the right day,date and month?

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INFOSYS Release : '97

ROBERT,RAJ AND RASUL ALWAYS TAKE DINNER TOGETHER.AFTER
DINNER EACH

(iii)ALL (iv)------- ans:ALL

(2) MAJOR RAJ ,HIS BROTHER ,DAUGHTERS AND SON ARE ALWAYS
PLAYING

MIXED DOUBLES

(i)MJ.RAJ BROTHER IS PLAYING ACROSS THE NET DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TO

MJ.RAJ'S DAUGHTER.

WORSTE

PLAYERS SIBLING.

(1) THERE ARE NINE CARDS NUMBERING 1-9.

(i)CARD 5 IS IN CENTRE

(ii) CARD 9 IS IN ROW IN WHICH CARD 5 IS THERE

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(vi) SUM OF EACH DIAGONAL IS ALSO 15

(A) NINE CARDS ARE ARRANGED IN THREE ROWS AND THREE COLUMNS;

(*) ADJACENT MEANS TWO CARDS ARE IN SAME ROW OR SAME COLUMN
NEXT

TO EACH OTHER.

ANS;(1&5)

OTHER a) 5&4

POSSIBLE TABLES

276627

951159

438384

ii) MARGON MAN CAN'T MARRY DRAVID WOMAN

iii) IN A FAMILY SON WILL GET HIS FATHER'S CASTE AND DAUGHTER WILL

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QUESTIONS:

i) ii) iii)

i)TO HAVE

A) B) C) D) E)

This is 2005 - Chennai PaperTotally 10 questions to be answered in 1 hour.

1. four family names are given clark ,flure,miller ,jac… and their members name are
given Stacy ,robin,Erica,mandy . but not in order.( u hav to find which frend belongs to
which family) Each friend prepares salad using 3 different fruits . they are given apple,
cherry, grape, banana., no two friends uses the same combination.
Various conditions are given and 4 ques asked.

1. Robin is not belonging to miller family he used apples.

2. Erica is not a miller not a Clark.
3. Clark family used cherries and grapes but flure used one of these not both.
4. Mandy and miller used apples and cherries

1. Which fruit did Mandy didn't used?

2. What are the fruits used in miller salad?
3. Robin belongs to which family?
4. What r the Common fruits used in robin and Erica salads?

2. there r some bees in a garden..1/5th of them went to a particular

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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)

Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards.

Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which
has
two different colours on either side.
The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue.
They see the color on the reverse side and give the following
comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the
cards each person.

4. In a dark room, there is a box containing 5 white balls, 5 black balls, 5 yellow balls, 5
blue balls, and 5 red balls. What is the least number of balls to be chosen so as to ensure a
pair of socks has been drawn ?

How many people had all of these… ?

6. 6. A and B together had set their watch at showing same time. Unknowing to both of
them, A’s watch is fast by 1 minute and B’s watch is slow by 2 minutes. After the couple
of hours, when they looked at their watch ,, it was found that A’s watch was 1 hour ahead
of B’s watch.. Can you say how long it is before their difference in time is 1 hour..but
after setting their watch at same time..

7. Ajit was driving down the country side when he saw a farmer tending his pigs and
ducks in his yard. Ajit asked the farmer how many of each he had.

The farmer replied that there were 60 eyes and 86 feet between them.

How many ducks and how many pigs were there ?

8. This question about footprint in kitchen.. three brothers annie, danny, fanny. Their
mother asks them about something stolen from the kitchen.. From these children, one
tells truth, and other two tell lies .Annie says “I didn’t do it “, Fanny says “ Danny did it”,
and Danny says “ fanny says lie “.. the question is to find whose footprint in the
kitchen…

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9. This question is about to find the ages of three persons.. Three statements from each
person will be given. And from the 3 statements from each person, one statement will be
false and the other two will be truth. So totally 9 statements there. With the help of these
information , we have to find the ages of these 3 persons.

10. In a box, there will be a certain number of papers in some order, each containing
person name. A manager was asked to choose the people from the box randomly, say
5%.(ie., 5% of people should have to be taken). The manager picks first one and left the
next, picks third one and left next 2 , and picks sixth one and left next 3. and goes on.
When he picks the last one, it is actually the final one in the box.!!.. so he got 5% people
from the box.. what was the total no of papers in the box ?

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Infosys Placement Paper and Sample Paper Exam 15th May 2005

10 puzzles

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1>( 3 marks)

Sandy's uncle died leaving 1000 rs behind to be distributed among his five nephews.

The money is to be divided among the nephews according to their ages. A person gets

Rs 20 more than his immediate younger brother.Sandy being the youngest what was his
share?

Ans. Rs 160.0

let sandy's share be x

x+x+20+x+40+x+60+x+80=1000

5x+200=1000

x=800/5

x=160

2> ( 4 marks)

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Rohit was descending from the elavator which was not working. When he had stepped
down

7 steps his sir started from the bottom of the elevator and they passed each other and
when Rohit had still 4 steps to go down, his sir reached at the top. Taking into
consideration that sir’s 2 steps took same time as Rohit’s one what were the total no of
steps?

Ans

22 steps

let no of steps be x

speed=distance/time

Distance covered by Rohit = x-7-4 (7 steps already covered and 4 were still to go)

Distance covered by sir = x

Speed of Rohit =s

Speed of sir = 2s

Time taken is equal in both the cases so

Time(rohit)=time(sir)

(x-7-4) / s = x / 2s

2x – 22 = x

x=22

3> ( 3 marks)

A vendor who is an ex-mathematician has a number of apples and when he arranges them
in rows of 3 he is left with one more, when he arranges them in rows of 5 again he is left
with 1 more, Same happens with when he tries to arrange them in rows of 7 and 9 that is
1 apple is left extra.

But when he arranges them in a row of 11 he is left with none. Can u tell me how many
apples were there?

Ans

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946

the no is a multiple of 3,5,7,9 + a remainder of 1. So

3* 5* 7* 9= 945 + 1 =946

946 /11= 86

so it is divisible by 11 also.

4> ( 4 marks)

A theft was reported in a p[olice station and police detained 3 persons – Tommy, Lee and
Andy on the basis of doubt. However everyone said that he did not steal and one among
the other two is the thief. Later on police came to know that Tommy was lying. Who was
the real thief?

Ans

Tommy

1: he didn’t steal though he was the thief.

2: one among the other two did it. If he is the thief how can other 2 do it.

It was very easy and infact that created a doubt n everyone cross checked it again n again
to be sure as nobody was expecting such a simple puzzle.

5> (6 marks)

The temperature is noted for 5 consecutive days and it is noted that no two days have the
same temperature. Moreover the product of all the 5 readings is 12. The difference is
noted to the nearest degrees. What were the readings of the temperature?

2*2*3 bt 2 cant b repeated so –2 and to nullify -ve sign –1 is there

so –2 *-1 * 1 * 2 *3 = 12

6> ( 8 marks)

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There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker,
manager,cashier.

Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post.

Among the 5 two have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 –
1:30
Mrs Allen and Mrs Benett are sisters.
Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.
Two Bachelors share their rooms.
Davis and Ewinger doesn’t face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the
Manager when he returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for
lunch before time.
Ans:

I m not sure about the answers bt question was like this

Clark:Cashier

Allen: Manager

Benett:Clerk

Ewinger:Footwalker

Lunch 11:30 – 12:30

Two

Davis ( from the 5th point he takes lunch in the earlier session)

three

Ewinger cant be manager

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7> (4marks)

A dice has faces 1 against 6, 3 against 5 and 2 against 4 always. How many such
combinations of faces are possible in a dice?

Ans

24

keeping 1 and 6 fixed, we can have two combinations of 6 and 3, and two of 2 and 4 that
means four. And interchanging 1 and 6 we can have two more combinations that means
with one pair 8 combinations are there : 4*2=8. Similarly with other two also 8 combos.
So in all 8*3=24 combos are possible.

8> (4 marks)

A boy’s age is 5 times as old as his sister. His father’s age is twice to that of his mother
who is five times as old as the boy. The sum of all of them equals to that of his
grandmother who is celeberating his 81st birthday. How old is the boy?

Ans:

5 years old

sister’s = x/5

mother’s=5x

fatther’s=2(5x)

grandmother’s=81

81=x/5+x+5x+10x

81*5 = x+5x+ 25x +50x

405 = 81x

x= 405/81

x=5

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so boys age is 5 years

9> (6 marks)

It was something like 4persons take part in a race and got different ranks.what weretheir
ranks: John, black, Wee, Anthony

Conditions were given like

If John stood first then wee cant be on 4th position and Anthony at 2nd postion.
Similarly 4 5 conditions were given

10> (8 marks)

An easy question with 4 subparts

A painter has 7 paintings and he follow certain rules while exhibiting the paintings:

U is there if and if only w is there

Following these constraints 4 questions were asked based on the possible combinations in
the exhibit

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After the puzzle round half an hours general english test was there . It was very easy
having 45 questions

Result was anounced the same day

Next day in the morning I had my intrview . It was very general hr round .Two persons

Questions of intrvw:

what is the difference u faced while working in a team during ur training? Don’t u think
more options and suggestions mean confusion.
What if a person in ur team is always talking against u in all matters without listening to
ur part?(leave it to team leader)

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Why 5th gear is provided in new cars?(for speed)

My dad was frm army.So they asked wat u like abt army.(uniform, respect, discipline)
What all places have u been during the transfers and how did that affect u in ur life and y
They gave me one sequence of numbers and without giving much time asked me the
approach I was following to solve that. I was nt able to solve it bt I explained d approach
to them.
Asked my hobbies .My toughest time in whole life an happiest moment.
Questions u want to ask from us.

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Infosys Placement Paper and Sample Paper Exam on 6 th Feb 2005

Ref. Books
· QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE - RS AGGARWAL(For basic knowledge in all
concepts-Atleast just see the formulae and examples)

· Puzzles Insight -Y.R.K.Mahesh (This is a very good book)

50/- A Bookstal atl Avenue road,Bangalore

Questions were marked as 3,3,3,4,4,6,6,5,8,8

1). A frog falls down in a well 30 ft deep. Every day it jumps 3 ft up and

every night it falls down by 2ft. How many days it takes to come out

of the well.

Ans 28 days.

2). There is a 1 km long wire placed on some no. of poles which r in equal distance. If the
no of poles

increases 1 2/3.how many poles are there initially.

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Then the distance betn two adjacent poles is =1000/(N-1)

After removing one pole distance betn two adjacent poles is= 1000/(N-2)

(N-1) * (N-2) =600

Solve it ans is 26

G is younger than H and older than F

Like this few more stmts were there .It was so easy..... (3 m)

Ans Edward

4). For every one hour two trains will start at the same time ,one from Bangalore to

from Madras to Bangalore On parallel tracks. All trains travel with same speed and each
train will

take 5 hours to reach the other station.How many trains, one train will meet during the
journey?

Ans l—------l—------l—------l—------l—------l

1 2.5 hrs

2 3.0 hrs

3 3.5 hrs

4 4.0 hrs

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5 5.0 hrs

5). A jeweller is having a left and right window display cases and some gems like
amethyst A, diamond D,E,S,R,G,O

4 questions were there like

1.What is the possible case on the left window , from the following

ans A,R,O

2.What is the possible case on the right side window

3.I f X,Y pair occurs on left side window, what r the possibilities for right hand window

4.I f P,Q pair occurs on right side window, what r the possibilities for left hand window

Ans suppose there r total x Qs then

( x * 2/3 ) + ( x –5 ) = ( 2x * ¾ ) => x= 30

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druggists,grocer,butcher,policeman.find out who is who (8 m)

1)clark and jones are neighbours and they drive each other to work.

4) clark always beats smith while bowling ,

5) the police man earns more than the druggists and the grocer.

6) the policeman never met druggist.

7) policeman met the grocer only once when he caught by the policeman for speeding.

(Means he was caught driving his vehicle crossing the speed limit )

i hope i did not miss any conditon

8). Natives of one town always Lie.Visitors always tell truth.One day I went to the
town,and I met one Sales Person and soon he became my friend.We went to one hotel to
have lunch. I wanted to know whether the sales person is a visitor or native to that town
without asking directly.I told him to go and ask a woman in the hotel as”ARE YOU A
VISITOR?”.He went to her and asked her,and he came back and said”She Said
YES”.Now can u tell me whether the salesperson is visitor or Native?

Ans : Suppose take the below cases

N-NATIVE ,V-VISITOR

SalesPerson Woman

N N No

N V No

V N YES

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V V YES

9) 3 people M,H,G gave 3 statement each, of which 2 are true and 1 is false.

what are M,H,G 's ages.

M: 1. m=22

2. h=m+2

3. g=m-1

H: 1. H is not youngest

2. H,G difference is 3

3. H=g+1

M: 1.

2. m=23

3.

ans: m=23,g=22,h=25

10). In how many ways you can arrange the numbers on the die .There is only condition
that

1,6 and 2,5 and 3,4 will always be on the opposite sides.

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 marks)

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2. Three friends divided some bullets equally.

After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the
Find the original number divided.
Ans: 18 (2 marks)
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. (2 marks)
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
Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A22xxx1
B2xx124
C2xxx37
Ans: The filled table is given below (4 marks)
Played Won Lost Draw Goals For Goals Against
A220071
B201124
C201137
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.

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
By trail and error method (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

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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). (5 marks)

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 (5marks )

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 marks)

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?
(5 marks)

INFOSYS PLACEMENT PAPER

>
> > There are 5 q papers with them. this is only one of those.
> > All otheres were more or less of the same model but different
> > qs. This is just to give U an idea.
>>
> > The questions are not in order.

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>>
> > 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 mar
ks).
> > 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 relatio
n.use venn diagram.(5 marks).
>>
> > 3)complete the table.
>>
> > Played won lost draw goals goals
> > for against
>>A221
>>B2124
>>C237
>>
> > 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).

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>>
> > 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)
> > (5 marks).
>>
> > 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).
> > 11) 4,5 statements.From that find the answer.(7 marks).
>>
>>
> > Reference books
> > 1.) Puzzles and teasers by summer's
> > 2.) Shakuntala Devi. (puzzles).
>>
c.v.
> We do not remember the questions exactly, here we just tried to cover
> the major areas.
>
> Paper consists of two sections : 1. analytical (20 marks)
> 2. C skills (20 marks)total time 45 min
>
> Analytical:
> -------------
>
> 1. Given a cube, with different colors on its faces, and then is cut
> into 64 pieces, and the questions relate to the colors of different
> colored small cubes.
>
> 2. A few ladies and gents sit around table in some given order and 4
> questions are about their seating arrangement with some restrictions.
>
> 3. Draw a venn diagram for 3 items : white, flowers, cloth
>
> Ans : draw 3 circles each intersecting the other , with white kept in the

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> middle.
>
> 4. A problem related to seating arrangement of 4 people ( 2 ladies and
> 2 gents) with some restrictions
>
> 5. problem related to milk with water added to it for three times
>
> Ans: 20.5 litres
>
> 6. Problem related to diagrams . Five diagrams were given and asked to
> find the sixth one.
>
> C-Skills:
> --------
>
> 1. Max number of nodes in a binary tree with height 3 is 20 : Ans: False
>
> 2. 10,20,30,40,50,60 : give the order when put in a queue and in a stack
>
> Ans : Queue : 10,20,30,40,50,60
> stack : 60,50,40,30,20,10
>
> 3. Debugging is the process of finding
>
> Ans : logical and runtime errors
>
> 4. trace the error:
>
> void main(){
> int &a;
> /* some other stuff here */
>}
> Ans: syntax error
>
> 5. a problem with a function named 'myValue' will be given and asked to
> find the value of main() for an argument of 150,
>
> Ans : 150
>
> 6. Some problems related to 'for' loops.
>
> 7. problem on conditional inclusion.
>
> 8. problem related to depth first and breadth first search (DSA subject)
>
> 9. study the syntax of malloc function

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>
> 10. locate the error
>
> int arr (20);
> Ans: syntax error.
>
>
>

HCL SYSTEM SOFTWARE PAPER: 60 qs; 90 min. (4 sections)

******************************

section 1.

1.which of the following involves context switch,

a) system call b)priviliged instruction
c)floating poitnt exception
d)all the above
e)none of the above
ans: a

2.In OSI, terminal emulation is done in

a)semion b)appl.. c)presenta... d)transport
ans: b

3....... 25MHz processor , what is the time taken by the instruction which needs
3 clock cycles,
a)120 nano secs b)120 micro secs
c)75 nano secs d)75 micro secs

4. For 1 MBmemory no of address lines required,

a)11 b)16 c)22 d) 24

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ans: 16

c)box d) none
ans : a

a) 2 member in class A,B shouldnot have same name

b) 2 member in class A,C " '' '' ''
c) both
d) none

ans : a

7. question related to java

8. OLE is used in

a)inter connection in unix

b)interconnection in WINDOWS
c)interconnection in WINDOWS NT

10.macros and function are related in what aspect?

a)recursion b)varying no of arguments
c)hypochecking d)type declaration

11.preproconia.. does not do one of the following

a)macro ...... b)conditional compliclation
c)in type checking d)including load file

ans: c

SECTION B
__________

1.enum day = { jan = 1 ,feb=4, april, may}

what is the value of may?
a)4 b)5 c)6 d)11
e)none of the above

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2.main
{
int x,j,k;
j=k=6;x=2; ans x=1
x=j*k;
printf("%d", x);

3. fn f(x)

{
if(x<=0)
return; ans fn(5) ....?
else f(x-1)+x;
}

4. i=20,k=0;
for(j=1;j<i;j=1+4*(i/j))
{
k+=j<10?4:3;
}

printf("%d", k); ans k=4

5. int i =10
main()
{
int i =20,n;
for(n=0;n<=i;)
{
int i=10
i++;
}
printf("%d", i); ans i=20

6. int x=5;
y= x&y
( MULTIPLE CHOICE QS)
ans : c

7. Y=10;
if( Y++>9 && Y++!=10 && Y++>10)

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printf("........ Y);
else printf("".... )

ans : 13

8. f=(x>y)?x:y
a) f points to max of x and y
b) f points to min of x and y
c)error
d) ........

ans : a

9. if x is even, then

(x%2)=0
x &1 !=1
x! ( some stuff is there)

a)only two are correct

b) three are correct
c), d) ....

a) <=
b)?:
c)==
d)*

ans: b and d

SECTION.C (PRG SKILLS)

--------
(1) STRUCT DOUBLELIST
INT DET; LIST VOID
STRUCT PREVIOUS; BE GIVEN AND A PROCEDURE TO DELETE
STRUCT NEW; AN ELEMENT WILL BE GIVEN
}

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DELETE(STRUCT NODE)
{
NODE-PREV-NEXT NODE-NEXT;
NODE-NEXT-PREV NODE-PREV;
NODE
}
IN WHAT CASE THE PREV WAS
(A) ALL CASES
(B) IT DOES NOT WORK FOR LAST ELEMENT
(C) IT DOES NOT WORK FOR-----
(2) SIMILAR TYPE QUESTION
ANS: ALL DON'T WORK FOR NON NULL VALUE

(3) VOID FUNCTION(INT KK)

{
KK+=20;
}
VOID FUNCTION (INT K)
INT MM,N=&M
KN = K
KN+-=10;
}
SECTION D
--------
(1) a=2,b=3,c=6 c/(a+b)-(a+b)/c=?
(3) A B C D E
*4
---------- find E ANS: 13
EDCBA
------------
(4) GRE-MODEL TEST-1, SECTION-6(19-22)
(5) M HAS DOUBLE AMOUNT AS D, Y HAS RS. 3 MORE THAN HALF OF
AMOUNT OF D
THE ORDERING A,B,C M C D C Y
ANS:DATA INSUFFICIENT D C M C Y
(6)IN STASTIC MEN CAUSE MORE ACCIDENTS THEN ONE CONCLUSION
(A) MEN DRIVE MORE THAN ONCE
(B) STASTICS GIVE WRONG INFORMATION
(C) WOMEN ARE CAUTION THAN ME ANS; C(VERIFY)
(D)-----ETC
(7) P,Q,R,S,T,U -SECURING GRANT;TWO TOURIST PARTIES AND THEN TWO
SECURITY
GAURDS SHOULD GO WITH EACH PARTY
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_
P AND R-ARE ENEMIES, Q DOES NOT GO SOUTH
P&S-ARE WILLING TO BE TOGETHER
______________________________________________________________________
THE TWO PARTIES MAY GO SOUTH&NORTH RESPECTIVELY
AT ONE POINT EACH MAY PASS EACH OTHER THEN GAURDS CAN
EXCHANGE
6 Q BASED ON THIS
(8)pq-r/s =2 what is q inference a,n&d
(a) a can do n units of work in strs,a&b can do n units of work in 2 hrs
in how many hrs n units of work ans:3 hr 30 min p = (2s+r)/q
____________

main()
{
int var=25,varp;
varp=&var;
varp p = 10;
fnc(varp)
printf("%d%d,var,varp);
}
(a) 20,55(b) 35,35(c) 25,25(d)55,55

[ c++,c,dbms interview]
[fundamentals]
this is new paper
_______________________________________________________________________
____
application -software
____________________
part-1:
28-questions
(5)ingless ans:RDMS
(1)bit program-ans d
(2)c ans
(3)+ 0 ans
(5)------
(6)-------
(9)25--45 even no. ans--10
(10) >10 <100 ---ans=n+9

7.Interchanging strings and numbers Ans C

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8. Matricide:Mother:: Homicide:? AnsHuman

9.Some Mammels are Vertebrates
Some Vertebrates are....... Ans d
10. Figure patteren: --|--.......etc. direction changes problem.
11. work problem.........etc. (not clear).

C TEST

1. main()
{
int arr[100];
int c:
int N;
for(i=-:i<N;i++)
arr[i]=i;
minvalue i = .....
Maxvalue i = ..... Ans 0,100 resp

2. Union Problem ..... Ans : a or c

3. for n=2 the following fn returning value is
int fun(int n)
{
for(i = 1;i<=n;i++)
for(j=i;j<=i;j++)
sum=sum+j;
return(sum);
} Ans 6

4. Calculate sum=1+1+2+1+2+3+1......
Ans i<=x;j<=i
5. for x=2 y=3 z=1
the following fn return
int fun(int n; int y; int z)
{
int sum
for(i=x;i<=y;i++)
for(j=1;j<=z;z++)
sum=sum+z;
return sum
}

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Ans 0(check)

6. The values of sum from above fn

for x=0; y=0;z=1 Ans 1
7.how can you insert the following values in stack and numbers 10,20,30,40,50.60
stack [][][][][][]
numb [][][][][][][]

Ans
60 50 40 30 20 10
10 20 30 40 50 60
check.

8. # ifndef XYZ

#include "XYZ.h"
#endif
what is meaning ?
Ans:
if XYZ is not defined then only include the header file XYZ.h.

9. p:malloc(int*sizeof(int));

ans: a

10.a=5 b=10 c=7

(a>c)?a:((b>c)?b:c) ans 10
11. debugging eliminates Ans[c]
ans: both logical & ruin time errors.
12. int term (int x)
{ int sum=0;int i;
for(i=0;i<=5;i++)
sum+=x; /*problel is wrong but Ans is 650.*/
return(sum);
} Ans 650
the above fn value for x=150
13.int x;
scanf("%d",x);
-------------
--------------
what is error in the above program

14.int a[] = { 1, , 9,2.......}

int *p;
p=&a[2];
printf("%s",p);

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a)7 b)2 c)4407 d)none

ans: d
15.a[][] = {1,2},{3,4}
b[] [] ={
void fun(A,B)
int i,j;
for(i=1;i<N;i++)
for(j=1;j<N;j++)
sum=sum+A[i][j];
return sum;
}
what is wrong in the above function?

16. OTHER QUESTIONS ARE MAINLY CONCENTRATED ON ERRORS LIKE

(i)syntax (ii) runtime (iii) logical (iv) debugging.

17. A binary tree with depth of '3' has max kof 20 nodes ans: no.
18. breadth search and depth search in binary tree.
ANALYTICAL

1.20%loss;20 % gain Ans 4% loss

2.Order problem Ans : Bo,Ka,A,Tp Ans Bo
3.10%5+3*2-3 ans:5
4.Calls:Tissus::Atom:? Ans:Molecules
5.cube problem( 32 bigger+4 smaller cubes)-> R.S.Aggrawal nonverbal
->pg 92: 5 questions
6 PQRSTU->problem-> Verbal Reasoning -> .......do.......pg 430 : 5 question.
7 problem -> verbal reasoning -> rs aggrawal pg 207 Quest 17 to 21.

C TEST

1. malloc ? 2. char * p =" hwllo world " , what is wrong?

3. char *(*(*a(N))())();?
4.*p++ = ?
5 int i=7
printf( "%d \n",i++ i++) o/p =? ans 56
6.n=2 pow((2.0,n),++n)?
7 #define macro for ( i,g) ?
8. int reg=2 is there any wrong ? write a reason
9. #define max 10
p=&(a+b);
q=*max;
} what is wrong

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10. strcat( string,'O');

wrong? werite reason?
11.char *s=char * ....
else (string)....? wrong? write reason?

1. Venn diagram for white, clothes,flowers

2.Male members ABCDEF, female members PQRSTU
This problem is same as in rs aggrawal [5questions]
3. not clear.

4. IMS material A sales person problem.

[5 question] conditions: M must visit before P&Q
R " " " MNOPQRS
5. A containor contains 40 lt milk, 8 lt water

ans:( 0.80)^3 * 40 = 20.41lts.

6. direction problem (playing cards) Ams south-west.

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1) B is the middle number

2) D is 3 less than c
3) the difference between F & A is equal in magnitude and sign
to the difference between E & C
4) Neither F nor C lie between E & G

a) What is the value of B-F

1 2 -1 -2 cannot be determined

b) which is greatest

F C A E cannot be determined

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8 6 9 12 cannot

2) Given that a,b,c,d,e each represent one of the digits between

1-9 and that the following multiplication holds

abcde
4
----------
edcba

a) 4
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8
e) none

1. How many butes does an array A(1:8,-2:2,1:5) require for storage if

each element of the array is 24 bits long.

200 480 600 800 none

2. begin

i:=0;
j:=0; | block d

loop:

if(i != 0)
i := i-1;
else
i := i+1;

i := i+1; | block a
j := j+1; | block b

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if (j <= 25)
goto loop;

end | block c

a) What is the value of i at [c]

2?
b) How many times is the goto executed
25 ?

c) How many times is the loop executed if i is initialized to 1

in [d] 26
d) How many times is the loop entered if the block [b] is changed
to j=j+1 ?

2?

2. F occurs only if B occurs

3. D occurs if B or C occurs

5. J occurs only if E or F occurs

6. H occurs if E occurs

7. D causes G, H or Both.

8. G occurs if F occurs.

Questions
---------

1. F & G (ii) E & H (iii) D

Ans

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---
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 1,2,3 or 2 & 3 but not 1

2. If B occurs which must occur

Ans
--- (a) F & G (b) D & G (c) D (d) G & H (e) J

3. If J occurs which must occur

Ans
---
(a) E (b) Both E & F (c) Either B or C (d) B (e) Both B & c

(I) D (II) A (III) F

Ans
(a) I only (b) II (c) I & II (d) II & III (e) I,II,III

(a) F (b) A (c) D (d) C (e) J

#include<stdio.h>
int SumElement(int *,int);
void main(void)
{
int x[10];
int i=10;
for(;i;)
{
i--;
*(x+i)=i;

}
printf("%d",SumElement(x,10));
}
int SumElement(int array[],int size)

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{
int i=0;
float sum=0;
for(;i<size;i++)
sum+=array[i];
return sum;
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
int printf(const char*,...);
void main(void)
{
int i=100,j=10,k=20;
-- int sum;
float ave;
char myformat[]="ave=%.2f";
sum=i+j+k;
ave=sum/3.0;
printf(myformat,ave);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
int a[10];
printf("%d",((a+9) + (a+1)));
}

#include<stdio.h>

void main(void);
void main(void)
{
struct s{
int x;
float y;
}s1={25,45.00};
union u{
int x;
float y;

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} u1;
u1=(union u)s1;
printf("%d and %f",u1.x,u1.y);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
{
unsigned int c;
unsigned x=0x3;
scanf("%u",&c);
switch(c&x)
{
case 3: printf("Hello!\t");
case 2: printf("Welcome\t");
case 1: printf("To All\t");
default:printf("\n");
}
}

#include<stdio.h>
int fn(void);
void print(int,int(*)());
int i=10;
void main(void)
{
int i=20;
print(i,fn);
}
void print(int i,int (*fn1)())
{
printf("%d\n",(*fn1)());
}

int fn(void)
{
return(i-=5);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)

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{{
char numbers[5][6]={"Zero","One","Two","Three","Four"};
printf("%s is %c",&numbers[4][0],numbers[0][0]);
}

int bags[5]={20,5,20,3,20};
void main(void)
{
int pos=5,*next();
*next()=pos;
printf("%d %d %d",pos,*next(),bags[0]);
}
int *next()
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
if (bags[i]==20)
return(bags+i);
printf("Error!");
exit(0);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
int y,z;
int x=y=z=10;
int f=x;
float ans=0.0;
f *=x*y;
ans=x/3.0+y/3;
printf("%d %.2f",f,ans);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
double dbl=20.4530,d=4.5710,dblvar3;
void main(void)
{
double dbln(void);
dblvar3=dbln();
printf("%.2f\t%.2f\t%.2f\n",dbl,d,dblvar3);
}
double dbln(void)

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{
double dblvar3;
dbl=dblvar3=4.5;
return(dbl+d+dblvar3);
}
#include<stdio.h>
static int i=5;
void main(void)
{
int sum=0;
do
{
sum+=(1/i);
}while(0<i--);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
int oldvar=25,newvar=-25;
int swap(int,int);
swap(oldvar,newvar);
printf("Numbers are %d\t%d",newvar,oldvar);
}
int swap(int oldval,int newval)
{
int tempval=oldval;
oldval=newval;
newval=tempval;
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
int i=100,j=20;
i++=j;
i*=j;
printf("%d\t%d\n",i,j);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
int newval(int);
void main(void)
{
int ia[]={12,24,45,0};
int i;
int sum=0;

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for(i=0;ia[i];i++)
{
sum+=newval(ia[i]);
}
printf("Sum= %d",sum);
}
int newval(int x)
{
static int div=1;
return(x/div++);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
int var1,var2,var3,minmax;
var1=5;
var2=5;
var3=6;
minmax=(var1>var2)?(var1>var3)?var1:var3:(var2>var3)?var2:var3;
printf("%d\n",minmax);
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void main(void)
{
void pa(int *a,int n);
int arr[5]={5,4,3,2,1};
pa(arr,5);
}

void pa(int *a,int n)

{
int i;
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
printf("%d\n",*(a++)+i);
}
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
void print(void);
void main(void)
{
print();
}
void f1(void)
{
printf("\nf1():");

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#include "6.c"
void print(void)
{
extern void f1(void);
f1();
}
static void f1(void)

{
printf("\n static f1().");
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
static int i=50;
int print(int i);
void main(void)
{
static int i=100;
while(print(i))
{
printf("%d\n",i);
i--;
}
}
int print(int x)
{
static int i=2;
return(i--);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
typedef struct NType
{
int i;
char c;
long x;
} NewType;
void main(void)

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{
NewType *c;

c=(NewType *)malloc(sizeof(NewType));
c->i=100;
c->c='C';
(*c).x=100L;
printf("(%d,%c,%4Ld)",c->i,c->c,c->x);
}

#include<stdio.h>
void main(void);
const int k=100;
void main(void)
{
int a[100];
int sum=0;
for(k=0;k<100;k++)
*(a+k)=k;
sum+=a[--k];
printf("%d",sum);
}

*********************************************
INFOSYS PLACEMENT PAPER
*********************************************

1) There are two balls touching each other circumferencically.

The radius of the big ball is 4 times the diameter of the small
ball.The outer small ball rotates in anticlockwise direction
circumferencically 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 always
is horizontal.

2) 1 2 3 4
+3455
----------
4689
-2345

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----------
2344
+1254
------------
3698

Q) Strike off any digit from each number in seven rows (need not
be at same place) and combine the same operations with 3 digit numbers
to get the same addition. After this strike off another digit from all
and add all the No.s to get the same 2 digit No. perform the same
process again with 1 digit No.s. Give the ' no.s in 7 rows at
each stage.

3) there is a safe with a 5 digit No. The 4th digit 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 a
wearhouse(12m X 11m) in opposite directions. They meet at a point and
Bal says to Pal " See you again in the other side". After a few moments
of walking Bal decides to go back for a smoke but he changes his
direction again to his previous one after 10 minutes of walking in
the other(opposite) direction remembering that Pal will be waiting
for to meet.If Bal and Pal walk 8 and 11 feet respectively, how
much distance they would have travelled before meeting again.

5) xxx)xxxxx(xxx
3xx
-------
xxx
x3x
------
xxx
3xx
------

Q) Find the 5 digit No.

Hint: 5 is used atleast once in the calculation.
6) Afly is there 1 feet below the ceiling right across a wall length
is 30m at equal distance from both the ends. There is a spider 1 feet
above floor right across the long wall eqidistant from both the ends.
If 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.

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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 rupee
more than the person to his right and so on, Ramesh decided to give
1 rupee to his right & he in turn 2 rupees to his right and 3 rupees
to 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 the
money to his right person. How many men are there along with Ramesh
and what is the money with poorest fellow.

8)Question related to probabilities of removing the red ball from a

basket,given that two balls are removed from the basket and the other
ball 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 of
three.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)A hotel has two,the east wing and the west wing.some east wing rooms
but not all have an ocean view(OV).All WW have a harbour view(HV).The
charge 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 rooms
without OV but having kitchen facilities. (GRE modrl Test 3-question
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 who
insulted 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->no

1) A person has to go both Northwards&Southwards in search of a job.

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He decides to go by the first train he encounters.There are trains for

every 15 min both southwards and northwards.First train towards south
is at 6:00 A.M. and that towards North is at 6:10 .If the person arrives
at any random time,what is the probability that he gets into a train
towards North.
2) A person has his own coach&whenever he goes to railway station he
takes his coach.One day he was supposed to reach the railway station
at 5 O'clock.But he finished his work early and reached at 3 O'clock.
Then he rung up his residence and asked to send the coach immediately.
He 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.He
thought that he should not waste his time and started moving towards
his residence at the speed of 3mi/hr.On the way,he gets the coach and
reaches home at 6 o'clock.How far is his residence from railway
station.

3)Radha,Geeta&Revathi went for a picnic.After a few days they forgot the

date,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.Revathi
said Friday Jun 8.Now one of them told all things wrongly,others one
thing wrong and the last two things wrongly.If April 1st is tuesday
what is the right day,date and month?

I attended the Infosys Test on July 2nd at Meenakshi college, Chennai..

9 out of ten questions were repeated..the 10th question was the one I didn't find in any old
papers or in books.. I may be wrong so u people better search for the exact question..
Well am hoping to clear it.. if u don't have enough time to prepare for infosys written test..
u better solve all the previous papers available in here
http://discussionsworld.com/forum_topics.asp?FID=33. I refered two shakunatala devi
books, George summers "Puzzles and teasers"..and R.S.Agarwal verbal reasoning..all the
best for u all..

1. A man fixed an appointment to meet Mr.X, X asked him to meet two days after the day
before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. Whats the appointed day. --> 3 marks

2. Two friends were flipping coins, they bet \$1 apiece. At the end of the game One

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person won \$3 and another person won 3 times of the money his/her fren has won.. How
many games it took them to come to this amount... --> 3 marks

3. Triplets Annie, Danny and fanny spoiled their kitchen with mud on their socks.. Their
mother was furious and she couldn't find it who was the culprit as foot print size of the
triplets were same.. when she asked the triplets.. Annie said "I didn't do it"...Fanny said
"Danny did it".. Danny said "I didn't do it, Fanny is lying".. Among the triplets only one
speaks truth..the other two always lie..find the culprit who spoiled the kitchen--> 3 marks

4. chocolate bars problem was given like i had some bars,i gave half the bars to my
mother n half more to my father then half of the remaining n half more to my pet and i
ended up with 1 bar with myself.how many bars did i have initially?(its not exact but was
very much like this only) -->4 marks

5. Apples cherries bananas,grapes. 4 girls-robin,mandy,stacy,erica . 4 families

miller,jacob,flure,clark.Each girls uses 3 fruits in her salad.No body have same
combination.
- robin not a miller girl uses apples.
- miller and mandy uses apples and cherries.
- 3.clark uses cherries and grapes but flure uses only one of them.
- erica is not clark or flure.
a. Guess robins family: (Options are not remember)
b. Which fruit not used by mandy? C he ta naS
c. Which combination by erica?
d.Which is robin fruit combination?--> 8 marks

6. Jim Planted some grass right at the centre of his garden.. Each n every day the size
occupied by the grass doubles..( such that if its two metres on first day then its 4 metres
on second day).. So it took 50 days for the grass to fully occupy the garden... at which
day half of the garden was filled with grass..my answer was 49th day as the amount of
grass doubles when compared to previous day..-->3 marks

7. There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker,
manager,cashier. Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post. Among the 5 two
have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 - 1:30 Mrs Allen
and Mrs Benett are sisters.

Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.

Two Bachelors share their rooms.
Davis and Ewinger doesn't face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the

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Manager when he returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for
lunch before time. --> 8 marks

8. Two sequence problems I remember only one of them..-->6 marks 1,2,3,8,_,224

9. Jan robinson, kate jones, john smith are engineer, pilot & biochemist not in the
order .they have three martian assistants . as they find difficulty with martian names they
gave them nick names as smith, robinson, jones as their masters name. 1.robinson is an
yomi 2. martians speak uti. 3.the martians name is the same as the bio chemist 4.robinson
beats engineer in the chess (conditions I don't remember properly) who is the pilot?
Ans :Jan robinson , U have to work out the conditions and analyze some 2 conditions r
imp u get the idea so concentrate and do.--> 6marks

10. Some stamps problem..don't remember exactly..-->5marks

that the x replied "my friend has 3 more than the half if .
Its pretty confusing stuff..so am not able to trace the exact question..
The question is to find the number of stamps judy has sent to two of his friends..

1. a cube whose surface is painted red is sliced six times such

that it is divided into 27 smaller cubes. how many of smaller cubes
have: a. no red sides b. 2 red sides c. 3 red sides d. 1 red side

2. 2 men r playing tossing a coin. if one of them wins he gets 1\$

frm the loser. at the end of a no. of games one of them had 3\$ and the
other won 3 times. how many games did they play?

3. a man goes for a walk. he starts at 3 pm. he walks at 4kmph for a

distance then climbs a hill at 2 kmph then decends the hill at 6 kmph
then walks back at 4 kmph.he reached home at 9pm. what is the distance
he covered one way?

4. There are seven gems Amethyst, Diamond, Ruby, Garnet, Emerald,Sapphire and Opal,
which have to be placed for a window display.There are 2 cases, left case and right case.

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Only three gems can beplaced in one case at a time.Based on the conditions only the
gems must be placed in each case.Conditions.1.Amethyst must be included in the case
and kept in left case.2.Diamond must be included in the case and kept in left case.3.Ruby
cannot be placed in the case while Diamond or Garnet is placed.4.Emerald and Sapphire
are to be placed together in the same case.

Questions were like:a. If Amethyst is placed in the left case what other gems should
beplaced along with it.Options : abcde

b.Emerald and Sapphire in right case then what must be placed in left case.(i dont
remember the rest)

Q5. a woman says " my age is my husbands age reversed. if u take the
diffrence between my age and my husband's it will be equal to one by
eleventh of the sum of our ages. what is my age? "

Q6. There are two different temperature measurement systems, similar

to Celsius and Fahrenheit, say A & B. If A=14 then B=36 and if
A=133 then B=87. What value will be equal in both systems?

comment: i dont remember the rest. but all were really simple. the
fact is, i didint get even 7 perfectly right. but i had wrote how i got
to the answer, roughly ofcourse, on the rough sheets (for example i
didint even reach near the temprature scale question. but i wrote that
taking the two points as two st. lines on xy plane and the point of
intersection as the answer). i think they must have given weightage to
the thought process. the written round is the main elimination round.
after that its a breeze. they really seemed nice people at the
interview, smiling and all, and it was over quickly. i was asked
questions frm my resume. thats all. so take care of the written test
and u r in. best of luck.

1) Find the value of X,Y and Z in the following

XXXX

YYYY

ZZZZ

YXXXZ

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2) A man starts walking at 3 pm . ha walks at a speed of 4 km/hr on level ground and at a

speed of 3 km/hr on uphill , 6 km/hr downhill and then 4 km/hr on level ground to reach
home at 9 pm. What is the distance covered on one way?

Ans: 12 km

3) A grandma has many sons; each son has as many sons as his brothers. What is her age
if it’s the product of the no: of her sons and grandsons plus no: of her sons?(age b/w 70
and 100).

Ans: 81 (I think)

4) An electric wire runs for 1 km b/w some no: of poles. If one pole is removed the
distance b/w each pole increases by 1 2/6 (mixed fraction). How many poles were there
initially?

5) There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350
feet from it which is 200 feet tall. There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers.
They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the towers at the same time.
At what distance from the church is the grain?

Ans: 90 (I think)

6) Days Cows

40 40
60 30
X 20
Find the no: of days ie X.

Puzzle on languages and people.

9) Find out a five digit no: which has two prime nos: and , its highest digit is 3 and lowest
digit is 2 bla bla bla………………..

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10) Some question on truth and lie ….. I don’t remember the question but I think Andrew
was the ans.

Total no of Students attended:2400

Shortlisted :800
selected : 596

The paper was very easy,mostly old Questions.same pattern(questions not in order)

2.Refer shakuntala q.no 45 (same pattern) (ans:64)

3.Four persons A,B,C,Dare playing cards.Each person has one card, laid down on
table ,which has two different colours on either side.The colours visible on the table are
red,green,red and blue.
they see the colour on reverse side and give folling comments.
A:yellowor green
B:neither blue nor green
C:blue or yellow
D:blue or yellow
Given that out of 4 people 2 always lie .find out colours on the cards of each.

4.There few diamonds 1st thief takes half diamonds +2, 2nd thief takes half diamonds
+2,3rd thief takes half diamonds +2,4th thief takes half diamonds +2. when 5th thief
comes no diamonds.Find the no of diamond (ans:60)

5.There was a person whose age was 80 in year 490, and in year 500 his age was 70. find
his year of birth(values may not be correct) Che ta naS
ANS:510 B.C (since age decreases with year increase its B.C ,its very important)

6.Some statements were given and Q were asked from that (sorry i forgot)but very easy.

7.A man travels at speed of 12m/h and at return speed was 15m/h (data not correct)
ans:2xy/x+y x=12, y=15

8.Two train starts from two town for each hour. it takes 5hours to rach oter town.how
many trains does the train come across.(ans i dont know)

9.sum on series (easy) 10. sory i forgot .

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Next day shortlisted students had interview. mainly HR questions were asked very rarely
technical. Each panel has only one person. The person who came for me was the head of
global recuirement for infy. He was very friendly, soft spoken and Very smart.
ME:Excuse me sir.(my slot was 10.15, but called at 12.30)
HE:sorry shobana,waiting for such long time!(he might have seen me waiting)
ME:full of smiless!!!!!!!!!!
ME:said in 7 minutes.
he:why u want to join IT field (I belong to mechanical background)
me:gave very smart ans
he :(visibly he was satisfied)VERY GOOD!!!!!!!!
HE: if posted outside chennai ,will u be happy?
me: very very happy sir and explained it(Iam bit jovial and so said that iam bored with
chennai!!!!!! blah blah)
HE: (With all smiles )VERY GOOD!!!!!!Any Question to me?
HE: (explained very well). then asked to submit my mark sheets.THEN gave shake
hands and asked 2 wait till evening
Me:THank u sir!!!!!!!!!!(i was confident that i will be selected)

For interview they mainly see our confidence level, english, our commitement to join
infy and personality also matters!!!!! (Be well dressed with light colour formal dress its
very important). Some times being short listed from written test might need luck also . so
dont loose hope if not shortlisted. This year every IT company need about 20,000 -30,000
enggs. So if not in one company u will be placed in another. I pray to god that all
members of this wonderfull group will be placed within this year. ALL THE BEST
SAY 'U'CAN AND 'U' WILL!!!!!!!!!

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-11 June 2006-Chennai

Here are the questions that appeared in the test. I tried to give the exact words from the
test & I think I did well. Also I had given detail answers.

Q.1) Dr. Watson has 5 nephews. After he died he mentioned in his will that each of his
brother's sons should get money according to their ages. The difference between each son
is Rs. 20 & youngest son got least money. Total money to be shared is 1000. How much
youngest son will get?

Ans:
Let the third i.e. middle son will get Rs. x then youngest son will get Rs. x-40.
=> Adding their shares = 1000
=> (x-40) + (x-20) + x + (x+20) + (x+40) = 1000

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=> x = 200
=> x - 40 = 160
=> Youngest son will get Rs.160

Q.2) In a party there r total 1275 handshakes assuming each person did handshake with
other fellow. How many people attended the party?

Ans:
Let number of people attended the party = x then
Number of handshakes =xC2 = 1275
=> x * (x - 1) = 1275
2*1
=> x2 - x - 2550 =0
=> (x - 51)(x + 50) = 0
=> x cannot be negative
=> x = Number of people attended party = 51

Q.3) If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the rose flower, one third flew to the lotus
flower, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to slandbara & one bee
continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant of ketaki & malati, what was
the total number of bees?

Ans:
X + X + 3( X - X ) +1 = X
3535

=> X = 15 = Number of bees.

Q.4) Due to some defect in our elevator, I was climbing down the staircase. I had climbed
down just 7 steps when I saw professor Zorkoski on the ground floor. Continuing to walk
down, I greeted him & I was surprised to see that when I was yet to get down 4 steps to
reach the ground floor, professor had already finished the climbing up 2 steps for every 1
of mine. How many steps did the staircase have?

Ans:
7X4
|-------------- |------------------|----------------|

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=> X = 11

Q.5) Complete the following series:

a) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ?

Ans:
3*2=6
6 + 7 = 13
13 * 2 = 26
26 + 7 = 33
33 * 2 = 66
66 + 7 = 73
73 * 2 = 146
Series : 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, 76, 146

Ans:
364 - 3 = 361
O(364) = 19
19 - 3 = 16
O(16) = 4
4-3=1
O(1) = 1
1 - 3 = -2

Series: 364, 361, 19, 16, 4, 1, 1, -2

Q.6) A man was asked to meet a lady lawyer who had a good logical skill. Today is
Saturday. A man wanted her appointment. She called her three days after the day before
the day after tomorrow. What is the appointment day?

Ans:
Today = Saturday
Day after tomorrow = Monday
Day before the day after tomorrow = Sunday
Three days after the day before the day after the tomorrow = Wednesday

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Therefore, Appointment day is Wednesday.

Q.7) Find the values of X, Y, Z & B using following equations. Substitute values from 0
to 9 without repetition.

XYGXYG
+-
ABAB
-------------- -------------
CDEFBGA

Ans: 9 4 5 9 4 5
+-
7878
--------------------- -------------------
023867

young according to age of wizards. Let me tell u, I m thrice my son's age & my father's
age is 40 more than twice of my age. Total of our ages is 1240 years. What is the age of
wizard?

Ans:

Let wizard's son age = X then wizard's age = 3X & his father's age = (6X+40)
=> X + 3X + 6X + 40 = 1240
=> X = 120

Wizard's age = 360 years

Q.9) This was 8 marks question regarding the committees of 5 juniors & 4 seniors they
have to form 3 committees. Some conditions had given & based upon that we have to
answer 4 questions. I solved it last. Sorry for not remembering the question.

Q.10) A man enquires a person about the past 5 day's temperature at noon in that region.
The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different
temperature on each day & their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the
nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days in Celsius?

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Ans: Temperatures on 5 consecutive days are: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3 in degree Celsius.

HR interview was cool. They didn't ask me to explain myself, a most imp question. Being
a chemical engineer they keep asking me why you are not interested in chemical industry
& what u did in last 1 year. I explained them all truly & they look convinced. So my
advice is be true to them, they are among top mind readers. They will easily catch your
bluffs. They asked me which concept from computer u like most. I told them about
OOPS & explained it. They also asked me how u will adjust within a team. Such HR
questions. Then they had given me a simple puzzle.

Well this is all about my Infosys experience. I am waiting for the result.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-11 June 2006-Chennai

Here are the questions that appeared in the test. I tried to give the exact words from the
test & I think I did well. Also I had given detail answers.

Q.1) Dr. Watson has 5 nephews. After he died he mentioned in his will that each of his
brother's sons should get money according to their ages. The difference between each son
is Rs. 20 & youngest son got least money. Total money to be shared is 1000. How much
youngest son will get?

Ans:
Let the third i.e. middle son will get Rs. x then youngest son will get Rs. x-40.
=> Adding their shares = 1000
=> (x-40) + (x-20) + x + (x+20) + (x+40) = 1000
=> x = 200
=> x - 40 = 160
=> Youngest son will get Rs.160

Q.2) In a party there r total 1275 handshakes assuming each person did handshake with
other fellow. How many people attended the party?

Ans:
Let number of people attended the party = x then
Number of handshakes =xC2 = 1275
=> x * (x - 1) = 1275

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2*1
=> x2 - x - 2550 =0
=> (x - 51)(x + 50) = 0
=> x cannot be negative
=> x = Number of people attended party = 51

Q.3) If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the rose flower, one third flew to the lotus
flower, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to slandbara & one bee
continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant of ketaki & malati, what was
the total number of bees?

Ans:
X + X + 3( X - X ) +1 = X
3535

=> X = 15 = Number of bees.

Q.4) Due to some defect in our elevator, I was climbing down the staircase. I had
climbed down just 7 steps when I saw professor Zorkoski on the ground floor.
Continuing to walk down, I greeted him & I was surprised to see that when I was yet to
get down 4 steps to reach the ground floor, professor had already finished the climbing up
2 steps for every 1 of mine. How many steps did the staircase have?

Ans:
7X4
|-------------- |------------------|----------------|

=> X = 11

Q.5) Complete the following series:

a) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ?

Ans:
3*2=6
6 + 7 = 13

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13 * 2 = 26
26 + 7 = 33
33 * 2 = 66
66 + 7 = 73
73 * 2 = 146
Series : 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, 76, 146

Ans:
364 - 3 = 361
O(364) = 19
19 - 3 = 16
O(16) = 4
4-3=1
O(1) = 1
1 - 3 = -2

Series: 364, 361, 19, 16, 4, 1, 1, -2

Q.6) A man was asked to meet a lady lawyer who had a good logical skill. Today is
Saturday. A man wanted her appointment. She called her three days after the day before
the day after tomorrow. What is the appointment day?

Ans:
Today = Saturday
Day after tomorrow = Monday
Day before the day after tomorrow = Sunday
Three days after the day before the day after the tomorrow = Wednesday
Therefore, Appointment day is Wednesday.

Q.7) Find the values of X, Y, Z & B using following equations. Substitute values from 0
to 9 without repetition.

XYGXYG
+-
ABAB
-------------- -------------
CDEFBGA

Ans: 9 4 5 9 4 5

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+-
7878
--------------------- -------------------
023867

young according to age of wizards. Let me tell u, I m thrice my son's age & my father's
age is 40 more than twice of my age. Total of our ages is 1240 years. What is the age of
wizard?

Ans:

Let wizard's son age = X then wizard's age = 3X & his father's age = (6X+40)
=> X + 3X + 6X + 40 = 1240
=> X = 120

Wizard's age = 360 years

Q.9) This was 8 marks question regarding the committees of 5 juniors & 4 seniors they
have to form 3 committees. Some conditions had given & based upon that we have to
answer 4 questions. I solved it last. Sorry for not remembering the question.

Q.10) A man enquires a person about the past 5 day's temperature at noon in that region.
The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different
temperature on each day & their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the
nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days in Celsius?

Ans: Temperatures on 5 consecutive days are: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3 in degree Celsius.

HR interview was cool. They didn't ask me to explain myself, a most imp question.
Being a chemical engineer they keep asking me why you are not interested in chemical
industry & what u did in last 1 year. I explained them all truly & they look convinced. So
my advice is be true to them, they are among top mind readers. They will easily catch
OOPS & explained it. They also asked me how u will adjust within a team. Such HR
questions. Then they had given me a simple puzzle.

Well this is all about my Infosys experience. I am waiting for the result.

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INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 17 May 2006

These were my test questions.10 puzzles for 1 hour n then English section for 30 minutes.
English consists of passage and filling the blanks with correct phrase from options. Every
question was repeated. At some centers the same question paper was repeated as such. So
all infy aspirants plz make sure to go thru previous question papers even if u don't have
time for Shakuntala Devi or George Summers. PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS WILL
DO IT..

<!
1. A man starts walkin at 3pm from his home. He walks at 4km/hr thru plains and climbs
a hill at 3km/hr. he climbs down at 6km/hr and walks back at 4km/hr thru the same path.
He reaches back home at 9pm. What is the distance he covered in one way?

Approach: x - distance thru plain, y - distance thru hill

x/4 + y/3 + y/6 + x/4 = 9-3 = 6
x+y = 12km

<!2. A cyclist travels 2/3 of distance on cycle. Then his cycle gets punctured. He covers
remaining distance walking. He calculatd that he walked twice the time he cycled. How
fast did he cycle than he walked?

Approach: total dist = x

dist on cycle = (2/3) x dist on foot = (1/3) x
time on cycle = tc time on foot = 2tc
speed on cycle/ speed on foot = (2/3) x/tc/ (1/3)x/2tc = 4 times

<!3. Today is Saturday. A man goes to see a lawyer. Lawyer asks him to come 3 days
after the day before day after tomorrow. On which day should he come?

Approach: today - Saturday

Day after tomorrow - Monday
Day before day after tomorrow - Sunday.
3 days after Sunday - Wednesday.

4. 4. A and B play a game. Loser of each game has to give a coin to the winner. At the
end A gains 3 coins even though B won 3 games. How many games did they play?

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Approach: A lost 3 games (given B won 3 games)

To compensate A has to win 3 games.
To gain 3 coins A has to win 3 more games.
So total = 3+3+3 = 9 games.

5. 5.There are two systems A and B. 14 degrees in A is equivalent to 36 in system B. 133

in A is equivalent to 87 in B. What is the temperature at which they both are equal?

Approach: I am not sure of this one. But there is a similar one in Shakuntala Devi - Qno.
31.
0 C ~ 32 Fahrenheit,
100 C ~ 212 F
(212-32)/(100-0)X = X-32 gives X= - 40 C = - 40F. Try in similar way

6. A cube is painted red. It is then cut into 27 equal cubes with 6 lines. Find no. of cubes
with

a) 3 sides painted
b) 1 side painted
c) 2 sides painted
d) no sides painted
Draw a cube and cut it breadth wise, lengthwise and height wise using 2 lines on top, 2 in
front and 2 on the side faces to form one large cube with 27 small cubes in it.

Each corner cube has 3 sides painted.1*8corners = 8 cubes with 3 sides painted.

On each face there is one cube with only 1 side painted. 1* 6faces = 6 cubes with 1 side
painted.

Each edge has 1 cube with 2 sides painted.1* 12edges =12 cubes with 2 sides painted.

1 cube at the center has no side painted. Else 27 - (8+6+12) = 1 cube with no side painted.

7. A woman says 'if you reverse my age you get my husbands age. He is
of course senior to me and the difference between our age is one-eleventh of their sum.'
What is the age of the woman and her husband?

1/11(10x + y + 10y + x) = (10y + x - 10x + y)

xy = 45(woman) yx = 54(husband)

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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

Assume one person as sorobean at a time and try match his statements with that of others.
If the statements match, the assumption is right else wrong. Eg. Take A as sorobean.
Then his statements must be true. So B is narobean and C midorean. Then one of the
statements of C should support A. But here C contradicts A. So our option is wrong.
Similarly take B and C.

Ans: A-Midorean, B - Narobean, C - Sorobean

9. A person climbs down 7 steps when he sees his professor starting to climb from the
bottom of the stairs. They pass each other and moving down he finds that he has 4 more
steps to go when his prof reached the top. Considering prof takes 2 steps to one step of
the person, calculate no. of steps.

Approach: total steps = x

Steps covered by person after Prof starts climbing from bottom = x - (7+4)
Bcoz already 7 steps over and 4 more steps remaining.
Steps covered by prof in the same time = x
Persons speed = s , Profs speed = 2s
x-(7+4)/s = x/2s.
x= 22 steps

1110. A jeweler makes a window display. He has 7 gems of which he display 6 at a time.
3 on left pane and 3 on right with following conditions. The Gems are armanet, diamond,
sapphire, garnet, opal, and ruby.

Armanet should alwaz be displayed on right.

diamond alwaz on right
ruby should not be displayed with diamond or garnet
Emerald and sapphire should be alwaz displayed together.

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i. What are the possible combinations for left pane?

a) armanet,garnet,opal
b) armanet,ruby,garnet
c) diamond,emerald,sapphire
d) armanet,emerald,garnetii What are the possible combinations for the right pane?
a) Diamond,garnet,opal
b) Diamond,ruby,opal
c) Armanet,emerald,sapphire
d) Diamond,garnet,ruby iii If diamond, opal.. in right pane what is the possible combntn
in left pane. 4 or 5 options

iv If 2 other gems in one pane, possible combi in the other. I don't remember exactly But
ans for the whole question was like
1. a)
2. a)
3. b)
4. e)

1) "How old are you,Alchemerion?" asked one of the wizards apperences.the wizards
answer with a riddle, "I am still Very young as wizards go.I am only three times my son's
age. My father is 40 year more than twice of my age. Together the three of us are a 1240
year old".how old is Alchemerion?.
ans.360

2)A problem related to bees like some bees are travelling to some flower while some
other travels to other. while one flower remain in one flower. How many bees are there ?
ans.

3)There are 1275 handshakes in a party.How many people are there in the party.
ans. n(n-1)/2=1275 => n=51

4)a)3,6,13,26,33,66,__ ans.73
b)364,361,19,16,4,1,__ ans

5) Easy question,

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John to meet her three days after the day before day after the tomarrow. Which day
should John meet her?
ans.wednesday

6) for 8 Marks
XYZXYZ
+A B - A B
------- -------
CDEFBGA
find X,Y,Z,G

Ans: 945
+ 78
----------
1023

945
- 78
------
867

8)a problem related to ladder.Mr X is moving down 7 steps while see another person
coming up.He greeted him while crossing him.Mr X saw that he had 4 steps to go while
the person had reached the floor.Mr X thought that the person's speed was twice the
speed of him. Find the number of steps in the ladder.
Ans.

10) the temparature of the city when multiplied get to 12 and each day the temparature
was distict find each days temperature..
ans : 1,2,3,-1,-2

Best wishes for all the Job Seekers, Never loose Hope, keep Trying and one day u will
surely make it

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-11 June 2006-Chennai

Here are the questions that appeared in the test. I tried to give the exact words from the
test & I think I did well. Also I had given detail answers.

Q.1) Dr. Watson has 5 nephews. After he died he mentioned in his will that each of his
brother's sons should get money according to their ages. The difference between each son

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is Rs. 20 & youngest son got least money. Total money to be shared is 1000. How much
youngest son will get?

Ans:
Let the third i.e. middle son will get Rs. x then youngest son will get Rs. x-40.
=> Adding their shares = 1000
=> (x-40) + (x-20) + x + (x+20) + (x+40) = 1000
=> x = 200
=> x - 40 = 160
=> Youngest son will get Rs.160

Q.2) In a party there r total 1275 handshakes assuming each person did handshake with
other fellow. How many people attended the party?

Ans:
Let number of people attended the party = x then
Number of handshakes =xC2 = 1275
=> x * (x - 1) = 1275
2*1
=> x2 - x - 2550 =0
=> (x - 51)(x + 50) = 0
=> x cannot be negative
=> x = Number of people attended party = 51

Q.3) If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the rose flower, one third flew to the lotus
flower, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to slandbara & one bee
continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant of ketaki & malati, what was
the total number of bees?

Ans:
X + X + 3( X - X ) +1 = X
3535

=> X = 15 = Number of bees.

Q.4) Due to some defect in our elevator, I was climbing down the staircase. I had
climbed down just 7 steps when I saw professor Zorkoski on the ground floor.
Continuing to walk down, I greeted him & I was surprised to see that when I was yet to

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get down 4 steps to reach the ground floor, professor had already finished the climbing up
2 steps for every 1 of mine. How many steps did the staircase have?

Ans:
7X4
|-------------- |------------------|----------------|

=> X = 11

Q.5) Complete the following series:

a) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ?

Ans:
3*2=6
6 + 7 = 13
13 * 2 = 26
26 + 7 = 33
33 * 2 = 66
66 + 7 = 73
73 * 2 = 146
Series : 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, 76, 146

Ans:
364 - 3 = 361
O(364) = 19
19 - 3 = 16
O(16) = 4
4-3=1
O(1) = 1
1 - 3 = -2

Series: 364, 361, 19, 16, 4, 1, 1, -2

Q.6) A man was asked to meet a lady lawyer who had a good logical skill. Today is
Saturday. A man wanted her appointment. She called her three days after the day before

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the day after tomorrow. What is the appointment day?

Ans:
Today = Saturday
Day after tomorrow = Monday
Day before the day after tomorrow = Sunday
Three days after the day before the day after the tomorrow = Wednesday
Therefore, Appointment day is Wednesday.

Q.7) Find the values of X, Y, Z & B using following equations. Substitute values from 0
to 9 without repetition.

XYGXYG
+-
ABAB
-------------- -------------
CDEFBGA

Ans: 9 4 5 9 4 5
+-
7878
--------------------- -------------------
023867

young according to age of wizards. Let me tell u, I m thrice my son's age & my father's
age is 40 more than twice of my age. Total of our ages is 1240 years. What is the age of
wizard?

Ans:

Let wizard's son age = X then wizard's age = 3X & his father's age = (6X+40)
=> X + 3X + 6X + 40 = 1240
=> X = 120

Wizard's age = 360 years

Q.9) This was 8 marks question regarding the committees of 5 juniors & 4 seniors they
have to form 3 committees. Some conditions had given & based upon that we have to
answer 4 questions. I solved it last. Sorry for not remembering the question.

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Q.10) A man enquires a person about the past 5 day's temperature at noon in that region.
The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different
temperature on each day & their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the
nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days in Celsius?

Ans: Temperatures on 5 consecutive days are: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3 in degree Celsius.

HR interview was cool. They didn't ask me to explain myself, a most imp question.
Being a chemical engineer they keep asking me why you are not interested in chemical
industry & what u did in last 1 year. I explained them all truly & they look convinced. So
my advice is be true to them, they are among top mind readers. They will easily catch
OOPS & explained it. They also asked me how u will adjust within a team. Such HR
questions. Then they had given me a simple puzzle.

1. In cycle race held in circular ground, there are 1/5 ahead of arun and 5/6 after him.
Find the total number of cyclists.

2. Reema and Mona went to shopping, they had spent half of the money plus Rs.2 in
butcher shop, then they had gone to xxx spent half of the remaining +Rs.5.then they went
to bakery and spent half of the remaining amount. finally Rs.5 was left with them. how
many rupees did they carry.

Ans: 64

3.A person started two watches, he observed that after one hour, one watch gains 1
min/hr and the second watch loses 2 min/hr. After how much time will the two watches
have a difference of one hour.

4.In a match Sachin scores 78 runs more than azhar,dravid's score exceeds azhars score
by 76 runs. total of azhar's and robins runs is 94.robin exceeds jadeja s score by 26 and
dravid exceeds robins score by 26 runs. Calculate the total score.

Ans: 338

5.A large cube is painted red on its outer surface and cut into 27 cubes by 6 straight cuts.
a) No of cubes whose 3 sides r painted
b) No of cubes whose 2 sides r painted
c) No of cubes whose 1 sides r painted

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ans: a-8,b-12,c-6 d-1

6.On a holiday a,b,c,d,e plan to have a picnic, they had a running race.c beats d. a&e
overtake b.e is not the last.d overtakes e.who won the race.

Ans:c(not sure)

7.a) 46636,3125,256,27, --, 1 Ans:4=2^2

b) 3,10,7,8,--,12,9,16 ans:11(may be)

8.A motorcyclist says "I drove with the sped of ten miles/hr while going.while returning
traffic was less so I drove the same didstance with 15miles/hr." what is his average speed.

Ans: 12miles/hr.

9. There are 2 systems And B.14 degrees in A equal to 36 in B.133 in A equivalent to

87.at what temperature both shoe equal readings.

Ans:52.5 (A=7/3B-70.)

10.5 persons A,B,C,D,E go for a meeting B and C are talking in English, when D joined
they used Spanish which was the only common language.A and E can speak only
Italian.and some conditions. one person can speak 5 languages, another 4 languages,one
3,one 2 and one can only speak one language. 4 QUESTIONS BASED ON THIS.

1)There are A, B, C, D, E, F students they speak one are more than one of english, itali,
french, Spanish, portueges; B, C speak English. But after D joins they have Spanish as
the common language
Spanish is most common language
A, B, E have French as common language
C, E has Italian as common language
3 speak portueges
Out of all 1=all speaks 5 Langs, 1= speaks 4 Langs, 1= speaks 3
Langs, 1= speaks 2 Langs,1= speaks 1 language?

then 4 questions were asked based on above data like

1) A knows which languages? 4 options were given (one can easily get the answer from
the above data and given options)

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2) B knows how many languages

a) English, French b)English, French Spanish c)English, French, Spanish Italian
d)English, French, Spanish, Italian,Portugese
3)and 4) I am sorry i fogot

8 Marks

2) question............Dennis beat jim,Samantha was beaten by Jack

and Tom orderly..........Jim was forwaded by jack and Tom

and so on.......Jack was not the last to reach....Jim was not the first...Who won the race??
Ans) Its simple any one can answer this, the ans is Dennis Jim jack
Tom and Samantha. (may be i missed out some thing in the

Question)
3 Marks

3).A cube has its 6 faces painted red. It is cut by 6 straight lines into 27 smaller cubes.
Find how many smaller cubes are there having:
(i) 3 faces painted red.
(ii) 2faces painted red.
(iii) 1 face painted red.
(iv) 0 faces painted red???

8 Marks

4) Some children were going for a ride in a "Merry-go-round" rider in an amuzement

park.
Among the Bretty told that"Sum of One-Fifth of the guys in front of me and 5/6 of the
guys
behind me equals to the total no.of children in the ride. Can anybody find out the total no.
of students in the ride"
Ans) 1(n-1)/5 + 5(n-1)/6 = n on solving we get the total no. as 31
4 Marks

5)Marie went to a restaurant She spent half the money she had and 2 for the waiter,
Went for shopping spent half the money she had and a choclate for 3rs and then
Spent half the money so on...... Repeated model from previous papers

4 Marks

6)There are two systems for temperature.The temperatures are no way related to
practical connection,Their equivalents were shown below. At what value both are equal.
AB
14 26
133 87

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3 Marks

7)A series Problems

a)3125 256 27 __ 1 (ans-4---2^2)
b) i forgot this but one can easyly solve if they familiar with the RS agarwal series
problems

6 Marks

8) There are two clocks , I set them both for the present time, one watches losses 2 min
per hour and the other gains 1 minute per hour, When will both the watches show same
time
3 Marks

9) Sachin Score 76 more than Azhar, Azhar beats 26 less than Dravid
Robin scores 28 more than Dravic, some sort of this type.
Find the total Score of all the players.

10) I forgot this Question

Best wishes for all the Job Seekers, Never loose Hope, keep Trying and one day u will
surely
make it

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 28 May 2006-Kolkata

1.In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than
Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than
zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?
Ans: 338

2. a) 10.7.8,_,12,9,16 Ans: ?

3. 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:::52.5

4. A cyclist is cycling in a circular path.he is at some point on the path,at that point 1/5th
of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists
participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?Ans:31

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for

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each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in
the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our
watches to the same time? Ans : 20 hours

6. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish,they also took up
spanish.The only common language between A, B and E is French.The only common
language between C and E is Italian.Three people speak Portuguese. Most common
language is spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person
knows 3. One person 2. One person 1. Who speaks what ? Ans: C does not know -
French , A-3 languages. B-5 languages. C-4 languages. D-1 languages. E-2 languages
7. There is a large cube whichis painted in blue. Now this large cube is cut into 27 small
cubes in 6 largecuts. How many cubes have (i) all threesides painted (ii) two sides
painted (iii) one side painted (iv) no sidepainted Ans a) 8 b) 12 c) 6 d) 1
8. ..In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race? Ans:::::: Andrew(Pattern is same but name and
sequence is changed and according to the Question in Infosys exam, answer is Dennis )

9. . A man travels to his office at 10kms/hr. On his return journey he travels the same
distance at the speed of 15kms/hr as the road was empty. What was the average speed?
Ans: 12kms/hr

10. One lady have some money,he spend money to some stores, at last she had some
money,What is his initial money? Something like this .easy one

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Value of each alphabet? Range is 0-9, no repeat

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INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 28 May 2006-Kolkata

1.In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than
Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than
zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?
Ans: 338

2. a) 10.7.8,_,12,9,16 Ans: ?

3. 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:::52.5

4. A cyclist is cycling in a circular path.he is at some point on the path,at that point 1/5th
of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists
participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?Ans:31

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for
each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in
the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our
watches to the same time? Ans : 20 hours

6. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish,they also took up
spanish.The only common language between A, B and E is French.The only common
language between C and E is Italian.Three people speak Portuguese. Most common
language is spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person
knows 3. One person 2. One person 1. Who speaks what ? Ans: C does not know -
French , A-3 languages. B-5 languages. C-4 languages. D-1 languages. E-2 languages
7. There is a large cube whichis painted in blue. Now this large cube is cut into 27 small
cubes in 6 largecuts. How many cubes have (i) all threesides painted (ii) two sides
painted (iii) one side painted (iv) no sidepainted Ans a) 8 b) 12 c) 6 d) 1
8. ..In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race? Ans:::::: Andrew(Pattern is same but name and
sequence is changed and according to the Question in Infosys exam, answer is Dennis )

9. . A man travels to his office at 10kms/hr. On his return journey he travels the same
distance at the speed of 15kms/hr as the road was empty. What was the average speed?

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Ans: 12kms/hr

10. One lady have some money,he spend money to some stores, at last she had some
money,What is his initial money? Something like this .easy one

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1. In cycle race held in circular ground, there are 1/5 ahead of arun and 5/6 after him.
Find the total number of cyclists.

2. Reema and Mona went to shopping, they had spent half of the money plus Rs.2 in
butcher shop, then they had gone to xxx spent half of the remaining +Rs.5.then they went
to bakery and spent half of the remaining amount. finally Rs.5 was left with them. how
many rupees did they carry.

Ans: 64

3.A person started two watches, he observed that after one hour, one watch gains 1
min/hr and the second watch loses 2 min/hr. After how much time will the two watches
have a difference of one hour.

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4.In a match Sachin scores 78 runs more than azhar,dravid's score exceeds azhars score
by 76 runs. total of azhar's and robins runs is 94.robin exceeds jadeja s score by 26 and
dravid exceeds robins score by 26 runs. Calculate the total score.

Ans: 338

5.A large cube is painted red on its outer surface and cut into 27 cubes by 6 straight cuts.
a) No of cubes whose 3 sides r painted
b) No of cubes whose 2 sides r painted
c) No of cubes whose 1 sides r painted
d) No of cubes whose 0 sides r painted

ans: a-8,b-12,c-6 d-1

6.On a holiday a,b,c,d,e plan to have a picnic, they had a running race.c beats d. a&e
overtake b.e is not the last.d overtakes e.who won the race.

Ans:c(not sure)

7.a) 46636,3125,256,27, --, 1 Ans:4=2^2

b) 3,10,7,8,--,12,9,16 ans:11(may be)

8.A motorcyclist says "I drove with the sped of ten miles/hr while going.while returning
traffic was less so I drove the same didstance with 15miles/hr." what is his average speed.

Ans: 12miles/hr.

9. There are 2 systems And B.14 degrees in A equal to 36 in B.133 in A equivalent to

87.at what temperature both shoe equal readings.

Ans:52.5 (A=7/3B-70.)

10.5 persons A,B,C,D,E go for a meeting B and C are talking in English, when D joined
they used Spanish which was the only common language.A and E can speak only
Italian.and some conditions. one person can speak 5 languages, another 4 languages,one
3,one 2 and one can only speak one language. 4 QUESTIONS BASED ON THIS.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-28 May 2006-Chennai

Q1) In a Race Davis beats Jim.Jack is not the last .Samantha loses to both Jack and Lucia
in the order.Jim beats Jack.Who Won the race?.(4 marks)

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Q2) There was a cycle race going on. 1/5th of the those in front of a person and 5/6th of
those behind him gives the total number of participants. How many people took part in
the race? (3 marks) Ans : 31

Approach:
Let the total number of participants be X
So, [(x-1)/5 + 5(x-1)/6] = X

Q3)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?

(4 marks) Ans: 51.25 (conversion A=(7/3)B-70)

Q4) A cube, which is painted red on all its sides, is cut into 27 cubes with three straight
cuts. Now how many cubes have i)No red face ii)1 red face iii) 2 red faces iv) 3 red faces

Q5) 5 Marks question, easy one. Some facts were given like:
a) Dravid scores 26 runs more than Robin.
b) Robin and Azhar together score 94 runs.

Like these around 5/6 facts were given. Only equations had to be formed and total runs
scored by all the batsmen had to be found

Q6)A, B, c, D are from different countries. They speak English, Italian, French and
German. Only one language is spoken by more than two persons. Following conditions
were given.
-> A speaks German but can converse with D who doesn't know a single word of German.
-> No person can speak both German and French together.
-> A and B can't converse with each other but they C can act as interpreter between them.
-> B, C, D don't have any common language between them.
-> Each person speaks two languages.

Find out the languages which each person speaks

Q7)there were two clock one is getting slow by two minutes/hr and another one is
gaining 1 minute every hour and exactly after how many hours there two clock has a 1hr
difference. ans(20hr)4marks

Q8)a person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while
returning as there is no much traffic they came with a speed of 15mph what is their
average speed? a: 12mph (avg speed=2xy/x+y)

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INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 28 May 2006-Kolkata

1.In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than
Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than
zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?
Ans: 338

2. a) 10.7.8,_,12,9,16 Ans: ?

3. 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:::52.5

4. A cyclist is cycling in a circular path.he is at some point on the path,at that point 1/5th
of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists
participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?Ans:31

5. My husband's watch gains 2 minutes every watch and my watch loses 1 minute for
each hour. One day, we were late to marriage because the difference between the time in
the two watches was 1 hr and we looked at the slow watch. When did we last set our
watches to the same time? Ans : 20 hours

6. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish,they also took up spanish.The
only common language between A, B and E is French.The only common language
between C and E is Italian.Three people speak Portuguese. Most common language is
spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person knows 3.
One person 2. One person 1. Who speaks what ? Ans: C does not know -French , A-3
languages. B-5 languages. C-4 languages. D-1 languages. E-2 languages
7. There is a large cube whichis painted in blue. Now this large cube is cut into 27 small
cubes in 6 largecuts. How many cubes have (i) all threesides painted (ii) two sides
painted (iii) one side painted (iv) no sidepainted Ans a) 8 b) 12 c) 6 d) 1
8. ..In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.
Jim beats Jack. Who won the race? Ans:::::: Andrew(Pattern is same but name and
sequence is changed and according to the Question in Infosys exam, answer is Dennis )

9. . A man travels to his office at 10kms/hr. On his return journey he travels the same
distance at the speed of 15kms/hr as the road was empty. What was the average speed?
Ans: 12kms/hr

10. One lady have some money,he spend money to some stores, at last she had some
money,What is his initial money? Something like this .easy one

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1)There are A, B, C, D, E, F students they speak one are more than one of english, itali,
french, Spanish, portueges; B, C speak English. But after D joins they have Spanish as
the common language
Spanish is most common language
A, B, E have French as common language
C, E has Italian as common language
3 speak portueges
Out of all 1=all speaks 5 Langs, 1= speaks 4 Langs, 1= speaks 3
Langs, 1= speaks 2 Langs,1= speaks 1 language?

then 4 questions were asked based on above data like

1) A knows which languages? 4 options were given (one can easily get the answer from
the above data and given options)
2) B knows how many languages
a) English, French b)English, French Spanish c)English, French, Spanish Italian
d)English, French, Spanish, Italian,Portugese
3)and 4) I am sorry i fogot

8 Marks

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2) question............Dennis beat jim,Samantha was beaten by Jack

and Tom orderly..........Jim was forwaded by jack and Tom

and so on.......Jack was not the last to reach....Jim was not the first...Who won the race??
Ans) Its simple any one can answer this, the ans is Dennis Jim jack
Tom and Samantha. (may be i missed out some thing in the

Question)
3 Marks

3).A cube has its 6 faces painted red. It is cut by 6 straight lines into 27 smaller cubes.
Find how many smaller cubes are there having:
(i) 3 faces painted red.
(ii) 2faces painted red.
(iii) 1 face painted red.
(iv) 0 faces painted red???

8 Marks

4) Some children were going for a ride in a "Merry-go-round" rider in an amuzement

park.
Among the Bretty told that"Sum of One-Fifth of the guys in front of me and 5/6 of the
guys
behind me equals to the total no.of children in the ride. Can anybody find out the total no.
of students in the ride"
Ans) 1(n-1)/5 + 5(n-1)/6 = n on solving we get the total no. as 31
4 Marks

5)Marie went to a restaurant She spent half the money she had and 2 for the waiter,
Went for shopping spent half the money she had and a choclate for 3rs and then
Spent half the money so on...... Repeated model from previous papers

4 Marks

6)There are two systems for temperature.The temperatures are no way related to
practical connection,Their equivalents were shown below. At what value both are equal.
AB
14 26
133 87
3 Marks

7)A series Problems

a)3125 256 27 __ 1 (ans-4---2^2)
b) i forgot this but one can easyly solve if they familiar with the RS agarwal series
problems

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6 Marks

8) There are two clocks , I set them both for the present time, one watches losses 2 min
per hour and the other gains 1 minute per hour, When will both the watches show same
time
3 Marks

9) Sachin Score 76 more than Azhar, Azhar beats 26 less than Dravid
Robin scores 28 more than Dravic, some sort of this type.
Find the total Score of all the players.

10) I forgot this Question

Best wishes for all the Job Seekers, Never loose Hope, keep Trying and one day u will
surely
make it

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 5 Feb 2006

1.One villege,each villeger have even no of dishes,no two man hav same no of dishes,and
total not more than 274.....
find no of villegers in villege
Ans=137

2.on interest.company give 6%,interest....7 1/2%......5%......etc

i cant recall and could not solve it completely but i write ans=3255

3.prisoner,will get 7 rs for work and 3 rs deduct from it.All days are 60.he got
170RS.How many days he worked
Ans=35 days work and 25 days idle

4.repeated
Four friends,4 languages(italian,french,english,german)
who speak which?
5.x z y
+x y z
-----------
yzx
Find xyz
Ans=459

6.Repeated
sold for 12 Rs on one 25%profit ,on other 20% loss
total loss or gain ?and how many

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Ans=60paise

7.
Joxie and pixie, r two stations .two come from each side
.one is 18miles farther of other and cover dist in 13 1/2 hr
and other in 0 hr.
find dist in 2 stations
Ans=128 4/7

8.50 teams ,triplicate elimination(that is one team will out after 3 loose)
Find total no of matches
Ans=147

9.Repeated
Diamonds.% thiefs ech take half and 2 more.last has no diamonds left.
Find no of daimonds
Ans=60
10.Some what time consuming
5 dolls one inside other
ie largest doll contain 3rd largest then 2nd and smallest
Colors r given
5 statments r given
Find Largest 2nd largest,3rd largest with color
u will do it .

English
45q in 30 min.
Very easy not to worry

(Memory based)

There were a panel of two an Elder man and a women of 40.

1) they saw my project and started with it.

2) lots of questions on my project relating the project with other applications.

3) then i was to choose a topic from the list and asked to speak for One minute.the topic
were

i) BPO ii) fossil fuel iii) TATA and ........

then they asked me about the team work in my project how i handled them what
difference i had with my team mates.

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6) i was given a spring with a ring in it and was asked if it can be separated i had told no
but they can be separated . ie as the ring was big in radius than that of spring , slowly get
the spring into the center and remove it .

7) they asked what mistakes i had done in the last interview that i was not selected.

8) then a match stick problem was given with three squares in first row and two in the
second i was asked to remove two sticks and replace them to make only four squares

Puzzles : As far as i remember...

1. Two marble sellers A and B plan to play a marble game. Initially they have the same
no. of marbles
in the stock, before starting the game. Now the game starts.
A wins 20 marbles in the first run and loses (2/3)rd of the stock in the play-off. What was
the no. of marbles
with each of them, before they started the game ?

Ans : 300 Marbles (Not sure)

2. There is a wall clock which rings after every precise one hour. When it was 8 o'clock,
it rang for 7 seconds.
Calculate the total no. of seconds the clock rings for, in the whole day.

Ans : 132 seconds (Not sure)

3. Four people with last names as Conner, Morghan, Smith and Wills have their first
names as Tom, Jack, Al
and Bell, NOT RESPECTIVELY. They play a game in which the winner collects some
money from all others.
They played the game four times. In the first game, the winner will collect Rs. 10 from all
others, in second game,
the winner will collect Rs. 20 from all others, in the third, the winner will collect Rs. 30
from all others and in the
fourth game, the winner will collect Rs. 40 from all others.
Jack takes the first game, morghan the second, smith the third and Al the fourth. Tom had
the maximum cash
in the beginning, and Wills had the maximum at the end.
Match their first names and surnames. Give their full names.

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4. A bag with 100 kgs potatoes have 99% water. It is kept in the open under the sunlight.
After sometime, little amount of water got evaporated and reduced to 98%. What is the
weight now ?5. 5 boys - A, B, C, D and E go to catch some fishes.A&B catch 12B&C
catch 20C&D catch...D&E catch...A and E catch equal no. of fishes.Now they plan to
pool and divide the fishes.D pool with A&C and fishes were divided in the ration of 1/3
similarly E pools with B&C...and so on. The fishes were perfectly divided within the
guys evenly.(actually i don't remember)Calculate the no. of fishes caught by A, C and E.6.
A girl buys a grandfather clock two weeks back. This clock loses 24 mins in every one
hour time. You set the time at 12 midnight and the clock now displays 3.00 am and it was
stopped one hour back from now. So what is the actual time now ?Ans. 6.00 am (not
sure)7. (Repeated) A 10 digit no. has its first digit equal to the no. of 1's , second digit
equal to no. of 2's ....till 9th digit equal to no. of 9's and 10th digit equal to no. of 0's.
What is the number ??Ans. 2100010006 (not sure) Rest of the questions i don't remember.
actually i didn't attempt.Then there was the english test. neither too easy nor too tough.So
my advice will be just go through the previous questions and shakuntala devi's puzzles.
It's not too hard to crack the infy test.Thanks...All the best guys...Glad to be a part of this
group...(Paper Submitted By :pankaj)

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-8 Jan 2006-Chennai

I gave the test on 8th Jan in Chennai at 9.30am - paper was quite easy enough - It went on
well. Results were announced at 4pm - I'm shocked to see that I was 1 among 45 people
who were short listed & had got my interview on the next day at INFOSYS
(Sholinganallur).
TEST:

Those who rs waiting for their turn - jus go thru latest papers (available in groups) & of
course

Go thru Shakuntala Devi puzzles - I think that will do for the test. Along with this mail-
I'm sending the questions.

1. At 6 'o' clock, the clock ticks 6 times. The time taken between first & the last tick is 30
seconds. How long does it take to tick at 12 'o' clock?

Ans: 66 secs.

2. A boy asked his sister that "how many chocolates are with you now out of what I gave
you yesterday". She replied him in confusing way "I gave half of those to mom and half
more to dad. Then, from remaining chocolates, I gave half of those and another half of a
chocolate to our pet dog. After that, one chocolate was remaining and I ate that
gracefully". How many chocolates did the boy give to his sister?

Ans: 7

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3. Mr. X (who got the Param veer charka in 1948), died at the age which is 1 / 39th of his
year of birth, in which year did he born?

Ans: 1872 (I think so).

4. In a party, all together there were 11 guests. If each of them clink their glasses with
one another only once, what is the number of clinks that were exchanged?

7. A train starting from Amristar at 0900hrs reaches Delhi by 0930hrs after 3 days.

If a train starts from Delhi to Amristar, how many trains will it meet on its way to
Amristar?

Ans: 4 trains (not sure).

6. In a Park, there were certain birds in each tree. Number of birds in each tree equals to
the number of trees in the park. The gate keeper is sure that there are around2000 - 2100
birds altogether in the park.What is the total number of trees in the park?

Ans: 45 trees.

Remaining 3 questions were quite lengthy; I'm not able to recollect them.

- One was about 4 different events - there are abt 6 people - 4 different people won each
event. You gotta find out who won which event given the conditions.

- Other question was 4 different people - 4 different profession - u gotta find who is who,
given the conditions. (Like druggist, architect, grocer Etc)

- Last one was about the houses & different typed peoples (like English, german,
norwagean..) - in the same way u gotta find who is in which house (given some
conditions).

INTERVIEW:

Panel had 2 persons (females) - aged around 35 to 40..it was cool - they started asking
about my extra curricular activities -then went on with the work profile..at last they gave
me some 2 puzzles (simple ones) to solve.

1. There are two vessels of same size with water in it and one is 20 degree Celsius and
other is 20 degree Fahrenheit. When a coin is put in both vessel which will reach bottom
first.

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Ans: As 20 degree Fahrenheit is definitely a freezing pt, at this time none can be be
immersed so at 20 degree Celsius the coin will immerse first.

2. In a knock out game of chess, how many games will be played when there are about 43
players?

Ans: Winner gotta defeat remaining 42 players which means total game played is 42.

1 t.

Ans: As 20 degree Fahrenheit is definitely a freezing pt, at this time none can be be
immersed so at 20 degree Celsius the coin will immerse first.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 8 Jan 2006-Mumbai

I took an infosys aptitude test on 8th jan at mumbai and i got selected for interview also. i
will like to share my experience.this is how the logoc paper was(dont remember all the
questions exactly)

1.a clock strucks 6 times at 6'O clockand it takes 30 secs for that.how much time would it
take to struck at 12'O clock? ans:66 secs
2.two types of tea(say) are sold at 5pnds and at 3 pnds per kg each.40 kg mixture of tea is
sold at pnds 240 with the profit of 33n1/3%.how many kgs of 5pnds tea was sold?
ans:30kg (average profit loss n mixture and allegations sum)

3.a train leaves from mumbai to patna n vice versa at 9 am everyday and reaches patna at
9:30 am after 3 days.a train left from mumbai to patna then how many trains did it come
across while the journey?ans:5 trains (not sure)
4.there are as many trees in the garden as no of mangoes on each tree.if number of
mangoes are between 2000 and 2100 then how many trees are there in the garden?ans: 45
trees

5.it was logic problem.something like 4 persons have some amount each andsome
conditions were given.we had to find the profession of the each person from those
conditions.(bit tricky problem but i got it right).

6. mr ajay singh got paramveer chakra award in 1948.his age when he died was one
thirtyninth the year in which he was born then find the year in which he was born? ans:
1899

7.it was that famous problem.dane drinks tea n drinks malbero white (cigarate),english
stays in the house next to the swedish and has pet cat,norwegian has dog and stays in the
middle house and all that information was given about house no,drink cigarate (no

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straight forward)in about 15-20 sentences.this is one of the very toughest problem i
couldnt solve it.
8.then some chocolate bars problem was given like i had some bars,i gave half the bars to
my mother n half more to my father then half of the remaining n half more to my pet and
i ended up with 1 bar with myself.how many bars did i have initially?(its not exact but
was very much like this only)

9.then some logic problem was given .something like 4 persond A,B,C,D participate in
sports and some conditions were given like who participates in which events and winner
of some event participated in only two of the sports (given with sports names)n all.n u
had to find winner of 4 sports(given with names).average logical reasoning problem.

i got seven right(surely)and 1 more half and guessed other two.

INTERVIEW: almost 600 ppl gave the exam(thats what i heard)and around 100 got
selected for an interview.i expected the call and i got it for the 9th of jan 10'O clock in the
morning.
i reached for an interview by 9:20 and they asked me to sit in the waiting room.there were
5 panels with 2 persons on each.on an average interviews were going for 20 -25 mins.i
walked in for an interview at 10:30.there were 2 ladies sitting over there one around 33-
34 and other of around 45years old.
me:i am an honest optimistic and hardworking person and i try to persue my goals till the
end i just dont like to give up.(she smiled a bit)
they were mainly asking with respect to my resume.
lady:ur hobbies r cricket and football? so have u been part of the college team?
me:yup i have represented the college football team.
then she asked me about my BE project and my role in that.i had prepared this question
very well so i explained it properly.
me:no,actually i was getting job in couple of small companies but i wanted to start my
career with bigger platform like infosys or such so i rejected those offers.
lady:so dont u think one should start from small opprtunities and move on towards bigger
ones?so why didnt u take those?
me: see i think u should get a good industrial experience after doing engineering for 4
years and generally u dont get exposed to various aspects of industry in the small
companies and u learn them only in bigger companies like infy and also u should work
for atleast 2-3 years to get that experience so i dont think that there is any point in doing a
job for 6-7 monthes n then leave it so i was waiting for the right opprtunity.(both the

me:i generally read daily news papers and if i get time then i like to read scientific
books.like the one i read recently A LIFE IN THE NUTSHELL and A BRIEF HISTORY

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OF TIME from stephen hawlkings.

me:actually they r about our universe and black holes n all,and the other 1 is bit like his
autobiography like how did he do his journey after getting afftected by motor nuron
desease at very early age,,its quite fascinating.

lady: so whom would u like to become for a 1 day if u r given a chance?

me: ummm well i will like to be someone like mr abdul kalam.

me:he is the no 1 scientist of our country and he is our president now.the fact i admire
him a lot is even with so much of success and fame he is very simple human being and
down to earth and always try to help poor ppl.

then she asked me to solve 1 st prob from the test n i explained it properly.the other lady
gave me 1 more puzzle like write 1 using all ten digits.i approached it with addition and
interview i realised the simplest way to do is:9^0+8^0+7^0+6^0+5^0-4^0-3^0-2^0-1^0=1.

lady:if u r going on highway and all the 4 tyres get punctured and u lose all nuts also,u
dont have spare nuts so what will u do?suppose u r on mumbai pune highway.

me:well i will use spare tyres and i will fix them up with something like nuts ,like..like..
like..
lady:common u said u r optimistic so u should find some way and suppose u have very
imp meeting to attend then how will u get ur car done?
me:well mam then i will ask for lift ,out of ten atleast 1 will give me a lift n i will try to
get myself at the nearest spot like lonavla n then take a volvo or something n wont bother
for my car at that moment as i have to reach for the meeting 1st.

lady:so u have written that u like to explore new things in ur life.so what r they?

lady:n where did u go for very last time n when?

me:i went in june or july n i had gone for raigad fort.its very nice place n shivaji maharaj

me:we took ST from mumbai central for mahad n then took another ST for an hour or u
can take a tamtam also.
lady:so if i want to go there n i dont have any knowledge of trecking then how will u plan

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it?

me:mam if u r coming then i will better hire sumo so no halts r requiredn i will ask u to
take 2-3 sarees or whatever u r comfortable wearing with plus some medicines n firsr aid
box n some water,u shouldnt carry too much of luggage for treck as it will create
problems for u plus u get everything on raigad.(she actually asked me to specify every
thing)

lady:ok so if u r group of 10 with old and young ppl n there is a risky pasage on treck for
5 mins then what will u do?where would u locate yourself in the group?

me:i will lead the group.i will go first so that i can give instructions to others which spot
is slippery and where should u be carefull.also i will make groups of 2 with young n old
person in each group so that young person can help old ppl while crossing the passage.

me:no mam.thank you.

it was approximately 25 mins interview and i think i did quite well in the interview. atlest
ladies were happy on their faces and looked satisfied.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 15 Jan 2006

I Attended the test on 15 th janury 2006 and was shortlisted today I attended my
interview
I hope I did well in that. By gods grace I am expecting for the result. They told me that
they will get back to me in 3 weeks
mostly the paper contained all the old questions
n the paper goes like this

1.Taxi driver problem from shakuntala devi

ans:121
2.a man has seven frens 1 st one visits him all the seven dasy of a week ,2 fren on every 2
day like that
on which day all frens r together
ans:
I wrote it is 420 I t8 of taking the l.c.m but I am not sure

3.One man goes ot railway station at 5.00 am and 5.02 am

freqency of trains is every 10 mins and ........
Wat is the probability
ans:

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0.8

4.Tehrhe r 6561 balls and one is heavier in how many weighings

ans:8
5.one rich person has some gold coins he had 5 sons n daughters n one car driver.
He gave 1 st coin to car drver n 1 /5 th of remaining to the 2 nd son 1 more coin to driver
n 1/5 th same n remaining money to equal amts to 5 daughters.
Let the 5 th son person have y rs
4 th 1+5y
....1 st person 156+625y
let the y value be 1
so coins r 781.
Let the daughers got 100 rs
so he had a total 881 coins

6.A big question abt directions I didnt answered it

7.Xyz
+ab..........this problem
ans is 945+78 and 945-78

9. Cabbages problem I dont remeber

10.Its a big anlatycal question but its easy......

All the best

Interview is very cool but I donno what basis they will select. Plz pray for me.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper- 15 Jan 2006

I Attended the test on 15 th janury 2006 and was shortlisted today I attended my
interview
I hope I did well in that. By gods grace I am expecting for the result. They told me that
they will get back to me in 3 weeks
mostly the paper contained all the old questions
n the paper goes like this

1.Taxi driver problem from shakuntala devi

ans:121
2.a man has seven frens 1 st one visits him all the seven dasy of a week ,2 fren on every
2 day like that
on which day all frens r together

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ans:
I wrote it is 420 I t8 of taking the l.c.m but I am not sure

3.One man goes ot railway station at 5.00 am and 5.02 am

freqency of trains is every 10 mins and ........
Wat is the probability
ans:
0.8

4.Tehrhe r 6561 balls and one is heavier in how many weighings

ans:8
5.one rich person has some gold coins he had 5 sons n daughters n one car driver.
He gave 1 st coin to car drver n 1 /5 th of remaining to the 2 nd son 1 more coin to driver
n 1/5 th same n remaining money to equal amts to 5 daughters.
Let the 5 th son person have y rs
4 th 1+5y
....1 st person 156+625y
let the y value be 1
so coins r 781.
Let the daughers got 100 rs
so he had a total 881 coins

6.A big question abt directions I didnt answered it

7.Xyz
+ab..........this problem
ans is 945+78 and 945-78

9. Cabbages problem I dont remeber

10.Its a big anlatycal question but its easy......

All the best

Interview is very cool but I donno what basis they will select. Plz pray for me.

This was the infy paper offcampus conducted on 8th jan at HYDERABAD. there were
few repeated qns, n I felt logical was bit tough ,so concentrate on logical qns, other qns u
can do.

1.A coffee seller has two types of coffee Brand A costing 5 bits per pound and Brand B
costing 3 bits per pound. he mixes two brands to get a 40 pound mixture. he sold this at 6

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bits per pound. the seller gets a profit of 33 1/2 percent. how much he has used Brand A
in the mixture? (Previous one)

Ans: 30ponds.

price-cheaper) refer R.S.Agarwal for this question.

2.There are 11 people at a party with a glass. Eachone clinks glass with evey other
person once.how many times did the glass clink?

Ans:nc2=11c2=55 times.

3. There are x trees in woods. Y is no. of birds. Gate keeper tellson each tree no of birds
is equal to total no. of trees in woods.tellthe number of trees. Given total number of birds
is between 2000 and2100.Ans:there are x noof trees.n no of birds=x*x, so check out d
perfect square b/w2000 n 2100. ans is 45(45*45=2025)4.choclates problem.sister gives
half of d chocolates to her mom n half a bar, then she gives half of d remaining to her dog
n half bar, then she left with one choclate , how many no of chocolates r there?

Ans:7

Chocolates=x,mom=x/2+1/2,remaining=x-(x+1)/2=(x-1)/2;

dog=(x-1)/4+1/2 she left with one choclate, total=x=x/2+1/2+(x-1)/4+1/2+1 ,so x=7

5.a person got paramveera charka in 1948. he died when his age was one thirty ninth of
his year of birth, when he was born?

Ans:I dint solve this but my frd told dat it was 1/39 th of (x)where x is year of birth.
Check which yr is divisible by 39, before 1948.its 1911.

6.a clock ticks 6 times at 6 o'clock how many times does it tick when it is 12 o'clock?
Ans:66seconds.at 6 the time gaps b/w ticks=5, at 12 gaps=11

5???.6

11???.?

7.train starts from amritsar to Bombay at 9am. It reaches destination after 3days at
9:30am. Every day a train starts. How many trains does it come across on d way ?

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8. Carter,milne,savage,Flynn are 4 people architect,banker,druggist and grocer in not

thatorder, Income of milne=3776+income of savage.Income of drugg=2*income of
grocerIncome of architect=2*income of druggistIncome of banker=2*income of
architectCarter is older than every one who earns more than Flynn but Flynndoes not earn
double the amount of carter.find who's who?

9.little bit time consuming n confusing one. 4 persons , color of their house, their pet
names like one has horse, other one has cat etc,type of cigar they smoke, type of drinks
they take , like one takes coffe, other one tea, others beer,..?3qns?

10.this is also logical, for me this was very tough I didt do this.

I passed with an above average aggregate. I had my first interview in a relative s

company in Chennai-post of software trainee-programmer in C and C++. But it was
under recommendation that I was called to attend the test. So did not accept their offer. I
applied for Infy, CTS and TCS and many more MNCs. I attended caritor off campus and
lost in final round.

On 27th Dec., I got the long awaited Infy call letter for test on jan 8th which I attended
yesterday. I prepared very sincerely for a 9-10 days. Finishing Shak.Devi book, George
book and Ravi Narula, I went through loads of puzzles from brain vista and old papers. I
was through with 2004,2004 and 2005 papers.
45/1254 were short listed. Due to stiff competition, I lost in the test. I did a 8 correct.

I am not giving the answer, try yourself that's the best way to solve puzzles.

1.(2 marks)
A clock strikes 6'o clock 6 times with an interval of 10 sec. between last and first strike.
How much time would be taken by the clock to strike 12'0 clock midnight?
(an easy q. which u can see in Shak.Devi book-1)

2.(4 marks)
In a grocery shop, the master prepares tea granules by mixing 5 bits/pound and
3bits/pound components. He prepared tea mixture (with some proportion. I forgot but I
remember he made 240 pounds) and made a 33 and half % profit. How many 5
bits/pound component he used? (simple one)

3.(3 marks)
There are many trees in a certain wood.(this s the reverse of wood in tree. it was given

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like tht to confuse you).The owner observes that there are as many birds in each tree as
there are trees in the wood. He also knows that total number of birds is 2000-2100. Find
the number of trees in the wood?
(i.e.,Bird in each tree=total no. of trees)

4.(3 marks)
A girl has x chocolate bars. She gives half of what she has to mother, a half to
dad(beware its1/2 or 0.5), gives half more to dog and has one herself. Whts X?
Ans. 7..( check the proportion I have given. am not sure of the q. so, I have given the

5.(6 marks)
An Army official got param vir charka in 1948.The year he died is 139th of the year he
was born. when was he born?(Ths is in some of the book with different humbers..check )

6.(4 marks)
In a party attended by 11 persons, each clinch their glass with every other. How many
glass clinches?( very easy one imagine being asked in Infy)

7.(6 marks)
SLOW COACH EXPRESS problem from Ravi Narula chapter10=q.4 ans.7 trains

8.(6 marks)There are 4 persons and 4 professions- drugist, architect, barber and chemist.
ones salary is twice of other and similar statements like this. you are asked to find the
profession of each person.

9.(8 marks)
It was a very complex problem. Different country people live in diff. Color houses who
drinks diff., beverages and who have diff., pets and smoke different brand cigars. Nearly
15 statements given
Sample:
The English lives in green house.
The person who smokes blend lives next to yellow house.

1.who has zebra?

2.who lives in the white house?
3.Who smokes Blend?

10.(8 marks) 6 (Elfum,Eskum,..persons compete in games. 4 of them are allowed to play

3 games each. Distance run, axe throw, 2 other competition.

Certain statements given like:

1.the one who wins distance run participates in one more game.Etc.
We have to find who is the winner of the 4 games?

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9th and 10th problems took time. So, gals and guys work Barron's GRE-pattern of such q
and get practiced with TABLE METHOD. George.K.Summers alone wont help in such
problems.

I have 2 more MNC tests in the coming two months. I have not lost hope or confidence
after I lost in caritor and infy. Today I am again starting preparation with more
determination for up coming tests.

INFOSYS-Placement Paper-8 Jan 2006

Infosys questions

1.a clock gongs 6 times at 6 o'clock.the time from first to last gongs is 30sec.How long
does it take to strike at 12 mid.

2.tea bought for 5bits per pound and 3 bits per pound and made a mixture to grt
40pounds.each sold at 6 bits per pound leading to 33 and 1/3 percent profit.how many
pounds of 5 bits /pound was taken?

3.there are certains trees in a wood on which certain no. of birds sits...the no. of birds on
each tree = no. of trees in de wood.the no. of birds is b/w 2000 and 2100.

4.a brother asks his sis abt de chocolate bars he had given.. it is there in old papers.

5.some personaliti (awarded param veer in 1948)who died is now 1/138 th of his birth
year. find his year of birth.

6.in a party, the guests clinked there glasses against each other there are 11 guests.find

8.a architct,a grocer,a draggist, a banker- Mr.A,Mr.B,Mr.C,Mr.D....

salaries in de order x,2x,4x,6x...
cldnt remember exactly...

9.an athelete race...-a big paragrah...

cldnt remember...

10. trains from hoerah starts at 09oohrs and reach bombay at 0930 hrs after 3 days..same
way in de opposite direction.. a person travels from bombay to howrah... how many trains
he ll cross on his way to howrah..

Only 45 were shortlisted...

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I passed with an above average aggregate. I had my first interview in a relative s

company in Chennai-post of software trainee-programmer in C and C++. But it was
under recommendation that I was called to attend the test. So did not accept their offer. I
applied for Infy, CTS and TCS and many more MNCs. I attended caritor off campus and
lost in final round.

On 27th Dec., I got the long awaited Infy call letter for test on jan 8th which I attended
yesterday. I prepared very sincerely for a 9-10 days. Finishing Shak.Devi book, George
book and Ravi Narula, I went through loads of puzzles from brain vista and old papers. I
was through with 2004,2004 and 2005 papers.
45/1254 were short listed. Due to stiff competition, I lost in the test. I did a 8 correct.

I am not giving the answer, try yourself that's the best way to solve puzzles.

1.(2 marks)
A clock strikes 6'o clock 6 times with an interval of 10 sec. between last and first strike.
How much time would be taken by the clock to strike 12'0 clock midnight?
(an easy q. which u can see in Shak.Devi book-1)

2.(4 marks)
In a grocery shop, the master prepares tea granules by mixing 5 bits/pound and
3bits/pound components. He prepared tea mixture (with some proportion. I forgot but I
remember he made 240 pounds) and made a 33 and half % profit. How many 5
bits/pound component he used? (simple one)

3.(3 marks)
There are many trees in a certain wood.(this s the reverse of wood in tree. it was given
like tht to confuse you).The owner observes that there are as many birds in each tree as
there are trees in the wood. He also knows that total number of birds is 2000-2100. Find
the number of trees in the wood?
(i.e.,Bird in each tree=total no. of trees)

4.(3 marks)
A girl has x chocolate bars. She gives half of what she has to mother, a half to
dad(beware its1/2 or 0.5), gives half more to dog and has one herself. Whts X?
Ans. 7..( check the proportion I have given. am not sure of the q. so, I have given the

5.(6 marks)
An Army official got param vir charka in 1948.The year he died is 139th of the year he

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was born. when was he born?(Ths is in some of the book with different humbers..check )

6.(4 marks)
In a party attended by 11 persons, each clinch their glass with every other. How many
glass clinches?( very easy one imagine being asked in Infy)

7.(6 marks)
SLOW COACH EXPRESS problem from Ravi Narula chapter10=q.4 ans.7 trains

8.(6 marks)There are 4 persons and 4 professions- drugist, architect, barber and chemist.
ones salary is twice of other and similar statements like this. you are asked to find the
profession of each person.

9.(8 marks)
It was a very complex problem. Different country people live in diff. Color houses who
drinks diff., beverages and who have diff., pets and smoke different brand cigars. Nearly
15 statements given
Sample:
The English lives in green house.
The person who smokes blend lives next to yellow house.

1.who has zebra?

2.who lives in the white house?
3.Who smokes Blend?

10.(8 marks) 6 (Elfum,Eskum,..persons compete in games. 4 of them are allowed to play

3 games each. Distance run, axe throw, 2 other competition.

Certain statements given like:

1.the one who wins distance run participates in one more game.Etc.
We have to find who is the winner of the 4 games?

9th and 10th problems took time. So, gals and guys work Barron's GRE-pattern of such q
and get practiced with TABLE METHOD. George.K.Summers alone wont help in such
problems.

I have 2 more MNC tests in the coming two months. I have not lost hope or confidence
after I lost in caritor and infy. Today I am again starting preparation with more
determination for up coming tests.

INFOSYS PLACEMENT PAPERS 2007

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INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th MAY

Date:10th may
No of students appeared:120
Written cleared:33
HR cleared:28

Ques paper format:

aptitude test: 40 min(30 ques)
Verbal test:30 min(40 ques)

APTITUDE TEST:
1) A,B,C,D,E,F,G are seven friends..each of them hv a 7 digit phone no. with nos in cylic
manner ...none of d nos get repeated..no phone number has digits 0,1 or 9....B has d ph no.
in strictly ascending order..2 is the second last digit of A's phone no....2 is the middle
digit of C's no...and sm more data were given... u need to find the phone nos of all the
friends..and answer 5 ques that follow..easy one..

2) ques n Data Interpretation...5 ques to b answerd tht follow..easy one..

3)question on logical reasoning..very easy...there r 4
batsmen..sachin,ravi,kambli,dravid.....n info about each of them was given..cud b solved
easily..just prepare the rows and columns n complete the table..5 ques to be answered that
follow..
4) 5 ques on triangle congruency and similarity,basic maths..
5) 5 ques on Data sufficiency
6) spot the odd fig out(5 ques)

VERBAL TEST:
1) 10 ques
two passages..5-5 ques to be answered for each..

2) 5 ques
choose the grammatically correct sentence from the options given below(5
ques)........ refer either ren n martin or sm good CAT material..atleast brush up the basics
b4 appearing for the test cuz the options look nearly similar..

3) 5 ques
choose the optiion which makes the sentence grammatically correct..that is, a part of the
sentence is underlined and u r to choos e frm the option ,the phrase which is
correct...again refer gud CAT material..

4)5 ques
fill in the blanks with a proper word...easy ones

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5) 10 ques
Read the small para given..and conclude the para with a proper option..

HR INTERVIEW:
I was called twice for the interview..probably cuz i made many blunders in the first
interview..

1ST INTERVIEW:(LONG ONE,LASTD FOR 45 MIN)

1)tell me bout urself..
tell him bout ur strengths n ur qualities ..he doesnt want ur formal intro..
2)tell me smthin u did creative in ur school days
3)do u have a boyfriend??
4)what all qualities wud u wish ur spouse shd have??
5)will u marry a guy who si honest but poor??
will u marry a guy who is poor cuz he s honest?
6)wud u lie for the company?
7)what wud u do if ur father is very sick and u rnt granted the leave cuz there is tonnes of
work left??
9)wud u join the company now??
10)tell me if u hv workd in a grp??
11)what will u do if sm1 keeps sending u vulgar messages on ur cell and doesnt stop at ne
cost??

2ND INTERVIEW: (askd mainly from the resume)

1)why did u take up electronics engg?
4)some simple hr ques frrm rthe resume..
5)wud u like to ask ne ques??

By,
Neelam

Hi friends , I m Indrajeet yadav ,a student of BE 3rd year electronics from MITS

Gwalior . I have selected in Infosys on 4th may when infy visited in our college
for campus recruitment., i M VERY VERY THANKFUL OF THOSE GUYS WHO
HELP ME A LOTS BY SHARING THERE VIEWS ON fresherworld.com

Well, the test comprises three stages

1. PPT (Pre placement talks)
2. Written test
3. HR interview

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Eligibility: through out 65% in 10th, 12th,degree/diploma

All branches of BE /B.arch and ME/M.tech are allowed with no backlogs.

The test is started at 9:30 in morning ,a 1 hour lengthy PPT where they tell us about the
infosys , test pattern ,how to fill the form and package (2.7 lakhs per annum) At about
11:30 they gave us a form ,in 30 minutes we have to fill this form ,it requires the
information abt ur academic ,degree, family .U must carry ur documents with one
photograph with u b/c it required at the time of form filling.
At around 12:00 the written test is started
The test consist of two section
1. Reasoning test
2. English test

WRITTEN TEST:
u all must be knowing pattern of infy...
two papers 1st RESONING IN THIS 30 QUES TO BE ANSWERED IN 40
MINUTE......

PATTERN OF RESONING:
QUES 1 TO 5 : A,B,C,D ,E,F r five cities , their populaton r given ,and a problem is
given based upon some many condition like two cities have industry ,industry r in the
cities wherae population is greater than 20 lakhs,position of these five cities according to
the latitude ,longitude is given then they ask some q. from those conditions.its a
analytical reasoning type Q. …. Do’t try it first if u r not perfect in it.
QUES 6-10: find the figure which is dissimilar in the given five figures…Very easy
QUES 11-15 : DATA SUFFICIENCY…seriously check the conditions they r belongs to
elementary maths ………. AGAIN EASY
QUES 16-20 : Data Interpitation …….pi chart Q.
PI CHART JUST DO SOME CALCULATION BASED ON % AND U CAN GET
QUES 21-25: a analytical problem
a bit tricky corelate the facts wit the help of table and u can get the ans.....
ques 26-30 logic : EASIEST AND TIME SAVING SEGMENT IF U KNOW THOSE 9
RULES of syllogoism ....

THIS IS FOLLOWED BY ENGLISH: THIS SEGMENT IS LENGTHY AND

TOUGH....
40 QUES IN 35 MIN
ques - 1 to 10 : long and big comprehension,,,,they r easy but dont try to solve it first
ques--11-20 : find the correct sentence among four sentences...long sentences r there so
ques 21-27 one sentence is given with underlined phases correct that phrase....easy
ques 28-35 fill in the blanks (purely grammer based segment) …….easiest
ques36-40 : paragraph and inferences easiest part in this whole tough and lengthy english
paper...

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dont take english lightly as there is section cutoff..........try to learn all the grammer rules
and practie as much as possible....
time factor is the key for written exams and try to answer all the ques as there is no
negative marking specially in english...
OUT OF AROUND 150 + CANDIDATES ONLY 32 QUALIFY IN WRITTEN

INTERVIEW:
as far as interiew is concerned if u can speak english clearly and have good
communication skills then u r in…………..
prepare national,international,business and political news From gk it is very important to
have knowledge of gk in infy’s interview....
chief ministers of states, chief justice,governor of rbi etc...
he may ask puzzle tell him the approach even if ur approach is wrong then also tell him
that wrong approach.
THEY ASK ALL WHICH U MENTION IN UR RESUME. SO WE PREPARE FOR IT

MY INTERVIEW:
Q.HAVE U SELECTED IN ANY OTHER COMPANY?
A.YES SIR ,IN TECH MAHINDRA (SINCE INFY IS IN DREAM SLOT IN OUR
COLLEGE).
Q.HOW IS UR ENLISH?
Q. WHO IS OUR PRESIDENT,FINANCE MINISTER,DEFENCE MINISTER?
Q WHO IS THE CHIEF OF ARMY, AIR FORCE,NAVY?(sincc I m a NCC cadet)
QWHICH TYPE OF LENSES R THERE IN UR SPECK?
Q.TELL A MOVEMENT OF UR LIFE WHERE U SHOW THE LEADERSHIP
QUALITY?
Q. WHO WROTE OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM AND NATIONAL SONG?
Q. WHO IS THE CAPTAIN OF WEST INDIES , BANGLADESH CRICKET TEAMs?
Q COMMENT ON CAPTAINSHIP OF RAHUL DRAVID?
Q. HOW MANY cm. R THERE IN AN inch?
Q. A PUZZLE IN WHICH THEY ASK ME ABOUT THE MASS OF A CUBOID
WHEN ITS DENSITY (IN gm./cc)&DIMENSIONS IN
INCHES ARE GIVEN?
Q.QUES. ABOUT MY HOBBIES AND EXPLANATION OF EACH?
Q.NAME ANY FIVE STRONG CURRENCIES NAME?
Q.AT WHAT ANGLE A GUN IS FIRIED TO REACH MAX.DISTANCE? ANS. 45
DEGREE
Q.WHAT IS THE MEANING OF BRIC? ANSWER:( BRAZIL , RUSSIA , INDIA ,
CHINA )
I ANSWER THESE ALL Q. WELL

THE 2 Q. WHOM DO I NOT ANSWER

Q. WHAT IS THE NAME OF A FIGURE remaining after WE CUT A CONE FROM
TOP PARALLEL TO ITS BASE?
Q .WHO IS THE PRESIDENT OF WESTINDIES?

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infosys is not very difficult to crack just concentrate on written exam specially in english
if u get through written then u can easily get through HR.... FINALLY 22 R SELECTED
FROM OUR COLLEGE,WHEN RESULT IS ANNOUNCED AT 7:00 PM AROUND.
WISH U A VERY GOOD LUCK GO AND CRACK THE INFY,NOW ITS EASY TO
CRACK IT…………….

INFOSYS PAPER ON 8th MAY AT BANGALORE

Infosys came to our college for on campus recruitment but it was not just for our college
but also for 6 other colleges and itz called pool campus Complete recruitment process
was finished in 1 day and it was done in a well organized manner. There were around 500
students who wrote the aptitude test out of which around 90 students got through the
aptitude test. Finally around 60 out of 90 students who attended the interview got the job.

Now i will brief about my experience,

The aptitude test consists of 2 sections Logical Reasoning and English. First, the logical
reasoning paper will be given which contains 30 questions and the time given is 35 mins.
Next the english paper will be given which consists of 40 questions and the time given is
35mins.

The two question papers will be given separately and you dont have have to worry much
about time management for different sections since you will be attempting the two papers
one after the other separately. The reason they conduct this way is becoz they are looking
at our skills separately and they give preference to English score. We were asked to keep
our application form on top and then the english answer sheet and then logical reasoning

As far as the logical reasoning was concerned it was quite a normal paper and r.s
aggarwal wil be sufficient to do it well. Honestly i dint prepare from any book but for
those of you who like to prepare, the book i mentioned will be more than enough. there is
no negative marking and plzz attempt all the questions. I dint do this section great but i
was confident that i would be able to clear the cut offs which i guess was around 15.

Now, english paper is tuff and has all sorts of questions including comprehension, fill in
the blanks, to find out the grammatically correct sentence etc. now people you have to be
fast and dont do the passages in the beginning but come to it in the end. once again attend
all the question as there is no negative marking. This English paper is important, so do it
well. Well english needs good vocabulary, reading speed, ability to comprohend a certain
given material etc. i did this English paper really well as i love English and i am always
comfortable with this section. I guess the english cut off was 20+.

Altogether the aptitude paper is definitely standard especially the English part.

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The aptitude test finished at 2 pm. the results were announced at around 4pm. The only
other round and the final round was HR. so people, this is your chance and dont spoil it.
they simply dont ask even a single technical question but definitely they are looking at
good communication skills, confidence and personality.

My interview was at around 5pm and it was like this

ME: may i come in?
HR: plz come in ... take your seat (dont sit until he tells you to)
ME: good afternoon sir
HR: thank you

ME: introduced myself (i did this with great confidence, i told a bit about myself, my
family, my background and my schooling and college and in the end of introduction i
gave him a quote in which i completely believe in , Henry Ford said "IF YOU THINK
YOU CAN DO SOMETHING OR IF YOU THINK YOU CANT DO SOMETHING,
EITHER WAY YOU ARE CORRECT")

HR: (quite impressed with my introduction he went on to ask ) So adith tell me

being a leader in a certain group etc etc, one can also mention if he or she has taken part
in co-curricular activities etc)

ME: answered this (i told him about my dot net course that i did from niit)

HR: ok tell me adith WHY SHOULD INFOSYS HIRE YOU?

ME: answered this yet again with great confidence (told him everything about my
personality traits, gave him enough positive points about myself and finally i went on to
say that i deserve the job in every way)

HR:ARE YOU READY WORK ANYWHERE IN INDIA?

ME: YES (you dont have an option, if you want to get placed you have to say yes )

HR: (was completely convinced and smiled and said) THANK YOU ADITH . DO YOU
HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US?
ME: i asked him about the system followed in infosys to evaluate an employee's
performance (i asked this question specifically as i indirectly wanted to give him a clue
that i wanted to join them and perform well and hence wanted to know )

ME: i said THANK YOU

HR: again smiling , offered a hand shake

ME: happily shaked hand (who wouldnt do this?)

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ME: again said thank you (i put the chair back in its place and left the interview room

Atlast my interview was over and i was very happy when i came out. Although i was
confident i will be offered the job, i kept my fingers crossed until the results were
announced. At 9pm the results were announced and when they read my name ......... i was
simply blown away and felt on top of the world......... couldnt beleive it for a few minutes
and then the feeling started exploding. IT WAS A GREAT MOMENT

THE ONLY THING I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL "FEEL GOOD...................FEEL

GOOD...................FEEL GOOD" SO ALL THE VERY BEST FRIENDS, WHO
ATTEND INFOSYS PLACEMENT IN FUTURE

INFOSYS PAPER ON 3rd MAY

hi friends i am deivanai
infosys came to our college for on campus recruitment ya

it was a one day process. i had a wonderful experience

first slot in our college is given to TCS they have selected 110 students among 330 but i
had not been placed there. but infy have selected only 28 students among 263 i got there
so frds dont get depressed if u loss one opportunity . there r lot of opportunities for us. so
try try try and keep on trying

i will giv u some of my experience here. the selection process contains only two stages
first one is the written exam and the next is the H.R
for the written exam pls refer R.S. Agarwal. but the questions are not the exact replica of
that We should have the presence of mind and we should be brisk enough to face the new
questions so dont worry for infy no preparation is necessary just see the model thats
enough

Non verbal section comprises(30 q 45 min) time is more than enough

-Data sufficiency
-finding the odd figure from the given series
-syllogism
-critical reasoning

Verbal section(40 q only 35 min)

Time is not enough so hurry up be fast dont do the passage first it will lead u to trouble.
so solve the questions from the last
-grammatically correct sentence
-deriving the inference from the given information
-replacing the part of the sentence with the correct phrase or some other part

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So i have cleared the written exam everything becaz of god's grace. among 263 only 40
were short listed

then the H.R. interview

here they will check only the communication skills and no technical they will ask the
technical question if u dont know dont worry frankly say i dont know. they only check
whether u r ready to accept the questions r u r hesitating and they will ask questions
based on ur resume so be thorough with ur resume and they will give one puzzle. if u cant
answer dont worry they will check the way u proceed. so it was very easy . i have cleared
it also ya

so all the best friends who r going to attend infy

We will meet in infy

Hello Gal Friends

I m Mazher Mahmood from Northern India Engg. College Lucknow. Here in LKO
Infosys have visited SRMCEM on 26th of April .Students from 10 Colleges Have Come
For Campus.

The Written Test was consisting of 2 papers:-

1. Aptitude Test (30 questions in 40 mins)
2. Verbal Test (40 questions: 35 minutes)

Paper # 1 was simply based on simple reasoning and aptitude questions:-5q from
Syllogism,5q from Figure series,5 q were from puzzle test from R.S.Agarwaal,5 q based
on averages (A passage were given & we have to answer the 5 q)……5 q on data
sufficiency..5 question from Average speed and distance………………

I Have attempted 24 qs. From 30 questions.

Paper # 2 was a little bit tough. those who are from ISC Board need not to worry. But
also don’ t take it lightly as only 35 minutes have been provided 4 it. Time Management
is also necessary .But friends from U.P. Board n other Regional boards can consult he
CAT material of TIME, career launcher…{I was also from U.P. Board} The Paper
consisted of 2 bulky passage and consisting of 10 q (5 q per passage).Don’t dare to do it
in the beginning as it will kill your ample of time. After that there were 5q form 4 choices
were being provided and we have to choose the most logically correct sentence.

After that there were qs from Correction of sentences. After that there were qs
from..Inference Writing etc..I have done 35 question form 40….

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By 4:30 in the evening the results were announced .The have decided to take the
interview on the very same day. By 6:30 in the evening the HR Interviews started I was a
little bit nervous but building myself I entered the room…..

HR: So Mazher take ur seat.

ME Thank you sir! (Then he offered me a piece of paper and asked me to Write my name
and to do my Signature. Then he asked me to sign in URDU {As I was a Mohhamedan}I
have Done that and described each n every letter of Urdu to him) .

HR: So Mazher it seems from ur performance that u have worked hard for the written test.
But what preparations do u have made for he Interviews…?
ME: Sir to gain Confidence and Tackle nervousness I have taken the help of Meditation

HR: Which kind?

ME: Sir I regularly practice yoga..

HR: Which kind of yoga? Can you name some of them?

ME; Sir I practice the asans of BABA Ramdev like KAPALBHARTI aasan….(I have
asked him for the permission and in the interview room on the seat I have given him a
demo in front of him. HE was smiling ……….OK)

HR: What is ur career goal…

ME: Sir I want to grow my skills in a big software company..

HR: Which Qualities one should have for being a good software Engr.?
ME: Group skills, Confidence, Good communication skills, hard working…..

HR: What does the name Mazher mean?

ME: Sir which is in the stories and which is being discussed by the people. In short
‘famous’.

HR: Mazher how many times do you offer NAMAZ in a day?

ME: Sir two times…..But whenever I get my time I practice it five times a day…..

HR: Here is a puzzle for you…

COCA
+COLA
OASIS
ME Solved it within 1 minute..As I have practiced a lot this kind of questions….

HR: Have you ever involved in any group activity?

ME: Sir as, a part of our syllabus we have MINI projects. I have worked with 4 of my
friends. and also….I described the whole project in front of him….

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HR: Any other questions?

ME: SIR how I m presenting in front of you….

Smiling: you are having good personality…….For rest others you will have to wait for
the Results OK best of luck 4 the results…
Thank you sir..

My interview Continued for about 30 minutes. As it was a good experience so I was

SOME TIPS FOR THE INTERVIEW>>>>>>>
· BE confident.
· Don’t get nervous…Practice thro Mock interviews with your friends, seniors…
· Maintain decency
would be my Pay scale???
· Practise good quality English conversation…
· Don’t reply on that domains which are not of your concern. like I LIKE
MOTORACING..then he will going to as what will be the size of tyre of a F1 car.

Alright By 9:30 in the evening the results were out. I was Lucky enough to be selected It
was really a memorable event.. my head was among the stars. surely this kind of
occasions come once in blue moon.

I owe my success to blessings of my parents, encouragement by teachers and my

seniors& cooperation by my friends…..So don’t loose hope is the moral of the story Keep
faith in GOD>He will surely gift u.

I would also like to thank this is just like a BOON for the freshers. I hope my experience
will help a lot of my friends across d country, hope we’ll meet at INFOSYS.

HI FRIENDS, I AM SHIVRAJ PYATI FROM M.I.T.AURANGABAD.I RECENTLY

GOT SELECTED IN INFOSYS ON 26th APRIL 2007.

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I AM ENTHUSIASTIC TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE WITH YOU ALL. TO GET

SELECT IN INFOSYS IS NOT SO TOUGH BUT YOU HAVE TO BE SURE IN
THREE FIELDS:

40MARKS 35 MINUTES ENGLISH: PASSAGES,PARAGRAPHS,MISSING

WORDS,SELECTING APPROPRIATE PHRASE
30MARKS 40 MINUTES LOGICAL REASONING

1:LOGICAL
2:ENGLISH

NEARLY 800 STUDENTS APPEARED FOR THE CAMPUS RECRUITMENT OUT

OF WHICH 52 CLEARED THE TEST .

THE SECOND ROUND WAS THE INTERVIEW. THE INTERVIEW WAS

PURELY H.R. AND NO TECHNICAL QUESTIONS WERE ASKED. PUZZLES
WERE ASKED SO PRACTICE MORE ON PUZZLES FROM SHAKUNTAL DEVI.

ONCE YOU ARE CLEAR WITH APTITUDE YOUR 90% IN INFOSYS REST

THE INTERVIWERS WERE FRIENDLY AND WERE PHYSICATRISTS SO DO

NOT TRY TO BLUFF THEM AT ANY STAGE OF THE INTERVIEW. REMAIN
CONFIDENT FROM THE TIME YOUR ENTER THE PANEL .

BE CLEAR WITH YOUR HOBBIES, AIM, AREAS OF INTRESTS,CURRENT

AFFAIRS. AT LAST BEST OF LUCK.HOPE THAT WE WILL MEET AT
INFOSYS.EVEN IF ONE OF YOU GET SELECTED BY THIS FEEDBACK IT WILL
BE MY ACHIEVEMENT.

BEST OF LUCK THOUGH I DONT BELIEVE IN LUCK.DO NOT FOLLOW LUCK

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND MAKE LUCK FOLLOW YOU.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 19th APRIL AT BANGALORE

Hi people......So infosys held its placement prog in BTLIT col on 19th april n there wer
two rounds....

1---WRITTEN
a.logical reasoning----this part included syllogisms,data sufficiency, figure series,
percentages n general aptitude.....although i don remember the questions, i can say that
solving the mentioned topics from R.S.Aggarwal(verbal n non verbal reasoning) would b

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of 100% help....der wer no puzzles....40 questions to be solved in 30 MINS...TIME

MANAGEMENT IS VERY IMP...!!

b. English----eng lish was not al that easy....but not very difficult....can say had a good
standard!! GRE books would b of gr8 help...ther wer two passages...fill in the
blaks...correct the sentence....

der wer 450 students out of which 78 cleared the first round....
Later der was a HR....only personal...no technical...
puzzles wer asked for some ...
the hr questions wer....

7----and finally asked me whether i hav any questions n asked me to leave

Secret is.....B urself....originality matters....d moment u start bein some1 else they can
catch u...they try to keep a serious face lik dey don lik us or they are not satisfied wid ur
answers....never let it affect u.....b free n confident....

all the process got over bu 7 pm n results wer announced by 8:30....61 ppl made it out of
78 n i was one of them...agreat moment....!

i hope this has been of some help to ppl who read it.....all the very best to all the
aspirants!!!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 17th APRIL AT NOIDA

HELLO FRIENDS I M TANMAYA Infosys had Visited our college (iec-cet )on 17th of
april...

following process.....
1.reporting time --- 8:00 am

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2. PPT ----around 9:30 am

3.form filling followed by written exam ---- 11:00 am
4.results of written---- 2:00pm
5.interiew(h.r non technical)---2:30 pm
6.final list of selected students--- 9:00 pm

ELIGIBILITY: FOR CBSE AND ICSE: 65,65,65 IN 10th 12th AND B.TECH
(RELAXATION IN ONE)
FOR U.P AND BIHAR BOARG 60,60 IN 10TH AND 12TH AND 65
IN .TECH(NO RELAXATION)

FORM FILLING : U MUST HAVE ONE PHOTOGRAPH...AND IF U HAVE ANY

REFERENCE WHO IS IN INFY THEN U CAN MENTION IT ALSO.......

NOTE: be careful in formfilling because in hr interview they will check the form and ask
ques from that only.my hr havent asked for my resume but u have to carry ur resume...

WRITTEN TEST:
u all must be knowing pattern of infy...

two papers 1st RESONING IN THIS 30 QUES TO BE ANSWERED IN 40

MINUTE......CONC. ON THIS PART AS PUZZLES ARE NOT REALLY TOUGH IF
U CAN MAKE TABLE AND CORELATE ALL THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN
PUZZLE.

PATTERN OF RESONING:
QUES 1 TO 5 : A,B,C,D ARE 4 PERSON.ALL AE SOME MONEY THEIR SUM IS
100 AND A AND B HAVE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT C AND D HAVE.A
HAS MORE MONEY THAN B.C HAVE HALF OF MONEY TAT D HAVE.AND A =

1.who has the highest amount?

2.how much money does B have.
3. what is the ratio of C:D.
4.who have second highest money.

QUES 6-10: find the 6th figure in the series.

QUES 11-15 : DATA SUFFICIENCY AGAIN EASY
QUES 16-20 : D I
BAR CHART JUST DO SOME CALCULATION AND U CAN GET THE ANSWERS
QUES 21-25; PUZZLE
a bit tricky corelate the facts wit the help of table and u can get the ans.....
ques 26-30 logic : EASIEST AND TIME SAVING SEGMENT IF U KNOW THOSE 9
RULES....

THIS IS FOLLOWED BY ENGLISH: THIS SEGMENT IS LENGTHY AND

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TOUGH....
40 QUES IN 35 MIN
ques - 1 to 10 : long and big comprehension,,,, dont try to solve it first
ques--11-20 : find the correct sentence among four sentences...long sentences r there so
ques 21-27 one sentence is given with underlined phases correct that phrase....
ques 28-35 fill in the blanks (purely grammer based segment)
ques36-40 : paragraph and inferences easiest part in this whole tough and lengthy english
paper...
dont take english lightly as there is section cutoff..........try to learn all the grammer rules
and practie as much as possible....

as far as interiew is concerned if u can speak english clearly and have good
communication skills then u r in...prepare national,international,business and political
news From gk.... chief ministers of states, chief justice,governor of rbi etc...
he may ask puzzle tell him the approach even if ur approach is wrong then also tell him
that wrong approach.
he asked me 1 puzzle i told him two appraoches both were wrong but now i m in
infosys.....time factor is the key for written exams and try to answer all the ques as there
is no negative marking specially in english...
in interview try to answer all the ques confidentally which he ask even if u r wrong then

infosys is not very difficult to crack just concentrate on written exam specially in english
if u get through written the u can easily get through hr....

TANMAYA GUPTA

Hello fellow friends and INFOSYS aspirants

i am "Ashish Kaushik" from "IEC college Gr. Noida" INFI was here at 17th of April
2007 i have been selected in the company, and wanna extend a helping hand to all of my
fellow friends who are on the same/ or wanna be on the same side.. but before i start i
would like to express my sincere regards and wana thank to all those friends/colleagues
and seniors who always had their advices and moral building attitude to help me in
preparing for my Placement..

"ALL THE VERY BEST MY FRIENDS ... KEEP UP THIS SPIRIT.. " NOW COMING
TO THE TOPIC INFI and its procedure:::::

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plz NOTE that there was NO NEGATIVE MARKING IN ANY OF THE TESTS INFI
TOOK...SO ATTEMP FULLY

Step1: First of all there was a form given to us to fill.. it included all the details like Sem
marks, 10th , 12th marks, working experience, address details etc etc.. u r given 30 mins
to fill it correctly(especially the SEM aggregate Marks) and are Required to have a
passport size photo along with it..

Step2: after the Form was filled we were given the Test Answer Sheet And Paper

test::1 APTITUDE AND REASONING..

The Paper Consisted Of 30 Questions (all one marks):::and time alloted was 45 min::::::
the paper consisted of the Following topics::

1. Data Interpretation:: 5 ques.

i advice u to prepare the pie chart(which came in my paper) and tabular chart Questions
thorughly as they give good marks on a carefull observation

2. Logical Reasoning::5 Ques

It consisted of the PET syllogic Ques.. like 1. all Charts are Wire 2. all wires are frames
and some conclusions were given
#Advice# use VENN Diagrams for solving them.. they ae faster and accurate.

3. Puzzles :: 5Ques
they consisted of Ques like A,B,C,D,E had a sum of money, the total was Rs.100
->>the total of money A+B had was equal to that of C+D..
>A had half the money B had, D has more money than C..
>> D has 5 more than B..
and Ques were like:: Who HAS THE MOST/LEAST AMOUNT OF
MONEY
HOW MUCH MONEY DID 'c' HAVE... and three other (i dont rem exacxtly )
#ADVICE# do not attempt to solve fully .. in most cases "solving" is not as imp as
"observation"
#ADVICE# TIME MANAGEMENT is the key resource to crack Infi exam
so try to observe Ques(not only this but all) Carefully and examine the fact it helps to
save Time.. and improves accuracy.. only when it is needed factually u should do the
cacluations

4. IMAGE QUESTIONS ::: NON VERBAL.. 5QUES..

some were easy n some were tricky.. we had to find the Next Figure in the series ..i mean
we were given 5 figures following a definite pattern and we had to find the next
Succeeding Figure..
#ADVICE# the Key again lies in Carefull observation
>>>>some of them i would like to share with u >>> --->>> Rotation(clockwise or anti)
--->>Degree (the degree to which the figure has moved)-->>whether some lines or figure
is being constantly added or subtracted and if yes then in which manner

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5 it Was a mix of DATA INTERPRETATION+DATA SUFFICIENCY+PUZZLE ::::::

5qUES
% note% THAT WE DID NOT GET ANY PROBLEMS REGARDING BLOOD
RELATiONS but i wud recommend u to go through it also, as it has come in previous
papers... so u shud be well prepared for Infi...

##ADVICE## U CAN REFER TO R.S.AGGARWAL VERBAL AND NON VERBAL

(ITS SUFFICIENT TO CRACK INFI) IF U WANNA PRACTICE MORE, TRY
ABHIJEET GUHA IT IS ALSO A NICE BOOK..

test:: 2 english Test 30QUES & 35MINS.

friends i would like to remind u that English in INFI has a good level so prepare it in a
better way.. its not that its tough.. but ur preperation will give u the time margin so that u
can score well..
it was Divided in the following::
1. LONG Comprehension.. and Short Comprehensions ( avoid doing them first as they
consume a lot of time... attend them later)
2. Sentence Correction..given will be three long sentences and u will have to choose the
best of them grammatically and logocally correct..
3. Fill in the blanks..choose the best phrase that would fit in
4. WORD meaning.. there was only one Ques on It ----The word was CALUMNIOUS
and we had to find the meanings closest to it..
##ADVICE## u can practice comprehension by reading the editorial coloumn of ur daily
newspaper and for the rest try "Wren And MArtin" it's worth it.. Trust me!!

and thats all it was on the written side... REST was my interview..
THE INTERVIEW..
went for about (20-22 min) the procedure was..
I Entered the room after his( the interviewer's) permission and sat on the chair when he
insructed(never sit without his permission it creates a bad impression) he gave me an
attendance sheet to fill.. after that he asked me to sign on two places on the form which i
had filled in the written phase.. Now that all formalities were done.. the interview started:
the questions i was asked (Not sequentially) were::
1. Tell me something about urself..
2.. how can u say ur creative(it was on mu CV so he asked me), what creative work u
have done; quote an example
3. give an example of u being ADAPTABLE...
4. Do u read newspapers, which one and magazines if yes, which,
5. why U read Tachnical magazines , name some of them
6. HAVE u faced any problem in ur life, if yes what was it and how did u get out.
7. He gave me a puzzle.. i solved it after examining it..
8. what is the one thing u dont like about that place u belong to ( I said It was traffic
problem)
9. how can u solve that problem if u were made the incharge..(it was a long discussion
and took most time)

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10. Why Do u like to Join Infosys.

.(i told him the points (ofcourse in my own way) that we were told by the infocian lady
during our PPT)
11. Family Background..
12. what do u speacialise in computers..
13. what is your ambition in life...
14. some 2-3 ques were from my CV and EVents that i wrote..

and there are some of the questions my fellow friends were asked::
1. form General Awareness. like TOI Editor?? Chief Justice Of india.. Latest Deals and
News..
2. From the world Cup.??
3 What do u know about Infosys.. etc etc..
##ADVICE## the jist of the interview is
that..
1. Be aware of ur social atmosphere.. read newspapers
daily
2. write ur CV in a manner u can handle best make it interesting but precise..
3. Be honest and dont lie
4. Be TruthFul and Be urself
5, THE MOST IMPORTANT;;;;; BE
CONFIDENT ::::::
6. Quote ur Hobbies and strengths d way
they u can explain well, quoting examples..

This Is all From myside.. hope my Paper has helped u in ur preperation.. plz do
contribute when u are selected and even when ur not..
UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL ... we must remember..
with all the best wishes for ur Future and ambitions...

Regards :
ASHISH KAUSHIK.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 15th APRIL AT HYDERABAD

MARKS: 50
TIME: 1Hr

This paper was for experienced people ( with 12 Months to 24 Months of Experience for the
post of Entry Level Software Engineers).
As I have seen previous years papers of 2006 & 2007 the pattern was from RS Agarwal
(Verbal & Non Verbal) so did't prepare puzzles.
The paper which I have written consist of only 10 puzzles of 50 Marks, Time was 1 Hr. No
English.

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***Never take a Chance***

So Friends be prepared with

• Previous Year Papers- Puzzles(important)

• Shakuntala Devi Puzzles
• RS Agarwal - Verbal & Non-Verbal

1) A jeweller prepared a window display each displaying 3 of the 7 jems at a time . (8

They were methyst, opal, sapphire, emerald, ruby and garnet. Displayed Marks)
according to the following conditions:-
1 A sholud always be displayed on the left window and D on the right.
2 Ruby should never come with any of D or G.
3.E should always be with S.
then some 4 questions were asked on this.
#1 which combination is appropriate?
#2 which condition is correct in the right window?
#3 Ruby can be displayed with following other two?
#4 S can be displayed with the following other two on left side window?
2) Yesterday my mother asked me to buy some stamps. Stamps are available in 2 (4
paise,7paise,10paise,15paise and 20paise denominations. For three types of Marks)
stamps I was asked to buy five of each. For the other two types of stamps. I was
five of and which to buy six of Luckly my mother had given me the exact
money required to buy the stamps , Rs. 3.00 and the shopkeeper was able to
give me the correct stamps. Which stamps did I buy?
3. A cyclist covered 2/3 of his distance by cycle ,then his type was punctured. after (3
that he covered the remaining distance by walk. He felt that he had walked twice Marks)
the time of he cycle. how fast he cycled than he walked. Ans:4 times
4) Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. They have one card in their hand. (8
Each card has two different colours on each of its side. In total there are 2 red, 2 Marks)
green, and 3 blue colours. They made following statements about their hidden
colour of the card. and exactly two among them are lying.
A -> Blue or Green
B -> Neither Blue nor Green
C -> Blue or Yellow
D -> Blue or Yellow
The visible colours are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively in that order. Tell
the hidden colour of card for each of the person.
5) M is sister of P, O`s husband is L`s brother, N is father of K & grandfather of P (6
There are two fathers and one mother and 3 brothers. Find Marks)
1) Group of brothers
2) How many Male candidates?
3) who is husband of O ?

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6) There are two workers ,each takes 10 hrs & other for 9 hrs.Both can work (3
together with 5 bricks laid for 1 hr.. The owner knows this but in a hurry he Marks)
assigned a work to both..........How many Bricks they constructed for 1
hr.......(Some thing like that)
7) There are seven friends. First one goes to his friends house on first day. Second (4
one goes to his friends house on second day. Third one goes to his friends house Marks)
on third day. Fourth one goes to his friends house on fourth day. Fifth one goes
to his friends house on fifth day. Sixth one goes to his friends house on sixth
day. Seventh one goes to his friends house on seventh day. Altogether all people
can meet on which day?
8) Some puzzle question on ages (like S is older than T, but younger E.F is older (6Marks)
than S, but greater than T, etc)
9) Cricket Scores: Find the Number of runs altogether by the cricket team....As (4
Sachin scored 74 less than Dravid. Dravid greater than Jedeja...............Rahul Marks)
and Azar togther 76................(Something like that)
10) There are 3 Men, in a party...... Each men dancing with three women.. (4
if one women has two pairs of men how many attended the party? (Not Marks)
Remember the exact question)

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL

Hi frnds, On 10th & 11th Infosys visited the Amritsar college for placement of Engg.
Students . There were more than 1500 student who were present at the campus . After the
apt. round only 142 got thru . In the end i.e after the interview around 70 of them were
selected. By god grace I was one of them.
Firstly in the morning we had a seminar in which we were told wht our designation
would be after getting thru( i.e Software Engg.),what was the pay scale, duration of bond,
facilities in Infosys , abt scope of future studies etc. After the seminar we had a break of
abt 1hr and then apt test.

APTITUDE TEST :
It consisted of 2 sections :
1 --- logical reasoning: The paper consisted of 30 question to be answered in 40 mins.
The paper were based on topics :
Maths
Figures
Data sufficiency
Data interpretation
Puzzles(not in our paper but mostly present)

The level of this paper was medium. Maths questions were typical and required practice
before hand.

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2 --- English :
The paper consisted of 40 question to be answered in 30 mins. The paper were divided in
Best fitting phrase
Word meanings
Conclusion based questions (a small story was given)

The level of this paper was medium if u r a CBSE student . It was more like the CAT
English paper . Reading speed was a crucial part of success in this section . After this
paper we were given a rest of abt 2 hrs , then our result was out and 142 out of us were
selected . then we had an interview.

INTERVIEW DETAILS :
This was the last stone which was to be turned so as to get into Infosys . my interview
was taken by a IIM –A professor . he asked general question on current affairs , ur basic
knowledge, politics etc. Your CV /

Resume holds the key to ur success and to most of the question that will be asked to u . In
the end the rslt was declared and luckily I was one of the selected candidates. For
preparation , Study:--
1- R.S.aggrawal (logic reasoning )
2- Shakuntla devi (puzzles to puzzles)
3- Geogre Summers

I wld like to thank my family for supporting me day in and day out (Specially my
Mom) ,and hope one day u will also bring smile on ur family’s face . Best wishes from
my side

hi friends....i m mohammad asif.doing B.Tech in cse from G.N.D.U.

asr,punjab..............................first of all i would like to thnx freshersworld for providing
me the ryt path to crack the infy............the test was on 10th april .it was a joint campus
and around 800 students participated..........................

NOTE- students who dont clear the infy test for the first time r not allowed to sit within 9
months after test.......................so prepare well........

TEST PATTERN-
APTITUDE .........30 Q(40 MINS)
( Data sufficiency-5q,
Syllogism-5q,
puzzle test-5q,
Data interpretation-5q,

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series-5q,(five figures given and we have to fing the next figure...........do first chapter of
3rd section of rs aggrawals verbal n nonverbal)

NOTE- for aptitude plz refer "R.S.AGGRAWAL'S VERBAL AND NON VERBAL"
(DS,SYYLOGISMS,PUZZLE TEST,SERIES) for DI..........refer r.s.aggrawal..quant
aptitudes last section..................

ENGLISH------40 Q(35 MINS)

(SENTENCE CORRECTION TYPE Q,CHOOSING GRAMTICALLY CORRECT
SENTENCES,and two long comprehension passages)

sample questions u can find in sahils experience ...from amritsar....

NOTE--- try to attempt passages at last as they were very lengthy...........and if attempted
then.just read the questions first and then go for the answers ........it will save
time.............

INTERVIEW-
NOTE-- if u clear the written test then 80% of ur work has been done and the rest
depends on ur interview......

tips--ALWAYS BE CONFIDENT IN INTERVIEW....AS THEY

BASICALLY TEST THE CONFIDENCE LEVEL OF THE CANDIDATES.........

my interview-
INTERVIEWER(IW)- have a seat.
me- thankyou sir.
me- yes sir.
iw- humm ..........i ma great fan of yours........
me- thank you sir ...............i know he is the fast bowler of pakistan cricket team..............
iw- (laughs..........)
iw- so will u take me through ur resume?
me- answered well...............(including my family ,educational backgroung,including my
hobbies)
iw-so r u a bowler?(as i told him that cricket is my hobby)
me- sir i m an allrounder.
iw- at which level u have played?
me- sir i have played national level cricket twice ..........(dont say ur hobby as playing
cricket unless u have not played at any level)
iw- so what do u think abt the early exit of indian team from world cup?
me-.......gave a reasonable answer........................(with utmost confidence)
iw- (after seeing my resume.........).......so u have not applied for army?(as my father is in
army)
me-.sure sir ,...............but didnt cleared the ssb interviews...........
iw- how u see urself as an employee of infosys?
me-.......gave a solid answer (.try to impress him ..........and show him that u r very eager

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to join infosys.)
iw- how u prepared yesterday for infosys?
me-.....described well.......................
iw-ok ..................tell me the five uses of a cricket bat...............apart from
playing..........................
me-...........told four......................and the last one was little hillarious---------(sir it can
also be used to put a puzzle on someone as u r doing ryt now...........)
iw-(laughs loudly.........) ...................................(i was sure on that time that i m a selected
student)
iw-u want to ask me anything?
me-.........sir actually the ppt was not clear so i want to know more abt ur company(.as an
online ppt was going on
iw-ok u can go..................then our result were announced at 1 am.........and i was one of
the selected candidate.....

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL AT GHAZIABAD

Hi, everyone preparing for INFOSYS. here i would try 2 give u the whole question paper
and also an insight of the Hr round.

CRIETERIA:- 65% in 10,12,B.Tech/MCA with a relaxation in any one from

10,12,B.Tech/MCA.

PRESENTATION
At about 10 a.m the ppt. started which was nice. It provided the whole intro of the
company which followed an audio+video presentation too n that was really awesome. U
have to fill a form before taking the wriiten test in which u have 2 fill in ur personel
details and also the aggrgate marks out of the total marks along with the % of
10,12,B.Tech/MCA. So I advice u to keep ur documents handy as u hav 2 fiil in a lot of
details.

Keep a passport colour photograph also as its attached in the form.

WRITTEN TEST
Prepare the following things 4 cracking Infosys paper(Analytical)All is in R.S Agarwal
Verbal n Non-Verbal and D.I. in Aptitude R.S.

1st paper is of following(35 ques.)

1. Data Interpretation(2 ques.)
2. Picture Series(5 ques.)
3. Data Sufficiency(5 ques.)
4. Syllogism(5-6 ques.)

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5. Logical Reasoning(1 ques.)

6. Puzzles from R.S.Agarwal Verbal n Non-Verbal

2nd paper is of English (40 ques. Total)

1. 2 passages (10 ques.)
2. Fill in the blanks
3. Sentence Corrections.

Time is really very less 4 eng. paper so start it from back and do the passages afterwards.
No Negative marking in both papers.
Some of the questions I remember are:-
Q1. 2 friends hired a piece of land and invested money in ratio of 3:1. They harvested
coconuts and lemon in ratio of 2:1.Lemon trees were 100. In 1996 the profit was
28,000.In 1998, it was 5% of the total amount(I dont rem. it full). (Aptitude R.S.)
5 ques. followed it
Q2. 4 figures and next was to be found which completed the series.(R.S Agarwal
Verbal n Non-Verbal )
Q3. Data Sufficiency of Mathematical types.
Q4. Ram,Shyam,Rajesh r frnds.They r engg. ,doctor ,teacher not in that order. they
married Ria ,Sita,Gita not in that order
(5 ques. followed. very easy one) (R.S Agarwal Verbal n Non-Verbal )
Q5. Syllogisms All cloud is white No sky is blue. 4 These type of ques. just learn
the 9 rules and u will certainly do it. ( R.S Agarwal Verbal n Non-Verbal)

Now the Eng part

If u r good at eng. then u won't hav any probs doing it.Anyways if u could get some cat
material u may practice from it.

At our college result was declared at 5 p.m. and 138 were students qualified from nearly
450-500 students. I was also selected and the next round is HR. Remember there is no
Tech. round in it ,just a HR round.

HR ROUND
Generally it was a cool experience.Some of my frnds HR lasted 4 just 8-10 min.But mine
lasted for 35 min.Questions are:-
A- I told him but he said what else? Then I gave my family background. he asked what
else? I told my strengths.Again what else? My hobbies........What else?
Then I told him about my projects and said sir I think that's it.He smiled and said O.k. I
think he was testing my Patience and confidence.
Here I would like 2 tell that my tell me abt urself lasted for 18-20 min. but generally its
not so. But always expect d unexpected :-)

Q2. What good books hav u read in last 1 year?

Q3. How do ur enemies/friends describe u?
Q4. U hav mentioned in ur resume that u r creative giv me 2 examples

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Q5. 7 news of last 1 month?

Q6. In latest MCD polls how much did BJP and CONGRESS scored?
Q7. Why should I hire u?
Q8. Mergers in steel market(Tata-Chorus,Mittal-Arcelor)
Q9. Any other merger other than steel(Hutch -Vodafone)
Q10. Something u ask from me?
Q11. How did u felt when India lost to Bangladesh?
I don't remember but there were 2-3 more questions.

Learn all the states-capitals and names of imp.ministers of india and capitals of some
neighbouring countries and try to summarize news of last 1 month.

The result was declared at 11.15 p.m. and I was a lucky one to get selected. Through the
entire day and until the whole procedure was carried out till the result was declared a very
dear friend of mine stayed with me and prayed 4 my selection. I m very thankful to him
as without his support and motivation I wouldn't b able 2 believe in
myself. and......................yes he was also selected in Infosys.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL

hi friends... i m vikas bansal from B.Tech ECE 3rd year from G.N.D.U Main Campus
Amritsar.Infy visited Acet Amritsar nad we were also invited. They selected approx 120
candidates and i also got selected. Now i will share my experince with you.

Firstly they gave their PPT then written test Started at 12:00 noon. It consisted of 2
papers. first was reasoning. It consisted of 6 sections of 5 ques each and 30 ques to be
solved in 40 min.

It consisted of following Sections:-

1. Puzzle on classsification from RS agarwal.
2.Ques on finding next image from given sequence.
3. Data sufficiency.
4. Data Interptation.
5.Syllogism
6.Puzzle on Blood relation from RS Agrawal.

Next was English Test. In that there were 40 ques to be solved in 35 min.
1. 5 ques on long paragraph.
2. 5 ques on short paragraph.
3.7-8 ques on Filling the Blank/Completing sentence.
4. 7-8 ques on Sentense correction.

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5. 7-8 ques on deriving conclusions from given paragraph.

6. 5 ques on finding best alternative for underlined sentence.

i attempted 28 from 1st test and 35 from 2nd test and cleared test.

After that there was interview round. It was Very simple and just like One-to-one talk.
They asked simple ques like meaning of ur name, ur family background, ur city, ques on
ur hobbies and they asked puzzle to some candidates too.

Tips:- for written Prepare above chapters from Verb-non Verbal from Rs agarwal and
from Objective English too. for Interview Remain Confident, say with confident
whatever u say and keep smiling. while solving puzzle in interview don't hesitate, keep
on solving until they ask u to stop and give answer with confidence whether right or
wrong. No need to refer Shukantla devi for puzzles in written test bcoz pattern of Infy
has been changed. maintain eye contact too.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 10th APRIL

hello friends ,,,, i m sahil from g.n.d.u. i would like to thank the whole fresherworld
members and those who submitted there experiences and questions of exams they
appeared for,,, i will also like to thank all my friends and off-course my nears and
dears .,,,,,,

i gave infy. exam on 10th april in amritsar luckily i made through it...
a total of about 800 students gave the written test out of which only 143 were shortlisted
for interview and out of them 92 were declared placed.

Written test:
duration- 45 min
questions -30
the test was tough but can be cleared with not much trouble if one lays emphasis on time
management .....and off-course c2d policy can give help

Q 1-5 data interpretation (need presence of mind) i don't remember the full question but
it was almost like ----
gopal and mohan bought 2 types of trees lemon and coconut in the ratio 1:5
gopal spent 2 lacs in other thingd like levelling,labour etc,,they totally invested 12 lakhs
after they sold coconuts they got 5,00,000.as revenue ,,, total field was 5 hectares ,, and
the output of fields were in the ratio 2:3 ,,they sold a coconut for Rs.5 ques. were on to
find the number of coconuts , the number of lemons total revenue of lemon etc ....ths was
quite time consuming question

Q6-10images question five figures were given in each question ,, and we have to find the
6th of it from the options ,,(do it carefully)

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Q11-15data sufficiency(very easy)

one quest was :: is g+3>h+2?
1.g>0and h>0 2.cube of g >cube of h
these question test the basics of a person these can be simple quadratic equation to even
plus or minus questions...
Q16-20 a mix of data interpration and puzzle test (easiest ,,, mostly candidates did it
orally )mainly it was like puzzle test but a tabular data was given to give it data
interpretation type look,,,, i m sure everybody might have done it without much trouble

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

---------------------------------------------------
a 30 31 20 27 32
---------------------------------------------------
b
----------------------------------------------------
c
----------------------------------------------------
d
some data was given like that i don't remember exactly
1. brand for which shares increases 3 times in a row is called 'strogn brand '
2. almost same sentence as 1 with consistent brand
3.
4.
5.
6.
some data as same as 1st was given ,, questions was to find the most consistent brand, to
find the strongest brand..

Q20-25 puzzle test (tricky one)

ram ,lakhan and kishan are doctor,teacher and enggineer respectively ,, all are married
with wives sita, gita and radha not in the same order ,,also working and some conditions
were given such as
1.techer's wife also teaches
2.a secret affair of 2
3.
4.
5.
rest i can't remember sorry
the quest was to find -1who is doctor ,2 who is married to ram 3 who is martried to engg.
4. 5.aomething like that

Q26-30 syllogism (easy )

remember all nine rules given in R.S.Aggarwal verbal and non-verbal

the test can be cleared with ease and comfort but ensure that u keep it exactly in time ,,
first do syllogism 5 questions will be done in atmost 2 minutes thn do data sufficiency

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(these 2 sections are straight forward quetion with no link to each other hence max.
chance to get max. correct) then do puzzles as most students are strong in this region
atmost 5-7 minutes after wards do as u like to other questions as all other are more time
consuming

English : duratin-30 min question-40

English was basic but you have to be very careful
Q1-5 a big reading comprehension (need a lot of concentration)
Q6-10 reading comprehension but not so big
rest i don't remember the sequence
some 5 questions were on sentence correction (be careful ,all options are almost
alike )you have to gramatically strong to get on these one's

soem 5 questions were on inference ,,( deduce wht the paragraph say)
i remember one was like ---- jim corbett was a famous tiger hunter ,he went to some
forest in search a girl whom a tiger has taken with it ,, when he got to the tiger, he was
with a colie,,, tiger has just finished eating the girl ,, despite of seeing jim corbett the
tiger did't moved ,,,
options were lik
1' tiger was used to see jim corbett
2' animals unlike humans are not greedy and kill only when they are hungry
3' tiger was scared of jim corbett's colie (a name was given a don;t remember)
4'

other questins were grammer like fill in the blanks with appropriate words ,, etc i can't
remember more queations sorryyyyyy

Interview
interview was simple and could be easily cleared unless you create a havoc or do some
blunder inside the cabin tips--- they were least interested in percentage , so don;t fear
even if you are in relaxation category ,, they did't even saw mine file ,, just asked for
copy of my resume , so keep an extra copy of resume with you and also they will make
you sign a attendane sheet , so have a pen of you,, (it doesn't look nice when you ask
them for pen)
i entered
interviewer(s) -- so have a seat
me-- thank you sir
s-so ...... sahil, sign it here
me-yes sir (and i took out my pen and signed where he said)
s-can you tell me the president of west-indies
me-sir, i hav in my information ,that west indies is not ruled and some islands have
joined ... collaborated to make one west indies and they do not hav a single leader
s-excellent , not many students hav got it so far
me-thank you , sir.
how many centimetres go for an inch?
me- sir, two and a half

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s-good
me thank you, sir
me- told( be precise,, specially if you belong to bussiness family )
s-(he looked on resume and....excited to see cricket in my hobbies )
cricket,
me-yes sir
s-so which big event on cricket in going on these days?
me -sir, world cup is on
s-can you tell me who mada the fastest century this time?
me-(i as not watching matches for last some days but i knew about mathew hayden a little
bit) sir, mathew hayden , in 66 no 67 balls.(still am not sure 66 or 67 or 65 wht is it )
s- who is the leading wicket taker?
me-sir, actually i m not follwing the matches for last 10-20 days,so i don't have any
s- (he saw my percentage and asked me ) are you sure you got the exact %age ,is it exact
what you hav mentioned here.. we are selectring you on these details , nothing should be
fake (i think he tried me on with my confidence here)
me- (i was scared a lot at ths point but somehow i managed to say.. )yes sir, i m sure ,,
only a difference of some fractions can be there but itcannot not be that much which can
change or my eligibility.
s-ok,sign it here(he mede me sign on tht form under my %age )
me -yes sir(i signed)
s-tell me the currency of china?
me-sir, yen.
s- tell me currency of japan?
me - sir, i don't hav any idea .
s- yen is the currency of japan nad yawn is of china.
me -thank you ,sir(i think he liked this thing )
s- tell me currency of france?
me -sir , i don't hav any idea
s-three big indian deals hav been signed in recent past , name them?
me -sir, arcelor mittal
s- is that an indian deal ?
me - no sir ,sorry sir,, it is tata chorus
sir,i can't remember any other now.
s-who is the prsident of india?
me-sir, he is Dr,A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
s- ok sahil; you can leave now
me -than you sir

(i think he basically looked on general awareness ,even my answers were not ful correct ,
and he also might have noticed i only told which i got inmind straight away ,, be it arcelor
mittal deal, or yen ,, but he corrected me with that and imediately i also regretted for i
was wrong,, i think he liked this thing )
after some time the name of all 92 selected students were anounced ,, we four friends

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together went to give the exam all cleared written exam ,, and three made it to placement
but unfortunately a friend of our's couldn't make it through the interview,, please pray for
him that he also getplaced as soon as possible

hi friends... my name is manohar...

Firstly..i have to thank the Freshersworld site which not only gave the patterns of the
paper,but gave me the confidence of attending the campuses.. and the candidates
experience's..which made me mentally prepare for exam...thanq for the team of
freshersworld...

i have attended the Infosys Off campus drive dat was conducted at KIET...the criteria was
65,65 and 68 in 10th,12th,PG... and no errears in academic.... Around 600 were attended
the written at 11am and ended at 12:30....

Hey Guys....the pattern of infosys exam has changed..its like..2 papers...one is fully
aptitude,logical and simple reasoning...the 2nd one is purely English...which was very
tough..bcoz u have less time...

By GOD's GRACE i have cleared the written...and the results of written were released at
3:00pm and gave the time slots for interview...i was very tensed....about the
interview..bcoz..the company is like that. about 120 students cleared the written..

i was one of them.... i have got a call for interview...and went into the room where the HR
executive is sitting.... first i asked him the permission..he told to come in..
1)i went inside and wished him and in response he wished me too and told me to sit..and
gave a shake hand.. he asked me CV and i gave it.. the HR sir was very very very cool.....
it was about 8:30pm....he offered me fruits..i said thanq...and he told me to eat a piece of
apple..so that he cud start the interview.
2)i ate n he gave me some topics and to thnk for a minute and the speak on the topic for a
minute..i chose one and spoke on it.
3)then he asked me 2 puzzles....i tried the first one but didnt get the answer..then he gave
another one and i have done it perfectly...
4)then he asked if i were a team leader and a guy in my team was not working well..then
wat wud u do? i answered....
5)then he asked ..that i was staying in room which was on 3rd floor and suddenly fire was
put up..then wat r the 3 thngs u'll take and u have only 2 minutes... i answered...
for the first puzzle he asked me.
he told dat im the last person dat day he is interviewing.. and again he gave a shake hand
and i thanked him adn he wished me good luck and again i thanked him for offering me
the fruits...he told welcome...

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i came out...with cool mind... this was the process for my interview...i was told that my
results will b through mail in 2-3 weeks...

I WAS SPENDING MINUTES LIKE DECADES AND WAITING FOR

RESULTS...AND PRAYING ONLY TO GOD...HE PUT IN TEST ..IN INTERVIEW
AND HOPE IN "INFOSYS"...

i hope my experience can mentally help u... and dont forget to pray about me...b coz
some day..u'll get the chance of praying...GOD's THERE watching every moment of
us...do good ...b good...All the Best..

INFOSYS PAPER ON 8th APRIL AT DELHI

hi all..... i appeared for the test on 8th april,2007 at cambridge foundation school,new
delhi........my experience was really unusual........i reached the test centre one hour before
the scheduled time.....after half an hour three or four students walked in....i was of the
view that....there must be around 1000 students( as i had gone through diff candidates
expe.) but was astonished to c that we were just 7 students who had to appear for the
test.....n a staff of around 14-15 were standing to welcome us....they were gossiping n
same were we doing...as both the parties were surprised...as infy had send call letters to
1700 students....may be that was my luck that just 7 reached there......we took the
test.....analytical part was very easy....it had 6 questins with 5 internal questions.......

1). data interpretation...:: in this question few missing figures were there in the table.....n
hints were given to find them...then 5 questions were there on that data......it was bit
tricky...may be i had not much time to solve that ...otherwise...it was easy....

2) there were 5 questions based on figures...like 5 figures were given we had to find the
missing figure from the options...it was easy...n i think it depends on how cool minded u r
at that point of time....otherwise it doesnt need practice....

3) there were 5 syllogisms...most of them were from RS aggarwal.....

4) again data interpretation....based on sale of food items...it was an easy one .....this
again was a simple table....no graphical data was there....

5) there was puzzle...it was also easy......

6)data sufficiency : it was mathematical questions based....but i would like to tell u...that
RS aggarwal is more than sufficient.....many people advised me to do times material...or
cl...but i think once you solve RS aggarwal fully...its more then sufficient...ya what u
wont get in RS agggrwal is DI questions...for that saolve few from any cat material...ya
for data sufficiency....solve mathematics based data sufficiency...questions....

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next english paper was very lengthy...it had two passages...leave them for last....then error
finding,incorrect sentences,choose the correct option kinds question were
there.....remember to be calm through out....don't loose patience....remember it doesnot
have negative marking so if anything is left out...you can make guesses also.....just keep
track of your speed.......my advise will be that when few days r left 4 exam...just set
timers 4 forty minutes n try to solve 40 questions...i mean just practice to work fast.....

after the test we were asked to wait 4 half an hour.....all of us were in a very strange
state...coz we were very few...n were not clear what would be the criteria of short
listing...suddenly...a gentleman walked in our room n called my name....i was not atall
prepared for what was going to happen next...n to my surprise he took me to a
room....where my interview started.....it was without notice...in a hurry i switched off my
mobile...they were sitting in a class room...so atmosphere was also not suggestive....i
wished them...they started with...tell us about yourself...told

then my strengths....where did i show my leadership skills in real time scenario....all of

the sudden one of them started taking my technical...that was again a shock...as i was a
fresher...n that too unexperienced...i had done msc stats....n he was also 4m stas
backgroung...so i was caught....anyhow i managed...then there was bombardment of
mixed questions...technical as well as hr.....then they gave me a vicarious situation and
asked me to add innovations...i did...atlast they said that i ll be intimated within 2 or three
weeks.....i thanked them and came our...few other staffmembers were standing there... i
asked them about other candidates they said only i was shortlisted...that was again a
surprise....then they told us that test will again be conducted there on 15th april for those
called 1700 students as they didnt get call letters.....thank god i was saved........now lets
see what happens.......i m just praying to GOD that everything ends well.....coz ours
situation was really strange....i dont know whether they will consider our test or not....just
pray 4 me please...all the best to all of you...trust yourself you ll do it... i was also very
phobic about the test....but its not actually that tough...remember its based on CAT style
but not difficult as that....so trust yourself.......u can do it.....and for interview....dont cram
anything...just be clear what to say ...let it come direct from ur heart...coz thaey people r
experienced ...n will rightly judge if u have cramed anything.......dont lie anywhere...be
honest.....no body can beat you then......they just see how confident you are n how honest
you are...all the best

INFOSYS PAPER ON 6th APRIL , Agra

Hi friends,

Tips:
1) crack wriiten test with a good score there is no chance for cheating because infosy will
not allow u to do that as they have there pannel to conduct the exam ur collage have no
role on it.
2) Have ur Acedemic records over 70%(u r eligible to sit if u hv 65% in C.B.S.E or 60%

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in state board)it really matters at the time of interview.

3) Be Confidant n dont lie them.

On pool campus derive of infosy on 5th April out of 962 students 203 had successfuly
cracked the written paper in which 44 r from our college (I.E.T Agra)

The test is conducted under two sections:

(A) The analytical reasoning part(40 min & 30 questions)
(B) English usage (30 min & 40questions)

Infosys is following the cat pattern and is concentrating on the candidates time
management, general aptitude And vocablury.

(1)English paper was tough one but conains questions from our daily English usage,a
person with average english speaking skills have to work more in this section, no
antonyms ,synonyms were asked so no need learn those from barons for infy atleast. it
consis to two passage one is easy n other is not so easy as it was too long so preferable do
it at last. there are some question to correct the sentance n like this be prepeared for ur
gramatical skill if u r lacking it in urs than forget abt infy, so start prepearing for it frm a
good grammer book like wren n martin.

(2) Analytical portion was quite easy one only u have to think abt is for time managment
i will suggest u to do Data intepretations at last. there r questions frm missing figure n
odd man out like this.u just refer too R.S.Agarwaal it will help u to crack it.

On next day (6th April)all shortlisted candidate r asked to report at the college at 10 am
sharp for college wise interview. The interview was really cool one there are 13 pannels
who r taking the interviews of 13 different students at one time. they simply want to
judge ur speaking n communication ability,so if u r good on that then there is abt 90%
chance of getting shortlisted in final list.

on my interview they simply ask question frm my resume espessialy frm my hobbies so
be prepeared for it with a good example. for example if ur hobbie is listening music then
u must know what type of music n who is the singer of tht music who composed the song

at 5 pm sharp they announsed the result out of 203 the final list consist of 122 sucessful
candidates(including me).
From our college I.E.T agra we 27 students are finally got selected and i thanx to all my
teachers n friends who coperated with us.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 6th APRIL AT BANGALORE

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Hi …
Infosys visited BIT on April 6th 2007 and I got thru…
Here I’m giving you the details abt the test and all u wanted to knw…

DETAILS
1) As of now Infy is offering 2.7 p.a. They said tat there are 90% chances of increasing
the pay to a max of 3.0 p.a.
2) Infy has a bond for 1 yr.
3) The training is at Mysore
4) If you are not selected then you cannot write for Infy for a period of 9 months

ELIGIBILITY
I think it is 65% in 10th, 12th n BE with a 5% relaxation in any one…

PROCEDURE

STEP 1:
PPT
The PPT is for abt 90 min..
Go through the company website on the day before…collect all the relevant details and
make a note…it will be much easier for u to follow the PPT..
Make a note of the HR’s name..
Be prepared to answer questions like “Why Infosys?” or “What do u knw abt Infosys?” in
the HR round…

STEP 2
FILLING OF THE APPLICATION FORM
You will have to fill an application form…make sure u fill it accurately…
Take 2 recent passport size photographs (imp)
The form will include the following details …
1)Personal details
Like name, address, phone no etc
2) Family details
Like name n occupation of parents..
3) Educational background
Like marks, university, month n yr of passing..
U will have to include all languages, pracs, and optionals in the total
And avg is calculated as
Total marks obtained in all sems/total max marks
4) Other details like
Vision: It is 6/6 for normal vision
Major Illness + date: write NA if not applicable
References of people working at Infosys : if any

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You get 30 min to fill the application form

STEP 3:
TEST OF ARITHMETIC REASONING AND ANALYTICAL THINKING
30 QUESTIONS
45 MINUTES

We had 5 sections each with 5 divisions

1) Puzzle based on direction sense…easy
Something like…
P,Q,R and S are standing at the 4 corners of a square…n/w ,n/e,s/w n s/e respectively…
N something like…If P and R move one and a half distance in the clockwise
direction…Q and S one n a half in the anticlockwise direction then in
which direction is P with respect to S…something like tat
All the sub questions were based on the similar pattern

2) Figure Completion….tricky…a little tough

5 figures in a series were given n we had to find the missing figure
It was a little tough …try n go through RS Aggarwal Verbal n Non Verbal Reasoning to
get a hang of these kinds of questions..

3) Data Sufficiency….easy
A question was given followed by 2 statements We had to mark
1) If the first statement alone was enough to answer the question
2) If the second statement alone was enough to answer the question
3) If the both the statements were required to answer the question
4) If the question cld not be answered using both the statements
5) If either statement alone was sufficient to answer the question

A little practice from RS Aggarwal Verbal n Non Verbal or any CAT material will help u

4) Data Interpretation….questions were direct but need quick calculations

We were given a table tat had the info abt the sales of 3 companies A,B n C for different
years..1990 to 1998..
The total sales n price/unit was given..
We had to calculate stuff like
1) avg price/unit of company C
2) the percentage increase in the no. of units produced by Company A from 1991 to
1992
3) the year in which the no. of units produced by Company C decreased a second time
4) The year in which maximum no of units were produced…something like tat
The price/unit was given in decimals like 3.4 n the sales something like 501 etc.. hence
there was a lot of division to do…try to approximate the values n calculate wherever
comparison is involved… Practise from RS Aggarwal Quantitative Aptitude ..try timing
ur self…

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5) Puzzle based on Blood Relations…easy

A family with members A,B,C,D,E and F….2 married couples…3 females…n the
relations among them were given…
N questions like..Which of the following pairs represents a married couple?Etc were aske

Draw a family tree…it’ll help u answer the questions

6)Logical deductions
In this section abt 5 statements were given n we had to find out which of them were
logically related…
These were not the usual syllogism(all,some etc) type..
It was more like..
a) T is taller than Q
b) R and S are of the same height
c) T is taller than S
d) R is shorter than T
e) Some other statement

Which of these are logically related?

Others had statements like The avg salary was increased by 15%...etc
I think it is best to go with the answer options n choose the most appropriate one…

STEP 4:VERBAL 40 QUESTIONS 30 MIN

You get 2 comprehensions both were quite simple…but do the comprehensions at the
understanding each statement…u can easily answer the questions 5 in each
10 Sentence Completion
4 statements almost the same but with some difference..mark the one which is
grammatically correct..look for spelling mistakes..grammar errors etc…
10 questions based on choose the best option to replace the underlined part..
Simple paragraphs were given n questions were asked like which of these statements can
be inferred from the para, which is false according to the para etc…

STEP 5: HR INTERVIEW
In the HR round u are basically asked abt ur self, ur résumé. There are no tech questions
They also ask puzzles…u need not solve them..they only look at ur approach..

1) Tell me abt ur self
2) If u were to organize an activity in our company that is fun, stressful and involves
physical activity wat wld u organize n how wld u go abt doing
it??
3)Abt any project or computer course tat I had attended

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4) Any questions??

They hardly eliminated people in the HR..it is enough if u speak confidently..

Getting thru Infy is not tough at all…If ur good with ur Apti n have a good command
over English its enough..

INFOSYS PAPER ON 5th APRIL , TUMKUR

hi friends i appeared for infosys campus selection on 5th april 2007.....though i dont
remember all the ques but some information about my test and interview may help u
there were two papers

1.)analytical and logical reasoning-around 35 ques(no aptitude).....very easy

ones...including 5 data interpretation questions....some questions on figures....4 figures
were given and the next in series was to be found....(they were from R.S aggarwal verbal
non-verbal) questions on puzzels(R.S aggarwal verbal non-verbal).....
eg.. there are 6 buses making trip of 4 hrs....from monday to friday....1st bus starts at
8a.m and 2nd follows it after 45 min..third follows 2nd after 30 min sat nd sunday they
start at 7.30a.m...and each follows after 30 mins......(i dont remember the rest) then 5
ques were there like if 1st bus started 1 hr late which bus will be about to leave when
first rteturns back....

few questions were....of logically related sentences....

a.) eggs are rich in protein
b.) breakfast should include proteins
c.) lunch should not include proteins
d.) one should have eggs in breakfast
e.) breakfast is not necessary part of diet.
which of the above sentences are logicaaly relate
1.)b,a,d
2.)a,c,d
3.)e.a.b

similar 5-7 questions were thr very easy ones...

data interpretation do at end....and if u r sure of accuracy of other questions u may leave
few in that cos they r quite time taking..... i dint do them just guessed two of them few
question from data sufficiency... very easy......sorry i dont remember them......was busy
in solving

2.)english ...two passages ....no antonym synonyms......some fill in the blanks.......short

passages u have to choose one sentence tht inferred to the meaning of passage there was

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no technical interview.....only hr.....people from infosys are very cool and friendly....they
may ask few puzzles from shakuntala devi.....

they may ask all about u....they want to see how good u r in expressing urself......

INFOSYS PAPER ON 3rd APRIL

The paper format was same as provided for other off campuses in 2007.The company
changes its pattern into objective type contrary with last year's.It was as follows:

LOGICAL PART::(30 QUESTIONS 40 MINUTES)

1.a simple puzzle from R.S aggarwal on Position of books.....5 subparts...
2.syllogism...5 subparts......practice well from R.S.A the format of question may be little
entwined.
3.D.I ...very simple one...5 parts
4.data sufficiency......prepare from M.tyra or abhijit guha...as in R.S aggarwal the
approach is not mathematical......
5.another puzzle ......a lengthy one.......
6.5 very simple figures...next find ones...all based on clockwise acw appproach..........r.s
agg is more den enough........

ENGLISH:(40 QUESTIONS 30 MINS)

1.PASSAGE...AND 5 QUESTIONS......
2.GRAMMATICAL PORTIONS :about 20 QUESTIONS ON TENSES AND
CORRECTIONS.......
3.AGAIN A PASSAGE........5 QUESTIONS

AFTER 2 OR 3 HOURS OU RESULT FOR WRITTEN CAME..............I DIDN'T

QUALIFIED......BUT SURELY U CAN.....JUST PREPARE AND GIVE UR BEST
SHOT...........

I am Priyesh Mishra student of CS 3rd yr BSACET, Mathura . I am glad to inform you

that I placed in Infosys.
Reporting time was 8am but as usual ppt started at 10.30 for 1 hour. After ppt , test was
started at 11.55. before test there was a general form that will take 35 mins. There were
round about 700 students appeared out of which 91 cleared for HR round and finally
there was an unexpected result -- only 45 got selected(usually infy doesn’t rejects that
much in HR). test was over at 1.15 n result of written was announced at 4pm. Selected
students r called on next day ie 4th April for HR at 8am..

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REASONING 6 sections --- 30 ques --- 5 ques in each section --- 35 mins.

Section 1. Simple Puzzle—

6 books – economics, English, Sanskrit, bio, phys, chem. – total pages of few books were
given – order English book is first place from bottom having pg 476 Something like
that ……. Easy one.

Section 2. Figure series 5qs. Bit tricky….R.S.Agr(sec 3) more than suff.

Section 3. Data Sufficiency 5qs. Very easy ….R.S.Agr more than suff.

Section 4. Data Interpretation 2 figures — line and chart graph of a coal industry.
Attempt at last with open mind 2-3 right ans in this section wil make a grt difference

Section 5. Tough Puzzle – time consuming – complicated – confusing….but don’t make

pure guesses try to extract answers.

Section 6. Very Easy Logic – 5qs -- ….R.S.Agr (Chapter LOGIC)more than suff.

After 5 min gap you wil get English paper

40 ques --- 30 mins --- DECIDING FACTOR
2passages, error rectification , substitution in sentences with correct option …………..

i was first one to my HR, male – cool person but tried to pressurize me at initial stage.
HR- tell me abt urself
Me- told
Hr given me a situation that if u r a bank manager and a MLA forces u to do a illegal
loan ,then wot would I do?
Me – I wil not do it and I wil report the incident to my seniors etc etc(show ur
confidence bcoz HR definitely wil make cond more critical don’t
alter ur ans at any cost)
Hr given me again a situation if u alone in house n it catches fire etc et
Here also don’t alter ur ans .
Also PREPARE curr affair, currencies, capitals,…
General qs like ur strength n weakness with practical examples, why infy, why we hire u
etc…

Exhibit all your qualities in your ans it creates a grt impression . confidence is must ,
smiling face…
At last I like to thanx fresherworld.com n, students who subm der exp., my GF,
friends…don’t lose hope as b4 infy I was even unable to clear the apti of 4-5 companies.
Have faith in GOD.

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INFOSYS PAPER ON 3rd APRIL AT NOIDA

hi frends..........i attended campus selection process of infosys here at NIET gr. noida on
3rd april.........firstly they give ppt............in wriiten there are two sections....now coz
selection process has changed a lot......
1) Reasoning 30 ques. 40 min
2) English 40 ques.35 min.

i think both the sec has separate cut off.....so be careful frends........
reasoning was easy.......ques werefrom deductive reasoning,puzzle test dat given in rs
agrawal...,DI.........they ask either pie chart or line graph ....i got line graph as well as bar
graph....and 5 ques were from non verbral series........dat is u have to predict the next
figure.......

around 622 students appeared for the test from 8-9 different college.......and finally they
took jus 91 in wriiten........thank i was also thr....and this is my 6th trial....earlier i
apperaed for ustech,i-GATE,birlasoft,convergys,syntel.....i could not clear even
written.....so iw as very upset..bt my advice is dont worry jus do hard work and wait for
ue day.....and have faith in god.....

our interview was on 4 april....i reached thr at 8:30 am.....i was called for my turn around
12:30 pm......i ws a bit nervous....as it was my first interview....
iwas last from my college to give interview....thr were around 8-10 different HR taking
interview....
as i entered the room i said good afternoon sir..
he checked my documents.....then he asked me to describe myself..
some qoes were ....y u want to join infy...since my father has a sares business at
varanasi....then he went to ask abt my family.......
he also gave me 2 puzzles..to solve
1) (ABCD)*D =DCBA..you have to find a,b,c,d.....
2)abc=def find ther values all r between 1-9.....

though i couldn't solve...but i was trying........then i said sorry sir......

he asked how u have cleared written.......i said by own....he was smiling........
then finally he said to ask any ques...
then he shaked hand with me ans said alll the best............
i ws thinking i may get through...........

and i was also thr......thanks to god.....

this site was very helpful to me............plz see all latest pattern before going for any

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campus selection...

Place: Bhubaneswar , Orissa

By: Sundeep Kumar Mallick

Before going to give written test they gave a presentation on their Organisation.When U
will see that presentation then u'll become more desperate to do job their.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
1]written:
two papers: Reasoning & English(Having different cutoff) This time pattern was changed
from puzzles to reasoning.

Reasoning:30Qns in 40mins
Blood relation,playing card,on-verbal reasoning,Datasufficency(based on aptitudes),Data
Interpretation,

English:40Qn in 30mins
3 long passages(wastage of time),Grammar(easy)
NO NEGATIVE MARKING WAS THERE

2]PI(HR)
->Are u strong in Math (As I had solved all most all reasoning part)?
->Explain how our voice goes from one place to other through our telephone.
->Explain both for analog & digital signal.
->Which method of transmission is better- Data cable or Tower?
->Why we are using tower mostly?
->he gave me an aptitude to solve me based on percentage.
->Tell interesting news of previous year.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 24th MARCH

Hi Friends, I am Sourav Kundu, 3rd Year Computer Science and Engineering, from
Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, Bankura and I am proud to be so. I have got
selected in Infy through a pooled campusing and I want all of u to be my Friend there.

At the Very Beginning let me make u very clear about the fact that the Ques pattern of
Infy have changed totally, and to some extent puzzles free. Their will be a single set.
First Part Reasoning:- It consisted of 6 sections of 5 ques each and 30 ques to be solved
in 40 min.

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It consisted of following Sections:-

1. Puzzle on classification from RS agarwal.
2.Ques on finding next image from given sequence.
3. Data sufficiency.
4. Data Interptation.
5.Syllogism
6.Puzzle on Blood relation from RS Agrawal

Puzzles were of Type:..... A,B,C,D,E three persons having dogs Jim,Con,Tom.... having
freinds X,Y,Z,F,G and their doctors were h,j,k,l,v........etc.

Five condition were given like:- Jim is not A's dog, Y is D's Friend....etc.
Now Five Questions were their from the above hints.It was very time killing and I did it
at the end.

Data interpretation was a Pie chart along with a table.It was fairly very easy.
100% can be scored from Data Sufficiency part: include ages,average,Time dist,Blood
Relation.
The rest sections were easy too, preparing R.S. Aggarwal will be more than enough.

Second Part English:-

Next was English Test. In that there were 40 ques to be solved in 35 min.

1. 5 long paragraphs including Comprehension.

2. 5 short paragraphs.
3.7-8 ques on Filling the Blank/Completing sentence.
4. 7-8 ques on Sentense correction.
5. 7-8 ques on deriving conclusions from given paragraph.
6. 5 ques on finding best alternative for underlined sentence.

7. 6-7 ques of Type Like:---- All bangles are ring,all rings are not diamond,...etc
Then which of the Statements are correct:- All rings are Diamond....etc.

Paragraphs were too big, I didn't have much from the paragraphs, one of the was on
Evalution of OS,Windows,Dos,Macintosh,etc. Sentence correction part,etc. were too easy.
Catagory &. as stated above can be scored fully.

PPT:- 0ne hour, It was excellent.

HR Interview:-
It was one of the most easiest round and eliminating too....Once you get nervous, you are
gone...

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I entered the room with a wonderful smile and the person came out of his seat and
aplauded me heavily saying "What a wonderful smile Gentleman". I almost got through
at the First site.

They may give U small brain teasers,like I was given:-- I ate 100 rasgullas for the past 5
days, each day i ate 6 rasgullas more than the previous day. 2day is the 5th day and i have
completed 100 sweets.How many did i eat yesterday.

The are definitely going to ask U to speak on Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for 2mins. Then I
was asked to compare him with Daud Ibrahm.

At the middle he told me that "You haven't impressed me. I give you a last chance, you
have 2 mins, now impress me".My communication was very good, I have given all the
questions confidently. So I understood he was trying to make me nervous. But I then
boomeranged him with a puzzle and he said "Bravo, Bravo...".
From small questions they will go on testing your presence of mind. No trace of technical
is there in the whole procedure.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 26th MARCH ,TRICHY

Hai friends,
First of all i thank this website for helping me a lot for getting selected in infosys.I
attended this campus interview in 26th march 2007 in saranathan engg college trichy and
i got selected one among the 125 students. Totally 1250 students participated in this
interview and 200 students cleared the aptitude test and finally 125 students got selected.

The aptitude part consists of data sufficiency, data interpretation, figure series, logical
questions. My suggestion is please go through the non verbal reasoning by R.S.Aggarwal.
It is enough for you. During the exam please be relax don't be tensed . It is of 30 minutes.

The another part is the verbal part it consists of two paragraphs with
questions,phrases,tenses,fill in the blanks with appropriate words and some more i forgot
those. It is of 40 minutes.

The second round is the HR interview and it is very easy. They expect the good
communication skill and be bold. Don't be nervous and they gave some puzzles and
asked me to try out. If you don't know the answer don't worry try hard to find out the
answer until they asked you to stop. They give me one situation and asked me how u
will solve it and you have to tell how u solve it.

The HR questions include,

1.Introduce yourself

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2.ask some questions regarding the details given in the resume

5.some technical questions
7.give some puzzles
8.significance of the birth place
9.give situation and ask us how to solve that

Hi frz.. I am Reekodipto (REEK’) from College Of Engineering & Management

Kolaghat.

My experience… It was a long journey from KOLKATA. We reached the venue by 7:30.
The PPT was supposed to start at 9:30 but it was delayed to 10:20 when finally the HR

The PPT was of a duration of more than an hour, which made most of us restless. Around
10 colleges participated and around 1200 students turned up for the occasion. But as the
cut off was declared, around 500 were eliminated.

So friends please heed to the criterion very well. Even a one mark short or a 0.1 % short
was not entertained by any means.
The cut off was as follows…
ICSE / ISC / CBSE --- 65% throughout. (All 6 Subjects).
WB Board --- 720/1200 (H.S).
Other Boards --- 65% throughout.
B.Tech --- 65% or 6.5 (average).
Diploma Holders should have 65% in class 10, 65% in B.Tech and 65% in any one in
Class-12 or in their diploma results; whichever is higher can be considered. However
there was a 5% relaxation for all in one of the examinations except for Diploma Holders
and WB Boards.
So please be careful with the eligibility criterion & note it well when INFOSYS
announces the same.

APTITUDE TEST :
One student in the PPT asked Padma about the cut off in the aptitude test but she blindly
refused to utter a single word about that, instead she said, “ It is strictly Confidential and
under no circumstances we will declare the cut off ”.

The Paper comprises of two parts – firstly the logical reasoning part, which was of a
duration of 40 minutes and secondly the English part was of a duration of 30 minutes.
Before starting off, you will be required to fill up a form along with a passport size

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photograph. You will not get the TWO PAPERS together. Only after the completion of
the stipulated time, you will get the next paper.

The Logical reasoning part was a bit difficult. Also you have to manage your time very
well. Don’t waste too much time for a single question.
There were two puzzles, one was easy and another one was a 20 variables puzzle, which
many of my friends couldn’t solve. I don’t know how I manage to solve it. The puzzles
was not of the R.S. Aggarwal standard. It was quite difficult. I solved almost all puzzles
from R.S. Aggarwal but neither of them was of that standard. But if you proceed in the
correct manner, I don’t think it will be difficult to solve. Remember well to use the rough
sheet as during evaluations, they make check your rough sheet.

There was one problem from blood relations, which was easy. There were 5 picture series,
which were of below standard. I think this everybody has done it correctly. Then there
was a problem from PIE CHARTS, but it was too confusing but not difficult. Read the
question very well before answering. There were 5 syllogisms, which comprises of 5
different interpretations for each. You have to choose the correct option. For this you can
practice from R.S.Aggarwal. But the laws there given never went into my head.

The second paper is the English aptitude. This comprises of two comprehensions, which
was too lengthy. The best way to solve this in quick time is to go through the questions
first and then try to find the answer from the comprehension. Because if you start reading
the whole comprehension, be rest assured that you are not clearing the aptitude test of
INFOSYS. You can try it out. The other questions were from sentence completion, fill in
the blanks with an appropriate word, preps etc. This section was very easy to score.

I being a student from ISC board, didn’t find any difficulties in solving the English
section, but some of my friends who have come from Bengali medium, found the paper
to be a difficult one.
The results were declared after 3 hours. Out of around 800, only 95 cleared in the
aptitude test and 22 cleared from my college. Luckily I was one of them.

PERSONAL INTERVIEW :-
There were 10 panels and hence this round was moving at a brisk pace. Though each was
interviewed for at least half an hour .
Now let me share my experience…

Panel number one called me.

The interview..
I: Thank you, Sir.
Interviewer : So Reekodipto..What a good name. Can you say the meaning of your name?
I: It means that I am being enlightened from the Rig Veda.
Interviewer : So you are from Electrical Engineering Department, right? How can we fit
you in INFOSYS?
I: I also know C, C++, which are also my favorite subjects.

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Interviewer : Good. So Reek shall I ask you general questions or technical questions?
I: As you wish Sir. I am comfortable with both.
Interviewer : What is DBMS?
I: hm…Sir I don’t know.
Interviewer : So, I should proceed with general questions.
I: As you wish Sir.
Interviewer : As I can see from your aptitude test, you scored very well. Good. Can you
explain me how did you solve this puzzle? (The 20 variables puzzle)
I: I explained.
Interviewer : Good. Can you solve this series?
I: (It was a combination of 4 series & I solved it with an ease and turned the
paper in his direction and said 6 is my answer which was followed by my justification.)
Interviewer : Have you seen yesterday’s match? (Ind Vs SL) Do you know the Score?
I: No, Sir I couldn’t see India’s batting, but I have seen SL’s batting and I
told the score.
Interviewer : Don’t you think that the Indian players are overpaid?
Interviewer : You have quite an interesting email id . Can you say why have you used
such name?
I: In my school days my friends use to call me by that name. That is the only
reason that I have used such name.
Interviewer : Any special reasons behind that? Your friends were boys or…
I: No…No…No…I used to study in a mono-ed school.
Interviewer : Which school were you in?
I: DON BOSCO.
Interviewer : What are your Hobbies?
I: Playing Sudoku and Photography.
Interviewer : Quite an interesting hobby…good. One last question- Do you think audio-
many more and lastly concluded citing an example)
Interviewer : Ok reek, Thanks you may leave..
I: Thank You Sir, It was a pleasure to interact with you.

The results were declared at 10:10 pm by Padma Kini and only 45 cleared out of 95, out
of which 8 were from our college and I was one of them. Padma exclaimed to us by
saying INFOSCIONS…We were very happy.
Some Important Findings:
Ø Whatever you say, you should have proper justification at the back of your mind
because the next question can be that
Ø You can expect some current affairs questions specially the names of our ministers.
Ø Though many says that Shakuntala Devi is not required but some of my friends
were asked some questions from that book in their interview.
Ø Good communication skill is a must in INFOSYS, which are not so important in
other companies.
Ø You can expect some situational questions in your interview.

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Ø Do not try to bluff the interviewer as they are very quick in reading your minds.
Ø Be confident in whatever you are saying.
Ø Do not try to use many ornamented words as that can lead you to trouble.
Ø Believe in yourself and then believe in ALMIGHTY.

VENUE – UNITED COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, NAINI, ALLAHABAD

By- Swapnil Dubey

Two sections –
1.quantitative + verbal ability(30 questions-40 minutes)
2. English(40 questions-30 minutes)

QUANITATIVE + VERBAL ABILITY

Total questions- 6(5 subparts each)

1. A puzzle which involved 7 athletes and 100 mts and 200 mts event. 5 situations
were provided.5 questions were asked,like who came first in 100 mts etc. One of
the toughest question.

2. In this 5 figures are given and we have to strike the odd one out. Easiest among
the questions. even a 5th class student can do it.

Refer –R S Agarwal.

3. Data interpretation Easy but involved lots n lots of, big n complex calculation
involved. Good for nothing. Try this at the last.

4. Another puzzle involving 5 question. It was such we cant solve it randomly i.e.
if You didn’t solve the 1st part and add its info in the list you wont be able to
solve 2nd question. Not very tough.

5. Data Sufficiency. Very easy ,but do atleast 50 question in this otherwise it might
prove difficult. Question involved basic geometry,age problems. Simillar to the

6. Data Redundancy. Again very easy. But practice is key. Refer CAT question
paper.

NOTE:- To know whether ur preparation is alright, try to solve the question in CAT
paper. Any CAT material is more helpful the R S Aggarwal.

ENGLISH

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• Reading comprehension. Don’t need to practice much. Very easy English. Direct
Note:- There is a big para and a small one .Do the small one n leave the
bigger one
• Fill in the blanks. Involved use of tenses, good vocab is not a must , hence people
having good basics of grammar can fancy their chances.
• Correct the sentence
• Inference and assumption. Toughest part and a very strong analytical skills are
required.
• Note:- People just mug up all grammar book of CAT preparation material of
Career Launcher. Have a good knowledge of prepositions, articles and
tenses(most important). Good vocab is not must.

INTERVIEW ONLY HR
1.Tell me the most hilarious moment of ur life.
2. Lot of questions on hobby.
3. Why INFOSYS should take u.
4. Two puzzles.

Main thing is show what u actually are? Try to create something humorous. Try to add
“making others laugh” as one of ur strengths and it in ur resume. Or from some where try
to sing something. Try to write a innovative hobby like I added one as “watching james
bond movies”.

Just remember the rule – never be negative

Hello To All The People who are visiting the Freshersworld website and the infy
placement papers. Just read the above line in bold carefully and make it in your mind and
then no one can stop you entering infy or any of the company.

Guys I am from SIR CHHOTU RAM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY, Meerut. I am very thankful to my college because it give me the
opportunity to attend the off campus of Infosys at NIET, GREATER NOIDA.

We attended the off campus of Infy on 3RD of April. We were, as I think 4 or 5 colleges
and two colleges were not able to come because of chaotic environment of Kanpur. Out
of 622 students 91 were selected in the written phase, and from the 91 students 45 were
finally selected to be trained at Mysore centre. And I am one of them. I was very happy to
hear that from 19 students of our college selected in written, 13 were at last selected in
Infy.(our selection number was the highest)

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Our PPT(Pre -Placement Talk) was given at 09:10 am. And after that we were allotted
Room no.’s acc. to colleges. The result of written exam was announced at 4:30
pm(although they told us that they will give the result at 3:00 pm ). The interview was on
the next day at 08:30 am.

1 Quantitative test : (30 ques. 45 min.):

The quantitative test consist of :

A-Puzzles (not of Sakuntla devi type R.S agg is sufficient)(2) One was very easy solved
in seconds other was bit hard but u can do(10 ques)
B-Ques on Graphs(5) They were also from R.S agg.(these were time consuming)
C-Non-Verbal series solving i.e which picture will be next in series(also from R.S agg.)
(5)
D-Syllogism(5)

2 Verbal test(English) : (40 ques. 30 min.)

It consist of two passages. The first one was a bit lengthy and hard but the next one was a
piece of cake. Another ques. Were based on Fill in the blanks with app. Idiom, or
fragments that are grammatically correct. To sum up the verbal test was the easy one and
one who is good at English can do it very well.

On 4th april we were to given the HR at 08:30 am. The HR round was just a piece of
cake but u have to be confident with positive attitude. Plus a good smile will add beauty
to your HR. The HR round was not more than 15-20 min.

The result was announced at 2:00 pm.

That’s all to say see u at Infy

INFOSYS PAPER ON 24th MARCH AT DURGAPUR

Hi Everybody.
This is Souvik from Calcutta Institute of Engg. and Mangement, ECE IIIrd Yr. I appeared
for the pooled campus recruitment process held by Infosys at BC Roy Engg. Collg ,
Durgapur.

As I stay in kolkata and the campuss time was 9:00 am sharp , it was a hectic reaching
Durgapur from 180 km away ,at kolkata on time. But we had to as "the employers" as all
of you know were from India's No. 1 company.

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THE ENTRY :- We entered the college campuss at 9:00 am sharp and had to register in
front of separate respective college counters. Then we were escorted to the presentation
venue which was a huge pandal made on the ground premises.

THE PPT. :- The PPT. started around 9:30 am by a mam(asstt. HRD recriuting ). It went
uptil 10:30 am or a few mins. more.

THE APTI. :- The aptitude test consisted of two parts, namely :-

1) General Aptitude test
Duration:-30 min.
Full Marks:-30
Sections:-4

>Puzzle
>Logical reasoning
>Quantitative
>Qualitative

2) English Aptitude Ability

Duration:-30 min.
Full Marks:-30
Sections:-4

>Big Comprehension passage

>Moderate Comprehension passage
>Grammatical and Vocabulary Skills
>Writing and Sentence Construction Skills

The Aptitude test started at about 11:45 am and got over within 12:45 pm. We then
returned to the ppt. hall and waited for the results. The results came out at about 5:15 pm.
evening. I was happy to find my name in the list.

THE H.R INTERVIEW :- The HR interview started quickly at 5:30 pm. I was the
second person for the interview and was introduced in Panel-2. My interviewer was
a who was very friendly to me. The HR was the coolest of its kinds. I was given a
puzzle and an arithmetical problem to solve. The HR session ran for 30 to 40 mins. in my
case. But I found many sessions ran only for 4 to 10 mins.

THE GRAND RESULT :- The overall result was finally declared at 10:00 pm and my
joy knew no bounds!!!!

BEST of LUCK to all of aspiring candidates..

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Dear Friends, My Name Is Amit Desai, Student Of 3 Year Electronics Engineering Of

Rizvi College. I Got Placed In Infosys Technology Ltd. on 3rd Of March. Campus
Interview was Held In Dob-Bosco College OF Engineering. Selection Process Was As
Followed:-

Apptitude Test:-1) Maths 30 Q should be solve in 35 min

2) English 45 Q should be solve in 40 min

HR Inteview:- Quite Easy One. They will Ask u One Puzzled And something About
Urself. if u can solve Puzzle then Ur chance of Selection in this round is very high.

Maths Q were Quite Easy and less time consuming. But as far as English Is concern You
should have High Reading Speed+Strong Grammer. One thing is comman In both The
Exam IS that U should Have Logical Way to Reach towards The Answer. And as you
know No one is Born Genious. To Increse Ur Reading speed u need to Read Novels,
News Papers on regular Basis. To aquire Logical Way U need to solve Lots of Aptitude
Q Papers Which Are Present On Different Sites For Maths Try To Solve R.S.Agrawal.
But As Far As Infosys Is Concern concentrat on English. Also For Maths U Required
Speed And U Can aquire Sufficient Speed By solving Problems On Internet.

At the Time Of Our 2 Year of Engineering We Come to know From our TPO Mr.
Prectising For OUR CARRIER, OUR FUTURE AND OUR LIFE. Actually Our TPO
told Us That Shar Ur Thoughts Still Mr. chandran is Very Helpfull to us who got placed
by guiding us WHAT TO DO IN OFFICE?, WHAT IS PROFESSIONALISM? He is
also helpfull In HOW TO GIVE HR INTERVIEW? HOW TO BEHAVE?.

so from the Day U Received This Mail Start Practising for Aptitude and English under
the help Of Our TPO Mr. Chandran to Get placed in Nice Co.

hi friends, i attended infosys apptitude test held at trichy on 26th of march,2007.iam

really thanking this website.it helped me a lot.actually abt 1250 members attended the
apptitude test.

so first we have to attend the PPT pgm.in that pgm they will give intro abt infosys &
atlast they will give instns to fill up the application form.pls note tht correctly.bcoz it will

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create confusions while u r filling the application form.thn in the exam hall they will give
abt 20 min for filling that application.thn

APTITUDE TEST
FIRST WE HAVE TO ATTEND THE NON VERBAL PART they will give arnd 40
min for completing the 30 non verbal questions.
just refer R.S.AGARWAL'S non verbal book.thts enough.

a) puzzle test
b) data interpretation. for tht refer R.S.AGARWAL'S quantitaive appti book.
c) syllogism (deductions) they gave abt 6 conclusions.
d) data sufficiency.
e) blood realtions(they will gv.but we didnt get any quesions)
f) finding next fig in the given series or picking out the diff fig.we had picking the diff fig
frm the given series.

after that they will give VERBAL PART two reading comprehensions.,lots of small
passages were given.we have to choose the correct option frm the ckoices given there.thn
filling the correct tenses. for verbal part just refer any CAT material.time management is
very important.dont take reading comprehension first.

they annouced results by 5:30.i got selected for HR round.i was one among the 200
students.thn i had HR next day only.

so first they will check our confidence level & boldness & our communication skill.plz b
bold.dnt show ur tension there.b cool.HR was very cool.they will b friendly with us.i had
stress interview.so plz b bold.so atlast they annouced result by 1:30 pm.they selected abt
100 students only.i was also one among that 100 students.

take photo copies with u while u r writing ur appti exam.they will ask us to paste a
passport size photo.

all the best friends!!!b bold.thts it .u can make it easily. meet u all soon!!!!!

Hi friends, I am vivek doing MCA 4thsem from Pondicherry University, Pondicherry,

belongs to PATNA , Bihar

First I would to like to thank this site and all those who share their experiences… In my
university INFOSYS came at 23 march total 700 student (university + affiliated college)
appeared, total 84 cleared written and finally 47 got selected.

I also cleared all round but finally they consider AGE Limit. They are taking maximum
22 years old only. Anyway I got selected in Accenture next day (24 march).

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In written there is 2 section

1: Verbal (English ) – 40 question ( 35 min)
2: Aptitude -- 30 question (40 min)
No negative marking Here total cutoff was 37. There is also sectional cutoff 50%.

English –
A 2 comprehension 5 ques each. Easy u can do it at least one u have to do. First is big
second is little easy than first direct question. So first read the question and direct search

Find correct sentence 10 ques. One sentence will given and one part will underline then
find what will be correct from given option.
For this refer "English is Easy – BSC publication book chapter 14" it is very useful.
find correct/incorrect from 4 given statement – 10 question. mainly grammar like article ,
preposition and tense.
Find inference from given short passage 10 question. easy.

English section is really easy if u work on grammar from .

1.English is Easy – BSC publication book
2. Objective general English – R S Aggarwal

Aptitude : 30 question – 40 min

A one puzzle 5 question from R S Aggareal VERBAL-NON VERBAL book puzzle
chapter, u solve this chapter then it is very easy. They have given me question of There
is six friend arun,sourabh,gaurav,kiran,,….,…. And arun and gaurav play golf, Kiran and
arun play cricket and golf both …………like this six game ..

Just to solve this draw table and u can solve it very easily.
One cube problem – 5 question that is One cube of 3X3, then remove 1,3,5,7,9 column
then painted then tell how many both side painted, all three side painted….
Data sufficiency – 5 question.
Data interpretation ..-5 question very lengthy do it in last
Binary coded – 5 question very easy . do it first
Then five question from predicate calculus, there are six statement given u have to search
3 related sentence.

And after written only HR interview no technical interview they will not ask single
technical question actually written and interview both conducted by some agency
mindtrack.

In interview be confident, cool, not aggressive and knowledge of current affair. Question
are:

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Indian team

Then they gave me two puzzle (easy) I solve it both.

One is that In news Paper style suppose1st page no have 1 and it other part have 72 no.
then 2nd page no have other end 71 page then what will page no on other end of 13.
simple 1+72 = 73 , sum from both side will be equal so 73-13 = 60 is the answer.

Second is that a checker game two player is playing can it possible that both win equal no
of game if they played total 5 game. And is yes if one game is draw and both win 2-2
match.

And at last do u want ask any question. So HR interview is Easy. Only written is
important mainly English. Ok

INFOSYS PAPER ON 24th MARCH, Karunya University

Hai everyone... Iam Dahlia... Infosys' new pattern is very very simple.... So its very easy
to get into infosys...

The test cosist of two parts

1.Logical Reasoning(30 Qns 40 Min)
2.English(40 Qns 35 Min)

Time management is very very necessary while doing the English part... You will be
given two long passages and some questions below that.. You have to read the Passage to
answer the questions.. Attempt this part at last... If you attempt this first you wont have
time to read the remaining questions... So be carefull in this... Be thorough with
Grammars... Especially tenses...
And for Logical reasoning just follow any CAT book or RS Agarwal's non verbal
reasoning...
1.Syllogism
2.Data Sufficiency
3.Data Interpretation
4.Missing Figures
5.Blood Relation
6.Cubes and Indices
7.Puzzle. Puzzles in RS Agarwal is enough... No need to study Shakuntala devi..

Then have patience...Bcoz it takes hell lot of time for the results to be out..We finished
the written test at 12.30 and they were supposed to announce the result at 3 but they
announced only at 6... I was very happy when they called out my name.. 500 student

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were attended.. 49 cleared the aptitude..So this round is very very important... 47 cleared
the HR..

Then i called for HR at 9.30 pm....It was a stress interview.. But i made him cool... I
greeted him.. He asked my name and the meaning of my name... Many questions were
about my native.... Infosys was the second company coming to my college.. First was
Wipro.. And he asked me why you were not selected for wipro.. I told him that i didnt
perform upto their mark... And he asked me what do you know about Infosys? I told
something which i have heard in PPT..Then he asked me do you ever visit the website of
Infosys? I told no.. Then he told me that iam not interested in learning new things... For
that i replied, Sir! for the last two weeks i was very busy with my internals and
Preparation for Wipro.. Then he started asking some questions about wipro..Just to
check whether iam telling truth or not.. He asked me the name of the Chairman and Vice
Chairman of Wipro..And some questions regarding Wipro.. I answered him.. I think
he was satisfied with my answers..And my friends were given some puzzels to solve...
And finally he told that he likes my name very much and told me to wait for the
result...Finally they announced the results at 11 pm...My name was one among the 47..It
was one of the happiest moment in my life...

No technical, they just test your confidence,presence of mind and general awareness...So
update yourself... Dont be tensed... Just have a smiling face.. Thats enough.. Be truthfull...
If you dont know just tell i dont know sir.. Dont pretend as you know.. They will easily
find out...

Pray well and attend with Confidence....This is more important than anything... All the
best... See you in Infosys

INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st MARCH

Hi guys this is Rakesh Ranjan a student of Dr M.G.R Engg College.We had an off camus
drive conducted by Infosys

In the written section there were two prts...first was da reasoning and next vocabulary test
the reasoning paper was very easy but one needs to work out the problems as fast as
possible...there will b 30 ques and u will get 40 mins for tat i am givin here da chapters
tat are very important. each of the topics contain 5 ques each...

1)data sufficiency (from any where u can do those are tricky)

2)data interpretation--(Simple Enough)...
3)puzzle involving blood relations.. (R.S Agarwal verbal book)
4)a miscellaneous puzzle (R.S Agarwal verbal..)
5)next figure in the series (R.S Agarwal nonverval---chap series and analogy)
6)syllogisms(R.S Agarwal verbal book)

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time management is very important.. next part consists of english...and it involves purely
grammar...and u need to very strong in that..
The result was announced at 7'O Clock .177 candidates were selected from 1445
students.
I Was one among the selected students.....

Next day we had HR interview in the morning...it was cooll and here they expect us to b
vry bold nd enthusiastic.. dnt panic or blabberor stammer...jus b freee .. after that we had
2 wait for 4 hours till da results wer announced....this was the period when I will felt
tensed.....at last results were announced...we thought around 150 students will b selected
but to out dismay only 104 students were selected....out of which 78 were from our
clg.....i was one of them again.....so friends dont take the exam .leisurely....be very fast
while doing aptitude...practice reading the news papers.

And out of all these take help of your friends......I was helped by my friends named
Abhijeet Kumar, Ram Pratap, Vishal, Varun,Vishal(sardar)and of the seniors from
Infosys I was helped by Sudeep Sir

Paper pattern was same

Reasoning 30 ques. – 40 min
English 40 ques - 35 min.

B4 reading this u must know that DI questions were easy enough to be attempted so don’t
leave DI ques . they r easy sometimes and can provide an upper hand over others

In a college hostel there are 100 rooms for 100 boys during holiday all boys returned
home and every room of hostel was locked .after holidays when 1st boy returned he
opened all 100 doors when 2nd boy arrived he closed every 2nd door when third boy
arrived he operated on every third door (if door was opened he closed it and vice versa )
This process continued toll the 100th boy arrived
q.1) which of the door was opened at the end of process?
a)80 b)68 c)75 d)100

q2)find the odd one out in the following doors 81st ,16th , 96th , one more
a) 81 b)16 c)96 d)one more

and three more questions

Q6-Q10 direction find the odd figure in following
Q6)
a)a pentagon inside a hexagon
b)a rectangle inside a pentagon
c)a triangle inside a rectangle

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d)a pentagon inside a rectangle

e ) a hexagon inside a septagon

Q7)
a)two intersecting circles
b)two intersecting squares
c)two intersecting triangles
d)one square intersecting with triangle
e)two intersecting pentagons

Q8) there were 5 diff . figures every fig has one circle intersected with square and there
were two dots every fig has dot in intersection apart from the ans which does not have the
the dot in intersection area

Q11) –Q15 mark a if ques can be answered using a only b if ques can be answered using
b only c if either of them d if neither of them

11)X2Y3-XY)/(X2-Y2)
a)X=2
b)Y-=5

Q15) ram lent rs 5000 at certain rate of interest

What will be the interest?
a) if he had lent it for 2% more he would have received 500 rs more
b) I don’t remember

Q16-Q20 )
A DI ques 3 graphs were given one for steel prod. Second for automobiles production and
third one for ship building
All were in millions so it became easy to solve
From my point of view a questioned which must be attempted

Q20-Q25)
There are 4 frnds meena , meera ,anju, (one more say rita ) two frnd lived in mumbai and
there hobies were gardening , the girl who lived in Chennai has the hobby of clay
modeling and singing , meera has the hobby of painting and she live in Mumbai ,anju
likes gardening as her hobby and some more statements ………..every gal has two
hobbies

This ques was easy

Meena meera anju rita

Delhi
Mumbai
chennai
gardening

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singing
clay modeling

by making the above table ques can easily b answered

ques 25-Q30 were bit complex 6 statements were given a-f and 4combinations like
ABC , DEF,BCA were give so we have to mark the set which which logically combines
to give some meaning.

REMEMBER THAT ENGLISH IS DECIDING FACTOR FOR INFY TEST BCOS

REASONING WAS AVERAGE

1.Pre-placement talk(9 am)

2.Form filling(11 am)
3.Written test(12 pm)
4.Written results(around 4 pm)
4.HR interview.(5 pm)
5.Final Results(around 10 pm)

1.Aptitude test
2.English test

In aptitude test we hd 30 ques wid 40 min time. It had questions like:

1). there r 5 children. they go 2 buy choclates.... then two of them buy at same at same
price n others at other price bt the two boys hd more choclates than other 3. bt there price
was less. n some more data. then there were ques like
a>.wat was d no. of chocos those two boyz hd
b>watwas the price of those chocos
c>etc d>etc e>etc

3).5 questions 4m Data sufficiency(R.S.Aggarwal) like they hd a question n two

succeeding sentences n u hd 2 choose which of them goes as the solution of dat quesn
like

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a>.if opttion1 is d only ans

b>.if opt 2 is correct
c>.if either of them is correct
d>.if both r wrong
e>.if both r correct

4).5 questions 4m an easy DI pie chart(R.S.Aggarwal)

5).5 ques 4m an irritating long puzle(table making kind of 4m R.S.Aggarwal) like there
were 5 students 4m 5 cities at 5 different coaching classes then they give exams at 5
centers n get selected at 5 cities. then u hv 2 find who's 4m which city,coaching, who
came 1st, n which city he got admission etc etc

1).2 very long n irritating RC passages

2).Ques like correct the underlined part of sentence 4m the options.
3).small passages n just there conclusions
4).etc etc

then finally out of approx 500-600 students 71 were selected 4 interview including me.

Then we had HR interview(just be confident n consistent of what u say) where i faced

questions like:

1. What is innovation?

2. How innovative r u?

4. few gk ques like currencies of different countries n GDP of india etc

5. 2 puzzles like
a>measuring 4 litres wid 5 litre, 3 litre, 20 litre containers
b>solving a series both were pretty easy

6. how good r u at teamwork n how?

7.Regarding hobbies?

8. some more HR ques like y do u want 2 join INFY etc etc

my interview was of approx 35 mins. and as we say "All is well that ends well"

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final results were out at around 10 pm n finally 45 were selcted 4m our college n I GOT
SELECTED. So prepare well, use R.S.Aggarwal 4 aptitude, n a gud CAT material 4
English, n Confidence n communication skills 4 interview n u can definitely make it!!!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 25th MARCH

Hello friends
My name is Ramakrishna raja doing B.tech Bioinformatics III year...first of all i give my
hearty thanks for this website www.123eng.com .it really helped me for not only Infosys
but also for clearing apti in Wipro and TCS....if you are loking to get in a company make
sure you go through the maximum papers in this site...

The test consisted of two sections..

1.Logical test(40 min)
2.English test(30 min)

first they will ask you to fill a pesty formwhich will take about 15or20 min ..have your
photo and idcard ready..make sure that you make it clean without any mistakes or
strikings..also know the correct spelling of your sur name..you eye power and the info
about recent operations or medical probs you have undergone...make it neat and
clean..you haave to keep the form with you

Then the will give you the answer form where you have to fill the answers and within
two mins they will start the logical test..sorry i dont remember most of the questions

See you predict the type of questions you will get..the questions for me were from

1. DI(5),
2. DS(5),
3. syllogism(5),
4. logic reasionag (5),
5. 2 puzzle test(10)

there were 30 questions total from these topics...it was pretty ok ..make sure you have
good practice from Verbal and nonverbal RS AGARWAL..and some CAT prep
material...see the hardworkl matters more here than luck..

when the time is over..the will get the ques paper from you...not the answer sheet..you
will have it with you then they will give you aht answer sheet for english ....then the ques
paper ..you will get 40 ques...

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iam telling you the test will be very easy if you have very good grammar skills...if you
have time refer Wren and martin book..or else you can anser them logically

1. two comprehension ques..definitely one will be easy(10 ques).

2. finding the correct sentence from 4 sentences(4-5 ques)..somewhat tough
3. replace a phrase in the sentence from a list of sentences(3-5)
4. fill in which has a more appropriate meaning(3-5)
5. arranging the sentences in order(3-5)
6.

OUT OF 946 STUDENTS ONLY 122 GOT SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW..

REMEMBER IF YOU MAKE IT THROUGH APTI YOU CAN BE 50% SURE OF
PLACEMENT

Next is the HR interview...it will be very easy..you should very confident and
enthusiastic there..have good practice to common interview questions...

1. know abt the company very well

2. you know what you have in your resume
3. if you have specifed and skills make sure that you've a pakka example for that
4. try to sove simple puzzles from Shakuntala devi book...see the thing is that you
have to find the logic behind you question...most of are based on quan apti
basics...they will see how you will try to solve the ques not the answers....
5. try to impress the panel..but dont brag about yourself too much...
6. stay calm and cool which may sound weird but you have to maintain a smile on
your face till the last min

the results were announced by 5pm..out of 122 studs only 90 got selected..and i was one
among them..

I am a 2006 Passout i attended Infosys in 3rd march at Marian College

Kuttikanam,Kottayam Abt the Test they changed the pattern. I failed in the test,but am
giving my experience.
Test consists of Two parts

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1.Aptitude(Reasoning)- 30 questions 40 minutes

2.English - 40 questions 35 minutes

Aptitude
1-5.A puzzle frm R.S Agarwal Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning just go thrgh "Puzzle
test" chaptr
6-10.Series questions set of figres wre given you hve 2 find the Odd one Out frm the
series.(bit tuff)
11-15.Data Sufficiency prpre frm R.S agarwal Verbal and Non verbal reasoning
16-20.Data Intrepretation - Very tough.in my question paper two tables cntain the deatils
of compny which produce s/w and h/w and thre total revenue etc.set of 5 qstions wre
given.(attnd if u hve engh time)
21-25.p and q play cricket,p and s play football, q and r play hockey like 5 cnditions wre
gven find who play max. game? which one play footbal and crickt? etc. (No prepration
needed 4 this type of qstins)
26-30 usual Syllogism stdy 9 rules frm R.S agarwal thts engh.

English
It was a tuff section 4 me( need sme prepartion) it contain 2 RCs vry lng essay and 10
qstions regarding the essay.
thn Correction of sentences 10 qustions anther 10 qustions on find the conclusion
frm small pargraph. thts all i Remmebr.....

time mangmnt is the main factor,so prepare hard !! Definetly u will get the Result
All the Best!!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 26th MARCH , Trichy

hai friends,
As u all know the pattern has changed in infosys and there were two stages one is apti not
like usual apti but having cat pattern let me tell u

1.puzzle(in R.S.aggrawal)easy
2.odd man out(picture)
3.data sufficiency(somewhat easy)
4.syllogism(but with 4 to 5 conclusion given and to find which combination will be
logically correct)

then in verbal
2.sentence correction(easy)
3.fill in a suitable verb
4.reasoning

for eg: a man has to cross a bridge he has a cat,dog and a fish. he can take only one with
them when he cross the bridge if he take the fish the cat and dog will fight and if he take

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dog the cat will eat the fish so how will he take everyone with him.
ans : first takes the cat then dog then fish

in our coll we are 250 participated and in that 83 where selected. do well in both verbal
and mental ability.they said some had done well in mental ability but not in verbal and
they were rejected. so read some GRE books for verbal.

we wrote the test at 11.30 and finished by 12.45. results were announced at 5.30pm.

next day we had HR interview(no technical)

from past to present.
gave me a puzzle very easy(he helped me to solve the puzzle)
and he asked me any questions and then he said ok u can go.

results were announced at 1.30pm. be cool in the interview and u can surely make it
through infosys. all the best to all wishing to join infosys
meet u all in infosys

INFOSYS PAPER ON 17th MARCH

hi
starting with d written examination.it was divided into two parts:
1)Aptitude
2)English

The aptitude was peace of a cake (provided done homework on that).it had 30 qiestions.

There were two puzzles(5 questions each puzzle), 5 questions on syllogism, 5 on data
suficiency, 5 on data interpretation and other five questions were from series detection.

just go for R.S.Aggarwal(verbal & non-verbal) for the aptitude part.its more than enough.

Now here comes the english section(40 questions), it was the deciding factor in the
written test.
Had two comprehensions(5 questions each), appropriate sentence for the given phrase,
alternative sentence for underlined words in a given sentence.

Take my advice brush up ur tenses n grammer.The level of english test is gonna be high
from usual.Stick to basics n u'll crack it. If sittin in a joint campus, then have patience.coz
it takes hell lot of time for the results to b out.

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V were over with our test at 3:15 pm n d results were out at 9:00 pm Crack the written n
ull easily clear the interview.no technical, they jus test ur confidence,presence of mind n
general awareness.n one thin b true to dem.

INFOSYS PAPER ON 1st APRIL AT GHAZIABAD

Hi Friends,,
This is Kush Agarwal...I would like to tell you that by God's Grace I have been placed in
Infosys...

On 1st April Infosys came to ur college..Out of 600 students 120 were shortlisted gor HR
interview ..Finally 85 students wre placed out of which 65 students wre AKGECIANS...

There were 3 PUZZLES,,,5 SERIES QNS(IN THIS WE HAVE TO FIND THE ODD
PICTURE FROM 5 GIVEN QNS),,Data Sufficency qns,,,and Logical venn diagrams
qns...(But there was no qn from DI AND 9 RULES OF LOGIC. REASONING./..)...BUT
PREPARE IT...

Paper1..(40 mins.)..(Aptitude)..
Puzzle1)A starts from point 'A' and walk 10m towars south to reach point 'B'..Then he
turn right and wlk 10m to reach point C'..Then he turn left and wlk 10m to reach point
'D''..Then he turn right and wlk 10m to reach point 'E'..Then he turn left and wlk 10m to
reach point 'F''..Then he turn right and wlk 10m to reach point G''..Then he turn left and
wlk 10m to reach point 'G'./Then he turn right and wlk 10m to reach point 'H'..He kept on
walking 50m further toward west to reach point 'I'...AND THE WALK TOWARS NOTH
60M TO REACH POINT 'K'..

QUESTIIONS..1)FIND THE SHORTEST DISTANCE FROM POINT 'A' TO 'H'..

2)FIND THE SHORTEST DISTANCE FROM POINT 'I' TO 'K'..
QUESTIONS OF THIS TYPE..

PUZZLE 2>.....A MAN USED TO ROB THE COMPUTERS AND HE IS ACTIVE

ONLY FOR QUARTER OF A YEAR.....HE ROB THREE
COMPUTERS .....VAYU,,TEJAS AND AGNI..,....JANUARY WAS UNFORTUNATE
MONTH FOR TEJAS...VAYU WAS STOLEN IN MARCH....NOW HE USED THREE
TOOLS PLIER,, SCREWDRIVER AND HOOK TO ROB ALL THE PARTS FROM
THE COMPUTER AND MAKE HIS OWN COMPUTER....HE ROB MONITOR
FROM TEJAS BUT DOESNOT USE HOOK...HE ROB PRINTER FROM VAYU
AND USE PLIER....AND FROM THIRD COMPUTER HE ROB KEYBOARD....

QUESTIONS3> 1..IN WHICH MONTH WAS AGNI...??

2) WHICH TOOL WAS USED FOR TEJAS..
QNS OF THIS TYPE....

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PUZZLE 3 >>WAS VERY DIFFICULT AND IT WAS VERY TOUGH TO SOOLVE

IT WITHIN LIMITED TIME...I EVEN DONT REMEMBER IT.....

DATA SUFFICIENCY LIKE....1)...a^2+b^2+c^2=0...Is b>a;...(TWO OPTIONS WRE

GIVEN RELATED TO THIS..)
2)...OTHERE QNS I DONT REMEBER..

OTHER QNS WAS FROM ,,,LOGICAL VENN DIAGRAMD AND SERIES ONE...

Paper 2..(English)--30 Mins..

THE SECOND PAPER WAS OF ENGLISH...IT CONSISTS OF 2 READING
COMPREHENSION....,,,FIND THE CORRECT SENTENCE FROM GIVEN 4
SENTENCE,,,,FILL IN THE BLANKS,,,, ,FIND THE CORRECT SENTENCE
RELATED TO UNDERLINED SENTENCE...

OUR ENGLISH PAPER WAS SERIOUSLY VERY TOUGH...IT WAS NOT SO

EASY... AFTER THE WRIITEN TEST....ONE MIDDLE AGE PERSON TOOK MY
INTERVIEW...

GENERAL QNS LIKE "WHAT IS OPERATING SYSTEM,WHAT IS THE
DIFFERENCE BTEWEEN XP AND VISTA....3 QUALITIES OF VISTA WHICH
MAKE IT GOOD,,..3 WEAK POINTS OF LINUX....THEN SOME GENERAL
QUESTIONS LIKE.....CAPITAL OF NAGALAND,MANIPUR,MEGHALAYA,,
INDIANS WHO HAVE GOT NOBEL PRIZE ,,WHO IS KIRAN DESAI...CAPITAL
OF ITLAY,,GERMANY,,SWITZERLAND,,,3 STATES OF INDIA WHERE
ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN CURRENTLY HELD...I WAS ABLE TO ANSWER 90
PERCENT OF THE QUESTIONS...BE CONFIDENTS.IF YOU DONT KNOW THE
ANSWER OF ANY QUESTIION THEN STRAIGHTWAY SAY "DONT

SUGGEST YOU TO LEARN THE CAPITAL OF ALL STATES OF INDIA,,,SOME

CAPITALS OF FAMOUS COUNTRIES OUTSIDE INDIA.....You should know each

Hi Friends!!!

This is ANUP JHA from Rustamji Institute of Technology

(RJIT),BSF ,Tekanpur,Gwalior,M.P.
Infosys selected me at the campus placement held at ITM,Gwalior on 21st March ,2007
along with 30 other candidates from various colleges of Gwalior. I would like to share
my whole experience with you guys coz i really owe my success to this site.

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PPT...
Was very nice.Motivated us enough to join the company at any cost.The pics of campus
of Infosys were shown and various instructions were given esp. about filling up the
Application Form.

The selection procedure consisted of two parts:

1) WRITTEN
a: Quant+DI+Syllogisms+Data Sufficiency etc.... 30 questions 40 minutes
b: English (RC+Sentence completion+Choose most correct sentence+small passages) 40
questions 35 minutes

2) HR
About 300 students wrote the Aptitude Test out of which 38 were shortlisted for the next
round and 31 were finally selected
Here are some of the questions which i remember...

QUANT:
1-5: There is a cuboid of dimensions 7 X 6 X 5. It is painted on two opposite faces of
7X6 with red color,one 6 X 5 face with violet and the face opposite to it with green
color.and the remaining two with 5X7 with Blue and Yellow .Now it is cut into small
cubes of 1 cm sides.then answer the following questions on the basis of above facts:
a)How many cubes are there with no face painted?
b)How many cubes are there with 3 face painted with Red ,Yellow and Green?
c)How many were painted with one face RED?
d)How many wid two face painted ?
e) how many ....

so in all there were five questions based on this wid four options each.Although i don't
remember the options but the questions were like this only
6-10: The second set of questions was about finding the odd one out from the given set of
five fig.It also had 5 parts.
11-15: The third set of questions was of Data sufficiency type where a and b two options
A A alone is sufficient to come to the conclusion
B. B alone is sufficient
C. Both A and B are Required.
D. Data Insuffficient.
like
x3 = x5
a) x>-3 b) x<0
some fig . with dimensions was given and one side PQ couldn't be deduced frm that .so
they asked what would be reqd to calculate the Area.
a) PQ=3 b) PS=6.
For three nos. a,b,c in A.P condition required
a)a+c=2b b)a+b>c and two more such type of questions..

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product Machine A Machine B

A 4 hours 2 hours
B 3 hours 5 hours
C 4 hours 4 hours

The table looked like above..The data may be different .then 5 questions were asked.. like
if efficiency of machine A is double to that of B ,then what is the ratio of a nd b
drawings
some question on Horsepower rating of these machines,
some question on most efficient way to utilize the machines.

20-25
abt lectures A,B,C,D,E,F and some data related to it like
a ,c must not be on alternate days .
.and holiday except saturday and questions based on that.... like
Which Day was holiday?
On which Day lecture A took place? etc...

25-30
SYLLOGISM

a) all a are b
b) some b are c
c) no b are c
d) all c are a
e) some a are c.
and then one has to identify the valid arguement??
frm variousoptions like
abc bcd cda abe cdf.. like this there were five...

English SECTION:
Two passages...
One was on GATT(General Agreement on Tarrif and Trade ) and WTO. 5 questions
other one was on Humans and Animal Communication and also on cognition between
predators and prey.. 5 questions.
then there was sentence completion.. 5 questions
then there was substitution of the underlined phrase by the most appropriate option.. 5
questions
then there were very samll passages 4-5 lines and one question on the basis of each of
them 5-10 questions
then there was choose the most grammatically correct sentence.5 questions.

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INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st MARCH

Hi people there,
INFOSYS had come to St.Peters Engineering college on 21st and 22nd.I was one among
the some 1400 who took up the test and got placed..

By now most of u would ve known tat pattern s changed......The test was not quite so
easy but can clear if u ve good reasoning n verbal knowledge...so people jus keep
preparing over the CAT materials and GRE books...it helps a lot.

And also get to know the concepts of various chapters in RS AGARWAL VERBAL N
NONVERBAL.....Prepare well Blood Relations, Puzzles, Series Completion, Figures,
Syllogism............

First it started with a PRE-PLACEMENT TALK n ten the test started around 11.30...The
application process went on for 20mins and then we had those 2 tests one on
REASONING n other on VERBAL.........They ten said tat results will b announced at
4...But tests our Patience was tested till 7......5 coll had appeared n tey read out my coll
last n i God i was one among those who was selected for HR.

PUZZLE-5m
BLOODRELATIONS-5m
LINE GRAPH-5m
Syllogism-5M
DATA SUFFICIENCY-5m

i don exactly rem ques but....verbal consisted of 2 reading comprehension n some

sentence corrections...

HR was the most critical thing of al.. Remember be COOL, pray GOD and keep smiling
(not laugh)....it was stress interview for me but i cleared it....out of 460 totally in our coll
around 105 were selected in HR...thanx to this site, my PARENTS, FRIENDS who had
contributed to my success...

INFOSYS PAPER ON 21st MARCH AT BANGALORE

Hi guys,
Here are some tips to crack Infy. As you know the exam pattern of infy has been changed
recently. Before we used to have a lot of puzzles and then basic English. Now the pattern
is somewhat easy. 100 % Presence of mind and 75% intelligence can get you through.
Mine was an online exam. Guys the questions cannot be solved fully in their provided
time. Some questions need lot of thinking and consumes time. Just skip those questions

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taking lot of time and finish others.. 'coz you can solve others with ease and after gaining
confidence by solving those questions.. surprisingly the question you left will seem easier.
So just carry on with the easier ones as fast as possible. The Non- English session
has questions from the following....

1. Data sufficiency
2. Data Interpretation.
3. SYLLOGISM - - Very important. and somewhat difficult. Refer the 9 rules from R.S
Aggarwal. Memorise those. However the question is in different manner from that of RS
Aggarwal. Here i give an example however this is not the same question but the same
pattern...

Question:
statement A: Some men are educated.
B: Educated persons prefer small families
C: All small families are educated.
D: some men prefer small families.
E: bla bla bla bla.... ( this is not the exact sentence man... just some other
sentences.. i cant remember..)
Choose from the following which is logically correct..
1. ABC
2. EBC
3. ACD
4.ABD
Here the answer is ABD. Like wise some 5 questions.. If you prepare it throughly you
can easily get 5/5 in less time. saving time for others.

4. Puzzle test-- This does not mean the puzzles we see in Shahuntala devi but they'll give
a passage and we must get the details from that and solve the questions following it.
These examples can be found in RS Aggarwal verbal and Non verbal reasoning.
Concentration is the key !.

5. Spot the odd figure out:

This session was somewhat tough guys... Also you should have good pair of eyes to view
the images correctly.. If possible get a lens !!! Observe deeply and mark the answers.
Refer RS aggarwal for this too...

For all the above portions refer RS Aggarwal verbal and non verbal... Its enough. But
work out all the examples... and test yourselves with some hard exercise. RS Agg is more
than enough. Also refer.. from the asme book ... series completion, direction sense test,
Blood relation, cubes and dice...

Regarding English session. It was a bit tough. Attempt the passage comprehension at the
last else you'll be reading it till next batch comes !! Long passages.. Good grammar can
get you through in this session.

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After the finish of online exam we were asked to wait for 1/2 an hour.... FInally the
shortlisted candidates list were exhibited. By God's grace i was fortunate to be in it. Out
of 30.. 5 were shortlisted....

Soon we were called for HR round... I went last... i was interviewed by 2 fems... Just
1. there was a water bottle in front of us.. they asked me give 10 examples how you can
use it other than filling liquid...
me: blah.. blah... blah...

2. If i drink some water from this bottle how can you measure the reamaining amount
without any conventional measurement !!!
said -- can be done by counting the number if stripes in that bottle... But they were not
impressed asked me someother way... I surrendered!!

3. Gave me a puzzle....
Bring 100 out of seven 3's.... another boy in my batch was asked bring 23 from five 5s.
However we both ddnt solve it... Its not a problem they just see how you proceed ....
Later i found the answer to be as 333/3 - 33/3 = 100 and 5*5 - 5/5+5/5 = 23

Be confident and loud in speaking to them. They just check your comm. tats all...
Finally i'm asked to wait for 3 weeks to get the result... However i have no confidence
personally gettin in... Pray for me !!!

INFOSYS PAPER ON 17th MARCH AT DELHI

Hey guys,
There were around 1400 students who appeared for the written test. Out of those, around
260 were selected for the interview. Finally around 100-150 were selected.

There were 2 rounds:-

1) Written test which consisted of 2 parts:-

a. Reasoning (30 questions in 40 minutes)

· Puzzle(something like…there were 6 bikes, A,B,C,D,E,F. C was sold atleast before 4
bikes. D was sold immediately after C. B and E were sold atleast before 1 bike. …etc.
There were 5 questions on this puzzle).
· 5 questions on Data Interpretation.
· 5 questions on Data Sufficiency.
· 5 questions on finding odd one out from a given series of 5 figures(very easy).
· Puzzle(tricky one…5 questions based on that).
· 5 questions on syllogism(there were 5 premises given in each ques, and options
consisted of a combination of 3 premises. We had to choose the one which was a logical
combination out of the given choices).

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b.Verbal ability (30 questions in 35 minutes) (very easy paper…ur grammar should be
good).
· 2 reading comprehensions with 5 questions each(quite easy, but passages were lengthy,
so attempt in the end).
· 10 questions on sentence completion.
· 10 questions on replacing the underlined portion of a sentence with one of the options
given.

Firstly, they gave us an application form to fill up. We had to affix a passport size photo n
fill up personal details n marks as well as aggregate from 10th to pursuing or qualified
course(make sure u write exact percentage n marks). Also, details of eyesight n last major
illness/surgery in the last 1 year, n work experience(if any). If u know somebody
presently working in Infosys, then u’ll have to provide his name, relation n location
where he’s presently working.

2) HR interview
Interview lasted for about 5-7 minutes. There were 15 HR personnels simultaneously
interviewing 15 students in different rooms. I was not given any puzzle to solve, but other
candidates were asked to solve puzzles(so be prepared for that). Questions that I was
· How do ur friends describe u?
· How do ur enemies describe u?
· Tell me something about urself.
· Tell me about some disturbing moments in ur life in last 1 yr.
· Tell me about some happy moments.
· Tell me some news headlines from the next 2 weeks.
· If u win Rs.1 crore lottery, how will u spend that money?
· If u r made the dean of a college, what r the 5 things that u’d like to change in the
college?
· What r the books that u’ve read in the last 1 year?(I mentioned reading novels as a
hobby in my CV)
· Would u like to ask any question? (make sure u ask a question, that too a genuine one).

In the interview, they just check ur confidence level and ur communication skills, so
don’t be nervous and answer questions confidently. If u don’t know the answer, just say u
don’t know, don’t panic.

I am Pulkit Gupta, 6th semester studentof Information Technology branch of GPMCE

affiliated to IP university,Delhi. I gave infosys on campus test for freshers on 17th, 18th
March.2007, and cleared it. total 1500 students came from different colleges of IP univ
and finaaly 170 were selected out of 220 shortlisted for HR interview(very low
percentage for infy).the paper was tough especially english section.
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Let me thank this site first for giving me a guidance and opportunity to get placed at
Infosys. To start with, let me tell u one thing. The selection procedure of Infosys (New
Pattern) is not that easy compared to previous pattern(quiz) and you have to work a little
harder(especially for english as it is totally CAT pattern and time management is the key
to crack infosys) to ensure that u r placed. More over, your luck also plays a major part.
Let me describe the selection procedure and my experiences. I think it might help you to
focus in a correct direction .

The Selection Procedure had three phases:

PPT presentation on INFOSYS made by the head of the HR recruiting team
Aptitude and Verbal Reasoning
HR Interview

In the morning (around 10 am), after the arrival, u will be exposed to a ppt presentation
on Infosys. I am sure that this will motivate enough to get placed at Infosys.

Next, we were allowed to disperse and we were allotted rooms for our test. After we are
settled in our rooms, we were given an application form to fill it up(if u have anyone in
infosys,write it as reference it may help you in HR). The instructions to fill the
application form will be announced prior. Be careful in filling those forms and provide
accurate statistical data of your marks as far as possible.

Next comes the Aptitude test. It was started at 11.50 am. The time limit for aps is 40 mins
within which u have to complete 30 q's. The aptitude session consists of the following
sub groups.
A puzzle and 5 objectives based on the puzzle.
5 Problems on finding the next figure in the series.
5 Problems on data Sufficiency( Little tricky)
Data Interpretation: A bar graph was given and 5 questions followed it.(mine was an easy
one) but dont do it first, keep it for the end it takes time.
Once again a puzzle which is little tough as compared to the previous one with 5
questions followed it
Last 5 questions on logical arrangment.

1 puzzle was: Exam is to be held between Monday to sunday. There is 1 holiday in

between papers. 9 papers were: english, hindi, math, history, civics geography, biology,
physics, chemistry.
Conditions were:
1) exams will start either on sunday or wednesday with biology and no other paper will b
there on that day.
2) Geography paper can be followed by 1 other paper but not on Monday.
3) Hindi & English cannot be accompanied by others.
4) Saturday is a half day and sunday is after the holiday.
5) Number of papers before holiday is less than that after the holiday.

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5 questions were there like:

1) when the exams start??
a) Sunday b) Wednesday c) Monday d) Friday
ans: b) Wednesday

2) when is the holiday?

a) Sunday b) Friday c) Saturday d) Thursday
ans: b) Friday

rest i dont remember but the sequence was like this

sol: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
biology history holiday English Hindi civics geography physics maths
chemistry

1 question i remember of data sufficiency was: i suggest do data suffiency from rs

aggarwal quantitative book because dey wont ask u theoritical questions so go thru ques
on data sufficiency at the back of each chapter.

Find the area of quadilateral ABCD.a right angled quadilateral figur was given.
1) AC=5
2) BC=13
ANS was b) both are required to find the area

sorry friends i dont remember all questions as they were too long. After 40 mins they
collected the question paper for aps and gave us verbal(english) q paper. Here is where u
have to put more effort. The verbal part is very tough as compared to aptitude. If u are
strong at basic grammar (particularly tenses and phrases) u will have this cleared.

There will be 40 q's which u have to finish in 30 mins. Time management is very much
essential here. The pattern of this question is:
2 Passages (R C) followed by 5 q's each. The first one was easy( mine was on womens, i
didnt read it but it expressed the positive aspect of women, i answered on this basis only)
and the second one was little tough( i didnt even got the time to look at it, do not leave
any question attempt all) .
Selecting the correct option which is grammatically correct from the available four
options.
fill in the blanks type questions
Replacing the underline phrases with suitable ones( phrases were too long so were the
options, time consuming)
Deriving conclusion from small passages(tricky one).

For english, you can refer any CAT material like CL,ims etc. and prepare well for it, dont
take it lightly as it is the main eliminating section in written test, aptitude is easy. in our
case, 220 were shortlisted out of 1500 for interview n english section played a major part
int it).

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Remember friends the preset cut-off of infy's test is 15 out of 30 for aptitude and 20 out
of 40 for english and these dont vary with performance. If all students get more than 50%
in test, all are selected and if no one gets it, then no one is selected.

The tests are over by 1 pm. the results were be announced by 9.30 pm. There were 1500
students appeared for test and 220 were shortlisted for HR round which held next day.

HR round:
it is of 20 minutes per person on an average. Try to drive the interview to ur field of
interest(personal profile) to maximum time so that he gets less time to interview you as
they ask u to leave after 20 minutes sharp, they have a clock in front of them.

Prepare some questions in advance like:

1) your introduction. Finish the answer conciously on to ur field of interest as next
question will be from ur last line of the answer.
2) strengths and weakness. say the weakness that looks like your strength, dont say m
emotional, less patient,hot tempered. you may say that i become irritated when my
teammembers do not work efficiently. it looks like a strength.
3) role model. it would be great if u say ur father or mother as this reflects your honesty,
dont say person from the company like Mr. Murthy, it looks fake.
4) Hobbies. u should know everything about it like if u say reading then he may ask u
5) your objective. dont repeat the line written in ur resume.twist it and then say.
6) 1 question about the company.

now i will tell my experience there were 15 panels from different colleges of Delhi
university(infy members dont take freshers interview).
I was allotted to a gent HR who was really experienced and may be english professor.
Confidence and smiling face is the key to clear HR round.
he asked me to fill the attendance sheet. I didnt wrote the time of my interview n then he
told me to write it as 1:25pm. then asked me wat is PM in 1:25 pm.i didnt knew. so
friends dont give him any chance to ask u such questions.

puzzles. he asked me to find the volume of the sprite bottle kept there(300ml). it didnt
strike me and then he gave me various hints and then i said 300ml but i kept on trying,
smiled in between.
after that he gave me a puzzle:

FORTY
+TEN
+TEN
=S I X T Y
Find the value of each alphabet. i solved it. ans was N=0, e=5.
They just see if u are trying or not. Never say "i dont know" in the first place, just keep
trying and he will himself change the question after 2-3 minutes.

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Then he asked me tat do I have any question? Aways ask some question never say i dont
have any and the question concerning the company. i asked why infosys has most of its
centres in south india only? the question should be such that reflects your concern
towards the company.

He answered me tat it is too early to concerned abt those issues and he commented that it
was a very good qn and he liked my attitude. Then he asked me to check my mails
regularly( which is an indirect sign tat I got placed). Then he wished me for my bright
future.. I came out with confidence.

The results were announced by 7pm. I was very happy to hear that I got selected. 170/220
were selected. They have a pattern, they were selecting 75% of students from each
college on an average.

So friends, The main thing is to belief in yourself and confidence. Use your innovative
and creative ideas and make sure tat it is exhibited. Be yourself and be confident and
smiling(thad important) and if your interview is not good then dont say it there, it goes in
ur negative, may be he liked u, so don't break down till the end, show confidence. Hope

INFOSYS PAPER ON 14th MARCH AT BHOPAL

Hello friends
I am Nitin Gaykwad, Sixth Semester, B.E. (Electronics & Instrumentation) student
of S.A.T.I. VIDSHA(M.P.).I m selected in INFOSYS campus conducted at R.G.T.U.
BHOPAL( Technical university of m.p.).
It feels great to be a part of INFOSYS. I hope I’ll b able to help you guys with my
experience..
First and foremost important thing is to be confident. If u trust yourself, you have won
half the battle. Even if you don’t get through, don’t get disappointed. The world does not
end here, may be you a better opportunity is waiting for you
As you all must be knowing , the recent format for the Infy exam is as follows:-
1.Written test.
2.HR interview
Written test is in two parts:
A)Reasoning(30 ques, 40 mins.)
B)English(40 ques,35 mins.)
Reasoning:
It comprised of 30 ques to be solved in a span of 40 mins. There were 6 questions with
approx 5 subparts each. The questions we got are as follows:
First collect the following books when u start preps for reasoning section.

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1) R.S. AGRAWAL- Verbal & non verbal reasoning

2) R.S. AGRAWAL- Quantative aptitude( ONLY FOR DATA INTRPRETATION
QUES.)
3) Any CAT Coaching material, TIME ,CL, PT...........etc.
starting with the paper, the questions are as follows:
1)PUZZLE :-( 5 questions based on puzzle):A simple puzzle was asked, an easy
one............do practice by R.s. agrawal.( verbal n non verbal) in the chapter (PUZZLE
TEST).PUZZLE IS THAT :-
There are 100 cards distributed into 7 friends n 6 are got same no. of cards n remaining
one got 5 less than others. simply they exchange cards among them. And 5 ques. On this
puzzle.
2)VISUAL REASONING:-(5 questions): There are 5 ques. of this type is there.they r of
odd man out type.the figure which is not like the other 4 figures is selected as
answer.remember this is the most easiest part of the paper,if u practice well these type of
ques. given in non verbal reasoning part of R.S.AGRAWAL.Then no one stops from
doing all 5 ques. right.THUS,this part should be attempted first as they required less time
than others
3) DATA SUFFICENCY: -( 5 questions):
You have to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering
a) alone is sufficient to answer the question.
b) II alone is sufficient to answer the question.
c) either I or II are sufficient to answer the question.
d) both are not sufficient to answer the question.
e) both are needed to answer the question.
FOR e.g.,one question i remember.........
a)what is the two digit number if?
1) sum of the digits is something....?
2)difference of digits is something......?
4) DATA INTERPRETATION(5 QUESTIONS):-
Two LINE GRAPHS were given & 5 quest based on this are given......Its little time
consuming and a bit tough also. practice R.S AGRAWAL DI questions of all types which
are given.......but i suggest u all to attempt it at last as very lengthy calculations r there. I
also attempted it last. Also if u are practicing well i advice u to use guess
work...............some ques . does not demand full calculations..........they can be solved
visually also...................I make 2 of them by this method. Especially it works in line
graph type questions................
5) LOGICAL PUZZLE (5 QUESTIONS):-
Again a puzzle was there, but it was slightly lengthy...............
It was about 6 persons (3 male & 3 female) preparing for banking exams of 3 diff. banks.

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Each 2 of them are good in three diff. parts i.e. English, quanta, & reasoning. We have to
determine the right combination. Questions are based on these combinations. Similar
problems are given in R.S.AGRAWAL. You practice from there.
6).LOGICAL DEDUCTION(5 QUESTIONS):-
These are problems in which logical deduction capability was checked. Questions are like,
5-6 sentences are given like some As are Bs, Bs are Cs, Ds are Es,..................you are
supposed to find the group of logically correct sentences .i. e. ABC, CDF,BCE etc.
This is all about the reasoning part.
They do not disclose the cut off. I solve about 20-22 ques correct .but my friends with 17
score was also selected. So, don t worry about the cut off, just do ur best.
if it was tough then it was tough for all. So, keep ur mind free from tension.
IMPORTANT: there was no negative marking. but that doesn’t means that u attempt all
the ques. without some approach. Beware that they check ur rough work & so even if
u dont know the solution of some problem, then please show some approach in rough
work provided with paper. Remember that they do not check the wild guesses without
some approach. So if u wants to get checked ur wild guesses, THEN PLEASE DO UR
ROUGH WORK NEAT & CLEAN& SHOW SOME APPROACH
That’s all about reasoning section. now they put the English paper before u.
ENGLISH PAPER (40 questions - 35 minutes):
It contains 40 ques. to be completed in 35 min.it consist of following type of ques.
Time management is very much essential here. The pattern of this question is:
1)2 Passages( R C) followed by 5 q’s each. The first one was easy and the second one
was little tough.
2)Selecting the correct option which is grammatically correct from the available four
options.
3)fill in the blanks type questions
4)Replacing the underline phrases with suitable ones
5)Deriving conclusion from small passages.
if u have good knowledge of basic fundamentals of english grammer then u can easily get
through it.
For grammar, you can refer WREN & MARTIN book.
The tests are over by 1 pm. They told us that the results will be announced by 3.30 pm.
There were 700 students from 11 colleges attended the tests.It was third day of three days
mega campus drive of INFOSYS.(from 12 to 14march).All colleges of MP are invited.
The results for our college was announced at 4 o clock and soon after that we were called
to attend the HR Interview. There were 51 students who are shortlisted for the Interview.
The Interview started Immediately after the announcement of written tests.
There were 12 panels and the segregated us into various groups. All the 12 panel HR’s
were so cool and they asked just simple questions from the Resume. Some of our panels

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I was allotted to a gent HR who was very senior official of INFOSYS.He was really cool
and jovial. He made me comfortable and offered me water as i was slightly nervous. I
accepted it and said thanks. Then he started asking some simple questions from the
Resume like
1. Tell me abt urself?
4. about the cricket match?(since my hobby is cricket & world cup is going on.)
5.who is ur favourite player & why ? which quality?
6.about my achievements in various areas?(i will explain fully).
7.at last ,he asked a silly ques about the uses of bricks.( i explained it).
then he asked me if i have some questions to him.then my H.R. was over & he said " well
done" to me & i wished him before coming out of the room.
then, after the wait of 3 long hours ,mthe result was declared & 41 were finally selected.i
was one of them by god`s grace.
So friends, The main thing is to prepare a little and project a lot. Use your innovative and
creative ideas and make sure tat it is exhibited. Be yourself and be confident. Hope this
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