TCS written test papers paper of last year

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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).

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CRITICAL REASONING : THERE WILL BE 13 PASSAGES WITH 50 QUESTIONS TIME 30 MIN.
(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)
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
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't 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).
8) 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)
9) 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.

10) 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)

TCS Previous years sample placement papers



1. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race?



a) 30
b) 32 -Answer
c) 41
d) 54



2. From the top of a 9 metres high building AB, the angle of elevation of the top of a tower CD is 30º and the angle of depression of the foot of the tower is 60º. What is the height of the tower?



a) 12 -Answer
b) 18
c) 9
d) 15



3. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 27 are females. The shake hands are done between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?



a) 122
b) 66 -Answer
c) 48
d) 128



4. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan’s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan’s Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.



a) 20.72
b) 3.5 -Answer
c) 238.25
d) 6.18



5. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.’ Which statements are true and which are false?



a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false.
b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.
c) All the statements are false.
d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.-Answer



6. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, what is the minimum no. of mice’s required to find poisoned can?



a) 3
b) 2
c) 5 -Answer
d) 1



7. How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed?



a) 5^7
b) 5^6
c) 5^9
d) 5^8-Answer



8. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?



a) 37.80 -Answer
b) 8
c) 40
d) 5



9. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A’s chances of winning. Let’s assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia; Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?



a) 1/9
b) 4/9
c) 5/9 -Answer
d) 2/3



10. 36 people {a1, a2… a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, …, {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is



a) 12 -Answer
b) 11
c) 13
d) 18



11. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is



a) 1/2
b) 14/19 -Answer
c) 37/38
d) 3/4



12. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?



a) 0.75
b) 1
c) 0.5
d) 0.25-Answer


13. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20, third hour it has 40 and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?



a) 26hrs -Answer
b) 25hrs
c) 5hrs
d) 27hrs



14. 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A, B, C, AB, BC, AC, ABC. Final round measure is 155kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?



a) 88.5 -Answer
b) 77.5
c) 50
d) 55



15. A grand father has 3 grand children. Age difference of two children among them is 3. Eldest child age is 3 times the youngest child’s age and the eldest child age is two year more than the sum of age of other two children. What is the age of the eldest child?



a) 15 -Answer
b) 10
c) 22
d) 18



16. In a mixture of a, b, & c, if a and b are mixed in 3:5 ratio and b and c are mixed in 8:5 Ratio and if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b?



a) 13.34
b) 15.73 -Answer
c) 16.73
d) 9.45



17. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?



a) 0 -Answer
b) 12/212
c) 11/12
d) 1/12



18. 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true?



A. All suspects are lying.
B. leftmost suspect is innocent.
C. leftmost suspect is guilty

a) A only
b) A or C
c) A or B -Answer
d) B only



19. A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted?


a) 900
b) 488
c) 563 -Answer
d) 800



20. My flight takes of at 2am from a place at 18N 10E and landed 10 Hrs later at a place with coordinates 36N70W. What is the local time when my plane landed?


a) 12 noon
b) 6: 40 AM -Answer
c) 5: 20 PM
d) 6:50 AM



21. The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14. What is the square of their sum?



a) 120
b) 130 -Answer
c) 137
d) 145



22. In a 100m race , A beats B by 15m and B beats C by 10m . If A beats C by 5 sec then find the speed of C.


a) 5 m/sec
b) Speed of C cannot be found with given data
c) 4.7 m/sec -Answer
d) 4 m/sec
e) 4.5 m/sec



23. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work?



a) 12
b) 40
c)6 -Answer
d) 8



24. Oshkosh did a study of the colors used in African national flags. He found that 38 flags have red, 20 have blue, 13 have both red and blue, and 8 have neither red nor blue. How many flags



a. have red but not blue?
b. have blue but not red?
c. were included in the study?

a) 25, 7, 53 -Answer
b) 38, 20, 79
c) 25, 7, 66
d) 30, 20, 60


25. Amrith told to Anand in front of a photo that “He is the son of my father's son”. Find who is in the picture if Amrith have no brothers and sisters.

a) Amrith himself
b) Amrith's Uncle
c) Amrith's Father
d) Amrith's Son-Answer