2005

INFOSYS PAPER - 18 DEC 2005 - DELHIHi Chetanaites

I wana thank chetna mam and each and every member of chetna group without whom i could not do my paper well. i have attached paper of 18th dec infy. INFOSYS 18TH DECEMBER, DELHI 1. There are seven paintings T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z of which five has to be selected for an exhibition. Following are the conditions (i) If T is selected, X cannot be selected (ii) If U is selected, Y must be selected (iii) If V is selected, X must be selected 8 MarksFour questions following this. a) Which one of the following is an acceptable combination for inclusion in the exhibition A) T,U,V,X,Y B) T,U,V,Y,Z C) T,W,X,Y,Z D) U,V,W,Y,Z E) U,V,X,Z,Y b) If painting T is chosen to be among the paintings included in the exhibition which one of the following cannot be chosen to be among the paintings included in the exhibit? A) U B) V C) W D) Y E) Z c) Which one of the following substitutions can the artist always make without violating restrictions affecting the combination of paintings given that the painting mentioned first was not, and the painting mentioned second was, originally going to be chosen? A. T replaces V B. U replaces Y C. V replaces XD. W replaces Y E. W replaces Z d) If the artist chooses painting V to be included among the paintings in the exhibit, which one of the following must be true of that combination of paintings? A. T is not chosen B. Y is not chosen C. U is chosen D. W is chosen E. Z is chosen 1. a) E b) B c) E d) A

2. Mr. T has a wrong weighing pan.One arm is lengthier than other.1 kilogram on left balances 8 melons on right.1 kilogram on right balances 2 melons on left.If all melons are equal in weight,what is the weight of a single melon?Ans:200 gms

3. Andy,Brian,Cedric,Dave are architects ,barber, case worker and dentist but not in the order. *Architect will have the letter 'r' in his name. *Atleast one of the person should have coincidence in the first letter of their name and their occupation but not all [eg: andy-architect] * Barber and dentist share their name by only one letter What is the occupation of each person?Ans:Andy - CaseworkerBrian - BarberCedric - ArchitectDave - Dentist 3 marks( THIS QUESTION WAS SAME THERE, BUT THEY CHANGED THE COND.)

4. There is log weighing 30kgs. The log having twice thickness and twice short as first one will weigh howmuch ??Ans:60

5.. A + B + C +D = D + E + F + G = G + H + I =17. IF A = 4 WHAT ARE THE VALUES OF D AND G. EACH LETTER TAKEN ONLY ONE OF THE DIGIT FROM 1 TO 9. 8MARKSANS : A = 4 ,B = 2, C =6, D = 5, E = 3, F = 8,G = 1, H = 7, I = 9.( LIKE THIS TYPE OF QUESTION ) 8 marks

6. a and b run a race of 100 yards. a beats b by 10 yards. next time, a starts 10yards behind to compensate. who wins the race?a wins

7. relation type question ..this was simple..one. any one could solve.

8. 7. There were few diamonds. First thief takes half of the diamonds +2. Second thief takes half of the diamonds +2. 3rd thief takes half of the diamonds +2 4th thief takes half of the diamonds +2 when 5 th thief arives there were one diamond left. find total no. of diamonds. Ans: 76. 6 marks

9. put one digit before 15 and one digit after 15 ..this 4 digit number should divisble from 15 ..how may such numbers are there? Answer :5

10 I forget this one but this was not from old infy and also not from shakuntala or summer.I solved there 9 out of 10 but its enough to solve 8 out of 10th.english paper was pretty easy. It was objective type and of 30 minutes.and no negative marking there. Never loose the hope first finish shakuntla 1st and papers this is sufficient after that if u have time then take 2nd shakulnta devi and solve relation type of question frm ims correspondence( m.b.a.) material. BEST OF LUCK

(Paper Submitted By : Prashant Malviya)

INFOSYS PAPER - 11 DEC 2005 - MUMBAIHi Chetanaitesi have given infy paper at mumbai on 11dec. paper was easy onemost of que were repeated from prevoius papers

1. following facts are given a) either alister is older or alex is older b) either hansy is older or alex is youngerthan who is older & who is younger

2.clock strikes once at 1:00, twice at 2:00 & so on. if it takes 6 sec to strikes at 5:00 & 12 sec to strike at 9:00 & also time to strike at 1:00 is negligible than find time spent to strike for 24 hours.

3. if john do part time job from 1 june & did job at every 2 day, and marry did part time from 2 june & did job at every 3 days. than find the day when they meet .

4. if person A, B, C, D were druggist, grocer, architect & banker not in order.than a) if grocerer earn twice from druggist, architect earns 4time from grocerer& banker earn s 8 time s than architect. b) if c earns less than D (sth like that) c) if a earns exactly 3778 more than bthen find who is who

5. if shopkeeper arrranges oranges in row of 3 , 5 ,7 , 9 than 1 orange is left but if arranges in row of 11 none left than findno of oranges

6.problem no 59 of "more puzzle to puzzle u".

7. george hav scarf if & only if rimmie has glove (like that)

8.if driver has 5 sons & 5 daughter . if he give 1 coin to driver tthan 1/5th of remaing to 1 st son again give 1 coin to driver & 1/5th of remaining to 2 nd son & so on. at last distribute equally remaining amount among daughter than find no of coins.

9. one complex que of races

10.if there are 4 couples. than find no of ways to make a group of 3 people such that there is no two wives in group. Regards

(Paper Submitted By : Manas)

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 30 NOV 2005 - VIZAGHi Friends, I have selected for infosys through combined campus recruitment process. The test was held at Vizag on 30-11-2005.First of thanks to all the members of this group becoz of Whom I made it. This is the paper I got and the interview that follows.

There were totally 10puzzles.All repeated from old papers.followed by English test which is very easy but confusing. for the model I am giving it at my best.Here the questions:

1. There was a race going. The participants are Dennis, jack, samatha, Jim, Louise. Louise was not the last person. Dennis beat jack. Samantha was beaten by Jim and Louise in that order. Jack was not the first person. Jack beat Jim. Who is the winner?Ans: Dennis.Order was: Dennis, jack, Jim, Louise, Samantha.

2. My husband?s age is the reverse of my age. He is senior to me. The difference of our age is the one 1/11 of their sum. What was my age?Ans: my age: 45. My husband?s age: 54. Let mine be xy i.e. 10x+y. Then my husband?s 10y+x. Given 9(y-x) =1/11(11x+11y). 3. Ram traveled 2/3 rd of the distance by bicycle. After the tyre was punctured so he walked the remaining distance for double time. How fast he raided the cycle as he walk?Ans: 4 times faster than his walking. 2x/3 ------- in t time. X/3 -------in 2t time. Now v1/v2 = (2x/3t)/(x/3*2t).

4. There was a cube painted red color. IF its is cut in to 27 equal pieces how many faces will be with(i) No red color(ii) 1 red face(iii) 2 redf aces(iiii) 3 red faces Ans: (i) 1 (center)(ii) 6 (Middle)(iii) 12 (Side faces)(iiii) 8 (corners)

5.some passage like there were 7 gems exhibiting through left and right windows.teh gems are ruby,diamond,sapphire,emerald,???.some conditions.4 questions were asked.( refer barrons gre analytical section).

6. Three persons A, B & C who can be named according to their behavior. They can be named as Sororean, the name that can be given to the one who always wins; Nororean, the name that can be given to the one who always tells the truth; Midrorean, the name that can be given to the one who always lies. Then, given some statements (not exactly the same I?ve given), based

on which to answer the question (we need to write the names that A, B & C can be given in the table given) A. 1) C came across to me and so I lost. 2) C always tells truth.3) C is the winner.B. 1) A is the winner.2) C is not nororean.C. 1) B is the winner...2) I din?t came across A he is lying.A nororeanB sororeanCmidrorean 7. In a game of cricket azahar scored 28 less than dravid.and sachin scored 72 more than Azahar.the total runs made by Azahar and robin are 94.robin scored 26 more than zadeja.dravid scored 26 more than robin. What is the score?Ans: 338 Z: x R: x+26 D: x+52 A: x-24 S: x+72-24 A+R=94

8. We traveled to picnic early in the morning with a speed of 15kmph.while returning as traffic is heavy we drove at 10kmph.What is the average speed.Ans: 12kmph. V=D/T D=x+x=2xT=t1+t2;Now t1=x/15, t2=x/10

I am sorry I am unable to recollect the questions but they also repeated.Then the English test for1/2 hour.The first one is comprehension passage. very easy. Just 5 mins for reading.6 questions based on it.Next sentence completion i.e fill the blanks with appropriate words (like in gre but not that much difficult).next comes sentence correction.9 to 10 questions on tences.Be sure it?s a little bit confusing though it looks very easy this is where we made lot of mistakes. Again 4 long sentences were given under single question. We have to find the wrong one very easy read the sentences as fast as u can so that time is not wasted.becoz we have to answer 45 questions in 30 mins.One more section is there regarding verbal using .Thats it. Hope it may help for some.

INTERVIEW: Sir: Good evening kalpana (my interview was done at 9:30 p.m).take Ur seat.Me: ThankQ sir.Sir: tell me about Ur self.Me: I am kalpana doing my final yr (he interrupted me here)Sir: Actually I am not supposed to tell these things to the applicants but I don?t know why I am mentioning this to u.he told me that when some asks to tell something about ourselves we have to start from our father becoz he is Ur origin.Me: ThankQ u sir.Sir: ok continue.Me: I am from a middle class family .My father??????all family details in order and then my strengths and weaknesses.Sir: he gave a puzzle to form 1000 from sixteen 4s.Me: I answered it quickly. I am giving it: 444+444+44+44+4+4+4+4+4+4Sir: one more puzzle. Cut the shape in to 6 blocks. Very easy.Sir: another puzzle to make 31 from five 3s.Me: 3^3+3+3/3 33-3+3/3.Sir: so kalpana u said that (I mentioned in the application form) Ur a team worker. What r the projects u have taken as a team.

Me :( Actually I din?t do anything .I just write it becoz I have no choice left on that time so?I answered it like this.) Sir actually we did no projects but we our classmates form as groups and discuss different topics, share our views and try to improve our skills by getting feed back from our team members.Sir: Ur active in Organizing events (this is also I mentioned).so what are the events u have organized this year.Me: we organized a state level technical conference on the occasion of our college silverjublee function namely ?spurthi-2005?.Sir: ok last yrs projects?Me: ?spurthi-2004? our departmental event.Sir: In Ur inter and 10 th classes. What did u organize?Me: we organized our college freshers and farewell parties and also annual days.Sir: now in this sem Ur going to work on a project.what u would like to be? Eiher leader or member?Me: obviously leader.Sir: how could u manage the team?Me: Since for every project there are 7 levels, I will plan a schedule; explain it to all my team members. I will make sure that they should do their work in the time. I will also instruct them how precious the time is? Not only that I will made them feel comfortable to express their views to me by moving closely with them. I never command them but also never request them I tell them to feel the responsibility and at times I will assign some power to one of them to guide others so that they can involve with greater interest from then onwards.Sir: ok if any team member complaints against u that u r crossing Ur limits. Then how can u solve that? www.chetanas.comMe: I will straight away go to him and talk to him personally for that matter and try to know what's my mistake or what about me made him feel like that. We will have a 15 to20 mins discussin on it and if my fault is there I will ask him apology and will have our misunderstandings be sorted out. After that we will work together as usually.Sir: two of Ur project members were very irregular people and they have pending work today and u have to submit Ur project work tomorrow. Then?Me: Sir, since I am friendly with all my members there is no question of such situation arising in my project. If there is any problem they will definitely intimate me before handBecoz I will create such an environment to all my team members. If at all by some reason if such situation occurs I will take whole responsibility, when u decide to lead, u have to be ready to accept the responsibilities and to take risk. Any way I will have other team members with whose help I will complete the project. www.chetanasinterview.comSir: so u will take pain to complete the project?Me: yes sir.i do.Sir: Any questions?Me: what r my day to day responsibilities if I enter in to infosys?Sir: so eagerly waiting for accepting the responsibilities. Ok Miss kalpana u will be taught Ur responsibilities in Ur training period and don?t bother much about them.Me:ThankQ sir.Sir: ok kalpana All the best.Me: ThankQ sir???.. (waited for 2 mins) asked him shall I leave sir?Sir: he looked at me surprisingly and told me if u want u can (with a smile on his face)Me: I also smiled at him and told that Sir I din't mean it but???.Sir: its ok.have any more questions?Me: is there any thing else that u want me to learn in order to fit into infosys?Sir: (After 1 min pause) ok kalpana u r fit.

At this moment I really felt happy.Me: thankQ sir.Sir: ok all the best. (1 min again paused this time I waited calmly).ok u can leave.Me: I said thankQ sir and left the room.

It's been long waiting to know the results. Next day at 1.15 p.m they declared the results. Thank god I have selected .so friends I think after going through this u might have understand that getting in to infosys is not a hard job. Don't ever loose heartened .keep trying. All the best to all of u once again thanks to all members of this group for their support.

(Paper Submitted By : Kalpana)

INFOSYS PAPER - 27 NOV 2005 - MUMBAI

Hi Chetanaites

I attended infy (off-campus) test on 27 nov at sydenham college at mumbai and interview on the very next day at one office in nariman point around 120 people were shortlisted 4 interview. I got my call letter today i.e. on 07 dec and my joining date is 19dec in mysore this was possible only bcoz of the chetana groupthank u thank u chetana mam

now for the test, if only 4 to 5 days are remaining 4 the test then start solving the previous ques papers. remember the key to crack the test is to solve prev ques papers

1ST PART:APTITUDE

1)A man spends 60 days in jail.the jailor gives him rs 7 for each day that he works but the man has to pay rs 3 if he dosen't work for any day.he earns rs 170.for hw many days was the man in jail?(3 mks)

2)a tailor sells cloth 40% above the wholesale price.but the scale which he uses to measure cloth while selling is not correct.so that he earns only 39% more. what is the length of the scale?(4 mks)

3)3 people A B and C go in three diff directions and each brings with him an animal a camel ,a mule and a horse.the CBI catches them and interrogates them, each one gives the foll statements:

A 1.B has taken the horseB 1.A is lying2.B is lying3.i haven't taken anythingC 1.A is lying2.B has taken the mulelater it was found out that the person who had taken the camel is lying and the one who has taken the horse is telling the truth. Find out who has taken which animal.

4)(i dont remember this ques correctly) it is sumthing lik this: a lady gives half of her cents and 1 penny to a beggar.then she gives half of the remaing money and 2 pennies to another.again she gives half of the remaining money and 3 pennies to another.now how she is left with 1 penny(or cent..i dont remember)much money did she have earlier.

5)(repeated)A software engineer returns from America. As he is fat he decided to have evening walk he starts at 3pm. he walks along the road at 4km/hr for some time then he climbs a upward slope area at 3km/hr then back downwards at the rate of 6km/hr.then again the road at 4km/hr. what is the distance he covered in one way if he reaches back home at 9pm

6)in a tug of war,jack pulls hank and bert(not sure if this is the name) together.but jack and bert are just able to hold tuck and jack but when jack and bert exchange places .tuck and bert easily pull jack and hank.list them in the asending order of strengths.

7)series:

a) 2 4 6 8 10 12 12 18.. and some more nos. but dont remember themb) 3 6 13 26 33 66 __ (repeated)

8)(repeated)Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side.No card has the same color on both sides. The colours visible on the table are Red,Green, Red and Blue respectively. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comments.A: Yellow or GreenB: Neither Blue nor GreenC: Blue or YellowD: Blue or Yellowout of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.

9)(this was a repeated ques) one on 5 people and languages they speak,foll condtions were given

i) b and c speak english but when e joins them they also start lerning spanish since spanish is the only common language betn themii) spanish is the most common languageiii) 3 people speak portugeseiv) ..many more conditions were there but sorry i do not remember

10)e has holiday on thur,e's holiday is in between a and c. Find when do a b c and d hav a holiday

ANSWERS1) X+Y = 607X-3Y = 170solve simultaneously ans : 35 days

2) not sure abt this(i answered this wrongly)

3) A camelB muleC horse

4) dont remember the ans

5) 12 kms

6) jack bert hank tuck (pls check this)

7) a)i did'nt get the ans but people some were saying 30 and some 32

b)73

8) yellow yellow blue green

A and D r lying

9) sorry.. i don't remember

10) sorry

2nd PART ENGLISH

this is really easy. no need to refer any books. only if ur below average in english then only spend time in preparation of this section but dont ignore this since it has a cut-off

if u r good in english then try to solve this as quickly as possible and if time permits solve the apti ques if any ques if left coz the answer paper of apti section will b there with u till the end

anyways ALL THE BEST hope this mail helps u

INFOSYS PAPER - 27 NOV 2005 - HYDERABAD

Infosys exam held on 27th nov 2005 hyderabad

Hello Chetanaites, I wrote exam in infosys on 27th nov 2005, Paper was a bit easy. There were 10 puzzles in analytical.

1. A thief was sentenced to jail for 60 days. In jail he earns 7 rs a day on which he works. and rs 3 will be deducted from the amount if he does not work for a day.Now while leaving the jail he takes back with him 170 rs. How many days did he work?

Answer7(w)-3(nw)=170 ---------eq 1 w+nw = 60 -------------eq 2

here 'w' is no of working days and nw is now of days in which he did not work.Solving these two we get the answer as 35 days

2. A merchant buys cloth from a retailer. By selling the cloth he earns 40% profit. But the meter stick he uses is a false one. So earns a profit of only 39%. And the meter stick he uses to buy the cloth is exact one, now find the length of the meter stick which he uses to sell???( this one stumped me)

3. A man came from usa , he was fat so he decided to walk to reduce fat in his body. So he daily starts walking at exactly at 3pm he walks at 4km/hr for some distance and then 3km/hr on inclined road while going up. And 6km/hr while coming down and 4km/hr on the normal road. While returning also he follows the same road. He returns home at 9pm. Now find the distance he travelled for oneway!!!!! (just don't answer it from previous papers friends)

Ans 12 km for one way and 24km for to way..

4. hey this is our favourite question. Yellow yellow blue green is the answer.I shall type the question now Names are differently given

Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colors on either side. The colors visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.A: Yellow or GreenB: Neither Blue nor GreenC: Blue or YellowD: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colors on the cards each person.

Ans yellow (lie) Yellow(Truth) Blue(truth) Green(lie)

5. This is also well repeated one.Three persons A, B &C went for a robbery in different directions and they theft one horse, one mule and one camel. They were caught by the police and when interrogated gave the following statements A: B has stolen the horseB: I didn't rob anything.C: both A & B are false and B has stolen the mule.

The person who has stolen the horse always tell the truth and The person who has stolen the camel always tell the lie. Find who has stolen which animal?Ans: A- CamelB- MuleC- HorseOfcourse names were changed this is very easy one.

6. A lady was out for shopping. She gave half of her money to a beggar and gave 1 cent to the begger. futher she gave half of her remaining money and gave 2 cents to 2nd beggar . futher she gave half of remaining money to third beggar gave 3 cents more to same beggar. now she is left with 1 cent. how much she had in the beginning?

Ans 42 cents

7. I don't remember the exact question exactly!!!There were 7 members in a group A,B,C,D,E,F,G.They would have holidays on a different day of a week. But no two will have holidays on the same day of the week.4 conditions were given1st---- f is on Thursday and F is exactly inbetween B and C.

2nd---- C has holiday before A.3rd----two days gap between D and E ( this was twisted as "E has holiday after 3 days the day before D")4th --- (I don't remember exactly) but it was related to G.

Now find out on which days A,B,C,D have holidays???

AnswerMon tue wed thu fri sat sun

G D B F E C A

8. B & C initially speak English but when D joined spanish, they also took up spanish. The only common language between A, B and E is French. The only common language between C and E is Italian. Three people speak Portuguese. Most common language is spanish.One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person knows 3. One person 2. One person 1.Who speaks what ?

ans: I cant explain u answers for these logical questions,

9. There were 4 boys playing a game in which the person who is the strongest would win. The 4 boys were tom, hank, bill & Joe. Hank could pull bill & Joe with some effort. Hank & bill together could just hold Joe and tom (i.e., neither could pull each other). But when hank & Joe interchanged their places, bill and Joe could be easily pulled.(here comes the twist friends, arrange the members in the ascending order of their strengths!!!!!!!)

Becareful while answering previous questions even in the 3rd question there was the twist!!!!!!!! Don't blindly answer from the previous years question papers)

Ans:J<B<H<T

Friends be little more cautious

10. problem on seriesa) 0,2,4,6,8,12,12,20,16..b) 0,3,6,13,26,33,66,..

ans : a) 30,20b) 63,126I did 9 problems I cleared the exam on 27th I had my interview on 28th nov 2005, I shall send my interview experience in the next mail.

Till then bye friends.

Finally I could clear the test because of chetana madam, this is very good group for the job seekers with out their help I might have not cleared the exam friends!

Once a gain thanks to CHETANA and the people who are organizing. U are doing excellent job!!!

(Paper Submitted By : Srujan)

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 13 NOV 2005 - Christ College, BANGALORE

Thanks to CHETANA for your help.

No. of ppl appeared 4 the test:- around 2000PPl selected:-180

Books to be referred:- George Summers the first part, Shakuntala Devi both the books & solve previous yrs Q papers.

PATTERN OF THE PAPER:

I part :-Aptitude(puzzles + arithmetic problems)10 Q's ,Duration:-60 mins.

II part:-English(comprehension, filling in the proper words, meaning of the idioms, filling in the proper verbs, choosing the right sentence that differs in the tense & analogies type).45 Q's,Duration:-30mins.

NOTE:- Cut-off for both the sections separately.

I part:-

1) Hancy,Alex & Alisa are 3 good friends.Either Alex or Alisa is the oldest.Among hancy & Alex ,either of them is the oldest or the youngest.find out who is the oldest n the youngest among them. (3 marks)

Ans. Youngestoldest

Hancyalex

2) There are 4 married couples.A committee of 3 out of the 8 ppl has to be formed.give the no. of ways in which it can be done. (3 marks)

Ans. 24 ways(check it).

3) Fodder, pepsi and cereale often eat dinner out.

a) each orders either coffee or tea after dinner.

b) if fodder orders coffee, then pepsi orders the drink that cereale orders

c) if pepsi orders coffee, then fodder orders the drink that cereale doesnot oder.

d) if cereale orders tea, then fodder orders the drink that pepsi orders

Which person/persons always orders the same drink after dinner ?(4 marks)

Ans. Fodder.

4) Ann and Bell wrote an exam. Their father asked,"How did u do it?".Ann said," I answered 1/3 rd of the questions right". Bell said," Ianswered 5 of the questions wrong". But both together had answered3/4th of the questions correctly.How many did Ann answer correctly? (5 marks)

Ans. 20(check it)

5)I didn't get enough time to solve this Q.The Q may not be correct but 4 getting an idea I m tryin to recollect the Q.. its something like this...Mr. A,B,C&D have their profession as architect,druggist,grocer & dentist but not in order.few conditions were given like as follows:-

a)Mr. A earns twice as much as the druggist

b)Mr.D earns 3770 more than the dentist

c)Mr. C earns not more than twice of druggist

d)few more conditions sorry cant remember...

e)...

Find out each one's profession. (8 marks)

6) Two trains one from New York to Washington and the other from Washington to NY travel daily. The train from NY to Washington start for every one hour and the train from Washington to NY start for every one hour and an half an hour (read this line carefully). Time taken by the trains to cover the distance between is 5 hours. Find how many trains does the train from NY to Washington happens to meet on its way? (5 marks)

Ans. 11 trains

Let us consider the train frm NY to WT leaves at 9 am then it wil reach at 2pm.at the same time the trains frm WT to NY wil leave at 9,9.30,10,10.30,11,11.30,12,12.30,1.00,1.30 & 2pm=11 trains.

7) Find the missing no. in series: (6 marks)

a) 512,343,216,125,64,27,_,1.

Ans. 2cube=8

b)3,10,7,8,_,12,9,16

Ans.11

8). B & C initially speak English but when D joined Spanish, they also took up Spanish. The only common language between A, B and E is French. The only common language between C and E is Italian. Three people speak Portuguese. Most common language is Spanish. One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person knows 3. One person 2. One person 1.Who speaks what ? (8 marks)

Ans:

A-3

B-5

C-4

D-1

E-2

9) A horse covers half of the distance with a speed of 12km/hr with no load.After the horse is loaded with some load its speed decreases by 4km/hr. find out the average speed. (3 marks)

Ans. 9.6km/hr

10) Afarmer grows 5 crops in two consecutive years which are kale,beans,corn,peas & ragi.if he grows beans then he gows corn along with that.If he grows kale in one year then he doesn't grow kale the next year.In each year he grows only 3 crops.find out the combination of the crops grown in 2 consecutive years. (5 marks)

Some options were given, don't remember them but it was very easy.

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE:

It was for around half an hour.2 sirs took my interview asked me the normal questions n gave me 2 puzzles to solve.asked 5 uses of wooden duster other than dusting.asked one q regarding the ball thrown in the same direction could b cought or not n few more things.

Just be confident while answering.

ALL the best to all of u appearing for the test.hope this information provided by me would b helpful for u ppl.

JUST BELIEVE IN GOD & DO HARDWORK,GOD WE'LL SURELY LISTEN TO OUR PRAYERS.

(Paper Submitted By: Atashi Rana)

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 06 NOV 2005Hi Chetanaites

I attended infy test on 6th nov. cleared the test and also appeared for the interview. this is my experience.. PAPERwrite paper very neatly.. even in the rough sheets u write as if u r writing ur engineering paper.. it counts and helps alot i think.. 1.Frog problem where a frog fell into 30 mt deep well and try to getout,it goes 3mts up and fall 2mts we have to calculate no of days it take to getout.my ans.. 28 day..=27*1 + 3=30 mt 2.There was a robbery happend at a bank and 3 suspects taken into custody.Their statements A:I am innocent B: I am innocent C:B did it. I dont remember names, In these three two r lying and we have to find the culprit my ans. A is not innocent.. so he did it. 3.There is 30kg solid is there,what is weight of it if the length is halved and circumference is doubled my ans.. 15 kg.. check it .. 4. XYZ XYZ +AB - AB ---------- ---------- CDEF BGA we have to find the values of X, Y, Z. my ans.. X=9, Y=4, Z=5. 5.Some cards problem is given where four people having four colored cards in front of them. there 2 Green,2 red, 2 blue colors some statements r given we have to find corresponding cards infront of them this is known puzzle.. asked many times.. the two sides of card r different. My ans.. yellow, yellow, blue, green.. check it out.. i m not sure. 6.Age problem, where a man spends 1/12 of his age as child these kind of values r given,it is in prev paper ANS is 84,check out prev papers for question.this is given in shakuntla devi also.

7.Car problem,where some person is going to sometown for someones marriage and his tyre got punctured 10 min for tyre change and like this problem is given with some conditions we have to find total distance travelled. this i couldnt answer.. this is asked many times.. check out.. 8.Some survey is conducted on customers who r using detergentcake and powder some values are given we have to find no of customers surveyed by the companyans.. this is related to venn diagram.the no. of customers that I got is 735 customers.. 9.Some information given about athletics and four questions given.this is related to data interpretation. 10.Chocolate problem.Sister tells her brother that she given half of the chocolates to mother these kind of question given we have to find no of chocolates before she distributed them.ans.. my ans.. 7 chocolates.. this is given in shakuntala devi with orange i think instead of chocolates. on the whole i could attempt 9 puzzles out of 10.in which i was confident about 7.so, at last i could see my name in the list of 55 people selected for da interview. ENGLISH SECTIONit was damn easy. no need to practice for that.___________________ INTERVIEW the interview was on 7th nov at nariman point, bombay.two officers wer there.. around 55-60 of age. during whole interview only one officer was askin all the question.. and the other one was just starin at me, my attitude of thinking(i think).just be confident.. n one thing i experieced from this is..u gotta know everythin about urself.. i mean ur past, ur activities, ur city, its industries.. etc..so start preparing from urself. first question: introduce yourself. i gave my educational, family & region background. 2nd: about my interests.. i said dance. they asked smthin about it.i was asked what attributes u wld see in ur partners.. i explained. 3rd:industries at my city.. their growth.. i told. 4th: problems of my city, and the solutions..i told.. 5th: how can i provide i.t. solutins to my city. i mean how can i implement it .. how it would be useful.. i explained.. 6th: now it was time for puzzles.. i was asked two puzzles. 1. the frog puzzle.. asked in the paper the day before.. i answered quickly. 2.the puzzle to find counterfeit coin from 12 coins.. but the main thing is u dont know the counterfeit coin weighs heavier or lesser then the real ones.i gave many trials but could not solve.. 7th: my educational background, some extra querries

INFOSYS PAPER - 06 NOV 2005 - BANGALOREHello Chetanaites

I had given the test for Infosys on 6th Nov @ Bangalore... the test was mostly repeated questions. The easiest way to crack the test is to go thru the previous questions and of course the puzzles book by Sakunthala Devi.... frankly I just prepared for a week.... went thru loads of previous question papers that really helped me a lot!!

I gave the interview on the next day... I dint perform it that well.. anyways hoping to get a positive reply from them in 3 weeks time....

I'm just giving the gist of the paper since I dont remember the exact.. it was as follows...

1) Frog leapt 3 ft and falls 2 ft... hw many days to come out of 30ft deep well..

Ans: 28 days (3marks)

2) The card problem Ans: Yellow (Lied)Yellow (True)Blue (True)Green (lied) (8marks)

3) X Y Z+A B C D--------E F G H

X Y Z- A B C--------A.... (4marks)

something like this and we have to find values of X, Y, Z. This is easy but time consuming and do by trail & error method...

4) In a city the following survey was done and the data input is as follows1/3 people dont use powder2/5 dont use liquid427 use both liquid and powder1/5 dont use bothFind the total no of people who were surveyed (6marks)

5) One logical was ter it was easy (8Marks)

6) A log weighs 30kg. if its diameter is doubled and the height is reduced by half, what will be its weight? (3marks)

7) Man travels to a place, his car tire gets punctured, reaches 30min late... the man says if his tire had got punctured before some distance he would have reached only 15 min late... something like this.... find the distance.. (Similar problem in Puzzles to Puzzle you)Ans 120 Miles

8) A girl gave 1/2 chocolate to mother, 1/2 to father... then she ate another half, gave1/2 to her pet... the remaining to her brother... how many chocolates did she have totally...Ans: I thnk ans is 7... I am not sure pls chk it...

9) I don remember.... :-\

10) I don remember.... :-\

The verbal is very easy... I didnt prepare from any book. so am not sure of which book to follow....

Wishing all you aspirants good luck..... :-)Believe in yourself and do with confidence... its easy to crack the test.... Dont go without preparing the previous question papers.... atleast 2003-2005 is a MUST!!

(Paper Submitted By: Prem)

TODAY

INFOSYS PAPER - 16 OCT 20051.In a lunch hour staff in the company had a race. Dennis beat Jim.Samantha was beat by Lousie and Jim in that order. Jack beat Jim. Jack was not first. Who won the race.Ans : Dennis

2.A ten digit number whose first digit is the number of ones, second digit is the number of twos, third digit is the number of threes, fourth digit is the number of fours, fifth digit is the number of fives, sixth digit is the number of sixes, seventh digit is the number of sevens, eight digit is the number of eights, ninth digit is the number of nines and tenth digit is the number of zeros. what is that digit.

3,There was a burglary in a diamond shop. three thieves were arrested, Smith,J,D. All the three blamed that " one of the other two stole the diamonds. I didnt do it ".Atlast the police found out that J was lying and that only one of them robbed. Who is tat.

4..A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times she bought handkerchiefs. And she paid number of coins in the same as the number of items she bought in each. How many handkerchiefs did she buy.

5.If one-fifth of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower, one-third flew to the slandbara, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malati, what was the total number of bees ?

6.Three couples were playing golf. A,B,C are the wives names and X,Y,Z are the husbands names but not in order. The winner of the game is the one who has the least number of points.

(i) A,B,C,X got points as 104,102,100,94 respectively.(ii) Y and X got 96 and 98 but dont know who got what because their names were not put in the scoreboard.(iii) X's wife bet Y's wife.

Find who is married to who.

7.If a large cube painted red from out side , if it cut into 125 equal part by six straight lines, then how many cubes were there with

(a) no face painted (b) only one face painted(c) only two faces painted(d) three faces painted

What is the probability that the 125 cubes taken at random is red.

8.Jack went for shopping to five stores. In each store he spent Rs.1 more than half of what was left from the previous purchase. How much money he had when he entered the first store.

9.A man enquires a person about the past 5 days temperatures at 12 noon in that region. The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different temperature on each day and that their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days?

Ans: -1,-2,1,2,3

Approach:

We know that the smallest two integers that can give a product of 12 is 3*4 which is spilt up as 2*2*3. But no temperature is the same...hence use -2 instead of 2. Now the product becomes -12.

Choose the other temperatures such that value of the product does not change but only the sign changes. So naturally, the other two options are -1 and 1.

10.One eight mark question.

INFOSYS PAPER - 16 OCT 2005 - HYDERABADHi Chetanaites

Though the following questions may not be as it is but they will give some ideaI attended 16 oct 2005 (hyd) Infosys written testsome questions (sorry i dont remember complete question but i can give topic)

1.a red painted cube which is cut across by 6 straight lines (probably it is 9) and into 125 cubes. onthis there were 5 questionsa)3 red coloured faced cubes a)2 red coloured faced cubesc)1 red coloured faced cubesd)0 red coloured faced cubes

1.2 if all placed in a bag and randomly drawn what is the probability that i get a cube with red face.

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2.a question on bees: 1/3 went to one flower ,1/5 went to another .... Q) no. of bees=======================

3.a boy visits 5 shops and spends all his amount when he reaches 5 th shop

in first shopp he gives 1 more than half of the moneyin second same...what is the amt. ===========================4)golf 3men and 3women(3 couples) went to play golf

men women---=x ---=x1 ---=y ---=z1---=y ---=z1 here x,x1,y,y1,z,z1 are diff numbers

some more inferencestell who is the wife of whom===============5. an old lady went to shopping she purchased goods of Rs.3.24 x shoelaces4times to shoelaces shoes8times kerchiefsshe paid paise proportional to the quantityhow many kerchiefs?==============6.a (confusing 8 mark) problem to find what is whathill stationsharbourpopulation something like that-===============7.in a ten digit no places in 1st place as many no of ones in the noin 2nd place as many no of twos in the no and so ontell the no

(Paper Submitted By: Asif)

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - HYDERABAD 1)sets problem

if 75 members join chemistry and 83 members join physics if there r total 100 persons and 10 dont join any other course how many joined both coursesi donno exact figures but answer is 68

2)if sal and saul start race at same time and saul beats sal by 10 yards now if saul starts 10 yards behind who will win the race (saul is answer)

3)a series of euations r given we have to find the value of eachsome 8 to 9 equations r given

4)A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17 AND A= 4FIND THE VALUES OF D AND G (5,1 R THE ANSWERS)

5)how many ways we can arrange numbers on dice such that 1 and 6 r opposite ,5and 2 r opposite and 4and 3 r opposite on a dice ans is 24

6)some milk water problem i dont rember (iam very very sorry)

7) i dont remember sorry

8)sapphire,emerald, opal,daiamond question every one knows that

9)there r two couple they had 15 children with a gap of 1 and half years b/n each other and the elder says he is 8 times elder than youngest what r their ages www.chetanasinterview.comans)24_elder

10)choclates problem similar to shakuntala devi answer is 32

in the interveiwthey asked me abt projects and general only at last i got in infosys by the grace of god only

(Paper Submitted By : Sanath)

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - BANGALOREPuzzles:[infosys: 09-10-2005/Bangalore]

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1] 100 applications are invited for a post. In which 83 candidates have carried out atleast physics and 65 of them atleast of chemistry. And 10 of them neither carried physics nor chemistry. Find how many have versed in both physics and chemistry. [Ans:68]

2] a dice has numbers from 1 to 6. in how many denominations the dice can be arranged by having the numbers 1,6 :2,5: and 3,4 are alloted always be at opposite sides of the dice. [Ans:6 ways]

3] the alphabets a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,I are assigned with values randomly fro, 1 to 9. a is 4. find out the values of d, g for the following expression

a+b+c+d=d+e+f+g=g+h+I =17. [ans: d=5, g=1]

4] two girls played chess every day. They played only one game in each day. For each lose the loser has to give one chocolate to the winner. At finally, first girl says "I have obtained more wins than the other. she gave me 8 chocolates though she has won 12 games". How many games totally have been played. [Ans:12+8+no. of first girl's wins] www.chetanasinterview.com

5] A and B contain pure water and pure milk initially at some quanitity respectively.. A is poured into B to make B's content double. Then the content of B poured into A to make A's previous quantity double. Finally some of A's content poured into B to make those both contents equal.

A] how much amount of water and milk were in A and B at first?

B] finally, how much of mixers were in A and B.[Hint B contained one gallon more of water than the amount of milk in A]. [ans.: A-3litres Of water, B had 1 litre of milk]

6] A and B had a running race. A beat B by 10 metre in 100 mtrs. race. And in the second race A behind B by 10 mtres., they both started the race at the same time. This time who will reach the destination at first if they both have their speed as had in their previous one. [ans. They both reach the target at the same time]

7] a building owner built a house. For his new house he paid rs.1100 for both painter and plumber, rs.1300 for plumber and mason, rs. 4000 for both mason and carpenter, and rs.5300 for both carpenter and plumber. Totally how much he spent for his newly builit house. [don't know the answer]

8] a married couple had totally 15 children. All those childs born at the time span of one and half year. Consider X is the eldest son and Y is the younger most brother of Z. if the age of X is eight times of Y. find out the present age of X. [ans. 21 years]

9] There are totally 6 ornaments arranged in two columns.

And some of the conditions were given to arrange those things in those columns.

[Note: all answers based on my calculations. So better you yourself work out and find the answers again.]

(Paper Submitted By : Ramesh, Tamil Nadu)

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005Best thing to do is to practice the previous papers. Solve all the previous papers and sakuntala devi books , u will get through easily. English was very very easy.Dont worry about it.Time is more than enough for that.

Coming to Logical, the questions are like this:I may not present them exactly.But iam giving u the idea of the question

1.) There are 100 people.Out of them, 10 percent did not take any course in physics or chemistry 76 people took course of physics.83 people took course ofchemistry.How many people took the course of both physics and chemistry.

2) Sam and saul participated in running race.Sam won with the distance of 10 yards. Next time , again both of them participated , but now sam started 10yards behind the time..and both of them raced with the same speed as in the previous race.

3.) consider A to I. The values of A to I are equal to 1to 9, not necessarily in sequential manner. And A=4. Now A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17.What is the value of D,G.

4.)There is a six faced die.Numbering should be done from 1 to 6.How many ways the numbering can be done , with a condition that 1 and 6, 2 and 5 , 3 and 4 comes on the opposite sides of the die.

5.) A man built a house. He should pay amount to these persons: paper hanger,painter, plumber, merchant , carpenter. He found that, ha should pay forPaperhanger+ painter=1100Painter+plumber=1700Plumber+merchant=1100Merchant+carpenter=3500(some equation were given in this way,did not remember exactly).Find, how much should he pay to each of them individually.

(I did not remember the questions 6,7,8 exactly)

6.)There is a milk man.He has pure milk in one can, and water in second can.First he poured milk from first can to other can.(did not remember exactly) the water from and the milk are mixed from one can to other can..he gave some conditions)Finally, in second can, one gallon of water remained than that of water. Q. a) How much water and milk remained in both the cans at last.b) Initially,how much milk and how much water is present in the two cans.

7.)There are three persons Robert Jones,James,X(did not remember the name). Two of them work as pilot,biochemist,not necessarily in the manner specified..(he gave some conditions). Who is working as pilot?

8.)There is a stone merchant.He want to place arrange two showcase windows on left and right,to place the stones for the exhibition of the stones to the coustomers who come to his shop.He want to place emerald, ruby,garnet (given, some other stone names).(Some conditions are specified and 5to 6 questions are asked related to them)

9.) The wife of X gave birth to 15 children with a gap of one and a half year between each child.The older one claimed that she is 18 years of that of the age of the younger one.How old is the older one?

10.)My friend came to my home for vacation. Every day we played a chess game.Where the looser should give the winner a choclate.Finally one day my friend gave me 8 choclates even though she won 12 games.How many days did she stay in my home?

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - BANGALOREInfosys Question : October (9/10/2005)Bangalore-Christ College

I was shortlised in the written test and I attended the interview .Hopefully waiting for the result. And one more thing, they r checking the rough work so don't by heart and write.

1.There are 100 students among them 10 dont study both physics and chemistry,63 studying physics,85 studying chemistry. how many of them are studying both chemistry and physics (3 mark)ans; 63+85-90=68

2. sal and saul are taking part in 100 yards running race in which sal beats saul by 10 yards. If sal starts 10 yards behind the starting line who will win the race?

Ans;sal wins saul by 1 yard, because as sal covers 10 yards saul covers only 9 yards.

3.This problem is like ..... IF A= 4,A+B+C+D = D+E+G+H=G+H+I=17..

whats the value of D and G. (6 mark)

ans; d=5 g=1

4.In a dice the nos 1&6, 2&5, 3&4 are to be in opposite face . how many chances are there to attain this by satisfying the above condition.... (3 mark)

Ans: 48(u need to place the nos in the die in such a way it satisfies all the condition i.e. right-1 left-6 top-2 bottom-5 front-3 back-4

5.In this problem , they gave 6 equations ..like M+E=1000E+C=4000.......upto 6 equations.. (8 mark)

and ask us to find out the value of each variable. in this type of problem just cancel the common variables in given equation by either addition or subtraction.

6.there are two cans A&B can A contains water, can B contains pure milk .first double the amount of liquid in can B by adding water from can A , the double the content of can A by adding content of can B, then finally double the amount of can B by can A at last the amount in both the cans are equal and the water in can B is 1 gallon more the amount of milk .find the amount of milk &water start with. (6 mark)

7.Jan robinson, kate jones, john smith are engineer, pilot & biochemist not in the order .they have three martian assistants . as they find difficulty with martian names they gave them nick names as smith, robinson, jones as their masters name.1.robinson is an yomi2.all martians speak uri.3.the martians name is the same as the bio chemist is naim4.robinson beats engineer in the chess(one more condition) who is the pilot?dont remember exactly..

Ans :Jan robinson8. This problem was to arrange 7 gems in right & left window 3 in each very easy ..this question carries 8 marks...

Its easy.... U can do it..

9.a parent has 15 children who where born in an interval of 1.5 years each . the first child`s age is 8 times that of last child. what's the age of the first child? (4M)

Ans: X=8Y, X=Y+21 Solving X=24

10.Sita goes to Gita's house during vacation. they play a game of chess everyday and the loser has to give a chocolate to the winner for every game . Sita gave 8 chocolates to Gita at the end of the vacation, although she had won 12 games. How long did she stay there? 5 marks

Ans : 32 days(doubt)I put as 31

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - BANGALOREINFOSYS QUESTION OCT-09/2005 AT BANGALORE MORNING BATCH

Hi Chetanaites

1) There are 100 student. Out of which at least 75 register in chemistry 83 register in physics. 10% did not register in any course. What is the no of student register in both the courses?

Ans 68

2) Mr. and Mrs. bouncer has 15 children each has a gap of 1and half year gap .the older one is 8 times the youngest. The age of the oldest one is?Ans 24(consider the age 1.5 first then age of oldest is 22.5, if 3 then the age is 24)

3) In the vacation my cousin came to our house. We had a chess match every day. There was a bet of a chocolate if one wins. If my cosions won 12 matches and I have 8 chocolates then no of days he lived in our house or the period of vacation wasAns 32

4) A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17, then the value of D and G?Ans(A=4,B=2,C=6,D=5,E=3,F=8,G=1,H=7,I=9)

5) There was a cube which hag to be inscribed with following pairs of no. on opposite side1-62-43-5Then how many different ways can it be done?Ans-24

6) if Saul and sal played a game of 100 meter and sal wins by 10 meter. In the next time sal kept 10 meter behind from the stating point then who will win the gameAns-sal

7)A jeweler makes a window display , he has 7 gems of which he needs to display 6,three on the left side of the pan and three on the right side of the pan. with following condition let the gems be Armnet, dimond, emerald, sapphire, garnet, opal and ruby,armnet should be always displayed on left side . Diamond always displayed on right side Ruby should not be kept with diamond or garnet emerald and sapphire should be displayed on same sidea) What are the possible combination on left side (ans Armanet, garnet, opal)b) What are the possible combination on right side (ans Dimond,garnet ,opal)c) if garnet ,dimond,opal are on the right side what is the possible combination for left side ( ans armnet,emerald,sapphire)d) if armnet ruby opal are on the left side what is the possible combination for right side (ans diamond, emerald,sapphire)

8)Three persons in aircraft one is engineer pilot and biochemist. the three people names are Robinson ,jerk, and one more name . And some condition is missing. The question was who was the pilot (ans Robinson)

9)one problem was on carpenter, electrician, painter, paper maker, hangman, plumber, and some value were assigned to the combination and the condition wasCarpenter+painter=1100Painter+electrician=Electrician+hangman=Hangman+plumber=Plumber+papermaker=Painter+papermaker=You have to find the individual amount, the combination value were given sorry I have forgotten. But it was a very simple problemAns (painter=900,plumber=3000,paper maker=2300,carpenter=200,)

10) There was a problem on solution water and milk kept in two different container A and B. first water is taken equivalent to the amount of milk from and put in in container B. then from B some amount of milk is taken equivalent to the amount in B and putted in B. and some condition were given. You have to find the amount of milk and water in both containersAns (sorry)

I solved 9 puzzles correctly out of 10. The only problem I left was the milk and water, which was a question of 8 marks. I think they putted a cut of 10 out of 10 or 45 or 47 out of 50. so try to do the 8 marks questions at any cost.HOPE THIS QUESTION MAY HELP YOU FOR INFY TEST

(Paper Submitted By: Prakash Satapathy)

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - BANGALOREHi Chetanaites,I think the paper was bit tough..none from Shakuntala Devi...English was easy.. a person with basic knowledge can answer it..

My advice to future infy aspirants is go thru Shakuntala Devi Books and George Summers but dont depend on those books completely. Try solving previous papers, but dont expect questions to repeat. Go to the exam hall like questions are going to be new. If questions from Previous papers come, then it is ok. if it does not come, dont get upset but give your best shot and one more thing show ur rough work clearly in the space provided. I think they r also taking into account this rough work. I have done this and I have solved 8 out of 10. 7 were sure correct. I am not sure about Infy selection in which criteria they are selecting becoz some people who solved 5,6,7 q's got selected. My two friends one has done 5 and other 7. They got selected. So it also depend on your luck becoz in this center out of 1000, 150 got selected for interview. If 100 students solved 7 or any same no of q's they take randomly some. So luck is also important. Work very hard, solve as many puzzles as possible. start solving, utilize time efficiently effectively, keep all things aside and concentrate on this exam. Success will be yours. Good Luck

10 questions 60min

The question paper is as follows:

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2. its like this... sal and saul running race.. sal reached first ..while saul was 10 yards behind..in the next race... if saul was to start 10 yards from the starting point... then who is the winner..ans: saul

3.related to dice problem, the problem goes like this..there is a dice .. if 1 nd 6, 2 and 5, and 3 and 4 come on opposite sides of a six faced dice.. wats the number of ways of getting the answer which satisfies the above condition....Ans: 1

4.In this problem , they gave 6 equations ..like M+E=1000E+C=4000..upto 6 equations..and ask us to find out the value of each variable..U NEED TO GO FOR TRIAL AND ERROR METHOD..

5.Fifth problem is like this IF A= 4,A+B+C+D = D+E+G+H=G+H+I=17..wats the value of D and G..Ans : Go for trial and error method.. d=5,g=1

6.Its on space officers pproblem..(dont remember exactly)

7.In seventh problem,v were given problem on milk and water mixing..(dont remember exactly), last they are going to ask for the values of A and Bcould not do this prob...little bit trickyANS:3 1/2 , 11 1/2 ( 8 M )

8. This problem was easy .. its like this v were given a small passage and some conditions.. and 4 bits ..total question carries 8 marks...Its easy.... U can do it..

9.related ages problem..... (4M)one woman has 15 childrens . in all the diff is 1.5 year.if oldest is 8 times of youngest.tell oldest boy's age.

10.Sita goes to Gita's house during vacation. they play a game of chess everyday and the loser has to give a chocolate to the winner for every game . Sita gave 8 chocolates to Gita at the end of the vacation, although she had won 12 games.how long did she stay there? 5 marksAns : 32 days

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - CHENNAIHai Chetanaites,

Question paper

1.A publishing company advertisd the job opening.The response was good. One hundred people applied for the post. The company wanted someone expert in both physics and chemistry. Out of which 10 did not had any specalization.75 of them had got physics training and 83 got training in chemistry.how many applicants had got training in both physics and chemistry? (3 marks)

2.sal & saul had a race for 100 yards.sal won de race and saul is 10 yards behind him(i.e, in de mean time saul covered 90 yards).if sal is 10 yards behind the start lineand runs with the same speed as b4 who will win?(4 marks)

3.A + B + C +D = D + E + F + G = G + H + I =17. If A = 4. What are the values of D and G. Each letter taken only one of the digit from 1 to 9.(6 marks)

4. A mother has 15 children with a interval of 1.5 years between each child.now if the oldest child (given some name)is three times the youngest one (given some name)what is the age of oldest one? (3 marks)

5.. Last Year my cousin came to my place and we played a game where the loosing one has to give one choclate to the person who won the game .At the end of the vacation,i.e the day my cousin was leaving she counted number of games that i won an she won.At last she gave me a total of 8 choclates even though she won about 12 games.Find the mumber of games that we played.(4 marks)

6. a jeweller makes a window display. he has 7 gems of which he needs to display 6. three on the left side of the pane on three on the right. with following conditions.let the gems be Armanet, diamond, emerald , sapphire , garnet, opal and ruby.1.armanet should be always displayed on left side2.diamond always on the right3.ruby should not be kept with diamond or garnet.4.emerald and sapphire should always be on the same side. (8 marks)

1]what are the possible combinations on the possible for left pane.a] armanet,garnet , opalb] armanet, ruby, garnetc] diamond, emerald , sapphired] armanet , emerald, garnet

2]what are the possible combinations on the possible for right pane.a]diamond, garnet , opalb]diamond, ruby, opalc]armanet,emerald, sapphired]diamond,garnet,ruby

3]if garnet, diamond, opal are on the right side what is possibleoption for right side.a]ruby,armanet,sapphireb]armanet,emerald,rubyc]armanet,emerald,sapphired]ruby,emerald,sapphire

4]if armanet, ruby, opal are on the left side what is possible option for left side.a]diamond, garnet, emerald

b]diamond, sapphire, garnetc]garnet, sapphire, emeraldd]diamond, emerald, sapphire

7.a milkman says to a boy "in one can there is spring water.other can contains a cream milk.i will mix some water with de milk to provid wholesome diet.if i take some quantity from can A and pour it into can B such that its content doubles.again take some quantity from can B and pour it into can A such that its content doubles.again take some quantity from can A and pour it into can B such that its content doubles.Finally quantity of milk in both the cans are same but the amount of water is one gallon more than the milk.(they didnt specify what the can A & can B contains) (1) what is the initial amount of milk and water? (2) what is the final amount of milk and water?(8 marks)

8.if the charges are as follows plumber +painter=900 painter +electrician= electrician+carpenter=like this 6 values and the persons are paint hanger,painter,plumber,carpenter,electrician,mason.find their individual charges (very easy to solve) (6 marks)

9.one confusing logical reasoning for 6 marks 10. a dice is there. it should contain 1,6 and 2,5 and 3,4 pairs as opposite to each other(i,e, if 1 is at the top 6 should be at the bottom) how many possible ways are there?

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - HYDERABADHi Chetanaites This is Adarataiah.A.I wrote he infy exam on 9th in hyd.

Paper Pattern: 2 Sections1.Analytical and reasoning (prepare Shakuntala Devi (puzzl to puzz,More puzz),Geore Summors,GRE Barrons old edn(8-11)and most impartent is go through prevoius papers)-10 Qns in 1 hour. 2.English (Its dead easy,no worry abt this,45 Qns in 30 mins)

Questions are: 1.There is 100 yards run race b/n sal and saul.Sal win by saul 10 yards.If at the beginning sal took 10 yards behind the saul who wins the race?(they maintained const speed)

2.A+B+C+D=D+F+G+H=H+I+J=17 AND if A=4 then D=?H=?Ans:D=5,H=1

3.if anu came to rama's home to the vacation.They played one card game per each day.the condition is that who losses the game should give a chacolate to the winer.at he end of the vacation eventhough anu won 12 games she gave 8 chacolates to rama,then for how many days the vacation lasted? Ans:32

4.I dont remember this one plz check it with othersPlumber+Paperhanger=1100Plumber+Painter=1300Painter+electrision=.....like this 8 statements given you have to find each persons value?its dead easy

5.One milk boy have 2 cans.in one can some water and in 2 can some milk is there(ie in A,B cans).He take some quantity from A mixed with B then B Qty doubled,Then He took some qty from B then mixedwith A then A qty doubled.Again He take some quantity from A mixed with B then B Qty doubled,again He took some qty from B then mixedwith A then A qty doubled.Finally how much milk is there intially and also water qty?after final mixing hw much qty each milk and water in each can?Ans:Intially in A 2 ltrs Milk,in B 1 ltr water.then caluculate the second ans

6.Die is there u have to mark each side with 1-6 numbers but the cond is that 1-6,2-4,3-5 must be oppite side hen how many ways u can do that one?

7.This one a little bit confusing regarding 3 persons and there profeessions some 3 stmts given finally who is the pilot. 8.there is one jewallary show room there they want to exhibit some jewels in front of the shop.for hat shop 2 wings r there ie left and right.in each wing u have to place 3 jewels. -Emorold should be in left wing. -diomond should be in right wing-if garnet is there ruby doesnt be there. They given 4 qns about arrangemant its dead easy.

(Paper Submitted By: Adarataiah)

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 09 OCT 2005 - MUMBAI

Dear ChetanaitesI am passing on Infosys paper test held on 9th Oct 2005 at Sydneham College, MUMBAI. And the subsequent interview experience.

FIRST OF ALL THANKS TO CHETANA MAM FOR THIS WONDERFUL GROUP. It truly helped me for preparation.

Some tips for preparation:

I did Shakuntala Devi Puzzle to Puzzle and More puzzle. In one of the Chetana mails only I had found explanations for few Shakuntala Devi Puzzles..it really helps, u get idea how to proceed any problem.

Then previous Papers are must. Qnes r repeated they save your time and that u can devote to new puzzles in paper during test. This will boost ur confidence while solving. My test had nearly 50% puzzles repeated. So previous papers really helped me a lot. Acc to me PREV PAPERS IS THE KEY TO CRACK THE TEST.

George Summers rough overview is good if times there go a bit thoroughly but don't spend much time

NOW THE PAPER:

10 Puzzles 1 hr

1.There are 100 students among them 10 dont study both physics and chemistry,63 studying physics,85 studying chemistry. How many of them are studying both chemistry and physics (3 mark) (similar Qn. Asked prev)

ans; 63+85-90=68

2. sal and saul are taking part in 100 yards running race in which sal beats saul by 10 yards. If sal starts 10 yards behind the starting line who will win the race?

Ans: Sal.

When 100mtrs is covered by Sal ,Saul covers only 90 mtrs. acc 1st race In 2nd race Sal has to run tot 110 mtrs while Saul 100 mtrs but when Saul covers 90mtrs Sal has coverd 100mtrs ie now for both 10 mtrs r rem but Sal is faster than Saul as he won 1st rece so this 10 mtrs Sal will complete first and will win by 1 mtr.

3. A+B+C+D = D+E+G+H=G+H+I=17. If A=4,Find value of D and G. (present in prev paper) (6 mark)

ans; D=5 G=1

4.In a dice the nos 1&6, 2&5, 3&4 are to be in opposite face . How many ways u can do this arrangement. (prv paper)

Ans: I wrote 24 ways.

Suppose 1and 6 we fix in any 2 faces rem nos we can arrange in 4 ways again 4 combi in same way but 1 and 6 interchanged ie 8 combi for 1 pair so 8x3=24 combi. Chk out tis one.

5. Plumber+Paperhanger=1100Plumber+Painter=1300Painter+electrision=..... and so on 6 equation. (8 mark) (repe)

Ans: You can solve equation or try few values u get the ans.. i didn't had enough time so I put values and tried luckily I got correct answer

6.Some milkman problem. There are two cans A&B can A contains water, can B contains pure milk . To dilute the milk first he put water frm Can A to Can B so that he doubles the qty in Can B. then poured some qty frm Can B to Can A to double qty in Can A and then again frm Can A to Can B to double qty in Can B. At the end he finds both Qty same but in Can B 1 gallon water is more than Can A (something like this I'm sorry I don't remember exactly the last sentence). So what is the initial quantity of milk and water (6 or 8 mark)

I didn't solve only tis qn. If ny1 has d ans plz put it in group mail.

7.Jan robinson, kate jones, john smith are engineer, pilot & biochemist not in the order .they have three martian assistants . as they find difficulty with martian names they gave them nick names as smith, robinson, jones as their masters name. 1.robinson is an yomi 2. martians speak uti. 3.the martians name is the same as the bio chemist 4.robinson beats engineer in the chess(conditions I don't remember properly) who is the pilot? Ans :Jan robinson

U have to work out the conditions and analyze some 2 conditions r imp u get the idea so concentrate and do.

8. This was gem problem .7 gems to be arranged on window 3 on left 3 on rt. diamond always on rt, Emrald on lf always sapphire and something always together ruby wont go with some gems etc etc.4 sub qns asked very easy u can easily solve this.(8 mrks) (repeated)

9.Mr. And Mrs. XYZ has 15 children who where born in an interval of 1.5 years each . the first child`s age is 8 times that of last child. what's the age of the eldest child?.(4M)

Ans: 24 yrs youngest is 3 yrs. X=8Y, X=Y+21 Solving X=24

10.Sita goes to Gita's house during vacation. They play a game of chess everyday and the loser has to give a chocolate to the winner for every game . Sita gave 8 chocolates to Gita at the end of the vacation, although she had won 12 games. how many days she stay there? 5 marks (repe)

Ans : 32 days

Sita 12 games won ----12 daysSita 12 days lost-------12 days Sita 8 games lost----8 days tot: 32 days

English Section half an hr easy but make sure u attempt full and b quick .hint:1st will be mostly a passage don't waste time over here read the qn first the then passage para wise u get ans simultaneously. rest was one story fill ups this for checking tenses then correct sent,

prepositions,meanings of general expre. all options present so don't have to think much just be quick and understd the meaning.

I think some 500 + roughly appeared for test and they shortlisted some 60-80 candidates. inter was scheduled next day slots were given. i had my int at 930 slot at some office at nariman pt.

Interview experience:

There were 2 ladies 1 a little older around 40s and 1 young. the inter they check ur confidence how u handle it b positive and don't drop ur confidence in any case. Dare to face any question.

They askedd first to introduce mainly education and family. They were impressed by my marks appreciated me. then jumped to extra curricular activities I told abt the robotics compete I partici and won then abt paper presentat, sports events in college.

Then they asked in detail each one regarding robotics ..i explained all mechanism Then paper pres what topics seminars which all in grp or alone .they asked in grp how was it working? any probs u faced? how u solved. I told ya every person has his/her own ideas /views we discussed it out sometimes fought but overcame it and came out with what is best for as a team. they were impressed.

As the robotics car topic was going on the senior lady asked me how I will design a car for 1 legged and 1 hand person. This was a bit tough to impress her then also I handled it by giving her maximum ideas as I could all thru she was asking how I will design the steering ,the brakes clutch etc the gear systems first I felt little tough but then I thought i am not gonna loose it maintained my confidence.

They asked have u ever been a leader to any team here I told I shared my sports activities then asked how I became captain, how I selected team members inside team conflicts any how I resolved. quite impressed coz I showed them I am well as team member and team leader.

Then gave me 1 puzz frm paper that A+B+C= 17 askd the approach

One situation. I am going to a meeting for infy and the deal is very imp on highway my tyre punctures in attempt to fix it loose all the screws wat will u do?? I told ask for help to any passenger or cell phone etc. they told nothing there, i told I will fix it using 1 screw for other 3 tyres. askd is it safe?? will wrk??? I told if the deal is that imp I am ready to take the risk but I'll b careful, impressed

And lastly then what if I am posted to mohali ..r u clear with ur family? I said I will definitely miss them but infy work will be interesting enough to handle it.

Askd any Qns I have?

told I will be informed in 3 weeks . I am selected ultimately by Gods Grace and join infy this month end. I was struggling from more than a year for getting a job and ultimately God gave me a good break. so much waiting and hard work is worth now. Prepare Well and don't loose hope God will definitely ans evey1s prayer, b sincere and keep trying and b confident and positive.

(Paper Submitted By: Smitha. T)

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 OCT 2005 - BANGALOREQuestions

1. 75 persons Major in physics, 83 major in chemistry, 10 not at major in these subjects u want to find number of students majoring in both subjects

Ans 68.

2. if A wins in a race against B by 10 mts in a 100 Meter race. If B is behind of A by 10 mts. Then they start running race, who will won?

Ans A

3. A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17 given A=4 Find value of G and H?

Ans : G = 5 E=1

4. Question goes like this Plumber+ painter = 1100 painter + electrician = 1300' wireman + woodcutter = 5300 Find each Share

Ans , 200,900,800,300,3000,2300

5. If 1-6, 2-5,3-4 are facing opposite 2 eacher how many ways are possible to arrange

Ans : 24.

6. I cant able 2 remember question is A, B are 2 jugs u have to weigh equal amount of water and milk

7. 8 mark I cant able 2 remember 4 persons jan robinson, smith, peter, 4 nickname, Find who is pilot some conditions

Ans: jan robinson

8.8 Mark Question about diamond, orpal,rupy, aremanld....... 4 questions, options given

Ans a,a,b,e

9. Age problem A father and a mother, For each one and a half year a child born, total they have 15 childrens at the end of n years, The oldest is 8 time younger, find age of oldest

Ans : 24.

10. Chocolate Problem In a game i won 12 games, each game if i loose i will give u one chocolate, You have 8 chocolates how many games played

Ans : 32

For English Sections go thru verbal in GREMy advice is please Prepare Old Question papers From 2004 to 2005 No Need of Shakuntha Devi or any other Books. Needed : 400,468 puzzles + Question Papers from year 2004 to 2005.. .. ( 2003) If u are not able to solve any Puzzle Just Mug up the answers

INFOSYS PAPER - 28 SEP 2005 - JAIPURHello Chetanaites This is so strange that infy people gave same paper on two dates 28 Oct 2004 and 28 Sep 2005 these two dates having more than 9 month gap that means on 28 Sep 2005 some persons were writing same paper that they have written on 28 Oct 2004

IT MAY BE POSSIBLE YOU MAY ALSO FACE THE SAME PAPER IN INFY EXAM. BEST OF LUCK the questions may not be in correct sequence i am giving you my answers also (that may not be correct)

here is that paper

1. if a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type)the examiner use the formula to calculate the score is S=30+4c-w here c is number of correct answer and w is number of wrong answer, the examiner find the score is more than 80, tell how may questions are correct ? if the score is little less but still more than 80 then u wont be able to answer.answer :- 16

2. if a cube of 27 meter *meter*meter painted red from out side, if it cut into 27 equal part , then how many cubes were there (a) no face painted -------------------------ans 1(b) only one face painted--------------------ans 6(c) only two faces painted..........................ans 12(d) three faces painted..............................ans 8

3. if a person having 1000 rs and he want to distribute this to his five children in the manner that ecah son having 20 rs more than the younger one, what willbe the share of youngest child ans- 160

4.raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 son, 5 daughter and driverin a manner that, he gave fist coin to driver and 1/5 of remaining to firstson he again gave one to driver and 1/5 to 2nd son and so on.. at last he equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. how many coins raju initially have??? ans:-881(i was not able to do this question)

5. a,b,c, are three person in a city there can only three type of person canbe found sososean:- who speaks truth always, norosean who speaks false always, midsean who speak truth / false alternately but which come first time it is not known(a) A says (1) i am sorosean ( 2) b is norosean(b)b says (1) i am sorosean (2) c is midsean(c) C says (1) i am sorosean (2) a is midsean

very esay one answer is A is midsean F/T, B is Norosean, C is Sorosean

6. a painter went in a exhibition to purchases some pictures where T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z pictures were remaining , he want to buy only five in the condition on that if T is there then X should not be there, if U is there than y should be thereif if v is there then X should be there

which is the combination the painter can have(a) T,U,V,W,Y(b)T,Z,U,W,X(c)T,X,U,V,W(d)T,U,Y,W,Z

ans (d)

some more question on this basis

7. if ravi binded his book and the binder cut the pages of the book, ravi decided to mark the pages by himself own, what he found that number of threeappears 61 times find of number of pages answer - 300

8. if a die is marked according like that 1-6, 2-5,3-4 comes apposite to each other, what is the number of combination that a die can be marked????ans - 1 only ( as i think)

9. if deepak & suresh were going to school by cycle with 12 mile /hour speed deepak shouted "hey suresh see the same bus of blue color that we have see

before 20 minutes ago" suresh replied "ya this buses comes in each 14 minutes on stop" can u find the speed of bus answer 40 mile /hour

10. last question forgotten..SORRY

INFOSYS PAPER - 18 SEP 2005 - CHENNAI1) A man was on his way to a marriage in a car with a constant speed. After 2 hours one of the tier is punctured and it took 10 minutes to replace it. After that they traveled with a speed of 30 miles/hr and reached the marriage 30 minutes late to the scheduled time. The driver told that they would be late by 15 minutes only if the 10 minutes was not waste.

Find the distance between the two towns?(6Marks)

Ans: 120 miles

2). B & C initially speak English but when D joined Spanish, they also took up Spanish. The only common language between A, B and E is French. The only common language between C and E is Italian. Three people speak Portuguese. Most common language is Spanish. One person knows all 5 languages. One person knows 4. One person knows 3. One person 2. One person 1.

Who speaks what ? (6 marks).

Ans:A-3.B-5.C-4.D-1.E-2.

3). A cyclist is cycling in a circular path. he is at some point on the path, at that point 1/5th of the cyclists infront of him and 5/6th back to him gives the total number of clyclists participating in the race. What is the total number of cyclists?

Ans:31.(4 Marks)

4) Players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on both sides. Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in front of each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other side of his card. They are required to tell their colour.

Statement given by each of them was : Annie : Blue or Green Bobby : Neither Blue nor Green Cindy : Blue or Yellow Danny : Blue or Yellow

Colours of cards that are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their names. Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each player ? (6 Marks)

Sol : Annie : Yellow (Lieing) Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth) Cindy : Blue (Telling truth) Danny : Green (Lieing)

5) 5 Shop-owners have one daughter each. Each of them name their shop after another's daughter. certain details given. Who is dimple's father?

Ans: Mrinal (4 Marks)

6)if a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type) the examiner use the formula to calculate the score is S=30+4c-w here c is number of correct answer and w is number

of wrong answer, the examiner find the score is more than 80, tell how may questions are correct ? if the score is little less but still more than 80 then u wont be able to answer.

Ans :- 16 ( 6Marks)

7) This was a simple question about a running race. I couldn't recollect the correct question. Samantha beat Jack. Jim was forwarded by jack and Tom and so on. Jack was not the last to reach. Jim was not the first. Who won the race??

Ans:- Samantha ( 3 Marks)

8)A Father Has to Give Coins to his Childern, The Oldest Son will get 1/2th, then next son will get 1/4 th of Remaining, theirs son will get 1/5th of Remaining and then his youngest son get 49 Coins. So Initially How Much coins that Father Had?? ( 3 Marks)

9) There are 3 teachers and 6 subjects. Some conditions like when the biology teacher was playing cards with the geography teacher, the history teacher was in class. Te1 and the geography teacher are ighbours .. I Don't Remember the Entire Question ( 6 Marks)

10) Sorry Friends..(6 Marks)

INFOSYS PAPER - 11 SEP 2005 - DELHISection I: Logical reasoning and arithmatics (time: 1 hr)

1. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?Ans: 570 BC (years are increasing and accordingly age is decreasing)

2. I spent one-sixth of my age as a boy and one-12th in youth, remarked the boss "spent one-seventh and five years in matrimony". My son born just after that period was elected as a governor 4 years back when he was half of my present age. What is the age of the boss? Ans: 84

3. A person travels in a car with uniform speed. He observes the milestone, which has 2 digits. After one hour he observes another milestone with same digits reversed. After another hour he observes another milestone with same 2 digits separated by 0. Find the speed of the car? Ans : 45 ( 1st milestone is 16 2nd is 61 n 3rd is 106, the diff b/w the 2 milestones is 45 n time given is 1 hr - D=S*T)

4.A farmer has certain number of chickens. If he sells 75 of them then the feed for chickens will continue for extra 20 days but if he buys 100 more of them then feed for chickens will be over 15 days earlier. Find out the number of chickens tht he has now. Ans: 300 chickens and food qty is for 60 days ( let no of chickens be x and no of days food will last be y (x-75) (y+20)= xy and (x+100) (y-15)=xy http://www.ChetanaS.com Solve for x and y; x will be 300 chickens and y will be 60 days)

5. Last Year my cousin came to my place and we played a game where the loosing one has to give one choclate to the person who won the game. At the end of the vacation,i.e the day my cousin was leaving she counted number of games that i won an she won.At last she gave me a total of 8 choclates even though she won about 12 games.Find the mumber of games that we played. Ans: 20

6. The time taken to travel in train from Town A to Town B is 5 hours. There are trains starting from both towns at an interval of 1 hour for half hr. How many trains meet in 1 trip? Answered, but not sureAns : 7 trains (I'm not sure abt it)

7.Clark, Jones, Smith and Morgan are Butcher, Grocer, Druggist and Policeman.Based on the given conditions find who is who.1. Clark and Jones are neighbors and they drive each other on alternatively to work.2.The Butcher always walks to work.3.Clark beats Smith at the bowl regularly.4.The Policeman has met the Grocer only once when he arrested him for speeding.5.The Policeman and the Druggist are not neighbors.6.Jones earns more than Morgan. Che tanaS7.The Policeman earns more than the druggist or Grocer. Quite confusing and time consuming for me.Clark==?Morgan==?Smith==?Jones==? (8 marks)

8. this question was related to find time for the meeting....i don't remember this question

9. around 6 statements were given regarding captain and his colleagues n we were supposed to find out their positions in the game. 3 persons' name were written and we had to write down their respt positions based on the given 6 statements. (time consuming; 6 marks)

10. 10 statements were given like- if A gets scarf then B gets tieIf B gets hat, C doesnot get coat....and so onThe statements were somewht like this but I can't recall them all

4 questions were there 1.A gets... 2.B gets 3.C gets... 4.D gets... all with same 4 options- hat tie coat scarf (time consuming;10 marks)

Section II: English

45 questions were given Time duration: 1/2 an hr.

reading comprehension (it was damm easy)tense form substitutionselecting wrong sentence from given statementsselecting appropriate words and phrases from options selecting appropriate prepositions( out of around 400 ppl, 180 were selected for the interview)

ALL THE BEST! hope this will help u

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 11 SEP 2005 - CHENNAII attended Infosys written test on 11th Sep 2005 at Meenakshi College at Chennai.

I cleared the written test and the Interview was on the next day at sholinganallur Chennai. There were 4 to 7 panels (not sure about it).Each panel has 2 members and some have one member only. Interview was 0% technical.

1. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which yearis he born?

2. I spent one-sixth of my age as a boy and one-12th in youth, remarked the boss "spent one-seventh and five years in matrimony". My son born just after that period was elected as a governor 4 years back when he was half of my present age. What is the age of the boss?

3. A person travels in a car with uniform speed. He observes the milestone, which has 2 digits. After one hour he observes another milestone with same digits reversed. After another hour he observes another milestone with same 2 digits separated by 0. Find the speed of the car?

4. 'A' says if seventy five chickens are sold from what we have now the feed will last for extra 20 days but 'B' says if we buy additional 100 chickens then feed will get over 15 days earlier. Find the no. of chickens both are having now?

5. Trains leave from New York to Washington every hour on the hour (1:00, 2:00..).Trains leave from Washington to New York every hour on the hour and half hour (1:00, 1:30, 2:0, 2:30..).It takes a train 5 hrs to complete its journey from Washington to New York as well as from New York to Washington. A train leaves from New York to Washington. Find out how many trains it will meet before it reaches Washington.

I remember only till this question only.

9. One question similar to 11th question on "Puzzles to puzzle u" but not that much easier question (related to that) (4 line question).

There were 3 logical question of 8, 8, 6 marks. And one more 3 marks aptitude question.

7. Captain is making a race between some friends (5 members) and some 6 condition were given asked to find out their positions in the race. (6 mark)

8th and 6th can't remember.

10.11 to 14 sentences were given about that and 4 person names and 4 things as hat, tie, and scarf and asked who is wearing what. (Most difficult one)(8 mark)

Interview Experience:

U r looking different from the photo and real (as I was wearing glass on the time of interview and not in the photo)

What is your father?

What is your role in your project?

What is Patrol leader in school? (B'coz I specified in the achievements about that)

Give a situation were u can work as a team and alone?

And then they gave two puzzles but I can't solve it at that time. But I can solve it after I came out from the room. They were.

1. There are two vessels of same size with water in it and one is 20 degree Celsius and other is 20 degree Fahrenheit. When a coin is put in both vessel which will reach bottom first.

Ans: as 20 degree Fahrenheit is definitely a freezing pt, at this time none can be be immersed so at 20 degree Celsius the coin will immerse first.

2. A Doctor and Nurse gave birth to a child. The child becomes 15 years of age then one day teacher asked the child about their parents and she said that his father is not a doctor and his mother was not a nurse. How is it possible?

Ans: The doctor and Nurse processed the delivery of child and not they are the father and Mother of the child.

And finally they asked any questions from your side??

Then they said the results will be after 4 to 6 weeks.(On written test the selection is based on 10th 12th, graduation aggregate and also puzzles and English. Puzzles clearing cut off is based on your 10th ,12th and BE Aggregate, so if u have more marks in all these then your cutoff will be less. This info is Up to my knowledge but not sure)

(Paper Submitted By: Jasa)

INFOSYS INTERVIEW - 11 SEP 2005 - CHENNAI

Hi Chetanaites

This is Elavarasan, I thank u all for Ur help. When I got the call letter I had no hope of doing it, but the valuable information that u all gave made me to clear Infosys Aptitude test, but I didn't do the Interview well, sorry not even fine! All because of my carelessness. In this mail I am giving u the way how I prepared for the written test and along with that my Interview questions. I hope u all would have got enough aptitude test question papers so I am leaving that.

PreparationI got the hall ticket on 31st August 2005. A week before that I went through about 100 puzzles in Shakuntala Devi's Puzzle to puzzle you. I found that very boring and took many days to go through. As soon as I got the hall ticket I send a mail requesting for help to all my mailing groups. I received lot of help from the groups. I seriously prepared for the exam for about 4 days. In that 4 days I finished two books of Shakuntala devi ( puzzles to puzzle you and more puzzles ). Then I took George Summers' puzzle book. It was very tough and I lost my hope and concentration. I spent 2 days in George Summers, but I was able to go through only 17 problems in that. Then I had four days left. I started to prepare previous year question papers. I first started with the latest one i.e., 2005 papers, then I worked out 2004 question papers. I noticed many question were repeating and gave an extra attention to the repeating questions. I also went through R.S.Agarwal for problems on age, time and work, time and distance and clock. This is all I did.

The ExamMy exam venue was at Meenakshi College, Chennai. When the question paper was given I found most of the questions were from previous test papers. I was able to answer many questions without solving them (but I neatly presented the steps in the paper), because I solved those questions many time while I was preparing for the test. But even then it was highly impossible for me to answer the entire question set in time. I left 3 questions. The English section was very easy and I completed that very quickly.

The resultI didn't have any hope of getting selected. But to my surprise I found my name in the notice board and time for the Interview was printed next to that as 2:00 P.M. As it was very crowded, I just saw my name and the time, but didn't see the Venue!!!!!

InterviewFor interview, I just went through my project. The next day I dressed well and went to Meenakshi College exactly at 2.00 P.M for attending Interview. Only after going there I came to know that the venue was at Infosys campus which is about 30 K.M from the college. I felt "Oh my God, I made a very big mistake!" and immediately phoned Infosys but both the phone numbers were busy! Without knowing what to do I dove to Infosys campus (In the heavy traffic ofChennai city). After clearing the security I went to the interview block. I was 1hr late for the interview.I met the coordinator for 2 o clock batch and apologized him for my mistake. He was very kind and spoke to me calmly. Then came a senior officer (He must be a senior HRD manager), He was very angry on me and he didn't seemed to be convincing. I was already scared about the interview, added with that his tension made me feel very bad. I was immediately called for the interview (I didn't even have a second to wash my dusty face or comb my hair!!). In the interview panel there were twoladies. Here I use L1, L2, and ME, for theinterviewers and me. And.. here is my interview.

ME-- Good Evening mam.

L1 and L2-- Good Evening.

ME-- I am extremely sorry for being late. I should have been here by 2 o clock but I taught the venue was at Meenakshi College and I went there, only after going there I came to know that the venue is here, that is why I am late mam.

L2-- Didn't you see ur venue yesterday?

ME-- Mam there was heavy rush at Meenakshi College yesterday, so once I saw my name and my interview time I left.

L1-- didn't u consult with any others?

ME-- no mam.

ME--just now I came here so may I have some water mam?

L1--sure have some and make comfort.

ME--Thank you mam

L1--So, Ela..va..rasan Ariv..ala..gan, is this the way others call u?

ME --Yes mam, but few of my friends call me as "Prince".

L1 -- Prince! Why?

ME -- because.. (L2 interrupted and said to L1 that the word "Elavarasan" in Tamil means Prince)

L2 -- Ok Elavarasan, tell us about you.

ME-- I started with my home town, then about my family, then about my education about my hobbies and finally the prizes won in competitions.

L2 -- What do u think as ur greatest strength Elavarasan?

ME -- I think, my greatest strength is my commitment to work. If I am committed to do something I make sure that it has completed. (After a pause) I don't careabout the amount of work I have to put forward or the amount of time it takes to complete the task.

L2 -- So, ur greatest weakness?

ME -- mam I think it is time management. I concentrate much on fine details and always leave time.

L2 -- Have u faced any problem because of that?

ME -- yes mam, even while preparing for my exams if I struck up in a topic I wouldn't move to next topic.

L1 -- Elavarasan, let us think that u have joined the company and after joining the company you are asked to go to California, where there is a threat that BinLaden is going to attack California. All the seniors don't want to go because of the threat so you are chosen, because you are a fresher. So, what will u do in such a situation?

ME-- I'll go to California.

L1 -- what? Is that practical? Be pragmatic are u ready to risk Ur life for a company?

ME -- mam I am practical. If the death is going to come for a man it will come to him, no matter where he is even if he stays in India he will face death.

L2 -- Then you are ready to go into a burning house?

ME -- mam it's a burning house, I know it is burning so, I will not go in. But going to California is not like that, there is a threat that's all. It may happen or it may not happen.

L1 -- Will ur parents accept this and send u to California?

ME -- mam we all do believe in God. If he is my protector then I believe that he will protect me at California too. (After a while)

L2 -- Think of a scenario in which u are the only person in ur college selected to do a project. That requires a lot of preparation and work. If u do that u will gain a lot of technical knowledge. At the same time you are chosen by ur principal to do another project which is not very important for u but very important for ur principal. He wanted u to do it. Both of the project requires heavy work and heavypreparation, and u need to submit a report about Ur projects daily. What will u do in this situation?

ME -- mam, firstly I'll talk to my principal and will tell him about my situation.

L2 -- If he is very adamant that u must do that project?

ME --I'll take both the project and try to do them, that's all I can do

L1 -- How can it be possible to allocate time in such a tight schedule between two different projects?

ME -- I know it is very difficult but there is no other go, so, I have to do that so..

L1 -- Won't u try any other method?

ME -- no, mam first I'll speak to him; if he compels me I will do the work.

L1--try to solve this puzzle (she game me puzzle in a small bit of paper) The puzzle read like this "Starting with 1 half cup of coffee and 1 half cup of tea, if u take 1 teaspoon of tea and mix it to the coffee and then u take a teaspoon of that mixture and mix it with the tea. At last what will be more coffee or tea?". It is very easy puzzle; the answer is both the content remains same. But I taught in a different way and answered wrongly!!!

ME -- mam coffee will be more.

L1-- (with a smile) Justify it.

ME -- If u takes a teaspoon of tea and put it into coffee.. (I shouldn't have used "put" here) tea gets diluted. If u take a teaspoon of that mixture and add it to tea, that would have had more coffee in that than tea.

L1 -- try this puzzle.

She gave me another simple puzzle "If the only sister of your mother's only brother has only one child then what is the relationship between u and that child?" Can you imagine a simplest puzzle than this? But my mind worked in a different way and answered completely wrong. The actual answer is "yourself", but I in a hurry answered "my cousin"!!!

ME -- mam , it is my cousin.

L1 and L2 -- what? (At the same time)

L1 -- may be u have to read it again Elavarasan.

ME --(After a while) I think it should be my cousin.

L1-- how?

ME -- If my mother's brother had a sister then, she must be my mother's sister too, hence her child must be my cousin.

L2 -- (with lowered voice as if I have done the interview badly) Elavarasan, do u have any question?

ME -- Hmmm no mam.

L1 -- Ok , you may leave now.

ME -- Thank u mam (and left the room, I was about to close the door, some think blinked in my mind only then I realized that the answer to the last puzzle was just "me", I again felt "Oh my God another big mistake")After my interview was over I was asked to sit in a place and my ID was taken to get signed from the HR manager. He was no other than the person who was angry at me when I went late. He went to my interview panel and spoke for a while with the interviewers. This made me sure that I would not be selected. After a while he came with the very same angry face and gave my ID to my coordinator. He called out my name and asked me to return the ID to the security.

My AdviceSo, friends, don't ever be careless like me and loose a valuable moment in your life. It will be a very big lose.

INFOSYS PAPER - 11 SEP 2005 - DELHIThere are 100 balls in a box. 20 are blue, 20 are red, 20 are black, and 20 are white and 20 orange. Find the least no of ways to get the pair of balls.There are 2p, 5p, 7p, 10p and 15p stamps are available. My mom told me to buy three stamps of 5 each and two stamps of 6 each. But I forget that. But my mom had given me the exact amount to buy the stamps Rs. 3.00. Please help me to buy the stamps.In a circular bicycle race. There are 1/5th of total racers are ahead of me and 5/6th are behind me. Find the total no. of bicycle racers in the race.There are tow trains. One from New York to Washington and second from Washington to New York. The total journey to a destination takes 5 hours. A train from New York to Washington leaves on hour at every hour. The train from Washington to New York leaves an hour and on half an hour. How many trains will be passing if you are traveling from New York to Washington?In a school there are fewer than 500 students. The 1/3 are the whole numbers. The 1/4th and the 1/7th are the whole numbers. Find the total number of students in the school.A person on his bicycle walks 8km uphill and 24km Downhill he took 2hr30minutes to complete this. He started again without any stop now he took now 4hr50minutes. Find the average speed of the cyclist at UPHILL and DOWNHILL.There is question on relations. Who is the brother, wife. (8 marks)There is one more question on relations. (8 marks)There are two mew systems developed for temperature A and B. if A =14 the B=36, when A = 133 then B = 87. Find when both the temperature becomes equal.

INFOSYS PAPER - 11 SEP 20051. Clark, Jones, Smith and Morgan are Butcher, Grocer, Druggist and Policeman. Based on the given conditions find who is who.

1. Clark and Jones are neighbors and they drive each other on alternatively to work.2.The Butcher always walks to work.3.Clark beats Smith at the bowl regularly.4.The Policeman has met the Grocer only once when he arrested him for speeding.5.The Policeman and the Druggist are not neighbors.6.Jones earns more than Morgan.

7.The Policeman earns more than the druggist or Grocer. Quite confusing and time consuming for me.Clark==?Morgan==?Smith==?Jones==?Clark and Jones are not butchersProceeding like this solve it.

2. Trains leave from New York to Washington every hour on the hour (1:00,2:00....).Trains leave from Washington to New York every hour on the hour and half hour(1:00,1:30,2:0,2:30....).It takes a train 5 hrs to complete its journey from Washington to New York as well as from New York to Washington. A train leaves from New York to Washington. Find out how many trains it will meet before it reaches Washington

3. A man drives with constant speed..n he after some time he sees a milestone with 2-digits..then he travels for an hr n sees the same 2 digits in reverse order..n then after an hr he sees that the milestone has the same 2 digits with a 0 between them.. so whats the man speed?

4. . Last Year my cousin came to my place and we played a game where the loosing one has to give one choclate to the person who won the game .At the end of the vacation,i.e the day my cousin was leaving she counted number of games that i won an she won.At last she gave me a total of 8 choclates even though she won about 12 games.How many days did my cousin stayed in my house?

5. a. Rimmie wears a hat only if goerge wears a tie.b. George wears a scarf only if Johnie wears a tie.c. Vickie wears a googles only if Rimmie wears a hat.d,e,f,g,hsome what like this there are 8 statements, from that we have to determine who wears what.

6. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?

7. A solicitor says to his friend that its one hour before the end of the summer; when can we have our meeting?Friend : we can meet 11 hours after the town clock has 10 seconds to strike.Solicitor : doesn't it the town clock strikes with 1 second betweenFriend : yesSo what is the time of their meeting?

8. Name of some 5 persons are given say A,B,C,D,E. and it is said that they play games and some conditions are given like if A comes second B and C are in third and fourth position.. its very easy.. the question is to find the position of B,C,D,..

9. A farmers wife says to her husband if we have 75 chicken ,they can be fed for 20 days and if still more 100 chicken are there they can be fed for only 15 days how many chicken does the farmer have?

10. 1/8th of my life as a boy, said my boss,1/6th as a young man. So on like this. Jus add up the fractions to find the age of the boss.

INFOSYS PAPER - 11 SEP 2005 - CHENNAIInfosys Questions for the test held on SEP-11 in Chennai

1) A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?Ans: 570B.C

2) A boss tells "1/6th of his life in childhood,1/12th of his in youth and 1/7 of his in bachelor, five years more in politics and socialization. This brought me up to jimmy born. Jimmy was elected for the governor four years ago, when he was half my present age." Find the boss age.

Ans: 84 years

3) I was driving in a car at a particular speed I saw a speed limit board 0f 2 digits after a hr again I saw speed limit board reverse of the previous 2 digits and had same number as previous and after a hr again saw the 2 digits backward and forward separated by zero (3 digit) as speed limit board. what was the speed at which I was traveling ?

Ans: 45kmph 16,61,106

4) A girl visits to her cousin's house for a vacation. They both played a game for all the days she stayed there for every win they need to give a chocolate to the other. At the day when she left she had given 12 chocolates but had won 8 games. Find how many days she stayed there ?

Ans:32

5) Husband says if we sell 75 chickens from our farm we can feed the chickens for 20 days and if we buy 100 chickens we would finish the feed is days sooner. how many chickens were there?

Ans:300(not sure)

6) Two trains one from New York to Washington and the other from Washington to NY travel daily. The train from NY to Washington start for every one hour and the train from Washington to NY start for every one hour and an half an hour (read this line carefully). Time taken by the trains to cover the distance between is 5 hours. Find how many trains does the train from NY to Washington happens to meet on its way?

Ans: 7 trains (check it)

7) Four persons who uses four different things like hat, gloves, tie, scarf. There were eleven sentences given out of which we must find the correct combination. This is really tough (try from Barrons the analytical section )( 8 marks)

8) A captain coaches his four students out of the five men including the captain only three will be selected. We need to find the number 1,2,3 position among the men selected. Here around seven sentences are given ( 6 marks)

9) Mr. Solicitor meets his friend at an hour to the birth of summer. So they plans to fix a time to meet( a complex English statement would be given).(4 marks)

Ans: 10 AM( check it)

10) Clark, Jones, Mason, Smith are 4 people, there are four professions druggists, grocer, butcher, policemen. Find who is who? 1.clark and Jones are neighbors and they drive each other to work. 2.Jones earn more than mason Like this totally 6 sentences are given.( 8 marks)

Prepare the Barrons GRE analytical section.Previous old and latest papers helps you a lotThen you can prepare books like Shakuntala, Summers, Ravi Narula but infy papers are very crucial.

English section:Its consists of one reading comprehension passage, fill in the blanks based on correct form of tense, fill in the blanks with appropriate word among the four choices given, and picking out the wrong statement among four given statements. In total forty questions are there and the time given is 30 minutes.

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 10 SEP 2005 - DELHIHi Chetanaites

I was in Dehi for the Infosys Test and interview on 10th and 11th Sept. And here is my experience.

I don't have the exact number but there were approx. 1200-1500 students ( 04-05 batches) for the written exam.

It was surprising to know that many of them did'nt know the pattern of exam. there were 10 puzzles to be solved in 1 hr followed by English grammar for1/2 hr.

Here are a few Questions I remember :

1. A man is 80 yrs old in the year 490 and 90 yrs old in the year 480. when was he born? 3 Marks

Ans : 570

2. A man starts from his house and after some time he comes across a milestone that shows the distance travelled in Kms. It is a 2 digit number. after an hr. he gets another milestone with the same 2 digits reversed. After an hr. he gets another milestone with the same two digits but with a Zero in between. What is his speed? 4 marks

Ans : 45kph

3. Sita goes to Gita's house during vacation. they play a game of chess everyday and the loser has to give a chocolate to the winner for every game . Sita gave 8 chocolates to Gita at the end of the vacation, although she had won 12 games. How long did she stay there? 5 marks

Ans : 32 days

4. There is a train from NY to Washington every 1/2 hr and 1 hr. there is a train from Washington to NY every 1 hr. (constant speed assumed) it takes 5 hrsfrom NY to Washington and 5 hrs. to come back. On your way from Washington to NY, how many trains will cross you? 6 marks

Ans: 19 trains

There were 2 big 8 mark questions whose data I don't remember. I got one of them correct and guessed the other. There were 2 questions that I did'nt feel likeattempting, so left the answers blank. whatever I did, I ensured that I showed it clearly in the 2 rough sheets provided. I ensured that I scored at least 30. left the rest to fate.

Results were out the same evening. I could see my name in the 180 short listed for the interview next day.

Here is how it went:

They had given me a time 9:40 am. i reached the place at 9:05am and my name was called exactly at 9:40. There were 2 in a panel . A man over 50 with tremendous experience and a lady over 40 with good experience.

1st question was : Tell me about urself.- the man asked.I said what I had prepared for 2 pages. it was good and the person seemed impressed.

(bouncers followed)

Who is the table tennis national champion? - he askedI said i donno, i am sorry.

Has there been any change in the rules of the gamerecently?- he asked

( i thot i had come to a wrong place!! perhaps I should not have written Table tennis as one of my interests)

I'm not sure . - i said

he wanted an answer. "Related to the points"? - he askedyes - i said. previously there were 15 points , now its 20 points.

"Sure?"yes- i said

" Related to the size of the ball" ?- he asked

i gave a smile. i donno - i said.

The lady had meanwhile seen my application. So u like music?- she asked

yes. very much. In fact music is my passion and i have won inter college competition in 2004 in vocals.- i said

have you taken any professional training ?i have a junior diploma in classical music.- i said

From which university?Prayag university in Allahabad- i said

NOW THE MAN COMES INTO THE ACTHow many institutes do u know of in india which give such training ?i know none other than prayag - i said

So u like chess too?yes

Who is the champion of chess in India?i waited ..then said Mr. Vishwanathan Anand

Tell me how many squares are there in a chess board?i said 64 . then said no. there are many more. (they gave me a paper and pen to solve) I had solved it a yr ago. but it just did'nt strike me at that time. i said 8! but couldn't prove it.(when i came out, it struck me that the answer was 8^2+ 7^2+..1^2)

Where do you see yourself 5 yrs down the line? - the lady asked(i thot for a while).. as a team leader but my 1st and foremost priority is to learn as much as possible all the time. Especially with all these changes in theindustry coming about. i want to update myself everyday with technology.

So do you read newspapers?- he askedEveryday- i said

Which was the place which was most affected by therecent Hurricane ?The Mississippi region.

(he shakes his head) which was the city which was asked to evacuate?i said ..yes..but i could not recollect.

He said - the name Started with "New".

i thot ..then said New Orleans.

So what kind of music is famous over there?i gave a smile.. and said i dont know.

I thot u were interested in music ? -he saidYes. but i really donno the answer of that, i'm sorry

Interestingly, the lady took the cap of a cello pen and placed it on the table.Tell me some possible ways in which you could use this cap, be creative.- she said.

U can use it as a whistle- i said

Tell me 2-3 morei thot, thot and thot. more than a min. then said- u can put it in ur pocket and roam around when u dont have a pen.

Both of them laughed and looked at each other. I couldn't think anything else.

So what have you been doing in the past few months?have applied to various companies like TCS WIPRO and Satyam. I couldn't get thru the technical rounds of TCS and WIPRO but i cleared aptitude, GD and interview in Satyam and my joining date is in October.

if you get through Infosys, which one will you preferand why?Trust me, i said. i have been looking forward to join infosys for the last 1 and a 1/2 yrs now. to me infosys is the no.1 company in india, everybody saysthat and it is the most respected company among all. The striking feature of infosys is that it is driven by values,which is more important to me than money or anything else.

what values do u look in a company?Excellent working culture, wonderful growth opportunities.-i said

You u read magazines also?Yes. i said. Digit Magazine

what do you know about the recent changes in theindustry?these days, Mainframes , dot net and J2EE are in a lot of demand. thats all i know

what is Lenovo? -he askedIts a partner of IBM which has taken over the hardware business of IBM. (i had read it somewhere)

what else are you trying to learn?i said i am trying to develop a habit of reading.

o really? she said. what books have you read?i recently bought Ignited Minds by Mr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

have u read it?the 1st chapter

what is it about?first of all he has dedicated his book to a 12 Std. Student who said that the biggest enemy of India is poverty. He talks about his experience in the industry and and places and people he has visited. its an inspirational book for youngsters and..and ...everyone else. he talks about how can the youngsters transform india into a developed nation.

So ur really into it? - she saidvery much- i said

do u have any questions?yes. i said. infosys is driven by values: C-LIFE. is it an acronym or just C-LIFE?

it is not an acronym. it is just C-LIFE -both of them said.

Ok Amit. Wish you all the best. - he saidThank you and i came out of the room.

Thats my experience in short. The duration was more than 40 mins. they will declare the results in about 3-4 weeks. (Paper Submitted By: Amit)

INFOSYS PAPER - 04 SEP 2005 - MUMBAILogical Reasoning and Arithmatics (50 Marks)

Q1) Problem on ages. Slightly confusing text. (3Marks)

Q2) Two trains are approaching each other at 60mph each. The length of each train is 1/6 miles. When the two locomotives (engines) meet, how many seconds will it take for them to pass each other completely? (4Marks)

Q3) Complete the series:- (6Marks)a) 1,9,2,8,3,7,4,6,5,5,6,4,7,3,8,2, , , (two blanks) (Ans: 9,1)b) 2,4,8,32,512, (one blank) (Ans: 2 raise to n-1, so it will be 2 raise to 17, ie. 131072)

Q4) In a race Andrew beats Jim.Jack is not the last.Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.Jim beats Jack.Who won the race? (This question came with different names) (4 Marks)

Q5) 8 Marks Question. Some information was given about some cities. Eg: A is to the north of B and to the west of C.C is to the south of D and to the east of F. (5/6 facts were given)4 questions were asked with multiple choice answers.

Q6) If i multiplied by i is me. me multiplied by multiplied by me is she. What is the value of she? (4Marks)Ans: i=4, so m=1 and e=6, Therefore s=2, h=5 and e=6, hence she is 256.

Q7) 5 Marks question, easy one. Some facts were given like:a) Dravid scores 26 runs more than Robin.b) Robin and Azhar together score 94 runs. Like these around 5/6 facts were given. Only equations had to be formed and total runs scored by all the batsmen had to be found.

Q8) Profit Loss sum for around 3 Marks.

Q9) There are 5 persons who have won top five places in an event in Olympics . one of them asks all the five regarding their positions, they reply as a: "i am not the last" b: "c is in third place" c: "E is behind A"d: "B is in first place" e: "D is not the first"The persons who have won gold and silver have lied, find the positions in order. (5Marks)

Q10) 8 Marks sum.Assume you have a huge cube. All the 6 sides of the cube are painted red. Then 6 straight cuts are made across the cube to give 125 cubes

of equal size.

a) find the number of cubes with 3 sides painted red.b) find the number of cubes with 2 sides painted red.c) find the number of cubes with 1 side painted red.d) find the number of cubes with no side painted red. e) If all the cubes are put into a bag, and one cube is removed at random, what is the probability that its surface pointing towards you is red in colour?

This test was of 1 hour. After this there was a multiple choice test of English as a Communicative language. (45 Questions - 30 minutes). It consists of a passage for comprehension, some meanings, grammar etc. Can complete easily.

Around 700-800 people attended the test, out of which 120 were short listed for the interview.

Hopefully this will help all you people.

All the best.

(Paper Submitted By: Vaibhav)

INFOSYS PAPER - 09 AUG 2005 - KOCHIN

1.There were 2 systems A n B.14 degrees in A is equivalent to 36 in system B and 133 in A is equivalent to 87 in B. now what is the temperature where they both r equal?(4 marks)

2.Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many days will 20 cows take.?

3.After gathering 770 chestnuts, three girls divided them up so that amounts were in the same proportion as their ages. As often as mary took four chestnuts, nelli took three, and for every six that mary received, Susie took seven. How many chestnuts did each girl get ?

4. There are 4 girls (say, ABCD). Each belonged to a different family (say, PQRS). Each prepared a salad using different kinds of fruits. None of the girls used more than 2 kinds of fruits in common. The fruits used were cherries, grapes, bananas and apples. Some clues were given and 4 ?s were asked.

5. Two coin is flipped. One gets $ 1 on winning. At the end of play, one had won $ 3 and the other had won three times. How many games did they play altogether?

6.There is a peculiar island where people speak a strange language called 'Kubi'. The men always speak truth and a women never say two 2 consecutive truth or false statements, that is, if she says truth statement once then she says false statement next and vice versa. The boys and girls always lie. One day I asked a child "Are you a boy or girl ?" and the child replied in Kubi. Since I didn't know the language, I asked the child's parents what it means. One of the parents said "The child says, I am a boy" and the other said that "The child is a girl. He lied".a) Is the child a boy or a girlb) Which parent answered first?

7. vendor who is an ex-mathematician has a number of apples and when he arranges them in rows of 3 he is left with one more, when he arranges them in rows of 5 again he is left with 1 more, Same happens with when he tries to arrange them in rows of 7 and 9 that is 1 apple is left extra. But when he arranges them in a row of 11 he is left with none. Can u tell me how many apples were there?

8.question like A is older than B but younger than C.. etc to find the youngest..

9.series1 ,2, 3, 5, 16,_don't remember

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 reversesans: 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 givenans: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

(Paper Submitted By: Shashi)

INFOSYS PATTERN & INTERVIEW - 07 AUG 2005 - KOLKATTAThis mail goes for the group of people who asked me to share my "ALL THE WAY 2 INFY QUEST"

Well i got a call letter from infy that i have to attend a test on 7th august at any of the venues provided, i chose the KOLKATA centre(LAMARTS) as am from kolkata. Since the letter was recieved by me only 7 days b4 the test i started my preparation straight from SAKUNTALA DEVI's "puzzles to puzzle you" book and a few past infy papers. (R.S Aggarwal is must for basic

knowledge & if u want to answer all questions in apti round u have to study George .J.Summers). They conducted only 2rounds

1:Aptitude2:HR interview

About Aptitude:

In this round u r given an initial 45 mins to fill up a form about ur details(hey get two references name and number as u have to fill it in the form also if u know anyone in Infy get his name and number, that will help a lot)This round was a written test based on 2 set of papers.The first set was aptitude cosisiting of puzzles and problems & a tricky summer's question(total 10 question in 1hr).I dont think its necessary at all to provide the questions....also go thru last few papers...u will know the pattern and solve sakuntala devi book(a must). U will be given an extra sheet to do rough,try to do them neatly and answer all quetion since there's no -ve marking,cause u never know if u guess the right answer.

The second set was basic English knowledge like paragraph reading,tense,grammar,appropiate word filling etc.No need to study anything for english,only answer all the questions provided(total 50 questions in 1hr),dont leave anything.

I ANSWERED ALL THE 60 QUESTION(10 APTI + 50 ENGLISH)

OVER!!!waited for 2hrs and got selected for interview.

About Interview:

Ok first of all i want to give u people an important tips..."BE CONFIDENT AND +VE"i will just right the question(q) and answers(a)....

( 2 persons sitting infront of me)q:So Mr Dey how is ur health??a:Not Well Sir,had a food poison yesterday only(really i had)q:then how did u go thru the exam???a:menatl strengthq:and where did u get that from??a:from my positive atitude,that helped me to overcome all stressq:do u believe in God??a:I do sirq:u pray??a:well to be frank i dont go to mandir(thats the word i used infront of them) everyday but i pray in my mind everydayq:and when do u pray,when u r in trouble??? www.chetanasinterview.coma:thats not praying sir,thats selfishness,one shud keep faith in god all the time,if u believe in him he is god else he is simply an idol made of earth.q:u entered a room,a bulb hanging from the ceiling just touches ur head,how do u meausure the height of ceiling???a:(i was thinking....2nd person told the 1st person, give him a hint)q:ok i will give u a hint..the bulb can be made swing....oscillatea:(i tried to explain the concept that if we can swing we can get the arc then diameter then radius)q:do u know the exact formula???a:no sirq:capital of germany??a:forgot sir...q:capital of australiaa:sydney(i was wrong later i came to know)q:currency of australia???a:dollar(i just guessed)q:what dollar???american's have american dollara:australian dollar(again gussed,was right)q:have u heard of swami vivekananda????a:yes sirq:Bill gates???

a:yes sirq:if u were asked to be either Bill gates or swami vivekananda...which way u choose???a:hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....i want a mixture of both,want to help people in my life by affection of vivekanada and money of Gates..cause MONEY TALkS in todays world.q:u did'nt get my question mr dey...gates or vivekananda??a:u want me to tilt at one side??well then i will go for vivekanandaq:u r in mid of a high way driving ur car...suddenly gets puncture,u unscrew the nuts to change the tyre and when u want to screw the new tyre u see all the nuts are gone..u dont have n e one to help u,no lift nothing....what to do????a:well in that case i wil unscrew one nut from each of the remaining 3 tyres and fix it to the tyre and PUSH OFF.q:thats it,thats the way u should answer(was very impressed)q:ok mr dey u have wrote in ur personal details that u are a good social worker???are u attached with some rotary club??a:No sir,i am not,i love to love and help people,i do it by myself,charity begins at home....q:tell me an instance u helped peoplea:depicted a real life story(not saying here)lastly said i just want to help mankind.q:ok tell me Y infy????Y not any other companya:Sir we freshers are beggers,and beggers are not choosers,its not like i want infy or i want TCS, i have sat for TCS also,sat for infy also...i got here...q:IS THE AVERAGE PROVIDED BY U IS SIMPLE AVERAGE???a:yes sirq:IS THIS UR SIGNATURE(showing me the sign i did in while filling personal details...thats where i thought i am selected)a:yes sirq:ok thank u mr deya:sir i have a questionq:yes.....a:where is the training held????q:bangalorea:Oh!!its my place again(since i did my B.E 4rm b'lore)..thank u.walked away in a smiling face

INFOSYS PAPER - 07 AUG 2005 - BANGALORE

1) Find the value of X,Y and Z in the following

X X X X Y Y Y Y Z Z Z Z --------------------------------------- Y X X X Z

Ans:X=9, Y=1; Z=8

2) A man starts walking at 3 pm . ha walks at a speed of 4 km/hr on level ground and at a speed of 3 km/hr on uphill , 6 km/hr downhill and then 4 km/hr on level ground to reach home at 9 pm. What is the distance covered on one way?

Ans: 12 km

3) A grandma has many sons; each son has as many sons as his brothers. What is her age if it's the product of the no: of her sons and grandsons plus no: of her sons?(age b/w 70 and 100).

Ans: 81 (I think)

4) An electric wire runs for 1 km b/w some no: of poles. If one pole is removed the distance b/w each pole increases by 1 2/6 (mixed fraction). How many poles were there initially?

5) There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350 feet from it which is 200 feet tall. There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers. They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the towers at the same time. At what distance from the church is the grain?

Ans: 90 (I think)

6) Days Cows 40 40 60 30 X 20

Find the no: of days ie X.

7) Puzzle on color and cards.

8) Puzzle on languages and people.

9) Find out a five digit no: which has two prime nos: and, its highest digit is 3 and lowest digit is 2 bla bla bla..10) Some question on truth and lie .. I don't remember the question but I think Andrew was the ans.

INFOSYS PAPER - 07 AUG 20051)The age of the grand lady is between 50-70 where each of her son has as many sons as many brothers he has. The grand lady's age is equal to the number of sons and grand sons. What is the age of the grand lady.

Ans: 64 years

2) Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side. There are 2 red, 2green and 2 blue. The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue.

They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.A: Yellow or GreenB: Neither Blue nor GreenC: Blue or YellowD: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.

3) what is the 5 digit number which has only 2 prime numbers in it and satisfies the followingcondition.a>3rd digit is the largestb>2nd digit is the smallestc>1st digit is one less than the 3rd digit and greater than the addition of 4th and 5th digit.d>5th digit is between the 1st and 2nd digit and half of the 4th digit.1 is not considered as the prime number.

Ans: 71842

4> What is the value of X,Y and Z?X X X XY Y Y YZ Z Z Z-----------Y X X X Z-------------

Ans: X=9, Y=1, Z=8

5)40 cows graze a pasture in 40 days,30 cows graze the same pasture in 60 days. how many days does 20 cows take to graze it.

Ans:80 days (check it)

6) A person from washington came to india. One evening at 6.00 p m he started walking at the speed of 40 km/hr and climbed the slope at speed of 30 km/hr.From there he walked back to the source at the same speed at 9.00 p m.what is the distance he covered in one way.

Ans: 12 kms

7) A c-pole of 200 ft is 250 ft from the d-pole which is 150 ft high.. Two pigeons are sitting at the top of each poles (one in one pole) Both pigeon fly towards a grain which is present between the 2 poles at the same speed. What is the distance between the c-pole and the grain?

8) A 1 Km wire is connected between N poles. if 1 pole is removed the distance between the pole increases by 2/3 of the original distance. How many poles are there ?

9)A question on languages. something like... Four people are there among them they know languages like French, Italian, German, English.Each of them know two languages exactly.no body knows French and German together.--

10) a question on racing.asking who is the first in the race.

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 07 AUG 2005 - PUNE

1. A lady's age is between 50 to 70 yrs. Her sons have as many sons as one has brothers. and the total number of her sons and grandsons equal her age. Tell her age. ( 3 Marks )

2. Catheral Tower is 200 feet high and is at a distance of 250 feet from Shark Tower which is 150 feet high. Two pigeons are sitting on each top of each tower. They fly instantly with the same speed at a grain lying on a floor in between the two towers. They both reach on the same time. Tell the distance from the foot of Catheral Tower where grain is lying. ( 6 Marks )

3. A Grass in a garden grows at a constant rate. 40 cows eat it at a regular rate for 40 days. 30 cows eat it for 60 days. How many days will the grass last if 20 cows were there. ( 3 Marks )

4. X X X XY Y Y Y+ Z Z Z Z-----------Y X X X Z-----------Find the values of X, Y, and Z. ( 6 Marks )

5.There is a five-digit no. following conditions were given about the same number.-> There are two prime nos in that number.-> No duplicates are there.-> Digit 3 is the highest.-> Digit 2 is the lowest.-> Digit 5 is between digit 2 and digit 1 and is half of digit 4.-> Digit 1 is one less than digit 3 and is greater than sum of digit 4 and digit 5.Find the number.(Don't take 1 as prime no.) It was given there in the paper. (5 Marks)

6. A software engineer returns from America. As he is fat he decided to have evening walk daily. He started at 3pm. he walks along the road at 4km/hr for some time then he climbs a upward slope area at 3km/hr then downwards at the rate of 6km/hr. then back to the home through the same road at 4km/hr. what is the distance he covered in one way if he reaches back home at 9pm. (4 Marks)

7. There is a 1 Km long wire. It has been fixed around a wall of the building with the help of some poles between two telephone towers. It is noticed that if there is a increase of 1 2/3 m in the width of two poles then there is need of one less pole. how many poles were used.( 3 Marks )

8. A group of friends participate in a akating race during their luch time. conditions are-> Louise was not last.-> Denish was beaten by Jack and Louise in that order-> Jim was not first.-> Jack was beaten by Jim.-> Andew beated Jim.Who won the race ?( 4 Marks )

9. A, B, c, D are from different countries. They speak English, Italian, French and German. Only one language is spoken by more thantwo persons. Following conitions were given.-> A speaks German but can converse with D who doesn't know a single word of German.-> No person can speak both German and French together.-> A and B can't converse with each other but they C can act as interpreter between them.-> B, C, D don't have any common language between them.-> Each person speaks two languages.Find out the languages which each person speaks.( 8 Marks )

10. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. They have one card in their hand. Each card has two different colours on each of its side. In total there are 2 red, 2 green, and 3 blue colours. They made following statements about their hidden colour of the card. and exactly two among them are lying.A -> Blue or GreenB -> Neither Blue nor GreenC -> Blue or YellowD -> Blue or YellowThe visible colours are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively in that order. Tell the hidden colour of card for each of the person.( 8 Marks )

Answers

1. 64 yrs ( 8 Sons and 56 grandsons )2. 90 feet ( speed and time are same. so distance must b same. Pythagorus theorem)3. 120 days 4. X - 9, Y - 1, Z - 8.5. 71842 (there can be other numbers also. Like 70821 etc.) But i wrote 71842 over there )6. 12 Kms7. 24 Poles and distance between each pole is 40 m8. Andre ( order will be Andrew Jim Louise Jack Denish ) But I am not sure but it must b Andre or Louise.9. A -> German and ItalianB -> French and EnglishC -> French and Italian D -> English and Italian10. A -> Yellow (False)B -> Yellow (True)C -> Blue (True)D -> Green (False)

About The Interview

Interview was on the following day in Infosys's, Pune office. It was totally HR Interview. They check on ur's confidence, Thinking, and team-management skills. they asked me following questions starting fr0m the first.

- How much do you expect in ur Analytical paper?- How much do you expecting your English paper?- Do you know how to drive a car?- Do you know how many wheels are there in a car?- do you know the number of nuts in a car?- Suppose you are going all alone in your car on a highway and suddenly one type of your car got punctured and also you misplaces all the four nuts of that wheel. what will you do?- Have you done work in any team ?- Do you read any book?- Which one was the latest you have been through?(I said Alchemist)

- Tell ur something about the story of Alchemist.- Tell us about ur strengths?- tell us what have you learnt after going through Alchemist.- She said i think u do believe in Intuitions ( i said i do)- she asked tell us any incident about ur intuition.- then she asked suppose you are going in your car with ur driver for a very important presentation and suddenly a tree fells on ur car. Driver got injured. what will you do in that situation? Will you take care of driver or will go for ur presentation as it is also very important.- then she gave me a puzzle. there r 9 dots in 3x3 matrix. and you have connect them with the four lines without picking up the pen. ( from Shakuntla Devi's puzzle books )Dsats it Friends, The key is stay cool and b confident...All D Best..

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 07 AUG 2005 - CHENNAIFirst Section----------------1) Lusie age is between 54-70.she has sons and each sons has sons as many brothers they have. The combined number of sons and grandsons give lusie's age ? how old is she ?

2) A pigeon sitting on a cathedral tower of height 200m. another pigeon sitting on another tower of height of 150 m. the distance between the two towers is 250. in ground. there are some grains, the birds fly at same speed, and at same instance and reaches the ground and start to eat grains. how far is the grain in the ground level from cathedral tower. ( 6 marks )

3)on a field, 50 cows were put for fed, which can last grass in 30 days. If 30 cows were put, they can empty the field in 60 days. How many days 60 cows will take to last the grass ?

4) here is a five digit number.the fifth one is half of fourth digit,there must be two primes ( 1 not considered as prime)the second digit is lowest digitthe third digit is highest.1st digit greater than sum of last two digit

5)4 players were playing a card game.Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards has same colour on both sides. Colours were 2 Red,2 Blue,2 Green, 2 yellow.Cards were lying in front of each player.Now ,each playere knew the colour on other side of card. They are required to tell their colour.Statement given by each of them areAnnie: Blue or greenBobby: Neither Blue nor GreenCindy:Blue or YellowDainny:Blue or yellowColour of cards that are visible to all were Red, Yellow,Green, Blue in order of names.Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them are telling are lieing ? can you tell the colour on other face of card for each player ( 8 marks )

6) A software enginner starts his walking at 3 PM from point A, he walks at the rate of 4km/hr in plains and 3km/hr in hill to reach the point B.During his return journey, he walks at the rate of 6km/hr in hill and 4km/hr in plains and reaches point A at 9.P.M. what is the distance between A and B ?

7) XXXYYYZZZ------------YXXZ------------

What is the value of X, Y,Z ?

8)A 1 k.m long wire is held by n poles. if one pole is removed, the length of gap is increased by 5/3 meters. What is the number of poles initially.

9) andrew beat jim, Davis,elite lost to jim, jack was beaten by jim. Jim beats davis. elite is not last. (sorry i forgot exact order )

10) one 8 mark question based on language they speak. There are four persons. Each persons speaking only two language conditions: nobody speak both German and France. William donno English but he act as interpreter b/w Jacob and Jim Jacob know German and some conditions. we have to answer what the two languages they speak ?Jacob William Jim Andrew

English section------------------

This section also has cutoff. one who know grammar and English language, can easily make.

1)passage and questions based on that2) choosing wrong statement3) choosing correct statement4 )tense filling (like.. is sitting, was sitting, sit )5) fill in the blanks with correct phrase.

Answers:-----------1)64 condition given : Lusie age should fall between 54-70suppose if she has 8 sons . each son has 7 brothereach sons has 7 sons (condition given :as many brothers they have)8 sons having 56 sons adding 56 + 8 =64

2) 90

3) actually I got 120 for the given data.I forgot the figures, but i give u the step how to calculate

g - grass at the beginning r - rate at which grass grows, per day y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day n - no of cows to eat the grass in 90 daysformula: g+d*r=n*d*y ( I got this from old infosys paper)

g + 30*r = 50 * 30 * y -->(1)g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y--->(2) g + d*r = 60 * d * y --->(3)frm (1)g=1500y-30rsubstitute g in (2)1500y-30r+60r=1800y30r=300yr=10ysubstitute y in (3)

1500y-300y+10dy=60dy1200y=50dyd=240 days

4)71842

5) yellow (lie)yellow (true)blue (true)green (lie)

6) 12 K.MT1 + T2=6 (3 to 9.p.m)T1-time during forward journeyT2-time during return journeyD1+D2-forwared/Return distanceD1/4+D1/3 =T1 (forward time)D1/4+D2/6 =T2 (return time)Adding we will get D1+D2=12 km

7)x=9 y=1,z=8(i tried by assuming y=1 or y=2,(y-carry) i easily got)

8) 26 polessolution:if n poles (n-1) gaps of each 1000/(n-1) widthif n-1 poles(n-2) gaps of each 1000/(n-2) widthso1000/(n-2) -1000/(n-1)=5/31000(1/(n-2) -1/(n-1))=5/31000(1/(n-1)(n-2))=5/3(n-1)(n-2)=(3/5)*1000=600as 600=25*24so number of poles should be 26

9)andrew

10) easy analytical u can solve it.

I cleared written and attend interview on the next day.

Date of Interview:08.08.2005Venue: Infosys head office, sholinganallur, chennai.Time :10.20 A.M--------------------------------------------------

1)tell something about ur native place2)tell something about ur project3)who is leader4)what motivates u5)how u organize a event6)ur extra curricular activities 7)if u r made principal of ur college what changes u would do ?puzzle section8)easy number sequence.. 9) a ^b +b ^a =786a ? b ?10)any questions ?

tats all

-------------------------Tips to clear written test:1) 2005 infoysys test papers (must)2) 2004 infosys test papers (must)3) solved infy questions (must)4) puzzle to puzzle u by shakuntala devi (must)5)more puzzles --(optional )

(Paper Submitted By: Ganesh)

INFOSYS PAPER - 07 AUG 2005Hi Chetanaites I'm Viju. I attended the Infosys test conducted on 7th Aug 2005.First of all start with R. S. Aggarwal's Mathematics [ MBA ].Then go practice Shakuntala Dev's puzzle books [Puzzles to puzzle you and More puzzles to puzzle you].Then practice George Summers' Mind Teasers. The main point is try to do as many previous question papers as possible. Ill suggest two sites. There re more than 100 question papers.Test was very easy. Questions 1. Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70.Each of her sons have as many sons as they have brothers. Their combined number gives Lucia's age. What is the age? 2. There are two towers A and B. Their heights are 200ft and 150ft respectively and the foot of the towers are 250ft apart. Two birds on top of each tower fly down with the same speed and meet at the same instant on the ground to pick a grain. What is the distance between the foot of tower A and the grain? 3. Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate.It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass.How many days does it take for 20 cows to do the same? 4. Four tourists A,B,C,D and four languages English, German, French and Italian.They are not able to converse among themselves in one language.Though A does not know English he can act as an interpreter between B and C.No one spoke both French and German. A knows German and was able to converse with D who doesn't know a word in German. Only one language was spoken by more than two persons.Each spoke two languages. Find who spoke what. 5. There is a five digit number. It has two prime digits (1 is not a prime number).Third digit is the highest. Second digit is the lowest. First digit is one less than the third digit. The fifth digit is half of the fourth. The sum of 4th and 5th is less than the first. Find the number. 6. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side.No card has the same color on both sides. The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment. A: Yellow or GreenB: Neither Blue nor GreenC: Blue or YellowD: Blue or Yellow Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person. 7. A software engineer returns from America. As he is fat he decided to have evening walk.....he started at 3pm. he walks along the road at 4km/hr for some time then he climbs a upward slope area at 3km/hr then downwards at the rate of 6km/hr. then back to the home through the road at 4km/hr. what is the distance he covered in one way if he reaches back home at 9pm 8. A 1 k.m. long wire is held by n poles. If one pole is removed, the length of the gap becomes 12/3m. What is the number of poles initially? 9. Find the digits X,Y,Z X X X X Y Y Y Y + Z Z Z Z -------------- Y X X X Z ---------------- 10.In a race Andrew beats Jim. Jack is not the last. Dennis loses to both Jack and Lucia.Jim beats Jack. Who won the race?

Answers 1. Let the no. of Lucia's sons = n No. of brothers for each son = n-1 No. of sons for each of Lucia's son = n-1 Lucia's age = n-1 * n-1 = a perfect square between 50 and 70 = 64 2. 200 150 Since the two birds travel with the same speed and meet at the same instant the distance traveled by them is equal. By Pythagoras theorem, 200*200 + x*x = (250-x)*(250-x)+150 * 150 x = 90ft 3.g - grass at the beginning r - rate at which grass grows, per day y - rate at which one cow eats grass, per day n - no of cows to eat the grass in 96 days g + 40*r = 40 * 40 * y------- 1 g + 60*r = 30 * 60 * y------- 2 g + n*r = 20 * n * y-------- 3 from 1 and 2 r=10y g=120r from 3 nr=120r Solving, n = 120 4. Think logically. Ans A B C DGermanItalian FrenchItalian GermanEnglish ItalianEnglish

5. Ans 71842Hint Start with the last condition. 6. Try all possible combinations. Keep in mind two things. THE combination obtained should satisfy the conditions 1.Two are lying and two are telling the truth2.Neither two cards are similar nor are two sides of a card are of same color Ans A YellowB YellowC GreenD Red

7. Let the dist traveled on level ground = x and on the hill be y. x/4 + y/3 + y/6 + x/4 = 6 (x+y)/2 = 6km 8. Let the no. of poles originally = nAfter taking away one pole (n-1)*12/3 = 1000 n = 251 9. x+y+z = z ==> x+y = 10max value for y = 1hence x = 1also, (carry)1+x+y+z = x ==> 1+y+z = 10hence z=8X Y Z9 1 8

10.The possible positions in the race are, Andrew Andrew Jim Jim Jack Lucia Lucia Jack Dennis Dennis In either case Andrew is the winner.

(Paper Submitted By: Viju)

INFOSYS PAPER - AUG 2005 - CHENNAII am Aruna, I want to share my experience there in common placement undertaken by Anna university for INFY. There were a mass of 1700 students all were above76% of aggregate

The Questions we had was,

1.In a lunch hour staff in the company had a race. Samntha beat jack.Jill hit Morris followed by Jessi in the race. At last Jack beat Jill. Who won the race?Ans: Samantha

2.A cyclist covered 2/3 of his distance by cycle, then his type was punctured.after that he covered the remaining distance by walk. He felt that he had walked twice the time of he cycle. how fast he cycled than he walked.Ans:4 times

3.The cube painted red on all sides was cut into 27 equal cubes thenhow many cubes will have colored faces ofa.3 sidesb.2 sidesc.1 sided. 0 sideans:8,12,6,1

4.The Pigeon And cathedral tower problemAns :90 ft

5 The two Systems of C & F when the come equalAns:51.25

6.In jewel shop..Right pane..left pane probans: a,a,b,e (choices)

7.Position of captain..long jack..williad prob

ans:4,2,1

8.The boy goes to school reaches railway station at his 1/3 of his journey& mill at 1/4 of his journey the time taken him to walk between railway station & mill is 5 mins. Also he reaches railway station at 7.35amwhen he started from house& when he reaches school?Ans:7:15to8.15

9.how many pages there will be if he writes 61 3'sso far 300 pages

thats all I remember.All the best !!

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 11 JUL 2005 - PATIALAHello ChetanaitesSo, finally I did that. I have cleared the selection process of Infosys Held on July 11, 2005 .I really thank Chetana Group, which has really helped me out to achieve my goal, nearly all the question papers which I have practiced were taken from here.

Actually, the pattern that I followed for preparation was:

BOOKS FOLLOWED:

1. Puzzle to puzzle u ---- Shakuntla Devi.2. More puzzle-to-puzzle u ----- Shakuntla Devi3. Quantitative Aptitude ----R.S Aggarwal.4. very imp------question papers of previous years.

There is no need to do George summers .

Firstly do both the books of Shakuntla Devi thoroughly. After u finish with them start with the latest question papers and after these take up the old ones.

Q 1. At some diamond shop ,a burglary happened. Police got hold of 3 suspects named Robbert, Davis and Andy. each one of them pointed the other for the robbery. Robbert said "one of the other 2 has done it. I have not done that." Latter police came to know that robber was telling lies. Tell who did that. (3 marks)

ANS statement of Robert" one of the other 2 has done it. I have not done that." As it is given that he was telling lies so "I have not done" is false. hance rebert did that.

ROBBERT

Q 2.There was a person who smoked a lot .One day he decided to quit his habit, but he had 27 cigarettes with him. So he started smoking them one by one ,to finish them. He had the habit of smoking only 2/3rd of it and leaving the rest butt. later he found out that by joining 3 butts he can form 1 cigarette. So ,tell haw many cigarettes in all he smoked.

ANS from 3 butts he get 1 cigarette.Hence from 27 butts he get 9 (27/3) cigarettes. 3 butts give way 1 cigarette 27+3+1=31 I GOT THIS ANSWER. BUT ONE OF MY FRIENDS WAS GETTING 40 AS ANSWER. check it

Q 3. one day a person wanted to meet a lawyer, but lawyer was busy,so he told the man to meet him 2 days after the day before the day after tomorrow .Tell what the day is ,if today is Friday.

Ans day after tomorrow-Sunday The day before day after tomorrow-Saturday 2 days after Saturday=MondayMonday

Q 4 Tell a 5 digit number which satisfies: It has 2 prime numbers.

The 3rd digit is largest. The 2nd digit is smallesT. The 1st digit is greater than the sum of 4th and 5th digits. The 5th digit is between 2nd and 1st digit and is half of 4th digit.Find the number. (6 marks)

Ans IT IS THE SIMPLEST QUESTION SO TRY SOLVING IT

Q 5 in an office there are 5 people named miss aimes, miss benns, mr colonoy, mr Davis and Mr Paul. And the 5 posts are floorwalker, manager, clerk, cashier and buyer .Find who is who,if:

2 of these were roommates in college (Don't remember the names).The buyer is a bachelor.Mrs colonoy was angry when her husband told her that the manager refused for give him promotion.Davis was the best man when the clerk and cashier got married.Aimes and paul had the business relations only. (8 marks)

Q 6 There are some students in a school. The 1/2 of number of students is a whole number. The 1/6 of number of students is a whole number. The 1/5 of number of students is a whole number. The 1/7 of number of students is a whole number. Find the number of students. (SOMETHING THIS TYPE. FIGURES ARE NOT SAME.)

Ans 420

METHOD:

FIND LCM OF NUMBERS GIVEN LIKE 2,6,5,7. AS IT IS COMPLETELY DIVISIBLE BY THEM ,SO THAT IS THE ANSWER.

Q 7 Complete the series: 1,2,3,5,16, _ 1,2,3 (I don't remember). (6 marks)

Q 8It was something that 2 trains are going in opp direction.time was given and we have to find out how many number of trains will meet train 'A' before reaching its destination.

Q 9 sorry, I don't remember

Q 10 4 cards r placed on a table, each card has 2 colors. U don't know the color of the back side of each card.4 persons A,B,C,D r there and they can see the top color of their cards as Red, Green, Red, Blue. No card can have same color on both its sides. all the 4 see thee back color of their cards and say:A: yellow/Green.B:neither blue nor greenC:Blue/yellowD:Blue/Yellow.

Out of these 2 tells truth and two tells lie. tell the color of the backside of each card. (8 marks).A) YELLOW b) YELLOW C) BLUE D) GREENANS WAS THIS ,BUT THE OPTIONS IN QUESTION ARE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT.

Finally in INTERVIEW:

There was one gentleman sitting. I along with my certificates went to him and wished him. Time was 3.00 pm. he asked me to sit down.

He asked me to sign my resume and hand it over to him. I did that.

In infosys application form they ask u about the recent surgery u had, so I had mentioned the one I had in 1994 for appendicitis. So he asked how am I now?A: fine sir. what all was ur surgery about?A:I explained the reason and why problem occurred.

Then he came to my hobbies part. i had mentioned that my hobbies are trekking, taking part in debates, drawing etc. So asked me which are the places u visited for trekking and do u go in a group or some other way?I said that I always go with my family as my father was the captain of mountaineering team in his college. then he asked:-THAT if u go with them than hw it is ur hobby, it is a holiday. I said ,sir it is not important that for fulfilling ur hobbies u should always go in group or some other way, u can do the same in ur family and with them. HE WAS QUITE SATISFIED BY MY ANSWER.

Then he came to debates ie what is the recent topic on which u debated? I said "pollution control". than he said how u control the pollution. So to this I had given a long answer. bla,bla,bla..

Next question to me was why did I joined B.Tech?I said that it was my dream to become an engineer in computer's field so I did that and gave some more explanation.

Then he picked the stapler lying next to him and asked me to give 3 more uses of it except of stapling the papers?1.As a paper weight. he said OK2.for making sounds by pressing it. He said I don't take it as a use. So I said3.for taking the stapled pin out of paper."to this he got quite satisfied and smiled and said ,"this is what I wanted.4.next I said to make designs with pins of stapler on paper.Next he gave me puzzle to solve ,it was a magic square.Then he asked me about my schooling, family etc.

INTERVIEWS NEED CONFIDENCE AND A KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOURSELF AND UR PRESENCE OF MIND.

INFOSYS PAPER - 17 JUL 2005 - HYDERABADThere is a truck, which contains 12 gallons of Fuel that comes for 300miles/hr. The driver has not seen the hole in it, and has taken that truck and drove for 4hrs after which the fuel was lasted. How much fuel was lost during the journey?On a field, 40 cows were put for fed, which can last grass in 40 days. If 30 cows were put, they can empty the field in 60 days. How many days 20 cows will take to last that grass?There are some bees flying on some flowers. One-fifth of the bees flew to the first flower. One-third of the bees flew to second flower. 3 times the difference of the above two flew to the third flower. One bee is flying around two flowers. Totally, how many flowers are there?A case includes six people Mark, Fillip, Graham, Walt, Hunt and Clark who play the roles of Murderer, victim, witness, Judge, Policeman, Hang man, but not in the same order.

i. Policeman took Graham to the place of incident.ii. Mark knows both the victim and murderer.iii. Hunt and Walt never met.iv. Walt is one of the persons who have seen Fillip alive.(Some more such conditions have given.) Who played the roles below in the melodrama? Role Person

Murderer

Policeman

Judge

Witness

On a skating plane, Michel and Jennie are in a distance of a mile on each side of a point. They are going to skate to the direction of each other's. Jennie, having added force with the flow of the wind, skated two and one-half miles faster than Michel and beat her 6 minutes. What are the times taken by both of them?(Some conditions were given, but may not be exactly the same.)

i. A&B, who can speak English, have common language with E as Spanish.ii. Common language for B&E is French.iii. A, C&E can speak Italian.iv. D&E have common language as Portuguese.v. Portuguese is known by at least 3 persons.

There is only one person who knows all the 5 languages, only one who knows 4 languages, only one who knows 3 languages, only one who knows 2 languages and only one who knows exactly one language.

Based on the conditions, 4 questions were given. (Options were also not the same, I've given just for model.)

1. A Knows

i. English, Spanish, Portugueseii. French, English, Spanishiii. French, Italian, Spanish.

2. E knows

i. French, Portugueseii. English, Spanish, Portugueseiii. Italian, Spanish, French

3. B knows

i. Spanish, Frenchii. English, French, Italianiii. Portuguese, English, French, Spanish.

4. C Knows..(and some options)

7. James has come out of Jail after 6 years. When he was punished with imprisonment, his age was 5 times his son's age. Now, his age is 3 times his son's age. What was his age when his son was born?

8. A Boy has taken a short cut on which there is a railway track that goes through a narrow bridge. When the boy covered 7/16th of the track in the bridge, he heard the whistle of the train. Then he ran out of that bridge, when the train came to that bridge. If he were taken actual root, he would have reached the destination on time, rather taking the shortcut and running out of that bridge. If the boy covers 4km/hr, what was the speed of the train?

9. Three persons A, B & C who can be named according to their behavior. They can be named as Sororean, the name that can be given to the one who always wins; Nororean, the name that can be given to the one who always tells the truth; Midrorean, the name that can be given to the one who always lies. Then, given some statements (not exactly the same I've given), based on which to answer the question (we need to write the names that A, B & C can be given in the table given)

A. 1) C has beaten B. 2) C always tells truth. 3) C is the winner.

B. 1) A is the winner. 2) B doesn't tell truth.

C. 1) B beat C. 2) A is the winner.

A B C

10. (one more question was there, I could not remember it)

INFOSYS PAPER - 04 JUL 2005 - CHENNAI

1. There is a circle race going on. One of them says,"1/3 of those in front of me and 3/4 of those behind me, give the total number of children in the race". Then the number of children took part in the race?

Ans : 12

2. In an Isalnd the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to whether a salesman beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native or visitor. He replied that she says "she is a visitor". Whether the salesman is a native or visitor?

Ans : Visitor ( not sure )

3.A man fixed an appointment to meet Mr.X, X asked him to meet two days after the day before the after tomorrow. Today is Friday. What is the appointed day.

Ans: Tuesday.

4. A jewel problem, with some conditions and it is quite easy to solve.

5.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back. When he was half of his age. What is his age.

Ans: 86

6.Jack,Droug and Ann, 3 children had a race when returning from school. Ann takes 28 steps when Droug takes 24 steps, meantime Jack takes 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race?

Ans: Droug

7. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station. The road is straight and both are traveling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5km before the Station. What is the speed of the car?

Ans: 60 kmph

8. A problem of persons and profession. Quite easy one.

9.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24. How many handkerchiefs did she buy?

Ans : 16

10. Complete the series:sa) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___

Ans : a) 73 b) 1 or -1

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 03 JUL 2005 - CHENNAIHi Chetanaites

My test was in Chennai on 3rd july 2005.the result was announced the same day at 4 pm in the evening..with al ur help I got shortlisted after the test..this group really helped me a lot.i downloaded almost al the papers from this group an took printouts.it was really helpful 2 me..almost al the questions ver repeated from previous papers.so try solving al the previous papers.i solved papers from 2003.atleast go thru al the papers from 2004 onwards..starting from the latest papers..To be frank I went thru only

1) shakuntaladevi puzzles to puzzle you,and

2) just 4 important questions from shak devi mor puzz to puzz you which ver mentioned in some mail in this group and

3) R.S agarwal important topics like train,distance an speed,chain rule,average,numbers,boat an streams,pipes an cisterns atc..and

4) analytic part of GRE Barrons(very important 4 solving 8 mark problems)and

5) lots of previous question papers..

I dint go thru george summers.its not necessary.

I'am giving u the questions of ma paper..

The scheme is 1 hr puzzles with no choice and 30 minutes English with choice..for both parts u don't've -ve marks..

In the case of puzzles,even if u know the answers write the steps neately in the rough sheet and prove that u've done and got the answer..

3rd july 2005 at Meenakshi College,Chennai ::

1. There is a merry-go-round race going on. One person says,"1/3 of those in front of me and 3/4 of those behind me, give the total number of children in the race". Then the number of children took part in the race? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans : 13

[ Assume there are x participants in the race.In a round race,no: of participants in front of a person wil b x-1 an that behind him wil b x-1. i.e, 1/3(x-1) + 3/4(x-1) = x ; solving x = 13 ]

2. In an Island the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to know whether a salesman beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native or visitor. He replied "she says she is a visitor". Then he knew that the salesman is a native or visitor. salesman is in which category , native or visitor?

Ans : Native (not sure)

[ Draw table and see ]

3.A man fixed an appointment to meet the manager, Manager asked him to come two days after the day before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. When will the manager expect him? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Monday

[Don't confuse it with Tuesday.the correct answer is Monday]

4. A jem merchant wants to exhibit his 7 precious jewels in an exhibition, Amethist, Diamond, Ruby, Opel ,G, Sapphire and Emarald.He shows either through the left window or through the right window.At a time he shows only 3 out of his 7 jewels he had. some conditions where given like

(i) A should be shown only through the left window.

(ii) D should be shown only through the right window

(iii) E and S ahould be shown together

(iv) R should not be shown though the same window as O or G

(v) Some more conditions...I 4got the remaining..

4 questions where asked on this and 4 options where given like..

[A] Which among the following sets are possibly shown through the left window?

4 options like {a} A,D,G {b} D,O,R {c} A,G,R {d} A,S,E

[B] Which of the following should be shown through the right window if E is shown through the right window?

4 options..

[C] and [D] questions where also there. 8 marks

It was an easy question. (repeated from previous papers)

5.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back.when he was half of his age. What is his age? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: 84 years

[Assume that he lived x years.

X/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + 4 + x/2 = x. Solving x= 84, Same as Question in Shakundala Devi book]

6.Jack,Doug and Ann, 3 children had a running race while returning from school.Mom asked who won the race.Then Jack replied" I wont tell u.I wil give u a clue,When Ann takes 28 steps Doug

takes 24 steps, meantime I take 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Doug

[ Ann steps = 8,16,24,28 --- finished by 3 & half full steps Doug steps=7,14,21,24 --- finished before 3 & half full steps Jack steps= 6,12,18,21 --- finished by 3 & half full steps So Doug won the race ]

7. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station.The road is straight and both are travelling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph.One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the Station. What is the speed of the car?

Ans: 60 mph[Very similar to Shakuntala Devi puzzles to puzzle you problem no: 38 ]

8. A problem of persons and profession. 4 persons were there- Jack, Clove, Smith, Morgan belongs to 4 professions policeman ,Druggist ,Grocer ,Butcher.Who all belongs to which profession?Some conditions where given like..

(i) Clove and Jones drive together to work

(ii) Clove earns more income than Morgan...I 4got the conditions..

Clove : Jones : 8 marks Morgan : Smith :

9.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24. How many handkerchiefs did she buy? (repeated from previous papers)

10. Complete the series :

a) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____(repeated from previous papers)b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___( " " " )

Ans : a) 63 b) 1

-----------------------------------------------------------------------English part is easy but it also has cutoff.so if u r week in tat part jus go thru RS Agarwal Verbal and Non verbal book..els any general English book..it wil b helpful 4 u..

You have 4 options 4 al the questions..read al the options b4 choosing the answer.

1. 1 passage and 4 questions related 2 that..[4 such type,read the questions b4 u read the passage.it'l help u 2 save time]2. some questions based on tenses.3. some questions based on spelling mistakes..very easy part..4. some questions 2 choose the correct meaning of the phrase..5. some fill ups were there with choices

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The very next day I attended the interview..

no technical questions..only HR questions..

1) What is ur father?

2) Say something abt ur college?

3) And abt u?

4) Some differences between Coimbatore and kerala..(I'am a keralite and did BE in coimbatore)

5) Do u've any preferable place 2 work?

6) 2 puzzles...1) To find the missing no: from a 3/3 matrix?

2) 3 bulbs in the 3rd floor and switches in the 1st floor.u r in the 1st floor.u've 2 know which switch belongs 2 which bulb.its not in order.u can go up once an u can switch on once.how wil u do it?

7) The most creative thing u've done?

8) Any questions..?Al the best 4 al the job seekers..Definitely u'l get placed in ur dream company..Hardwork along with prayers wil help u to reach the goal..

INFOSYS PAPER - 03 JUL 2005 - DELHI

Hello Chetanaites

I have given Infosys exam on 3 July at Delhi. there were puzzles for 1hr time and then 30 min for English exam. The puzzles are given in attachment and English exam consist of the questions like:

1. some ques were on passage2. some ques were based on tense in a comp paragraph with diff sentences.3. ques were very simple spellings mistakes4. ques based on phrases5. some fill ups were there.

go through shakuntala Devi book for puzzles. solve atleast 150 ques, u will definitely get 1 or 2 ques. also solve all the previous papers u will get 3-4 ques definitely. so u will have 5 ques in ur hand directly. now in exam u have to solve only 3 ques coz if u correct 8 ques out of 10 then u r selected.

don't waste ur time in summers book coz its of no use.

The Infosys Question paper held on 3 July 2005, Delhi.

1. There is a circle race going on. One of them says,"1/3 of those in front of me and 3/4 of those behind me, give the total number of children in the race". Then the number of children took part in the race?

Ans : 13

2. In an Island the natives lie and visitors speak truth. A man wants to whether a salesman beside him in a bar is a native or visitor. He asked him to ask a woman beside him whether she is a native or visitor. He replied that she says "she is a visitor". Whether the salesman is a native or visitor?

Ans : Visitor

3.A man fixed an appointment to meet Mr.X, X asked him to meet two days after the day before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. Whats the appointed day.

Ans: Monday

4. A jewel problem, with some conditions and it is quite easy to solve.

5.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back. when he was half of his age. What is his age.

Ans: 84 ( It is same as diaphantus problem given in shakuntala devi -2 part)

6.Jack,Dough and Ann, 3 children had a race when returning from school. Ann takes 28 steps when Droug takes 24 steps, meantime Jack takes 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race?

Ans: Dough

7. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station. The road is straight and both are traveling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph. One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the Station. What is the speed of the car?

Ans: 60 mph

8. A problem of persons and profession. 4 persons were there- Jack, Clove, Smith, Morgan. Some conditions were there. I don't remember, but I remember the answer.

Ans: Clove : Druggist Jones: Grocer Morgan : Butcher Smith : Policeman

9.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24. How many handkerchiefs did she buy?

Ans : 16

10. Complete the series :a) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___

Ans : a) 73 b) 1

INFOSYS PAPER - 19 JUN 2005 - DELHI

There were two papers : - Aptitude and English

Aptitude Paper contained 10 questions in 60 mins: While driving through the countryside one day I saw a farmer tending his pigs and ducks in his yard. I was curious to know how many of each he had. I stopped the car and inquired.

Leaning on the stile jovially, he replied, "I have altogether 60 eyes and 86 feet between them".

I drove off calculating in my mind exact dugs and pigs he had. What do you think is the answer ? (4 Marks)

Sol : 13 Pigs and 17 Ducks.

Here is a simple arithmetical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own flowery, poetical language.

If one-fifth of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower, one-third flew to the slandbara, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malati, what was the total number of bees ? (4 Marks)

Sol : The number of bees was 15.

There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80% own a house. What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house ? ( 3 marks)

Sol: 15% (check it).

There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)

Sol : 6 balls.

Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked who broke Annie said, "I didn't do it"; Fanny said "Danny did it"; Danny said "Fanny is lieing"; here two of them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke it ? (3 Marks)

Sol : Annie

4 players were playing a card game. Cards had different colours on both sides. Neither of cards had same colour on both sides. Colours were 2 Red, 2 Blue, 2 Green, 2 Yellow. Cards were lying in front of each player. Now, each player knew the colour on other side of his card. They are required to tell their colour.

Statement given by each of them was :

Annie : Blue or Green Bobby : Neither Blue nor Green Cindy : Blue or Yellow Danny : Blue or Yellow

Colours of cards that are visible to all were Red, Blue, Green, Blue in order of their names. Exactly two of them are telling truth and exactly two of them are lieing. Can you tell the colour on other face of card for each player ? (6 Marks)

Sol : Annie : Yellow (Lieing) Bobby : Yellow (Telling truth) Cindy : Blue (Telling truth) Danny : Green (Lieing)

(I don't remember the exact question, but it was something like this only.) Addy asks Sunny to pick as number of cards from a deck of cards. Sunny picks first card, picks another card by skipping 1 card, then, picks another card by skipping 2, so on skipping one card more each time. Ultimately he finds that he has picked up 5%of the cards. Can u find out the number of cards ? (6 Marks)

Sol : 39 ( answer is correct I don't know the procedure).

One day Harry and I set our watches together. None of us was aware that my watch was getting faster by 2 min per hour and Harry's watch was getting slower by 1 min per hour. After sometime, we discovered that my watch was 1 hr ahead of Harry's watch. Can you find out after how long we noticed this ? (3 Marks)

Sol : 20 hrsFour people, say, A, B, C, D belonging to M, N, O, P group, not in order decided for a picnic. All of them brought salad from their home in their traditional style. Fruits used in salad were Grapes, Banana, Apple, Cherry. All of them used exactly 3 fruits in their salad. None of them used same combination of fruits in their salad. Some clues given are :

A doesn't belong to group M used Apple.B who doesn't belong to group M and O used Apple & Cherry.Person belonging to M group used Apple & Cherry in his salad.C and person belonging to O used Cherry & Grapes both, but person belonging to N used only one of them.

Question goes on like this and finally you need to answer 4 questions based on these clues :

(a) Which of the following fruits is not used by M group ?Apple, Banana, Grapes, Cherry

(b) Which combination was used by B ? Some pairs were given.

I don't remember the full question. It was of 8 marks, (4 parts.) But I was able to solve it.One 4 marks questions was there. I don't remember it but I was able to solve it.

English Paper contained 50 questions of 50 marks in 45 min.

There were 5 sections ;Comprehension : A paragraph was given and questions were asked from it.Finding out correct sentence among two sentences given in each ques.Finding out wrong sentence among 4 sentences given in each question.Fill up the blanks by choosing the suitable very from the options given.Fill up the blanks based on suitable words given in option as :

(a) Eyes like a ParrotHawkPigeonSparrow.

INFOSYS PAPER- 23 MAY 2005 - BANGALOREHi friends

Recently I have attended the infy test which was an on-campus test held in BMS, college of engineering, Bangalore.

well the pattern goes like this..

(1)sachin scored 78 more than Azar, Jadeja scored 56less than Dravid.. something like this some 6 statements were given and it was very easy..

(2)two trains leave two towns towards each other once every hour.. the total journey from one city to other city takes 5 hours.. how many trains will each of these two trains meet on their way..

(3)some problem on triplets. of course it was a medium qn.

(4)an analytical problem, for this refer GRE barrons. it was really tough.

(5)a qn on series completion, it was easy. no need to worry.

(6)a problem on time and dist, quite easy.

(7)a cube painted on all the sides is cut into 27small cubes using six st lines. find no of cubes painted on 3sides, 2 sides, 1side and no sides paintedANS: 8,12,6,1 respectively

(8) a problem from shakuntala devi on the no of the taxi very easy.ANS: 121

I remember only this much from aptitude section.

English was very easy but only if u have prepared a little bit at least.. it requires at least some preparation. It includes communication English, passage for total of 45 qns.

hope this would help some of u at least.

(Paper Submitted By: Dattatrey Sindol)

INFOSYS INTERVIEW - 23 MAY 2005 - HYDERABAD

Hi Chetanaites

I have attended my interview at Hyderabad Infosys. My experience is as follows: interviewer: welcome Naveen

me: good morning sir

interviewer: take your seat

me: thank u sir

interviewer: tell me something about u which is not written in the application like hobbies and interests

me: my hobbies are playing cricket, reading computer magazines and surfing the net and my extra curricular interests are organizing events.

interviewer: what is ur role in cricket

me: I am wicket keeper and opener non-striker batsman

interviewer: whether the skills of wicket keeping r useful for a batsman or bowler (similar to this but in a different way)

me: ( I didn't get the meaning) there should be good conversation between the wicket keeper and bowler

interviewer: (repeated the above one what i have written exactly, then i understood)

me: all the three skills are different, one cannot be useful to improve the other

interviewer: if u r given to talk about one minute then what topic will u choose

me: I want to speak about me

interviewer: I am not interested about u, (gave me some topic regarding Indian market)

me: i don't have any idea

interviewer: "Does a student who has completed the B.Tech should do MBA"

me: (bla bla for 30 seconds)

interviewer: u have spoken not even 30 seconds

me: sorry sir

interviewer: u r given a choice of team member and team leader which one will u choose

me: i will choose team member

interviewer: why so, u said u organized events

me: but i did as a team member, there is nothing like that one is leader and others have to follow his commands, we a group of friends shared our views and implemented them to organize the events

interviewer: u r in a situation where ur team leader gives importance to ur friend in the same team, how would u handle the situation or how would u convince the team to ur ideas

me: i would convey my ideas and the advantages we get through it and if my ideas are really good then everybody will convince

interviewer: how good r u at puzzles?

me: fine

interviewer: do u know car driving

me: yes

interviewer: u r going on a ride for 150 km and after covering 20% then one tyre got punctured and u r changing the tyre, suddenly ur screws fell down into a pound from where u cannot retrieve, u don't cell phone and u won't get lift, then how will handle the situation

me: i will remove one screw from the remaining three wheels and keep for the new one

interviewer: will there be any problem then

me: i don't know

interviewer:( he handed over two nails which are bended and inserted into one another) can u separate them

me: (tried) no sir

interviewer: ok atleast they can be separated or not?

me: (tried again) no sir

interviewer: u r alone in a room which doesn't have anything, one bulb hangs down at the middle which touches ur head when u stand below it, then how can u measure the height or atleast tell ur approach to solve

me: i would to wall and mark my height and then do some thing from there

interviewer: u r given two identical iron bars, how would u identify which one is magnet

me: with the help of a thread

interviewer: no thread

me: first i would take one bar near to other then it gets attracted and then i will turn and try again

interviewer: in both the ways the other bar gets attracted, any questions

me: will there be any bond

interviewer: it is not like bond, u have to sign for a contract of one yr, any more

me: no sirinterviewer: thank u

INFOSYS PAPER & INTERVIEW - 15 MAY 2005 - DELHI

Paper started on 15th at 9:00 am at Tagore International School in Delhi. The duration of the paper was 2.30 hrs. For the first half an hour a form was given to us and they ask us to fill that. It contained detailed information of our education with percentage and rank.

I think that is also considered during the evaluation of written paper.After half an hour, there was written paper for 1 hour having ten puzzles to solve

10 puzzles

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1>( 3 marks)

Sandy's uncle died leaving 1000 rs behind to be distributed among his five nephews. The money is to be divided among the nephews according to their ages. A person gets Rs 20 more than his immediate younger brother.Sandy being the youngest what was his share?

Ans. Rs 160.0

It was quite an easy one.

let sandy's share be xx+x+20+x+40+x+60+x+80=10005x+200=1000x=800/5x=160

2> ( 4 marks)

Rohit was descending from the elavator which was not working. When he had stepped down

7 steps his sir started from the bottom of the elevator and they passed each other and when Rohit had still 4 steps to go down, his sir reached at the top. Taking into consideration that sir's 2 steps took same time as Rohit's one what were the total no of steps?

Ans

22 steps

let no of steps be xspeed=distance/time

Distance covered by Rohit = x-7-4 (7 steps already covered and 4 were still to go) Distance covered by sir = xSpeed of Rohit =sSpeed of sir = 2sTime taken is equal in both the cases so

Time(rohit)=time(sir)(x-7-4) / s = x / 2s2x - 22 = xx=22

3> ( 3 marks)

A vendor who is an ex-mathematician has a number of apples and when he arranges them in rows of 3 he is left with one more, when he arranges them in rows of 5 again he is left with 1 more, Same happens with when he tries to arrange them in rows of 7 and 9 that is 1 apple is left extra.

But when he arranges them in a row of 11 he is left with none. Can u tell me how many apples were there?

Ans :946

the no is a multiple of 3,5,7,9 + a remainder of 1. So3* 5* 7* 9= 945 + 1 =946946 /11= 86so it is divisible by 11 also.

4> ( 4 marks)

A theft was reported in a p[olice station and police detained 3 persons - Tommy, Lee and Andy on the basis of doubt. However everyone said that he did not steal and one among the other two is the thief. Later on police came to know that Tommy was lying. Who was the real thief?

Ans :

Tommy

He gave 2 false statements:

1: he didn't steal though he was the thief.2: one among the other two did it. If he is the thief how can other 2 do it.

It was very easy and infact that created a doubt n everyone cross checked it again n again to be sure as nobody was expecting such a simple puzzle.

5> (6 marks)

The temperature is noted for 5 consecutive days and it is noted that no two days have the same temperature. Moreover the product of all the 5 readings is 12. The difference is noted to the nearest degrees. What were the readings of the temperature?

Ans: -2, -1, 1, 2, 3

Factors of 12: 4*3,6*22*2*3 bt 2 cant b repeated so -2 and to nullify -ve sign -1 is thereso -2 *-1 * 1 * 2 *3 = 12

6> ( 8 marks)

There are five persons in an office in the post of buyer, clerk, footwalker, manager,cashier.

Allen, Benett, Clark, Ewinger, Davis holds the post.

1. Among the 5 two have their lunch time from 11:30- 12:30 and the rest have it in 12:30 -1:302. Mrs Allen and Mrs Benett are sisters.3. Cashier and clerk share their lunch among themselves.4. Two Bachelors share their rooms.5. Davis and Ewinger doesn't face each other from the day Davis reported Ewinger to the Manager when he returned from lunch and found out that Ewinger has already left for lunch before time.

Ans:

I m not sure about the answers bt question was like this

Davis:BuyerClark:CashierAllen: ManagerBenett:ClerkEwinger:FootwalkerLunch 11:30 - 12:30

Two Davis ( from the 5th point he takes lunch in the earlier session)Davis cant be manager lunch 12:30 - 1:30threeEwinger( form the 5th point he takeslunch in 2nd sessionEwinger cant be manager

7> (4marks)

A dice has faces 1 against 6, 3 against 5 and 2 against 4 always. How many such combinations of faces are possible in a dice?

Ans :

24keeping 1 and 6 fixed, we can have two combinations of 6 and 3, and two of 2 and 4 that means four. And interchanging 1 and 6 we can have two more combinations that means with one pair 8 combinations are there : 4*2=8. Similarly with other two also 8 combos. So in all 8*3=24 combos are possible.

8> (4 marks)

A boy's age is 5 times as old as his sister. His father's age is twice to that of his mother who is five times as old as the boy. The sum of all of them equals to that of his grandmother who is celeberating his 81st birthday. How old is the boy?

Ans:

5 years oldlet boys age b xsister's = x/5mother's=5xfatther's=2(5x)grandmother's=8181=x/5+x+5x+10x81*5 = x+5x+ 25x +50x405 = 81xx= 405/81x=5

so boys age is 5 years

9> (6 marks)

It was something like 4persons take part in a race and got different ranks.what weretheir ranks: John, black, Wee, Anthony

Conditions were given like1. If John stood first then wee cant be on 4th position and Anthony at 2nd postion.2. Similarly 4 5 conditions were given

10> (8 marks)

An easy question with 4 subparts

A painter has 7 paintings and he follow certain rules while exhibiting the paintingsNever places x and y in the same exhibitIf y is there z is also thereU is there if and if only w is thereFollowing these constraints 4 questions were asked based on the possible combinations in the exhibit________________________________

After the puzzle round half an hours general english test was there . It was very easy having 45 questions

Result was anounced the same day

Next day in the morning I had my intrview . It was very general hr round .Two persons were there asking general questions.

Questions of intrvw:

1> what is the difference u faced while working in a team during ur training? Don't u think more options and suggestions mean confusion.

2> What if a person in ur team is always talking against u in all matters without listening to ur part?(leave it to team leader)

3> Why 5th gear is provided in new cars?(for speed)

4> My dad was frm army.So they asked wat u like abt army.(uniform, respect, discipline)

5> What all places have u been during the transfers and how did that affect u in ur life and y did u think so.( adjustable and adaptable)

6> They gave me one sequence of numbers and without giving much time asked me the approach I was following to solve that. I was nt able to solve it bt I explained d approach to them.

7> Asked my hobbies .My toughest time in whole life an happiest moment. 8> Questions u want to ask from us.

INFOSYS PAPER - 08 MAY 2005 - CHENNAIHi Chetanaites

I attended Infosys written test on 8-5-2005 at Chennai and got short-listed. I thank Chetana madam a lot for her service. If it was not for this group, I wudnt have cleared the written test. Since I didn't have much time, I prepared only from the previous papers given by the group members now and then and that has really helped. Also, I thank all the people who shared their experience with the group. It gave me the much needed confidence. So thanks once again.

My HR interview was scheduled on 9-5-2005. But since I had my university semester examination on 9th, I couldn't attend it. I conveyed my problem to one of the Infosys staffs at the test centre and was given assurance that my interview would be re-scheduled to sometime around May 22nd.

As for the others, friends, I am attaching the question paper with the answers. I think I got all the 10 puzzles right.

QUESTIONS PAPER - MAY 8, 2005~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1) 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

Approach:Let the total number of participants be XSo, [(x-1)/5 + 5(x-1)/6] = X

2) Today is Saturday. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? On which day the lawyer asks the person to come?

Ans: Wednesday

Approach:Today=SaturdayDay after tomorrow=MondayDay before day after tomorrow=Sunday

Three days after the day before the day after tomorrow=Wednesday

3) A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?

Ans: 570 BC

Approach:

Since the age gets decreased with the years, the years should definitely be in BC and hence u should increment the years as u decrease the age. Therefore if he is 70 years old in 500BC, he would have born on 570 BC!!

4) A man enquires a person about the past 5 days temperatures at 12 noon in that region. The other replies that he doesn't remember the actual figures but there was a different temperature on

each day and that their product gives 12. Assuming the temperature to the nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days?

Ans: -1,-2,1,2,3

Approach:

We know that the smallest two integers that can give a product of 12 is 3*4 which is spilt up as 2*2*3. But no temperature is the same...hence use -2 instead of 2. Now the product becomes -12. Choose the other temperatures such that value of the product does not change but only the sign changes. So naturally, the other two options are -1 and 1.

5) A cube is painted. It is cut into 27 cubes with three straight lines. Find the number of cubes witha. 3 sides paintedb. 2 sides paintedc. 1 side paintedd. no painted sides

Ans: a. 8 (4 corner cubes + 4 corner cubes) b. 12 (center cubes at each EDGE) c. 6 (center cubes at each FACE) d. 1 (cube at the center of the original cube)

Approach

Draw a cube (with front, top and side faces, dont draw the inner lines. that'll confuse) cut it into 27 cubes. thats done by drawing 3 horizontal and 3 vertical lines on the front face of the cube. extend those lines along the other two faces. then COUNT accordingly.

6) A person travels at a speed of 10 mph from one city to another. However while returning as there was not much traffic. He came with a speed of 15mph. what is his average speed?

Ans: 12 mph

Approach:

Let the distance be XDistance/ Time=SpeedTime taken for forward journey=X/10Time taken for return journey=X/15Total time for to and fro journey T =[(X/10)+(X/15)]Total distance covered D=2XHence, average speed= D/T = 12mph

7) There is a peculiar island where people speak a strange language called 'Kubi'.The men always speak truth and a women never say two 2 consecutive truth or false statements, that is, if she says truth statement once then she says false statement next and vice versa. The boys and girls always lie. One day I asked a child "Are you a boy or girl ?" and the child replied in Kubi. Since I didn't know the language, I asked the child's parents what it means. One of the parents said "The child says,"I am a boy"" and the other said that "The child is a girl. He lied".a) Is the child a boy or a girlb) Which parent answered first?

Ans: The child is a girl and father answered first.

Approach:

Take the statement "The child is a girl. He lied". If 'He lied' is true, then the child is a girl is a false. Likewise, is 'He lied' is false, then the child is a girl is true => The second statement was given by the child's mother and hence the father answered first.

Take the statement "The child says,"I am a boy". Since the father always speak the truth, the child should have said that he was a boy. But then the child lies, so he cannot be a boy => the child was a girl. (Confused? Try reasoning it out yourself, u'll understand the logic)

8) There is a couple and they have many children. 7 of them dont eat spinach. 5 ot them dont eat carrot. 6 of them dont eat beans. 4 of them dont eat either spinach or carrot. 2 of them eat neither spinach or beans and 3 of them eat neither carrot or beans. and 1 dont eat spinach, carrot or beans. How many children r there in total?

Ans: 9 children

Approach:

4 of them don't eat spinach or carrot => 4 of them eat beans alone.2 of them don't eat spinach or beans => 2 of them eat carrots alone.3 of then don't eat carrot or beans =>3 of them eat spinach alone.Total children=4+2+3=9

(If some other reasoning approach was chosen, the remaining three statements could be used. But this one is simple and I am sure that the answer is right. Try out the other approaches anyway)

9) There are three tribes in a village. The Sorobean always speaks the truth. The Narobean always lies and the Midorean speaks truth and false alternatively. From the following statements, find out who belongs to which tribe.

A: I am a Sorobean B is a NarobeanB: I am a Sorobean C is a MidoreanC: I am a Sorobean A is a Midorean

Ans: A -Midorean, B-Narobean, C-Sorobean

Approach:

Simple ! Assume one as Sorobean and try to satisfy the conditions. All the above statement get satisfied only for the above answer. I think the statements that I have given are right...am sorry if its wrong but the answer to this puzzle in the Infy paper is the one that I have given above.

10) A flight is scheduled to depart at 12 midnight. A family arrived at the airport 10 hours late and missed the flight. If they had arrived 4 hours earlier, they would have reached the airport 2 hours earlier to the departure of the flight. (Something like that...not sure of the values). What is the present time ?Ans: 4PM

Approach:Let the present time be XIf they r 4 hours early, they arrive at airport at X+(10-4)=X-6.The train leaves at 12 midnight => total duration from morning 12am 10 12 midnight =24 hours.x-6 is 2 hours earlier to 12Pm =>24-(x-6)=2X=16 hours=4PM The paper was very easy compared to all the other papers. Have confidence and clear analytical thinking...u can clear Infy written test.

(Paper Submitted By: Archana)

INFOSYS PAPER - 08 MAY 2005 - BANGALOREhello friends,

yesterday I gave infosys exam in Bangalore. paper was very easy. I was not selected I got only 8/10 correct I think they short-listed candidates getting 10/10 because paper was easy. nearly

1000-1500 people wrote the exam and they selected around 150. I am sending all the questions I remember so that this will be useful for others who r preparing for infy.

1. there is a cycle race going on and 1/5th of the total in front a person and 5/6th of the total behind that person gives up the total number of participants. total how many participants r there? (3 marks)a:31

2. a person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? on which day the lawyer asks the person to come?a: thursday

3. a person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?a: 470

4. a man enquires a person about the past 5 days temperatures in the 12 noon in that region. but the other says that he dont remember the actual figures but there is different temperature on each day and that their multiplication gives 12. assuming the temperature to the nearest degree what are the temperatures on the five days? (5 marks)a: 1,-1,2,-2,3 ( i think this one is correct but please check it out)

5. a cube is painted red and it is divided into 27 equal cubes then how many cubes r there which 3,2,1,0 sides painted red.a:8,12,6,1

6.a person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while returning as there is no much traffic they came with a speed of 15mph what is their average speed?a: 12mph

7. there is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consecutive truth or false statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. a boy and girl also goes in the same way. one day i asked a child "what r u a boy or a girl" however the child replied in their language that i dint understand but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that "kibi is a boy" the other one said that "no kibi is a girl, kibi lied"(8 marks)a: is kibi a boy or a girlb: who ansered first mother or father?ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first.( i think its correct but check it out)

8. there is a couple and they have many children. 7 of them dont eat aloo 5 ot them dont eat carrot 6 of them dont eat beans. 4 of them dont eat neither aloo or carrot 2 of them eat neither aloo or beans 3 of them dont eat neither carrot or beans. and 1 dont eat neither aloo, carrot or beans total how many children r there?a: 8

9. there r three tribes in a village sororean tribe always tell the truth nororean always lie and mororean however truth and false statements alternately however his first statement is uncertain three persons A B C replies in the following wayA: 1. i am soroean 2. B is not mororeanB: 1. i am mororean( not exactly in this order i dont remember correctly) but answer is A: mororean B: nororean C: sororean

10. this one is the sixth question i dont remeber this one but a easy one regarding the flight coming late had it been 6 hours late .. we would have been waiting for only ..(sorry i dont remember)a: 4pm

English paper was for 30 min and a very easy paper no need of any preparation for that.

this is all I can remember hope this one helps u.

(Paper Submitted By: Monica)