Sample Test Paper
As i informed u earlier that Satyam came to B.I.T., Mesra on 6th Aug
2005, and I got thru it. Thank u mam and all ur group members from
whom i was able to get questions pattern, gd topics, interviews etc.
Here I am sending the papers which I remember. I am from MCA (2003-2006).
The written test was of 15 questions in 30 mins. (Appeared approx. 300)
(Shortlisted for GD: 108)
1> A Basic program which u may take it as algorithm since nothing was
mentioned on that.
It was like;
R=24
L=R+R*10
PRINT L
(Some more statements were there but main code was this)
2> Find the odd one out. (Data are different)
i> 312 ii> 369 iii>350 iv> 672 v> None of these
3> age problem. A man is 6 years older than his wife. 20 years before
the man was 15 times as old as his son. Wife is 3 times older than her
son. What is wife's age. (Data are different)
4> Simple Interest Problem: A man gets a rate of 6% on a certain sum
of money for first 2 years. Next 3 years 6.5% and after 5 years 8%.
What will be the sum if he gets a total interst if Rs. 1200 in 8
years. (Data are bit different).
5> If Atul is the son of Zameer. Madhu is the daughter of Ahmed.
Faisal is the wife of Ahmed. Zaheer is the brother of MAdhu. Then what
is the relation between Atul and Sudhir?
i> Cousin ii> Brother iii> Father iv> None of these
(Ans: None of these)
6> One problem on Figure matching which was very easy.
7> One question on average of temperatures which was also easy.
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12> One question was like that there are numbers from 1,2,....1000.
Every seventh number is cut off. and so on.....
It was quite long, i dont remember. I used hit and trial method to
solve this. There were 10 numbers in each choice (four multiple).
I just checked that whether any one of the 10 numbers is divisible by
7 or not. It would reject the possibility of answer. The option A
consisted 10 numbers which were not divisible by seven. In the rest of
the options at least 1 number was there which was divisble by 7.
13> A para like Prof. Abacus is double degree holder and so on... i
dont remember
14> A problem on probability which I dont remember,
15> A man spends 10% of his earning on clothes. 20% of the remaining
on House Rent, and 25% of the rest in shopping. Finally he was left
with Rs.___________ (4 digit No.) Whatz is salary. (Data are
different)
Ans: Rs. 20,000/-
This is all i remember. The paper consisted of easy as well as hard
questions. I marked 10 answers out of which I was sure shot of 9. I
think the cut off was 8 or 7. Negative marking is there. Never do
guess work and please solve urself and do not look into others. It
will help u in solving the paper with accurate answers and u will b
confident that ur answer is correct.
Group Discussions: (Appeared 108 in group of 10), (Time: 10 mins)
Shortlisted for PI: 43
i> Effect on youth of Indian movies. (my topic)
ii> Should GD be conducted so as to select students in campus?
iii> India and UN
And i dont remember rest.
My experience: I was not the initiator. Neither i was second nor
third. When as the fourth person I started at a time 4 people started
too simultaneously. It was just a mess. I kept quiet. But I though
this wont do. I just made all of them shut upand said,"Just maintain
the quoram. Lets everybody speak individually". This was followed for
hardly 1 mins and again the same thing happened. The our observer
started to ask individually to some people for conclusion.
According to me GD was not all satisfactory for me. But I got through.
One of my friend was the initiator in another group and he initiated
well. He thot now his turn is over and he just kept quiet. He was
deselected.
Interview Experience:
Technical (around 15 mins)
He asked about project, just the concepts which I used. Further
questions were: I was straight forward and precised becoz I didnt knew
much in detail the answers. He was not at all grilling.
1> What is a file?
2> WHat is a pointer?
3> What is data and information?
4> Steps of Software Engineering.
Waterfall model.
5> Paging concept.
6> Queue?
7> Whatz the other name can we use instead of FIFO in Queue (Ans: LILO)
8> What is Primary Memory, Secondary Memory, RAM, Working memory etc.
9> Connection of VB and MS Access.
I did not answered many questions. Luckily i was asked the basic
concepts only. It is beneficial to appear for the PI in the first lot
itself.
HR:
Very very simple. All the candidates who have appeared for Tech
Interview was to appear for the HR. And then finally the results came.
HR was very simply. They asked about my 1 year gap. And next question,
"Work environment of Satyam" which I had written in "Why do u want to
join Satyam" in their PI Sheet. It was very sinple. Mainly they chekd
our communications.
Well friends, just beleive in urself. Its very easy, simple. If ur
communication is good, u can talk in front of 10 people and have some
knowledge about the main subjects like OS, C etc u get through. All
the Best. U can do it.
Bye. This is all about my experience.