Infosys
Infosys Technologies has got the most structured recruitment process among all IT companies in India. First of all,
they do not have any distinction between any branch of Engg. Whatever be the branch, you can sit up for the
selection process if you qualify their other eligibility criteria like marks and time gap. i.e Once you had appeared
for any test at Infosys, you will have to wait for 9 months until you appear for any of their recruitment process.
For Off-campus, send in your resumes to the mailId mentioned and you are sure to get a call latter if you meet their
academic criteria. Hence once you send the resume, start preparing for the exam, because you are sure to get a call.
You may get call through e-mail invitation and further the admit card will be send to your postal address through
courier/post.
Latest selection process. ( As on March 2006)
The duration of the selection process is 2.5 hrs which includes filling in an application form, an Aptitude Test (
Analytical Thinking and Arithmetic Reasoning) and a test of Communicative English Language. The duration of
the tests alone will be 90 minutes.
The Aptitude Test will be generally of Puzzles type and the no. of questions will vary between 9 - 15. The best
way to practice for the tests is to go through the previous question papers at Freshersworld.com or refer books like
Sakuntala Devi or George Summers.
Go through the Maximum no. of previous question papers and prepare well for the puzzles.
For further information visit http://www.infosys.com
SOME TIPS FROM Freshersworld TO GET CALL FROM INFOSYS
INFOSYS receives lakhs of resumes every year and they can offer call letter for around 10,000 people only for
every test. So sometimes it depends on luck also.
But here are few tips that may maximize your chance of getting call.
1) For INFOSYS, following details are mandatory. Without these, they will simply throw your resume in to trash.
They won't even look at other details. So make sure that these details are in 1 st page of resume and clearly visible.
-- Full Name, Mail ID, Contact Address, Phone Number
-- Date of Birth
-- Academics of 10 th, Inter, Grad, PostGrad (Write Aggregate Percentages. Don't write percentages of each
Semester. They won't calculate what is the average percentage.)
2) Try to send your resume every 15 days or 30 days. (Especially send it when they announce Off-Campus in news
papers.)
3) Write a small covering letter saying that you did not attend INFOSYS test till now and would like to get a call
for next possible test. (Or if you did not attend in last 9 months, mention that.)
4) See to it that your resume is proper. Please refer following Resume Writing Tips published in
Freshersworld.com.
-- CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE
Most Importantly, BE PREPARED for the test even when you apply. Generally INFOSYS tries to give a call for
all eligible candidates. So you may suddenly get a call and then you should NOT postpone it. If you postpone, you
will never know when you will get a call again.
Aptitude test:
Questions = 55; Time limit = 60 minutes along with that an essay to write in the same sheet in another 10 minutes.
No sectional cut off, no negative marking. Offline (paper & pen) test
Directions for Questions 1-3: Choose the option which will correctly fill the blank.
1. This train travels from London ______ Paris.
a) at b) to c) over d) below
Ans: b
2. We stood at the back ______ the theater.
a) of b)on c)in d) for
Ans: a
3. I will work _________ five o'clock.
a) until b) up c)in d) to
Directions for Questions 4-6: Choose the word nearest in meaning to the word in ITALICS from the given options.
4. The antidote to these problems is hard to find
a) Cause for b) Result of c) Remedy for d) Consequence of e) None of these
Ans:C
5. Because of a family feud , he never spoke to his aife's parents.
a) Crisis b) Trouble c) Problem d) Quarrel d) None of these
Ans: D
6. The article is written in a very lucid style.
a) Elaborate b) Clear c) Intricate d) Noble e) None of these
Ans:B
Directions for Questions 7-10: Choose the answer option which will correctly fill the blank.
7. _________ man ran into the street. A car hit ____ man.
a) A, the b) An, the c) the, the d) A, the
8. The interesting thing about _____ Romans is all the roads that they built in Britain.
a) A b) An c) none of these d) The
9. Albert Einstein was _____ famous scientist. Einstein won _______ Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.Einstein left
his country and lived in ___________States until he died in 1955.
a) A, the, an b) A, the, the c) A, an, the d) An, an, the
Ans: B
10. Are you shopping for ________ health club to join so you can get in shape? Shop wisely! You could end up
choosing ___________wrong club and losing more money than pounds.
a) the, an b) the, the c) A, the d) An, the
Ans: C
Directions for Questions 11-16: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the
information provided in the passage. The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its introduction into
education would remove the conventionality, artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic;of
classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in their time had the humanists thought that the
study of the classical authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and superstition of mediaeval
scholasticism. The professional schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost managed to make the
understanding of chemical reactions as dull and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about the actual universe in
which he is living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and at the same time
teaches him how to think logically and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited success has
been reached in the first of these aims, but practically none at all in the second. Those privileged members of the
community who have been through a secondary or public school education may be expected to know something
about the elementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they probably know hardly more than any
bright boy can pick up from an interest in wireless or scientific hobbies out of school hours.
As to the learning of scientific method, the whole thing is palpably a farce. Actually, for the convenience of
teachers and the requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the pupils not only do not learn
scientific method but learn precisely the reverse, that is, to believe exactly what they are told and to reproduce it
when asked, whether it seems nonsense to them or not. The way in which educated people respond to such
quackeries as spiritualism or astrology, not to say more dangerous ones such as racial theories or currency myths,
shows that fifty years of education in the method of science in Britain or Germany has produced no visible effect
whatever.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience, and, until the
educational or social systems are altered to make this possible, the best we can expect is the production of a
minority of people who are able to acquire some of the techniques of science and a still smaller minority who are
able to use and develop them.
11. The author implies that the 'professional schoolmaster' has
a) No interest in teaching science
b) Thwarted attempts to enliven education
c) Aided true learning
d) Supported the humanists
e) Been a pioneer in both science and humanities.
Ans: B
12. The author’s attitude to secondary and public school education in the sciences is
a) Ambivalent
b) Neutra
c) Supportive
d) Satirical
e) Contemptuous
Ans: e
13. The word ‘palpably’ most nearly means
a) Empirically
b) Obviously
c) Tentatively
d) Markedly
e) Ridiculously
Ans: b
14. The author blames all of the following for the failure to impart scientific method through the education system
except
a) Poor teaching
b) Examination methods
c) Lack of direct experience
d) The social and education systems
e) Lack of interest on the part of students
Ans: e
15. If the author were to study current education in science to see how things have changed since he wrote the
piece, he would probably be most interested in the answer to which of the following questions?
a) Do students know more about the world about them?
b) Do students spend more time in laboratories?
c) Can students apply their knowledge logically?
d) Have textbooks improved?
e) Do they respect their teachers
Ans: c
16. Astrology (line 31) is mentioned as an example of
a) A science that needs to be better understood
b) A belief which no educated people hold
c) Something unsupportable to those who have absorbed the methods of science
d) The gravest danger to society
e) An acknowledged failure of science
Ans: c
Directions for Questions 17-20: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the
information provided in the passage.
Furthermore, insofar as any conclusion about its author can be drawn from five or six plays attributed to him, the
Wakefield Master is without exception considered to be a man of sharp contemporary observation. He was,
probably clerically educated, as indicated by his Latin and music, his Biblical and patristic lore. Even today he is
remembered for his his quick sympathy for the oppressed and forgotten man, his sharp eye for character, a ready
ear for colloquial, vernacular turns of speech and a humor alternately rude and boisterous, coarse and happy.
Therefore in spite of his conscious artistry as can be seen in his feeling for intricate metrical and stanza forms, he
is regarded as a kind of medieval Steinbeck, indignantly angry at, uncompromisingly and even brutally realistic in
presenting the plight of the agricultural poor.
It is now fairly accepted to regard the play as a kind of ultimate point in the secularization of the medieval drama.
Therefore more stress has been laid on it as depicting realistically humble manners and pastoral life in the bleak of
the west riding of Yorkshire on a typically cold night of December 24th. After what are often regarded as almost
''documentaries'' given in the three successive monologues of the three shepherds, critics go on to affirm that the
realism is then intensified into a burlesque mock-treatment of the Nativity. Finally as a sort of epilogue or afterthought in deference to the Biblical origins of the materials, the play slides back into an atavistic mood of early
innocent reverence. In actuality, the final scene is the culminating scene and also the raison d’etre of the
introductory ''realism.''
Superficially the present play supports the conventional view of its mood of secular realism. At the same time, the
''realism'' of the Wakefield Master is of a paradoxical turn. His wide knowledge of people, as well as books
indicates no cloistered contemplative but one in close relation to his times. Still, that life was after all a
predominantly religious one, a time which never neglected the belief that man was a rebellious and sinful creature
in need of redemption . So deeply (one can hardly say ''naively'' of so sophisticated a writer) and implicitly
religious is the Master that he is less able (or less willing) to present actual history realistically than is the author of
the Brome Abraham and Isaac. His historical sense is even less realistic than that of Chaucer who just a few years
before had done for his own time ''costume romances,'' such as The Knight's Tele, Troilus and Cressida, etc.
Furthermore, used highly romantic materials, which could excuse his taking liberties with history.
17. Of the following statements, which is not true of Wakefield Master?
a) He and Chaucer were contemporaries.
b) Wakefield Master is remembered as having written five or six realistic plays.
c) His plays realistically portray the plight of the country folk of his day
d) His writing was similar to that of John Steinbeck.
e) He was an accomplished artist.
Ans: d
18. The word 'patristic' in the first paragraph is used to mean.
a) Patriotic
b) Superstitious
c) Folk
d) Relating to the Christian Fathers
e) Realistic
Ans: d
19. The statement about the ''secularization of the medieval drama'' (opening sentence of the second paragraph)
refers to the
a) Introduction of religious themes in the early days
b) Presentation of erudite material
c) Use of contemporary materials
d) Return to early innocent reverence at the end of the play
e) Introduction of mundane matters in religious plays
Ans: e
20. From the following what would the writer be expected to do in the subsequent paragraphs.
a) Make a justification for his comparison with Steinbeck
b) Put forth a view point, which would take up the thought of the second paragraph
c) Point out the anachronisms in the play
d) Discuss the works of Chaucer
e) Talk about the lack of realism in the works of the Wakefield Master.
Ans: b
Section 2: Analytical Ability
No. of Questions: 20
Duration in Minutes: 20
21. If f(x) = │(x² – 50)│, what is the value of f(-5)?
a) 75 b) 25 c) 0 d) -25 e) -75
Ans: b
22. Helpers are needed to prepare for the fete. Each helper can make either 2 large cakes or 35 small cakes per
hour. The kitchen is available for 3 hours and 20 large cakes and 700 small cakes are needed. How many helpers
are required?
A. 10
B. 15
C. 20
D. 25
E. 30
Ans: a
23. If f(x) = (x + 2) / (x-2) for all integers except x=2, which of the following has the greatest value?
a) f(-1) b) f(0) c) f(1) d) f(3) e) f(4)
Ans: d
24. A perfect cube is an integer whose cube root is an integer. For example, 27, 64 and 125 are perfect cubes. If
p and q are perfect cubes, which of the following will not necessarily be a perfect cube?
a) 8p b) pq c) pq + 27 d) -p e) (p - q)6
Ans: c
25. A piece of ribbon 4 yards long is used to make bows requiring 15 inches of ribbon for each. What is the
maximum number of bows that can be made?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. 12
Ans: b
26. If V = 12R / (r + R) , then R =
A. Vr / (12 - V)
B. Vr + V /12
C. Vr - 12
D. V / r - 12
E. V (r + 1) /12
Ans: a
27. The number of degrees that the hour hand of a clock moves through between noon and 2.30 in the afternoon of
the same day is
a) 720 b) 180 c) 75 d) 65 e) 60
Ans: c
28. (3x + 2) (2x - 5) = ax² + kx + n. What is the value of a - n + k?
a) 5 b) 8 c) 9 d) 10 e) 11
Ans: a
29. If the radius of a circle is increased by 20% then the area is increased by:
a) 44% b) 120% c) 144% d) 40% e) None of the above
Ans: a
30. If the area of two circles are in the ratio 169 : 196 then the ratio of their radii is
a) 10 : 11 b) 11 : 12 c) 12 : 13 d) 13 : 14 e) None of the above
Ans: d
Directions for Questions 31-34: In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions
numbered I and II . consider the statement and decide which of the given assumption is implicit.
Give answer (A) if only I is implicit ; (B) if only assumption II is implicit; (C) If either I or II is implicit ; (D) if
neither I nor II is implicit (E) if both I and II are implicit.
31. Statement: It is desirable to put the child in school at the age of 5 or so.
Assumptions: I At that age the child reaches appropriate level of development and is ready to learn.
II The schools do not admit children after six years of age.
Ans: a
32. Statement: The government has decided to reduce the custom duty on computer peripherals
Assumptions: I The domestic market price of computer peripherals may go up near future
II The domestic manufacturers may oppose the decision
Ans: d
33. Statement:" AS there is a great demand , every person take tickets of the programme will be given only
five tickets".
Assumptions: I The organizers are not keen on selling the tickets.
II No one is interested in getting more than five tickets
Ans: d
34. Statement: The railway authorities are decided to increase the freight charges by 10% in view of the
possibility of incurring losses in the current financial year.
Assumptions: I The volume of freight during the remaining period may remain same.
II The amount so obtained may set off a part or total of the estimated deficit
Ans: b
35.There are 4 boys and 3 girls. What is the probability the boys and girls sit alternately?
Ans:1/35
36. Two trains are 2 kms apart. Speed of one train is 20m/s and the other train is running at 30 m/s. Lengths of the
trains are 200 and 300m. In how much time do the trains cross each other?
Ans: 50 seconds
37. A train runs first half of the distance at 40 km/hr and the remaining half at 60 km/hr. What is the
average speed for the entire journey?
Ans: 48km/hr
38. A box contains 90 mts each of 100 gms and 100 bolts each of 150 gms. If the entire box weighs 35.5 kg., then
the weight of the empty box is.
a) 10 kg b) 10.5 kg c) 11 kg d) 11.5 kg e) None of the above
Ans: d
39. A father is three times as old as his son. After fifteen years the father will be twice as old as his son's age at
that time. Hence the father's present age is
a) 36 b) 42 c) 45 d) 48 e) None of the above
Ans: c
40. Which of the following is the greatest?
a) 40% of 30
b) 3/5 of 25
c) 6.5% of 200
d) Five more than the square of 3
e) 1/2-4
Ans: e
Directions for Questions 41-45: Follow the directions given below to answer the questions that follow. Your
answer for each question below would be: A, if ALL THREE items given in the question are exactly ALIKE. B, if
only the FIRST and SECOND items are exactly ALIKE. C, if only the FIRST and THIRD items are exactly
ALIKE. D, if only the SECOND and THIRD items are exactly ALIKE. E, if ALL THREE items are DIFFERENT.
41) 0427-4567324, 0427-4567154, 0427-4567324
a) A b) B c) C d) D e) E
Ans: c
42)HHMKKKJKNOII, HHMKKKJKNOII, HHMKKKJKNOII
a) A b)B c)C d)D e)E
Ans: a
43) YXXYXXYXYY, YXXYYXYXYY, YXXYXXYXXY
a) A b) B c) C d) D e) E
Ans: e
44) 7661637.8787, 7666137.8787, 7666137.8787
a) A b) B c)C d)De)E
Ans:D
45)101100110.0101, 101100110.0101, 101100100.0101
a) A b) B c) C d) D e) E
Ans: B
Directions for Questions 46-50: What should come in place of the question-mark (?) in the following number
series?
46. 992 1056 ? 1190 1260 1332
a) 1112 b) 1082 c) 1134 d) 1092 e) None of these
Ans: e
47. 15625 6250 2500 1000? 160
a) 600 b) 400 c) 500 d) 650 e) None of these
Ans: b
48. 80 370? 1550 2440 3530
a) 900 b) 840 c) 750 d) 860
a) None of these
Ans: D
49. 15 51 216 1100? 46452
a) 6630 b) 6650 c) 6560 d) 6530 e) None of these
Ans: a
50. 24 28 36 52 84?
a) 144 b) 135 c) 148 d) 140 e) None of these
Ans: c
Directions for Questions 51-55: Read the following instructions carefully and answer the questions given below it:
From a group of six boys M,N,O,P,Q,R and five girls G,H,I,J,K a team of six is to be selected .Some of the criteria
of selection are as follows:
M and J go together
O cannot be placed with N
I cannot go with J
N goes with H
P and Q have to be together
K and R go together
Unless otherwise stated, these criteria are applicable to all the following questions:
51. If the team consists of 2 girls and I is one of them , the other members are
a) GMRPQ b) HNOPQ c) KOPQR d) KRMNP
Ans: c
52. If the team has four boys including O and R , the members of the team other than O and R are
a)HIPQ b)GKPQ c) GJPQ d) GJMP
Ans: b
53. If four members are boys, which of the following cannot constitute the team?
a) GJMOPQ b) HJMNPQ c) JKMNOR d)JKMPQR
Ans: c
54. If both K and P are members of the team and three boys in all are included in the team, the members of the
team other than K and P are
a) GIRQ b) GJRM c) HIRQ d) IJRQ
Ans: a
55. if the team has three girls including J and K , the members of the team other than J and K are
a) GHNR b) MNOGMORG c) NHOR
Ans: c
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Hi friends this is mani.Im here to share my experience of infosys recruitment drive held at QIS engg
college,ongole.around 1500 students attend the drive.
there are two rounds
1)written test
2)HR
before attending to the drive i heard that the written test is very difficult to clear...but after writting the test i felt it
quite normal one and anyone can clear it with sufficient preparation.
written test contains two sessions
1)general ability (30 questions 40 minutes)
2)verbal reasoning(40 questions 35 minutes)
general ability section is easy compared to verbal and it contains the following topics
1)5 questions on symbols.
2)5 questions on statements and conclusions
3)2 puzzles (2*5=10 questions)
4)5 questions on syllogyms
5)5 questions on data interpretation(pie diagrams)
refer time material for data interpretation questions and refer verbal and non.verbal r.s.agarwal for remaining.
u can easily do this section if u refer above two books.
coming to the verbal section,it contains 40 questions that should be done only in 35 mins.so we should do this
section very quickly.
verbal section contains following questions
1)15 questions from correction of sentences
2)2 reading comprehesion (2*5=10 questions)
3)10 qtns frm fill in the blanks(prepositions)
4)5 questions from paragraph conclusions(small paragraph will be given we need to find the conclusion).
refer "objective english for competitive exams " book ofr corrrection of sentences.
remaining depends on ur english ability.
read the passages thoroughly so that u can easily answr 10 questions from them.
passage conclusion also very easy read them carefully.
the important thing is there will be an sectional cut of for both sections.
it is around 18 for general ability and 22 for verbal reasoning.
finally 202 students cleared the written test and the HR interview was sheduled on 24th and 25th march.
my HR interview is on 25th march.
before the interview coordianators checked our mark lists and after some time i was called for HR inteview. HR
interviewer is an very old person and very he was very friendly.
after entering into the room he shook my hand and asked to take my seat. i thanked him and took my seat.
he started asking the questions in friendly manner
with a smile in his face.it gave me alot of confidence and with the same confidence i answered the questions.
the questions are here:he:how is your feeling as you r completing final year?
me:i answered
he:so u done project right.?
me:ys sir!
he:then xplain me about ur project?
me:xplained everything what we done and also my role as an team leader.
he:any problems during the project?
me:answered
he:ok fine.do u play games?
me:i was glad to take this question and answered quickly as yes sir! vollyball,kabaddi and table tennis.
he:he laughed and asked so did u participated in inter college competitions?
me:i answered
he: well manikanta,did u participated in any curicular activities?
me : i answered
he: ok mani kanta all the best! and shook his hand again
me :thank you sir.
this is how my interview went it was very lively and very cool one.
finally the results were announced around 3pm.
i was very much tensed about the result because i lost many companies like tcs,convergys,honeywell etc.,
by god's grace i was one of the selected 161 candidates.
It's the time when a large number of companies are hiring a huge quant of freshers. To prepare for Infosys, first of
all you have to believe in God and you ought to have forget all your previous failures and never ever depend on
luck bcoz it's the 90% hard work and only 10% luck for being successful.
Read all the latest placement papers on Freshersworld.com, its the one and only site where you can get the latest
and correct placment papers.
Infosys paper consists of two papers:
1. Verbal reasoning
2. English Section
No need to do Shakuntala Devi and George sammers. For verbal Section, do just only R.S Aggarwal -Verbal and
Non Verbal reasoning. Do the following chapters thoroughly:
* Blood Relations
* Puzzle test
* Direction Sense test
* Logic- for syllogisms. Learn the 9 rules ,that will be more than sufficient, and do all the 3 exercises.
* Visual Reasoning (find the odd figure out, middle figure)
* Cubes and dices (one side is 3 ,then other is what?)
* Data Interpretation (Do from R.S Aggawal Quantative) Last chapters of the book. Learn only the formulae and
just take an overview of how the problem is approached
* Data Sufficiency
* Inference from passages
(From Quantative, you can do Time and work, time and distance, Ratio and proportion, Ages, Profit and loss.
Although the paper is verbal, but sometimes these topics come.)
For English section, Do from R.S Aggarwal General English. (Do unit 3,4 complete from this book)
* Error Spotting (Do all the exercises)
* Sentence completion(Do all the exercises)
* Fillers(Do all the exercises)
* Comprehension (1 short and 1 long) (Do some of the exercises so that you can get a hold over comprehension)
Do the comprehension passages at last bcoz they are quite long. Read Wren and Martin for grammer.
(Prepositions)
Learn about the company, itstagline, awards, vision, subsidiaries, turnover, projects etc.
For Infosys, we went to Baddi University, HP at 11.15 am, Infosys HR gave a presentation on about their products,
offices, growth rate, average revenue, CRR. Try to note the some facts about Infosys because sometimes they ask
about these in HR interview.
Around 1 pm, our test started. First they gave us verbal paper which we had to solve 30 questions in 40 minutes.
* 5 questions on visual reasoning (odd figure out)-these questions were damn easy, no need to practice
* 5 questions on small puzzle involving arithmetic - aarti,banti,chetan and dolly (not Dolly Bindra) are 4 people,
Aarti and banti have money equal to chetan and dolly. Aarti has 5 morethe banti. Chetan has half of what dolly
have. Total money is 100.
Who has the highest money?
Who has the least money? Etc.
* 5 questions on data sufficiency
* 5 questions on Data interpretation Manufacturer had defective items in a box and cost curves with probability of
defective items were given. Logic behind was that "The best alternative was having least cost and maximum
defectives inspection", and the answer was alt2.
* 5 questions on Puzzle-5 persons, their profession, children, fridges were given.
* 5 questions on Syllogisms-No house is a pole, all boys are tall, sohan is a boy, all wheels are racks. (Syllogisms
were from R.S Aggarwal, do all the three exercises)
Then we were given the English Paper in which we had to solve 40 questions
in 30 minutes.
* 20 questions on error spotting. (Do from RS aggarwal General English and read Wren and Martin too)
* 10 question on deriving inferences from passages (Do from R.S Aggarwal General English)
* 5 questions on comprehension 1(Easy)
* 5 questions on comprehension 2(Easy)
Around 5.30 pm our HR interview started. My HR was a 55 year old man (seemed to be strict).
I entered the room.He asked my resume.
Q- What you know about ambala?
A-Told
Q- Explain your name?
A-Told.
Q-Name an electronic item related to ur name?
A-Yashica Camera. I said dat my father had named me because he had a yashica
camera that time.
Q-what was the model number?
A-I said that I was born at that time,how could I know the model number?
Q-What have u learned from school?
A-Told.
Q-Why do u go for Oracle?
A-Told
Q-tell the relationship between Oracle and Infosys?
A-Told
Q-Why Infosys should hire u?
A-Told
Q-What projects u have done?
A-Told
Q-What problems did u face in completing your project?
A-Told.
Q-Do you want to ask me something?
A-yes, If I get placed in Infosys what should I learn before joining? He said,"Nothing, We will provide you
training."
At last he shake handed with me and and I was waiting for the results.
After 2 hours, our results were announced and guys guess what? our college students who all had cleared the
written test, they all were selected.
Tears rolled down from eyes of each one of us. Now m waiting for Infosys training at mysore.
See you at Mysore. You too can be an Infoscion by doing hard work and God grace.
Hi, I am Sneha. Infosys came in our college on 23rd December 2010. They gave presentation in our college 1
month ago.
Test started at 9 am. First we fill the application form then test started around 9:30.
Total candidates: 406
Cleared written round: 134
Cleared Interview: 100
Aptitude Test Consist of 2 sections:
1. Logical Rasoning
2. English
Logical Reasoning was an easy paper 30 questions 40 minutes.
1] First five questions on visual reasoning (very easy).
Find odd figure out
2] 5 questions on Cubes
a cube of 10 cm is painted in red color and 2cm strip by green color. This cube is divided into 125 small cubes. So,
find out.
* Cube having 3 face red
* Cube having no color
* Cube having green color as a face, etc
3] 5 questions on Data sufficiency.
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) Any one statement alone is sufficient to answer
(B) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient
(c) each statement alone is sufficient
(D) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question
(I don’t Remember Exact values)
1) What is profit?
Statement 1
Statement 2
20% of cp=10% of sp
30% of cp – 20% of sp=2.5
2) length of tangent?
Statement 1 Radius of circle is 10 cm.
Statement 2 the sides of triangle containing circle has same length, etc.
4] 5 questions on a puzzle A,B,C,D,E,F,G faculty members. In which 3 lady members & 4 phd holders. They
teach 1 subject each as economics, physics, commerce, law, zoology, math.
Give some conditions.
Then find out
i) The lady having phd.
ii) Which of foll. Combination is wrong.
iii) G is teaching which sub.?, etc.
5] Next five questions on Data interpretation
Two graphs are given one has revenue and second may b sales.
calculation of profit between diff years, % profit, etc
6] 5 questions on logical relation
5 statements are given then in options group of 3 sentence is given.
Our task is to find out correct logical relation bet them.
E.g.
a) Egg has high protein
b) Breakfast should contain protein
c) Lunch should hav carbohydrates
d) Eggs are not proper for lunch
e) Human diet should be proper, etc
a) Abc b) cde c)abe, etc
In this solve figures first then puzzle, if comfortable with cubes then cubes or data sufficiency, then relations & at
last solve DI coz calculations are lengthy.
(Use R.S. Aggarwal reasoning book
Don’t do any puzzles of Shakuntla devi and all, not required.)
English paper (40 questions, 35 mins) not so much difficult.
i) 10 questions on Identify the errors
ii) 10 questions on correcting underlined sentences
iii) 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'
E.g. He gave the I.A.S. examination in all seriousness.
A. appeared
B. took
C. undertook
iv) 5 questions on fill in the blanks
1) IE is a ------
D. No Correction required
* Search engine
* Internet browser
2) A man unable to sleep at ni8 having a chronic disorder---* Amnesia
* Insomnia, etc
Passage 1 (5 questions) Gandhi’s passage very easy you can easily find out answers.
Passage 2 (5 questions) Economy of India. Easy one…
(Solve fill in blanks, then sentence correction. Etc. at last solve passage as they are lengthy.)
2:45 pm (Candidates shortlisted for interview) Once you are shortlisted, believe me there are very less chances of
you being rejected just be confident.
3:00 pm my Interview (I’m first person send to interview)
Me: May I come in, sir.
HR: Yes, Please.
HR: Was an aged person, but very nice otherwise.
(Did shake hand with him)
(He has my resume, mark sheets, aptitude answer sheet, applicaton which I filled before aptitude)
HR: Okay! He asked u’r hometown?
Me: told.
HR: why u came here in Pune.
Me: Told
HR: How can you say that you can work individually?
Me: Told
HR: How can you say that you can work in group?
Me: Told
(I did a project in Research Methodology)
HR: Tell me abt dis project & your role in it.
HR: (about my hobby photography. Which camera I have, etc )
Me: Told.
HR: Any Questions?
Me: Asked.
Interview ran for about 15 mins. In interview, they will ask about your project, and one general question based on
your resume. They just check your confidence and your communication skills. Don’t lose eye contact when you
answer. Justify what you say.
8:15 pm.
Infosys head of HR department comes and start making announcements. I got selected.
All the Best.
Prepare Well.
Infosys visited our college on 2nd December 2010. This time once again they had the same selection procedure,
with written exam being the main filter. With just over 180 candidates appearing for the exam only 20 made
through it and then 14 were able to convert it into final selections.
Exam was in two parts:
1. General Aptitude (Reasoning)
2. English
General Aptitude:
1. Figure Analogy(5 bits, very easy)
2. 5 questions on data sufficiency (very easy)
3. 5 on data interpretation (Very Tricky)
4. 2 Group reasoning Problems(Very difficult i didnt able to solve 7 out of 10 questions)
5. 5 Questions on logical linking of two given statements(easy)
6. No question on syllogism!
English:
1. 2 RCs (Easy, but do it at the last)
2. 8 choosing the correct sentence (Difficult)
3. 7 on error correction (easy)
4. 8-10 questions on Sentence completion (Very easy)
5. Theme Detection (Tricky)
All in all, a candidate must have a good command over the language and just going through the Articles,
Prepositions etc. on the last day won’t work.
After written exam, only HR of about 15-20 min on an average were taken which include very general HR
questions, specially related to the CV and the candidate’s personal life only.
Anyway, 14 were selected in the end and iam happpy for being one of them.
To summarise, Infosys selection needed just good aptitude and better language command, so make sure that you
acquire both well before Infosys. See you at Infosys, Bye.
Hi Friends, I am Shiva from AITAM, Tekkali (Srikakulam Dist), AP. I have attended the Infosys campus
interview conducted at our college, Tekkali, AP. Around 180 students attended the interview and friends good
news that i'm the one of lucky ones to get chance to take training from Mysore. Now I'm sharing you my
experiences with Infosys.
Eligibility:
60% in SSC
60% Intermediate
68% Engineering (up to the previous semester)
Statistic: (Approx)
Total Students=180
Students who cleared Aptitude Test=20 (Be careful huge reduction in this section)
Students Select in interview=14 (I am one of them)
Selection Process:
Analytical & Logical reasoning: (30 questions, 40 minutes)
English section: (40 questions, 35 minutes)
Sectional cutoff is not informed officially but I heard that there is 60% cutoff in first Section, & 50% from second
section.
Study Materials:
Verbal & Non verbal R.S. Aggarwal.
GRE barron's 12th edition (for English)
And ofcourse last but not least Freshersworld.com
Written Test:
Reasoning
I could not remember clearly but sure they are easy but the thing is that the problem of time. Five questions were
asked on figure Analogy, five were on data sufficiency, another five on data interpretation. This time instead of
syllogism they asked the questions based on logical linkage and connectivity of two given statements for each
quesion. Those all questions looking easy but the 10 Questions based on Group reasoing where i felt verytough are
taken more time to solve. But i failed to solve 7 questions out of 10 from group reasoning. So be careful in
managing the time.
English
This paper has 2 paragraph questions each having 5 questions. Both of the paragraphs given in my exam are
lengthy but very easy, do the Reading Comprehension at the last. And a few questions on sentence correction. Fill
in the Blanks: Gain a details idea on prepositions, phrases etc. My suggesion is be good at english grammar which
is a key factor in solving the Error detection and Correction questions.
The result was announced after 2 hours. Selected students were asked to wait for the interview.
HR Interview:
I was the first person entering the HR Panel after the Immediate announcement of the shortlisted candidates in
Written test. I advise you should be fully aware of what you have written in your Resume.
Dress formally and look presentable for the interview. Remember the interviewer will be watching you from the
moment you enter the room. Be cool. Listen to them obediently. Do not be in a hurry to answer the questions.
They may complement your answers if they wish.
MR (Managerial Round) interview:
The HR people of Infosys are very friendly. So the only quality you should show is the Confidence. My interview
is mainly focussed on extracircular activites, personal Interests like Goals, Hobbies etc. Be perfect at your project
and other extra presentations given by you.
Try to ask some Questions to them if they offer you about your Questions.
Result:
Luckily I am one of the 14 students who are finally selected for the training at Mysore. Thank God. Don't worry
you people can also get selected in Infosys.
Waiting for joining date.
Infosys Paper (for Freshers)
Test date: 1 December 2010
Test Venue: Punjabi University, Patiala
Eligibility Criteria: 60% in 10th and 12th
65% in Graduation
(Friends be careful about the eligibility criteria, Infosys people are very strict and specific about it (like even
64.999 % is not at all acceptable ))
The placement process started at about 9:00 am.
First of all they would give a sheet to collect general information about you. Be sure to have 2 passport size
photographs with you. Then after filling of the form the OMR sheet is distributed. You have to encircle the option
and write the option in box.
9:30 am.
Aptitude paper was distributed. It was an easy paper 30 questions 40 minutes. Be sure to touch the mark of 18
correct. Though 18 questions is the upper limit, but I think I got just 15 questions correct. Infy people don’t tell the
cut offs. But its good to be on the safe side, by getting minimum 18 questions correct.
First five questions on visual reasoning (very easy).
Next five questions on Data interpretation (Very difficult set)
I don’t remember the exact set and values, but set was as such
A company produces maruti 800 and maruti zen. There are 3 spray painters, two car makers and 1 quality checker.
They work 10 hours a day. It takes 25 mins to spray paint, 15 mins to make car and 20 mins quality check of
maruti 800 by a single person and 30, 15, 45 mins for maruti zen respectively
1) What is the maximum number of maruti 800 that can be built in 24 hours?
2) What is the maximum number of maruti zen that can be built in 24 hours?
Three more questions I don’t remember.
5 questions on Data sufficiency.
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) Any one statement alone is sufficient to answer
(B) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient
(c) each statement alone is sufficient
(D) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question
1) What is the value of (a+c):c
Statement 1 a:b=2:3
Statement 2 b:c=4:5
2) What is the average of 10 students?
Statement 1 The average age of six youngest students is 10 years.
Statement 2 The average age of four youngest students is 5 years.
3) The distance travelled varies directly as the square of the time taken. What is the distance travelled in
10th second?
Statement 1 Distance travelled in 5 seconds is 124 m
Statement 2 Distance travelled in 10 seconds is 567 m.
4) What is the total amount deposited in 5 accounts?
Statement 1 The average deposit of 5 accounts is Rs 500.
Statement 2 The highest and lowest amount of money in an account is 100 and 200.
5) A vessel is 50% full and another is 60% full. Which vessel has a larger capacity.
Statement 1 Vessel A gets empty to make 5/6 of vessel B full.
Statement 2 50% of water from vessel A accounts for 2/3 of vessel B.
Another set on Data interpretation ( 5 questions very easy)
(Be careful, I got my calculations wrong and ruined it)
5 questions on a puzzle P,Q,R,S,T,U,V six perons in a family, two married coupleas. They are in different
profession like Engineer, Doctor, Teacher etc etc. (Very easy)
5 questions on syllogisms (Very easy)
Don’t do any puzzles of Shakuntla devi and all, not required. No maths questions. Purely logical reasoning paper.
10:10 am
Collected L R question paper, distributed English paper (40 questions, 35 mins)
Very Very Difficult
Even students who had prepared for CAT found the English to be on a tougher side (Tougher that CAT 2010
english paper)
10 questions on Identify the errors (Very Difficult)
10 questions on correcting underlind sentences ( Moderte to very difficult)
5 questions on fill in the blanks (Not like appeared in previous papers)
They were actually complete the sentence (Very Difficult)
5 questions (moderate difficult)
3 questions on read the pagaraph and find inference.
2 questions on read the paragraph and deduce the answer.
Passage 1 (5 questions) (Difficult)
Passage 2 (5 questions) (Easy, not very lengthy)
4:00 pm (Candidates shortlisted for interview)
Cut offs (50% in Aptitude, 45 % in English) (According to me) Once you are shortlisted, believe me there are very
less chances of you being rejected, until and unless you completely ruin your interview yourself)
6:30 my Interview
Me: May I come in, sir.
HR: Yes, Please.
HR: Was an aged person, but very nice otherwise.
HR: Okay! Kapil, show me your resume.(Shown)
HR: Why there is a gap in your education?
Me: Told
HR: What is the project you have done ?
Me: Told
Another person enters the room
HR2: (Saw my resume). How did you do marketing in your college fest and what was your role?
Me: Told.
Interview ran for about 10 mins. In interview if your a Computer Science student, they will ask about your project,
and one general question based on your resume. They just check your confidence and your communication skills.
For, other streams they ask just general questions on resume. Believe me they are not there to reject you in
interview round. They make three lists, fully accepted, fully rejected, and people to be given another chance.
People in the third list was again called for an interview.
12:00 am. (In the middle of the cold night)
Infosys head of HR department comes and start making announcements
Total candidates: 450
Cleared written round: 320
Cleared Interview: 293
The people who were rejected in there interview were give main reason as a strong MTI (Mother Tongue Impact).
Please for heaven’s sake, for your own sake speak a presentable English, you need not be a super English
teacher. And, guess what I got selected.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Myself Mihi (Ariabhi) appeared in Infosys at Heritage Institute of technology, Kolkata on dated 3rd Janunary,
2011.
Appeared: 445
Written cleared: 322 (mind it)
Final selection: 314
Test pattern:
Analytical and logical
1) Analytical
2) 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 portion
6-11. 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 easy
26-30. Syllogisms (M K Pandey)-very easy
Verbal 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 sentence
There are five pairs of words denoted by numbers 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). Find out which pair of
words can be filled up in the blanks in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
33-40: Phrase subst^n.
Suggestion ( a test paper)
Sample questions:
Picture puzzles (R.S Aggarwal)
Syllogism & blood relation
Freshersworld.com
Comprehension 1
In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan
led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king
of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the
king's favor. After he was dismissed from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the
future Emperor Charles V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude
to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East
Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with
five ships. More than a year later, one of these ships was exploring the topography of South
America in search of a water route across the continent. This ship sank, but the remaining four
ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America.
Finally they found the passage
they sought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All Saints, but today we
know it as the Strait of Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to
gaze at that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian we
now call the International Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on the
Pacific Ocean. During those long days at sea, many of Magellan's men died of starvation and
disease.
Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a
tribal battle. Only one ship and seventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigator
Elcano survived to complete the westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that
the world is round, with no precipice at the edge.
1.The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
A. cosmic
B. land
C. mental
D. common man
E. none of the above
2. Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.
A. entanglement
B. discussion
C. negotiation
D. problems
E. none of the above
3. The Pope divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal according to their location on
one side or the other of an imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwich that
extends in a ___ direction.
A. north and south
B. crosswise
C. easterly
D. south east
E. north and west
4. One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a passage across the continent.
A. coastline
B. mountain range
C. physical features
D. islands
E. none of the above
5. Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___.
A. coast
B. inland
C. body of land with water on three sides
D. border
E. answer not available
6. The passage was found near 50 degrees S of ___.
A. Greenwich
B. The equator
C. Spain
D. Portugal
E. Madrid
7. In the spring of 1521, the ships crossed the ___ now called the International Date Line.
A. imaginary circle passing through the poles
B. Imaginary line parallel to the equator
C. area
D. land mass
E. answer not found in article
Comprehension 2
Thinking out of the box is one skill, among all other skills, that has shot to prominence. How about a novel
approach to help think differently, or out of the box? Crossword-solving is one of the lesser-known approaches to
thinking differently. A crossword grid usually has white & black squares in the ratio of 70:30 and sufficient no. of
across and down clues to help you fill the white ones. Just as in any other game, one needs a strategy to solve a
cross word. A seasoned cross word solver rarely reads the clues in the order presented.
As part of the game plan or strategy to avoid straight jacketed thinking, the solver usually ha s a quick glance at
the structure of the grid and at the clues to “get the feel” of the greed and forms a quick strategy to solve the
crossword. The best part is that with every new grid, the solver has an opportunity to apply a new strategy and
learn from past experiences, thereby refining his thinking process and pattern. It is this self-assessment & self
feedback that makes solving crossword so fulfilling and amusing.
The crossword is one of those rare games that test your knowledge and interest in any and every area of life.
Conventional education and work pressure leaves us little time to catch up with a lot of things that exists in this
world, thereby limiting our arena of thought. Crossword- solvers get a wonderful chance to delve into newer vistas
of life, expanding their mental arena each day.
The tidbit of information one acquires essentially does two things: makes the solver realize how little he knows of
the world outside his own and a bit more humble. With the brain introduced to
newer and newer wor(l)ds with every new grid, the solver essentially is “expanding the size of
the box”. The beauty of a crossword lies in the quality of its clues. A good crossword grid
provides clues that strive to tease and challenge the mind to think at a tangent. It demands of you to appreciate
different meanings of the same thing still known in management jargon as
creativity and innovation.
In fact a good crossword has clues that tax your brain for quite a while and, when you eventually
crack them, you tell yourself “wasn’t that obvious?”. Let’s take an example. Clue: salty letters
(*A*L).Just in case you couldn’t crack that, the answer is NACL. Similarly the answer for the
clue “Makeup man” could be LIAR. It is evident smart clues make you think tangentially or out
of the box.
Crossword challenge over-confidence. One may solve numerous crosswords and gradually develop preconceived
notions about a particular clue, not knowing that this time it may be
different. For example, you may know that the answer for the clue “Capital of India(5)” is Delhi.
However it is also a possibility that the answer is Rupee. If you think you have learnt the trick,
try this one: three-letter word for “Capital of Zimbabwe”.
Well, don’t get annoyed, the answer is “Zee”. So solving crosswords asks us to challenge our own time-tested
assumptions. It demand thinking out of a different box. While crosswords can help us think differently, that holds
true only for god quality crosswords. Lay off grids that you crack in a jiffy. Even if some clues look Regionspecific, the quality of a crossword makes it worth the effort. While a good vocabulary helps solve crosswords, it
is a misconception to believe that one can’t do without it.
Solving crosswords is much more about thinking than it is about memorizing words and their meanings. All said
and done, you need enormous patience and diligence to really get the best out
of solving crosswords. As with life, good things take a long time to happen.
8.With the brain introduced to newer and newer words with every new grid,the solver essentially is “expanding the
size of the box”.What do you infer from this statement?
a)Crosswords differ in size b)we get to enrich our vocabulary by solving crosswords.
c)A regular crossword solver expands his knowledge of the world through words.
d)Our conventional education does not help us explore the world.
9. How can can make up man and LIAR be related?
a)A make up man can disgusted people and fool others
b)When a person makes up something,it means he is trying to utter falsehoods to save his skin
c)When you cannot be present somewhere you make up for your absence by sending someone
else.
d)When you have missed classes you make up by studying harder
10. According to the author you need all the following to solve crosswords EXCEPT?
a)A greatdeal of patience b)A passion for solving them
c)great knowledge d)A good vocabulary
11. It can be inferred from the passage that
a)The author is passionate about crosswords b)Today’s youth has no patience for crosswords
c)Crosswords are a waste of time d)Crosswords have lost their orginality
12. The idiom to think out of the box in the passage means
a)to be conventional
b)to be overconfident
c)to be able to decipher different connotations of any stated thing
d)not to look clues
Comprehension 3
Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished scientists in history. Together with her husband, Pierre, she
discovered radium, an element widely used for treating cancer, and studied uranium and other radioactive
substances. Pierre and Marie's amicable collaboration later helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
Marie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a professor of physics. At the early age, she
displayed a brilliant mind and a blithe personality. Her great exuberance for learning prompted her to continue
with her studies after high school. She became disgruntled, however, when she learned that the university in
Warsaw was closed to women. Determined to receive a higher education, she defiantly left Poland and in 1891
entered the Sorbonne, a French university, where she earned her master's degree and doctorate in physics.
Marie was fortunate to have studied at the Sorbonne with some of the greatest scientists of her day, one of whom
was Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre were married in 1895 and spent many productive years working together in the
physics laboratory. A short time after they discovered radium, Pierre was killed by a horse-drawn wagon in 1906.
Marie was stunned by this horrible misfortune and endured heartbreaking anguish. Despondently she recalled their
close relationship and the joy that they had shared in scientific research. The fact that she had two young daughters
to raise by herself greatly increased her distress.
Curie's feeling of desolation finally began to fade when she was asked to succeed her husband as a physics
professor at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to be given a professorship at the world-famous university. In
1911 she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for isolating radium.
Although Marie Curie eventually suffered a fatal illness from her long exposure to radium, she never became
disillusioned about her work. Regardless of the consequences, she had dedicated herself to science and to revealing
the mysteries of the physical world.
13. The Curies' ____ collaboration helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
A. friendly
B. competitive
C. courteous
D. industrious
E. chemistry
14. Marie had a bright mind and a __personality.
A. strong
B. lighthearted
C. humorous
D. strange
E. envious
15. When she learned that she could not attend the university in Warsaw, she felt___.
A. hopeless
B. annoyed
C. depressed
D. worried
E. none of the above
16. Marie ___ by leaving Poland and traveling to France to enter the Sorbonne.
A. challenged authority
B. showed intelligence
C. behaved
D. was distressed
E. answer not available in article
17. _____she remembered their joy together.
A. Dejectedly
B. Worried
C. Tearfully
D. Happily
E. Sorrowfully
18. Her ____ began to fade when she returned to the Sorbonne to succeed her husband.
A. misfortune
B. anger
C. wretchedness
D. disappointment
E. ambition
19. Even though she became fatally ill from working with radium, Marie Curie was never ____.
A. troubled
B. worried
C. disappointed
D. sorrowful
E. disturbed
Comprehension 4
After adapting Phoenician graphic-alphabet in 900 BC, the greek employed a vowel system and
added 6 more letters (Ω omega, ψ psi, φ phi, € eta, theta, Z zeta) to make it a 24 letter
alphabet.
Earlier, β was pronounced as ‘b’. Now in Modern Greek it is pronounced as ‘v’.It took a long
time to develop the letter. There were many greek dialects and there were certain differences in
their style of writing. Lastly the lonian style of lettering was adopted. In general and after 400
BC the letters became uniform. The literature and art flourished mainly in the classical greek
period.
Although the dialects of Greek were mutually intelligible within a normal limit of understanding,
the pronunciation of words and accents differed from period to period and from dialect to
dialects. The short and long sounds of vowels also varied in different dialects and the political
situations in the country also brought many changes with the inter migration of the dialects. But,
during the establishment of Alexander’s empire in the 4th century BC and after the breakdown of
old political barriers, uniformity took place in the spoken language. This form of language was
called the Koine (means the common language) or Hellenistic Greek (400BC- 600AD).
It replaced the other dialects and the speaking and writing systems were much standardized.
Grammar also changed in different periods. A change of language is noticed in the writings of
Plato and Demosthenes. The spoken language still kept on changing even during the period of
Byzantine empire(500-1500AD) and the written language kept on improving which created a big
rift between the local vernacular and the literary greek. This situation gave birth to a separate
kind of “demotic” language of general everyday use.
All the major phonological and grammatical changes which are seen between koine and the
modern greek mostly happened within this period. Earlier there were 3 numbers for pronouns
and verbs, singular, dual and plural. Then “dual” was dropped and only singular and plural were
left.
From ancient Greek to modern Greek the formation of many words were also changed. For
example the ancient Greek word pente(5) became pende, hepta and octo (7 and 8) became efta
and okhto, paidia(boys) became pedhya and so on. There were also semantic changes in certain
words just as : the word alogho which was previously meant irrational, later it meant “horse”,
“skiazome” which previously meant “I am in shadow”, later it meant “ I fear”.
The vocabulary of greek language consists of local collections and borrowings. Considering the
origin of Greeks , there were many Mycenaean words in 2nd millennium BC whose original form
corresponded to certain greek words like Leon (Lion), onos (Ass), plephas (ivory) etc.
By using pre-verbs, by forming compounds and by adding prefixes or suffixes to this prime
words they enriched their vocabulary. Later on they also borrowed a considerable number of
word from other sources, such as, Italian, Turkish, French and also Latin.
20.What is the drawback of the Greek dialects in spite of their being intelligible?
a)it employed a vowel system b)it took a long time to develop the letter
c)the pronounciation ans accept different from period to period and from dialect to dialect
d)There were difference in their style of writing
21.There came uniformity in the language with
a)The breakdown of old political barriers in the 4th century B.C. during the establishment of
Alexander’s empire
b)the variation in the long and short vowels
c)the changes that had occurred in the grammar
d)the intermigration of dialeces
22.What was the cause of the rift between the local vernacular and the literary Greek?
a)the change in the writing of Plato and Demosthenss
b)the adoption of the Phoenician graphic alphabet
c)the differences in the style of writing of Greeek dialects
d)the spoken language kept changing while there was improvement with the written language
23.How was the vocabulary of the Greek language enriched?
a)by forming compounds,using pre-verbs and adding prefixes and suffixes to the main words
b)by local collections and borrowings
c)with the use of of many Mycehaean words
d)with the semantic changes in certain words
24.Which of the following statements is/are true,according to the passage?
a)many European language have words borrowed from the Greek
b)demotic language came into being because of the rift between the vernacular and the literary
form of Greek
c)In the Modern Greek,there is only one dialect
a)A only b)B only c)A & C d)C only
Comprehension 5
Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located between the ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and
Herculaneum, has received much attention because of its frequent and destructive eruptions. The most famous of
these eruptions occurred in A. D. 79.
The volcano had been inactive for centuries. There was little warning of the coming eruption,
although one account unearthed by archaeologists says that a hard rain and a strong wind had
disturbed the celestial calm during the preceding night. Early the next morning, the volcano
poured a huge river of molten rock down upon Herculaneum, completely burying the city and
filling in the harbor with coagulated lava.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain, cinders, stone and ash rained down on Pompeii.
Sparks from the burning ash ignited the combustible rooftops quickly. Large portions of the city
were destroyed in the conflagration. Fire, however, was not the only cause of destruction.
Poisonous sulphuric gases saturated the air. These heavy gases were not buoyant in the
atmosphere and therefore sank toward the earth and suffocated people.
Over the years, excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum have revealed a great deal about the
behavior of the volcano. By analyzing data, much as a zoologist dissects a specimen animal,
scientist have concluded that the eruption changed large portions of the area's geography. For
instance, it turned the Sarno River from its course and raised the level of the beach along the Bay of Naples.
Meteorologists studying these events have also concluded that Vesuvius caused a
huge tidal wave that affected the world's climate.
In addition to making these investigations, archaeologists have been able to study the skeletons
of victims by using distilled water to wash away the volcanic ash. By strengthening the brittle
bones with acrylic paint, scientists have been able to examine the skeletons and draw conclusions about the diet
and habits of the residents. Finally, the excavations at both Pompeii and Herculaneum have yielded many
examples of classical art, such as jewelry made of bronze,
which is an alloy of copper and tin.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its tragic consequences have provided us with a wealth of
data about the effects that volcanoes can have on the surrounding area. Today volcanologists can locate and predict
eruptions, saving lives and preventing the destruction of cities and cultures.
25.Herculaneum and its harbor were buried under ___lava.
A. liquid
B. solid
C. flowing
D. gas
E. answer not available
26. The poisonous gases were not ___ in the air.
A. able to float
B. visible
C. able to evaporate
D. invisible
E. able to condense
27. Scientists analyzed data about Vesuvius in the same way that a zoologist ___ a specimen.
A. describes in detail
B. studies by cutting apart
C. photographs
D. chart
E. answer not available
28. ____have concluded that the volcanic eruption caused a tidal wave.
A. Scientist who study oceans
B. Scientist who study atmospheric conditions
C. Scientist who study ash
D. Scientist who study animal behavior
E. Answer not available in article
29. Scientist have used ___water to wash away volcanic ash from the skeletons of victims.
A. bottled
B. volcanic
C. purified
D. sea
E. fountain
Identify the correct sentence
30.
1. Today , as he left for the central office, Manish was feeling the uncontrollable urge to change
his busy life.
2.Today as he left for the central office, Manish feels the uncontrollable urgency in changing his
busy life.
3.Today as he ws leaving for the central office, Manish felt the uncontrollable urge to change his
busy life.
4.Today as he leaves to the central office, Manish was feeling the uncontrollable urge to change
his busy life.
31. 1. If the books have been catalogued last week, why haven’t they been placed on the shelf?
2. If the books have been catalogued last week, why aren’t they placed on the shelf?
3. If the books were being catalogued last week, why haven’t they been placed on the shelf?
4. If the books were catalogued last week, why haven’t they been placed on the shelf?
32. 1. Elected to the house of representatives in 1958, the congress had the first black female
member as Sherley Chisholm.
2. Elected to the house of representatives in 1958, Sherley Chisholm became the first black
female member of congress.
3. Elected to the house of representatives in 1958, Sherley Chisholm became the first and the
black female member in the congress.
4. Elected from the house of representatives in 1958, the congress had the first black female
member as Sherley Chisholm.
33.
1.Animal experts have noticed that, in carefully controlled studies, cats retain information for a
shorter amount of time then dogs, but that cats have a faster recall time.
2. Animal experts have noted that, in carefully controlled studies, cats can be able to retain
information for a shorter amount of time then dogs, but that cats have a faster recall time.
3. Animal experts have noticed that, in a carefully controlled studies, cats retain information for a
shorter amount of time than dogs, but that cats have a faster recall time.
34.
1. In studying an assignment, it is wise to read it over quickly at first, then see the major points,
and finally outline the material.
2. In studying an assignment, it is wise to read it over quickly from the first, rather then see the
major points, and finally outline the material.
3. While studying an assignment, it is wiser to read them over quickly at first, than see the major
points, and finally outline the material.
4. In studying an assignment, it is more wiser to read it over quickly at first, than see the major
points, and finally outline the material.
35.
1. If he would have revised his first draft, he would have received a better grade.
2. If he had revised his first draft, he would have received a better grade.
3. If he would revise his first draft, he would have received a better grade.
4. If he had revised his first draft, he would receive a better grade.
4. Animal experts have noticed that, in carefully controlled studies, cats retain information for a
shorter period of time then dogs, but that cats have a faster recall time.
36.
1. Each of the movies were great and the choice for the best one among all three was very
difficult indeed.
2. Each of the movies was great and the choice for the best one between all three was very
difficult indeed.
3. Each of the movies is great and the choice for the best one among all three was very difficult
indeed.
4. Each of the movies had been great and the choice for the better one between all three was very
difficult indeed.
37.
1.The plan looks good on paper, but you never quite know how things will turn out.
2. The plan looks good with paper, but you never know quiet how things will turn out.
3. The plan looks well on paper, but you never know quite how things should turn out.
4. The plan looks good in paper, but you never know quite how things will turn out.
Which of the following words mean same as the words italicized
38 :: Obnoxious
a Offensive
b Pleasant
c speedy
d weary
39 :: Obsequy
A wedding
B funeral ceremony
C birthday
D greasy
40:: malignant
A harmful
B beneficial
C superseding
D attractive
41 :: oblivion
A lost in memory
B an island
C greenery
D whitewash
42.Paean
A. Post man
B. A musical instrumrent
C. Vain attempt
D. song of praise or joy
43. “This section deals with the removing the odd man from the following options. That means
the options are given and we have to pick out the odd one which is not related to the remaining
options. To do this we must be familiar with the words and their relation with the other words.
Here we have given some frequently asked questions and its very simple to do.”
A) Curd B) Butter C) Cheese D) Oil E) Cream
B) Rose B) Lotus C) Marigold D) Lily E) Tulip
C) Hostel B) Club C) Inn D) Hotel E) Motel
D) Pound B) Yen C) Ounce D) France E) Dollar
E) Sleet B) Fog C) Hailstone D) Vapour E) Mist
correct the underlind part.
44 The public is not so angry about corruption in government than it is disgusted with inflation.
1. Not so angry about corruption in government that it is disgusted.
2. Not so angry about corruption in government as it is disgusted.
3. Not so angry about corruption with government as it is disgusted.
4. Not so angry with corruption in government as it is disgusted
10.
45 While inspecting the ranks, the officer seen that the new recruit lay his rifle in the mud and
got it dirty.
1. the officer saw that the new recruit had laid his rifle in the mud and got it dirty.
2. the officer had seen that the new recruit lied his rifle in the mud and got it dirty.
3. the officer saw that the new recruit had laid his rifle in the mud and got it dirty.
4. the officer must have seen that the new recruit lay his rifle in the mud and got it dirty.
46. How well the new comedy series does with the ratings depends almost entirely on its
competition.
1. does for the ratings depends almost entirely on
2. does in the ratings depends almost entirely on
3. does in the ratings, depends almost entirely on
4. does in the ratings depend almost entirely on
47.Having enjoyed the scenery, the steamer next took us to Bird Isle, an island whose history
was hardly known until 1900.
1. the steamer next took us to Bird Isle,
2. the steamer will next took us to Bird Isle
3. we will next visit the Bird Isle,
4. we next voyaged to the Bird Isle,
48.Rajesh and me were left a legacy by an aunt who had always liked us both.
1. Rajesh and me were left with a legacy by an aunt who had always liked us both.
2. Rajesh and i were left a legacy by an aunt who had always liked us both.
3. . Rajesh and i was left a legacy by an aunt who likes us both.
4. . Rajesh and i had left a legacy by an aunt who had always liked us both.
49. It is his last and final wish that the money should be given to charity.
1. It is a last and final wish of him
2. It has been his last and final wish
3. It is his last wish
4. It is the latest and final wish of his
50 . One well known characteristic of earth houses is their passive solar capacity- its tendency
for keeping warm in the winter and keep cool in the summer.
1. their ability to keep warm in the winter and keep cool in the summer.
2. their ability to keep warm in the winter and keep cool in the summer.
3. their ability for keeping warm in the winter and to keep cool in the summer.
4. their capacity to keep warm in the winter and keep cold in the summer.
51 . I have my library card since August last year hence I am honored some privileges
1. I have my library card from August of last year, hence I have some honorary privileges
2. I have had my library card since August last year, hence I am honored with some privileges
3. I bought my library card since August last year nevertheless I was honored some privileges
4. I have my library card since August last year but still I am honored some privileges
52. The staff members, but not the chair, -------- not to teach on Valentine’s day.
1. has decided 2.have decided 3.is deciding 4.was deciding
53.An organ is a group of tissues capable -------- of some special function, as , for example,
the heart, the liver, or the lungs.
1.of performing 2. To perform 3.in performing 4.and perform
54 .Not one in one hundred children exposed to the disease ------- to develop symptoms of it.
1. have chances 2. Has chances 3.is likely 4. Are likely
55. Almost all books have ---------- the care taken to check their proof pages before the final
printing.
1. a little errors in them in spite of
2. a few errors in them in spite of
3.a few errors in them despite of
4. little errors in them despite
56. Regardless of your teaching method, the objective of any conversation class should be for the students to
1. practice speech 2.practice and speak 3. Practice speaking 4.do practice in speaing
57 .After the police had tried unsuccessfully to determine to ------ the car belonged, they towed
it into the station.
1.who 2.whom 3.the owner of 4. The right owner
23.Fertilizers are used primarily to enrich soil and yield
1. For increasing 2.increasing 3.to increase 4.increase
58. No other quality is more important for a scientist to acquire ------ carefully.
1.as to observe 2.but to observe
3.than observing 4.than to observe
59. The aim of education should not be solely to prepare students to get jobs, but to imbibe the
right attitude to live a quality life in society. As children grow up they develop a worldview of
their surroundings based on their perception as either male or female. The perspective of
opposite sex is also important to establish a good rapport, and develop a balanced understanding
and judgment of matters.
Reasonable inference?
1. The main aim of education is to prepare students to get jobs
2In the present context, education does not provide the right attitude to live a quality life
3. Coeducation is very important to obtain right perspective of the world.
4. An awareness of gender differences is crucial to an equitable understanding of things.
60. New Zealand has breath taking natural environment. Its gorgeous beaches, lush rain forests,
snow capped mountains and active volcanoes attract students for a refreshing break from studies, providing them
god added value to education. The largely temperate climate and pure, natural environment beckon students to
outdoors to experience the varied eco systems which are rarely found so close to each other.
Which is true?
1. Students of newzealand have too many distractions by the way of beaches and similer spots to concentrate on
their studies.
2. The country does not experience extremes of climate.
3. New Zealand is unique in that it has variety of nature as part of its environment.
4. The natural environment has the best educative value.
61. A look at the box office will reveal the huge success of movies like Ice Age, Lion king,
Finding Nemo, The incredible, Alladin and the list goes on. This is not to leave out our beloved
Tom,Jerry,& Pop-eye.The world of animation is one filled with excitement & harmless
enimity.The antics & activities of these evergreen characters make us break into peals of
laughter.
1. The cartoon characters have now lost their charm.
2. Animation in movies has made TV cartoons redundant
3. Cartoons have a universal appeal and enthrall audience across all age groups
4. Animated movies & serials perpetuate harmless enimity among the characters.
62 .Maya Academy & Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) is the academic & training wing of Maya
entertainment limited,a leading computer animation & visual effects studio,MAAC today has
over 45centres in India & abroad MAAC provides courses in areas of 3D animation,digital film
production,post production & visual effects.
1. MAAC is the pioneer in animation & visual effects corses
2. The Academy offers training on Sophisticated technology in animation
3. It is essentially a joint venture company
4. MAAC doesnot commit its post production services to other types of movies
63. Modern age is the age of science. Many things keep changing with the passage of time. There is speedy
progress everywhere. Knowledge about things is spreading quickly. It is essential for everybody to have the latest
knowledge about things. Now the question arises as to what the source of knowledge is. Power of the press is
important here. The press tells us what is
happening in different parts of the world. All progress in any field is conveyed to us by the press.
It is assumed that
1. In this modern age of sciences, it is difficult to tress the sources of knowledge.
2. The press has facilitated access to knowledge and latest developments in science.
3.The changes with the passage of time have contributed to the speedy progress in science.
4. The role of the media in information dissemination is a recent development.
Directions : In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence
there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). Find out which pair of
words can be filled up in the blanks in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
64. A nation that loses the _______ of honesty loses its __________.
1) power, will
2) appeal, charisma
3) dictum, ground
4) stamina, courage
5) virtue, soul
65. If one gets rid of the government officials and politicians from the _____ of economic
activities, corruption will be _____.
1) hub, balanced
2) nexus, reprimanded
3) gear, eliminated
4) genre, alleviated
5) sphere, reduced
66. The principal aim of a socialist state is to ____ _______ in income and status and standards
of life.
1) abolish, poverty
2) curb, menace
3) eliminate, inequality
4) check, gulf
5) minimise, standards
67. To fight natural calamities wisdom requires that we ________ crises and _______ for them.
1) apprehend, tackle
2) anticipate, prepare
3) hamper, secure
4) address, evolve
5) sense, deviate
68. This collection of essays has _________ beyond the traditional ______ of a versatile
economist.
1) ventured, domain
2) marked, line
3) performed, performance
4) sold, copyright
5) held, charisma
69. It is quite true that when the whole economy is in ________, raising the rate of interest has
other ________.
1) seize, burdens
2) shambles, dimensions
3) jeopardy, glimpse
4) distress, implications
5) swing, justification
70. In a democracy, it is essential that ______ voices on one extreme or the other should exist as
part of the system of checks and _____.
1) concerned, pressure
2) dissenting, balances
3) confronting, pranks
4) opposition, whims
5) eager, fancies
Directions : Study the following table and answer accordingly: The following table shows the
marks obtained by six students in six different subjects.
Stu./Sub. History(100)Maths(200)English(150)Biology(150)Econo.(100)Hindi(150)
Ankit 62 162 113 30 75 90
Sana 59 118 103 38 72 107
Ramar 54 173 97 26 79 105
Sumantra69 106 100 36 68 118
Joseph 68 109 109 32 75 113
Sharbani 72 143 76 40 64 103
71. Which two students have got equal marks in all subjects together?
1) Ankit-Joseph
2) Joseph- Ramar
3) Sana- Sumantro
4) Sana- Sharbani
5) Ankit-Sharbani
72. What is the approximate ratio between the sum of percentages of marks obtained by Ramar
in History and Hindi and percentage marks obtained by Sharbani in Maths?
1) 7:4
2) 4:7
3) 7:5
4) 8:5
5) 5:9
73. Percentage of marks obtained by Sumantro in Economics is what percent more/less as a
percentage of the percentage marks obtained by Ankit in Maths?
1) 15%
2) 10%
3) 13%
4) 19%
5) 23%
74. Percentage of marks obtained by Joseph in all subjects together is
1) 63.43%
2) 67.46%
3) 70.43
4) 60.59%
5) 73.43%
75. The marks obtained by Sumantro in Hindi is what per cent more than the marks obtained
Sana is English?
1) 12.34%
2) 10.87%
3) 14.56%
4) 16.43%
5) 17.89%
76. What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following equation?
13 + 5 - ? = 14
1)4
2)4
3)4
4)5
5) None of these
Directions: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the
sentence meaningfully complete.
77. These essays are intellectually …………… and represent various levels of complexity
A) Revealing B) Modern C) persistent D) demanding E) persistent
78. It was almost impossible for him to put out of his mind the …………… words which he
heard from his clever father-in-law
A) Inspiring B) witty C) sarcastic D) soothing E) exhortative
79. Integrity of character, honesty, dependability and discipline…………… with a genuine
interest in your work will go a long way in the achievement of success in your professional life.
A) Coupled B) adjoined C) fixed D) attached E) joined
80. The soldiers were instructed to…………………….restraint and handle the situation
peacefully.
A) Exercise B) control C) prevent D) enforce E) remain
81. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was one of the chief…………… of women’s rights
A) Promoters B) facilitators C) instigators D) organizers E) protagonists
82. Her parents will never give their ………to such an unsuitable match.
A. willingness B. agreement C. consent d. acquiescence
83. He is ……… dancer
A. a skilled B. an adept C. an adapt d. an adopt
84. The degrees were awarded in the annual…………………….
A. conference B. convention C. Convolution D. convocation
Directions: 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’
85. He did many mischiefs
A. made many a mischiefs B. made much mischief
C. Committed many mischiefs D. No Correction required
86. Rohit is as fast as or perhaps faster than Manish.
A. Equally fast B. almost as fast C. as fast D. No Correction required
87. All his family members are in Kanpur.
A. All of his family members
B. All the family members if his
C. All the members of his family
D. No Correction required
88. I often see him dancing the top
A. rotating
B. encircling
C. dodging
D. No Correction required
89. What is the time in your watch?
A. on B. by C. from D. No Correction required
90. Columbus invented America
A. searched B. traced C. discovered D. No Correction required
91. Wise men catch time by the forelock.
A. Hold B. seize C. take D. No Correction required
92. A bird in hand is worth two in bush
A. two in the bush b. two at a bush c. two on bush D. No Correction required
Direction : Read the following information & answer the questions based on them
Raghav & mohit are friends.Raghav has three sons while mohit has 2.Product of the ages of
Mohit’s sons is equal to the product of ages of Raghav’s sons.The maximum & minimum age
difference between any two of Raghav’s sons are 2years & 1 year respectively.The age
difference between the sons of Mohit is 1year.One of Mohit’s sons had fallen sick when he was 9
yrs old.Mohit had got married on feb29th,19yrs back.Ages of all the sons of Raghav & Mohit are
integers.
93. What is the age of the youngest son of Raghav?
a)1yr b)2yr c)3yr d)none of these
94. What is the age of the eldest son of Raghav?
a)9yrs b)10yrs c)7yrs d)Data Inadequate
95. What is the sum of ages of Raghav’s sons?
a)6yrs b)12yrs c)16yrsd)18yrs
96. What is the age of Mohit’s eldest son?
a)13yrsb)14yrs c)Data Inadequate d)None of these
97. What is the product obtained by Mohit’s son’s ages?
a)210yrs b)200yrs c)182yrs d)None of these
Direction : Each Question is followed by two statements, I & II . Mark the answer
1.If the question can be answered by using one of the statements alone,but cannot be
answered using the other statement alone.
2.If the question can be answered by using either statement alone.
3.If the question can be answered by using both statements together,but cannot be
answered using either statement alone.
4.If the question cannot be answered even by using both statements together.
98. Is x3 y2 > 1 ?
I. x2 = 1 II. Y=1
99. How many days does it take to complete a job if A & B work on alternate days?
I.A takes 10 days & B takes 15 days to do the job working all alone.
II.A works on the first day.
100. How many leap yrs are there from year A to year B?
I. B – A = 40
II.There is no multiple of 100 falling between the years A & B
101. Average speed of a car for return journey is
I.It travelled equal distance each time
II.Time taken for onward & return journey was 51 mins & 47mins,respctvly.
102. How many girls does a class have?
I.There are a total of 40 students in the class.
II.The product of the no. of boys & the no. of girls is 300.
Direction : Study the following graph carefully&answer the qns given below it.
HUMAN RESOURCE INDEX OF AN ORGANIZATION FOR THE GIVEN YRS:
103. What is the percentage increase of human resource index from 1993 to 1999?
a)250 b)300 c)275 d)None of these
104.The index in 1998 was what percent of that of 1996?
a)100 b)150 c)200 d)None of these
105.Which of the following statement is true?
a)The index increased every yr.
b)The index showed many ups&downs
c)The index has made good progress over the yrs
d)Except for some spurts the index in general remained steady
106.What is the approximate avg for the given yrs?
a)100 b)150 c)140 d)130
107.In which yr is the percentage increase in the highest from its previous yrs?
a)1994 b)1999 c)1996 d)None of these
Direction : Read The following data & answer the qns.
1>P,Q,R,S,T & U are six teachers in a school teaching a different subject eachMath,Physics,Sociology,Biology,Geography & History, not necessarily in the same
order.There are only 4 female teachers
2>Q teaches History .No female teaches Biology or Math.S, who teaches Sociology,is the
oldest.P is older than R and teaches Physics.The youngest teaches Biology & U is not the
youngest.T teaches Math & is older than P but younger than Q & U.
108.Which of the following is the group of females?
a)RPSU b)RSTQ c)PQTU d)PQSU
109. Which subject does U teach?
a)Geography b)Sociology c)Geo or Sociology d)None
110.Who teaches Biology?
a)P b)S c)R d)None
111.If all the teachers are arranged in descending order of their ages,what will be the position of
the two male teachers respectively?
a)II & VI b)IV & VI c)III & VI d)None
112.Who is the youngest in the group?
a)Q b)T c)P d)None
Direction : Each qn contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of
three.Choose the set in which the statements are logically related.
113. A.Some buildings may have rain
B.Forests have buildings
C.Cities have forests
D.Forests have monkeys
E.Forests have rain
F.Cities have rain
a)CDE b)AFC c)AEB d)EBA
114. A.Some people are corrupt
B.Power corrupts with time
C.He is powerful
D.Corrupt ppl have power
E.He is corrupt
F.Some ppl have power
a)CBE b)CEB c)FAD d)ADF
115. A.Krishnan & Vinod are friends
B.Vinod likes Krishnan & vice versa
C.Krishnan likes vinod
D.Friends are enemies
E.Friends are mutual liking
F.Vinod is Krishnan’s enemy
a)CEA b)FED c)AEC d)EAB
116. A.Competitive examinations are tough to pass
B.There is heavy competiton in any field
C.No student can pass MAT
D.Very few students can pass MAT
E.MAT is a competition examination
F.MAT is tough to pass
a)AEF b)ABC c)DFB d)CDE
117. A.Lakme is a nail polish
B.Some nail polishes contain oil
C.All nail polishes donot contain oil
D.All nail polishes contain chemicals
E.Lakme has oil
F.Lakme contain chemical
a) BCE b)AEB c)FDA d)AEF
118. A women buys some shoestrips n then 4 times of that she buys
packet pins n then 8 times of shoestrips she buys handkerchiefs..n
she has a bill of Rs3.24..n she pays for each article as many paise
as there r articles(of tht particular item).Now whats the number of
handkerchiefs?
119. Ms.Anitha got her salary n she spent half of it in shopping n gave
1RS to a beggar.After that 1/2 of the remaining money she spends in
a hotel n she gives Rs.2/- as a tip to waiter.n then 1/2 of the
remaining she spends again n she gives 3 RS as charity..n after that
finally she is left with Rs 1/- when she comes out.Whats the actual
money she had?
120. A person is cycling in a circular track.At some point he notices
that 1/5 of people in front of him and 5/6 of people together
condtitute the total no. of cyclists.Find the total no. of cyclists.
121.Trains leave from New York to Washington every hour on the
hour(1:00,2:00....).Trains leave from Washington to New York every
hour on the hour and half hour(1:00,1:30,2:0,2:30....).It takes a train 5
hrs to complete its journey from Washington to New York as well as
from new york to washington.A train leaves from new york to washington. Find
out how many trains it will meet before it reaches washington.
122. A pen, pencil and eraser together cost $1.00. if 2E2P, and P>4E then what a single pen will
cost?
123. 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.
124. After three years, father's age will be ten years more than twice the son's age.
What is the father's present age.
125. Find the values of each of the alphabets.
NOON
SOON
+MOON
---------JUNE
126. There are 20 poles with a constant distance between each pole
A car takes 24 second to reach the 12th pole.
How much will it take to reach the last pole.
Let the distance between two poles = x
Hence 11x:24::19x:?
127. A car is travelling at a uniform speed.
The driver sees a milestone showing a 2-digit number.
After travelling for an hour the driver sees another milestone with the same digits in reverse
order.
After another hour the driver sees another milestone containing the same two digits.
What is the average speed of the driver.
128. The minute and the hour hand of a watch meet every 65 minutes.
How much does the watch lose or gain time and by how much?
129. Ram, Shyam and Gumnaam are friends.
Ram is a widower and lives alone and his sister takes care of him.
Shyam is a bachelor and his neice cooks his food and looks after his house.
Gumnaam is married to Gita and lives in large house in the same town.
Gita gives the idea that all of them could stay together in the house and share monthly expenses
equally.
During their first month of living together, each person contributed Rs.25.
At the end of the month, it was found that Rs 92 was the expense so the remaining amount was
distributed equally among everyone.
The distribution was such that everyone recieved a whole number of Rupees.
How much did each person recieve?
HR round:
went at 9 am at 4th Janunary, 2011.
Me: May I come in sir?
Sir( An aged person around 50-55 years) yes please be seated
Sir: So you arew from Kolkata?
Me: No sir, I'm from Bharasat.
Sir: Barasat? I visited the place for more than once.
Me: Nice relieve in my face.
Sir: Do you know some places in Barasat. Blah blah..
Me: Told
Sir: Your Schooling from?
Me: Told
Sir: So you are from Bengali medium? Do you have ny problem in communication english?
Me: No sir, about SPNDN 12 years in ben med school I have got good score consistently in my 3 years of B.Tech.
In GD ETC Blah Blah.
Sir: So your overall GD, you need a bit of polish in English this IT.
Have a nice day.
Me: Thank you sir.
I was sure after giving my interview that I have made it. It was nice.
N remember: you don't need any CAT material keep your cool and go for the written test.
See you in Infosys, Mysore.
Best of luck, Guys and be confident.
Hi Everybody,
I am Anuj Oberoi, a final year Computer Science and Engineering student from Hindu College of Engineering,
Sonepat. I recently attended a campus placement drive organised by M/s Infosys, at the Bhagwan Mahavir Institute
of Engineering and Technology, Sonepat, Haryana and luckily got a placement in the said company.
1) Regarding the preparation duration
I believe that 2 weeks are more than enough to prepare for the exam, provided you study dedicatedly and strictly in
consonance with the pattern.
Means of writing=Black or Blue Pen
They also provide you with a blank paper for rough work
There are 5 options, out of which you have to encircle the correct option and write the option number in the space
provided
2) Regarding the examination pattern
The Infosys Placement exam has 2 consecutive papers namely
(a) Quantitative/Verbal Non Verbal Paper
Duration=40 Minutes
Number of Questions=30
Topics covered:
Questions 1 to 5 = Pictorial Figure Series Questions
We had had four figure questions, in which an intermediate missing figure was to be guessed
Books to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Verbal/Non Verbal.
Advice=Even a practice of just 50 questions from each exercise of the chapter titled "Series" from the Non Verbal
Reasoning part of the book will suffice.
Questions 6 to10= A puzzle.
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Verbal/Non-Verbal.
Note: This puzzle is relatively easier than another subsequent puzzle in the paper
Advice=Please have a thorough practice of the entire chapter titled "Puzzle Test". You may leave the last 2
exercises if You're running out of time
Questions 11 to 15=Data Sufficiency Questions.
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Verbal/Non-Verbal + Some CAT preparation material
Advice=The chapter is "Data Sufficiency" in the "General Mental Ability" Section.
Questions 16 to 20=Data Interpretation Questions
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Quantitative Aptitude.
Advice=Please have an intensive preparation of the chapters 36,37,38, and 39 on Tabulation, Bar Graphs, Pie
Charts and Line graphs respectively.
Questions 21 to 25=Another Puzzle, but somewhat tougher than the previous one.
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Verbal/Non-Verbal, with Chapter titled "Puzzle"
Advice=Advice for Questions 6 to 10 + Most of the times, this puzzle is straight-away lifted from unsolved
questions of exercises 1 to 5
Questions 26 to 30 =Correct Sequencing of 6 statements labelled P,Q,R,..... with implicit Syllogism
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Verbal/Non-Verbal, with
Advice=Refer to the chapter titled "Logic" in the "Logical Reasoning" section of the book.
(b)English Paper
Duration=30 Minutes
Number of Questions=40
Topics covered:
Questions 1 to 10=Choosing the correct sentence
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Objective General English
Advice=Refer to chapter 18 + some CAT preparation material
Questions 11 to 25=Sentence Completion + Choosing the appropriate filter + Sentence Improvement
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Objective General English
Advice=Refer to the chapters 11,14,15 and 16 (emphasis on chapter 14 and 15). Though questions do not come
from chapter 14, but practice of this chapter's exercises helps in chapter 16
Questions 26 to 30=Theme Detection + Deriving Conclusion from passages
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Objective General English
Advice=Refer to the chapters 9 and 10 of this book.
Questions 31-35=Passage(Long)
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Objective General English
Advice=Refer to chapter 7 of the book
Questions 36 to 40=Passage(Somewhat Shorter)
Book to consult=R.S. Aggarwal Objective General English
Advice=Refer to chapter 8 of the book
(c) H.R. Interview
The Interviewer was a Female, aged around 45 years from South India.
When I was just sitting outside, waiting for my turn for the interview, the lady HR came out; I immediately stood
up in her honor. Though this isn't necessary at all, but it casts a positive impression on the interviewer beforehand.
Also. sit straight and don't shake your legs or sit cross-legged as this casts a negative impression on the
interviewer.
Me: May I Come in Ma'am?
HR: Yes, Come in Anuj.
Me: May I have a seat Ma'am?
HR: Yes Please.
Me (Sitting): Thank You Ma'am.
HR: Please fill up this form.
Me:(filled)
HR(with my answer sheet in her hand): Anuj, you have scored exceedingly well in the English section, but you
seem to have marginally passed in the Quants section. Why so? I mean, going by your Computer Science
background and seeing your Resume, I would have expected you to score better in the Quants than in English.
Me(Shocked):Ma'am I suppose I may have fared reasonably well in both the sections, and this is the reason, why I
have been called for this interview. I stressed more on the English section during preparation and also that some of
the questions in the Quants paper were totally new to me.
HR: Which books did you study for this exam?
Me: Replied.
HR: Did you practice it only in the last week?
Me: No. I started preparing for this exam, around 2 and a half months back; its only in the last week that I brushed
with all that I had learnt.
HR: Did you practice it in writing or did you just skim through the topic?
Me: No Ma'am. i thoroughly practiced all these books in writing.
HR: How do you study?
Me: Told
HR: Did you give any mock tests for this exam?
Me: Yes.
HR: What was your performance in the Englis Section of those mock tests?
Me: I had a score of around 80-85% in English section.
HR: And in the Quants section?
Me: I had roughly the same score and accuracy, but it took me more time to attempt the Quants section vis-à-vis
the english one.
HR: Ok, what project have you made so far in your final year?
Me: Told.
HR: What has been your role in it?
Me: Told.
HR: How far is it complete?
Me: Told.
HR: What inspired you to make this project?
Me: Told
HR: What was your mentor’s view about this project?
Me: Told.
HR: Which co-curricular activities have you participated in?
Me: Told
HR: Ok Anuj, It has been very nice, interviewing you, All the best for your future.
Me: Ok, Thank You Ma’am.
As every one know that Infosys contains two rounds i.e
1) Written test
2) HR round
Written test:
The written contains two sections i.e reasoning and english, reasoning is very easy, they will give 30 questions
in 40 mins, one can easily do 25 questions if they has regular practice, the cutt off for reasoning is around 18 to 20,
i.e 60 to 65 %.
Friends my suggestion is you first concentrate on the cutt off marks i.e , our target is to do 18 questions in 40 mins
which was very easy, then go for single option we can clear easily the reasoning.
Next was english which was very tough, they will give 30 questions in 30 mins, in which two large passages are
given which takes more time, but good news is that the cutt off is 50 to 55 % i.e 12 to 14, my suggestion is first
concentrate on passage, we can get easily 10 marks there and put one option remaining and we can clear easily.
HR round:
The infosys H.R persons are very cool persons, they are around 50 to 60 years, my HR Madam was very nice.
Me: May I come in Madam
HR: Yes Hemanth come in
Me: Thank you Madam
HR: Take your seat Hemanth
Me: Thank you.
HR: Give your copy of Resume
Me: Given
HR: What have you done for these 3 months after completing your B.Tech
Me: I told about my IAF interview process, she impressed by my explanation
HR: Yur hobbies
Me: Told, by giving my strengths, she again impressed
HR: Hemanth, why are you so fast, do you want water
Me: Yes Madam.
HR: Being EEE side why you are coming to software side
Me: I already prepared for this question, she impressed by my answer, then the whole process turned as two
friends talking to one another, I was very happy that I did very well, the HR interview continue for another 10
mins, with general topics like projects, and our acheivements.
HR: Any questions to ask hemanth.
Me: Yes Madam,
1) What is cloud computing
2) Wheather we have to go for any courses before training
3) How was my interview
HR: Explains clearly for all my questions, and said it was really very nice talking to you Hemanth
Me: Same feeling Madam.
After HR round the Infosys people came and said, the results will be mailed after 3 weeks, on 17th December
exactly around 11 am I received a mail from Infosys with a offer letter, at that time I was so happy and my eyes is
filled with with tears, by the blessings of god and my family and my friends and my hard work brings sucess for
me.
Friends I didn't crack TCS (HR), CTS, L&T, and finally I cracked the Infosys, and i'm very happy to be part of
Infosys.
Its my life and I made it large, finally Hemanth became an Infoscion.
I hope my experience will give you certain knowledge about Infosys, all the best friends, meet you all in Mysore
campus.
Bye..
I attended infosys recuritment drive (through jkc) on 24th March, 2011. So the pattern of Infosys which
mentioned in previous papers as same. First of all before starting written exam we have pre-presentation activity
that may takes nearly one hour(explained company details by HR). After that written exam wouid be started.
Patteren like this
1: logicol reasoing(30ques-40min)
2: verbal ability(40ques-35min)
First of all reasoing paper given that consists structure like this
1-5 (three figures given those are some arrangements and fourth given as questoin mark and Select a suitable
figure from the Answer Figures that would replace the question mark (?).this type of questions are in indiabix the
exact part is non-verbal reasoing analogy part)
6-10(simple puzzle)
11-15(data interpertation more calculations require)
16-20(data suffiency )
21-25(did not say complex but some wat tough puzzle)
26-30(syllogims)
so after 5min gap verbal paper was given that consists like this
1-8(spotting errors)
9-16(choosing apprapriate sentence from the given options)
17-23(sentence filler ,sentence completion,synonyms,antonyms e.t.c will be given)
24-30(about theme detection)
31-35(small passage)
35-40(lenghthy and tough so u go question to answer)
totaly after 75mins answer sheet collected and result announced afetr three hrs sectional cuttoff may be reasoing
60% and verbal 50% based on requirement of those.
one thing would remind that if u need compulsary placement in infosys u can do the written paper espacially
verbal its look like simple and also answers are nearly same but picking of best one is main thing so do those with
another people or with team.
All the best guys!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hello Friends.
I am Vipin Kumar from MMEC Mullana. I am sharing my experience with you about the joint campus placement
drive by Infosys.
It was held in Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana. Four colleges were there: MMEC, Rayat,
BabaBanda Bahadur and One More.
In all about 1500 students appeared and nearly 300 students were selected. and 156 was from Our College.
The procedure was simple. Only aptitude and HR.
Aptitude
The aptitude test started at 11:30 am.
At first, reasoning question paper was given. it had 30 questions to be done in 40 minutes. It was all reasoning.
Just 1 or 2 questions of quants were there.
First five questions were on Odd Figure Selection. they were very easy(practice them from R.S Aggarwall).
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Next it was a Quesion regarding n/w of nodes and there were some question regarding finding of shortest
path b/w different nodes
Next there were 5 questions on data sufficiency. they were also easy.
Again it was a puzzle.It was very -very easy.
Next again there were six questions of syllogism. four were very easy two are average bcoz they contain
negative statement.
Reasoning is very -very easy . Just practice from R.S Aggarwal Verbal & Non Verbal reasoning. You need not to
practice Quant for Infosys Paper. just Practice From R.S Aggarwal Verbal & Non Verbal reasoning.
English
After reasoning english paper was given. it had 40 questions to be done in 35 minutes.
It was little bit tough.
It had questions based on
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finding errors (very easy Refer Hari Mohan Prashad for 90 rules to find error and its enough)
sentence completion ( very easy Refer Hari Mohan Prashad) .
Two unseen passages (Difficult. My Suggestion to u is to read english newspaper daily then u will be able
to conclude passages)
Inference Question(Difficult. Again my suggestion to u is to read english newspaper daily then u will be
able to conclude such questions)
The english paper was balanced one. Not so tough not even easy. The aptitude test was over at 12:45 pm. Then the
results for our college were declared at 5:30 pm. And I was one among those who cleared aptitude test.
HR Interview
The interviews started at 11:30 pm in the Night. I wait for 10 hour nearly and my interview strated at 11 pm. At
my turn, I went inside the room. Interviewer was a Old man. he asked me to sit down. I thanked him.
Then he asked for resume. I gave him. then looking my percentage he said" How u manage such high percentage"
To which I replied.
Then he asked about the my schooling, city.
He asked how u manage ur time.
why inf should select u.
Then he said "interview is over. u want to ask any question." interview lasted for only 5-6 minutes.
It was 2:00 AM in the night and we all were desperately waiting for the results in seminar hall and Result was
announced and i was one of them.
156 students were selected from our college. So guys I hope this will help you a lot.
One thing i want to tell u again
Prepare only from R.S Aggarwal Verbal & Non Verbal reasoning and Hari Mohan Prashad.(its enough)
CAT material is more than enough.
Students having good communication skills have advantage.
The criterion was 65% in btech and 60 % in X and XII.
Good %age is important for infosys.
So Guys going Mysore.
See you there.
All the best and believe in God.
The Greatest Infosys company has been visited my college at 25th Jan, 2010.
Hello I'm Giri from Tirupur. I was placed in Infosys. I proud of this
Pattern:
First introduction of a company. Then she (HR) told a eligibility criteria.
10th and 12th % :above 60%
and UG % is above 60% (nill arrears must)
Process:
Aptitude test is first round.
Study R.S.Aggarwal material (Quantitative aptitude, logical reasoning)
If you have TIME material also study this. And a must one is Basic Comupter knowledge.
Study the important topic:
1. Average
2. Percentage
3. Time&distance
4. Pipes and cistern
5. Train5.picture identify
6. Data interpretation
Verbal:
1. Fill in the blanks
2. Active voice, passive voice
There is no negative mark
Then I was clear a Written test.
Next round is HR.
HR is female.
Me: May i come in mam?
HR: Yes come in
Hr: please sit.
Me: thank u mam.
HR: ok giri tell me about ur self.
Me: i tell something about me.
HR: Why ur choosing infosys?
ME: i tell something about infosys.
HR: whats ur outside interest?
Me: i told my hobbies.
HR: tell me something about ur project.
ME: told my project details.
HR: Smile..OK..please wait outside
Me: Thank u mam.
The result was announced with in 1 hour.
I was selected.
If you have any questions regarding it. Please submit below.
It was held in Lingyas university, Faridabad. Three colleges were there: Lingyas, BSAITM and Apeejay.
In all 661 students appeared and nearly 110 students were selected.
The procedure was simple. Only aptitude and HR.
Aptitude
The aptitude test started at 11 am.
At first, reasoning question paper was given. it had 30 questions to be done in 40 minutes. It was all reasoning.
Just 1 or 2 questions of quants were there. 1 question was from geometry based on circles, tangents and
quadirilateral.
First five questions were on series/pattern. they were very easy.
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Next it was a puzzle. A,B,C,D,E,F,G are buses. Monday to Friday , train B leaves at 6 am, next bus leaves
after 45 minutes, next all the buses leave after 45 min. On sunday the order of buses is same but time gap is
1 hour. Bus G goes 2nd, E goes after C etc.etc. It was a simple one. 5 questions were on this puzzle.
next there were 4 questions on data sufficiency. they were also easy.
Again it was a puzzle base on 8 people sitting around a round table. A similar to this is in RS Aggarwal. It
was easy.
Next again it was a puzzle. its language was little bit tricky. it had 4 questions.
And one more puzzle was there. it was little bit tough. it had five questions. it was like, A,B,C,D,E,F,G are
teachers teaches english , geography, maths, sanskrit, physics, plo science and history and were from kolkata,
delhi, pune, lucknow, punjab, bihar, MP. a teacher from kolkata does not teach maths. B teaches english but not
from delhi. etc etc. It was simple but lenghty... A similar to this is also in R.S Aggarwal.
It was simple but bcoz of 4 puzzles it became time consuming. Time management and accuracy are important.
Aptitude is not tough at all. Just practice from R.S Aggarwal.
English
After reasoning english paper was given. it had 40 questions to be done in 35 minutes.
It was little bit tough. It had questions based on finding errors which were quite tough. Questions from Syllogism
were very easy. Practice from R.S Aggarwal.
Fill in blanks with correct option.
And Two unseen passages
First passage was difficult and second was very easy. Just check both passages and do the easy one first. Again
time management is the key to success. Do passages in the last. Also take a look at active/passive and prepositions.
The english paper was balanced one. Not so tough not even easy. The aptitude test was over at 12:15 pm. Then the
results were declared at 2:30 pm. And I was one among those who cleared aptitude test.
HR Interview
The interviews started at 4 pm in the evening. I wait for 1 hour nearly and my interview strated at 5. At my turn, I
went inside the room. Interviewer was a young lady. She asked me to sit down. I thanked her.
Then she asked for resume. I gave her. then looking my percentage she said" you got 79.5 %, were u a topper?"
To which I said" I missed the chance three times by one, two and six marks. I am still trying to get that position".
then she said all the best and i thanked her for wishes.
Then she asked about the projects, problems faced. Some basic questions about the database (MS ACCESS)
which I used in one of my projects.
At one of her questions about database I said that I dont know the answer. She asked question about the research
paper.
Then she said "interview is over. u want to ask any question." interview lasted for only 10 minutes. The result were
declared separately for each college.
It was 7 in the evening and we all were desperately waiting for the results in seminar hall. A lady came in with
TPO of our college. She first did a normal chat with us. then she said " do u have any questions?" To which we
asked abt training and package.
She said that training will of 4-6 months and it would be in mysore. the package they offered is 3.5 lakhs.
then she started calling names of those who were selected. She was calling names one by one. For a considerable
amount of time i didn't hear my name so i thought perhaps i am am not selected. But suddenly she called my name
and i was surprised and so happy to hear my name.
16 students were selected from our college. So guys I hope this will help you a lot.
Prepare from RS aggarwal. CAT material is more than enough. Students having good communication skills have
advantage. The criterion was 65% in btech and 60 % in X and XII. but preference was given to more than 70%
marks in btech. Good %age is important for infosys.
So Guys going Mysore.
See you there.
All the best and most impotant be confident and believe in God.
Infosys Paper (for Freshers)
We had pool campus at EAST point college of engg. 3 colleges had participated. (east point,CIT and KIT) Out of
109 from our coll CIT, 16 cleared written and also got placed. This time once again they had the same selection
procedure, with written exam being the main filter. With just over 200 (from all 3 colleges) candidates appearing
for the exam only around 40 made through it and then 37 got placed.
Test date: 7th Jan, 2011
Test Venue: east point college of engineering.
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Eligibility Criteria: 60% in 10th and 12th
65% in Graduation
(Friends be careful about the eligibility criteria, Infosys people are very strict and specific about it (like even
64.999 % is not at all acceptable ))
The placement process started at about 9:00 am. but the schedule was late by 45 mins, so started at 9:45 am. 2
people from company gave ppt till 10:00am.
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First of all they would give a sheet to collect general information about you. Be sure to have 2 passport size
photographs with you. Then after filling of the form the OMR sheet is distributed. You have to encircle the
option and write the option in box.
Aptitude paper was distributed. It was an easy paper 30 questions 40 minutes. Be sure to touch the mark of
18 correct. Though 18 questions is the upper limit. Infy people don’t tell the cut offs. But its good to be on
the safe side, by getting minimum 18 questions correct.
First five questions on visual reasoning (very easy).
Next five questions on Data interpretation.
I don’t remember the exact set and values, but set was as such.
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5 questions on Data sufficiency.
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) Any one statement alone is sufficient to answer
(B) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient
(c) each statement alone is sufficient
(D) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question
Another set on Data interpretation ( 5 questions very easy)
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5 questions on a puzzle P,Q,R,S,T,U,V six perons in a family, two married coupleas. They are in different
profession like Engineer, Doctor, Teacher etc etc. (Very easy)
Don’t do any puzzles of Shakuntla devi and all, not required. No maths questions. Purely logical reasoning
paper.
Collected L R question paper, distributed English paper (40 questions, 35 mins)(Difficult)
10 questions on Identify the errors (Difficult)
10 questions on correcting underlind sentences ( Moderte difficult)
5 questions on fill in the blanks (Not like appeared in previous papers)
They were actually complete the sentence ( Difficult)
5 questions (moderate difficult)
3 questions on read the pagaraph and find inference.
Passage 1 (5 questions) (EASY)
Passage 2 (5 questions) (Easy, not very lengthy)
completed written round at 1.30.
3:00pm ( announced Candidates shortlisted for interview)
(According to me) Once you are shortlisted, believe me there are very less chances of you being rejected, until and
unless you completely ruin your interview yourself)
6:30 my Interview (before I get into room, volunteers collected my cv and the sheet we filled at the start and gave
to interviewer)
Me: May I come in, mam.
HR: Yes, Please.
HR: hi.
me: hi , mam. good afternoon
(dont loose eye contact )
HR: What is the project you have done ?
Me: i didn't do any projects . being an ece student thr was no rules to do projects in our academics. bla ...bla...
3 to 4 persons enters the room to give cashew and sweets to HR.
HR: do u like to have it?
me: no mam(but dont tell no , atleast have one. dont take whole of ur palm)
HR: (Saw my resume) asked questions on extra curricurlar activities.
Me: Told.
HR: how u study tough sub?
ME: told.
HR: any questions?
me: no mam.
HR: k thank you
me: thanks for ur questions mam.
Interview ran for about 10 mins. Believe me they are not there to reject you in interview round. They make three
lists, fully accepted, fully rejected, and people to be given another chance. People in the third list was again called
for an interview.
Results r out at 7pm.
Infosys head of HR department comes and start making announcements
Please for heaven’s sake, for your own sake speak a presentable English, you need not be a super English teacher.
From our college all 16 (who cleared written round )got selected.
Hello Friends,
I'm Arijit from Future Institute of Engineering & Management Kolkata. Infosys came at our college on 19th Jan
'11. Reporting was at 7.45 in the morning, proceedings started at 9 am. Mr. Dinesh presented a ppt explaining
company profile and objectives.
Please listen carefully(it may be a bit boring). Next we were sent for the aptitude examinations. Before the exam
starts, you need to fill up a form with your educational qualification, personal details like name, address,phone no,
email id etc. It's extremely tricky, so be careful and follow their instructions. Keep 1 copy photo and your mark
sheets with you for filling up the marks, percentages etc. don't make any mistakes.
Coming to the aptitude exams,
Analytical & Logical
Analytical and logical reasoning part consisting of 30 qusetions in 40 minutes time.
From the very first moment hurry!
i) 5 figure puzzles(odd one out, easy)
ii) 5 DI questions(a table was given, calaculations are time consming, R S Agarwal is more than enough)
iii) 5 Data sufficiency(mathematical conclusions were given 2 statements 1 conclusion )
iv) 5 puzzles(A and B plays tennis, cricket. B and C plays cricket, volley etc. who plays what? Agarwal is more
than enough)
v) 5 syllogisms(3 premise, Consult R S Agarwal, Draw venn diagram if you can, I couldnt ;-)
vi) 5 puzzles again (Agarwal is enough,chapter: puzzle test)
Cut-offs are generally 60%
Verbal reasoning
Verbal reasoning consisting of 40 questions 35 minutes
Again time is very important. Solve carefully. Concentrate.
i) Two passages were given. I read the short one. The other passage was very long. I first read the questions and
picked the answers from the passage. Otherwise you will lose time.
ii) Questions like deriving conslusions from passsages(4-5 lines)
iii) Choosing the correct sentences.
iv) Choosing the incorrect sentences.
v) Replace part of a sentence from 4 given sentences. (bit difficult)
See, in Infosys good marks in the english paper makes the difference. Cutoffs are generally 50-60%. I was a
bengali medium student. So don't be afraid.
After the examinations were over we were told to wait. Results came out. 450 students appeared in the test. 134
cleared the written exam.
Now the interview experience.
Interview
From our college 134 were interviewed, 125 got selected. So you can see once you are through with the written
exams, chances become very high of getting selected.
NO technical questions.
It was evening when I was called for Interview. Its normal for one to get a bit nervous, but don't get too anxious. I
got so tensed that I made a mess of my interview in Cognizant the other day. Enter the room with a smile on your
face(hope you know it). I was asked to enter the room. She was a lady interviewer.
Me: May I come in mam?
HR: Please come in.
Me: Good evening mam.
HR: Good evening. Please take a seat.
Me: Thank you.
HR: Just give me a moment.(she was going through my form, my answer sheet and my resume).
HR: Ok, Arijit, what does your father do?
Me: Told.
HR: Do you have any siblings? What do they do?
Me: Told.
Asked something more about my family, Where do I live, How do I come to college, What do I do apart from
studies etc.
HR: What sports do you play? How do you compare the experience with the real life? Which one needs nore
effort? Why did you chose studies, and did'nt concentrate on playing?
Me: Told. (She liked my answers)
HR: Tell me what are the projects you are doing.
Me: Told.(emphasize on a project which you know well, but remember they don't care about your proect, they
wants to see whether you can communicate or not)
Asked something more about my project. Absolutely non technical.
HR: Ok Arijit, you can go. Wish you very good luck in future.
Me: Thank you mam.
HR: Thank you.
It was only for 10-15 minutes.
Freshersworld.com will help you a lot.
You need not to be super good in english. Speak in simple basic english. Maintain eye contact all the time. Infosys
HR persons are very very very friendly and humble. My interview experience was great!
Finally 125 got selected.
Hi Friends,
Infosys campus selection has three steps.
1) Ppt: They presented it at 8:30 am, it was a one and a half hour presentation where they provide various reasons
for people to join infosys. Well, I hadn’t had a good sleep the day before hence I slept the max of the ppt session.
2) Aptitude test.
It consisted of two sections:
a) Reasoning: Probable cut-off 60% total marks 30, time 40mts difficulty level of this section was moderate.
Anyone who practices previous Infosys papers and R.S Aggarwal verbal/nonverbal reasoning regularly can clear
this part. Some questions were tricky but thinking in right direction will help you clear those questions. As far as I
remember the reasoning questions consisted of the following sub-sections.
i) Find the odd figure out
iii) Data sufficiency
iii) Syllogism (quite tricky)
iv) Some quant questions (easy)
vi) Data Interpretation (bar graph)
b) Verbal: Probable cut-off 50% total marks 40, time 35 mts
The verbal portion was not at all easy regular english news paper reading helps a lot. Practice unseen and sentence
correction, blank fill ups from Aggarwal/vikas Aggarwal English book. An english medium background helps but
I was not from an english medium school.
i) Correct sentence
ii) Rephrasing
iii) Fill in the blanks
iv) Inference
v) 2 paragraphs (one short and one long)
See the options and decide which paragraph has direct questions asked. Do that first, then do the second.
Don’t leave both the para as it will help you clear the cut-off
Out of 360, only 83 students were fortunate to clear the cut-off
3) HR Interview:
It is the easy part. The HR people are very good. My interviewer was 60-65 years old. He was very friendly and I
never felt uncomfortable answering his questions.
The main points one need to remember before giving Infosys HR is that be confident. Try not to tell any lie and if
you do so have information to back it up.
Don’t look here and there while giving interview. Try to look in HRs eyes.
My interview went like this,
HR: Welcome ritz. Please sit down
I sat and greeted him.
HR: So what are your hobbies?
Me: Told him.
HR: Have you any extra curriculur activities
Me: Told him abt my nack for chess and cricket.
HR: You are from a good school, why did you jump to another in higher secondary?
Me: Because there was no 12th in my 1st school.
HR: So Mr Ritz why should Infosys select you?
Me: Told him about my qualities.
HR: So give me an example of your qualities.
Me: Gave incidence that prove my confidence, positive attitude
HR: Tell me about your project and difficulties faced in working on that?
Me: Told
HR: Ok. That’s enough. Thank you MR Ritz
Me: Nice to meet you sir
I shaked his hand firmly and got out of the room. At 8 pm the list of selected candidates were announced.
80 students got selected. I was one of them. It was really a mind blowing experience.
Thank you Infosys.
Infosys | Placement Paper Pattern – 05.02.2011
Company Name : Infosys
Type : Fresher
Exam/Interview Date : 05.02.2011
No of Rounds : Aptitude Test, HR Interview
Contributed by : Najma Khatun
Total students attended: 180
Written cleared: 79
Selected students: 55
Hi Friends!
This is Najma Khatun. We had a Infosys campus drive on 05 January 2011 and guess what I got selected in
Infosys. So guys prepare well for Infosys, its very easy to crack.
Total we had 2 rounds:
1. Written test
1.1. Quantitative paper
1.2. Verbal paper
2. HR interview:
Quantitative paper: 30 question, 40 minutes.
Verbal paper: 40 question, 35 minutes.
Each section has cut-off.
Quantitative paper
For quantitative practice R.S Aggarwal verbal and non-verbal book, its more than enough.
1.(1-5) Figures will be given u should find out odd among them. Very easy.
2. (6-10) one para was given….based on tht five question were asked. Its was very very very easy. No need to
prepare any topic. Just simple mathematics.
3. (11-15) Data suffiency questions…very easy.
4. Line Graph very very easy.
5. (16-20) puzzle like p,q,r,s,t select the sub try to solve all types given in R,S Aggarwal ok.
6. (21-25) syllogism very very very easy.
As a whole I can say quant paper was very easy.
Verbal paper
Guys verbal needs time management. Your mind should be work faster than wind. Its not too tough but not too
easy also. So just brush your basic grammar from Wren and martin.
Pattern
· Ten questions on choose the correct sentence frm 4 sentences
· Sentence completion.
· Underlined sentence and choose the best one from given options…
· Ten questions on theme deduction.
· Two comprehensions.
HR Interview:
If once written is cleared, HR interview is just a cake walk. Just be confident and honest.
Be prepare with your project, they are going to ask a lot of questions on that. Know yourself first like what are
your strengths, weakness etc.
Have belief in yourself. You can easily become an Infoscian.
So All the best friends!
See you in Infosys!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hi Friends,
I am Champakali from C V Raman College Of Engg. Infosys came in our college on 12th January, 2011. They
gave a short presentation on Infosys Universe (internal structure Infosys, its achievements and future prospects) for
half an hour. And test started at around 10:00
Total eligible condidates were around 390
Cleared written: 218
Cleared Infosys: 210
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
Interview:
It was quite easy as they (HR) were quite sober natured even though he reacted quite different than I presumed the
result says it was quite smooth.
HR: Hello MS Champakali.
Me: Hello sir
HR: You have listed so many strenths in your Resume, can you justify all of them with your past.
Me: Started with example.
HR counter attacked me (dhisum dhisum)
Me: Again started with different one but again dhisum dhisum.
HR: It seems that you dont have weaknesses.
Me: I do have some elaborated 2.
HR: Tell me about your Family Background.
Me: I'm Lion in my Family (Just Kidding)
HR: Ok Champakali all the very best
Me Thank you sir, and same to you sir.
And guess what I'm Infosys..
All the best friends and juniors.
Hi Friends,
I'm Abhimanyu Garg from Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad. Infosys came to our college on 9th
January, 2011 and out of 360 elligible students 202 were finally selected.
The Infosys selection procedure comprises of,
1. Written test
2. HR interview
The written test comprises of 2 sections.
1. Logical reasoning test (30 questions, 40 mins)
2. Verbal test (40 questions, 30 mins)
Our test started at 7.00 pm in the evening and first the logical test paper was given and after 40 mins the logical
paper was taken and verbal test paper was distributed.
Time management is the key thing while attempting the Infosys test. There is sectional cut-off which is not fixd
but I guess it might be around 60% for logical test and 50% for verbal, generally the verbal section is considered to
b the tougher one.
Logical section consisted of,
1. Odd figure out(5 questions)(straight from R.S Aggarwal)
2. 2 Puzzle test(10 questions)(prac from R.S Aggarwal)
3. Data sufficiency(5 questions)(not from R.S Aggarwal)
4. Data Interpretation(5 questions)(R.S Aggarwal quantitative)
5. Logic/Syllogism(5 questions)(R.S Aggarwal)(easy)
Prepare for logical test from R.S Aggarwal verbal/non-verbal book.
Verbal section consisted of,
1. Small comprehension
2. Bigger compression
3. Sentence completion
4. Error Detection
5. Sentence improvement
6. Inference/Theme detection
Prepare for verbal from R.S Aggarwal objective english book.
After that at around 11.30 pm the result for written was declared. The written test is the main elimination round
and in our college out of 360, 217 cleared the written. Just what one needs to keep in mind is to remain calm and
manage the time as there is no negetive marking so all the questions need to be attempted.
The interviews wer conducted on 10th from 10.30 am onwards. It is simply an H.R interview and they just check
your communication skills.
My interview:
My name was called.
Me: May i come in sir?
HR: Yes please, have a seat.
HR: Can you give me your CV.
Me: Handed over the CV.
HR: So Abhimanyu whats your daily routine?
Me: Told.
HR: If I give you a project how would you start, what would be your approach?
Me: Told.
HR: You have written "firm determination" in your stength, can you justify that?
Me: I had already prepared for this one, told confidently.
HR: You have mentioned several extracurricular activities in your CV. Can you give an instance of when you have
coordinated an event and how u handled it?
Me: Told confidently.
HR: Do you have any questions?
Me: Had already thought about it so asked.
HR: Ok, you can go now.
Me: Thank you sir.
And at 6.00 pm in the evening the final results were announced and I was lucky to be one of the 202 selected
students. I can proudly say I'm an Infosysian now.
All the very best!
Meet you at Infosys.
Hi, I have attended Infosys on 29th November, 2010.
It was a open campus drive around 1800 students attended it and 250 got through written. Let me relax you first if
you are preparing for Infosys brush up your English skills and reasoning power, that’s it no programming and
technical stuff I really like Infosys pattern.
Believe me it is damn easiest pattern. So the test was going to start at 9 am but it started at 10 am. First they give
us application form to fill be quick to fill it and accurate too.
Then immediately they starts the test.
In all there are only 2 papers
1. Logical reasoning
2. English
1. Logical: 30 questions in 40 mins
* 5 questions are on odd figure out
* 5 on data sufficiency
* 5 on number series
* 5 on syllogism
* 5 on data interpretation
* 5 on puzzle
Help you in this also go through R.S Aggrawal reasoning
2. English: 40 questions 35 mins
it is the easy section jst u have to show ur time management skills here
Questions were from paras
* 2 big paras 10 questions each
* 2 small para 10 questions each
* 5 on chose correct statement there are 5 satetments we have to chose correct 1
* 5 fillup
* 5 on very small paras wer given we have to chose the ans frm it
Suggestion: Every body will say you to not to start with the para but I'll suggest you to practice para questions at
home and start with it because the answers will be confirmly correct of paras rest on you.
Interview:
I had my interview on next day they just want to check our communication skills and confidence so be confident
and prepare the following question you will be through.
* About Ifosys?
* Why you choose engineering/MCA?
* Your project?
* Difficulties came in your project?
* How to approach a problem?
* Your goal?
* Why I should hire you?
* Why you want to work in Infosys?
* Can you work in pressure?
* Prepare questions on your hobby?
I think this many questions are enough and give more emphasis on your project prepare it well.
All the very best work hard you will definitely achive.
As I got Thanks to my family and God.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hi Friends,
The day one company visited to my college was Infosys and took more than half of population who were eligible.
Procedure:
1. Aptitude test
2. HR interview
Test started at 9 am. First we fill the application form then test started around 9:30.
Total candidates: More than 300
Cleared written round: 183
Cleared Interview: 173
Aptitude test consist of 2 sections:
1. Logical Reasoning
2. English
(I don’t Remember Exact questions)
Logical Reasoning was an easy paper 30 questions 40 minutes.
1] First five questions on visual reasoning (very easy).
A series of figure given with 4 option find figure that fits in series
2] 5 question on data interpretation. (hard)
3] 5 questions on logical deduction (Easy)
Eg. Statement: All pens are roads. All roads are houses.
Conclusion: 1. All houses are pens.
2. Some houses are pens.
4] 5 questions on coding and decoding (Easy)
Eg:
There are A, B, C, D, E, F students they speak one are more than one of English, Itali, French, Spanish, portueges;
B, C speak English. But after D joins they have Spanish as the common language. Spanish is most common
language. A, B, E have French as common language. C, E has Italian as common language. 3 speak portueges. Out
of all 1=all speaks 5 Langs, 1= speaks 4 Langs, 1= speaks 3. Langs, 1= speaks 2 Langs,1= speaks 1 language?
Then 4 questions were asked based on above data like
1) A knows which languages? 4 options were given (one can easily get the answer from the above data and given
options)
2) B knows how many languages
a) English, French
b) English, French, Spanish
c) English, French, Spanish Italian
d) English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese
3) C can’t speak which language (4 options were given)
4) E can speak which languages (4 options were given)
5] 5 questions on Data sufficiency. (easy)
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) Any one statement alone is sufficient to answer
(B) Both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient.
(C) Each statement alone is sufficient
(D) Statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question
Section 2: English paper was really very hard (40 questions, 35 mins)
* 10 questions on Identify the errors
* 10 questions on correcting underlined sentences
* Passage 1 (5 questions)
* Passage 2 (5 questions)
Don’t do any puzzles of Shakuntla devi and all, not required.
Believe me once you crack apptitude its very hard to get eliminate unless you try to do. So prepare well for
apptitude test (please do take it seriously)
Some fundamental areas of all HR.
* Project (Not in depth just operation, block diagram, sensor and processor details)
* Hobbies
* Family background
* About Infosys (Like whats tag line, current CEO etc.)
For any querry please feel free to contact :
Shirishkumar Patil
kumscp@gmail.com
patil.shirish_rait@yahoo.com
-----Infosys was the day 1 company in our college which came on 30th December 2010.
Total students appeared: 297
Students cleared aptitude: 183
Placed: 173
The total recruitment process consists of two stages namely, aptitude and HR interview.
Aptitude round:
Aptitude consists of two sections with sectional cut off and no negative marking, the sections are logical reasoning
and verbal English.
Logical reasoning 30 questions 40 minutes having 6 subsections with 5 questions each.
1st subsection:
Analogy-non verbal reasoning, 4 figures will be given find the next figure from given option.
2ndsubsection:
A linear programming problem was given with 5 questions on a single problem. It needs solving of equation by
putting values simple one.
3rdsubsection:
Data sufficiency, a statement type question will be given followed by two other statements we have to find
whether 1 alone is sufficient or 2 alone or both are compulsory or neither.
4th subsection:
Data interpretation, a simple bar graph was given and 5 questions on that, this section needs some calculation,
solve it carefully.
5th subsection:
A puzzle, mini paragraph with lots of information will be given and 5 questions on that, for us it was given that,
there are 5 people P,Q,R,S,T. P knows Hindi and Marathi, Q belongs to Tamil Nadu and also knows bengali, R
knows Hindi and Urdu, S also knows Hindi and Marathi, T knows Urdu and Bengali. The questions were like this
who can act as interpreter between P and T to communicate? Which is the least language known by them? Like
this.
6thsubsection:
Logical deduction-venn diagram. Two statements will be given followed by two conclusions, we have to say
whether only 1 follows or only 2 follows or both follows or neither. For this questions we have to remember 9
conditions and 10 cases given in R.S Aggarwal. Practice this section well.
Verbal english 40 questions 35 minutes having 4 subsections with 10 questions each.
1st subsection:
Simply 4 statements will be given we have to find the correct one, this needs some idea of tenses and punctuation.
2ndsubsection:
Fill in the blanks with phrases and idioms.
3rdsubsection:
A statement will be given followed by 4 options having statements, we have to find which of the option is having
same meaning as that of given statement.
4thsubsection:
Consists of two passages each followed by 5 questions, the length of the passage will be a single page. Don't read
the whole passage, simply read the questions and find the answer, since time is the major factor of concern in
verbal. Always attempt the passage at last.
I didn't prepared any thing for verbal its all because of luck and gods grace I cleared the verbal cut off but in logic
more than 25 questions mine were right. Cut off is 60% for both the sections, once you cleared aptitude you are
95% through. Initially they give one Infosys application form to fill up, the aptitude exam started at 9:15 am and
ended at 10:30 am. After that half an hour break was given then at 11:00 am pre-placement talk was there in which
they will show some presentations about Infosys and what kind of training they give, their rules and regulations.
At 11:45 am the results were declared and interview started by 12:00 pm, my turn came at around 4:30 pm.
HR interview:
Me: Please sir may I come in.
HR: Yes come in.
Me: (shook his hands and said) GOOD EVENING sir.
HR: Take your seat.
Me: (after sitting) thank you sir. (submitted my resume and scholastic sheet having details of academics results).
HR: So whats your name and from where you are coming?
Me: Answered the given question.
HR: Tell me something about yourself, your qualities and hobbies.
Me: Told everything.
HR: When do you gone to the industrial visit and what did you seen there?
Me: Explained the details about industrial visit.
HR: Why do you chose the outhouse project, and how did you approached the company?
Me: Told everything about the project.(dont tell the software details, otherwise he will go deep into it, explain the
hardware part and application of the project.)
HR: Do you read times of india?
Me: No sir i read HT and mirror.
HR: At what section you are interested in HT?
Me:Told.
HR: You have got lots of extra curricular activities, how do you manage the time?
Me: Answered.
HR: Why do you want to join INFOSYS?
Me: INFOSYS is my dream company.(Actually its not)
HR: Everyone says like this, here.
Me: No sir its nit like that, Narayan murthy sir is my role model, who has made this possible that with just
Rs.10,000 he founded infosys only on the basis of hardwork and confidence.
HR: What qualities of Narayan murthy do you like?
Me: Told. (before going to infosys recruitment, please read the details about infosys history, their standings, their
achievements, and about Narayan murthy sir.)
HR: Best of luck.
Me: Thank you sir. (Shake his hands once again)
The interview continued for about 20 to 25 minutes. Then at 9:30pm the results were announced and i got selected.
Best of Luck for you all!
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Infosys Off-campus In 5 major cities in India.
Delhi:
Students Appeared: Over 2000
Selected Through Written: 400 around
Hey Guys, Infosys paper consist of 2 sections Aptitude and English.
For Aptitude:
Do 50 questions of good quality means of Bank PO from every Chapter of R.S Aggarwal Verbal Reasoning. For
syllogism (5 questions) do chapter logical from R.S Aggarwal Verbal, 9 rules are there perfect them and solve all 3
exercises of this chapter, then only you can do these questions, Venn diagrams won't help, only 9 rules will help
you. It took me 2 days to perfect this chapter alone, Syllogism is critical for ny1 to got selected in Infosys.
For Data Interpretations, Download CAT Papaers of Year 1999-2004 and 3 or 4 mock CATS from net with
solutions, solve Data sufficiency and Data interpretation from them.
Dun forget to do Profit and loss, Ration and Proportion, Time and Work, Chain rule from R.S Aggarwal
Quantitative, you have to solve unsolved questions, then only you will able to solve in Infosys or any oder
placement paper.
For Puzzle Section, do Puzzle chapter from R.S Aggarwal Verbal, do atleat 50 questions from this chapter, this
section in our paper was super tough, very hard. I think one or 2 students from 2000 students would have solved it,
myt be because it was off-campus.
For English:
1) Go through basic english grammar on net specially prepositions, modals and tenses. I practiced over 500 fill ups
for this online, lot of grammar exercises are available on net with solutions. Just understand rules of each chapter,
then practice question for each chapter.
2) Make sure to give 2 hour reading of english newspaper everyday for infosys, because paragraph infrence can be
solved through reading reguarly.
3) Dun forget to do chapter from R.S Aggarwal verbal named by Inference. It is given at the end containing 200
questions. This chapter is must.
Dun think luck can only get you through Infosys paper, luck happens with them who work hard. It took me 10
days to prepare for Infosys with 8 hours every day. But I was regular with newspaper for last 4 years.
Only work hard can make you through Infosys. All papers are checked, so dun depend on luck.
Cut off:
Aptitude: 18 out of 30 (once you clear this section then only your english paper would be checked, 50% student
are not able to clear this section)
English: 22 or 24 out of 40 questions
Interview:
Just basic spoken english is checked, your confidence. Remeber to prepare your project well, your role in project,
your hobby, if newspaper-its editor name, if books-last book read, its plot, character names, did you face any
problems in project, how you overcame.
No need of shakuntala devi, just basics of aptitude and english grammar and newspaper reading.
See you in Infosys Mysore.
Best of Luck!
Hello Friends,
I took part in Infosys off-campus drive in Greater Noida, and the selection process consist of Written Test
followed by Interview.
Written test:
The written test consist of General aptitude test in which reasoning question were asked some question were
mathematical and some were odd one out (out of 5 figures one was different). Another thing in the written test is
the English which is also simple but the two unseen passage are quite time consuming I just done the first one
(because it was small) and left the second passage because it was bit lengthy now comes the grammer part, in
grammer part there were question in which wrong sentence were give or some part of the sentence was worng
and you have to find the correct from the options given, some question were like fill in the blanks and you have to
fill the blank with best option.
The thing which you people have to manage with is TIME because it goes so fast you can't imagine. After the test i
wait for for almost 3 to 4 odd hour and when the result came, i was one of them in the selected student for
interview, out of 1000(approx.)students they selected only 166 students.
The next was our interview and they just ask from the Resume, no need to get fear, and do not lie in interview. My
interviewer was a lady and she was a very cool lady after the interview was over they told us that result will come
in around 4 weeks, so we all can go for today, and on 18th November, 2010 I received a mail and my offer letter.
At that moment I was very very very very happy.
Hope this will help you to prepare.
Bye see you in Infosys Mysore Campus.
Hello Friends,
This is Abhishek Pandey from B.P. Poddar institute of Management & Technology, sharing with you my interview
experience.
Infosys visited our campus on 15th Janunary, 2011.
Infosys selection procedure consists of a written (pen & paper) test & interview (HR).
There will be two papers Analytic ability (30 questions) and English (25 questions). No negative marking will be
there so attempt all the questions & I think the cut-off was about 50% (they don’t disclose it).
For Analytical just prepare from R.S.Aggarwal verbal & non-verbal reasoning book. There were questions on:
Data interpretation (easy), Puzzles (moderate), Data Sufficiency (easy), next figure pattern (slightly difficult). For
puzzles practice from R.S.Aggarwal, that’s sufficient.
In English paper there were questions on:
Identifying the correct/incorrect sentences (there were many questions on this), phrasal verbs, comprehension (2
passages were given), finding most appropriate sentences. You need to have a good command over the language to
do well here.
As always written test was the main hurdle, out of close to 330 students only 83 cleared the written test & out of
those, 80 could finally make it after the interview. I was one of them.
Once you are through with your written test you are almost home unless you perform very poorly in the interview.
They don’t ask any technical question so I was really confident.
After entering the room the interviewer shook hands with me (hold the hand firmly as they want to see if you are
nervous),I wished him and he told me to sit down. Then he started going through my C.V(prepare you C.V
properly ,be ready to face questions on whatever you write in it)
Sir: Tell me something about yourself.
Me: Told.
Sir: Apart from studying how do you spend your free time.
Me: Told.
Sir: Anything special you have done in your life (In my C.V I had written about my extra-curricular activities),
you are good at sports, so tell me If you have to organize a sports event in your locality how will you do it (give a
practical answer)?
Me: Told.
Sir: Have you organized any event in your life?
Me: Told.
Sir: Did you face any problem while completing your project? How did you handle it?
Me: Told. (He seemed to be really satisfied with my answers)
Sir: Ok, thank you(shook my hands again)
Me: Thank you sir, It was my pleasure meeting you.
Just be confident, humble, calm and composed, maintain eye contact.
Best of luck to all of you!
Hi Everyone!
Infosys came to our college on 8th Janunary, 2011. We were told to report at 9 am but they came late. So the ppt
session was postponed and we were send to exam rooms where we filled up application forms and then the test
started.
As you all know the exam has 2 sections.
1. Analytical and logical reasoning part consisting of 30 qusetions 40 minutes there were at first
i) 5 figure puzzles
ii) 5 DI questions(it was exclusive in our college, it was a network figure with weighted edges)
iii) 5 Data sufficiency
iv) 5 puzzles(like family type)
v) 5 syllogisms(3 premise)
vi) 5 puzzles again (for this section practice from "Quantitative Aptitude" by R.S.Aggarwal and even "Verbal &
Non Verbal" reasoning by the same author, and go through Freshersworld.com)
2. Verbal reasoning consisting of 40 questions 35 minutes
It was a huge paper, two big passages will be there so try to answer them at last moreover there were 8 theme
detection type passages and sentence correction questions etc.
For this prepare yourself from "Objective General English"by Agarwal, Barron's GRE English
and Freshersworld.com.
190 students sat for the aptitude from which 81 cleared and finally 78 people got selected and I was one of them.
The HR panel of mine was not at all cool Infosys person. When I entered the room,
I wished him good afternoon.
HR: Wished me back and told to sit down.
HR: Tell me about yourself?
Me: Told
HR: How do you solve problems?
Me: Told (with interruptions from his side like his phone, he calls someone else etc)
HR: Can you tell me again what you just told?
Me: Told.
HR: How do you plan things?
Me: Told
HR: How are you as an organizer?
Me: Told.
HR:Okay you may leave now
Me: Its been a pleasure talking to you sir.
HR: Oh, yes yes.
I didn't excepted this type of HR from Infosys. I was a bit tensed, we got our results on 11th Janunary and then I
got relieved.
You can also crack Infosys if you have a passion for this company and you need a bit of luck also.
Hi Guys,
Infosys drive was a nice experience. It started with an aptitude which is easy to crack unless you mess it up
followed by an HR interview.
The HRs a generally aged and polite. So you guys should not worry
Here are the excerpts of the interview:
Me: May I come in mam
HR: Yes
HR: Have a seat
Me: Good Afternoon Mam
HR: Tell me something about yourself. Tell me something which is not through in resume
Me: Told qualities. Family background.
HR: Why not dads profession?
Me: Told reason (smile)
HR: (Going through the resume) looking at your extra curricular. I want know something wihch you planned or
organised in your college.
Me: Told
HR: Tel me about your be project. (meanwhile the HR is sleepy, orders 4 a coffee)
Me: I wait. Til she asks me 2 continue and than proceed
HR: How do you study?
Me: Told
HR: What are your goals in life?
Me: Told
HR: Nods with a smile.
Me: I ask if thats it, lol
Thank you mam
Hello Everyone, I am Khushi Shah from Thakur college Mumbai, Maharashtra. I had attended the Infosys offcampus interview conducted at Thakur college itself. Totally 920 students from approximately 29 colleges were
present at this recruitment drive.
Eligibly Criteria:
60.00% SSC
60.00% HSC
58.00% Engineering (No year gap in between is allowed)
Approximate intake:
Total Students: 920
Students who cleared Aptitude Test: 215
Students Select in interview: 180
Selection Process:
Analytical & Logical reasoning: 30 questions: 40 minutes
English section: 40 questions: 35 minutes
Sectional cutoff is not informed officially.
Study Materials:
Practise a lot of papers from freshersworld itself.
R.S. Aggarwal.
Aptitude Test:
The apptitde test was quite difficult but can be easily cracked by doing some practise. Reasoning section had 6
sets. Though I don't remember exactly but there were questions like.
1. A,B,C,D,E & F wear clothes of different colours like red, blue, grey, green, black & yellow not necessarily in
the same order. Then some hints regarding their trousers and shirts are given like
a. A wears trousers of he same colour like that of Bs shirt
b. C does not wear yellow and red clothes.
& so on. Then simple 5-6 questions are asked
2. Harry, cary, tim, sam, josh and ron are sitting round a table & then hints like Tim sits opposite sam and harry
sits to the left of tim and all is given. Again simple set of 4-5 questions is asked.
3. A,B,C are friends. A always speaks the truth. B always lies and C says truth sometimes only. Then some cases
are there. Practising from R.S. Aggrawal will help a lot.
In the verbal section there were 2 reading comprehensions which were to some extent difficult. Then there were
questions on fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions.detect the error in the statement was also there which
requires knowledge of "punctuation, tenses and prepositions". Then questions on synonyms and correct usage of
phrases were also there.
In order to crack your apptitude you need to be extremely quick. Please do verify whether there are any negative
marks for a wrong answer or not, for us there wasnt any negative markings. The results would be announced in 2-3
hours and if you clear the apptitude test then interview is really nothing you need to worry about.
HR Interview:
There was only 1 person taking my interview. He asked me to introduce myself.Asked my strong points and then
when we came to the topic of college life we actually had a nice casual conversation. Then he gave me a choice
whether i would like to describe any events i had organised or my final year project. I choose to talk about my
project and told him every detail of it. Then he asked me my part in the project and also to describe the problems i
faced during the whole time and how i had overcome them.
The results were sent through mail after approximately 2 months along with the offer letter and joining date though
usually they announce it on that day itself. Thank God and Freshersworld.com Guys don't worry at all you can
definitely crack it just be relaxed and calm and believe in God and do a lot of practise from previous years papers
and R.S.Aggrawal.
All the best!
-------------------------Hello Guys,
This post is for those who are interested in joining Infosys. As you all know that you have to go through 2 stages to
get recruited in Infosys.
1) Written test (this is the main stage to clear as 80-90% are washed out in this round only), it consists of 2 section.
a) Reasoning
b) English
2) PI
I don't remember the questions but yes I can help all by suggesting some points to clear the process.
a) The written test is not so tough as it is told by everyone before giving the test. Whoever tells you that written is
very tough he/she is trying to be over smart as they either have cleared it or failed to clear.
b) You just have to prepare well logical reasoning, puzzles, completing the series of pictures,and some basic
mathematical operations. This you can do from R.S. Aggarwal or any of the CAT coaching materials.
c) For the English test prepare correction of sentences, preposition, putting the right words as fill in the blanks,
spotting errors, and RC's. Please attempt the RC's at the last if you get time and read the questions 1st and then try
to find the answers. Prepare the English from any basic book and those from English medium don't worry for this
section.
d) There is no negative markings so attempt all questions and be quick n confident. Now if you clear the written
test you have to go through the PI section which a HR takes.
Now for this section.
a) Your CV will be scanned so be ready to answer any questions from any where.
b) They are going to play with you so don't lose your temper and have smile always be confident in answering.
c) No need to tell them if you have an offer letter from other organizations and if you want to tell,tell them on your
own risk.
d) They even say I'll through you out. Say sorry and answer the questions.
Rest All is well
Infosys paper 2010.
This is Ujjwal from JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani. My stream is Computer Science & Engineering.
Friends it was the off-campus drive for WBUT student. The test was on 11th September. Aptitude paper of Infosys
are little bit tough in compare to others.
There were two papers:
Paper1 (30 questions, 30 minutes): In this paper, there were
Questions 1-5: Puzzle; it was tough
6-10: Missing figure
11-15: Data sufficiency
16-20: Based on some chart,it was very easy
21-25: puzzle. It was from R.S. Aggarwal
26-30: logical problem
Paper2(35 questions, 40 minutes):
There were 2 passage, correct/incorrect sentences, fillin the blanks.
There were no any negative marking but individual cutoff is fixed. For paper1 it was 60% & for paper2 it was
50%. Friends only solve different types of problems of R.S. Aggarwal verbal & non-verbal and go
through Freshersworld.com practice paper. You can cover 80-90% question of Infosys.
Aptitude is elimination round in Infosys. The result were decleared around 5 pm. Some of the student were called
for HR round in same day but my interview was on 12th September.
Interview:
I said may I come in sir, my HR was approax 50 years old.
I was called at 12 pm, so I said good afternoon sir then HR saw his watch, smile and told me good afternoon and
sit down.
Me: Thank you sir.
HR: Ok Ujjwal can I call you Mr. Kumar.
Me: Told
HR: Tell me about your project
Me: Told
HR: Interrupting between, how many member in your project and his role?
Me: Told
HR: Did you find any difficulty?
Me: Told
HR: Is infosys your dream company? why?
Me: Told
HR: Okay Mr. Kumar if you will not selected then what will you do?
Me: Told
HR: If I will fulfill your dream then what will you give me?
Me: Told
HR: Currently where are you and what are you doing right now?
Me: Told(I was telling but he was looking at my CV)
And after some tome he told me nice to meet you and you can go.
And he shaked hand and told me see you at Mysore.
Me: Thank you sir.
They told us that result will be mailed within 3 week but result were publish after 2 months.
But thank god I was selected. They offer the annual salary of 3.25 and during training 2.70.
Hello Friends,
I am Samrat Sinha of BITM, Santiniketan, West bengal. I hope my Infosys selection procedure will be of some
help for you. Infosys organised a off-campus recruitment in Kolkata on 11th September 2010.
There were around 1200 students apperaing for that recruitment drive that day. The aptitude paper was easy
comapred to other companies and guys do keep in mind there is no negative marking, so first answer those
questions of which you are sure of and then just tick the others as well. For the aptitude test, practising
Quantitative Aptitude & Verbal & Non-Verbal reasoning both by R.S. Aggarwal will be enough.
The paper was divided into two parts, first quantitative & then Verbal and non-verbal. There were questions on
puzzles, syllogism, antonyms and synonyms, comprehension. Luckily i cleared the aptitude and was called for
interview the very next day.
Below is my Interview experience:
Date: 12th September 2010.
The HR was around 50 years old.
Me: Good afternoon Sir
HR: Good afternoon, have a seat.
Me: Thank you Sir.
HR: So, Samrat tell me about yourself.
Me: I just gave a normal introduction of my family background, education background.
HR: What is the meaning of your name?
Me: Answered.
HR: Can you name any emperor?
Me: Sure Sir, Samrat Ashoka.
HR: He was of which dynasty?
Me: Answered.
HR: OK Samrat, how is the day for yoy?
Me: Answered fluently that today is a very special day for me as i am siting here, giving interview for such a
reputed company and etc etc.
HR: How was yesterday then?
Me: Yesterday was also very special as i cleared the aptitude test etc etc.
HR: Nothing about the food that you had, the weather
Me: Sir, yesterday and today are special for me only because of Infosys otherwise it would have just been a normal
day for me.
HR: Ok. Tell me about your project.
Me: Gave an overview of the project.
HR: Why this project?
Me: Gave sum justified reasons.
HR: Suppose you have 12 days to prepare for CAT, how will you do it?
Me: Sir, if i have just 12 days then first of all i would try to get the knowledge of the CAT question paper and then
suppose if there are two topics, Quantitative & verbal and non-verbal then i will devote 5 days each to them and i
will keep the last two days for practising previous year papers so that i get acquainted with them.
HR: Ok Samrat you can leave now.
Me: Thank you Sir. It was a pleasure to interact with you.
HR: Same here.
Then the officials announced that the result will be communicated via email very shortly. But they took exactly
two months. On 12th November, i got the offer letter from Infosys. Guys just be confident during the interview
and give your full effort for aptitude paper because there is no technical round in Infosys.
Wishing you all the best in your respective lives.
Hey Friends,
I'm SS & I had attended the Infosys off-campus drive at OIST, Bhopal on 17th September, 2010. It was very hectic
day actually and about 2500 students attended the process. Students from all the tecnhical college of M.P were
called. The whole process had 2 round. First one is written which include aptitude, reasoning n English paper.
Aptitude and reasoning paper was easy having 35 questions to be attended on 40 minutes and English section was
tough having 30 questions in 30 mins.
For aptitude and reasoning, try to solve from R.S Aggrawal Quantitative aptitude and Verbal and nonverbal
reasoning. In verbal and non-verbal, try to study following topics- Puzzle test, Number Ranking & Time sequence
and Picture Sequence questions. For quantitative aptitude, try to memoroze all the important formulae from the
book and must see the examples to use those formulae specially of time & distance, time and work, pipe and
cistern.
For english try to study the basics of english grammar from written and martin or ant good grammar book. Also try
to practise for the english part as much as possible because usually time consumption is more in english section. It
has 2 passage for reading comprehension.
Now, its time for interview. The result was declared on late evening at around 8 pm and about 330 candidates were
selected for interview. My interview was scheduled on 18 September. My interview was as following.
1. Describe yourself.
2. Describe your role in your major project.
3. Suppose there are no furnitures in the room and no measuring instrument with you in the room. You enter the
room and a bulb hanging by the rope touches your head which is hanging by a hindge of very negligible size. Can
you tell me the height of the roof?
It was told to us that the results will be declared in for weeks.
Hi Friends,
I want to thank all the people here contributing the papers and their experience and placement week as well.
Talking about my experience i gave my written and interview off-campus of Infosys technologies in September
2010.
Around 240 people out of 1800 get through written test. When they were anouncing the names i was little sure
that i will not be able to get through. But i did it and after that there comes the interview a gentle man there had
taken my interview
Interview process was like
I said may i come in sir
Interview shaked hand and told me to sit down and after that he start looking at my docs, resume and told me to
signed around 3-4 places in there form
Int: Where is your college?
Me: Told
Int: Said that your project is on old concept
Me: Told sir we made it in new technology in total new shape
Int: Talked about my project and my role of conduct in project
Me: Told
Int: Asked me to tell the difficulties i faced in project?
Me: Told about interface connection was not happening
Int: When you were alloted on this project and minor project?
Me: Told
Int: How did you get the idea of your project?
Me: Told
Int: How many people were involved in your major project?
Me: Told for
Int: Name them and their roles?
Me: Told
Int: Do you have any question?
Me: Said what type of training Infosys will provide to us?
He told that it would be specific to us
Me: What type of the profile is system engineer?
Int: He said if you get through the process you will get to know it.
Me: Thank you sir and shaked hand again and after nearly 2.5 months i got offer of employment from Infosys
technologies limited with joining in 1st quarter of 2011 at Mysore with the annual compensation of 3.25 lakh per
annum
Thanks to Infosys technologies and placement week and all my friends for everything.
Hi Friends,
This is Surya prakash choudhary from B.I.E.T Suri(west bengal). I took party in off-campus conducted by Infosys
technologies. There was no negative marking.
There were two papers.
Paper 1(40 questions, 40 minutes).
paper 2(35 questions ,30 minute).
In paper 1 there were logical, quantitative, Verbal and Non Verbal reasoning questions. 5 problems from figure
type odd one out reasoning(they wer easy). 5 problems from Data Interpretation(they we also easy). There were 5
logical probs based on some facts, they were somewhat difficult, I coluldn’t do those probs But guessed one
single option. There were 5 problems Based on some facts, I also couldn’t do that due to lack of time and guessed.
There were some more logical problems, you can practice them from R.S. Aggarwal.
One suggestion you don’t need 2 worry about shakuntala devi puzzle or summers puzzles because I couldn’t find
problemss from there. You just practise different types from R.S Aggarwal and most important thing you should
know various types only, by cool mind you can solve any problem.
Paper 2 was English knowledge test, there were 2 comprehension one very easy and one difficult(total 10
questions). There were sentence completion question(mainly from preposition, article, verb etc). There were also
sentence correction questions. So, friends you need to manage year time well and year Level of English.
About 1500 hundred students appeared for the test from various colleges of West Bengaland out of them 393
cleared aptitude round. As usual they didn’t ask any technical question in interview. I went here with cool mind
and they told that they will send final results via email. Still waiting for confirmation but I'm sure that I will must
be selected, hope this experience may help you guys in clearing aptitude round because aptitude round is the main
elimination round in infosys. See you guys in infosys soon.
HR: So Surya, tell me something about your project.
ME: I explained well.
HR: What was the most interesting in your project?
ME: I explained.
HR: Tell me something about your family background
Me: Told
HR: Asked many questions from resume. I had mentioned quiz so he asked 4-5 G.K questioned and luckily I
answered and at last he told me nice 2 meet you and you can leave now.
Hope you are all doing great in life Friends,
I would like to share my experience with all who happen to browse through this beautiful and should. I add a very
informative website for freshers like me
I hope my experience in the aptitude and HR round might help you all in some way.
Students from many engineering colleges in West Bengal attended this campussing. The venue was Heritage
institute of technology and the whole process took place through 2 days (11th and 12th September).
As most of you know, Infosys has two different sections in their aptitude test
1) One was the Reasoning aptitude test(30 questions which included data interpretation, logical reasoning,
pictorial puzzles, basic derivative mathematical problems)
2) Another part was the Verbal aptitude test(40 questions which included 2 long passages, sentence correction, fill
in the blanks with appropriate words, replace a part of a sentence with the correct verbal phrase)
No negative marking in either of the sections, but I am not sure whether there are sectional cut-offs. So be sure to
attempt all the questions in both sections, don’t dawdle with one question if you don’t know it. Be sure to pass one
to the next one, remember in such little time utilizing every minute is very very important. Even 1 correct or 1
wrong answer could make the difference.
It is a very thin line that might help you to nail the job or get yourself nailed.
Total students appeared Approx 2000
Shortlisted for HR 390
This Aptitude rounds are the ones where a staggering 1600 students got eliminated, which in this case amounts to
80% of the strength
My interview was a 1:1 panel. Trust me when I tell you that Infosys HRs are very frank and cool.
I entered the room after asking for permission (always ask for permission before you step in)
Me: may I come in sir
HR: yes, please come in
The HR was sitting in his chair, so I reached out spontaneously for a handshake and greeted him a very good
morning. He looked up to me and extended his hand very pleasingly and smiled and replied good morning. Many
say that you shouldn’t extend your hand first for the handshake if the HR doesn’t. But many think that’s rubbish
and i too share the same opinion. Shaking the hand is a way of showing courtesy and greeting the person. It also
shows that you are not nervous and you are confident, so it helps in creating a good positive impression about you
in the HR’s mind even before the interview has begun. A good firm (not bone- crushing) handshake acts like a
pleasant stimulator.
HR: please take the seat
Me: (while taking my chair) thank you so much
I kept my hands on the table and sat leaning forward, when the HR said please sit back in your chair and relax
Sourya. So I did that
And then he asked me How was yesterday Sourya?
Me: Sir, it was fine
HR: describe yesterday
Answered
HR: how do you approach a problem?
Answered
HR: what projects have you done?
Answered
HR: how do you prepare for your exams?
Answered
HR: suppose you had 15 days left for your final semester exams, how would you prepare yourself?
Answered
HR: tell me about your project?
Answered
HR: tell me about your family background?
Answered
HR: So, you are the only son of your parents
ME: yes, sir, I am the only son
HR: How many were there in your project group?
Answered
HR: Thank you
ME: thank you very much Sir
And left the room, the questions he asked were very innocent questions, atleast they may look like innocent, but
the HR comes to know a lot about you from these very basic questions, be very honest and confident. It’s obvious
to be a bit nervous and make some mistakes as a fresher.
But just focus that you don’t create a negative impression to the HR.
Believe in yourself and trust your God.
Hi Friends,
I attended Infosys selection process on 23rd March 2011.
Here I want to share my views.
Total Candidates Appeared: 1300 +.
Qualified for HR: 135
Final Selection: 105.
Friends, just go through the CAT Material if available,
Better to proceed with RS Agarawal Reasoning & General English.
Paper is little easy if you manage the time constraint.
Test Location : Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi
Test Date : 29th August, 2010
Submitted by : Raman Kumar Tarika
Infosys paper 2010.
This is Raman Kumar from Noida. I am 2009 MCA passed out from ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad.
Friends it was the off-campus drive. The Written test was on 29th August. Aptitude paper of Infosys are little bit
tough in compare to others.
This was my second attempt for Infosys, First was when i was in College (On Campus) in 2008.
I have already listened many times that If you can Clear the Written Exam of Infosys it means you have made it
upto 70%. In the Interview, you just need to be active. So I prepared for the same. Before written exam, a PrePlacement talk was scheduled but later on cancelled due to heavy rush and less space.
Important points to clear the written exam:
1. R.S. Aggarwal is good enough for preparation of written exam.
2. A week's prepration can make you through. But you have to practice it seriously.
3. Time management is the biggest factor.
4. Follow the rules defined by Infosys. They are the company of etiquettes.
5. Philosophical (from me): Make your Desire really strong and also provide the actions that can match your
desire. When you are appearing for the test then forget all the world just go into it.
Written Exam:
There were two sections
1. Aptitude and Logical reasoning (30 questions, 30 minutes)
2. English ( 35 questions, 40 minutes)
Aptitude and Logical reasoning:
I don't remember the exact questions. But I remember the topics
1. Problems on Ages
2. Time and Work (Questions like- A can do this in 8 hrs and b can in 10 hrs, then A+B?)
3. Percentage
4. Puzzles
5. Logical Problems
6. Numbers
7. Missing figure
8. Data sufficiency
English:
1. Paragraph
2. Inferences (Select the sentence that doesn't match)
3. Sequesnces of Sentences according to priority
4. Correct the sentence
5. Other Grammer
Practice all the above topics. All type of questions at least once.
When I was doing the Written Exam, I felt - Thank God I have spent last two days in the prepration because my
preparation for the exam was really helping me. After submitting the test, I was confident and feeling that I'll clear
but I was continuously asking God for his grace and help.
We had to wait for a long time for the results. Near about 5 p.m. in the evening they announced.
All the sheets were passing out and I was hungry to listen my name. Then the person who was announcing the
result spoke "This is the Last Sheet and only 10 candidates on it." On the 5th number he announced "Raman
Kumar".
I had cleared the written exam. They told us Interview dates and Venue will be informed us by mail. 170 students
were selected from the interview.
Interview:
I got the mail for Interview. My Interview held on 16th September at Nehru Place, New Delhi.
Note: Infosys interviewers are really experienced persons. There were lots of Old age persons in the panel. They
really notice your etiquettes. Be Polite. They are Nice people. Main thing is that they are questioning to hire you
not to reject you. Give then Good response and you'll be picked up. Show them your learning ability. Show them
your way of problem solving.
Read Puzzles before going into the Interview.
My Interview:
I was sitting in the waiting room. An old persons called my name and told me to wait outside the room.
After some wait, they called me inside.
They were Two persons. Both were aged ones. really experienced.
Me: May I come In, Sir?
HR: Yes, please.
I entered and shut the door very softly that it didn't make any noise and stood by the chair.
HR: Have a seat.
Me: Thank you, sir. and sat down ( By following the way in which we should sit in front of them (straight)& with
positive body language)
They read my resume for some time and I was expecting that there first question will be "Some thing about
yourself" and I was preparing for this one. But they shocked me by asking an UnExpected question as technical
first one.
HR: For How long you lived in Punjab?
Me: Pardon sir?
HR: For How long you lived in Punjab?(They repeated)
Me: Told
HR: What your father's occupation
Me: Told (Shopkeeper and Milkman)
HR: Ok. (silence for a moment) so Raman in which company you are working
Me: Told
HR: Something about the Company?
Me: Told enough described the company's domain and strength and clients.
HR: About the project in which you are working?
Me: I described the project in detail. I spoke for nr about 2 mins. They were noticing my way of presentation.
When i stopped, I noticed i have described it nicely. Main thing was the selection of words and terms that you use.
They want to check your presentation.
(Then they asked so many question from that description)
HR: Have you faced or stuck to any problem while working on this project?
Me: Yes sir
HR: Which type of problem and how did you solve it?
Me: (They want to know your way of handling the problems - Be ready for this) - Told - ( I gave them an Example
of Regular Expression)- Guys , Please use the Examples while answering - Real Life Examples.
Now, again they started to read my Resume and started picking questions from there. Guys, Telling you honestly.
You must read your resume and prepare for everything that you have written in technical Resume. OR You must
write the things in the resume that you know and you can describe very well.
HR: Raman, You have written here you have participated in functions? can you tell us what type of functions?
What happened there?
Me: Told (Given the example of Quiz Competition and Speech Competition that i really participated in during my
School and College time)
HR: Have you organized any Function as a leader?
Me: Yes sir.
HR: Tell us something about that Event and Your Team? How did you moralized your team?
Me: Told. I explained them by speaking the same wording that a captain should speak to his team before a Match.
HR: Have you faced any problem while the function was going on and you were hosting the stage and how did
you handled it at a time?
Me: Explained the problem with a real Example and Told them how i managed the situation without letting anyone
know.
HR: Define us more? ( They just wanted to check my Communication and Presentation)
Me: Explained.
HR: One more question from my Resume from my Interests that were written in Resume
Then
HR: (Again the Question from my Hobbies and Interests) Why Adventure is your Hobby?
Me: Explained well and ended with a 'Quote' that I read in my English literature book in my Graduation time.
(Telling you Guys, that was a Punch, a Shot)
That quote also ended the Interview.
HR: Ok, Raman thats it from our side and (Silence)
Me: Should I leave , Sir?
HR: Yes.
Me: I stood up and thanked both of them Individually. They smiled. One of them was noticing me when I was
going out of the room and closing the door.
( We were told that results would be sent to your mail)
After a long wait. After two Months and 7 days I got the call from Infosys that I got selected and then in the
evening they sent the Offer Letter. (Yipppeee!) I thanked God for his grace and also a Big thanks
to Freshersworld.com as old papers helped me a lot.
I am going to Join Infosys on 24th January.
Best of Luck, friends. Feeling happy to share the experience with all of you!
See you there in Infosys!