Placement Papers - Infosys

INFOSYS PAPER - 08 AUG 2005

            The test took place on 8/8/05             consisted of two parts
             
            1. Puzzles
             
            2. English
             
            Most questions were from Aggarwal,             Barrons 12th edition and Shakuntaladevi puzzles to puzzle you. There             were no questions from summers and shakuntala devi more puzzles to             puzzle you
             
            some of questions are: time given for             puzzles is 1hr 10 questions
 
                                                     
            1.the problem regarding speed in             shakuntala devi in which a person sees milestone after traveling             some distance 2 digit no reverses
            ans: 45 km/h

            2.it is based on equations A and C score this much S and C, that             much totally 5 players play cricket. A scores 100 runs more than R             some other conditions were given.
            ans: form equations like A+C=runs given and             solve it

            3.problem on ages in shakuntaladevi in which husband and wife's age             difference is 9 years and their sum of ages divided by difference is             11.
            ans: 45 years

            4.the cube is painted and cut into 9 pieces find no of blank painted             cubes, one side painted , 2 sides painted and 3 side painted cubes            
                                                                                                         
            5.this regarding jobs done by various             people some conditions were given and we have to find which person             does which job.
            ans: solve it by table method in 12th edition             logical reasoning in barron's

            6.another similar to above problem and surnames are given solve it             by
            table method in barron's

            7.the average speed problem from shakuntaladevi use formula (2xy/(x+y))

            8.a person gives half money to charity, and remaining half to that             like that same problem is given in shakuntaladevi

            9.some people are there and total less than 500.some students are in             school and number of students is divisible by some numbers like 2,3             etc. some condition was given
            ans:420. take lcm of all those numbers

            10.clock problem it is worked example in agarwal very simple.2             clocks are ticking one gains 10 min in 1 hr and other loses 10 min             in 1 hr at what time 2 clocks reach same time

            English consisted of sentence correction, completion and reading             comprehension from Barron's. 45 multiple choice questions to be             chosen in 30 mins. no negative marking was there.
                                       all the best for members