Exam Type: Written Test Time: 1:30 hrs Exam pattern:Written Exam: Pattern: 3 sections No Negative Marking Section

I Verbal 25 questions 15 Minutes Section II Quantitative Aptitude 30 questions 45 Minutes Section III Logical Reasoning 30 questions 30 Minutes Total 85 questions 90 Minutes Section I Verbal 25 questions in 15 Minutes

Refer Barrons GRE guide Synonyms Analogies Fill up the sentences Find the Word that has to be replaced Form a Sentence and find the last word

Section II Quantitative Aptitude 30 questions in 45mins

Refer Quantitative Aptitude by R.S.Agarwal to prepare. Train Problems finding speed of train, how many seconds it will cross each other etc. Age problems find mothers age,fathers age etc. Statistics Problems(probability) A-this much , B-This Much, A n Bthis much and A u B ? Angle Problems which deals with triangle 3 problems

Section III Logical reasoning 30 questions in 30 Minutes

Tower of Hanoi Problem problem on fig. find the shaded area, square of size problem on symmetric fig Blood Relation Problems Find odd man out of the given series Find the missing letter

2011 Syntel Placement Paper:1. A person starts with the speed of u/1 kmph and returns with the speed of

u/2 kmph, what is his average speed. 2. 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. 3. In a right angled triangle ABC angle B = 90 , BM is the median to AC , then AB2 + BC2 (in terms of BM) 4. 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. 5. X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in ---- days. 6. The compound interest for first and second years is 200 and 220 on a certain amount. Find the sum. 7. 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. 8. 5 mangoes + 4 oranges = 7 mangoes + 1 orange. Find the ratio of mango to orange. 9. Food is sufficient for 100men for 60days. For how many days the food is sufficient for 500men? 10. 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/-? 11. 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? 12. (1 /((3/4-2/5 )/(2/3+4/5))) * ((2 /((4/3-2/5 )/(5/3+6/5))) (Numbers different) 13. 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? 14. 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)

15. find the average of reciprocals of x and y : 16. 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.(numbers may diff 17. Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank (a) 17 1/7 mins (b) 20 mins (c) 8 mins (d) none of these Ans.. (a) 18. Thirty men take 20 days to complete a job working 9 hours a day.How many hour a day should 40 men work to complete the job? (a) 8 hrs (b) 7 1/2 hrs (c) 7 hrs (d) 9 hrs Ans.. (b) 19. Find the smallest number in a GP whose sum is 38 and product 1728 (a) 12 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) none of these Ans.. (c) 20. A goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long.Find the area it can graze? (a) 38.5 sq.m (b) 155 sq.m (c) 144 sq.m (d) 19.25 sq.m Ans.. (a)

Part 1: (Verbal/English) Antonyms: 1. equanimity 2. sequester 3. apathetic 4. dislodge 5. sedate

Analogies:

1. celebrate:marriage:: a. window:bedroom b. lament:bereavement c. pot:pan d. face:penalty 2. negligent:requirement:: remises:duty cogent:argument easy:hard careful:position 3. Germ:disease:: man:women war:destruction 4. bouquet:flower:: skin:body product:factory 5. letter:word:: club:people product:factory doctor:medicine shopkeeper:goods chain:link page:book page:book picture:paper

Part II 1. 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) 2. X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in - - days. (ans: y^3/x^2) 3. sqrt(12 + sqrt(12) + ((sqrt(12) +.infinity) = ? (ans: 4) 4. 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)

Part III (Reasoning) 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 , B140, 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. P speaks Italian & French Q speaks Spanish & English R speaks Italian & German S speaks Spanish & French T speaks English & German etc. Find a) Mediator between P & Q b) Most popular language etc 3. All Ps are Qs some Rs are not Cs Some Cs are Ps & so on ( 5 Qs based on these facts) 4. One Logical Venn diagram problem 5. One simple flow chart

SAMPLE PAPER 3 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. 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? 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?

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. 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:C 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 area 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 14. Two successive discounts of 20% and 15% is equal to a net discount of. 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 rectangle 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. 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? 22. 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) 23. Find the average of reciprocals of x and y : 24. 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.(numbers may differ) 25. 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.. SAMPLE PAPER 4 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 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) 30. There was one question on triangle 31.The highest Score in an innings was 3/11 of the total and the next highest was 3/11 of the reminder. If the scores differed by 9, find the total score. a) 151 b) 161 c) 121 d) 101 e) 137 Ans: c 32.A boy was asked to multiply a certain number by 53. He multiplied it by 35 and got his answer less than the correct one by 1206. Find the number to be multiplied. a) 37 b) 67 c) 87 d) 97 e) 107 Ans: 67

33.A Problem like this not exactly the same but on same model. If the manufacturer gains 10 %, the wholesale dealer 15 % and the retailer 25 % then the cost of Production of a table, if the retail price is Rs.1265 a) 632.50 b) 800 c) 814 d) 834.24 Ans: b 34.A trader marks his goods up by 50% and declares two successive discounts of 20% each. What is his overall gain? a) 10% gain b) 4% gain c) 4% loss d) 10% loss e) No loss No gain