. Reasoning 1.Odd man out a)stem b) fruits c) flowers d) tree e) root 2.9, , 15, 18, 21, 24 3.

seating arrangement(2 puzzles) 4.books arrangement (puzzle) 5.flowchart 6.If 3rd day of a month is Monday. Then what is the 5th day after 21st of that month? 7.blood relation question Aptitude Questions 1. one pipe fills in 4 hrs and another in 5hrs when they both work alternately how much time will be taken to fill the tank.2+2/9 2.LCM of 3 nos is 120 which of the following no must not be their HCF a. 8 , b.24 c.12 d.24 and 30 3.two trains from the points A and B moving in opposite direction , at the point they meet the second train travels 120 kms more than the first. The speeds are 50kmph and 60kmph respectively find the distance between A and B? 4. One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60 mts , how much time it will take to reach the top? a. 31 b.33 c.37 d.40 (ans: 37) 5.a number when multiplied by 7/18 instead of 7/8 and got the result 770 less than the actual result , find the original number?1584 6. The volume and the radius of both cone and sphere are equal , then find the ratio of height of the cone to the diameter of the sphere?2 7. A and B started a business with 1500 and 2500 and got a profit 800 rs. Half of the profit is shared equally the remaining is shared according to their investment. Find their profits.

350,450 8. The difference between the simple interest and compound interest for 2 years? A:B =2:3 and B:C=5:6 then find A:B:C15.15.18 9. an amount of 64 Rs has to become 125 in 3 years in compound interest , find the rate of interest? 10. a similar to the above problem find the time(rate of interest is given) 11. the prime no., which is greater than 6 when divide by 6 will always gives the remainder ans: 1 or 5 12.Length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and breadth is decreased by 25% what is the difference in the area1/8 lb 13. Mr X position in a class is 13th from first and 17th from last, and 8th from the first and 13th from last in passed candidates list, then how many candidates failed in the exam. 9 failed S 14. Two successive discounts of 20% and 15% is equal to a net discount of ..32 15. A two digit number is 4 times to its sum of digits , when 9 is added to the number, the digits will get reversed. Then what is that number? Ans: 12 16. The length of the following rectangle is 4a and its breadth is 2a. Radius of the two circles is a. Then find the ratio of total area of the rectangle to the area not covered by the two circles with in the rectangle4.65 17. A person starts with the speed of u/1 kmph and returns with the speed of u/2 kmph, what is his average speed. 18. A cistern will be filled in 9 hrs, but becoz of an outlet it is filled in 10 hrs, if the cistern is filled, then how much time the outlet takes to empty the cistern. 19. In a right angled triangle ABC angle B = 90 , BM is the median to AC , then AB2 + BC2 (in terms of BM) 20. Three circles with same radius r are drawn with centres as three vertices of a triangle. What is the sum of areas of the intersections of these circles with the triangle.

21. X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in - days. 22. The compound interest for first and second years is 200 and 220 on a certain amount. Find the sum. 23. Marked price of a commodity is 35% above the cost price. If he gives a discount of 15%, how much he gains on the deal. 24. 5 mangoes + 4 oranges = 7 mangoes + 1 orange. Find the ratio of mango to orange. 25. A man starts a work, after some time some one joins him..like this 26. Food is sufficient for 100men for 60days. For how many days the food is sufficient for 500men? 27. If 8men 8hrs per day works for 8days get 45/- then how many men required if the work is 5hrs per day for10days they get 60/-? 28. A person sold an item at a profit of 12% .If he sold it at a loss of 12% then he would get Rs.6/- less. What is the cost price? 29. (1 1/2 /((3/4-2/5 )/(2/3+4/5))) * ((2 3/4 /((4/3-2/5 )/(5/3+6/5))) (Numbers different) 30. Avg age of X number of adults in a class is 30yrs. If 12 new adults with avg age of 32 joined with them then the avg age increases by one. Find X? 31. A sphere of radius 2cms is dropped into a cylinder of radius 4 cms containing water upto certain level. The raise in the water level is (not sure) 32. find the average of reciprocals of x and y : 33. In a school there are 1000 students in the year 1999. The number of students increased by 20% in the year 2000. And it is increased by 15% in the year 2001. But it is decreased by 18% in 2002. Then what is the strength in 2002.

. Maximum numbers that can be formed using all the 4 digits 6 4 8 1 without repetition and which is divisible by 9.( ans none) 2. Find the number of sides of a regular convex polygon whose angle is 40degrees. 3. a+b+c=0, then roots of ax^2+bx+c=0 is1.imag 2.real 3.coincidental 4.zero 4. Difference b/w the compound interest and simple interest for Rs.2500for 2 years is given

. find the rate of interest. 5. There was one more question on S.I and C. 6. The minimum number by which 60 is to be multiplied to generate a square.ans 15 7. A monkey climbs 6 mts and falls 3mts in alternate minutes. Then time taken to climb a tree 60metres high? a. 35 b.37 c.32 d.34 (think the answer is 37) 8. (This was the second last question) A bucket contains z drops. and it leaks x drops in t secs.then the time required to empty the bucket(in minutes)? 9. 6 pipes fill or empty the cistern. find the number of emptying pipes if it takes 18hrs to fill and 18 hrs to empty. (dont remember the question exactly) 10. The largest no: which is a factor of 1080 and 729 11 No: of spheres of radius 1 that can be got from sphere of radius (or diameter dont recall) 8 a.512 12. (think the last but three question) Traveling at 3/4th the speed a man is 20 minutes later then speed is?? 13. There are 6 keys and 6 locks. then number of combinations to be tried out to get the actual solution a. 5^6 b.6^5 (dont remember the rest) 14. Choosing 2 people out of 10 in how many combinations can a particular person(some name) be always included. 15. From 6 white balls and 7 black balls probability that 2 balls drawn at random are of the same color? 16. If a sales man gets successive gain of 15% and 20% then his actual gain? ans. 38 17. A string of pearls such that 1/3 is lost and of that 1/4th is missing, remaining is 20 then actual number of pearls? ans. 40 18 A man gets a gain of x%. but if he had sold at twice the cost price, what will be his gain?(question not sure) a. 2x b.200-2x c.100+x (not sure of the options) 19. A clock was 7mts behind the actual time on 3 p.m. on Wednesday and 8 mts ahead of actual time on (not sure) 4 p.m. friday. when will it show the correct time? 20. Boat moves upstream in 6 hrs and covers the same distance downstream in 5 hrs. then speed of a raft floating?(accuracy of question not sure) 21. (this was the last question) no idea what it stands for. Some kind of notation like S(P(M((D(a,b),2))):P(M(S(D(a,b),..options were 1. ab 2.(a-b)^2 3.(a+b)^2 4.none 22. If x men working x hrs per day can do x units of work in x days, then y men working y hrs/day would be able to complete how many units of work i y days? ans. y^3/x^2 (question in R.S. Agarwal) 23 ( this was a question in the first page of the section II booklet) a cone with radius and height . a hemisphere covers the cone such that base of hemisphere meets that of the cone. then the enclose volume..(R.S. Agarwal consists of similar questions)

24. There was one more question on volume and surface area 25. 1 Rs, 50 ps , 25 ps coins are in the ratio , then the number of 50 ps coins if they sum to Rs. (similar question in R.S.Agarwal) 26. There was one more question on coins i.e. about getting a change of 10ps and 25 coins for Rs.(how many possible combinations or so possible) 27. x/y+y/x=40/21(dont remember the exact value, believe this is the one) find x and y there were 2 questions on train and one was like: 28. A goods train starts and after 2 hrs a passenger train at 4km/hr starts and overtakes the goods train after 4 hrs, then the speed of goods train? 29. 15hrs of boys work=6 hrs of womens work. 3/5 of the work is done by boys and women. How much time would be the question) 32. There was one question on triangle 33. A figure was given a square with four corners shaded and asked to find the area of the shaded portion. ie area of square-area of the regular octagon..

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1. find out the three digit number whose second digit is equal to the sum of first digit and third digit and when first digit and second digit are exchanged it gives a difference of 99 from the origional number. ans: 253 2.10 years ago the father was 7times older than his son.2 years hence 2 times the fathers age will be 5 times the sons age.what are there present age. ans:38,14 3.sum of the age of mother and daughter is 63...... ans: 43 4.3 prizes r being distributed to 10 persons.a person can take any number of prizes.how many ways it can be done? 5. a person deposites his 20000 rs at 5% and 4% and at the end he gains 918 rs.find out the money he deposited on these persentages. 6.35 persons likes horror movies,25 persons like romantic movies,5 don't like any of them.how many do see both ? 7.if there r 21 spokes in a wheel then how many spaces r there in

between. 8.two flow charts are given(12 questions r based on this)second flow chart is easier. 9.some conditions are given u can form a family tree with the help of this. ans: 4 male members,three children etc.. 10. u have to find out the shaded area(remeber 14 cm) ans: 14*14-22/7(7)^2 11. u have to find area of shaded region(remember 144 or 142cm) ans: if it is 144 (72*72)+2(22/7)(36)^2 square circles 12: two questions are given on relations.perhaps first one is wrong ans: (second one) niece 13. paw:cat::hoof: ? ans: horse 14. lion:cub::colt: ? ans:stallion 15:errat:books::flaw: ? a) manuscript b)speech c)metal d).... 16. ling:lukewarm:: a)cold:freeze b)cold:hot c)freezing:cold d) 16.A person deposits Rs.4000(i am not sure of number) at the rate of 3.75% per annum.After six months,he withdrew Rs.2000(for example).He withdrew remaining at the end of one year.Howmuch did he earn? 17.milk and water are mixed in the rario 5:4(for example) and they form 20 litres, out of which 4 litres are removed and 5 litres of milk is added.what is the ratio now? 18.In a class 75% of students pass in maths and 65% in science and 15% fail in both.howmany students passes in both?

Out of 30 people, 5(including me) cleared the written test. The test pattern was similar to that of previous papers(GRE/GMAT pattern). ************************************************************ *********** Part 1: (Verbal/English, 25 Q - 15 min) This was cool. All Antonyms, Analogies got repeated from previous papers. Antonyms: 1)equanimity.calmness 2)sequester isolate 3)apathetic not interested 4)dislodge remove from fixed position 5)sedate calm Analogies: 1)celeberate:marriage:: a. window:bedroom b. lument:barevemant c. pot:pan d. face:penalty 2)neglegent:requirement:: remises:duty cognet:argument easy:hard careful:position 3)Germ:disease:: man:women doctor:medicine war:destrustion shopkeeper:goods 4)bouquet:flower:: skin:body chain:link product:factory page:book 5)letter:word:: club:people page:book product:factory picture:paper Bottom Line: Time is sufficient. No special preparation needed (provided u r good enough) Just gaze thru previous papers' antonyms & analogies Sentence completion & fill ups are easy. Instead of mugging up antonyms, I personally recommend u to read Synonyms, so that u can easily locate their opposites. (U can refer TCS papers also if needed)

************************************************************ ************ Part 2: (Quantitative Aptitude, 45 Q - 30 min) This was tough. Repeated Q's: One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60 mts , how much time it will take to reach the top? a. 31 b.33 c.37 d.40 (ans: 37) X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in - - - - days. (ans: y^3/x^2) successive discounts problem sqrt(12 + sqrt(12) + ((sqrt(12) +......................infinity) = ? (ans: 4) 6 locks & 6 keys (permutation) problem Other Q's: consider a square ABCD, in which E is the mid-point of BC & F is that of CD. Now find the ratio of area of triangle AEF to the area of square ABCD. (ans: 3/8) Do not remember rest of the them. Bottom Line: This section makes the difference. Special preparation is mandatory. Try to solve problems of every type from R.S. Agarwal Leave complex Q's & proceed forward. ************************************************************ ************ Part 3: (Reasoning, 30 Q - 30 min) This was 50 - 50 I confidently solved around 16 of them. 1)There are 4 buses - A,B,C,D. There are 220 students in a school. A can carry 60 students. B can carry 50 students. C can carry 40 students. D

can carry 35 students Cost of travelling in the 4 buses were given, A - 160 , B- 140, C- 125 , D- 95 (not exact values) a) Find the bus combinations, so that all the students can be carried in the minimum cost (One can use any no. of buses of a particular type) b) Find the min. no. of buses required to carry all students etc. 2) ( not exact ) P speakes Italian & French Q speakes Spanish & English R speakes Italian & German S speakes Spanish & French T speakes English & German etc. Find a) Mediator between P & Q b) Most popular language etc 3) All P's are Q's some R's are not C's Some C's are P's & so on ( 5 Q's based on these facts) 4) One Logical Venn diagram problem 5) One simple flow chart

1.In a right angled isosceles triangle ABC,where angle B = 90 degrees,BM is the median on AC,then 1.AB2+BC2=4BM2 2.AB2+BC2=2BM2ans 3.AB2+BC2=BM2 4.AB2+BC2=7BM2

2.A sum of money put at compound interest amounts to Rs.2205 in 2 years and to Rs.2315.25 in 3 years.Find the rate of interest per annum is : 1.10% 2.5%ans 3.8% 4.6% 5.None of these. 3.If A:B=2:3 and B:C=5:6 then A:B:C is : 1. 15:10:18 2. 10:18:15 3. 18:15:10 4. 10:15:18ans 4.The difference between simple interest and compound interest on Rs.P at R% p.a in 2 years is : 1. PR/100 2. 2PR/100 3. PR2/100 4. PR2/(100)2 5.The rate at which Rs.64 will amount to Rs.125 in 3 years at compound interest will be : 1. 15% 2. 25%ans 3. 20% 4. 50% 8. A shopkeeper marks up his goods to gain 35%.But he allows 10% discount for cash payment. His profit on the cash transaction therefore in percentage is: 1.13 2.21 ans 3.25 4.31 5.none 9.Fine the positive value of n when the sum of 5+7+9+..=140. 1. 10ans 2. 8 3. 6 4. 5

10. The average age of an adult class is 30 years. 12 new students with an average age of 32 years join the class, thereby increasing the average age of the class by one year. The original strength of the class was: 1. 8 2. 10 3. 12 4. 30 11.The mean of 100 observations was calculated as 40. If it was found later that one of the observations was mis-read as 83 instead of 53, the correct mean is : 1. 39.0 2. 39.7 3. 40.3 4. 42.7 12. The average of the reciprocals of x and y is : 1. 2xy/(x+y) 2. 2(x+y)/xy 3. (x+y)/(2xy) 4. (x+y)/(x-y) 13. If the length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and its breadth is decreased by 25% what is the percentage change in its area: 1. 12.5% increase 2. 10% increase 3. 25% increase 4. 20% decrease 14. A cone and a sphere have equal radii and equal volumes. The ratio of the diameter of the sphere to the height of the cone is : 1. 3:1 2. 1:3 3. 6:1 4. 1:2 15. Three equal circles are described with vertices of the triangle as centers. If the radius of each circle is r, the sum of areas of the portions of the circles intercepted in a triangle is : 1. 2*pi*r*r 2. (3/2)*pi*r*r

3. pi*r*r 4. (1/2)*pi*r*r 16. A candidate was asked to find 7/8 of a positive number. He found 7/18th of the same by mistake. If his answer was 770 less than the correct one, then the original given number was: 1. 1260 2. 6160 3. 1548 4. none 17. The remainder obtained when any prime number, greater than 6, is divided by 6 must be: 1. either 1 or 2 2. either 1 or 3 3. either 1 or 5 4. either 3 or 5 18. A certain number of 2 digits, is four times the sum of its digits. If 9 were added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number: 1. 15 2. 12 3. 21 4. 51 19. The majority against a certain motion is equal to 8% of the total number of voting. If 14 of those who voted against it had voted for it, the motion would have been carried by 4 votes. Find the number voting for and against: 1. for:138,against:162 2. for:160,against:185 3. for:130,against:170 4. for:162,against:138 20. A bus traveled from station A to station B at a speed of u/1 kmph and traveled back from B to A at u/2 kmph. What is the average speed of the bus: 1. (1/u/1 + 1/u/2)/2 2. (u/1 + u/2)/2 3.2u/1.u/2/(u/1+u/2) 4. 2u/1.u/2 /(u/1-u/2) 21. The cost price of an article, which on being sold at a gain of 12% yield RS.6 more than when it is sold at a loss of 12%, is:

1. Rs:24 2. Rs:25 3. Rs:30 4. Rs:20 22. The price of sugar increases by 32%. A family reduces its consumption so that the expenditure of the sugar is up only by 10%. If the total consumption of the sugar before the price-rise was 10 Kg per month, then the consumption of sugar per month at present (in Kg) is: 1. 8 1/3 2. 8 3. 8 4. 9 23. An article is sold at 12.5% profit. If it had been sold at 5% loss, the selling price would have been Rs.9.80 less. The cost price of the article is: 1. Rs.58 2. Rs.56 3. Rs.54 4. Rs.46 24. Two friends invested Rs.1500 and Rs.2500 in a business. They earned a profit of Rs.800. one half of the profit was divided equally between them and other half was divided in proportion of their capitals. How much did each of them receive? 1. Rs.370 and Rs.430 2. Rs.350 and Rs.450 3. Rs.360 and Rs.440 4. Rs.375 and Rs.425 25. ABCD is a squared, E is the mid-point of BC and F is the mid-point of CD. The ratio of the area of triangle AEF to the area of the square ABCD is: 1. 1:4 2. 1:3 3. 3:8 4. 1:2 26. ABC is an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle. P is any point on the minor arc BC. Then: 1. PA < (PB+PC) 2. PA > (PB+PC)

3. PA = PB+PC 4. PA = (PB+PC) 27. In a triangle ABC , a line XY is drawn parallel to BC meeting AB in X and AC in Y. The area of the triangle AXY is half of the area of the triangle ABC.XY divides AB in the ratio of : 1. 1 : root2 2. root2 : (root2-1) 3. 1 : (root2-1) 4. root2 : root3 28.Five mangoes and four oranges cost as much as three mangoes and seven oranges.What is the ratio of the cost of one mango to the cost of one orange? 1. 4:3 2. 1:3 3. 3:2 4. 5:2 29.If x men working x hours a day for x days produce x articles, then the number of articles produced by y men working y hours a day for y days is : 1.(x*x*x)/(y*y*y) 2. (x*x)/(y*y*y) 3. (y*y*y)/(x*x) 4. (x*x)/(y*y) 30. x,y,z,u are real numbers such that x:y = y:z=z:u and x:u =64:27.The value of x:z is : 1. 64:27 2. 16:9 3. 4:3 4. 3:4 31.A man borrowed Rs.1000 at 5% per annum at simple interest.Each year he pays Rs.200 for interest and part of debt.The amount that is left to be paid back in the end of 3 years is : 1.Rs.850.00ans 2. Rs.826.13 3. Rs.692.50 4. Rs.527.13 32.A monkey climbing up a pole ascends 6 meters and slips 3 meters in alternate minutes.This way he continues climbing the pole.If the pole is 60meters height,how long will it take the monkey to reach the top:

1. 31 minutes 2. 33 minutes 3. 35 minutes 4. 37 minutes.ans 33.Two trains start from stations A and B and travels towards each other at speeds of 50km/hour and 60km/hour respectively.At time of their meeting the second train has traveled 120km more than the first.The distance between A and B is: 1. 990km 2. 1200km 3. 1320kmans 4. 1440km 34.A and B can do a piece of work in 6 2/3 and 5 days respectively.they work together for 2 days and then A leaves.In how many days after that will B complete the work alone? 1. 1 ans 2. 2 3. 3 days 4. 7 days 35.Two pipes A and B can fill a tank in 4 hours and 5 hours respectively.If they are turned up alternatively for one hour each,then time taken to fill the tank is: 1. 2 hrs 15minsans 2. 4 hrs 24mins 3. 5 hrs 4. 3 hrs 36.An electric device makes a beep after 60 seconds and an another one after 62 seconds.They beeped together at 10.00a.m.Again they will beep at 1. 10.30 hrs 2. 10.31 hrs 3. 10.59 hrs 4. 11.00 hrs 37. A man has Rs.210 in coins alone.The coins consist of one rupee. 50p and 25p whose numbers from a ratio of 5 : 6 : 8 respectively.How many coins are there in the 50pdenomination? 1. 210 2. 126ans 3. 105 4. 168

38.The L.C.M of three different numbers is 120. Which of the following cannot be their H.C.F? 1. 8ans 2. 12 3. 24 4. 30 and 24. 39.A sphere of radius 2 cm is put into water contained in a cylinder of radius 4 cm.If the sphere is completely immersed in the water, the water level in the cylinder rises by : 1. 2cm 2. 1/3 cm 3. cm 4. 2/3 cm 40.The number of students in a school kept changing every year.In the year 1999, the total number of students in the school was 1000.In the year 2000,it is increased by 20%.In 2001,it again increased by 20%, but in 2002,it decreased by 5%.Find the number of students in the school at the end of year 2002 : 1. 1300 2.1368 3. 1400 4. 1638 41.A stock of rice is enough for 100 men for 60 days.How long will the same stocks of rice last for 500 men: 1. 9 2. 5 3. 6 4. 10 42.If on burning 6 gas ovens for 6 hrs per day, an amount of Rs.45 is spent for 8 days, then by spending Rs.60 how many gas ovens can be burnt 5 hrs per day for 10 days? 1. 8 2. 16 3. 12 4. 6 5. 18 43.The cistern is filled in 9 hours and it takes 10 hours when there is a leak in its bottom.If the cistern is full,in what time shall the leak empty it? 1.90 hours

2.94 hours 3.92 hours 4.91 hours 5.none of these. 44.A sum of money yields at compound interest Rs.200 and Rs.220 at the end of first and second year respectively.the rate % is : 1. 20 2. 15 3. 10 4. 5 5. 11 45.In what time will a man receive Rs.85 as compound interest on Rs.320 at 12 % per annum , compounded annually? 1. 4 years 2. 2 years 3. 2 years 4. 5 years 5. 3 years 1 celeberate:marriage:: a. window:bedroom b. lument:barevemant c. pot:pan d. face:penalty 2. negligent:requirement:: remises:duty cognet:argument easy:hard careful:position 3 Germ:disease:: man:women doctor:medicine war:destrustion shopkeeper:goods 4 bouquet:flower:: skin:body chain:link product:factory page:book 5.letter:word:: club:people page:book product:factory picture:paper