Cognizant Placement Paper Set 2

Written test consists of three sections

VERBAL SECTION (25 questions-25min)

(1-10) comprehension (passages r too long)
(11-15) find the incorrect sentences
(16-20) find the correct sentences
(21-25) arrange the jumbled sentences
This is a quiet tough section. Just make guesses. Mark option B or C.Always read passage at last.Read questions first.
ANALTICAL SECTION (25 questions-30min) 
(1-5) Venn diagram 

A group is divided into three. The first group is persons of 5'6 height and second and third r 6'0 and 6'6 respectively. There r totally 130 peoples, 50 of them r 5'6 and 65 of them r 6'6, 10 of them r 5'6 and 6'6, 15 of them r 5'6 and 6, 20 of them r 6'6 and 6, and 5 of them r all the three.
(1) How many of them r 6 feet? (Ans 70)
(2) How many of them r only 6 feet? (Ans 30)
(3) How many of them are only 5’6? (Ans 20)
(4) How many of them are only 6’6? (Ans 30)
(5) How many of them are at least two? (Ans 50)  
Important formula in Venn diagram is
EXACTLY ONE = TOTAL - EXACTLY TWO - ALL THREE  
(6-10) quantitative questions  

Questions on Blood relations(quite difficult) 
Other questions r from profit loss and other general questions. Sorry I don’t remember  
(11-15) data sufficiency--Very easy one
(16-20) binary conversion
Please don’t read anything in the question. Just change any value to binary and convert that 1 to $ and 0 to *.
(Eg) LCM of (12 15 10) (ans 60 = 111100 = $$$$**)
(21-25) cubes
Questions like :if a dice is thrown 2 on top,3&5 at left &right,in another turn 5 on top,3&4 at left&right and one another condition(dont remember exactly)
21-25 What is opposite to 5?.....
NON VERBAL SECTION (20 questions-20 min)  
(1-4) syllogism (study all rules in the aggarwal book but TIME book will help u a lot)
(Eg) All mosquitoes’ are lizards.
All lizards are insects.
(Ans: all mosquitoes’ are insects)
(5-6) logical deduction (study all rules from TIME book)
(7-15) figure sequence and odd one out from figures (very easy)(just go through R S Agarwal)  
(16-17) Seating arrangement
(18-20) logical puzzle
After two hours the sortlist was declared by them .I was almost sure that I would be clearing the aptitude.

          
The Merit Track conducted the test. It was organized perfectly and they expect discipline from us.. Before the test u have to fill a form. Do it carefully because some of my friends got questions 4m tat.

1.Software Orientation:
2.Hobbies and extra-curricular activities
3.Strengths and Weakness
4.Expectation from CTS
5.Why CTS
6. Long term and short-term goal with CTS
7.What are the qualities necessary for software professional to be successful

WRITTEN TEST (3 sections) NO –VE MARKING

1.Analytical Ability (25 Q, 30 Minutes)
Venn diagram questions
Data sufficiency
coding 1 represented as $ and 0 as *(easy.. jus convert it into Binary)
Cubes related questions are very important

My suggestion is do Coding First. Then Venn dig. Cube problem n others..u can surely score full marks fm coding n venn dig…cube is also easy when u understand it.For cube take the cubic root of the no of pieces.64 means 4(keep as x value)..then 2 side painted means   12*(x-2).1side painted means 6*(x-2) 2 .  (horizontal n vertical) like wise u must think  n apply according to the question..

1.venn dig- people hving dif heights 6feet ,6’6 feet, 5’5 feet.and questions like no of people who is 6 feet.no of people who is 5’5feet…..
2.In codin there will be only normal arithmetic operations n L.c.m..i don remember them.
For ex..64/4= 16 = $****.first solve it n convert it to binary..

3.Cube- a cube of 12 cm is cut into small 3cm pieces..then place another 4 small cubes  over it..and another 2 small cubes over the 4cubes..then again one more cube over the 2 cube…the cube is then painted from top to bottom
12/3=4…so 4row 4column…draw a dig of cube first. Imagining the cube only help u to solve rather than formulas. How many cubes r painted on only one side?
how many cubes r painted on only 2 sides?
how many cubes r painted on only 3 sides?
how many cubes r painted on only 4 sides?
how many cubes r painted 0 sides?
(my friends told me tat cube problems hav more marks than other questions)

2.Verbal Ability (20 Q, 20 Min)
Comprehension
Find out the incorrect sentence
Find out the correct sentence
Jumbled Passages
-Don prepare any thing for this ..It won help u..Jumbled sent n correct incorrect sent are a little confusing..it depends on ur grammer n English language skills.  do the comprehension last(it is a very big passage..i didn’t even read  it ,jus ticked..no time)
3.Attention Details (20 Q, 20 Min)
Find the odd man out
Analogy of figures (Simple)
syllogism
Puzzle
Very easy compared to other sections..any one can crack it with out any preparation..If u think to prepare jus go through puzzle test n syllogism from R.S.Agarwal Verbal reasoning
Analogy of figures –Non verbal Reasoning
   
  Set 3
      1. A says " the horse is not black".
      B says " the horse is either brown or grey."
      c says " the hoese is brown"
      At least one is telling truth and atleast one is lying. tell 
  the colour of horse.
     
   Answer : grey
      
   2. A son and father goes for boating in river upstream . After 
  rowing for 1 mile son notices the hat of his fathe falling in the river. 
  After 5min. he tells his father that his hat has fallen. So they turn around 
  and are able to pick the hat at the point from where they began boating 
  after 5min.
  Tell the speed of river.
   Ans...6 miles/hr
      
   3  A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17  where each letter represent a 
  number from 1 to 9. Find out what does letter D and G represent if letter A=4.   
   (8 marks)
   ans.   D=5
          G=1
    4. Argentina had football team of 22 player of which captain is 
  from Brazilian team and goalki from European team. For remainig 
  palayer they have picked 6 from argentinan and 14 from european. Now for a 
  team of 11 they must have goalkeeper and captain so out of 9 now they plan to 
  select 3 from argentinian and 6 from European. Find out no. of methods avilable
  for it (2 marks)
   Ans : 160600( check out for right no. 6C3 * 14C6)
      
   5 Three thives were caught stealing sheep, mule and camel.
     A says " B had stolen sheep "
     C says " B had stolen mule"
     B says he had stolen nothing.
      the one who had stolen horse is speaking truth. the one who had stolen 
   camel is lying . Tell  who had stolen what? (5 marks)
   ans. A- camel
        B- mule
        C- horse
   6  a group of friends  goes for dinner and gets bill of Rs 2400 .
 Two of them says that they have forgotten their purse so remaining 
  make an extra contribution of Rs 100 to pay up the bill. Tell the no. of 
  person in that group. (3 marks)
 Ans - 8 person
7. In acolony there are some families. Each of them have 
  children but different in numbers.Following are conditions
     a  no of adult no of sons no of daughters no of families.
     b each sister must have atleast one brother and should have 
  at themost 1 sister.      
     c  no of children in one family exceeds the sum of no of 
  children in the rest families.
   Tell the no of families.(5 marks)
    ans : 3 families
   8. There are 6 people W,H,M,C,G,F who are murderer , victim , 
  judge , police, witness, hangman. There was no eye witness only 
  circumtancial witness. The murderer was sentenced to death.
   Read following statement and determine who is who.
   1. M knew both murderer and victim.
   2. Judge asked C to discribe murder incident.
   3. W was last to see F alive.
   4. Police found G at the murder site.

   5 H and W never met.