Infosys Placement Exam

Can you tell me about the topics to prepare to clear the written exam of Infosys Placement exam?

[Quick Sam]

Selection process for INFOSYS company is based on 1) Written Test and 2) Technical Test + HR round.

Infosys Placement exam has the following rounds which one need to clear to get into the Company:

1. Aptitude Test :

For this section you must Read and Practice the following books very well :

* Quantative Aptitude Test by R.S.Agarwall,
* Verbal Reasoning Series by R.S.Agarwall,
* Quantative Aptitude by Sharma & Sharma (if you have time to practice.)

Generally Aptitude test for Infosys are consist of two sub-section which are :

* Mathematical Portion and
* English Portion.

All mathematical aptitude question are comes from Quantative Aptitude Test by R.S. Agarwall.

So you have to practice it very well

All English aptitude question are comes from Verbal Reasoning Series by R.S.Agarwall.

But this book have so many chapter. So from there you have to practice only Synonyms and Antonyms portion very well because Infosys set mainly these two portion very well.
This is all about aptitude test preparation.

2. Technical Interview :

For Technical interview you have to choose and write previously your preferable subjects and languages in your CV.

Although the interviewer may ask you about your
Favorite subjects and favorite computer languages. Then they ask you on those subjects. Besides these, they can ask you other subjects also. So prepare for it carefully.
This is all about your technical interview.

For this section as you mention the subjects you have to study the books like :

* C by Kanithkar
* DBMS by Korth
* JAVA by Shield
* Data Structure by Baluja etc.

3. Personal Interview/HR :

In general they can ask you here some common question like :

* Tell me about yourself ?
* Strength and weakness ?
* family background?
* hobbies ?
* Why should I hire you ?
* After 5 years where do you want to see yourself ?
* In what ways have you learned from your mistakes ?

For this section you have to prepare from the following book like :

* GRE by Barron
Besides this you have to prepare from current affairs.

Books for Preparation








Puzzles to Puzzle you – Shakuntala Devi

More Puzzles – Shakuntala Devi

Puzzles and Teasers – George Sammers

Brain Teasers – Ravi Narula

Quantitative Aptitude – R.S Agarwal

Verbal Reasoning – R.S Agarwal

Infosys Placement Paper
Q1). x^1/3 - x^1/9 = 60 . find the value of X. (3 marks)



Ans : write x^1/3 as x^1/9. x^1/9. x^1/9



Now x^1/9(x^2/9 - 1) =60

Now use trial and error method. Then x= 4^9



Q2). 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? (8 marks)



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)







Q3) same old cubes problem (8 marks)

A cube has its 6 faces painted red. It is cut by 6 straight lines into 27 smaller cubes.

Find how many smaller cubes are there having:

(i) 3 faces painted red. (ans : 8 )

(ii) 2faces painted red. (ans : 12 )



(iii) 1 face painted red. (ans : 6 )

(iv) 0 faces painted red (ans :1 )





Q4) There was a cycle race going on. 1/5th of the those in front of a person and 5/6th of those behind him gives the total number of participants. How many people took part in the race? (3 marks) Ans : 31 (5 marks)



Approach:

Let the total number of participants be X

So, [(x-1)/5 + 5(x-1)/6] = X







Q5) A man starts from XYZ city and drives a constant speed. After some time he sees a milestone with two digits written on it. after he drives for an hour, he sees another milestone with the same digits, but in reversed order. After another hour of journey, he sees another milestone with original digits but with a zero between them.

What was the speed of his car if milestones show kilometers? ( 6 marks)





Ans ) 45 kmph

Let speed of car be x kmph

Let at first he sees digits as ‘ab’…that is the value of number is: 10a+b

After traveling for one hour, he sees the number as ‘ba’…thus its value is 10b+a

After traveling another hour,he sees the number as ‘a0b’…thus value is 100a+b



Now,

10a+b+x=10b+a..which gives x=9b-9a

10b+a+x=100a+b..which gives x=99a-9b



Equating we get,

b=6a

since ‘a’ and ‘b’ are digits, a=1 and b=6 and thus x=45



Q6). Uncle Reuben and Aunt Cynthia came to town for shopping. Reuben bought a suit and hat for $15. Cynthia paid as much as for her hat as Reuben did for his suit then she spent the rest of their money for a new dress.

On the way home Cynthia called Reuben’s attention to the fact that his hat cost $1 more than her dress, then she added “if we had divided our hat money differently so that we bought different hats mine costing 1 and 1/2 time cost of yours” then we each would have spent the same amount of money.

In that case Uncle Reuben asked "how much would my hat have cost" (6 marks)

Ans). Uncles hat costs $9 (total money was $29)(not sure)check it





Q7). A five digit no whose third digit is one greater than the sum of the first two digits, and the third digit is double the fourth digit ,and fourth digit is double the fifth digit, and second digit is greater than first digit by 5. and if we multiply fourth and fifth digit we get third digit.

(5 marks)

Ans) 16842 take the no as “abcde” work it out using the given conditions (very easy)



Q8)ferie younger than jack and older than louise, louise older than edward and younger than jim (some names r given in that order) Who is youngest person?

U can easily solve this one by examining the conditions (3 marks)

Ans ) EDWARD very simple we have 2 club all conditions around 6, then we will get youngest person



Q9) ona sacle of 100: (3 marks)

85 are married, 80 have cars, 75 have phones, and 70 have houses. How many minimum persons are married, have phone, car and houses on a scale of 100.

Ans) 15 (not sure check it out)



Q10) There are 100 teams for a cricket tournament. It’s a knockout tournament .The team which

looses once will be out. How many matches are required to choose the winner?



Ans) 99

Hello sir, I am lakshya and I want you to provide me details regarding the Infosys placement exam pattern and also tell me about the expected cut off?

[Raman Vij]

As you have asked about the Infosys placement tes, paper pattern , check the details below

2015 Batch Pattern:
Quantitative Ability – 10 Questions 35 Minutes
Reasoning Ability – 15 Questions 25 Minutes
Verbal Ability – 40 Questions 35 Minutes
Sectional Cut-off – Yes
Negative Marks – No
Test Details:

Quantitative Ability – This is a new section introduced by Infosys this year and it clearly shows that Infosys is looking for applicants’ with good Problem Solving and Analytical skills. 10 Questions and 35 Minutes to solve so expect time consuming, higher difficulty questions.

The focus was more on Numbers and Advance concepts like Permutation and Combination, Probability. Few questions from topics like Time and Work, Time Speed and Distance were also seen.

Along with this there were one or two Crypt arithmetic Questions.
These questions are generally time consuming to solve. Since there were options given for these questions it makes these questions solvable with-in the available time

Reasoning Ability – Questions from Data Arrangement, Data Interpretation, Data Sufficiency, Syllogism, Visual Reasoning and Puzzles, earlier there were sets of five questions in each set and now it was reduced to 2 or 3 per question set and this makes it time consuming to solve.

Verbal Ability – Infosys stresses a lot on Verbal Ability and they continue to do the same by retaining the same old pattern for this section. 40 Questions testing almost all the areas of Verbal Grammar, Comprehension, Vocabulary and Critical Reasoning, 10 Questions each

Expected Cut-Off:
Quantitative Ability – 6 to 7 Marks
Reasoning Ability – 10 to 11 Marks
Verbal Ability – 20 marks