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The written tests are based on critical reasoning type questions. Word -based problems, verbal ability, pattern recognition and pattern matching, series type, arithematic-based (including functions and permutations) are usually asked. -------------------------------------------------------------This is only a sample paper. We are not providing you with all the questions - just some questions to give you a general idea of the test pattern. SECTION-1: Find the next in the sequence: 1. BC CE EG GK ? a)KN b)KU c)KM d)None 2. AA AB BC CE? a)EG b)EH c)EI d)None 3. AB EF JK QR? a)YZ b)ZA c)AB d)None 4.ACD EGL IKT MOB? a)QST b)QSZ c)QSY d)None 5.AC CG GO OE? a)EJ b)EI c)EL d)None 6.AE BH CM DU? a)EH b)EZ c) EB d)None

7. AD DP PL LV a)VS b)VK c)VI d)None 8. SE QU EN TI? a)CN b)BM c)AI or AZ d)None SECTION-II: Find the values for the following problem: f(X)= 2X-1 + f(X-1) if X is not equal to zero and if f(X=0)=0 9. Value of f(5) a)15 b)24 c)22 d)None 10. Value of f(f(2)) 11. Value of f(16)- f(15) 12. Value of f(16)+f(15)-480 13. If f(f(X))=81 then the value of X=? 14. If f(X)=4f(X-1) then the value of X=? 15.If f(X)= f(X-1)+f(X-2) for X>1 then X= ? 16. If f(X)-f(X-1)=f(X-8) for X>5 then X=

SECTION -III: In the following questions a 'word' is given which may not have any meaning.Find differnet possible words or palindromes for the word as per the question. For the following find no of distinct words that can be formed. 17. TYGHHTT a).420 b)1540 c)840 d)None 18. TYGHHTY 19. TYGHHTT 20. TYGHHTT 21. TYGHASD 22. TYGHHTY Find the number of possible palindromes for following 23. TYGHHTY 24. TYHHHTYH. SECTION-IV: 25 to 32 are based on the figures. You have to analyse them and find the odd one out. Five figures will be given out of which one is not correct. Refer R.S Agarwal's book on Analytical Reasoning & TMHs Quantitative ability book by Edgar Thorpe. SECTION -V: For following first find out the anagram and then note the corresponding meaning. 33.TABLET

Hint: anagram means first u arrange the letters in correct order like TABLET===BATTLE . So ans is FIGHT 34.RUGGED 35.GORE. 36.STASSI. For all above choices are. a)resentment b)fight c)help d)monster 37. ENFOLD 38. LAMB 39. RECEDE. 40. PLEASE. For all the above 4 choices are same a)cuddle b)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment. SECTION I - 8 questions based on series. 1. These questions involve interchange of letters in a word at particular locations and also interchanging letters adjacent to those particular locations.Certain other conditions may also be given For eg. Let the word be ABBAABA If we apply 25 on this, it means we have to interchange the letters at positions 2 and 5, also we have to change the letters adjacent to positions 2 and 5 i.e.from A to B and B to A. A B B A A B after Step 1 i.e interchange of 2 and 5 becomes AABABB Now change adjacent elements of 2 and 5...finally answer becomes Ans: B A A B B A

Questions 1-5 are based on the pattern with changed numbers as described above Questions 6-8 are of the following type To get AAABBD from BBBAAA what number should be applied:a) 25 b) 34 c) 25 & 34 d) none SECTION II 1. Given the following functions (1) f(n a b c ) = ac if n=1 (2) f(n a b c) = f( n-1 a c b) + f( 1 a b c) + f( n-1 b a c ) if n > 1 Then what is the value f( 2 a b c ) = ? Ans: f( 2 a c b ) = ab + ac + bc. 2. Similar question on functions. 3. [ Based on the function in the first question] For the function f( 4 a b c ) the number of terms is...? Hint f( 4 a b c ) = f( 3 a c b ) + f( 1 a b c ) + f( 3 b a c ) etc. 4. What is the value of the function f( 5 a b c ) = ? SECTION III Permutations and Combinations. 8 Questions. 1. r = number of flags;n = number of poles; Any number of flags can be accommodated on any single pole. 1)r=5,n=5 The no. of ways the flags can be arranged ? Questions 2-5 are based on the above pattern 6. r = 5 n = 3 . If first pole has 2 flags, third pole has 1 flag

How many ways can the remaining be arranged? Questions 7.& 8. are similar to Question 6. SECTION IV Question consisting of figures - Pattern-matching type. Refer R.S Agarwal's book on Analytical Reasoning & TMHs Quantitative ability book by Edgar Thorpe.

SECTION V In this section first part of compound word is given. Select meaning of the second part from the choice given: 1. Swan 2. Swans 3. Fool 4. Fools 5. Stare 6. Lady For all above 4 choices are given..... Eg. Swan ---> Swansong (compound word) a) category b) music c) television d) none Ans: Swansong is compound word. But song is not given as an option. so (b) music is the answer. Analogies 1. slur : speech : : smudge :? Ans. writing 2. epaulet : shoulder : : ring :? Ans.finger 3. vernacular : place : : fingerprint : ? Ans.identical

Opposites Q. corpulent Ans: emaciated Q. officious Ans: pragmate

Q. dextrous Ans: clumsy The following sentences are broken into 4 sectionsA, B, C, D Choose the part which has a mistake Mark (E) if you find no mistake. Q.A)psychologists point out that B)there are human processes C)which does not involve D) the use of words Ans. (C) which does not involve (do) Q.A)jack ordered for B)two plates of chicken C)and a glass D)of water Ans. (A)jack ordered for The following is a group of questions is based on a passage or a set of conditions for each question. Select the best answer choice given. (i). If it is fobidden by law if the object of agreement is the doing of an act, that is forbidden by law the agreement is void. (ii). If it is of the nature that,it would defeat the provision of any law is the agreement is void.if the object of agreement is such that thing got directly forbidden by law it would defeat the provision of statuary law. (iii). If the object of agreement is fraddulent it is void. (iv). An object of agreement is void if it involves or implies to the personnal property of another. (v). An object of agreement is void where the constant regards as ignored. (vi). An object of agreement is void where the constant regards is as opposed to public policy. Q. An algorithm follws a six step process za,zb,zc,zd,ze,zf, it is governed by the following

(i) zd should follow ze (ii) the first may be za,zd or zf (iii) zb and zc have to be performed after zd (iv) zc must be immediately after zb Q. If za is the first set zd must be a) 3rd b) 5th c) 2nd d) 4th Q. If zb must follow za then za can be a) third or fourth b) first or second c) can not be third d) fouth or fifth e) none Q. If ze is third term the number of different operations possible are The following questions are based on the given statements Ravi plants six seperate saplings -- x,y,z,w,u,v in rows no 1 to 6 ,according to the follwing conditions He must plant x before y and u He must plant y and w The third has to be z Q. Which of the following is acceptable a) xuywzv b) xvzyuw c) zuyxwv d) zvxuwy e) wyzuvx Q. Which of the following is true a) z before v b) z before x c) w before u d) y before u e) x before w Q. If he plants v first, then which can be planted second

a) x b) y c) z d) w e) u Q. Which of the following describes a correct combination of sapling and row? a) x,3 b) y,6 c) z,1 d) w,2 e) u,6 Q. If he plants b 6th which would be planted first and second a) x and w b) x and y c)y and x d)w and z e) w and u Q. If he plants w before u and after v he should plant w at a) first b) second c) fourth d) fifth e) sixth Q. At a certain moment a watch shows 2 min lag although it is running fast. If it showed a 3 min lag at that moment, but also gains by 1/2 min more a day than its current speed it would show the true time one day sooner than it usually does. How many mins does the watch gain per day. a).2 b).5 c).6 d).4 e).75 Q. In 400m race A gives B a start of 7 sec and beats him by 24 sec.

In another race A beats B by 10 sec.the speeds are in the ratio a)8:7 b)7:6 c)10:8 d)6:8 e)12:10 Q. 3x+4y=10 x3 + y3=6 What is the minimum value of 3x+11y=? Q. There are 600 tennis players 4% wear wrist band on one wrist Of the remaining, 25% wear wrist bands on both hands How many players don't wear a wrist band? Ans. 432 Q. Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively. How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg, given that the quntities of band c are equal a)70,15,15 b)50,25,25 c)60,20,20 d)40,30,30 Ans. (b) Q. Two distinct no's are taken from 1,2,3,4......28 Find the probability that their sum is less than 13

Section - I: Find the next in the sequence:

b)KU b)EH b)ZA 1.BC CE EG GK ? c)KM d)None 2.AA AB BC CE? c)EI d)None 3.AB EF JK QR ? c)AB d)None a)KN a)EG a)YZ

In the following questions a 'word' is given which may not have any meaning. Find different possible words or palindromes for the word as per the question.
17. TYGHHTT d)None 18. TYGHHTY 19. TYGHHTT 20. TYGHHTT 21. TYGHASD 22. TYGHHTY Find the number of possible palindromes for the following: 23. TYGHHTY a)VS a)CN 24. TYHHHTYH a).420 b)1540 c)840

4.ACD EGL IKT MOB? a)QST b)QSZ c)QSY d)None b)EI b)EZ b)VK b)BM 5.AC CG GO OE? c)EL d)None 6.AE BH CM DU? c)EB d)None 7.AD DP PL LV c)VI d)None 8.SE QU EN TI? c)AI or AZ d)None a)EJ a)EH

Section - IV: Question Numbers from 25 to 32 are based on the figures. You have to analyse them and find the odd one out. Five figures will be given out of which one is NOT correct. Refer R.S Agarwal's book on "Analytical Reasoning". SECTION -V: For following first find out the anagram and then note the corresponding meaning:
33.TABLET a)resentment b)fight c)help d)monster HINT: "Anagram" means first u arrange the letters in correct order like TABLET = BATTLE. So the answer is: FIGHT 34.RUGGED c)help 35.GORE c)help 36.STASSI c)help a)resentment b)fight d)monster a)resentment b)fight d)monster a)resentment b)fight d)monster

Section - II: Find the values for the following Problem:

f(X)= 2X-1 + f(X-1) if X is not equal to zero and if f(X=0)=0 9. Value of f(5) d)None 10. Value of f(f(2)) 11. Value of f(16)- f(15) 12. Value of f(16)+f(15)-480 13. If f(f(X))=81 then the value of X=? 14. If f(X)=4f(X-1) then the value of X=? 15. If f(X)= f(X-1)+f(X-2) for X>1 then X=? 16. If f(X)-f(X-1)=f(X-8) for X>5 then X=?

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Section - III:

37.ENFOLD a)cuddle b)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment 38.LAMB a)cuddle b)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment 39.RECEDE a)cuddle b)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment 40.PLEASE a)cuddle b)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment

a)EJ b)EI c)EL d)None 6.AE BH CM DU? a)EH b)EZ c) EB d)None 7. AD DP PL LV a)VS b)VK c)VI d)None 8. SE QU EN TI?

SECTION-1: Find the next in the sequence: 1. BC CE EG GK ? a)KN b)KU c)KM d)None 2. AA AB BC CE? a)EG b)EH c)EI d)None 3. AB EF JK QR ? a)YZ b)ZA c)AB d)None 4.ACD EGL IKT MOB? a)QST b)QSZ c)QSY d)None 5.AC CG GO OE?

a)CN b)BM c)AI or AZ d)None

SECTION-II: Find the values for the following problem: f(X)= 2X-1 + f(X-1) if X is not equal to zeroandiff(X=0)=0 9. Value of f(5) a)15 b)24 c)22 d)None 10. Value of f(f(2)) 11. Value of f(16)- f(15)

12. Value of f(16)+f(15)-480 13. If f(f(X))=81 then the value of X=?

23. TYGHHTY 24. TYHHHTYH. SECTION-IV:

14. If f(X)=4f(X-1) then the value of X=? 15.If f(X)= f(X-1)+f(X-2) for X>1 then X= ? 16. If f(X)-f(X-1)=f(X-8) for X>5 then X=

25 to 32 are based on the figures. You have to analyse them and find the odd one out. Five figures will be given out of which one is not correct. Refer R.S Agarwal's book on Analytical Reasoning & TMHs Quantitative ability book by Edgar Thorpe. SECTION -V:

SECTION -III: In the following questions a 'word' is given which may not have any meaning.Find differnet possible words or palindromes for the word as per the question. For the following find no of distinct words that can be formed. 17. TYGHHTT a).420 b)1540 c)840 d)None 18. TYGHHTY 19. TYGHHTT 20. TYGHHTT 21. TYGHASD 22. TYGHHTY Find the number of possible palindromes for following 37. ENFOLD 38. LAMB 39. RECEDE. 40. PLEASE. For following first find out the anagram and then note the corresponding meaning. 33.TABLET Hint: anagram means first u arrange the letters in correct order like TABLET===BATTLE . So ans is FIGHT 34.RUGGED 35.GORE. 36.STASSI. For all above choices are. a)resentment b)fight c)help d)monster

For all the above 4 choices are same 2. Similar question on functions. a)cuddle b)sleeping c)proclamination d)ointment. SECTION I - 8 questions based on series. 1. These questions involve interchange of letters in a word at particular locations and also interchanging letters adjacent to those particular locations.Certain other conditions may also be given For eg. Let the word be ABBAABA If we apply 25 on this, it means we have to interchange the letters at positions 2 and 5, also we have to change the letters adjacent to positions 2 and 5 i.e.from A to B and B to A. A B B A A B after Step 1 i.e interchange of 2 and 5 becomes AABABB Now change adjacent elements of 2 and 5...finally answer becomes Ans: B A A B B A Questions 1-5 are based on the pattern with changed numbers as described above Questions 6-8 are of the following type To get AAABBD from BBBAAA what number should be applied:a) 25 b) 34 c) 25 & 34 d) none SECTION II 1. Given the following functions (1) f(n a b c ) = ac if n=1 (2) f(n a b c) = f( n-1 a c b) + f( 1 a b c) + f( n-1 b a c ) if n > 1 Then what is the value f( 2 a b c ) = ? Ans: f( 2 a c b ) = ab + ac + bc. SECTION V In this section first part of compound word is 6. r = 5 n = 3 . If first pole has 2 flags, third pole has 1 flag How many ways can the remaining be arranged? Questions 7.& 8. are similar to Question 6. SECTION IV Question consisting of figures - Patternmatching type. Refer R.S Agarwal's book on Analytical Reasoning & TMHs Quantitative ability book by Edgar Thorpe. 3. [ Based on the function in the first question] For the function f( 4 a b c ) the number of terms is...? Hint f( 4 a b c ) = f( 3 a c b ) + f( 1 a b c ) + f( 3 b a c ) etc. 4. What is the value of the function f( 5 a b c ) =? SECTION III Permutations and Combinations. 8 Questions. 1. r = number of flags;n = number of poles; Any number of flags can be accommodated on any single pole. 1)r=5,n=5 The no. of ways the flags can be arranged ? Questions 2-5 are based on the above pattern

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given. Select meaning of the second part from the choice given: 1. Swan 2. Swans 3. Fool 4. Fools 5. Stare 6. Lady For all above 4 choices are given..... Eg. Swan ---> Swansong (compound word) a) category b) music c) television d) none Ans: Swansong is compound word. But song is not given as an option. so (b) music is the answer. 1. slur : speech : : smudge :? Ans. writing 2. epaulet : shoulder : : ring :? Ans.finger 3. vernacular : place : : fingerprint : ? Ans.identical

Q.A)jack ordered for B)two plates of chicken C)and a glass D)of water Ans. (A)jack ordered for The following is a group of questions is based on a passage or a set of conditions for each question. Select the best answer choice given. (i). If it is fobidden by law if the object of agreement is the doing of an act, that is forbidden by law the agreement is void. (ii). If it is of the nature that,it would defeat the provision of any law is the agreement is void.if the object of agreement is such that thing got directly forbidden by law it would defeat the provision of statuary law. (iii). If the object of agreement is fraddulent it is void. (iv). An object of agreement is void if it involves or implies to the personnal property of another. (v). An object of agreement is void where the constant regards as ignored. (vi). An object of agreement is void where the constant regards is as opposed to public policy. Q. An algorithm follws a six step process za,zb,zc,zd,ze,zf, it is governed by the following (i) zd should follow ze (ii) the first may be za,zd or zf (iii) zb and zc have to be performed after zd (iv) zc must be immediately after zb Q. If za is the first set zd must be a) 3rd b) 5th

Opposites Q. corpulent Ans: emaciated Q. officious Ans: pragmate Q. dextrous Ans: clumsy The following sentences are broken into 4 sections- A, B, C, D Choose the part which has a mistake Mark (E) if you find no mistake. Q.A)psychologists point out that B)there are human processes C)which does not involve D) the use of words Ans. (C) which does not involve (do)

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d) w e) u Q. Which of the following describes a correct combination of sapling and row? a) x,3 b) y,6 c) z,1 d) w,2 e) u,6 Q. If he plants b 6th which would be planted first and second a) x and w b) x and y c)y and x d)w and z e) w and u Q. If he plants w before u and after v he should plant w at a) first b) second c) fourth d) fifth e) sixth Q. At a certain moment a watch shows 2 min lag although it is running fast. If it showed a 3 min lag at that moment, but also gains by 1/2 min more a day than its current speed it would show the true time one day sooner than it usually does. How many mins does the watch gain per day. a).2 b).5 c).6 d).4 e).75

Q. If zb must follow za then za can be a) third or fourth b) first or second c) can not be third d) fouth or fifth e) none Q. If ze is third term the number of different operations possible are The following questions are based on the given statements Ravi plants six seperate saplings -- x,y,z,w,u,v in rows no 1 to 6 ,according to the follwing conditions He must plant x before y and u He must plant y and w The third has to be z Q. Which of the following is acceptable a) xuywzv b) xvzyuw c) zuyxwv d) zvxuwy e) wyzuvx Q. Which of the following is true a) z before v b) z before x c) w before u d) y before u e) x before w Q. If he plants v first, then which can be planted second a) x b) y c) z

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Q. In 400m race A gives B a start of 7 sec and beats him by 24 sec. In another race A beats B by 10 sec.the speeds are in the ratio a)8:7 b)7:6 c)10:8 d)6:8 e)12:10 Q. 3x+4y=10 x3 + y3=6 What is the minimum value of 3x+11y=? Q. There are 600 tennis players 4% wear wrist band on one wrist Of the remaining, 25% wear wrist bands on both hands How many players don't wear a wrist band? Ans. 432 Q. Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively. How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg, given that the quntities of band c are equal a)70,15,15 b)50,25,25 c)60,20,20 d)40,30,30 Ans. (b) Q. Two distinct no's are taken from 1,2,3,4......28 Find the probability that their sum is less than 13 CTS 2003 nit jsr Aptitude test: 60Qs Time 1 hr

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Diameter of circle is d, Find length of string. (outer string that covers the circle) Ans: d (pi + 3) 2) Diamond\s value is proportional to its weight2 .When the diamond broke wts of pieces in ratio 1:2:3;4:5. Total loss in value is 85,000.What is the value of the diamond twice the wt of the original diamond. Ans : 45,000 3)Person X join a job at 20 yrs.First 3 years sal =10,000 p.a. Afterwards every year inc of 2,000 per year for 10 year. Then sal become const till retirement. at retirement avg sal is 25,000. ( throout career) what age he retires.? 4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language? Ans 340 5) It was found that the cause for the malaria was the swamp marsh and so r swamps were drained .Mosquito the real cause for malaria due to lack of breeding grounds (Swamps) also was wiped out. What does this illustrate? (Ans : (Possible) when many conditions form a result eradication of one cause also eradicates the result)

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6)An officer kept files on his table at various times in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6 .Typist can take file from top whenever she has time and type it.What order she cannt type.? (Ans : 4,5,6,2,3,1) 7)A and B r fighting .B fires 3 times as many missiles as A. Total hits: total misses = 1/7 .Bs misses 357.Bs hits As hits = 66.As hits? 8)40 shots taken.50p for a hit.10p for a miss.(he have to give).Finally he has Rs.5.How many hits.? Ans 15 9)Find avg of a,b,c,d,e .Given data : avg of any 4 num =avg of any 3 num 2)(a+b) = 36 Which of the abv are sufficient? 10)What is the difference in times btwn clk 1 & clk2. 1) both show same time 6 hrs back 2 ) 1 clk gains 1 min an hr,clk2 gains 2 min an hour. Like abv. 11)A takes 9 strides to Bs 7 strides. A stride = 1meter.B stride =1.2m B gets the start of 24m.What dist should A travel to overtake B? 12) Tortoise gets 100 m head start. Hare is 10 times faster as tort. What is the dist traveled by hare to catch up tort.? 13)4 weights r weighed in pairs. Weights of pairs are determined as 103,105,106,106,107,109 What is the min wt? Ans 51 14) Constant cost = 300 and 1.75 / copy. How many copies should he sell at 7.75 /copy to make a profit. 15) Find the area of shaded. Radius of circle = 1cm..Arcs r drawn with center at circumference. 18)

Find the perimeter ? ANs 28 16) 20 members avg =10.5. 3 memb of 11.5,12.5,13.5 left and 3 memb of 10.5,12.5,14.5 joined along with a teacher of 21 yr.Now avg = .Ans 11. 17)

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26) A squarer side is 5cm.If a square of side 10cm is hinged @ the center of the prev square. when they r rotated common area to both squares (Ans : Does not change) 27) 3p + pq + 5q is even. If a) b) c) d) If p is odd, q is odd If p is even, q is odd If p is odd ,p is even Atleast one of p and q is odd.

Choices are given. Ans : 4) None of these 28) A lady has to feed a dog for the one week from Monday to Sunday .She has food types M,N,O,P,Q,R,S . MNOP protein enriched RS - vitamin enriched. Vitamin enriched cannot be fed on consecutive days. Conditions given : M should be fed before S. M should be fed before Q. R Should be fed before S. Before N and Q there should be four types. Based on this 3 ?s are asked.All r easy to answer 29) A man bought at the cost of 5 plums a rupee and 2 oranges a rupee.He sells 10 plums and 6 oranges at the selling price of 4 plums a rupee and 3 oranges a rupee.What is his gain or loss? Ans loss of 50p. 30) Out of 32 books the cost of 10 books is Rs. 50 each and he got a profit of 4%. He sells 15 books at a profit of 3.8461% on the selling price of Rs 70. The remaining cost is 576. The remaining books are sold at Rs 74. What is his total profit. 31) Two solutions have milk & water in the ratio 7:5 and 6:11.Find the proportion in which these two solutions should

Find the area of the shaded portion? 19) Solid cube of 6 * 6 * 6. This cube is cut into to 216 small cubes.(1 * 1 * 1).the big cube is painted in all its faces. Then how many of cubes are painted at least 2 sides. (Ans 56) 20) A Bacteria is doubling at every 4 min. After 40 min 1024 bact. Then 256 when>..? Ans : 32 min 21) A bag contains 3 balls of 11 different colors each. Find the min no of chances to find at least 3 balls of same color? Ans : 23 22) If x < 4 then 100/x is.? Ans : 100/x > 50 & 100/x < -50. 23) If [x] is the int less than x and |x| is the abs val of x.Then max of [x]/|x| is Ans d)none 24) A work in 12 days b in 15 days. Find the no of days if they work on alternate days. Ans 13 25) A,B,C r positive int.Out of them 2 r odd. Then 5a + ( b-5)3 (c-3) = ? Ans : always odd.

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Be mixed so that the resulting solution has 1 part milk and 2 parts water? a)35:3 b)21:36 c)not possible Ans :c Further qs are from reading comprehension. (verbal reasoning) All are easy to answer if u read carefully. We are not able to get the remaining questions. All the best nitians CTS Apti Question paper (Colour: Yellow) There are other three colours also. We received only yellow Question papers. 1. If all the 6 are replaced by 9, then the algebraic sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100(both inclusive) varies by Ans: 330 The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both inclusive) are Ans:67 From a pack of cards Jack, Queen, King & ace are removed. Then the algebraic sum of rest of the cards is Ans:216 The average temperature of days from Monday to Wednesday is 37 degree Celsius and that of from Tuesday to Thursday is 34 degrees. The temperature of Thursday is 4/5th of Monday. Then the temperature of Thursday is 11.

end of 4th game each of them have same amount of money (Rs.32). Which one of them started with the least amount? (6) Which one of them started with the largest amount of money? (7.) At the end of the 2nd game what is the amount of money with uma? Ans: Vidya, Swetha, Rs.8 8. A cube of 12 mm is painted on all its side. If it is made up of small cubes of size 3mm. If the big cube is splitted into those small cubes, the number of cubes that remain unpainted is Ans: 8 9. B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr. If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is Ans:12 noon 10. A graph will be there. Inside the graph sheet there will be a Quadrilateral. We have to count the number of squares in the Quadrilateral. You are having 31kg of rice. You are provided with a 1kg stone for weighing. In how many weights the 31kg of rice can be weighed. Ans: 5 A starts at 11:00AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 1:00PM and travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what time they will meet each other. Ans: There are 80 coins, among them one coin weighs less compared to other. You are given a physical balance to weigh. In how many wieghings the odd coin can be found. Ans: Dia of the circle 4cm. The shaded part is 1/3 of the square area. What is

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the side of the square. Ans: root of 3pi 15. A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for 2 days. B continues from it and finishes till 25% of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work Ans: 22. 16. Raja went to a beauty contest .his wife was eager to know the result he told that the lady wear a yellow sari was winner. Miss. Andhra Pradesh Miss. Utter Pradesh, Miss. Maharashtra, Miss. West Bengal were the participants all the participants sat in a row. The conditions are (A) The woman wore yellow sari won the competition. (B) Miss. West Bengal was neither the runner-up or winner.(C) Miss. West Bengal was not at either ends.(D) Miss. Maharastra wore the white sari.(E) The women wore white sari and yellow sari sat at extreme ends. (F) The runner-up and winner did not sit together. [This was the passage given and the questions were easy] The ratio of white balls and black balls is 1:2. If 9 gray balls is added it becomes 2:4:3. Then what is number of black balls. Ans:12 There are 10 coins. 6 coins showing head. And 4 showing tail. Each coin was randomly flipped (not tossed) seven times successively.after flipping the coins are 5 heads 4 tails one is hided the hided coin will have what. Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50 cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what 23. 20.

time they will collide with each other. People near the sea shore are leading a healthy life as they eat fish.but people at other part of the city are also healthy. Inference. It is found from research that if u r a drunken then u have a less chance for chronic heart diseases. Inference. A-B+c>A+B-C i) B is +ve, ii) B is ve when it will hold true. i) C.P is Rs 120 and profit is 30% ii) C.P is Rs 210 and profit is 20% we can find the S.P by using i)only ii)only both i &ii neither i&ii

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24. How will u find distance between Nagpur and Mumbai? I took one hour more when I travel at 80 km/hr than at 90 km/hr. 25. 100 coins were collected by four persons each collected more than 10 each collected a different number each was an even number find what is the max possible no of coins, two more questions based on the same passage. 26. A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time of 6 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon. Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km. During its journey , The number of buses that the car encounter is 27. The ratio of the ages of the father and the son is 5:3, After 10 years it will be in the ratio 3:2. What will be their ages. There was a Island. In that Island there was Rubys and Emeralds. Those were available in plenty. 0.3 kg of ruby is 4 lakhs and 0.4 kg of emeralds is 5 lakhs. Jayanth is buying 12 kg of Ruby and emerald. Choices will be

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given . Jayanth has to carry both ruby and emerald to the maximum profit. Varun buys 8 books,10 pens and 2 pencils and Babu buys 6 books, 5pens and 5 pencils. Babu pays 50% more than Varun. What is the amount Varun spends in buying pencils. Prakash and Revathi rent a fancy shop. Prakash imposes the following restrictions on Revathi for buying clips,stickers and lip sticks. The number of clips is twice the no. of stickers. The no. of lipsticks should be more than the sum of clips and stickers. Cost of clip is 1 rupee. Cost of lipstick is twice the clips. Cost of 1 lipstick is the cost of four stickers. Then What is the amount that Prakash spents for Revathi. Answer choices will be given.

12.There are 2 cars moving in opposite directions.the distance between them is 300cm.They move forward for 100cm with a speed of 50 cm/s,and omes back 50 cms at 25cm/s.after how many seconds will the cars collide? 13) There is a room with 12 slots for painting. The details about the paintings are as follows: 18th century paintings - 3 19th century paintings - 2 20th century paintings - 4 Make up a sequence so that the paintings may be arranged with the following rules. 1) The 5th slot is always empty. 2) There must be an empty slot between paintings of different groups (century). 3) The paintings of the same group can be placed together. A set of questions were asked with the pattern that was framed. 14)

1.Train A starts from station A at 11.am.Train B starts from station B at 12 noon.the speed of train A is 4 kmph,train B is 1 kmph for the first hour,2 kmph for the 2nd hour,3 kmph for the 3rd hour etc.At what time do the two trains meet? ans:2 PM 2.There is a coin collection.100 coins in all.4 peopke collect coins.Each collects a minimum of 10 coins.and each has different number of coins.the numbers are even. (4 questions based on this) 3.Moped problem based on time and distance 4.Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 and 12 from 1 to 999. 5.Find the number of integers divisible by either 3 or 2 from 100 to 200 including both, 6.There is a cube of side 4 cm.The faces are coloured in red.the cube is cut into pieces of size 1 cm.How many cubes have no colour Ans:8 7.There are 80 coins.One coin is counterfeit in weight.How many minimum weighings are required to find out the counterfeit coin? Ans 4 8.There are 31 kgs of rice .With a 1 kg weight,Find out the minimum number of weighings required to weigh 31 kgs. 9.there are four contestants in a beauty contest.they aer Ms.UP,Ms. MP, Ms.AP and Ms.WB.each is wearing a different colour saree(red,blue,green and white).They are seated in a row.The winner and runner are not sitting near each other.Ms.WB is noehter the winner nor the runner.the green and white saree contestans are sitting in either end and the green color saree contestant is the runner up. 4 questions based on this 10.there is a pack of cards.Find the sum of integers excluding all the picture cards. Ans.216 11.Two questions based on figure. Given at the end.

Find the area of the square which is covered by the circle. The area is 1/3 area of the square. Find the side of the square. 15)

Find the number of squares.

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There are other three colours also. We received only yellow Question papers. 6. If all the 6 are replaced by 9, then the algebraic sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100(both inclusive) varies by Ans: 330 The total no. of numbers that are divisible by 2 or 3 between 100 and 200(both inclusive) are Ans:67 From a pack of cards Jack, Queen, King & ace are removed. Then the algebraic sum of rest of the cards is Ans:216 The average temperature of days from Monday to Wednesday is 37 degree Celsius and that of from Tuesday to Thursday is 34 degrees. The temperature of Thursday is 4/5th of Monday. Then the temperature of Thursday is

remain unpainted is Ans: 8 9. B is 50% faster than A. If A starts at 9 A.M. and B starts at 10 A.M. A travels at a speed of 50 km/hr. If A and B are 300 kms apart, The time when they meet when they travel in opposite direction is Ans:12 noon 24. A graph will be there. Inside the graph sheet there will be a Quadrilateral. We have to count the number of squares in the Quadrilateral. You are having 31kg of rice. You are provided with a 1kg stone for weighing. In how many weights the 31kg of rice can be weighed. Ans: 5 A starts at 11:00AM and travels at a speed of 4km/hr. B starts at 1:00PM and travels at 1km/hr for the first 1hr and 2km/hr for the next hr and so on. At what time they will meet each other. Ans: There are 80 coins, among them one coin weighs less compared to other. You are given a physical balance to weigh. In how many wieghings the odd coin can be found. Ans: Dia of the circle 4cm. The shaded part is 1/3 of the square area. What is the side of the square. Ans: root of 3pi A,B,C, can do a work in 8,14,16 days respectively. A does the work for 2 days. B continues from it and finishes till 25% of the remaining work. C finishes the remaining work. How many days would have taken to complete the work Ans:

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Raja went to a beauty contest .his wife was eager to know the result he told that the lady wear a yellow sari was winner. Miss. Andhra Pradesh Miss. Utter Pradesh, Miss. Maharashtra, Miss. West Bengal were the participants all the participants sat in a row. The conditions are (A) The woman wore yellow sari won the competition. (B) Miss. West Bengal was neither the runner-up or winner.(C) Miss. West Bengal was not at either ends.(D) Miss. Maharastra wore the white sari.(E) The women wore white sari and yellow sari sat at extreme ends. (F) The runner-up and winner did not sit together. [This was the passage given and the questions were easy] The ratio of white balls and black balls is 1:2. If 9 gray balls is added it becomes 2:4:3. Then what is number of black balls. Ans:12 There are 10 coins. 6 coins showing head. And 4 showing tail. Each coin was randomly flipped (not tossed) seven times successively.after flipping the coins are 5 heads 4 tails one is hided the hided coin will have what. Two cars are 500 cm apart. each is moving forward for 100 cm at a velocity of 50 cm/s and receding back for 50 cm at 25 cm/s at what time they will collide with each other. People near the sea shore are leading a healthy life as they eat fish.but people at other part of the city are also healthy. Inference. It is found from research that if u r a drunken then u have a less chance for chronic heart diseases. Inference.

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A-B+c>A+B-C i) B is +ve, ii) B is ve when it will hold true. i) C.P is Rs 120 and profit is 30% ii) C.P is Rs 210 and profit is 20% we can find the S.P by using i)only ii)only both i &ii neither i&ii

24. How will u find distance between Nagpur and Mumbai? I took one hour more when I travel at 80 km/hr than at 90 km/hr. 25. 100 coins were collected by four persons each collected more than 10 each collected a different number each was an even number find what is the max possible no of coins, two more questions based on the same passage. 26. A car travels from B at a speed of 20 km/hr. The bus travel starts from A at a time of 6 A.M. There is a bus for every half an hour interval. The car starts at 12 noon. Each bus travels at a speed of 25 km/hr. Distance between A and B is 100 km. During its journey , The number of buses that the car encounter is 31. The ratio of the ages of the father and the son is 5:3, After 10 years it will be in the ratio 3:2. What will be their ages. There was a Island. In that Island there was Rubys and Emeralds. Those were available in plenty. 0.3 kg of ruby is 4 lakhs and 0.4 kg of emeralds is 5 lakhs. Jayanth is buying 12 kg of Ruby and emerald. Choices will be given . Jayanth has to carry both ruby and emerald to the maximum profit. Varun buys 8 books,10 pens and 2 pencils and Babu buys 6 books, 5pens and 5 pencils. Babu pays 50% more than Varun. What is the amount Varun spends in buying pencils. Prakash and Revathi rent a fancy shop. Prakash imposes the following restrictions on Revathi for buying clips,stickers and lip sticks. The

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directly forbidden by law it would defeat the provision of statuary law. (iii). If the object of agreement is fraudulent it is void. (iv). An object of agreement is void if it involves or implies to the personal property of another. (v). An object of agreement is void where the constant regards as ignored. (vi). An object of agreement is void where the constant regard is as opposed to public policy. 1). An algorithm follows a six step process za, zb, zc, zd, ze, zf, it is governed by the following: (i) zd should follow ze (ii) the first may be za,zd or zf (iii) zb and zc have to be performed after zd (iv) zc must be immediately after zb 2). If za is the first set zd must be a) 3rd b) 5th c) 2nd d) 4th 3). If zb must follow za then za can be a) Third or fourth b) first or second c) can not be third d) fourth or fifth e) none 4). If ze is third term the number of different operations possible are The following questions are based on the given statements: Ravi plants six separate saplings -- x, y, z, w, u, v in rows no 1 to 6, according to the following conditions: a) He must plant x before y and u b) He must plant y and w c) The third has to be z 5). Which of the following is acceptable a) xuywzv b) xvzyuw c) zuyxwv zvxuwy e) wyzuvx 6). Which of the following is true a) z before v b) z before x c) w before u d) y before u e) x before w 7). If he plants v first, then which can be planted second a) x b) y c) z d) w e) u 8). Which of the following describes a correct combination of sapling and row? d)

CTS Sample Paper #3

Analogies Opposites 1. slur : speech : : 1. corpulent smudge :? Ans: emaciated Ans: writing 2. officious 2. epaulet : shoulder : : Ans: pragmate ring :? 3. dextrous Ans:finger Ans: clumsy 3. vernacular : place : : fingerprint : ? Ans:identical The following sentences are broken into 4 sections- A, B, C, D Choose the part that has a mistake Mark (E) if you find no mistake. 1). a) Psychologists point out that b) there are human processes c) Which does not involve d) the use of words Ans. (C) which does not involve (do) 2). a) jack ordered for b) two plates of chicken c) and a glass d) of water Ans. (A) jack ordered for The following is a group of questions is based on a passage or a set of conditions for each question. Select the best answer choice given. (i). If law forbids it if the object of agreement is the doing of an act, that is forbidden by law the agreement is void. (ii). If it is of the nature that, it would defeat the provision of any law is the agreement is void. if the object of agreement is such that thing got

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9). If he plants b 6th which would be planted first and second a) x and w b) x and y c)y and x d)w and z e) w and u 10). If he plants w before u and after v he should plant w at a) First b) second c) fourth d) fifth e) sixth 11). At a certain moment a watch shows 2 min lag although it is running fast. If it showed a 3 min lag at that moment, but also gains by 1/2 min more a day than its current speed it would show the true time one day sooner than it usually does. How many minutes does the watch gain per day. a) 2 b) 5 c) 6 d) 4 e) 75 12). In 400m race A gives B a start of 7 sec and beats him by 24 sec. In another race A beats B by 10 sec. The speeds are in the ratio? a) 8:7 b) 7:6 c) 10:8 d) 6:8 e) 12:10 13). 3x+4y=10 and x3 + y3=6 what is the minimum value of 3x+11y = ? 14). There are 600 tennis players. 4% wear wristband on one wrist. Of the remaining, 25% wear wristbands on both hands. How many players don't wear a wristband? Ans. 432 15). Three types of tea a, b, c costs Rs. 95/kg, 100/kg and70/kg respectively. How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg, given that the quantities of band c are equal? a) 70,15,15 b) 50,25,25 c) 60,20,20 d) 40,30,30 Ans. (b) 16). Two distinct no's are taken from 1,2,3,4...28 Find the probability that their sum is less than 13?

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COGNIZANT (CTS) -2002 ----------------------------------* There were * 5 sections * 8 questions each (40 q totally) * 60 minutes * 5 different sets of question papers * 1 Mark each * 0.25 negative marking CTS_BLACK Vocabulary, strings, dominoes, functions, coding (each section 8 ques) CTS_BROWN Word series, numerical series, functions, figures, verbal (each section 8 ques) CTS_VIOLET Functions, strings, bricks, jigsaw puzzle, cryptic clues (each section 8 ques) CTS_RED 1) 8 functions 2) 4 cryptic clues, 4 anagrams 3) 4 Tetris figures, 4 bricks 4) 8 strings 5) 4 jigsaw puzzles 4 number series BROWN_2002 There were different papers for different sessions. The paper had 5 sections, 5 * 8 = 40 Que's. totally. _______________________________________ __________________________ Section 1: Functions --------------------------Q: 1 - 8 Certain functions were given & based upon the rules & the choices had to be made based on recursion. This is time consuming, but u can do it. Try to do it at the end. Start from the last section. L(x) is a function defined. functions can be defined as

L(x)=(a,b,ab) or (a,b,(a,b),(a,(b,b)),a,(b,b)).... two functions were given A(x) & B(x) like if l(x)=(a,b,c) then A(x)=(a) & B(x)=(b,c) i.e., A(x) contains the first element of the function only. & B(x) contains the remaining, except the first element. then the other two functions were defined as C(x) = * if L(x) = () A(x) if L(x) = () & B(x) != () & C(B(x)) otherwise D(x) = * if L(x) = () ** if B(x) = () A(x), if L(x) != () & B(x) != () D(D(x)),otherwise ; Now the Questions are, 1 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b)) then C(x) is ? (a): a (b): b (c): c (d): none 2 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b)) then find D(x) same options as above 3 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b),(b,(b))) find C(x) 4 : -----------~~~~~~~~---------- find D(x) 5 : if L(x) = (a,(a,b),(a,b,(a,(b))),b) then find c(x) 6 : -----------~~~~~~~~---------- find D(x) 7 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b)) then find C(D(x)) 8 : -----------~~~~~~~~---------- find D(C(x)) _______________________________________ __________________________ Section 2: Word series -----------------------------Qs: 9 - 16 This is one of the easiest sections. Try to do it at first. If S is a string then p, q, r forms the sub strings of S. For eg, if S = aaababc & p = aa, q = ab, r =bc . Then on applying p q on S is that ababaabc. Only the first occurrence of S has to be substituted. If there is no sub string of p, q, r on s then it should not be substituted.

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If S = aabbcc, R = ab, Q = bc. Now we define an operator R &#61672; Q when operated on S, R is replaced by Q, provided Q is a subset of S, otherwise R will be unchanged. Given a set S = when R&#61672; Q, P&#61 = 672; R, Q &#61672; P operated successively on S, what will be new S? There will be 4 =: if s = aaababc & p = aa, q = ab, r = bc then applying p q, q r & r p will give, (a): aaababc (b): abaabbc (c): abcbaac (d): none of the a,b,c 10: if s = aaababc & p = aa q = ab r = bc then applying q r & r p will give, 11: if s = abababc & p = aa q = ab r = bc then applying p q, q r & r p will give, 12: if s = abababc & p = aa q = ab r =bc then applying q r & r p will give, 13: if s=aabc & p=aa q=ab r=ac then applying p>q(2) q->r(2) r->p will give, (2) Means applying the same thing twice. 14: Similar type of problem. 15) if s = abbabc p = ab q = bb r = bc then to get s = abbabc which one should be applied. (a): p->q,q->r,r->p 16) if s = abbabc p = ab q = bb r = bc then to get s = bbbcbabc which one should be applied. Let us consider a set of strings such as S = aabcab. We now consider two more sets P and Q that also contain strings. An operation P Q is defined in such a manner that if P is a subset of S, then P is to be replaced by Q. In the following questions, you are given various sets of strings on which you have to perform certain operations as defined above. Choose the correct alternative as your answer. (Below are some ques from old ques papers) a) Let S = abcabc, P = bc, Q = bb and R = ba. Then P Q, Q R and R P, changes S to ________? (A) ............ (B) abcabc (C) ............ (D) none of A, B, C b) Let S = aabbcc, P = ab, Q = bc and R = cc. Then P Q, Q R and R P, changes S to

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c) Let S = bcacbc, P = ac, Q = ca and R = ba. Then P Q, Q R, P R and changes S to ________? (A) ............ (B) ............ (C) bcbabc (D) none of A,B,C d) Let S = caabcb, P = aa, Q = ca and R = bcb. Then P Q, P R, R Q and changes S to ________? (A) ............ (B) ............ (C) ............ (D) none of A,B,C _______________________________________ __________________________

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This is little bit tough. proper guesses should be made.Find these problems in R.S.Aggarval's verbal & non verbal reasoning. 17: 2,20,80,100 (a): 121, (b): 116 (c): (d):none 18: 10,16,2146,2218 _______________________________________ __________________________

Section 4: figures
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Tips: Answer is (b) bcos 20*6+7=127. Hence it is the answer Q: 1) U have to make a Target =102; The Answer from the option is (6,17,2,1) Q: 2) TARGET = 41; Five Nos were given, 25 22 16 5 1. U can use this nos only once & can perform Operation +, *, -, /, (); Options were: A) 25 22 16 5 B) 25 22 16 1 C) 25 22 5 1 D) 25 16 5 1) 4 SUCH QUESTI0NS ARE THERE. _______________________________________ ____________________________ iii) Cryptic Sentence - Form words ------------------------------------------A sentence is there .a cryptically clue is hidden in the sentence. Find out answer from the option. 1) A friend in Rome a) aerodrome b) palindine c) palindrome d) condom

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iv) Anagram noun form the corresponding adjectives ---------------------------------------------------------------Q: some nouns are jumbled on, you have to rearrange, look for a suitable adjective: Make a phrase then. 1) Shore a) Aegean b) Indian c) Trojan d) Spartan Ans: Trojan 2) Sire a) dutch b) rome mercurial Ans: mercurial 3) Ourcage a) English Spartan b) Rome c) herculean d)

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COGNIZANT (CTS) -2002 ----------------------------------* There were * 5 sections * 8 questions each (40 q totally) * 60 minutes * 5 different sets of question papers * 1 Mark each * 0.25 negative marking CTS_BLACK Vocabulary, strings, dominoes, functions, coding (each section 8 ques) CTS_BROWN Word series, numerical series, functions, figures, verbal (each section 8 ques) CTS_VIOLET Functions, strings, bricks, jigsaw puzzle, cryptic clues (each section 8 ques) CTS_RED 1) 8 functions 2) 4 cryptic clues, 4 anagrams 3) 4 Tetris figures, 4 bricks 4) 8 strings 5) 4 jigsaw puzzles 4 number series BROWN_2002 There were different papers for different sessions. The paper had 5 sections, 5 * 8 = 40 Que's. totally. _______________________________________ __________________________ Section 1: Functions --------------------------Q: 1 - 8 Certain functions were given & based upon the rules & the choices had to be made based on recursion. This is time consuming, but u can do it. Try to do it at the end. Start from the last section.

L(x) is a function defined. functions can be defined as L(x)=(a,b,ab) or (a,b,(a,b),(a,(b,b)),a,(b,b)).... two functions were given A(x) & B(x) like if l(x)=(a,b,c) then A(x)=(a) & B(x)=(b,c) i.e., A(x) contains the first element of the function only. & B(x) contains the remaining, except the first element. then the other two functions were defined as C(x) = * if L(x) = () A(x) if L(x) = () & B(x) != () & C(B(x)) otherwise D(x) = * if L(x) = () ** if B(x) = () A(x), if L(x) != () & B(x) != () D(D(x)),otherwise ; Now the Questions are, 1 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b)) then C(x) is ? (a): a (b): b (c): c (d): none 2 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b)) then find D(x) same options as above 3 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b),(b,(b))) find C(x) 4 : -----------~~~~~~~~---------- find D(x) 5 : if L(x) = (a,(a,b),(a,b,(a,(b))),b) then find c(x) 6 : -----------~~~~~~~~---------- find D(x) 7 : if L(x) = (a,b,(a,b)) then find C(D(x)) 8 : -----------~~~~~~~~---------- find D(C(x)) _______________________________________ __________________________ Section 2: Word series -----------------------------Qs: 9 - 16 This is one of the easiest sections. Try to do it at first. If S is a string then p, q, r forms the sub strings of S. For eg, if S = aaababc & p = aa, q = ab, r =bc . Then on applying p q on S is that ababaabc. Only the first occurrence of S has

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to be substituted. If there is no sub string of p, q, r on s then it should not be substituted. If S = aabbcc, R = ab, Q = bc. Now we define an operator R &#61672; Q when operated on S, R is replaced by Q, provided Q is a subset of S, otherwise R will be unchanged. Given a set S = when R&#61672; Q, P&#61 = 672; R, Q &#61672; P operated successively on S, what will be new S? There will be 4 =: if s = aaababc & p = aa, q = ab, r = bc then applying p q, q r & r p will give, (a): aaababc (b): abaabbc (c): abcbaac (d): none of the a,b,c 10: if s = aaababc & p = aa q = ab r = bc then applying q r & r p will give, 11: if s = abababc & p = aa q = ab r = bc then applying p q, q r & r p will give, 12: if s = abababc & p = aa q = ab r =bc then applying q r & r p will give, 13: if s=aabc & p=aa q=ab r=ac then applying p>q(2) q->r(2) r->p will give, (2) Means applying the same thing twice. 14: Similar type of problem. 15) if s = abbabc p = ab q = bb r = bc then to get s = abbabc which one should be applied. (a): p->q,q->r,r->p 16) if s = abbabc p = ab q = bb r = bc then to get s = bbbcbabc which one should be applied. Let us consider a set of strings such as S = aabcab. We now consider two more sets P and Q that also contain strings. An operation P Q is defined in such a manner that if P is a subset of S, then P is to be replaced by Q. In the following questions, you are given various sets of strings on which you have to perform certain operations as defined above. Choose the correct alternative as your answer. (Below are some ques from old ques papers) a) Let S = abcabc, P = bc, Q = bb and R = ba. Then P Q, Q R and R P, changes S to ________? (A) ............ (B) abcabc (C) ............ (D) none of A, B, C

b) Let S = aabbcc, P = ab, Q = bc and R = cc. Then P Q, Q R and R P, changes S to _________? (A) ababab (B) ............ (C) ............ (D) none of A, B, C c) Let S = bcacbc, P = ac, Q = ca and R = ba. Then P Q, Q R, P R and changes S to ________? (A) ............ (B) ............ (C) bcbabc (D) none of A,B,C d) Let S = caabcb, P = aa, Q = ca and R = bcb. Then P Q, P R, R Q and changes S to ________? (A) ............ (B) ............ (C) ............ (D) none of A,B,C _______________________________________ __________________________

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This is little bit tough. proper guesses should be made.Find these problems in R.S.Aggarval's verbal & non verbal reasoning. 17: 2,20,80,100 (a): 121, (b): 116 (c): (d):none 18: 10,16,2146,2218 _______________________________________ __________________________

Section 4: figures
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17: 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 10110012122112 then 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 ???? Ans: may be 0 0 2 2 1 2 2 18: 1 1 0 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 101121121101 _______________________________________ _________________________ Section 5: Verbal ---------------------Two words together forming compound words were given. The q's contained the second part of the compound word. The first word of the compound word had to be guessed. Then its meaning had to be matched with the choices. (see old papers) like ...block head, main stream, star dust Eg: OLD PAPERS (1) -(head)- (a) purpose (b) man (c) obstacle (ans:c for blockhead) (2) (dust)- (a) container (b) celestial body (c) groom (ans: c for star dust) (3) (stream )-(a) mountain (b) straight (c) (ans:a) (4) (crash)- (a) course (b) stock3 _______________________________________ _________________________________Red Set : _________ i) Series Transformation: ------------------------------1) If 102101 210212 then 112112 ? 2) If 102101 200111 then 112112 ? 3) If 102101 101201 then 112112 ? Tips: The 1st one all change 0->1, 1->2, 2->1 AND the 2nd on alternate do not change AND the 3rd it is just reverse of the original string.

ii) Target=127: Brick=24,17,13: Operation available = +, /, *, Again there r 4 choices. For ex choice b) 20,6,7 Tips: Answer is (b) bcos 20*6+7=127. Hence it is the answer Q: 1) U have to make a Target =102; The Answer from the option is (6,17,2,1) Q: 2) TARGET = 41; Five Nos were given, 25 22 16 5 1. U can use this nos only once & can perform Operation +, *, -, /, (); Options were: A) 25 22 16 5 B) 25 22 16 1 C) 25 22 5 1 D) 25 16 5 1) 4 SUCH QUESTI0NS ARE THERE. _______________________________________ ____________________________ iii) Cryptic Sentence - Form words ------------------------------------------A sentence is there .a cryptically clue is hidden in the sentence. Find out answer from the option. 1) A friend in Rome a) aerodrome b) palindine c) palindrome d) condom

Ans: palindrome
2) Rowed them across a) Crosswiz b) acropolis d) crossword c) acroword

Ans: crossword/crossover
3) Cuticle cutting the filly glass a) Cubicle b) up hilly d) cutlass c) cut glass

Ans: cutlass
4) Hat jumps upward in a water closet a) Watch b) witch

Ans: watch/whatever
Tips: The 1st one Jumble out the word SHORE to get the word HORSE and then get the adjective of the word HORSE as TROJAN

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The 2nd one lips slip Freudian / French _______________________________________ ________________________ iv) Anagram noun form the corresponding adjectives ---------------------------------------------------------------Q: some nouns are jumbled on, you have to rearrange, look for a suitable adjective: Make a phrase then. 1) Shore a) Aegean b) Indian c) Trojan d) Spartan Ans: Trojan 2) Sire a) dutch b) rome mercurial Ans: mercurial 3) Ourcage a) English Spartan b) Rome c) herculean d)

Last section had meaningful words whose anagrams are nouns and have to choose the best adjective from the list to describe this noun: Eg: shore (word given) Choices are: a) roman c) Trojan d).... b) Spanish

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Shore is anagram (jumbled form of) 'horse' and Trojan -- horse is the best match _______________________________________ _________________________________ 2) This section had the funda of xOy where x and y represented strings of Gs. The test was to find the valid or invalid patterns with reference to the rules. 1) L=list of objects

c) Dutch

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Eg) L = {a, b, c, d} where a,b,c,d are objects P(L) was a function( dont remember exactly). M(L) was another function defined etc. in the following questions P(x) etc were given to be found out. Note: This may take considerable amount of time. So take intelligent guesses. _______________________________________ _________________________________

Ans:freudian/french
_______________________________________ _________________________________ v) Jigsaw puzzle as given in the book by Edgar Thorpe, of TMH Publications _______________________________________ _________________________________ vi) FUNCTIONS same as CTS_BLACK\fun _______________________________________ _________________________________ vii) x, y strings of G st there is at least one G in x and y xoxy valid xoy xoxy invalid Find valid & invalid strings _______________________________________ _________________________________

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Disclaimer: This paper is according to the one they supplied here.. It is believed that theyve 25 set of papersAnd they distribute different papers in the same examination hall. Total 1 hr ,40 marks 5 sections, 8 questions each 1 mark for correct, -.25 for wrong 1st section /* This section is damn ..tough, lengthy and time consuming.It is highly recommended to leave this section or set aside to last.I am quoting some part of this question so you can easily identify this section.. */ It is based on reursive function.. M(a,b,c)- L(a) is if u delete 1st element from it whatever is left. N(a,b,c)-L(b) is 1st element of the list.

if (a,b) &a r two lists then M(l1,l2) is ((a,b),a). X(a,l)=a =L(a) =M(a,l) y(a,l)=l =L(b) =M(l,a) Based on this they gave 8 questions were there. 2nd section This is about arrangment of dominos

6 Dominos are given Also a figure created using these is also shown. But the alignment of the dominos in the figure is unknown. The question is to found out the possible alignment of the dominos.

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What they mean is.if the columnns with no.s shown in the figure, forms a single domino, is it possible to make the 3 figure given in the question using the remaining dominos given ? In this example I arranged the dominos from left to right , top to bottom . The answer is b.
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This forms 1 question.Likewise 8 questions in this section. 3 rd section /*This section is the easiest. Ou better start with this section*/ This section consists of encoding decoding questions The multiple choices some what look like this. a) b)
3 2 1 1

Eg:- 1) if abacbb corresponds to bbcaba & acbbca acbbca then baabcb ? ans-bcbaab.(Read the string in reverse)

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Anagrams. 2) if abcbac corresponds to bcbaca & acbacb cbacba then abcabc ? ans-bcabca.(Rotate the string left by 1 letter) Like wise 8 questions 4 th section /*This is also an easy one*/ Finding the valid string.. Eg:1) if x G 0 0 y G y is a string where x,y are variables which forms strings of G and contains atleast 1 letter.Then which of the following is a valid string of the same language. a) G G 0 0 G G G G G b) G G 0 0 G G G G What they mean is that x and y should be substituted using a consistent value in all the places. In (a) I put x=G, y = G G. In (b) x=G , but the 1st occurrence of y is G and 2nd one is G G. So inconsistent hence answer is (a) In some case it may create ambiguty while we substitute the values of x,y. Sufficient clues will be given in the question to handle this. 5 th section /*Time consuming*/ So thats it!! The overall standard of the paper is very tough. Here, the highest was 27(nagpur -25). But even then they shortlisted 51 students. Those who got around 15 also got through. So no need to worryas far as they plan to recruit in big numbers.. One cannot attempt the full paper.You better start with coding section(3) and also finish 2, 4 sections. You may feel relaxed after this.Then go for the rest. It is better to leave the 1st section. (there is negative marking).As Id told earlier the order of the sections may vary from paper to paper. I think the examples I speified here r enough to identify the corresponding sections. Before interview You will be given One form to fill inasking some personal questionsur strengths, weakness; 2) PERVERSE 3) DECADENT. Eg:1) P_ _ S_ _ D_ a) utopian b)convince c)pervade What they mean is , to find the partiular synonym of the words given, that fill correctly in the blanks!! ans- convince.-persuade.

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aim in the life; what do u expect from the company..etc etcIt is better to take help from any english funda master or after discussing with our friends.. Interview will be cool Technical..bit from unix shell prg OOPS.. Whatever u say make sure u say in good english ..without babbabba. Or pardon sir. I guess they value the communiation skills very much.
CTS Questions 28th May 2003: There are 60 questions to be answered in 60 minutes. 1). In a club there are certain no. of males and females. If 15 females are absent then no. of males will be twice that of females. If 45 males are absent then female strength will be 5 times that of males. Find no. of males actually present. Ans: Males 80,Females 175 2). Three men A, B, C plays Cards. If one loses the game he have to give Rs.3. If he wins the game he will gain Rs.6. If A has won 3 Games, B loses Rs.3, C wins Rs.12.What is the total no. Of games played? Ans: 3). A can swim & cross 50m(the length of swimming pool) in 2 min. B can swim & cross 50m in 2min 15sec. Every time when they meet a bell gong is struck. For 2000m how many bell sounds might be produced? Ans: 37 4). When I was married 10 years ago my wife is the 6th member of the family. Today my father died and a baby born to me. The average age of my family during my marriage is same as today. What is the age of Father when he died? Ans: 60

5). There are 9 balls of equal size and same weight (they look similar) except 1. How may weighs required to find the dissimilar ball using a weighing balance? Ans: 3 6). Product of Prime no. between 1 to 20? Ans: 9699690 7). Find out the total numbers between 1 to 999 that are neither divisible by 8 nor by 12? Ans: 833 8). Find out the distinct numbers that can be formed by 2, 3, 7, 6 (dont now exactly) that should be divided by 4? Ans: 8 9). Two trains at speed 60 km/hr come in the opposite direction. At a particular time the distance between the two trains is 18km. A shuttle flies between the trains at the speed of 80 km/hr. At the time the two trains crashes what is the distance traveled by shuttle? Ans: 12 km 10). There are n urns and m balls. If we put 3 balls in each urn 3 balls will be excess. If we put 4 balls in each urn 1 urn will be excess. Find no. of Urns (or) Balls? Ans: 7 URNS & 24 BALLS. 11). Find the area not occupied by circles: Given length =y breadth =x Ans: 3x2(1-pie/4)) 12). A man gets x/y of Rs.10 and y/x of Rs.10. He returns Rs.20. The Answer choices are a) He may not lose Ans: He never loses b) He may lose c) He always loses d) Cannot be Determined 13). Three men A, B, C can complete a work separately in some specified days (May be 8, 7, 6). If they do the work together by alternate days. Then how many days need to complete the work? Ans: 7 1/8

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14) Four Members A, B, C, D are playing a game .A person losing a game should double the amount of others .B, C, D are losing in order after three games .The amount after 3 games are A&B having 40,D is having 16&C 80. Each question carries one mark: a) Who started with small amount of money? Ans) A=5 b) Who started with greatest amount of money? Ans) B c) What amount did B have? Ans) 93 Hint: I solved and found the answers to be A>5,B->93 15). There are some houses in a street back to back. And they that house behind 10 were 23. How many houses in the street? Ans: 32 16). There are 1997 doors in a auditorium and as many as people as the no of doors open enter the auditorium .A door was closed and as many as people as no of doors open leave the auditorium. The process was repeated till the no of doors is equal to1.find the total no of peoples enter the auditorium? Ans: 1996 17). A batsman average was 15. At last innings he took 23 runs then his average became 16.How much run he should take to make his average 18? Ans: 39 18). Find the number WXYZ divisible by 36? i) Let the digits be5, 4,3,6 -not in that order ii) Sum of last two digits is 9 iii) Sum of middle two digits is 7 ->If one is sufficient then ans as A || if two is sufficient then ans as B || if all are necessary then ans as C || if nothing is needed then ans as D. 19). X and Y live in a North-South parallel street. X travels 10 km towards North to reach the east-west street. Y travels 6 km towards south to reach the east -west street. X travels now 4km towards east and y travels 8km towards

west and they met each other. What is the distance between x and y? Ans: 20km 20). The houses are numbered 1,2,3 and reach the end of the street and backtracks toward s the starting point. The house numbered 10 is opposite to 23. There are even no of houses. Find the total no of houses? Ans: 32 21). A seller has a set of apples out of which he sells one half of it and half an apple to his first customer, then he sells half of the remaining apples and a half apple to his second customer. Then he sells half of the remaining apple and apple to his third customer and so on. This repeats up to 7th customer and no more apples are remaining. Find the total no of apples he had? Ans: 127 (2 pow n) -1 22). A hollow cube of size 5cm is taken, with the thickness of 1cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1cm. If the outer surface of the cube is painted how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? Ans: 438 23). If a 36 cm thread is used to wrap a book, lengthwise twice and breadth wise once, what is the size of the book? Ans: 7,4 & 8,2 and Area = 6 24). The various degrees of the vertices are marked in the dig. Find y? Ans: 54 25). If 4 circles of equal radius are drawn with vertices of a square as the center, the side of the square being 7 cm, find the area of the circles outside the square? Ans: 3-pie r POW 2 [461.58] 26). A bus has 40 seats and the passengers agree to share the total bus fare among themselves equally. If the total fair is 80.67, find the total no of the seats unoccupied? Ans: 37 27). A 4 digit no may consist of the digits 6,2,7,5 where none of the nos are repeated. Find the

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possible no of combinations divisible by 36? Ans: 0 28). If u r traveling from Mumbai to Banglore and return back .To find the speed of the car which of the following r needed. a) The distance between them. b) Time taken c) Avg speed towards Mumbai and the avg speed towards Banglore. Choices: 1) a only. 2) a and b. 3) a,b,c 4)b only 5) c only ( ans-- not in order) Ans: C only 29). (Diagram drawn approximate not to scale.) If all the blocks are squares and the complete fig is also a square and the area of the a is 1 cm2, b=81 cm2. What is the area of i? Ans: 324 30). A secret can be told only 2 persons in 5 minutes .the same person tells to 2 more persons and so on. How long will take to tell it to 768 persons? a) 47.5 min b) 50 min c) 500 min d). Ans: 47.5 min ...35min 31). Three birds cross a point in a same St. line and have that 2 fly in opposite directions. If a triangle is formed with the position of the birds what kind of the triangle will be formed? a) Isosceles b) right angle c) equilateral d) right angle and isosceles. Ans: a) 32). When the angle a, b, c, d are given find x? 33). One question is given for explaining the working of cornea (in eyes) & the window Ans: drawing analogy 34). m<n, & x<y which of the following is definitely false? a) m-n < x-y b) m+n < x+y c) & d) Similar options using all 4 variables Ans : x-m<y-n 35). Four circles are drawn from the corners of a square of area 49 cm2. Find the area of 4 circles outside the square (they didnt mention that circles have radius=1/2 side of a square)? Ans: intermediate

36). In a pond ecosystem, large fishes and small fishes will be there. If we want to remove small amount of pollutants, small fishes are to be employed. In a food chain food passes through a number of mouths and en route the mouth of the super feeder-the eagle. Its population determines the size of the ecosystem. But this has been proved false. What can you infer from above? (4 choices) 37). In Bangalore, during income tax deduction for a single person, the percentage increased by 3% and for middle house-holders, it decreased by 3%. What can you infer? 38). In China, Mao-Tse-Tung was responsible for organizing its people and taking China into success path. It evolved into a great economic power by improved industrial and economical statistics. China prospered in those years, but _________________ Which of the following best completes the sentence? (4 choices) 39). A ridge formed over Pacific Ocean was because of the intersection of two volcanoes. But in history it was written that it was not due to those volcanoes. It proves a contradictory to form the view that history will be proved wrong in the future. Inference? 40). In poultry form because of cloning, large breeds of hens were produced. This increased the production but the maintenance was very difficult because of the large number. This does not mean that cloning is a disaster in the scientific world but it is a tool, which in some ways is constructive but in other ways, it is destructive. Inference?

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1) Product of prime number between 1 and 20. 2) Number of terms between 1 and 999 not divisible by 8 or 12. 3) There are number of hours on both sides of a road. On one side houses are numbered in increasing order (1,2,3). On other sides houses are numbered in down order. It house number 10, opposite house is house no.23. Find no of houses (Even number of houses are provided). 4) What is the area of the shaded region? Ans.3*x*X (1-(pi/4)). 5) An apple seller is having some apples. He is selling half of the apple what he has plus half the apple to the first customer. In the same way he sells the remaining apple to 7 customers. After selling to 7 customers, he has no apples with him. Ans: 127 6) In the combinations of 2,3,6,7 how many possible combinations divisible by 4? Ans: 8 7) If x>y & n>m which of the following data is false. 8) There are no of urns &no of balls. If three balls are placed in each urn then 3 balls is left. If 4 balls are placed in each urn then 1 urn is left. What is the total no of balls? Ans: None of these 9) There are 1997 doors in the courts. 1997 people came out from each door. One door is closed. That many people came out from each door. This continues till a single person come out of the single open door. Find the no of people inside the court? 10) Two trains are traveling in 60 kmph on same trace, towards each other. When the distance between them is 18 km, a fly is going to start, flying between them in 80 kmph speed. Find the traveling path distance of the fly upto when it is going to crush by the 2 trains? Ans: 12 km 11) A batsman outs for 23 runs in one inning, which increases his average 15 to 16. If he has to get 18 as average, what score is to make by him in the same innings?

Form 4, four digit numbers as A, B and find the sum? 13) A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I are all of squares which are combined in a square. Area of B is 81 cm2. Side of A is 1 cm. Then find area of I? Ans: 324 cm2. 14) Death rate in a village (drought ridden) decreases. Naidu Govt claims it free health camps. This goes in valid when Ans: (i). Two water supply tanks were built supplying clean water. 15) In 1996, income after tax deduction of upper classes increases by 3% than in 1995. Choices: 1) No of upper class population increases 2) No of upper class population decreases 16) A Man gets x/y of Rs. 10 & y/x of Rs. 10, He gives out Rs. 20. i) He loses always ii) May or may not less iii) Cannot always lose. 17) Petrol prices increased by 40% expected hike in taxi & auto charges so, people may use public transport systems. What do you infer? 18) All people use a bus paid equalty. 40 seats in the bus.Bus charge is Rs. 70.37. How many seats we left unfilled? 19) 4 men can cross a bridge in 3,7,13, 17 minutes. Only two can cross the bridge at a time. The time taken by the two to cross the bridge is equal to the time taken by the slowest person of the two. Find the minimum time to all of them cross the bridge? Ans: 47 20) 1000 doors I man open all II man 2 multiples close III man 3 multiples open IV man 4 multiples close How many doors are open? 21) I was married 10 years before my wife was sixth member of my family and now I have a baby and today father died and the average age of my family was same as it was 10 years before. Find my fathers age when I was married? Ans: 60 22) Square side 7 cm. Find the area 4 equal circles of the circle lying drawn at the

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23) It takes five minutes to pass a rumor from one person to two other persons. The tree of rumor continues. Find how many minutes does it take spread the rumor to 768 persons. 24) There are 9 coins. One of 9 is less weighted and others have equal weighed. Find the minimum no of balances to find the defective coin? Ans: 2 25) (Train did not stop at Calcutta) 2500 km distance between Mumbai & Calcutta, Calculate the average speed. 1) from Mumbai to calculate 25 hrs 2) speed during the return journey was 150 km/hr. 3) speed during the forward journey is 100 km/hr. a) if it can be answered using each of the given above. Mark b) if it can be answered using two of them. Mark c) If it can be answered using none of them. Mark d) if none of them is required to answer. Ans: (b) 26) Three birds cross a point at the same instant with equal speed. Two of the birds fly exactly in opposite direction. After they cross the point at any instant of time. Straight lines to form a triangle join the tree birds. The nature of the triangle is i) Isosceles ii) equilateral iii) Right angled iv) right-angled isosceles 27) There are two parallel streets in North-South direction. A lives in street 1, B lives in street 2, A goes 10 km north and B goes south 8 km to meet the east west road. A moves 4 km east and B moves 6 km west to meet each other. Find distance between houses owned by A & B. 28) A question on eco system. Inference: Food energy in the eco system depends on the type of population.