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part A - Vocabulary(synonyms) 40 Questions
1. To merry = Enjoy
2.To Alienate = abandon
3.To Solicit = Humble
4.To Heep =to gather
5.Cargo = load,luggage
6.Momentary = for small time
7.Volume = quantity
8.To Veer =
9.To Admonish=
10. To Meager = small,little
11. To lattitude,
12. Latent =
13. To Covet = To desire
14. To Discretion =
15. Potential = ability
16. To Emancipate,
17. To Wethargy,
18. To Concur = similiar
19. To Confiscate = To take charge, to annex
20. To Dispel =
21. Baffle = puzzle
22. Subsidise =
23. Misery =
24. Pretentrous =
25. Tranquil = calm, silent
26.Ellace
28.Rinaile,
29.Obstinate
30.Hover
31.Caprice,
33.Belate =after time
34.Brim = edge
35.Divulge,
36.Lamont,
37.Bileaf,
38. Embrace =
39.Adhesive =
40. Miserable =

Critical Reasoning
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1. My Father is only child to his Father. My father has three
sisters. All are married and have two children each.
(state True or False Or Can't be determined )
1.1 My Grand father has two sons (false)
1.2 I am having six cousins (true)
1.3 I have three uncle (true)

Part B (15 Questions )

1. Two Pencils 8 cents 5 Pencils cost ( Ans 20 cents)

2.A work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them alone can
do it in 40 minutes. How much time will the other person wiil take to
complete it ( 60 minutes)

3. A car is filled with 4.5 gallons of fuel for a round trip . Car
is taken 1/4 more than in going than coming up. What is the fuel
consumed in coming up ? (2.0 gallons)

CHECK
4. Low temperature at the night in a city is more than 1/2 high as
higher temperature are 100. Then What is low temperature (Ans 40)

5. Person who dicided to go to weekend trip should not exceed 8 hrs
driving in a day. Average speed of forward journey is 40 miles/hour .
Due to traffic in sundays ,in return journey average speed is 30mph .
How far he can select a picnic spot ? (ans 240 miles)

CHECK

6. A sales person multiplied by a number and get the answer 3. Instead
of that number divided by 3. What is the answer she actually has to
get.

(1/3) * 1 *3 =3 so the no= 1 divided by three. The answer =1/3

7. A ship started from port and moving with 'I' miles/hour and other
ship started From L and moving with 'H' miles/hour . At the place
where these two ships will meet. (ans L*I*H)/(H+I)

8. A building with height D shadows up to G. A Neighbour building
with what height shadows C feet. (ans CD/G)

9. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10mph. Another
person was also fined for exceeding the speed limit by twice the
same. If the second person was travelling at speed of 35mph . Find
the speed limit (ans. 15mph)

10. A bus started from the bus stand at 8 Am and after staying 30
minutes at a destination return back to the bus stand. The
Destination is 27 miles from the bus stand . The Speed of the bus is
18mph . In the return journey the bus travells with 50% fast speed.
At what time it is return to the bus stand (1 p.m)

CHECK

11. In a mixture R is two parts, S is one part . In order to mixture
how much R is to be added. Ans S is 25% of R

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this is vocabulary section in tcs paper!
with solutions
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1 admonish : usurp
2 meager : scanty
3 alineate: estrange
4 merry :gay
5 brim: boarder
6 obstinate:stubborn
7 adhesive:tenacious
8 tranquil :serene
9 solicit: urge
furtive : stealthy
misery:distress
volume:quantity
hamper :obstruct
verr :diverge
belief:conviction
incentive:merit
inert:passive
concur:acquise
cargo:freight
dispel:scatter
caprice:whim
heap:to pile
covet:crave
emancipate:liberate
instigate:incite
latitude:scope
lethargy:stupor
divulge:discretion
hover:linger
embrace:effigy
baffle:frustate
lament:wail
stiffle:snithy
subside:wane
confiscate:appropriate
discretion:prudence
efface:deliberate
latent:potential

The technical comprises of 50 questions on C,Unix and windows.
The interview for us is on a later date.If the questions come for you
also,then intimate me.
1.const char *
char * const
What is the differnce between the above tow?.
2.In Unix inter process communication take place using?.
3.What are the files in /etc directory?.
4.About i-node numbers
5.Max relaxable permisssion value with out giving write permission
to others?.
6.About ln(linking)
7.A question on until
until (who |grep mary)
do
sleep(60)
done
8.Linking across directories?.

9.process id for kernell process
10.very first process created by kernell
11.function to repaint a window immediately?.
12.Function entry for DLL in win3.1
13.win 3.1 is a
14.win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.
15.Message displayed when a window is destroyed
16.About fork()?
17.About send message and post message
18.Message to limit the size of window
19.System call executable binary file intoa process
20.About GDI object?.
21.API used to hide window
22.Initialize contents of a dialog?.



APTITUDE TEST
20 QUESTIONS;2 MARKS EACH
TIME-20MINUTES
1) ONE RECTANGULAR PLATE WITH LENGTH 8INCHES,BREADTH 11 INCHES AND
2 INCHES THICKNESS IS THERE.WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE CIRCULAR ROD
WITH DIAMETER 8 INCHES AND EQUAL TO VOLUME OF RECTANGULAR PLATE?
ANS: 3.5INCHES
2) WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF ZEROS AT THE END OF THE PRODUCT OF THE NUMBERS
FROM 1 TO 100
3) in some game 139 members have participated every time one fellow
will
get bye what is the number of matches to choose the champion to be
held?
ans: 138
4) one fast typist type some matter in 2hr and
another slow typist type the
same matter in 3hr. if both do combinely in how much time they
will finish.
ans: 1hr 12min
5) in 8*8 chess board what is the total number of squares
refer odel
ans:204
6) falling height is proportional to square of the time.
one object falls 64cm in 2sec than in 6sec from how much
height the object will fall.
7) gavaskar average in first 50 innings was 50 . after the 51st
innings his average was 51 how many runs he made in the 51st
innings
8)2 oranges,3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15 . 3 ornages 2 bananas
1 apple costs Rs 10. what is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and
3 apples ANs Rs 15.
9)in 80 coins one coin is counterfiet what is minimum number of
weighings to find out counterfiet coin
10)in a company 30% are supervisors and 40% employees are male
if 60% of supervisors are male. what is the probability
that a randomly choosen employee is a male or female?
11)statement: all green are blue are blue, all blue are white
conclusion:
I) some blue are green II) some white are green
III)some green are not white IV) all white are blue
a) he has given four choices like gre type
12)all teachers are students. some students are girls.
this type of questions are there.
we cant able to reproduce them.

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TCS

Source : jadavpur university
Dated : 28/4/99


1. VOCABULARY.(SYNONYMS) 40 BITS. 20 MARKS. 20MIN.
2. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE 15 BITS 30 MARKS 15
MIN.
3. CRITICAL REASIONING.(COMPREHENSION) 50 BITS 50 MARKS 25
MIN.
4. PSYHOMETRIC TEST. 150 BITS 150 MARKS 30 MIN
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250 MARKS 90 MIN
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THE PSYCHOMETRIC TEST IS SIMPLE AND THERE IS NO
NEED OF OF PREPARATION. IT SIMPLY TEST YOUR PSYCHOLOGY. GIVE MOST
POSITIVE ANSWERS TO THIS SECTION. I AM SENDING SOME QUESTIONS TO
YOU. THE VOCAB. IS SAME. BUT THERE IS SOME CHANGES IN PASSAGES.BUT
THE IDEA IS SAME.

TAKE FOLLOWING PRECAUTIONS WHILE ANSWERING TEST.
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1. DON'T WRITE FULL ANSWERS TO VOCAB. SECTION. DO ONLY 36 to 37
QWUE's.BECAUSE THEY DISQUALIFIED SOME CANDIDATES HERE.

2. WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS TO THIS SECTION. SO YOU SIMPLY MUG UP
ANSWERS.

3. FOR CRITICAL REASONING SECTION WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS.BUT
SOME OF THESE ANSWERS MAY CHANGE. SO YOU PLEASE CHECK IN
EXAMINATION. THE ANSWERS IS SIMPLY (TRUE) OR (FALSE) OR
(CAN'T SAY) TYPE. FOR THIS SECTION YOU HAVE READ AS FAST
AS YOU CAN. IT SIMPLY TEST YOUR COMPREHENSION ABILITY.

4. EVENTHOUGH WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS TO MATHEMATICAL ABILITY.
SECTION. YOU DO " ROUGH " WORK BACK OF YOUR PAGE. IT IS ALSO
ONE OF IMPORTNANT CAUTION.

5. IN PSYCHOLOGY SECTION THE QWE'S MAY REPEATE AT LEAST FOUR
TIMES. BY SIMPLY CHANGING SENTENCE FORMATION. SO BECAREFUL
GIVE SAME ANSWERS TO THOSE QWE'S.





THERE WILL BE NO NEGATIVE MARKING. TIME 90 Min., APPEARED FOR EXAM =255
STUDENTS
SELECTED FOR INTERVIEW =122, FINALLY SHORT LISTED = 55 STUDENTS.

SECTION I VOCABULARY (SYNONYMS) TIME :15 Min. MARKS: 20.
DIRECT ANSWERS :
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Admonish : usurp Meager :scanty Alienate : estrange
Merry : gay Brim : Boarder obstinate : stubborn
Pretention:pretentioius Tranquil:serene solicit : urge
subside : wane furtive :stealthy misery : disstress
volume :quantity veer : diverge stiffle :sniths
adhesive : --- Hamper : obstruct belief : conviction
lament : wail to merit :to deserve incentive : ----
inert: passive Baffle : Frustrate Confiscate : appropriat
Covet : crave Caprice : whim Concur :acquiesce
Cargo :freight Dispel : Scatter Divulge : -----
Discretion: prudence Emancipate : liberate Efface : obliterate
Hover : linger Heap : to pile Instigate : incite
latitude : scope latent : potential lethergy : stupor
momentary : transient
----- means , for these words we are not able to reproduce answers.

PART II QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ,TIME 20 Min. MARKS :30.
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1. Two pencils costs 8 cents, then 5 pencils cost how much
(Ans:20 cents).
2. A work is done by the people in 24 min. one of them can do
this work a lonely in 40 min. how much time required to do the
same
work for the second person.
(ans:60 min.)
3. A car is filled with four and half gallons of oil for full
round
trip. fuel is taken 1/4 gallons mor3 in going than coming. what is
the fiel consumed in coming up? (2 gallons)
4. low temperature at the night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2
hinge as higher temperature in a day. sum of the low temp and
higherst temp is 100C. then what is the low temperature (40 C)
5. A person who decided to go weekend trip should not exceed 8
hours
driving in a day Average speed of forward journy is 40 mph. due
to
traffic in sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 mph.
how far he can select a picnic spot (120 miles).

6. A sales person multiplied a number and get the answer is 3,
instead of that number divided by 3. what is th answer he actually
has to get ? (1/3).
7. A ship started from port and moving with I mph and another ship
started from L and moving with H mph. At which place these two
ships
meet ? ( Ans is between I and J and close to J)

!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!
port G H I J K L

8. A building with hight D ft shadow upto G A neighbour building
with
what height shadow C ft is (B ft.)

!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!
A B C D E F G H

9. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10
mph.Another
person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice
the same. If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35
mph.
find the speed limit (15 mph)

10. A bus started from bustand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying
at
destination, it returned back to the bustand. the destination is
27
miles from the bustand. the speed of the bus 50 percent fast
speed.
at what time it retur4ns to the bustand (11.00)

11.in a mixture, R is 2 parts, S is 1 part. in order to make S to
25%
of the mixture, howmuch R is to be added ( one part).

12. wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for 80 miles how much time
required.
13. with 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full
tank
how much distance travels ( 5 miles).

14. two trees are there. one grows at 3/5 of the other. in 4
years,
total growth of trees is 8 ft. what growth will smaller tree will
have in 2 years. (<2ft)

15. A storm will move with a velocity of towords the center in
hours. At the same rate how much far will it move in hrs.
(but Ans is 8/3 or 2 2/3).

PART III: TIME 25 Min, MARKS :50.
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CRITICAL REASONING : THERE WILL BE 13 PASSAGES WITH 50 QUESTIONS TIME 30
MIN.
HERE I AM SENDING ONLY SOME OF THE PASSAGES (these will give only rough
idea)
(ANSWERS WILL BE AS YES/NO/CAN'T SAY we are giving our answers, please
check.)

1. My father has no brothers. he has three sisters who has two childs
each.

1 my grandfather has two sons (f)
2 three of my aunts have two sons(can't say)
3 my father is only child to his father(f)
4 i have six cousins from my mother side(f)
5 i have one uncle(f)

2. Ether injected into gallablader to dissolve galstones. this type
oneday
treatment is enough for gallstones not for calcium stones. this method is
alternative to surgery for millions of people who are suffering from this
disease.
1 calcium stones can be cured in oneday (f)
2 hundreds of people contains calcium stones(can't say)
3 surgery is the only treatment to calcium stones(t)
4 Eather will be injected into the gallbleder to cure the
cholestrol
based gall stones(t).

3. Hacking is illigal entry into other computer. this is done mostly
because of lack of knowledge of computer networking with networks one
machine can access to another machine. hacking go about without knowing
that each network is accredited to use network facility.
1 Hacking people never break the code of the company which they
work for (can't say).
2 Hacking is the only vulnerability of the computers for the
usage
of the data.(f)
3 Hacking is done mostly due to the lack of computer knowledge
(f).
(there will be some more questions in this one )

4. alphine tunnels are closed tunnels. in the past 30 yrs not even a
single
accident has been recorded for there is one accident in the rail road
system. even in case of a fire accident it is possible to shift the
passengers
into adjacent wagons and even the living fire can be detected and
extinguished
with in the duration of 30 min.
1 no accident can occur in the closed tunnels (True)
2 fire is allowed to live for 30 min. (False)
3 All the care that travel in the tunnels will be carried by rail
shutters.(t)
4

5. In the past helicopters are forced to ground or crash because of the
formation of the ice on the rotors and engines. a new electronic device
has
been developed which can detect the watercontent in the atmosphere and
warns
the pilot if the temp.is below freezing temp. about the formation of the
ice
on the rotors and wings.
1 the electronic device can avoid formation of the ice on the
wings (False).
2 There will be the malfunction of rotor & engine because of
formation of ice (t)
3 The helicopters are to be crashed or down (t)
4 There is only one device that warn about the formation of
ice(t).

6.In the survey conducted in mumbai out of 63 newly married house wives
not a single house
wife felt that the husbands should take equal part in the household work
as
they felt they loose their power over their husbands. inspite of their
careers
they opt to do the kitchen work themselves after coming back to home. the
wives get half as much leisure time as the husbands get at the week ends.
1 housewives want the husbands to take part equally in the
household(f)
2 wives have half as much leisure time as the husbands have(f)
3 39% of the men will work equally in the house in cleaning and
washing
3

7. copernicus is the intelligent. In the days of copernicus the transport
and technology
development was less & it took place weeks to comunicate a message at
that
time.wherein we can send it through satellite with in no time ----------.
even with this fast developments it has become difficult to understand
each other.
1 people were not intelligent during Copernicus days (f).
2 Transport facilities are very much improved in noe a days (can'
say)
3 Even with the fast developments of the techonology we can't
live happily.(can't say)
4 We can understand the people very much with the development of
communication(f).

Q8) senior managers warned the workers that because of the
intfoductors
of japanese industry in the car market. There is the threat to the
workers.
They also said that there will be the reduction in the purchase of
the sales of
car in public.the interest rates of the car will be increased with
the loss in demand.
1 japanese workers are taking over the jobs of indian
industry.(false)
2 managers said car interests will go down after seeing the raise
in
interest rates.(true)
3 japanese investments are ceasing to end in the car
industry.(false)
4 people are very much interested to buy the cars.(false)

Q9) In the totalitariturican days,the words have very much
devalued.In
the present day,they are becoming domestic that is the words will be
much more devalued.
In that days, the words will be very much effected in political
area.but
at present,the words came very cheap .we can say they come free at
cost.
1 totalitarian society words are devalued.(false)
2 totalitarian will have to come much about words(t)
3 The art totalitatian society the words are used for the
political
speeches.
4

Q10) There should be copyright for all arts. The reele has came
that
all the
arts has come under one copy right society,they were use the money
that come from
the arts for the developments . There may be a lot of money will
come from
the Tagore works. We have to ask the benifiters from Tagore work
to
help for
the development of his works.
1 Tagore works are came under this copy right rule.(f)
2 People are free to go to the because of the copy right
rule.(can't say)
3 People gives to theater and collect the money for
development.(can't say)
4 We have ask the Tagore resedents to help for the developments
of
art.(can't say)

NOTE : DO 1,2,3,4,5 PASSAGES WHICH ARE EASY. LAST BUT ONE ALSO. DO THAT
PASSAGES CAREFULLY. TIME WILL BE INSUFFICIENT. PASSAGES ARE NOT AS
EXACTLY
AS ABOVE. THERE IS HIGHLEVEL ENGLISH IN ALL THE PASSAGES, WE ARE GIVING
IN OUR OWN WORDS , U CANNOT EXPECT THE SAME TYPE OF ENGLISH THERE. WHILE
ANSWERING U SHOULD BE VERY FAST, DO NOT WASTE TIME, IT IS
INSUFFICIENT,TRY
TO ANSWER
AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.

SECTION 4. PSYCHOMETRIC TEST.
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DO NOT BOTHERE ABOUT MUCH ABOUT THIS TEST. BE OPTIMISTIC WHILE ANSWERE.
THERE WILL BE 150 QUESTIONS IN 30 MIN. THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION MAY
REPEATED WITH SLIGHT VARIATIONS ANSWER SHOULD BE SAME IN BOTH THE CASES.
(ans will be as yes/no/can't say)

for example
1 you will be interested in social activities.
2 while going upstairs you will move two steps at a time.
3 you will be making friendship with same sex or with opposite sex also.
4 your friends will consider u as a leader in your group
5 people think that your'e serious minded.
6 some times you feel dull without any reason.
7 your'e host or hostes for several parties.
8 relatives come to your house you will entertain them.
9 you will do work for longtime without tireness.
10 in your company you want lead the organasition.
etc.. the qwestions may repeate several times so becareful and give same
ans's.

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