Analytical and logical1) Analytical2) Reasoning (LOGICAL) Verbal section 1) English (very very tough)                              How to prepare:Analytical and logical 30 questions (40 mins)Questions,1-5. Question on situations(PUZZLE TYPE-vry easy )do some R.S Aggarwal puzzle portion6-11. Odd figure out(vry easy --no need to practice ,be cool)12-15. Data sufficiency: Don't make any calc, apply    your basic instinct-(M K Pandey)16-20. DI-try to skip making big calculations(tables)21-25. Probs on situation-vry easy26-30. Syllogisms (M K Pandey)-very easyVerbal sections:Questions:1-5: Huge but easy passege:(Read questions first)6-10: Fill in the blanks. (Difficult)11-18: Correct the underlind part.(vry difficult)19-26: Theme detection-2 psg(5q+3q)27-32: Pattern-Directions : In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentenceThere are five pairs of words denoted by numbers 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). Find out which pair ofwords can be filled up in the blanks in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.33-40: Phrase subst^n.

Another Test:As usual there were 2 rounds for written tests.* Logical Reasoning (30 question 40 minutes)* English (40 question 35 minutes)

Logical reasoning:There is no need to read George summer's, Shakuntala devi and oher puzzle books but indeed they give you broad and quicker thinking capabilities, so do solve them if you want 90% or more in 40 minutes. If you don't like   solving much puzzles then solve only from R.S Aggarwal it is more than enough for getting 60% or more.For us questions were like.Question (1 to 5) Non verbal reasoning do from R.S Aggarwal reasoning book. (6 to 10) puzzle question was like this (question is not exact but theme is same)There was a man Rama he was having 4 sons A,B,C,and D. A was eldest and D was youngest. There were 20 sacks of gold to be distributed among them as Rama was going to die. They all will get at least 3. B  got 1 more than C. A got heighest and D got lowest. And you have to assume youself as C and give the correct answer as you are C you are knowing only yours no of sacks.(11to 15) same as exercise 6C (puzzle test) from R.S Aggarwal Reasoning book(16 to 20) Tabulation (exercise.36).  About maintainance of some project in R.S Aggarwal's aptitude book(21 to 25) was like from data sufficiency (exercise 17) in R.S Aggarwal's Reasoning book(26 to 30) sorry friends but I didn't attended this part.

English:1. Do prepare for preposition and preposition related errors.2. Do remember word meanings for fill in the blanks.3. Our phrase was quite easy (2 phrases were there I suggest you to do this in short period by first reading the question and find sentence related to it, you will defenitely get the answer.)4. Theme detection

 

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Infosys Placement Paper Pattern 2010:-

1) arithmetic and reasoning skills : 30 questions -----40 mins2) verbal English grammar & comprehension) : 40 questions -----30 mins

Infosys Placement Paper 2010:-Arithmetic:-1. There is a merry-go-round race going on.One person says,"1/3 of those in front of me and 3/4 of those behind me, give the total number of children in the race". Then the number of children took part in the race? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: 13

[ Assume there are x participants in the race.In a round race,no: of participants in front of a person wil be x-1 an that behind him wil b x-1. i.e, 1/3(x-1) + 3/4(x-1) = x ; solving x = 13 ]

2. In an Island the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to know whether a salesman beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native or visitor. He replied "she says she is a visitor". Then he knew that the salesman is a native or visitor. salesman is in which category , native or visitor?

Ans: Native

[ Draw table and see ]

3.A man fixed an appointment to meet the manager, Manager asked him to come two days after the day before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. When will the manager expect him? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Monday

[Don't confuse it with Tuesday.the correct answer is Monday]

5.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back.when he was half of his age. What is his age? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: 84 years

[Assume that he lived x years. X/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + 4 + x/2 = x. Solving x= 84, Same as Question in Shakundala Devi book]

6.Jack,Doug and Ann, 3 children had a running race while returning from school.Mom asked who won the race. Then Jack replied" I wont tell u.I wil give u a clue,When Ann takes 28 steps Doug takes 24 steps, meantime I take 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Doug

[ Ann steps = 8,16,24,28 --- finished by 3 & half full steps

Doug steps=7,14,21,24 --- finished before 3 & half full steps

Jack steps= 6,12,18,21 --- finished by 3 & half full steps

So Doug won the race ]

7. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station.The road is straight and both are travelling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph.One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the Station. What is the speed of the car?

Ans: 60 mph

[Very similar to Shakuntala Devi puzzles to puzzle you problem no: 38 ]

9.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24.How many handkerchiefs did she buy? (repeated from previous papers)

10. Complete the series :

a) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____(repeated from previous papers)

b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___( " " " )

Ans: a) 63

b) 1

11. Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70.Each of her sons have as many sons as they have brothers. Their combined number gives Lucia?s age. What is the age?

Ans: 64

12.There are two towers A and B. Their heights are 200ft and 150ft respectively and the foot of the towers are 250ft apart. Two birds on top of each tower fly down with the same speed and meet at the same instant on the ground to pick a grain. What is the distance between the foot of tower A and the grain?

Ans:90ft

13 Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many days does it take for 20 cows to do the same?

Ans: 120

13. Four tourists A,B,C,D and four languages English, German, French and Italian. They are not able to converse among themselves in one language. Though A does not know English he can act as an interpreter between B and C. No one spoke both French and German. A knows German and was able to converse with D who doesn?t know a word in German. Only one language was spoken by more than two persons. Each spoke two languages. Find who spoke what.

Ans: A- German,Italian

B- French,Italian

c- German,English

D- Italian,English

14. There is a five digit number. It has two prime digits (1 is not a prime number). Third digit is the highest. Second digit is the lowest. First digit is one less than the third digit. The fifth digit is half of the fourth. The sum of 4th and 5th is less than the first. Find the number.

Ans ? 71842

15.6. 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. No card has the same color on both sides. The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively. 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.

Ans: A- Yellow

B- Yellow

C- Green

D- Red

16. A 1 k.m. long wire is held by n poles. If one pole is removed, the length of the gap becomes 12/3m. What is the number of poles initially?

Ans:6km

17. Find the digits X,Y,Z

X X X X

Y Y Y Y +

Z Z Z Z

--------------

Y X X X Z

----------------

Ans: X Y Z

9 1 8

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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? 

21. 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

22. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? on which day the lawyer asks the person to come?

Ans: thursday

23. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?

Ans: 470

24.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?

Ans: 12mph

25. There is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consecutive truth or false statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. A boy and girl also goes in the same way. one day i asked a child " what r u a boy or a girl" however thechild replied in their language that i dint understand but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that " kibi is a boy" the other one said that "no kibi is a girl, kibi lied".

a: is kibi a boy or a girlb: who ansered first mother or father?

Ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first.

26. The boy goes to school reaches railway station at his 1/3 of his journey& mill at 1/4 of his journey the time taken him to walk between railway station & mill is 5 mins. Also he reaches railway station at 7.35amwhen he started from house& when he reaches school?

Ans: 7:15to8.15

27. if a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type) the examiner use the formula to calculate the score is S=30+4c-w here c is numberof correct answer and w is number of wrong answer , the examiner find the score is more than 80, tell how may questions are correct ? if the score is little lessbut still more than 80 then u wont be able to answer.

Ans:- 16

28. if a person having 1000 rs and he want to distribute this to his five children in the manner that ecah son having 20 rs more than the younger one , what willbe the share of youngest child

ans- 160

29.raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 son , 5 daughter and driver in a manner that , he gave fist coin to driver and 1/5 of remaining to firstson he again gave one to driver and 1/5 to 2nd son and so on.... at last he equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. how many coins raju initially have???

Ans:-881

30.if ravi binded his book and the binder cut the pages of the book , ravi decided to mark the pages by himself own , what he found that number of threeappears 61 times find of number of pages answer

ans - 300

31. a painter went in a exhibition to purchases some pictures where T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z pictures were remaining , he want to buy only five in the condition on thatif T is there then X should not be there,if U is there than y should be thereif if v is there then X should be there

which is the combination the painter can have(a) T,U,V,W,Y(b)T,Z,U,W,X(c)T,X,U,V,W(d)T,U,Y,W,Z

ans (d)

32.There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house. What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house ? ( 3 marks)

Sol: 15%

33. There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)

Sol :6 balls.

34. Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked who broke Annie said, ?I didn?t do it?; Fanny said ?Danny did it?; Danny said ?Fanny is lieing?; here two of them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke it ? (3 Marks)

Sol : Annie

35. 4 players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on both sides. Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in front of each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other side of his card. They are required to tell their colour.Statement given by each of them was :

Annie : Blue or GreenBobby : Neither Blue nor GreenCindy : Blue or YellowDanny : Blue or Yellowcolours of cards that are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their names. Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each player ? (6 Marks)

Sol : Annie : Yellow (Lieing)Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth)Cindy : Blue (Telling truth)Danny : Green (Lieing)

36. In a game i won 12 games, each game if i loose i will give u one chocolate, You have 8 chocolates how many games played.

Ans: 32

38. 75 persons Major in physics, 83 major in chemistry, 10 not at major in these subjects u

want to find number of students majoring in both subjects

Ans 68.

39. if A wins in a race against B by 10 mts in a 100 Meter race. If B is behind of A by 10 mts. Then they start running race, who will won?

Ans A

40. A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17 given A=4.Find value of G and H?

Ans: G = 5 E=1

41. One guy has Rs. 100/- in hand. He has to buy 100 balls. One football costs Rs. 15/, One Cricket ball costs Re. 1/- and one table tennis ball costs Rs. 0.25 He spend the whole Rs. 100/- to buy the balls. How many of each balls he bought?

Ans:F=3,T=56,C=41

42. The distance between Station Atena and Station Barcena is 90 miles. A train starts from Atena towards Barcena. A bird starts at the same time from Barcena straight towards the moving train. On reaching the train, it instantaneously turns back and returns to Barcena. The bird makes these journeys from Barcena tothe train and back to Barcena continuously till the train reaches Barcena. The bird finally returns to Barcena and rests. Calculate the total distance in miles the bird travels in the following two cases:(a) The bird flies at 90 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 60 miles per hour.(b) the bird flies at 60 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 90 miles per hour

Ans: time of train=1hr.so dist of bird=60*1=60miles

43. A tennis championship is played on a knock-out basis, i.e., a player is out of the tournament when he loses a match.(a) How many players participate in the tournament if 15 matches are totally played?(b) How many matches are played in the tournament if 50 players totally participate?

Ans: (a)16(b)49

44.When I add 4 times my age 4 years from now to 5 times my age 5 years from now, I get 10 times my current age. How old will I be 3 years from now?

Ans:Age=41 years.

45.A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?" After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 37 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers." The wife looked puzzled. Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold R

Ans:37

46. A set of football matches is to be organized in a "round-robin" fashion, i.e., every participating team plays a match against every other team once and only once. If 21 matches are totally played, how many teams participated?

Ans:7

47. Glenn and Jason each have a collection of cricket balls. Glenn said that if Jason would give him 2 of his balls they would have an equal number; but, if Glenn would give Jason 2 of his balls, Jason would have 2 times as many balls as Glenn. How many balls does Jason have?

Ans: 14

48. Suppose 8 monkeys take 8 minutes to eat 8 bananas.a) How many minutes would it take 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas?(b) How many monkeys would it take to eat 48 bananas in 48 minutes

Ans: a)48B)6

49. It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time we had!In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long. Now, there were 12 mornings when we did nothing, 18 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 14 days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?

Ans: 22 days

50 A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 32 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring nails. How many nails does the carpenter use?

Ans:124 

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Infosys Placement Paper 2010:-

1.. Joe's age , Joe's sister's age and Joe's fathers age sums up to a century. When sox s as old as his father, Joe's sister will be twice as old as now. When Joe is as old as his father then his father is twice as old as when his sister was as old as her father

Ans: Joe=20 sister=30 father=50

2. At 6'o clock clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks was 30sec. How much time it takes at 12'o clock.?

Ans. 66 sec. 2 marks.

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

Ans: 18

4. A ship went on a voyage after 180 miles a plane started with 10 times speed that of the ship. Find the distance when they meet from starting point.

Ans: 200

5. A man sold two cows for Rs. 210 at a total profit of 5 %. He sold one cow at a loss of 10% and another at a profit of 10%. What is the price of each cow?

Ans: Rs. 150 and Rs. 50

 Questions 11- 15 are to be answered on the following data

A causes B or C, but not both, F occurs only if B occurs, D occurs if B or C occurs,E occurs only if C occurs, J occurs only if E or F occurs, D causes G, H or both, H occurs if E occurs, G occurs if F occurs

11. If A occurs which of the following must occursI. F and GII. E and HIII. D

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

(e) I & II (or) II & III but not bothAns. (e)

12. If B occurs which must occur(a) D(b) D and G(c) G and H(d) F and G(e) JAns. (a)

13. If J occurs which must have occurred(a) E(b) either B or C(c) both E & F(d) B(e) both B & CAns. (b)

14. Which may occurs as a result of cause not mentionedI. DII. AIII. F

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

15. E occurs which one cannot occurs(a) A(b) F(c) D(d) CAns: (b)

Directions16-20: Each problem consists of a problem followed by two statements. Decide whether the data in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select your answer according to whether:(A) statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question(B) statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question(C) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient(D) each statement alone is sufficient(E) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question

16. Is x > 0 ?-2x < 0x³ > 0A)B)

C)D)E)Ans: D

17. A certain straight corridor has four doors, A, B, C and D (in that order) leading off from the same side. How far apart are doors B and C?The distance between doors B and D is 10 meters. The distance between A and C is 12 meters.A.B.C.D.E.Ans: E

18. Given that x and y are real numbers, what is the value of x + y ?(x² – y²) / (x-y) = 7(x + y)² = 49A.B.C.D.E.Ans: A

19. Two socks are to be picked at random from a drawer containing only black and white socks. What is the probability that both are white? The probability of the first sock being black is 1/3. There are 24 white socks in the drawer.A.B.C.D.E.Ans: C

20. A bucket was placed under a dripping tap which was dripping at a uniform rate. At what time was the bucket full? The bucket was put in place at 2pm. The bucket was half full at 6pm and three-quarters full at 8pm.A.B.C.D.E.Ans: B

Directions (Question 21-25 ) : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Rohit, Kunal, Ashish and John are students of a school. Three of them stay far from the school and one near it. Two study in class IV, one in class V and one in class VI. They study Hindi, mathematics, Social Science . One is good at all the four subjects while another weak in all of these. Rohit stays far from the school and good at Mathematics only while Kunal is weak in Mathematics only and stays close to the school. Neither of these two nor Ashish studies in class VI. One who is good at all the subjects studies in class V.

21. Name of the boy who is good at all the subjects.A) RohitB) KunalC) AshishD) JohnAns: C

22. Name the boy who is weak in all the subjectsA) RohitB) KunalC) AshishD) JohnAns: D

23. Which two boys are good at HindiA) Rohit and KunalB) Kunal and AshishC) Ashish and JohnD) John and RohitAns: B

24. Which two boys are good at MathematicsA) Rohit and AshishB) Kunal and AshishC) John and AshishD) Rohit and JohnAns: A

25. Other than Rohit and the boy good at all the subjects, who else stays far from the school?A) RohitB) KunalC) AshishD) JohnAns: D

Directions 26-30 :The table above shows imports for three types of steel over a six month period. Use this information to answer the following questions

26. Which month showed the largest decrease in total imports over the previous month?A. FebB. MarC. AprD. MayE. JunAns. B

27. What was the total value of sheet steel (in $) imported over the 6 month period?A. 56,750B. 75,300C. 55,550D. 42,370E. 44,750Ans. C

28. What was the percentage of scrap steel imported in the 6 month period?A.37.5B. 35.2C. 36.1D. 31.2E. 38.3Ans. D

29. What was the difference (in thousands of tons) between coil steel and sheet steel imports in the first 3 months of the year?A. 10B. 16C. 18D. 19E. 20Ans. E

30. What was the approximate ratio of sheet steel and coil steel imports in the first 3 months of the year?A. 11:9B. 8:9C. 7:11D. 3:8E. 7:4Ans. A

Verbal Ability Test (40 Questions in 35 minutes)

Directions for Questions 1-5: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage

A snow leopard roars in the high mountains of Asia. A black rhinoceros gallops across the plains of Africa. A grizzly bear hunts for fish in a North American river. A mother blue whale and her calf glide through the deep waters of the ocean. All of these animals share the Earth with us. They fascinate us with their beauty, their grace, and their speed. We love observing their behavior, and learning more about their habits. But just loving them is not enough. All of these animals are endangered. Many of them have died, and without special care, they may someday disappear from the Earth. Why is it important to care for animals like these? One reason is to protect the balance of life on Earth. Another reason is the beauty of the animals themselves. Each species of animal is special. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Africa was once filled with an abundance of wild animals. But that is changing fast. One of these animals, the black rhinoceros, lives on the plains of Africa. It has very poor eyesight and a very bad temper! Even though the black rhino is powerful, and can be dangerous, its strength can’t always help it to escape hunters. Some people think that the rhino’s horn has magical powers, and many hunters kill rhinos for their valuable horns. This has caused the black rhino to be placed on the endangered species list. The elephant seems to represent all that is strong and wild in Africa. It once had no natural enemies, but is now endangered—killed for its ivory tusks. The fastest land animal, the cheetah, also lives in Africa. It, too, is becoming extinct as people take over more and more of the land that is the cheetah's natural habitat. Imagine Africa without the powerful rhino, the gentle, intelligent elephant, or the lightning quick cheetah. Once they are gone, they are gone forever. Wherever people are careless about the land, there are endangered species. Grizzly bears like to wander great distances. Each bear needs up to 1,500 square miles of territory to call its homeland. Today, because forests have been cleared to make room for people, the grizzly’s

habitat is shrinking and the grizzly is disappearing. It joins other endangered North American animals, such as the red wolf and the American crocodile. In South America, destruction of the rain forest threatens many animals. Unusual mammals, such as the howler monkey and the three-toed sloth, are endangered. Beautiful birds like the great green macaw and the golden parakeet are also becoming extinct. They’re losing their homes in the rain forest, and thousands die when they are caught and shipped off to be sold as exotic pets. The giant panda of Asia is a fascinating and unique animal. Yet there are only about 1,000 still living in the wild. The giant panda’s diet consists mainly of the bamboo plant, so when the bamboo forests die, so does the panda. China is now making an effort to protect these special creatures from becoming extinct. Asia’s big cats are also in trouble. The exotic snow leopard lives high in the mountains. Even there, it faces the loss of its natural habitat, and hunters who kill it for its fur. The tiger, the largest of all the big cats, is hunted merely for sport. Ocean-dwelling animals are in danger of extinction as well. The blue whale is the largest animal in the world. It weighs up to 390,000 pounds. Whale hunting and pollution are this species’ greatest enemies. Unfortunately, it is people who cause many of the problems that animals face. We alter and pollute their habitats. We hunt them for skins, tusks, furs, and horns. We destroy animals that get in the way of farming or building. And we remove them from their natural habitats and take them home as pets. What can you do to help endangered animals? Learn as much as you can about them. The more you know, the more you can help. Make an effort to support zoos and wildlife groups. Many zoos breed endangered animals, helping to ensure that they will continue to live on. Contribute to groups, such as the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club, that work hard to protect animals. You can also be a smart shopper and never buy a pet that has been raised in the wilderness. The world is made up of many living things, and each thing is dependent on the others to survive. If we allow even one species on Earth to become extinct, it has an impact on other living things and changes our world. When we mention any endangered wild animals, let’s hope that we never again have to say, "Gone forever."

1. Which of the following is NOT an opinion?A) It is important for us to take care of endangered animals.B) The black rhinoceros is the most frightening animal in Africa.C) The fastest land animal, the cheetah, also lives in Africa.D) If we don’t protect endangered animals now, we will regret it in the future.Ans: B

2. Read this sentence from the article. Today, because forests have been cleared to make room for people, the grizzly’s habitat is shrinking and the grizzly is disappearing.

A) What does habitat mean?B) an animal’s natural environmentC) a bear’s thick wool coatD) a bear’s denE) an animal’s visionAns: A

3. Which of the following does NOT support the main idea of the article?A) Ocean-dwelling animals are in danger of extinction as well.B) Beautiful birds like the great green macaw are also becoming extinct.C) Wherever people are careless about the land, there are endangered species.D) The elephant seems to represent all that is strong and wild in Africa.Ans: D

4. Read this sentence from the article. They fascinate us with their beauty, their grace, and their speed.A) What is an antonym for the word fascinate ?

B) thrillC) boreD) scarehumorAns: B

5. What will happen to some animal species if current trends continue?A) Their numbers will increase.B) There will be no significant change.C) They will become extinct.D) They will move to other habitatsAns: C

Directions for Questions 6-10 : Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage

The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would speed gradually throughout the world by an orderly process, and it was hoped that curelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly anyone thought of thenineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.

6. The author feels and about the later part of his life becauseA) The world had not become prosperousB) he was nostalgic about his childhood.C) the world was painfully disturbed during that period of time.D) the author had not won any further victories.Ans: C

7. The victories of the pastA) filled men with a sense of pessimismB) proved to be temporary eventsC) ended, cruelty, tyranny, and injusticeD) brought permanent peace and securityAns: B

8. The world 'definitive' as used in the passage meansA) incompleteB) definedC) temporaryD) finalAns: D

9. During the Victorian age people believed thatA) there would be unlimited freedomB) strife would increaseC) peace would prevail and happiness would engulf the whole world.D) wars would be fought on a bigger scaleAns: C

10.A brief interlude between past and future barbarism' can be interpreted asA) a dramatic performance during wars

B) an interval between cruel warsC) a short space of time between two great eventsD) a short period of time between past and future acts of savagery.Ans: D

Directions 11-18 : Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

11. The petition before the Court prayed for .....................the appointment orders issued by the managementA) removingB) grantingC) postingD) quashingE) dismissingAns: D

12. I have a profound respect for his political..................A) personalityB) ambitionC) temperamentD) sagacityE) involvementAns: D

13. The truck was.............. the traffic and the policemen asked the driver to move off.A) failingB) obstructingC) obviatingD) hidingE) disturbingAns: B

14. The paternalistic attitude is so ingrained in the managements that they have to.....................try to change itA) casuallyB) slowlyC) subtlyD) inadvertentlyE) conscientiouslyAns: C

15. For a few seconds, Madan was.............blinded by the powerful lights of the oncoming carA) heavilyB) largelyC) greatlyD) powerfullyE) totallyAns: E

16. sachin was to reach that afternoon but was ...... up at Delhi for some personal work.A) delayedB) keptC) held

D) stayed E) detainedAns: A

17. He ..... his shoes till they shone.A) brushedB) scrubbedC) wipedD) polishedE. shined.Ans: C

18. Let us take him upon his word. I see no room for any ....... in the matterA) deviationB) duplicityC) differenceD) cynicismAns: B

Direction Questions 19 - 26: In each question below is given a passage followed by several inference. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

mark your answer as :A. if the inference is ' definitely true' i.e. , it directly follows from the facts given in the passageB. if the inference is ' probably true' though not definitely true in the light of the facts givenC. if you think the data are in adequate i.e., from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or falseD. if you think the inference is ' probably false' though not definitely false in the light of the facts given; andE. if you think inference is ' definitely false' i,e , it contradicts the given facts.

Passage I

More than a decade of erosion in budgetary support from the Union Government, has seriously affected Indian Railway's capacity to finance its plan expenditures. The situation has come to a pass where the railways must now think of innovative ways to get longer mileage from its investments. Significantly the resource crunch has had grievous impact on the railways. As a result, it will not be in a position to acquire necessary equipments and this will seriously affect the railway's capacity to serve the needs of the economy in future.

19. Railways had so far belived in traditional ways in generating income.Ans: A

20. government has shifted its priority from railways to other areas.Ans: B

21. The union government has reduced drastically the budgetary support to railways during the last decade.Ans: A

22. The fiscal position of railways in the earlier plan period was better than the current plan periodAns: A

23. During the current plan period, the railways will not be able to expand its networkAns: A

Passage II

The smaller pesticide formulation units in India operate under heavy constraints such as obsolete technology, small scale of operation and dependence on large units for raw materials . In view of the loss of expensive material by the smaller units it is important to either eliminate or reduce losses to the extent possible through innovative and sustainable waste minimization techniques. operating profit margins of the units are very low and small adverse conditions land these companies in trouble. Maximum losses suffered by these units are through poor house keeping , Sub- optional operating practices , and lack of proper opportunities for recycling waste.

24. Smaller units should be operationally self sufficient so as to minimize loss.Ans: C

25.Waste management process in India need modernizationAns: A

26. Lack of funds compels smaller units to ignore house keeping.Ans: B

Direction 27-32 : In each of the following questions, find out which part of the sentence has an error. if there is no mistake the answer is 'no error'

27. Our is the only / country in the world / than can boast of / unity in diversity / no errorA)B)C)D)E)Ans : B

28. May I know/Who you want / to see please / No errorA)B)C)D)Ans : B

29. due to me being a newcomer / I was unable to get a house / suitable for my wife and me / No errorAns : A

30.This is the boy / Whom I think had won / the gold medal in the dance competition / No errorA)B)C) D)Ans : B

31. The number of vehicles /plying on this road /is more than on the main road / No error

A)B)C)D)Ans : C

32. There has not been any rainfall / in this part of the country / since the last two years / No errorA)B)C)D)Ans: D

Directions 33-40: In each question, a part of sentence is printed in italics. Below each sentence, some phrases are given which can substitute the italicized part of the sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, the answer is 'No correction required'

33. No sooner I saw the tiger than I ran awayA. No sooner I had seenB. No sooner did I seeC. as soon as I sawD. No Correction requiredAns: B

34. Let he and I work togetherA. him and IB. him and meC. he and meD. No Correction requiredAns : C

35. The child is father of the manA. A child, manB. Child , a manC. Child, ManD. No Correction requiredAns : D

36. I am used to hard workA. hard workingB. work hardC. work hardlyD. No Correction requiredAns : D

37. The doctor examined my pulseA. observedB. sawC. feltD. No Correction requiredAns : C

38. I wish I have all those luxuries

A. I will haveB. I am havingC. I hadD. No Correction requiredAns: C

39. She did not like the movie , nor I didA. nor did IB. nor I like itC. nor I liked itD. No Correction requiredAns: A

40. The enthusiastic voters were queuing up outside the polling station since morning.A. queued upB. had queued upC. had been queuing upD. No Correction requiredAns: B

 

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Infosys Placement Paper Pattern 2010:-

Questions = 70 ; time limit = 75 minutes. Sectional cut-off in each section its around 60% in Logical Reasoning part and 50% in Verbal Ability. no negative marking Offline (paper & pen) test.

Analytical & Logical reasoning:(30 question : 40 minutes)English section: (40 question : 35 minutes)

Infosys Placement Paper 2010:-

Analytical reasoning:-

1. A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?

Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls.

2. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap. At the end of the day u have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured?

Ans: 25.

3. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd

digit is 3 less than the second.4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit.

Ans : 25296.

4. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are traveling 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

5. Two twins have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, and 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 AnilPerson B -- today is Tuesday, my name is BillWhat day is today?

Ans: Today is Tuesday

Directions 6:10  

In each of the questions given below which one of the five answer figures on the right should come after the problem figures on the left, if the sequence were continued ?Answers 6-10

6 E. 7. C 8. B 9.E 10. D

Directions 11-15: Each problem consists of a problem followed by two statements. Decide whether the data in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select your answer according to whether:(A) statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question(B) statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question(C) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient(D) each statement alone is sufficient(E) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question

11. If x and y are both positive integers, how much greater is x than y?x + y = 20x = y²A.B.C.D.E.Ans: C

12. Fifty percent of the articles in a certain magazine are written by staff members. Sixty percent of the articles are on current affairs. If 75 percent of the articles on current affairs

are written by staff members with more than 5 years experience of journalism, how many of the articles on current affairs are written by journalists with more than 5 years experience? 20 articles are written by staff members. Of the articles on topics other than current affairs, 50 percent are by staff members with less than 5 years experience.A.B.C.D.E.Ans: A

13. Is xy > 0 ?x/y < 0x + y < 0A.B.C.D.E.Ans: A

14 One number, n, is selected at random from a set of 10 integers. What is the probability that ½ n + 13 = 0 ? The largest integer in the set is 13.The arithmetic mean of the set is zero?A.B.C.D.E.Ans: E

15. Is w a whole number? 3w is an odd number. 2w is an even number.A.B.C.D.E.Ans: B

Directions (Question 16 to 19 ) : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.

IV.i) There are six friends A,B,C,D,E and Fii) Each one is proficient in one of the games, namely Badminton, Vollyball, Cricket, Hockey, Tennis and Poloiii) Each owns a different coloured car, namely yellow, green, black, white, blue and red.iv) D plays Polo and owns a yellow coloured carv) C does not play either Tennis or Hockey and owns neither blue nor yellow coloured carvi) E owns a white car and plays Badmintonvii) B does not play Tennis, he owns a red coloured car.viii) A plays Cricket and owns a black car

16. Who plays Volleyball ?

A) B B) CC) FD) Data inadequateE) None of theseAns: B

17. Which coloured car F owns ?A) GreenB) BlueC) Either Green or BlueD) Data inadequateE) None of theseAns: B

18. Which of the following combinations of colour of car and game played is not correct ?A) Yellow - PoloB) Green - TennisC) Black - CricketD) Red- HockeyE) None of theseAns: B

19. In a group of six women, there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them are also violinists. If Pooja is an actress, who among the following is both a dancer and violinist ?A) JalajaB) ShailajaC) TanujaD) PoojaAns: C

20. Salay walked 10 m towards West from his house. Then he walked 5 m turning to his left. After this he walked 10 m turning to his left and in the end he walked 10 m turning to his left. In what direction is he now from his starting point?(A) South(B) North(C) East(D) West(E) None of theseAns : (B)

21. Manish goes 7 km towards South-East from his house, then he goes 14 km turning to West. After this he goes 7 km towards North West and in the end he goes 9 km towards East. How far is he from his house?(A) 5 km(B) 7 km(C) 2 km(D) 14 km(E) None of theseAns : (A)

22. Laxman went 15 kms from my house, then turned left and walked 20 kms. He then turned east and walked 25 kms and finally turning left covered 20kms. How far was he from his house.(A) 5 kms(B) 10 kms(C) 40 kms(D) 80 kms(E) None of theseAns : (D)

23. The door of Aditya's house faces the east. From the back side of his house, he walks straight 50 metres, then turns to the right and walks 50 metres, then turns towards left and stops after walking 25 metres . Now Aditya is in which direction from the starting point?(A) South-East(B) North-East(C) South- West(D) North-West(E) None of theseAns : (D)

24. P, Q, R and S are playing a game of carrom. P, R, and S, Q are partners. S is to the right of R who is facing west. Then Q is facing ?(A) North(B) South(C) East(D) West(E) None of theseAns : (A)

25. A clock is so placed that at 12 noon its minute hand points towards north-east. In which direction does its hour hand point at 1.30 p.m?(A) North(B) South(C) East(D) West(E) None of theseAns: C

26. A man walks 30 metres towards South. Then , turning to his right, he walks 30 metres . Then turning to his left, he walks 20 metres. again he turns to his left and walks 30 metres . How far is he from his initial position?A. 20 metresB. 30 metresC.60 metresD. 80 metresE None of theseAns: E

Directions 27-30 :The table below shows the number of people who responded to a survey about their favorite style of music. Use this information to answer the following questions to the nearest whole percentage.

27. What percentage of respondents under 31 , indicated that blues in their favorite style?A. 7.1

B. 7.6C. 8.3D. 14.1E. 7.2Ans: B

28. What percentage of respondents aged 21-30 indicated that jazz is their favorite style?A. 64 %B. 60%C. 75%D. 36%E. 46%Ans: A

29. What percentage of the total sample indicated that Jazz is heir favorite style of music?A. 6 %B. 8%C. 22%D. 4%E. 11%Ans: E

30. What percentage of the total sample were aged 21-30?A. 31 %B. 23%C. 25%D. 14%E. 30%Ans: C

Verbal Ability Test (40 Questions in 35 minutes)

Directions for Questions 1-5: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

Much of the information we have today about chimpanzees comes from the groundbreaking, long-term research of the great conservationist, Jane Goodall.Jane Goodall was born in London, England, on April 3, 1934. On her second birthday, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Jubilee was named after a baby chimp in the London Zoo, and seemed to foretell the course Jane’s life would take. To this day, Jubilee sits in a chair in Jane’s London home. From an early age, Jane was fascinated by animals and animal stories. By the age of 10, she was talking about going to Africa to live among the animals there. At the time, in the early 1940s, this was a radical idea because women did not go to Africa by themselves. As a young woman, Jane finished school in London, attended secretarial school, and then worked for a documentary filmmaker for a while. When a school friend invited her to visit Kenya, she worked as a waitress until she had earned the fare to travel there by boat. She was 23 years old. Once in Kenya, she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a famous paleontologist and anthropologist. He was impressed with her thorough knowledge of Africa and its wildlife, and hired her to assist him and his wife on a fossil-hunting expedition to Olduvai Gorge. Dr. Leakey soon realized that Jane was the perfect person to complete a study he had been planning for some time. She expressed her interest in the idea of studying animals by living in the wild with them, rather than studying dead animals through paleontology. Dr. Leakey and Jane began planning a study of a group of chimpanzees who were living on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kenya. At first, the British

authorities would not approve their plan. At the time, they thought it was too dangerous for a woman to live in the wilds of Africa alone. But Jane’s mother, Vanne, agreed to join her so that she would not be alone. Finally, the authorities gave Jane the clearance she needed in order to go to Africa and begin her study. In July of 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in what was then called Tanganyika and is now called Tanzania. Jane faced many challenges as she began her work. The chimpanzees did not accept her right away, and it took months for them to get used to her presence in their territory. But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal. Little by little, she was able to enter their world. At first, she was able to watch the chimpanzees only from a great distance, using binoculars. As time passed, she was able to move her observation point closer to them while still using camouflage. Eventually, she was able to sit among them, touching, patting, and even feeding them. It was an amazing accomplishment for Jane, and a breakthrough in the study of animals in the wild. Jane named all of the chimpanzees that she studied, stating in her journals that she felt they each had a unique personality. One of the first significant observations that Jane made during the study was that chimpanzees make and use tools, much like humans do, to help them get food. It was previously thought that humans alone used tools. Also thanks to Jane’s research, we now know that chimps eat meat as well as plants and fruits. In many ways, she has helped us to see how chimpanzees and humans are similar. In doing so, she has made us more sympathetic toward these creatures, while helping us to better understand ourselves. The study started by Jane Goodall in 1960 is now the longest field study of any animal species in their natural habitat. Research continues to this day in Gombe and is conducted by a team of trained Tanzanians. Jane’s life has included much more than just her study of the chimps in Tanzania. She pursued a graduate degree while still conducting her study, receiving her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965. In 1984, she received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for "helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet." She has been married twice: first to a photographer and then to the director of National Parks. She has one son. Dr. Jane Goodall is now the world’s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly 40 years. She has published many scientific articles, has written two books, and has won numerous awards for her groundbreaking work. The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation was founded in 1977 in California but moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1998. Its goal is to take the actions necessary to improve the environment for all living things. Dr. Goodall now travels extensively, giving lectures, visiting zoos and chimp sanctuaries, and talking to young people involved in environmental education. She is truly a great conservationist and an amazing human being.

Read this sentence from the article.

1. 'But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal'. What is an antonym for the word focused?

A) botheredB) tiredC) disinterestedD) concernedAns: C

2. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?

A) to entertain the reader with stories about chimpanzeesB) to inform the reader of the importance of wildlife conservationC) to warn the reader about the challenges of working in AfricaD) to describe the work and life of Jane Goodall.

Ans: D

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Dr. Leakey chose Jane to work with him?A) She knew a lot about Africa.B) She knew a lot about African wildlife.C) She earned the money to travel to Africa on her own.D) She was interested in studying animals in the wild.Ans: C

4. Which of the following is NOT true of chimpanzees?A) Chimpanzees are often comfortable with strangers right away.B) Chimpanzees eat meat as well as plants and fruit.C) Chimpanzees use tools to help them get food.D) Different chimpanzees have different personalities.Ans: A

5. Jane Goodall is now the world’s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly forty years. What does authority mean?A) an intelligent personB) one who studies animalsC) a scientistD) an expertAns: B

Read this sentence from the article.

Directions for Questions 6-10: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

There are some men who seem to be always on the lookout for trouble and, to tell the truth, they are seldom disappointed. Listening to such men one would think that this world is one of the stormiest and most disagreeable places. Yet, after all it is not such a bad place and the difficulty is often in the man who is too thin- skinned. On the other hand, the man who goes out expecting people to be like himself, kind and brotherly, will be surprised at the kindness he meets even in the most unlike quarters. A smile is apt to be met met with a respective smile while the sneer is just as apt to provoke a snarl. Men living in the same neighborhood may live vastly different lives. But it is not the neighborhood which is quarrelsome, but the man within us. And we have it in out power to change our neighborhood into a pleasant one by simply changing our own ways.

6. The passage is aboutA) our disagreeable and hostile worldB) a kindly and pleasant worldC) our different and unresponsive worldD) the world and what one makes of it.Ans: D

7. "..............they are seldom disappointed". The statement denotes that such menA) welcome difficulties as a morale boosterB) do not have face any troubleC) manage to keep unruffled in the face of discomfortsD) generally do not fail to come across troublesAns: D

8. The author's own view of the world is that it isA) one of the loveliest and quietest placesB) an unpleasant and turbulent placeC) one's own excessive sensitivity that makes it a bad placeD) a sordid place for those who suffer in lifeAns: C

9. Which of the following is opposite in meaning to the expression 'thin-skinned' as sed in the passage?A) InsensitiveB) IntelligentC) AwkwardD) ObstinateAns: A

10. "On the other hand............. unlikely quarter" The statement shows that people's reaction to our attitude isA) Generally indifferentB) surprisingly responsiveC) often adverseD) mainly favourableAns: B

Directions 11-18: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

11. For a few seconds, Madan was.............blinded by the powerful lights of the oncoming carA) heavilyB) largelyC) greatlyD) powerfullyE) totallyAns: E

12. His interest in the study of human behavior is indeed very..............A) strongB) largeC) broadD) vastE) deepAns: E

13. The police have................a complaint against four personsA) enteredB) lodgedC) registeredD) notedE) receivedAns: C

14. The improvement made by changes in the system was ....................and did not warrant the large expenses.A) largeB) small

C) minuteD) marginalE) uncertainAns: D

15. The man who is..........................hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither.A) persistentlyB) constantlyC) insistentlyD) consistentlyE) perpetuallyAns: A

16. He is too...................to be deceived easilyA) strongB) modernC) kindD) honestE) intelligentAns: E

17. The Manager gave her his ..... that the complaint would be investigatedA. assuranceB. suggestionC. avowalD. supportAns: A

18. I am feeling ...... better today.A. ratherB. tooC. fairlyD. veryAns: C

Direction Questions19-26: In each question below is given a passage followed by several inference. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

mark your answer as :A. if the inference is ' definitely true' i.e. , it directly follows from the facts given in the passageB. if the inference is ' probably true' though not definitely true in the light of the facts givenC. if you think the data are in adequate i.e., from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or falseD. if you think the inference is ' probably false' though not definitely false in the light of the facts given; andE. if you think inference is ' definitely false' i.e. , it contradicts the given facts.

Passage I

Urban services have not expanded fast enough to cope with urban expansion. Low investment allocation have tended top be under spent. Both public( e. g. water and sewage)

and private (e.g. low-income area housing) infrastructure quality has declined. this impact of the environment in which children live and the supporting services available to them when they fall ill, seems clear. The decline in average food availability and the rise in absolute poverty point in the same satisfactory direction

19. There is nothing to boast about urban servicesAns: A

20. The public transport system is in the hands of private sector.Ans: C

21. Birth rate is higher in Urban areas compared to rural areas.Ans: C

22. Low-cost urban housing is one of the prioritiesAns: B

23. The environment around plays an important role on the health status.Ans: A

Passage II

Though the state cultivate only 3.2 lakh tonnes of mangoes, they are of premium quality and with mangoes becoming second most consumed fruit in the world after grapes. the government has been trying exporting it through sea route which is cheaper . An experiment which was done in this regard last year has proved successful.

24. Quality of mangoes is an important factor in exports.Ans: A

25. The state also exports good quality grapesAns: C

26. The state also cultivates a large number of medium quality mangoes.Ans: E

Direction27-32: In each of the following questions, find out which part of the sentence has an error. if there is no mistake the answer is 'no error'

27. I going there / will not solve / this complicated problem / No errorA.B.C.D.Ans : A

28. You can get /all the information you want / in this book / No errorABCDAns : A

29. The bus could not / ascend the steep hill / because it was in the wrong gears / No error

A.B.C.D.Ans : C

30.No stronger / a figure than his / is prescribed in the history / No errorA.B.C.D.Ans : C

31. most people would have /attended the union meeting / if they had / longer notice of it / No errorA.B.C.D.E.Ans : D

32. And though one did not / quite believe his claim / one saw no harm / in granting him permission / No errorABCDEAns: E

Directions33 : In each question, a part of sentence is printed in italics. Below each sentence, some phrases are given which can substitute the italicized part of the sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, the answer is 'No correction required'

33. The problems of translation are still remain.A. are remain.B. will remainedC. will still remain.D. No Correction requiredAns : C

34. It is ten years since I have begun living hereA. begunB. had begunC. beganD. No Correction requiredAns : C

35. Education is a strong instrument for moldings the character of the young.A. strikingB. powerfulC. potentD. No Correction required

Ans : B

36. He gave the I.A.S. examination in all seriousness.A. appearedB. tookC. undertookD. No Correction requiredAns: B

37. He has cooked that meal so often he can do it with his eyes closed.A. mind blankB. eyes coveredC. hands fullD. No Correction requiredAns: D

38. The young hikers went as far as they finally got lost in the valley.A. so far thatB. too far thatC. so far as thatD. No Correction requiredAns: A

39. He stopped to work an hour agoA. to workingB. to have workedC. workingD. No Correction requiredAns : C

40. The fact finding committee has so far not made any advancement.A. progressB. improvementC. strideD. No Correction requiredAns: A About January 2011 Infosys Placement Paper - II Add to ShortList

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January 2011Infosys Placement Paper:-

1) In a grass field if 40 cow could eat for 40 days.The same grass field can feed 30 cows for 60 days.how long will it feed 20 cows?

2) An Eraser, Pencil, Notebook together costs $1.00. Notebook costs more than the cost of 2 Pencils. 3 Pencil costs more than 4 Erasers. 3 Erasers costs more than a Notebook.How much does a pencil costs? (5M)

3)  Four persons A,B,C,D were there. All were of different weights. All Four gave a

statement.Among the four statements only the person who is lightest in weight of allothers gave a true statement.

A Says : B is heavier than D.B Says : A is heavier than C.C Says : I am heavier than D.D Says : C is heavier than B.Find the lightest & List the persons in ascending order according to their weights. (5M)

4)  A man was travelling to a place 30 miles away from starting point. he was speeding at 60 miles/hr. but when he came back, his car got breakdown and half an hour was wasted in reparing that. altogether he took 1 hr for return journey. Find the avg. speed of the whole journey.

5) I'M NOT VERY SURE REGARDING THIS QUESTION.A detective was assigned to generate a code using 4 digits, so that no one could break it. he knew that if the code starts with 0,5 or 7 it will be cracked. so how many numbers can be formed using 4 digits.

6) A cow was standing on a bridge, 5feet away from the middle of the bridge. suddenly a lightning express with 90 miles/hr was coming towards the bridge from nearest end of the cow.seeeing this the cow ran towards the express and managed to escape when the train is one feet away from the bridge. if it would have ran to opposite direction(ie away from train) it would have been hit the train one ft away from the end of the bridge. Calculate the length of bridge.

7) there are 3 towns attacked by 3 dragons-x,y,z. Number of days x attack a town is equal to number of days y attacking another town. Number of days x attack is equal to half the square root of number of days z attacking a town.number of days y attacking the town is twice the square root of z.calculate how much days the curse of each dragon be.

8) A town have a population of 500000 and 42% of males and 28% of females are married to same town. find the total number of males

9)  A and B came back home after their exam and their father asked them about the test.A replied-- 1/3rd of my answers were wrongB replied-- 5 of my answers were wrong but together we got 3/4 of answers right.How many questions were there for the exam?

10) We are given 100 pieces of a puzzle. If fixing two components together is counted as 1 move ( a component can be one piece or an already fixed set of pieces), how many moves do we need to fix the entire puzzle.Ans: 18

11) This problem has appeared b4. 4 kids from 2 families Gupta and sharma... their names are Praveen, Pra... blah blah...and some relation... which family and what are their ages..Ans: Sinhas - 11(praveen)Sinhas - 5(lalit)Gupta - 10(pratap)Gupta - 7 (rajesh)

12) This was one hell of a long problem - But it has appeared before.. Two girlz after one guy ( sue, swe and sam i think)..Sue first asks his house no... he replies with two statements

(second is false) so she goes to the wrong house... blah blah.. same thing happens with the other galWhat was the house number of sue and samAns: 20 and 24

13) A complex statement - about an aeroplane comming late. "The boy says if it was 6 hours later, the waiting time would be 1/5th of the time if the plane had come 2 hours earlier instead. the plane is supposed to come at midnightAns 11.00 a.m

14) There are 4 statements and 4 guys ( Dave, Gus, someone else and one more someone else) - sorry my memory is rotten! Anyway now these guys make 4 statements abt. who commited the crime. We need to find out who did it if (i) all but one are saying false and (ii) all but one are saying trueAns: (i)archie( ii) tony

15) A kid goes to a bank with a checque... Comes back and says he spent 35 cents .. his mom says you have brought back twice what u ver supposed to get. What happened is the novice bank clerk gave dollars for cents and vice-versa(quote silly) anway... What was the actual amount??

16) John had decided to divide his RS.1000/- for his four children according to their ages. The elder child should be a RS.20/- extra for each than his younger child . What will be the share of Mahesh whois the youngest?[3 marks]

17) One side of the measuring arm was longer than the other side .If 3 pyramid width was placed in longer side it is equal to 2 cube width in the shorter arm.If 8 pyramid width was placed in longer arm then it is equal to 6 cube width. Let 1 pyramid width is equal to 10kg.What is the wgt of cube width?

18). A,B,C,D are four girls who have 1,2,3,4 apples with them respectively.If E have apples equal to his sister,F have twice the apples as his sister,G have thrice the apples than his sister and I have four times the apples than my sister.All together we have 32 apples . A,B,C,D are the sisters of whom and whom?

19) Andy,Brian,Cedric,Dave are architects ,barber, case worker and dentist but not in the order.*Architect will have the letter ‘r’ in his name.*Atleast one of the person should have coincidence in the first letter of their name and their occupation but not all [eg: andy-architect]* Barber and dentist share their name by only one letterWhat is the occupation of each person?

20) There are 100 bulbs connected to 100 switches• 1 to 100 all the switches are put ON.• Only even numbers of switches are used ie, ON means OFF and viceversa• Similarly odd numbers of switches are done• Switch number which is divisible by 3 are done similarly• Switch number which are divisible by 4 are done similarlyThis process is done upto 100 divisibles.When do all the bulbs are in ON and OFF condition?[8marks]

21) A man wrote his “will’ accordingly the money was also shared between his car driver,5 sons and 5 daughters.First he gave one rupee to his car driver,remaining 1/5 of the money is given to his 1st son .again he gave one to his car driver and remaining 1/5 of the money is given to his 2nd son, continuing the process until 5 sons are completed .After that he remaining money is divided between his 5 daughters. What was total amount of money?

446. 4 people identified a criminal and their statements are:# A: Eyes was blue ,height was tall and he wore a hat & a vest.# B: Eyes was dark , height wa short and he wore a hat & a vest# C: Eyes was green ,height was medium and he wore hat & a tie.# D: Eyes was grey ,height was tall and he wore a rain coat and a hat.Everyone said only one correct identify other two was untrue . How can be the criminal identified?

22)  A wall clock was slow by 10minutes . According to the wall clock,a table clock was 10 minutes ahead of it . According to the table clock an alarm clock was 5 minutes behind and according to the alarm clock wrst watch was 5 minutes fast.Atnoon all the clocks were adjusted .What will be the time at 6 P.M wrist watch?

23) Professor Kittredge’s literature seminar includes students with varied tastesin poetry.All those in the seminar who enjoy the poetry of browing also enjoythe poetry of eliot.Those who enjoy the poetry of eliot despise the poetry of coleridge.Some of those who enjoy the poetry of eliot also enjoy the poetry of Auden.All of those who enjoy the poetry of Coleridge also enjoy the poetry of Donne.Some of those who enjoy the poetry of Auden also despise the poetry of Coleridge.All of those who enjoy the poetry of Donne also enjoy the poetry of Frost.

i. Miss Garfield enjoys the poetry of Donne.Which of the following must be true?(A) she may or may not enjoy the poetry of coleridge.(B) She does not enjoy the poetry of Browing.(C) She does not enjoy the poetry of eliot.(D) She enjoys the poetry of Coleridge.

ii.Mr.Huxtable enjoys the poetry of Browing.He may also enjoy any of the followingpoets except(A) Auden.(B) Coleridge(C) Donne(D) Eliot(E) Frost

iii.Miss Inaguchi enjoys the poetry of Coleridge.Which of the following must be false?(A) she does not enjoy the poetry of Auden.(B) She enjoys the poetry of Donne.(C) She enjoys the poetry of Frost.(D) She does not enjoy the poetry of Browning.(E) She may enjoy the poetry of Eliot.

iv.Based on the information provided,which of the following statements concerningthe members of the seminar must be true?(A) All the those who enjoy the poetry of eliot also enjoy the poetry of Browning.(B) None of those who despise the poetry of Frost enjoy the poetry of Auden.(C) Some of those who enjoy the poetry of Auden despise the poetry of Coleridge.

(D) None of those who enjoy the poetry of Browning despise the poetry of Donne.(E) Some of those who enjoys the poetry of Frost despise the poetry of Donne.

a.Rimmie wears a hat only if goerge wears a tie.b.George wears a scarf only if Johnie wears a tie.c.Vickie wears a googles only if Rimmie wears a hat.d,e,f,g,h

some what like this there are 8 statements,from that we have to determine who wears what.

24)  8 Kigs and 14 Ligs can do 510 tors of work in10days. 13 Kigs and 6 Ligscan do 484 tors of work in 12 days.Then find work done by Kigs and Ligs individually in tors/hr?

25) There is a 3 digited number. 3rd number is the square root of the 1st digit.2nd digit is the sum of 1st and 3rd.And that number is divisible by 2,3,6,7.What is that number?

26)  A boy is playing a game. He took totally 55 blocks and kept like placingsome x number on the ground,next one less than that above those blockslike that till the topmost one is one,like:

xx xx x xx x x xx x x x xx x x x x xx x x x x x xx x x x x x x xx x x x x x x x xx x x x x x x x x x

(They didn’t gave this pictuire,but my explanation is not clear,that’s I gave u this picture)the question is how many blocks are there at the base level?

27) There r 100 nations competing for a world-cup.The board decided to make Knock-out series.How many matches to be played for deciding the world champion?

28) There is log weighing 30kgs. The log having twice thickness and twice short as first one will weigh howmuch ??

29)  there ia truck which should reach some place at 11`o clock , if it travels with 30 mph it reaches ihour before , if it travles with 20 mph it reaches 1 hour late. what is the distance it must be travlledand what is the speed it must maintain to rech at exact time?ans: 120 miles and 24 mph

30) There is a square cabbage patch.He told his sister that i have a larger patch than last year and hence 211 more cabbages this year. Then how many cabbages I have this year.?

Ans:106*106=11236

31) there are two colcks one runs 1min/hrs faster and other 1min/hr slowerwhen will the two clocks have time time difference of 1 hr :ans : 30hrs

32) i take a taxi whose no is 3 digit no. it is not divisible by 2,3,5,7but divisible by 11 it is the smallest no possible:ans : 121

33). A man brought some watermelons to town and sold them. he sold 1/2 more than 1/2 of what he brought and e was left with one melon. how many melons did he bring to Town? ans: 3

34)  When u reverse the digits of age of father u will get the age of son. one year ago the age of father was twice that of son's age. what are the current ages of father and son?ans: 73 & 37

35)  There will be four friends ,one is doctor, one is lawyer... they are having four cars one ferrari, corvette .... there were some conditions and we were suppose to find what is profession of each one and what car they own. this was the one for 8 marks.

36) There is a circular ring in which there are 12 black mice and one white mice . a cat walks circularly in the ring and eats every 12th mice. where should the cat start so that the white mice is the last one to be eaten by cat?ans: if the cat moves circularly it has to start from the 11th mice (clockwise) w.r.t. to white one.

37)  A farmer grows four types of crops say W,X,Y & Z . two conditions were given:1. If the farmer grows crop W in a year then also grows X that year2. If the farmer grows crop Z one year then he never grows crop Y next yearThere were 6 choices among which we were suppose to find one correct one which does not violate the two conditions the choices were some thing like:( first pair denotes crops grown first year and second after semicolon represents crops grown next year) W,X ; X,Z (this one is a valid one)Ans: I don’t remember the choices but the ans was option C

38) In a class there are less than 500 students . when it is divided by 3 it gives a whole number. Similarly when it is divided by 4,5 or 7 gives a whole number. find the no. of students in the class ans: 420

39) There are three types of birds A,B & C . A costs 5pounds, B costs 3 Pounds and C costs 1/3 of a pound. find the no. of A,B &C such that u will get 100 birds for 100 pounds. (I think we were suppose to find 3 answers since there were 3 rows in the answer) ans: A : 4 B : 18 C: 78

40)  There are 5 persons who have won top five places in an event in Olympics . one of them asks all the five regarding thier positions, they reply asa: "i am not the last"b: "c is in third place"c: "E is behind A"d: "B is in first place"e: "D is not the first"

The persons who have won gold and silver have lied find the positions in order(format: name of first, name of second,..)

ans: B,D,E,A,C

41) 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 bits per pound. the seller gets a profit of 33 1/2 percent. how much he has used Brand A in the mixture? ans: 30 pounds

42)  You are given with two identical iron bars. one of them is magnetized and the other is not. u are suppose to find which one is magnetized. u are not suppose to use any other thing.my ans: first time i told that i will suspend the bars freely. but then they told me that i am not suppose to use any external help. i took some time and then realized that a magnetic bar in the middle repels towards the end . i told that place one of the bars horizontal & then move the other one perpendicularly to it . if it repels towards any of ends then the horizontal one is magnetized if it attracts then is not. They were convinced

43) What is the result of (x-a)*(x-b)*(x-c)*...........*(x-y)*(x-z) ?my ans: i told that since there is a term (x-x) the answer is zero. They told ok. finally they asked me whether i have any questions to them i asked them what is the duration of training and what is field which i will be working on if i get selected.

Anyone looking for infi solve Shakuntala devi's 2 books, George summers and Ravi narula this would me more than enough. most important thing is develop ur logical analysis skill and try to remember the approach rather than answers. don’t panic in the interview just be cool and confident u will definitely get through. Best of luck for all

44)  a) 10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 2 _ _b) 2 4 16 512 _write the next elements in the series.

45) A Couple decided to travel a north country side .so they decide to travel a minimum amount on car the first day and the second and subsequent day a distance of 20 miles .If they travel a total amount of 1080 miles. Find he distance traveled on the 4th day and the 9 day.

47)  A card board of 34 * 14 has to be attached to a wooden box and a total of 35 pins are to be used on the each side of the card box. Find the total number of pins used .

48)  During a Pizza buffet where A eats more times 2.4 than B, and B eats 6 timesless than C.find the leat number of times all the three has to eat.

49) Last Year my cousin came to my place and we played a game where the loosing one has to give one choclate to the person who won the game .At the end of the vacation,i.e the day my cousin was leaving she counted number of games that i won an she won.At last she gave me a total of 8 choclates even though she won about 12 games.Find the mumber of games that we played.

50)  A tree on first day grows 1/2 of its size second day 1/3rd of its size on the previous day similarly than 1/4th and so on.u have to calculate after how many days the tree will be 100 times of its original size.ans -198 days

January 2011Infosys Placement Paper:-

1) In a game of dice, 2 dice thrown at each turn.The score at each turn is taken as the product of number on 2 dices.there were five turns(rolls).second roll is 1 less than first n (like this ... the relationship between third n second,third n fourth,fourth n fifth ) were given.Find the score in first roll,second roll,third roll,fourth roll.(jus giving an idea abt question and don know the exact relationships).

2) Matrix problem repeated from prev paperthere are 3 males A,B,C and 3 females X,Y,W. they played 18 games ofgolf altogether.1. A scored 942. X scored 1063. Y scored 102.4. Z scored 100.5. B and C scored 96 and 98 and don't no who's score what??6. A's wife beats C's wife.7. there are two couples whose sum of scores is same.Determine who's wife is who and scores of B and C.

3) A girl had several dollars with her. she went out for shopping and spent half of them in shopping mall,being generous she had given 1 dollar to the beggar. After that she wqent for lunch and spent the half of the remaining and gave 2 dollars as tip to the waiter.Then she went to watch a movie and spent the half of remaining dollars andgave autorikshaw-wala 3 dollars. This left her with only 1 dollar.How many dollars did she had with her at the beggining.

4) A person says that his son is 5 times as old as his daughter and his wife is 5 times older than his son and he is twice the age of his wife . The sum total of all the ages equals the age of the grand mother who celebrated her 81st birthday today.How old was his son?

5) A bargain hunter bought some plates for $ 1.30 from asale on saturday,where price 2 was marked off at each article .On monday she went to return them at regular prices,and bought some cups and saucers from that much amount of money only.the normal price of plate were equal to the price of 'one cup and one saucer'.In total she bought 16 items more than previous. saucers were only of 3 cents hence she brought 10 saucers more tahn the cups,How many cups and saucers she bought and at what price?

6) A jeweller prepared a window display each displaying 3 of the 7 jems at a time . They were methyst,opal,sapphire,emerald, ruby and garnet.Displayed 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. easy#1 which combination is appropriate?AOS;ADR;AES(ans).#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?

7) Racing competition.Participants were from 3 tribes

Sonorean-always says truthMidorean-alternatively says T and F ,not with any particular start.Nororean-always FalseA says-1. C obstructed me at the last moment ,which caused me to losethe race.2. C always speak true3. c is the winner.B says - 1. A is the winner.2. c says false always.C says- 1.B won the Race2. I didn't caused any obstruction to A at the last time.IDentify the tribes of each.

8) A boss tells 1/6 th of his life in child hood,1/12 of his in youth and 1/7 of his in bachelor,five years after his electiona son was born whom was died four years ago at half his final age. find the boss age.. ANS.:74 ths solution a/6+a/12+a/7 +5......

9) Two thieves went to the museum to stole the diamonds first thief stole half of them and while going he took another two and left. Second, third and fourth did the same and there was zero diamonds at the end. How many diamonds initially at the beginning?

Similar to Q. No. 193 Stolen Mangoes from Shakuntala Devi - More Puzzles Ans: 79

10) A, B, C are the husbands and D, E, F are their wives not in that order. They are playing the Golf following these conditions. D, E, F and B scores are as follows 106,102,100 and 94.A and C scores are 98 and 96 not in that order as their names are not displayed. Two couples get the same score. B wife beat the A wife list out the wives names and the scores they got.

Ans:Hus Wife Score TotalA F 98 102 200 100 198B D 94 106 200 106 200C E 96 100 96 102 198

11) A women with dollar bills goto the shopping he spent half of the money she had for shopping as she was so kind she gave one dollar to the beggar.she went to the hotel and spent half of the remaning and she gave 2 dollars to the waiter,the she buy some goods with half of the remaining and she gave 3 dollars to the receptionist. how much money she had in the begining?ans:42come in the reverse order 1+3=4and twice of it 8+2=10 and twice of it 20+1=21 and twice of it 42.

12) .A conducter in the bus ask the man how old the boy is.the man replied that my son is five times older than my daughter and my wife is five times older than my son and i am twice older to my wife and our ages summed upto my granmother whose age is 81 years.can u tell me the son age?ans: 5 yearsx+5x+25X+50X=8181X=81x=1 therefore son age is 5 years old

13) .find out who is oldest and who is youngest from the following statements...a)either A or B r the oldestb)either C is the oldest or B is the youngest.

ans: A is the oldest and B is the Youngest

14)one boy tells three ppl to guess mule color..number one says its not blknumber two says its eiterh brown or greynumber 3 says its brown...the boy then says one is atleast lying ans atleast telling truth...finf mule colorans grey?

15) 2 men take turns walking and riding one horse that they share...walking speed4km/hr..riding speed 12km/hr..one rides for some time and ties horse for the other walking fellow and continues walking......they keep going on like this alternately ..find time that the horse rests

16) 7 ppl have holidays on 7 diff days...and they give conditions like A's hol is 3 daysbefore B etc etc...we have to find the days on which they take holiday5.6 subjects 3 ppl teach 2 each...some crazy conditions and we gotta find the subject foreach..i cant really recall clearly so why confuse u guys

17) A Lady (say L) is a philanthropist. she goes to a restaurent,orders food and pays half the amount she has and another doller to awaiter as tip. she then goes to a mall, does some purchases and payshalf the amount left and another 2 dollers to a begger outside. Atlast she goes to a book store, takes some books and pays half theamount left and another 3 dollers to a begger outside. she thenchecks that she only had a doller left to her. How much money she hadinitially? ANs. 42 $

18)  Three couples are playing golf together. The men are E, B & T while women are M G & H. they play 8 rounds.M, G, H & E score 106, 102, 100, 94 respectively. while B & T scored either 96 or 98 as it was unresolved dueto error at scoreboard. When finally resolved they found that two of the couples scored same. It is given that-E's wife scored greater than B's wife. Who's whose wife & how much the men scored each?

19) A lady buys some plates in 130$ with 2$ off every item. she then returns the plates for the same amount next day to exchange them for some cups & saucers. Each saucer costs only 3$ each and the no. of saucers is 10 more than cups. Altogether she takes 16 more items than before. If she had to buy only cups, how many of them she could havebeen taken home on the first day?

20) Impressed by admiration of the boy by stranger, the fathersaid "My son is five times as old as my daughter and my wife is fivetimes as old as my son. I'm double the age of my wife and mygrandmother is as old as the sum of ages of all of us and she iscelebrating her 81st birthday." what is the age of the boy?

ANS. 5 yrs

21) A, B & C participate in a race & one of them wins. They belong tothree communities-M, N,O. O always speak the truth, N always lie and M alternate. Each of A,

B & C belongs to one community.

A SAYS:1. I would have won the race if C had not interfered me at the last movement.2. C always speaks truth.3. C is the winner.

B SAYS:1. A wins the race.2. C is not a 'N'.

C SAYS:1. I hadn't interfered with A at the last movement.2. B wins the race.

Tell, who's who?

22) Harry is a friend of Axy and Amy. Two statements are given aboutthem.1. if one of Axy and Amy is oldest then another is youngest.2. Either Harry is the oldest or Amy is the youngest.Who is the oldest?ANS. Axy

23) sons age is 5 times daughters.mother is five times son.father is 5 times wife.Total of all age is Grandpas who is celebrating 81st B`day.Ans:-5 yrs

24) One woman buys plates worth 1.30$ at 2cent discount each plate.Then she exchanged the platesfor sausers & bowl where one bowl & one sausers costs equal to one plate.no of sausers which costs 3 centis10 more than bowl. no of saucers & bowl is 16 more than no of plates.Ans:-10Plates

25) "One-sixth of my life", said my boss, "I spent as a child, next one-twelfth as an old boy, one-seventh & 5more years in politics & socialization. This brought me upto when Jimmy born. Jimmy was elected for thegoverner four years ago, when he was half my present age."How old is my boss?

ANS.: 84 yrs.(However, I overlooked that 'one-seventh' part, & got

26) A Couple decided to travel a north country side .so they decide to travel a minimum amount on car the first day and the second and subsequent day a distance of 20 miles .If they travel a total amount of 1080 miles. Find he distance traveled on the 4th day and the 9 day.

27)  A card board of 34 * 14 has to be attached to a wooden box and a total of 35 pins are to be used on the each side of the card box. Find the total number of pins used .

28)  During a Pizza buffet where A eats more times 2.4 than B, and B eats 6 times

less than C.find the leat number of times all the three has to eat.

30) Last Year my cousin came to my place and we played a game where the loosing one has to give one choclate to the person who won the game .At the end of the vacation,i.e the day my cousin was leaving she counted number of games that i won an she won.At last she gave me a total of 8 choclates even though she won about 12 games.Find the mumber of games that we played.

31) A tree on first day grows 1/2 of its size second day 1/3rd of its size on the previous day similarly than 1/4th and so on.u have to calculate after how many days the tree will be 100 times of its original size.ans -198 days

31) three person are there let A B C one always tell truth one always lie and one sometimes tell truththey are standing in straight line the first person who is seniormost and always tells truth tells in middle A is standing the middle one says C is in the third position the last one says B is in second position ie middle

32)  A,B,C,Dand E are juniors and F,G,H,I are seniors you have to make three groups each containg three person such that in each group one senior is there and some other conditions which i cant recall exactly but was like that if this person will be in group than this cant be in the same group .

33) there are 100 teams in a football knockout tournament how many mathces should be held to get the winner answer is 99 ie one less than the no of teams bcoz in every match on team goes out

34) .A car traveling with uniform speed. There r 15 poles. A car travel from 1 to 10th pole in 10 seconds. the poles are equally spaced. then how many seconds it takes to reach the 15th pole? (4)

35)  A boy jump to the river from the bridge. He swim opposite direction of the stream.After 1000 yards he noted that his hat was fallen at the bridge. The he goes to take the hat. He didn’t change his speed.What is the velocity of stream? (4)

36) Uncles A bought a Hat & Suit for Rs.15.Aunty B bought a Suit with as much as cost of uncle’s Hat. Then reaming costhe bought Dresses. Dresses cost is one rupee more than his hat’s cost. Then she told him his hat’s hat is 1 and ½ cost ofher hat. They spend equal amount on their purchase .a. Then uncle said how much is the cost of Hat.b. How much they spend altogether ? (4)

37) There are 17 brown ties,13 red ties, 9 green ties, 5 blue ties and 2 white ties.Then a man takes a tie.so, how many times he at least take tie to get the 2 ties In same colour? (6)

38) Mrs. Barbinger bought some plates on Saturday for $1.30, when everything was being sold two cents below the regular price. She exchanged those plates on Monday, at their regular price, for cups & saucers.Cost of one plate equals cost of one plate & one saucer. She returned home with 16 more articles than before. Since, saucers cost only 3 cents each, she bought 10 more saucers than cups.

The puzzle is, how many cups could she have bought on Saturday, for $1.30?

ANS.: 13 cups

39) Mr and Mrs ABC purchase suit and hats for 15 Rs. then from remaining money Mrs. ABC purchase A dress. She shaid " My dress cost is more than 1 Rs from your hat's cost.she also added "if we divide our money and then purchase and cost of my hat is 3 and 1/2 times yours hat then we had spend equal money"a. " if that " condition fallows what is price of his hat?b. Total amount spend ?ans. hat= 6 Rs , Total = 22 Rs. ( not sure)

40) My rack contains 8 Red colour ties, 13 violate colour ties,10 Blue colour ties, 5 Pink colour ties, 4 green colour ties. If electricity gone and i want at least two ties of same colour then how many ties i should take out from my rack?Ans : 6 ties.

41) Two trains leaving from two station 50 miles away from each other with costant speed of 60 miles per hour, approaches towards each other on diffrent tracks. if lenght of each train is 1/6 mile. when they meet How much time they need to pass each other totally?ANS : 10 sec. ( not sure)

42) All handsome, fair skinned, muscular, lean, employed, and rich men are tall.All handsome men are fair skinned.Some muscular men are handsome.Some muscular men are not fair skinned.All lean men are muscular.No lean man is handsome.No fair skinned man who is not handsome is rich.All tall men who are neither fair skinned nor muscular are employed.

1. pramod is not fair skinned. Which of the following must be true ?a) pramod is employedb) if pramod is muscular, he is neither handsome nor leanc) if pramod is tall, he is employed or muscular.d) if pramod is not employed, he is muscular.e) if pramod is tall, he may be muscular or handsome, but not both.2. which must be false if the information given is true ?a) no lean men are fair skinned.b) some fair skinned are lean.c) some rich men are both fair skinned and muscular.d) some tall men are neither fair skinned nor employede) some rich men are lean3. which of the following can be deduced from the information given ?a) all rich men are handsomeb) some rich men are handsomec) some rich men are employedd) some rich men are musculare) all rich men are handsome, muscular, or employed4. which cannot be shown to be true or false on the basis of the information given ?I. No fair skinned or muscular man is employedII. Some muscular men are fair skinned but not handsomeIII. No fair skinned man both handsome and lean

a) I only b) II only c) III only d) I and II e) II and III

43) In Mulund, the shoe store is closed every Monday, the boutique is closed every Tuesday, the grocery store is closed every Thursday and the bank is open only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Everything is closed on Sunday.One day A, B, C and D went shopping together, each with a different place to go. They made the following statements:

A D and I wanted to go earlier in the week but there wasn’t day when we could both take care of our errands.B I did not want to come today but tomorrow I will not be able to do what I want to do.C I could have gone yesterday or the day before just as well as today.D Either yesterday or tomorrow would have suited me.

Which place did each person visit ?

44) The Novice hockey tournaments are on for beginners. Just three teams are in the league, and each plays the other two teams just once. Only part of the information appears in the result chart, which is given below.Team Games Won Lost Tied Goals For Goals againstA 2 1 0B 2 1 1 2C 2

The scoring pattern in the tournament is as follows:

Two points are awarded to the winning team. In case of a tie, both teams are awarded one point, so the total points in the standings should always equal the total number of games played ( since each game played is counted as one for each of the two participating teams). Of course, total goals scored for and goals scored against must be the same, since every goal scored for one team is scored against another.The games are played in the following order: Game 1: A Vs B; Game 2: A Vs C; Game B Vs CCan you determine the score of each of the above games ?

45) A recent murder case centered around the six men, clam, flip, gront, herm, mast, and walt. In one order or another these man were the victim, the murderer, the witness, the police, the judge, and the hangman. The facts of the case were simple. The victim had died instantly from the effect of gunshot wound inflicted a shot. After a lengthy trial the murderer was convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged.

V Mast knew both the victim and the murderer.v In court the judge asked clam his account of the shooting.V Walt was the last of the six to see flip alive.V The police testified that he picked up gront near the place where the body was found.V Herm and walt never met.What role did each of the following play in this melodrama ?a) Murdererb) Victimc) Judged) Witness

46) A alone can do a work in 6 days B alone can do in 8 days with help of c they finished the work in 3 days.If the agreed sum is 640 what is the share of c.(refer r.s agarwal)

47) A boy goes to school from his house.on one fourth oh his way to school,he crosses a machinery station. And on one third of his way to school, he crosses a Railway station. He crossed the machinery station at 7:30 and he crosses the Railway station at 7:35. When does he leave the house & when does he reach the school ? (5M)

48) .A drives a car four times a lap 10,20 30,60 kmph what is the average speed.

49) .speed of boat in still water 10 km,if speed up stream is 24 km and speed down stream is 16 what is speed of the river.

50) If grand father age is sum all the three grand childern whos age r in equal interval what is the age of the grand father?

January 2011 Infosys Placement Paper:-

1)  If a die has 1,6 and 3,4 and 2,5 opposite each other how many such dies can be made.

2) There are three boxes , In one box Two white balls , In two box 2 black balls In three box 1 white &1 blackThe lables on the boxes are not correct.Then you have to open one box and to find the colour of the balls in all boxes.

Solution: Open the box labled black& white If white balls are there then the box labled with white ballscontain black balls and labled with black balls contain one black and one white ball and viceversaif two black ballsare there.

3) there are 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

4) 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.

5) when the actual time pass 1hr wall clock is 10 min behind it when 1 hr is shown by wall clock, table clock shows 10 min ahead of it when table clock shows 1 hr the alarm clock goes 5min behind it, when alarm clock goes 1 hr wrist watch is 5 min ahead of it assuming that all clocks are correct with actual time at 12 noon what will be time shown by wrist watch after 6 hr

Ans---5:47:32.5

(n X 60 )50/60 X 70/60 X 55/60 X 65/60

6) complete the following

a. $ * * $ @ * ? ?# @ @ # # $ ? ? some what simillar like this...but not clear.b. 1 , 3 , 7 , 13 , 21 , __ , 43 Ans : 31c. 1, 3, 9, __ , 16900

7) A girl took part in a (some) game with many others in a circular closed circuit. After pedaling for several minutes, he found that 1/3th of the cyclists ahead of her and 3/4th of the cyclists behind him together formed the total no. of participants. How many were participating in the race?

8) OF all pets i have, except 2 all are rabbitsOF all pets i have, except 2 all are fishOF all pets i have, except 2 all are catsHow many rabbits, fish and cats are there?

9) givencarpenter + painter = 1100painter + electrician = 3200electrician + plumber = 5100plumber + mason = 2200mason + labour = 3000labour + painter = 1100find every person's cash? (i dont know the exact amount mentioned above.)

7) out of 30 questions, the three persons A,B & C answered 45 correct answers, B answered 55% of A, B and C together answered 25 % more of what A answered.Find how many answers each answered?

8) Jim,Bud and sam were rounded up by the police yesterday. because one of them was suspected of having robbed the local bank. The three suspects made the following statements under intensive questioning.Jim: I'm innocentBud: I'm innocentSam: Bud is the guilty one.If only one of the statements turned out to be true, who robbed the bank?

9) There are two containers on a table. A and B . A is half full of wine, while B, which is twice A's size, is onequarter full of wine . Both containers are filled with water and the contents are poured into a third container C. What portion of container C's mixture is wine ?

10)  A wall clock loses 10 minutes every 1 hour. In 1 hour by the wall clock , a table clock gets 10 minutes ahead of it. In 1 hour by the table clock an alarm clock falls 5 minutes behind it. In 1 hour of the alarm clock, a wristwatch gets 5 minutes ahead it. At noon, all 4 timepieces were set correctly. To the nearest minutes, what time will the wrist show when the correct time is 6 p.m. on the same day ?

11)  "You see," said Mrs.Murphy,"Paddy is now one and one-third times as old as he was when he took to drink, and little Jimmy, who was forty months old when paddy took to drink is now two years more than half as old as I was when Paddy took to drink , so when little Jimmy is as old as Paddy was when he took to drink.our three ages combined will amount to just one hundred years" How old is little Jimmy?

12) Both the Allens and the Smiths have two young sons under eleven. The name of the boys

whose ages rounded off to the nearest year are all different are Arthur, Bert, Carl and David . Taking the ages of the boys only to the nearest year , the following staements are true

* Arthur is three years younger than his brother* Bert is the oldest* Carl is half as old as one of the allen boys* David is five years older than the younger smith boy* the total ages of the boys in each family differ by the same amounttoday as they did five years ago

How old is each boy and what is each boys family name.

13)  In a certain organization there are either men eligible to serve on a eligible to serve on a newly established commitee of four. The selection of the members is not an easy matter , however for there are jealousies and attachements among the candidates which prevents a free choice of four committeemen, if you were the president of the organization could you select a committee of four satisfying all these whims?

* Ames will serve with anybody* Brown won't serve unless Clayton serves* Clayton wont serve with Evans* Davis wont serve without hughes* evans will serve with anybody* French wont serve with Davis unless Grant serves too, and wont serve with Clayton unless Davis also serves* Grant wont serve with both Brown and Clayton and wont serve with either Ames or Evens* Hughes wont serve unless either Brown or French serves and wont serve with Clayton unless Grant serves too and wont serve with both Ames and Evans

14)  An artist has exactly seven paintings --- ,T,U,V,W,X,Y, and Z -- from which she must choose exactly five to be in an exhibit. Any combination is acceptable provided it meets the following conditions:

* If T is chosen , X cannot be chosen* If U is chosen , Y must also be chosen* If V is chosen , X must also be chosen

15)  Which one of hte following is an aceptable combination of paintings for inclusion in the exhibit?

A. T,U,V,X,YB. T,U,V,Y,ZC. T,W,X,Y,ZD. U,V,W,Y,ZE. U,V,W,Z,Y

16) If painting T is chosen to be among the paintings included int he exhibit which one of the following cannot be chosen to be among the paintings included in the exhibit?

A. UB. VC. WD. Y

E. Z

77) Which one of the following substitutions can the artist always make without violating restrictions affecting the combination of paintings given that the painting mentioned first was not, and the painting mentioned first was not, and the painting mentioned second was, originally going to be chosen ?

A. T replaces VB. U replaces YC. V replaces XD. W replaces YE. Z replaces W

18)  If the artist chooses painting V to be included among the paintings in the exhibit, which one of the following must be true of that combination of paintings?

A. T is not chosenB. Y is not chosenC. U is chosenD. W is chosenE. Z is chosen

19) Yesterday my mother asked me to buy some stamps. Stamps are available in 2 paise,7paise,10paise,15paise and 20paise denominations. For three types of stamps I was asked to buy five of each. For the other two types of stamps. I was asked to buy six of each. Unfortunately I forgot which I was supposed to buy 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?

20) Farmer Jones sold a pair of cows for Rs. 210 , On one he made a profit of ten percent and on the other he lost ten percent. Altogether he made a profit of five percent. How many did each cow originally cost him?

21) Meera was playing with her brother using 55 blocks.She gets bored playing and starts arranging the blocks such that the no. of blocks in each row is one less than that in the lower row. Find how many were there in the bottom most row?

22) Rahul took part in a cycling game with many others in a circular closed circuit. After pedaling for several minutes, he found that 1/5th of the cyclists ahead of him and 5/6th of the cyclists behind him together formed the total no. of participants. How many were participating in the race?

23) Tom wants to catch a hare. He is standing 250 yards south from the hare. The hare starts moving due east.Tom, instead of moving in the northeast direction,moves in such a way that at every instant, he is goingtowards the hare. If speed of tom is one and one-third times that of the hare, find the distance each traveled before he caught the hare.

24) Two people are playing with a pair of dies. Instead of numbers, the dies have different colors on their sides. The first person wins if the same color appears on both the dies and the second person wins if the colors are different. The odds of their winning are equal. If the first dice has 5 red sides and 1 blue side, find the color(s) on the second one.

25) A company's director said during the board meeting: " The company's income from roads will be sufficient to pay 6% of the entire stock issue, but since we are paying 7.5% interest on

the preferred stock of Rs.4, 000,000 we are able to pay only 5% of the common stock". Find the value of the common stock.

26)  Mr. ANYMAN left ANYTOWN by car to attend a wedding at ANYCITY. He had been driving for exactly two hours when the car got punctured. It took his driver exactly ten minutes to change the wheel. In order to play safe they covered the remaining distance at a speed of 30 mph. consequently, Mr. ANYMAN was at wedding half an- hour behind schedule. Had the car got the puncture only 30 miles later , I would have been only FIFTEEN minutes late he told the driver . How Far is ANYCITY from ANYTOWN.

Ans: 120 miles

27)  Alpha, Beta , gamma, delta and epsilon are friends and have birthdays on consecutive days though may not be in order. Gamma is as many days old to Alpha as Beta is younger to Epsilon. Delta is two days older then Epsilon. Gamma’s Birthday is on Wednesday. Tell whose birthday is when.

Ans:Alpha: FridayBeta : SaturdayGamma: WednesdayDelta: TuesdayEpsilon: Thursday

28) The quarter of the time from midnight to present time added to the half of the time from the present to midnight gives the present time. What is the present time?

Ans: 9hrs past 36 minutes AM

29) A man is going to a wedding party. He travels for 2hrs when he gets a puncture. Changing tyres takes 10mins. The rest of the journey he travels at 30 miles/hr. He reaches 30mins behind schedule. He thinks to himself that if the puncture had occurred 30miles later, he would have been only 15mins late. Find the total distance traveled by the man

30) After world war II three departments did as follows First department gave some tanks to 2nd &3rd departments equal tothe number they are having. Then 2nd department gave some tanks to 1st & 3rd departments equal tothe number they are having. Then 3rd department gave some tanks to 2nd &1st departments equal tothe number they are having. Then each department has 24 tanks. Find the initial number of tanks of each department?

Ans ; A-39 B-21 C-12

31) A girl 'A' told to her friend about the size and color of a snake she has seen in the beach. It is one of the colors brown/black/green and one of the sizes 35/45/55.

If it were not green or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.If it were not black or if it were not of length 45 it is 55.If it were not black or if it were not of length 35 it is 55.

a) What is the color of the snake?

b) What is the length of the snake?

Ans: a) brown b) 55

32) A man was on his way to a marriage in a car with a constant speed. After 2 hours one of the tier is punctured and it took 10 minutes to replace it. After that they traveled with a speed of 30 miles/hr and reached the marriage 30 minutes late to the scheduled time. The driver told that they would be late by 15 minutes only if the 10 minutes was not waste. Find the distance between the two towns?

33) Three clocks where set to true time. First run with the exact time. Second slows one minute/day. Third gains one minute/day. After how many days they will show true time.

34) There were some containers of quantity 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 15, 22, 24, 38 liters. Each was filled with some liquid except one. The liquids are milk, water and oil. Quantity of each was like this. Water = 2* milk oil = 2* water. Find out which container was empty and containers filled with milk and oil.

35) Two travelers, one with 64 barrels of wine, other with 20 barrels of wine. They don't have enough money to pay duty for the same. First traveler pays 40 francs and gives his 5 barrels, Second traveler gives his 2 barrels but gets 40 francs in exchange. What's value of each barrel, and duty for each barrel?

Ans: Value of each barrel-120 francs, Duty on each-10 francs

36)  What is Ann's relation with her husband's mother's only daughter-in-law's sister's husband?

Ans: Brother-in-law

37) Some guy holding a glass of wine in his hand looking around in the room says, "This is same as it was four years ago, how old are your two kids now?" Other guy says "Three now, Pam had one more in the meanwhile." Pam says, "If you multiply their ages, answer is 96 and if you add the ages of first two kids, addition is same as our house number." The first guy says, "You are very smart but that doesn't tell me their ages." Pam says, "It's very simple, just think." What are the ages of three kids?

Ans: 8, 6, 2

38)  A motor cyclist participant of a race says "We drove with the speed of 10 miles an hour one way, but while returning because of less traffic we drove on the same route with 15 miles per hour." What was their average speed in the whole journey?

Ans: 12 miles per hour

39) Given following sequence, find the next term in the series:

(i) 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 12, 20, 16, ____ Ans: 12

(ii) 3, 6, 13, 26, 33, 66, ___ Ans: 53

40) Three customers want haircut and a shave. In a saloon, two barbers operate at same speed. They take quarter of an hour for the haircut and 5 mins for the shave. How quickly can they finish the haircut and shave of these three customers?

Ans: 30 minutes

41) A shopkeeper likes to arrange and rearrange his collection of stamps. He arranges them sometimes in pair, sometimes in bundle of three, sometimes in bundle of fours, occasionally in bundle of fives and sixes. Every time he's left with one stamp in hand after arrangement in bundles. But if he arranges in the bundle of seven, he's not left with any stamp. How many stamps does a shopkeeper have?

Ans: 301

42) Three different types of objects in a bucket. How many times does one need to select object from the bucket to get atleast 3 objects of the same type?

Ans: 7

43) A stamp collector has the habit to arrange or rearrange the stamps accordingly. while doing this he some times keeps the stamps in pairs, or in group of 3 or in 4 or in or in 6 and realises that in any case he is left with 1 stamp and when he arranges them in groups of 7 no stamps remain. what is the number of stamps he has?

44)  amy while walkin down the street with her daughter, meets her husband's mother's only duaghter in law's sister's husband. how is the related to her? 

45)  there are 3 custoners who wants to take a hair cut and shave. there are 2 barbers who takes one quarter of an hour for a hair cut, and 5 minutes for a shave. both the barbers want to finish off and go quickly to their homes. in what time can do it.

46) we travelled to a place at the rate of 10 miles per hour and offcourse returned the same way, but owing to less traffic at the rate of 15 miles per hour.what was our relative speed.

47)  there are 3 types of apples in a box. what is the number of apples we should take so that we end up with 3 apples of one kind.

48) a).3,6,13,26,33,66,_ b).0, 1,2,13 ,6,33 ,12, 63,20, 103,_

49) Each alphabet A,B.. Z is a constant.A=1,B=2,C=3^2,D=4^9 n so on.Each letter is assigned a value -the position of that letter raised to the value of preceding alphabet.(C = 3 ^B,D= 4 ^ C n so on) Compute the numerical value of (X-A)(X-B)(X-C)....(X-Y)(X-Z).

50) Mr. T has a wrong weighing pan.One arm is lengthier than other.1 kilogram on left balances 8 melons on right.1 kilogram on right balances 2 melons on left.If all melons are equal in weight,what is the weight of a single melon?

Infosys Placement Paper 2011By on May 3rd, 2011REASONING and ANALYTICAL Questions1) A, B, C, D, E related. 4 of them made these statements each. i) C is my son in law s brother. ii) B is my father s brother. iii) E is my mother in law. iv) A is my brother s wife. Who made these statements? (Person mentioned is one of A, B, C, D, E)(10 marks). 2) Complete the table. Played won lost draw goals for against A 2 2 1 B 2 1 2 4 C 2 3 7 A, B, C are 3 hockey teams (2 marks). 

3) 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 1st 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).4) A ship is away from the shore by 180 miles. A plane is travelling at 10 time’s speed of the ship. How long from the shore will they meet? (2marks)5) Every station in N railroad issues every other stations ticket. Some stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets. Say the Number of stations after and before added (5 marks).6) 3 persons say these statements. A says either Democratic or liberal wins the elections. B says neither democratic nor liberal wins the election. Of these only one is wrong. Who wins the election? (5 marks).7) A clock showing 6 o clocks takes 30 secs to strike 6 times. How long will it take to strike 12 at midnight? Ans.66 secs. (2marks)

 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).9)  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 Number of tractors each had in the beginning? Ans. A ?39. B? 21. C? 12.(7 marks).10. 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.11. Draw a venn diagram for 3 items: white, flowers, clothAns: draw 3 circles each intersecting the other, with white kept in the middle.APTITUDE AND REASONING QUESTIONS1. IF rose code as 6786 hot coded as 879 then search will code a sin this q there is one no. is assigned t each letter. So take search and letter by letter see the given condition…2.600, 180, 54………..complete the series.3. sedane :pain :: solace:……..4. Play: director: news….5. River: dam: traffic…6. Find the greatest number (a) half 50% of 50 (b) 3 times 40% of 40 see the option & place 3times 40% of 40….7. Find the compound interest of Rs 1000. At the rate of 5% p.a. for 15 years….8. Find the greatest of 1000 power of 1000, 1001 power of 999…9. Product of two numbers is cost. If one number is increased by 50% then other number is decreased how much….10. l.c.m & h.c.f of two numbers is 84 & 21 respectively and the ratio of these two numbers is 1:4. Find the greatest no…11. If x is 90% of y then y is how much % of x….12. The cost of 15 apples & 20 mangoes is much as equal to the 15 mangoes & 20 apples then what is the relation between their costs…13. There are 20 men and 5 women then how much maximum couple can be made…..14. A bag contains 8 white and 6 black balls find the problem of drawing a white ball….15.  If numerator is less than 2 by denominator and then if 1 is subtract from the numerator and1 is added to the denominator then the ratio becomes half what is the no…..16. If a certain money becomes twice in 5 years then the Rs300 will become 2400 at the same rate in how many years……..17. If the average of three numbers is 135 and the difference between others is 25 then find the lowest number…18. If the thrice of three consecutive odd numbers is equal to the more three of twice the last no. then find the 3rd (largest odd no)….19. There are 5 questions in each of the two sections. Three questions must be attempt for passing the exam how many ways a student will choose the questions…

20. If the length of the rectangle is decreased by 4 and breath is increased by 3.then it becomes square whose areas are equal to that of rectangle. What is the perimeter of the original rectangle…21. There is a hemisphere of radius of 2 cm how much liter will be occupied in the hemisphere… given 1 liter= 1000 cubic cm…22. There is a water tank which has enough water to be consumed in 60 days. If there is leakage water stays there for 40 days. If there are more similar leakage then how long water will consumed…23. A man saves money 1000 in each year. And he gives this amount at the end of year for the compound interest at the rate of 5% how much he will save after 25 years…DATA SUFFICIENCYIn this section a question was given followed by 2 statements…1) If the first statement alone was enough to answer the question2) If the second statement alone was enough to answer the question3) If the both the statements were required to answer the question4) If the question could not be answered using both the statements5) If either statement alone was sufficient to answer the question A. little practice (especially in problems related to maths equations, ages, relations, comparison) from RS Aggarwal Verbal and Non Verbal will help you a lot. 5 such questions were given…6)  Another Puzzle kind of question.. It was damn easy… it was likeMR.natwarlal, a thief, steals only on the first day of every month of first quarter of year (that means on 1st jan, 1st feb, 1st march).. This time he wanted a computer, So he steals different parts from different persons.But he has only 3 tools to use like a screwdriver, wire cutter, knife AND uses them only once. He steals monitor keyboard and printer..In Jan he steals monitor from A, but do not uses the wire cutter.. Next month he uses KNIFE to steal printer..And March was unlucky for C… And questions were like1. Which tool he uses for stealing monitor.(ans: screwdriver)2. Which component was stolen from C (ans: key board)3. Which month was unlucky for B( ans:feb, as A, C were robbed in jan and march) (REST TWO I don’t remember) SYLLOGISMIn this section about 4 statements were given in each questions (like all, some,not)It was more like…1. A) ALL BIRDS ARE CATSB) SOME CATS ARE CRAZYC)SOME DOGS ARE BIRDSD) BIRDS ARE CRAZY

2. Which of these FORM pair so that the conclusion can be derived from them?1)   AB                         2) BC                   3)CD         4)AD HR INTERVIEW

In the HR round you are basically asked about yourself. There are no technical questions asked and even if asked it will be very basic questions. They also ask puzzles..You need not solve them. They only look at your approach. HR questions:1) Tell me about yourself2) Being an electronics student why you want job in software industry?3) Why you have not done any project?

4) They asks about hobbies, achievements, extracurricular activities (so mention everything properly in your resume, they will ask questions based on what all you have written in your resume)In HR round it is enough if you speak confidently, don’t try to bluff. If your good with your Aptitude and have a good command over English it’s enough. All the Best.

1)APTITUDE TEST:Questions = 70 ; time limit = 75 minutes. Sectional cut-off in each section its around 60% in Logical Reasoning part and 50% in Verbal Ability. no negative marking Offline (paper & pen) test.Analytical & Logical reasoning:(30 question : 40 minutes)English section: (40 question : 35 minutes)Analytical reasoning 1. A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls. 2. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap.At the end of the day u have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured?Ans: 25. 3. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the second.4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit.Ans : 25296. 4. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are traveling 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 5. Two twins have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, andFriday. 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 AnilPerson B — today is Tuesday, my name is BillWhat day is today?Ans: Today is Tuesday   

Directions 6-10: Each problem consists of a problem followed by two statements. Decide whether the data in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select your answer according to whether:(A) statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question(B) statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question(C) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient(D) each statement alone is sufficient(E) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question 6. If x and y are both positive integers, how much greater is x than y?1. x + y = 202. x = y²1. A.2. B.3. C.4. D.5. E.Ans: C  7. Fifty percent of the articles in a certain magazine are written by staff members. Sixty percent of the articles areon current affairs. If 75 percent of the articles on current affairs are written by staff members with more than 5years experience of journalism, how many of the articles on current affairs are written by journalists with morethan 5 years experience?1. 20 articles are written by staff members.2. Of the articles on topics other than current affairs, 50 percent are by staff members with less than 5 years experience.1. A.2. B.3. C.4. D.5. E.Ans: A 8. Is xy > 0 ?1. x/y < 02. x + y < 01. A.2. B.3. C.4. D.5. E.Ans: A 

9.One number, n, is selected at random from a set of 10 integers. What is the probability that ½ n + 13 = 0 ?1. The largest integer in the set is 13.2. The arithmetic mean of the set is zero.1. A.2. B.3. C.4. D.5. E.Ans: E 10. Is w a whole number?1. 3w is an odd number.2. 2w is an even number.1. A.2. B.3. C.4. D.5. E.Ans: B  Directions (Question 11 to 14 ) : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.IV. i) There are six friends A,B,C,D,E and Fii) Each one is proficient in one of the games, namely Badminton, Vollyball, Cricket, Hockey, Tennis and Poloiii) Each owns a different coloured car, namely yellow, green, black, white, blue and red.iv) D plays Polo and owns a yellow coloured carv) C does not play either Tennis or Hockey and owns neither blue nor yellow coloured carvi) E owns a white car and plays Badmintonvii) B does not play Tennis, he owns a red coloured car.viii) A plays Cricket and owns a black car 11. Who plays Volleyball ?A) B B) C C) F D) Data inadequate E) None of theseAns: B 12. Which coloured car F owns ?A) Green B) Blue C) Either Green or Blue D) Data inadequate E) None of theseAns: B 13. Which of the following combinations of colour of car and game played is not correct ?A) Yellow – Polo B) Green – Tennis C) Black – Cricket D) Red- Hockey E) None of theseAns: B  

14. In a group of six women, there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of themare also violinists. If Pooja is an actress, who among the following is both a dancer and violinist ?A) JalajaB) ShailajaC) TanujaD) PoojaAns: C  15. Salay walked 10 m towards West from his house. Then he walked 5 m turning to his left. After this he walked 10 m turning to his left and in the end he walked 10 m turning to his left. In what direction is he now from his starting point?(A) South(B) North(C) East(D) West(E) None of theseAns : (B) 16.Manish goes 7 km towards South-East from his house, then he goes 14 km turning to West. After this he goes 7 km towards North West and in the end he goes 9 km towards East. How far is he from his house?(A) 5 km         (B) 7 km       (C) 2 km        (D) 14 km       (E) None of theseAns : (A) 17. Laxman went 15 kms from my house, then turned left and walked 20 kms. He then turned east and walked  25 kms and finally turning left covered 20kms. How far was he from his house.(A) 5 kms        (B) 10 kms        (C) 40 kms         (D) 80 kms      (E) None of theseAns : (D) 18. The door of Aditya’s house faces the east. From the back side of his house, he walks straight 50 metres, then turns to the right and walks 50 metres, then turns towards left and stops after walking 25 metres . Now Aditya is in which direction from the starting point?(A) South-East    (B) North-East    (C) South- West    (D) North-West      (E) None of theseAns : (D) 19. P, Q, R and S are playing a game of carrom. P, R, and S, Q are partners. S is to the right of R who is facing west. Then Q is facing ?(A) North   (B) South   (C) East   (D) West    (E) None of theseAns : (A)  20. A clock is so placed that at 12 noon its minute hand points towards north-east. In which direction does its hour hand point at 1.30 p.m?(A) North   (B) South   (C) East   (D) West   (E) None of theseAns: C

  21. A man walks 30 metres towards South. Then , turning to his right, he walks 30 metres . Then turning to his left, he walks 20 metres. again he turns to his left and walks 30 metres . How far is he from his initial position?A.)  20 metres       B). 30 metres      C).60 metres         D.) 80 metres      E) None of theseAns: E Directions 21-24 :The table below shows the number of people who responded to a survey about their favorite style of music. Use this information to answer the following questions to the nearest whole percentage. 24. What percentage of respondents under 31 , indicated that blues in their favorite style?A.)  7.1           B). 7.6         C)  8.3                D). 14.1            E). 7.2Ans: B 25. What percentage of respondents aged 21-30 indicated that jazz is their favorite style?A). 64 %          B). 60%       C). 75%         D). 36%        E). 46%Ans: A 26. What percentage of the total sample indicated that Jazz is heir favorite style of music?A). 6 %               B). 8%        C). 22%           D). 4%                  E). 11%Ans: E 27. What percentage of the total sample were aged21-30?A). 31 %          B). 23%           C). 25%            D). 14%             E). 30%Ans: C 2.Verbal Ability Test (40 Questions in 35 minutes)

Directions for Questions 1-5: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.Much of the information we have today about chimpanzees comes from the groundbreaking, long-term research of the great conservationist, Jane Goodall.Jane Goodall was born in London, England, on April 3, 1934. On her second birthday, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Jubilee was named after a baby chimp in the London Zoo, and seemed to foretell the course Jane’s life would take. To this day, Jubilee sits in a chair in Jane’s London home. From an early age, Jane was fascinated by animals and animal stories. By the age of 10, she was talking about going to Africa to live among the animals there. At the time, in the early 1940s, this was a radical idea because women did not go to Africa by themselves.As a young woman, Jane finished school in London, attended secretarial school, and then worked for a documentary filmmaker for a while. When a school friend invited her to visit Kenya, she worked as a waitress until she had earned the fare to travel there by boat. She was 23 years old.Once in Kenya, she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a famous paleontologist and anthropologist. He was impressed with her thorough knowledge of Africa and its wildlife, and hired her to assist him and his wife on a fossil-hunting expedition to Olduvai Gorge. Dr. Leakey soon realized that Jane was the perfect person to complete a study he had been planning for some time. She expressed her interest in the idea of studying animals by living in the wild with them, rather than studying dead animals through paleontology.Dr. Leakey and Jane began planning a study of a group of chimpanzees who were living on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kenya. At first, the British authorities would not approve their plan. At the time, they thought it was too dangerous for a woman to live in the wilds of Africa alone. But Jane’s mother, Vanne, agreed to join her so that she would not be alone. Finally, the authorities gave Jane the clearance she needed in order to go to Africa and begin her studyIn July of 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in what was then called Tanganyika and is now called Tanzania. Jane faced many challenges as she began her work. The chimpanzees did not accept her right away, and it took months for them to get used to her presence in their territory. But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal. Little by little, she was able to enter their world.At first, she was able to watch the chimpanzees only from a great distance, using binoculars. As time passed, she was able to move her observation point closer to them while still using camouflage. Eventually, she was able to sit among them, touching, patting, and even feeding them. It was an amazing accomplishment for Jane, and a breakthrough in the study of animals in the wild. Jane named all of the chimpanzees that she studied, stating in her journals that she felt they each had a unique personality.One of the first significant observations that Jane made during the study was that chimpanzees make and use tools, much like humans do, to help them get food. It was previously thought that humans alone used tools. Also thanks to Jane’s research, we now know that chimps eat meat as well as plants and fruits. In many ways, she has helped us to see how chimpanzees and humans are similar. In doing so, she has made us more sympathetic toward these creatures, while helping us to better understand ourselves.The study started by Jane Goodall in 1960 is now the longest field study of any animal species in their natural habitat. Research continues to this day in Gombe and is conducted by a team of trained Tanzanians.

Jane’s life has included much more than just her study of the chimps in Tanzania. She pursued a graduate degree while still conducting her study, receiving her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965. In 1984, she received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for “helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet.” She has been married twice: first to a photographer and then to the director of National Parks. She has one son.Dr. Jane Goodall is now the world’s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly 40 years. She has published many scientific articles, has written two books, and has won numerous awards for her groundbreaking work. The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation was founded in 1977 in California but moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1998. Its goal is to take the actions necessary to improve the environment for all living things.Dr. Goodall now travels extensively, giving lectures, visiting zoos and chimp sanctuaries, and talking to young people involved in environmental education. She is truly a great conservationist and an amazing human being.  1. ‘But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal’. What is an antonym for the word focused?1. bothered2. tired3. disinterested4. concernedAns: C 2. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?1. to entertain the reader with stories about chimpanzees2. to inform the reader of the importance of wildlife conservation3. to warn the reader about the challenges of working in Africa4. to describe the work and life of Jane Goodall.Ans: D 3. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Dr. Leakey chose Jane to work with him?1. She knew a lot about Africa.2. She knew a lot about African wildlife.3. She earned the money to travel to Africa on her own.4. She was interested in studying animals in the wild.Ans: C 4. Which of the following is NOT true of chimpanzees?1. Chimpanzees are often comfortable with strangers right away.2. Chimpanzees eat meat as well as plants and fruit.3. Chimpanzees use tools to help them get food.4. Different chimpanzees have different personalities.Ans: A 5. Jane Goodall is now the world’s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly forty years. What does authority mean?1. an intelligent person

2. one who studies animals3. a scientist4. an expertAns: B  Directions for Questions 6-10: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.There are some men who seem to be always on the lookout for trouble and, to tell the truth, they are seldom disappointed. Listening to such men one would think that this world is one of the stormiest and most disagreeable places. Yet, after all it is not such a bad place and the difficulty is often in the man who is too thin- skinned. On the other hand, the man who goes out expecting people to be like himself, kind and brotherly, will be surprised at the kindness he meets even in the most unlike quarters. A smile is apt to be met met with a respective smile while the sneer is just as apt to provoke a snarl. Men living in the same neighborhood may live vastly different lives. But it is not the neighborhood which is quarrelsome, but the man within us. And we have it in out power to change our neighborhood into a pleasant one by simply changing our own ways.6. The passage is aboutA) our disagreeable and hostile worldB) a kindly and pleasant worldC) our different and unresponsive worldD) the world and what one makes of it.Ans: D 7. “…………..they are seldom disappointed”. The statement denotes that such menA) welcome difficulties as a morale boosterB) do not have face any troubleC) manage to keep unruffled in the face of discomfortsD) generally do not fail to come across troublesAns: D 8. The author’s own view of the world is that it isA) one of the loveliest and quietest placesB) an unpleasant and turbulent placeC) one’s own excessive sensitivity that makes it a bad placeD) a sordid place for those who suffer in lifeAns: C 9. Which of the following is opposite in meaning to the expression ‘thin-skinned’ as sed in the passage?A) InsensitiveB) IntelligentC) AwkwardD) ObstinateAns: A 

10. “On the other hand…………. unlikely quarter” The statement shows that people’s reaction to our attitude isA) Generally indifferentB) surprisingly responsiveC) often adverseD) mainly favourableAns: B Directions 11-18: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete. 11.For a few seconds, Madan was………….blinded by the powerful lights of the oncoming carA) heavily         B) largely         C) greatly        D) powerfully           E) totallyAns: E 12. His interest in the study of human behavior is indeed very…………..A) strong        B) large       C) broad      D) vast         E) deepAns: E 13. The police have…………….a complaint against four personsA) entered       B) lodged      C) registered         D) noted        E) receivedAns: C 14. The improvement made by changes in the system was ………………..and did not warrant the large expenses.A) large           B) small          C) minute         D) marginal          E) uncertainAns: D 15. The man who is……………………..hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither.A) persistently           B) constantly            C) insistently           D) consistently           E) perpetuallyAns: A 16. He is too……………….to be deceived easilyA) strong        B) modern         C) kind        D) honest         E) intelligentAns: E 17. The Manager gave her his ….. that the complaint would be investigatedA. assurance             B. suggestion                 C. avowal            D. supportAns: A 18. I am feeling …… better today.A. rather          B. too         C. fairly           D. veryAns: C 

Direction Questions19-26: In each question below is given a passage followed by several inference. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.mark your answer as :A. if the inference is ‘ definitely true’ i.e. , it directly follows from the facts given in the passageB. if the inference is ‘ probably true’ though not definitely true in the light of the facts givenC. if you think the data are in adequate i.e., from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or falseD. if you think the inference is ‘ probably false’ though not definitely false in the light of the facts given; andE. if you think inference is ‘ definitely false’ i.e. , it contradicts the given facts.Passage IUrban services have not expanded fast enough to cope with urban expansion. Low investment allocation have tended top be under spent. Both public( e. g. water and sewage) and private (e.g. low-income area housing) infrastructure quality has declined. this impact of the environment in which children live and the supporting services available to them when they fall ill, seems clear. The decline in average food availability and the rise in absolute poverty point in the same satisfactory direction 19. There is nothing to boast about urban servicesAns: A 20. The public transport system is in the hands of private sector.Ans: C 21. Birth rate is higher in Urban areas compared to rural areas.Ans: C 22. Low-cost urban housing is one of the prioritiesAns: B 23 The environment around plays an important role on the health status.Ans: A Passage IIThough the state cultivate only 3.2 lakh tonnes of mangoes, they are of premium quality and with mangoes becoming second most consumed fruit in the world after grapes. the government has been trying exporting it through sea route which is cheaper . An experiment which was done in this regard last year has proved successful.24. Quality of mangoes is an important factor in exports.Ans: A 25. The state also exports good quality grapesAns: C 26. The state also cultivates a large number of medium quality mangoes.Ans: E 

Direction27-32: In each of the following questions, find out which part of the sentence has an error. if there is no mistake the answer is ‘no error’ 27. I going there / will not solve / this complicated problem / No errorA B C DAns : A 28. You can get /all the information you want / in this book / No errorA B C DAns : A29. The bus could not / ascend the steep hill / because it was in the wrong gears / No errorA B C DAns : C 30.No stronger / a figure than his / is prescribed in the history / No errorA B C DAns : C 31. most people would have /attended the union meeting / if they had / longer notice of it / No errorA B C D EAns : D 32. And though one did not / quite believe his claim / one saw no harm / in granting him permission / No errorA B C D EAns: EDirections33 : In each question, a part of sentence is printed in italics. Below each sentence, some phrases are given which can substitute the italicized part of the sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, the answer is ‘No correction required’ 33. The problems of translation are still remain.A). are remain.         B). will remained         C). will still remain.                 D). No Correction requiredAns : C 34. It is ten years since I have begun living hereA). begun            B). had begun          C). began                D). No Correction requiredAns : C 35. Education is a strong instrument for moldings the character of the young.A). striking            B). powerful           C). potent                      D). No Correction requiredAns : B 36. He gave the I.A.S. examination in all seriousness.A). appeared              B). took            C). undertook                 D). No Correction requiredAns: B 

37. He has cooked that meal so often he can do it with his eyes closed.A). mind blank                     B). eyes covered                 C). hands full                           D). No Correction requiredAns: D 38. The young hikers went as far as they finally got lost in the valley.A). so far that         B). too far that           C). so far as that              D). No Correction requiredAns: A 39. He stopped to work an hour agoA). to working          B). to have worked          C). working              D). No Correction requiredAns : C 40. The fact finding committee has so far not made any advancement.A). progress         B). improvement           C). stride               D). No Correction requiredAns: A