2010 Latest CTS (Cognizant) Placement Paper St Thomas Engineering college
Hi, friends It when Cognizant came to our college. It was a great experience. I am sharing my
experience with u all.
there are four steps for cognizant for recruitment:-
1)PPT(about the company and the facilities and the package they are providing with a video.the
presentation was quite interesting.After ppt they asked some questions from the ppt and also given
some gifts.)
2)Aptitute Test
3)Interview(Technical and Hr all together)
4)selection.
Total Candidates Appeared for the Written Test: 197
Short Listed Candidates for Interview: 153
Shortlisted Candidates to become a part of COGNIZANT:71(big cut here.)
Written test consists of three sections
First Paper (Numerical) (25 questions-30min)
Second paper VERBAL SECTION (25 questions-20min)
Third Part (Logical) (20 questions-20 min)
Total 60 minutes, No Negative marks
The papers will be taken back after the allotted time for each section.
First the MeritTrac People will give you the Instruction Sheet and The OMR sheet. Please read the
instructions carefully it will help you a lot. Then You will have to fill some information infact a lot.
Please remember all the Semester Percentages and have them calculated on a sheet of paper. Have
your Resume and a Photograph with you they will be pinned to your OMR sheet. So take an EXTRA
RESUME.
Questions in the OMR SHEET:
• Name:
• Temporary address :
• Permanent address :
• Phone no.
• Mobile no.
• Email id1 email id2
• X & XII ACADEMIC PROFILE TABLE
• UG ACADEMIC PROFILE TABLE(1st to 8th sem)
• PG ACADEMIC PROFILE TABLE
• Any arrears?
• Reason if any?
• Have you cleared all your papers in the first attempt?
• Software orientation: (I put C,Core JAVA & J2EE)
• Hobbies and extra curricular activities:
• Strengths and weakness:
(Please mention them with the reason following, this helped me reduce the interview time. They will
cross check by asking you the same questions in Interview so be careful to answer the same one's
when asked no new once added to that.)
• What do you expect from cognizant? (answer in 3-4 precise points)
• What is your short term and long term goals? (answer one in each)
• What are the qualities you think that is necessary for successful software professional?
(Just answer in 3 points and just tell them that you think you have them in you to be a successful
Sofware Professional. Be good in your language and avoid mistakes)
So be prepared to answer above because they will give only 10 min. so prepare well before.
I prepared on it and it took me correctly10 min only. If u cannot answer it within 10 min they will give
you answer sheets and you will have to spare you written test time. So be cautious and prepare for
the last three as well and notable. Because they can ask questions In HR round from it.
But Time is an important factor here. make sure that u first solve those questions which u can solve
easily. and for those u can not solve give option C, because for cognizant most of the questions they
set the ans c.
I can not recollect all questions, but some are like,
There was actually 4 sets.A,B,C and D.mine was A.
There were 4 questions.but each one were lengthy.
Most of questions in my set were from Venn Diagram. like,
1)ayan, shyam and Tanay are friends. when we asked about them to 100 people,only 3 of them knew
all of them. Only 7people knew ayan and shyam both,15people knew shyam and tanay.and 12people
knew ayan and tanay.and 20people knew ayan,48 knew shyam and 39 knew tanay.20 were unknown
to every one.25 did not know any one of them.
i)how many know ayan only?
ii) how many know tanay only?
iii) how many know none of them only?
…………….
…………….
Like these…
2)six books of maths,history,geography,economics,English and environmental science are arranged in
a series.math is not on the top and bottom.history is in between economics and and
English.geography is 3rd from top.economics is not in between English and history…like this..
Then some questions like…
i)which one is on the top?
ii)which one is 3rd from left?
……………
There were no questions from cube..but I suggest you to prepare for that.
And remember the equations like to solve cube problems:-1)one side painted ((x-2)^2)*6 2)two side
painted (x-2)*12 3)three side painted always 8 is ans(i.e. 8 corner of cube) 4)unpaintd ((x-2)^3)
where x- side of cube
VERBAL SECTION
This section was bit tough and lengthy..i suggest u to start from select correct sentence/incorrect
sentence or from fill in the blanks.because they r easy and takes little time to solve.
And then go for paragraph.there was two paragraph.they were lengthy.
Logical section
1)logic questions like
1)All Fans are Coolers
Some Coolers are AC's
2)No Politician is Honest
No honest person is intelligent
3)All fruits are vegetables
All vegetables are green
choose the conclusion from following…….
2)Some figure odd man out matching questions (10 questions).they were very easy..u can start the
paper from it also.
Nonverbal from RS Agarwal will help you a lot.Some easy questions in picture based to look forward
will be the figures which are closed and open figures.There will be only one Closed figure and other
open and surely and ODD man Out.
3) One puzzles Question is also there. 3 Questions asked from this puzzle. (I don’t remember
Questions)
After two hours the sortlist was declared by them . cleared the aptitude
There was no negative marking that’s why I answered all the questions. I saw my score at the time of
interview. It was
numerical=15
Verbal=10
Logical=12
Total = 37 out of 70
HR+TECHNICAL
there was 15 panels and there were 10 students in each panel.i was 7 th in my panel.they took almost
2hrs to call my name.i was very tired then.but don’t show the interviewer you fatigue.Be confident
and always have a smiling face. because it matters.
Me:may I come in sir?
INTERVIEWER:yes please.
Me:good evening sir.(it was almost evening when I was in the room)
INTERVIEWER:good evening.hv your sit.
Me:thank u sir.
INTERVIEWER:so why your marks are not so good in x th standard?
Me:(It was shocking for me.he even did not told me to introduce my self.because it is thecomm0oon
question.)I answered.
INTERVIEWER:so you are a player.which game do you prefer.
Me:football.
INTERVIEWER:so tell me what is Denormalization?
Me:answered.
INTERVIEWER:what is your final year project?
Me:sir,Hospital management information system.
INTERVIEWER:tell me the architecture of your project
Me:told(and also made him under stand.try your best to convence him.)
INTERVIEWER:why do you choose JSF,Hibernate and oracle for your project?
Me:answered
INTERVIEWER:what is the difference between jsf and jsp?
Me:answered
INTERVIEWER:Are you flexible?
Me:yes sir.
INTERVIEWER:if you are appointed as and programmer and then u are told to shift to testind
department where you don’t hv any interest and knowledge how would you react?
Me:I wll take the challenge and will give my 100% to learn that.as you can in my final year project I
hv chosen the recent most technology,though there is no one to help me.so I learn my self and trying
to implement.(he was impressed by that ans)
INTERVIEWER:ok.do you have any questions for me?
Me:sir,that are the softwares that are used in cognizant?
INTERVIEWER:he explained and then said It was nice talking to you .
Me:same here.thank you very much sir.
Some important tips for cognizant,you must take care of:
1)never say cts infront of interviewer.they don’t prefer the word.always mention the name as
Cognizant.
2)always hv the smiling face during interview but it should not look like artificial.
3)don’t show over confidence or lack of confidence during interview. Be what you are and be natural.
Take one thing into mind “Confidence is the key of success for every interview.”
After 3hours of waiting they published their list of selected candidates at 10.30pm.only 71 were
selected from 197 students.I was one of them.
Hope to see u in Cognizant....best of luck....
BEST OF LUCK GUYS......
Thank you…
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Accenture Placement Paper - 3
Hi friends!!!
I got selected on 15th march for accenture thanks to freshersworld and the almighty!!! there was
joint campus. there were around 800 ppl from 10 different colleges. they had called us at 8.30am.
and they were on time. so better be on or b4 time for accenture placements. i was a bit late and so
i missed the power point presentation. but friends never dare to do so coz u need info abt the
company in HR interview. so starting with i would like to give some useful tips .
there are 4 rounds through which u have to go through
1. APTITUDE
2.G.D
3.HR
4.TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
1> APTITUDE.
the paper for aptitude which we had was typically similar to the whole test paper posted by
sridhar at MJCET college. pls see that paper. our paper was similar to that. do solve the papers
given on freshersworld. they help u a lot. basically there were 3 sections
1. analytical ability. under this section we had 5-6 problems based on venn diagram, then 1
question based on realationship, then 1 q based on " there are 50 ppl. if i stand 17th from front.
then what will be my number from back". a little difficult type on it. also we had some problems
on data sufficiency in this type. some problems were based on directions.
2.verbal
quite easy section .we had to fill in the blanks using articles. then 2 passages and all. was quite
easy and scoring
3. i dont remember the section name. but the problems were like if $=1 and *=0 then what will
be thew represention of following. see paper posted by shridhar same pattern of questions. find
which of the three quantities are alike. eg 122256664,122256644, 122256664. so quite easy. the
other questions were based on * stands for +,/ stands for-, = stands for*, - satnds for /..then find
the value of foll exp 5/6*2+2-4.. these questions were most diff part for me. as they were time
consuming and u need little practice for them. so practice such prob.also there was an essay to be
witten. my topic was" MY FIRST DAY AT COLLEGE". TIME LIMIT WAS 5 MIN AND
ESSAY SHOULD BE OF 100 WORDS.
out for 62 students from each classroom 15 were selected. and i was happy to find that i was 1
among them. them immidiately we had gd. now comes the GD. my topic for gd was "AMITABH
IN KBC V/S SHAHRUKH IN KBC"
it is imporatnt that for gd u speak some valid points. and convey them properly to ur collegues.
be confident and speak well. my gd was like a fish market. during gd session of 10 min i hardly
spoke 2 points. but atlast that mam gave 2 min each for conclusion. my conclusion was good so i
got selected. out of 15 ppl she selected 10 ppl
HR interview
tips. read abt the companys profile nicely. it is very important.
she asked me questions like
1. tell me about urself and ur family background.
2.what do u do in
free time.
3. other than music what do u do? do u read any technnical magazines.
4. what did u
decide to come into software field. who inspired u? who is ur role model.
5 ur marriage
plans.6.how imp is teamwork for u?.
7 have u ever managed any event in college.
8. who is
important for u supervisor or counciler.
9. what do u think how will be ur first day in accenture.
10. are u ready to relocate.
11. have u helped anyone grow.
Technical Interview
only 1 question was asked. write a program for sequential linked list and insert a node into a
already sorted linked list. the prog was really difficult for me as i had not prepared. but then i
wrote some part of program and as i knew the complete logic of program i explained him the
logic.
then he told me "u can go home" and "by the way u are selected". i was so happy . that atlast
after so many rejections i got a job into accenture..
let me tell u 1 thing...ALWAYS BELIEVE IN ALMIGHTY...WHATEVER HE DOES IS FOR
UR BEST. NEVER LOSE HOPE. I WAS DOWN AND OUT WHEN I WAS REJECTED BY
LNT AND INFOSYS. BUT NEVER EVER GIVE UP..SOMETHING BETTER IS WAITING
FOR U!!!!!
BEST OF LUCK ...... AND HOPE TO MEET U ALL SOON IN ACCENTURE.
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