CTS Placement Paper-30 Apr 2005,Hyderabad

I wrote the CTS Aptitude test on the 30th April in Hyderabad. I had applied around 10 months back and got the call letter now.
 
Some of my observations
1. Many questions from previous papers were repeated. The exact questions with the same values.
2. The question may not be repeated in future tests but I strongly suggest anyone who is going to appear for the test to solve the prev years papers religiously. It surely makes a lot of difference.
3. If you are unable to solve any question, just leave it and move on. Dont waste time on questions which might seem easy but eventually consume a lot of your time. And that will definitely not be worth it.
 
I had gone through the prev years papers, but was unable to find solutions for all the questions.
So, when I faced the same questions in the test, I regretted for not having byhearted the correct answers. Plz do not repeat this mistake.. I attempted around 25 questions. I cleared the test and I would have my interview soon. The venue is not yet disclosed.
 
Here are some of the questions which I remember.
 
Booklet: Purple.
 
You'll be surprised to know that almost all the questions from one of the previous papers find a place here.
 
I don't remember the order, but the questions are as follows.
 
NOTE: I have copied and pasted the questions from a previous paper.....and these are exactly what I had in my test.
 
1. Some conditions and choosing the best possible resolution.

2. A circle is inscribed in a Triangle of side 6cm. And a square is inscribed in the Circle. What is the area of square?

(3-4) There are two bridges running parallel over river Kauvery, and they are 1 KM apart. A man started rowing the boat upstream under first bridge, his hat fell into river while he was exactly under second bridge. He realized that after 15 mts, and started rowing in opposite direction, he eventually caught his hat under First Bridge.
            What is the speed of river Kauvery?
             What is the speed of boat?

(5-10) There are five traders Timber, Steel, Cotton, Boots, Wood . Each sent a Collection of items between them. No two traders have sent the items among themselves. i.e., The Trader who had received items from X can't send items to X. Steel sent Wood a collection of boots. Boots sent wood to the sender of Timber.  One more condition is there I don't remember. But the puzzle was little bit tough. One can get easily confused because the trader names and trading item names are same. Try to rename them and solve u can come up with an
answer, otherwise it might be difficult to untangle the puzzle. five questions on this like
Who received cotton?
Who sent Timber?
What did Timber receive? Etc.,

11. A train is moving at a speed of 25kmph, and another train moving in the same direction at a speed of 49kmph crossed a man in first train in  10 sec? What is the length of the faster train? (These are not actual values but model is important).

12.A cube has a surface area of 864sqcms. It is divided into smaller cubes of equal size and their surface area is 216sqcms. Find the number of smaller cubes?
  a.4     b.8   c.12    d 16       ANS: b

13.There are two milk cans. First can contains water and milk in the ratio 1:3 and the second contains milk and water in the ratio 2:2. Some milk from first can and some from second can is mixed in another can. New can has 12 liters of mixture in the ratio 3:5(water to milk). How much milk is taken from first and second can.
A 6,6  B 7,5  C 5,7  D 4,8   ANS:A

14.A person pays a tax of 10%,if his salary increases by 10% he need to pay a tax of 15%.The total gain he obtains after increment in salary is 350Rs .What is his salary?
a.12000   b 10000 c.8000 d.14000  Ans:b

15.Rajesh walks on pavement around the garden of size 60*40.The pavement width is 1 meter.  What is the area of Pavement?
a.204  b.102 c.306 d.428    Ans:a

16.A man runs around a square of side 10kms in different speeds as given below, find the average speed. 1st side: 10kmph, 2nd Side: 20kmph, 3rd side: 30kmph, 4th side: 40kmph
  a.19.2   b.20  c. 27  d. 26.5    Ans: a

(17-18) Sreesha starts from Bangalore to go to Sitapur. First two hours he moves at constant speed ,suddenly his car tyre gets punctured, so he took 10 minutes to start again.Then he moved at a constant speed of 30 kmph. By the he reached Sitapur,he was late by 30 minutes. If his car was punctured 30 kms before sitapur, he could have been late only by 15 minutes.
             What is the distance between Sitapur and Bangalore?
             What is the speed with which he started from Bangalore?

19.A university library has two big books placed adjacent to each other. Of which first book is to the left of Second one. A book worm started from the first page of first book, and went on making a hole in a straight line through the second book to its last page. If the covers are of width 1/4 th of a centimeter and the pages of each book have a width of 2 cm then how much distance did the book worm cover?
      A 3cm B 4.5cm C 5cm D 2cm  

20.There are 1000 doors closed. Here each goes through a door , which indicates he closes the door if it is open, and vice versa. 1st person goes through each door, and 2nd person goes through doors that are divisible by 2 and like that nth person goes through doors that have numbers divisible by n. how  many doors are opened after 1000 persons going through the doors?
a.500    b.150  c.62  d.31   Ans:d
(The doors remaining opened at the end are the ones that have square
numbers i.e., 1,4,9,16....)

(21-24) They are on Data Sufficiency.
21.Find the two  numbers
                   i)The product of two numbers is 24.
                   ii)The sum of two numbers is 10.
22.      Find the increase in % of salary of a person from 1997 to 2000
              i)His salary increased by 10% in each of the following years 1998,1999,2000
             ii) I don't remember...   But answer is i) is sufficient
   23 & 24 are simple..but go through these type of models.

(25-30)      Sentence completion.
I don't remember exact sentences, but I am giving the words from the options. Hope it helps  25 lavishing....fondness
  26. substantiate, encourage,
  27.---
  28.Obscure, specialised,
  29.----
   .....

(31-32) Two questions are of conclusion type. Given some information and asked some questions .They are not problematic, just general reasoning.

31. A company provides some Plans for Old age persons in India regarding their health. The plans actually are too costly, so No one showing interest in joining the Plans.What step among the following will favor company's plans ?
Some steps were given in a, b, c, d. You need to select the best one.

32. A private organization started a new Scheme on paying School fees. The plan is that if the Parents pay some amount before their children join in Schools, the Organization will look after their fees payments ..what ever course they may do..the company will bear the amount? What do you find the reason for Parents not to join in this Scheme?
Some reasons were given in a, b, c, d. You need to select the best one.

33. 60 members complete a work in 40 days. They worked for 10 days. And eventually 10 members quit the job and remaining people worked for another 10 days. and again 10 of them quit the job. This continued for every 10 days. How many days did workers take to finish the work?