1) Online Aptitude Test (around 1 hr)
Consists of math questions, english questions, and tough technical section. English consists of synonyms, passages… Tech section (Tronics) tests your overall knowledge ranging from digital logic, power electronics, processors, analog communication, digital commn, to fields and waves.
Normally a week’s gap is taken before the interviews commence.
2) Tech Round (not easy)
They concentrate either on microcontrollers or power electronics depending on the HR. Gotta be thorough with microcont, digital logic atleast.. questions are not direct, but are mainly application based.
3) HR Round
Just a formality. They ask why volvo, whether you have previous offers etc etc.
After this they take 2 weeks time to inform you about the results. Resumes will be analysed by their engineers and final confirmations sent to the college.
After getting placed they ask you to take a psychometric test which tests your reaction to different situations.
Please take a note this paper is just an indication towards the paper. They might give you a new pattern.
Directions for questions 1 to 5: Read the passages below and answer the questions that follow.
A recent study has provided clues to predator-prey dynamics in the late Pleistocene era. Researchers compared the number of tooth fractures in present-day carnivores with tooth fractures in carnivores that lived 36,000 to 10,000 years ago and that were preserved in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles. The breakage frequencies in the extinct species were strikingly higher than those in the present-day species.
In considering possible explanations for this finding, the researchers dismissed demographic bias because older individuals were not overrepresented in the fossil samples. They rejected preservational bias because a total absence of breakage in two extinct species demonstrated that the fractures were not the result of abrasion within the pits. They ruled out local bias because breakage data obtained from other Pleistocene sites were similar to the La Brea data. The explanation they consider most plausible is behavioral differences between extinct and present-day carnivores—in particular, more contact between the teeth of predators and the bones of prey due to more thorough consumption of carcasses by the extinct species. Such thorough carcass consumption implies to the researchers either that prey availability was low, at least seasonally, or that there was intense competition over kills and a high rate of carcass theft due to relatively high predator densities.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(a) suggest alternative methods for resolving a debate
(b) argue in favor of a controversial theory
(c) question the methodology used in a study
(d) discuss the implications of a research finding
2. According to the passage, compared with Pleistocene carnivores in other areas, Pleistocene carnivores in the La Brea area
(a) included the same species, in approximately the same proportions
(b) had a similar frequency of tooth fractures
(c) populated the La Brea area more densely
(d) consumed their prey more thoroughly
3. According to the passage, the researchers believe that the high frequency of tooth breakage in carnivores found at La Brea was caused primarily by
(a) the aging process in individual carnivores
(b) contact between the fossils in the pits
(c) poor preservation of the fossils after they were removed from the pits
(d) the impact of carnivores’ teeth against the bones of their prey
4. The researchers’ conclusion concerning the absence of demographic bias would be most seriously undermined if it were found that
(a) the older an individual carnivore is, the more likely it is to have a large number of tooth fractures
(b) the average age at death of a present-day carnivore is greater than was the average age at death of a Pleistocene carnivore
(c) in Pleistocene carnivore species, older individuals consumed carcasses as thoroughly as did younger individuals
(d) the methods used to determine animals’ ages in fossil samples tend to misidentify many older individuals as younger individuals
5. According to the passage, if the researchers had NOT found that two extinct carnivore species were free of tooth breakage, the researchers would have concluded that
(a) the difference in breakage frequencies could have been the result of damage to the fossil remains in the La Brea pits
(b) the fossils in other Pleistocene sites could have higher breakage frequencies than do the fossilsin the La Brea pits
(c) Pleistocene carnivore species probably behaved very similarly to one another with respect to consumption of carcasses
(d) all Pleistocene carnivore species differed behaviorally from present-day carnivore species
Directions for questions 6 to 7: Four statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that fits into the set of statements the maximum number of times.
6. A. Professional studies have become the ____ of the rich. B. Every citizen has the _____ to speak, travel and live as he pleases. C. He has a definite ______ over all his rivals. D. Sheron no longer has the _____ of the company’s bungalow and car.
a) advantage b) privilege c) right d) concession
7. A. People sensed ______. B. A bad _____ case had come in -- a person with a smashed arm. C. And then, without warning, _____ struck. D. The dogs were the first to recognize the sings of oncoming _________.
a) tragedy b) accident c) disaster d) calamity
Directions for questions 8 to 9: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four.
8.If you are on a three-month software design project and you’ve made in two weeks a programme that solves part of the problem, show it to your boss without delay.
a) and, you’ve put together a programme that solves part of the problem in two weeks
b) and, in two weeks, you’ve put together a programme that solves part of the problem
c) and, you’ve put together a programme that has solved part of the problem in two weeks
d) and, in two weeks you put together a programme that solved only part of the problem
9.Bacon believes that the medical profession should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a few days and at the cost of great pain.
a) be delayed for a few days
b) be delayed for a few days and
c) be otherwise only delayed for a few days and
d) otherwise only delay for a few days and
Directions for questions 10 to 11: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
10. A. Almost a century ago, when the father of the modern automobile industry, Henry Ford, sold the first Model A car, he decided that only the best would do for his customers.
B. Today, it is committed to delivering the finest quality with over six million vehicles a year in over 200 countries across the world.
C. And for over ninety years, this philosophy has endured in the Ford Motor Company.
D. A vehicle is ready for the customer only if it passes the Ford ‘Zero Defect Programme’.
a) ABCD b) ACDB c) ACBD d) CDAB
11. A. But, clearly, the government still has the final say.
B. In the past few years, the Reserve Bank of India might have wrested considerable powers from the government when it comes to monetary policy.
C.The RBI’s announcements on certain issues become effective only after the government notifies them.
D. Isn’t it time the government vested the RBI with powers to sanction such changes, leaving their ratification for later?
a) ACDB b) ACBD c) BACD d) DACB
Directions for questions 12 to 13: From the given alternatives, select the one in which the pairs of words have a relationship similar to the one between the bold words.
12. FISSION : FUSION a) implosion : explosion b) separation : togetherness c) intrusion : extrusion d) enemy : friend
13. DULCET : RAUCOUS a) sweet : song b) crazy : sane
c) palliative : exacerbating d) theory : practical
Directions for questions 14 to 15: Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters.
14. INNOCUOUS
(a) not capable (b) not dangerous (c) not eager (d) not frank
15. FOMENT
(a) spoil (b) instigate (c) interrogate (d) spray
Directions for questions 16 to 17: Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.
16. BENIGN
(a) peaceful (b) blessed (c) wavering(d) malignant
17. PUERILE
(a) fragrant (b) adult (c) lonely (d) feminine
DIRECTIONS for Questions 18 and 19:Answer the questions based on the following data:
A salesman enters the quantity sold and the price into the computer. Both the numbers are two-digit numbers. Once, by mistake, both the numbers were entered with their digits interchanged. The total sales value remained the same, i.e. Rs. 1148, but the inventory reduced by 54.
18. What is the actual price per piece?
(a) 82 (b) 41 (c) 56 (d) 28
19. What is the actual quantity sold?
(a) 28 (b) 14 (c) 82 (d) 41
DIRECTIONS for Questions 20 and 21: Answer the questions based on the following data:
A thief, after committing a burglary, started fleeing at 12:00 noon, at a speed of 60 kmph. He was then chased by a policeman X. X started the chase 15 minutes after the thief had started, at a speed of 65 kmph.
20. At what time did X catch the thief?
(a) 3:30 p.m. (b) 3:00 p.m. (c) 3:15 p.m. (d) None of these
21. If another policeman had started the same chase along with X, but at a speed of 60 kmph, then how far behind was he when X caught the thief?
(a)18.75 km (b) 15 km (c) 21 km (d) 37.5 km
DIRECTIONS for Questions 22to25: Answer each question independently
22. The cost of a diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. Once, this diamond broke into four pieces with weights in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 : 4. When the pieces were sold, the merchant got Rs. 70,000 less. Find the original price of the diamond.
(a)Rs. 1.4 lakh (b)Rs. 2.0 lakh (c)Rs. 1.0 lakh (d)Rs. 2.1 lakh
23. A cube of side 12 cm is painted red on all the faces and then cut into smaller cubes, each of side 3 cm. What is the total number of smaller cubes having none of their faces painted?
(a) 16 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 24
24. The figures show a circle of diameter AB and radius 6.5 cm. If chord CA is 5 cm long, find the area of triangle ABC.
(a) 60 sq.cm. (b) 30 sq.cm (c)40 sq.cm. (d) 52 sq.cm.
25. In a locality, two-thirds of the people have cable-TV, one-fifth have VCR, and one-tenth have both, what is the fraction of people having either cable TV or VCR?
(a) 19/30 (b) 3/5 (c) 17/30 (d) 23/30
26. If ABCD is a square and BCE is an equilateral triangle, what is the measure of the angle DEC?
(a) 150 (b) 30o (c) 200 (d) 450
27. I bought 5 pens, 7 pencils and 4 erasers. Rajan bought 6 pens, 8 erasers and 14 pencils for an amount which was half more than what I had paid. What percent of the total amount paid by me was paid for the pens?
(a) 37.5% (b) 62.5% (c) 50% (d) None of these
28. Distance between A and B is 72 km. Two men started walking from A and B at the same time towards each other. The person who started from A travelled uniformly with average speed 4 kmph. While the other man travelled with varying speeds as follows: In first hour his speed was 2 kmph, in the second hour it was 2.5 kmph, in the third hour it was 3 kmph, and so on. When will they meet each other?
(a) 7 hours (b) 10 hours (c) 35 km from A (d) midway between A & B
29. A man travels form A to B at a speed of x kmph. He then rests at B or x hours. He then travels from B to C at a speed of 2x kmph and rests at C for 2x hours. He moves further to D at a speed twice as that between B and C. He thus reaches D in 16 hours. If distances A-B, B-C, C-D are all equal to 12 km, the time for which he rested at B could be:
(a) 3 hours (b) 6 hours (c) 2 hours (d) 4 hours
30. Instead of a metre scale, a cloth merchant uses a 120 cm scale while buying, but uses an 80 cm scale while selling the same cloth. If he offers a discount of 20% on cash payment, what is his overall percentprofit ?
(a) 20% (b) 25% (c) 40% (d) 15%
31. A man has nine friends, four boys and five girls. In how many ways can he invite them, if there have to be exactly three girls in the invitees?
(a) 320 (b) 160 (c) 80 (d) 200 32. A test has 50 questions. A student scores 1 mark for a correct answer, -1/3 for a wrong answer, and –1/6 for not attempting a question. If the net score of a student is 32, the number of questions answered wrongly by that student cannot be less than
(a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 3 (d) 9
33. The sum of 3rd and 15th elements of an arithmetic progression is equal to the sum of 6th, 11th and 13th elements of the same progression. Then which element of the series should necessarily be equal to zero?
(a) 1st (b) 9th (c) 12 th (d) None of the above.
34. The 288th term of the series a, b, b, c, c, c, d, d, d, d, e, e, e, e, e, f, f, f, f, f, f…. is
(a)u (b) v (c) w (d) x
Directions for Q. 35 - 36: Refer to the following data
In a city state, government officials never tell the truth and those who are not government officials always tell the truth. A visitor meets three residents of the city state and asks one of them,” Are you a government official?”
The first resident answer the question. The second native then reports that the first resident denied being a government official. The third resident says that the first resident is a government officials. 35. How many of these three residents are not government officials?
(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) Insufficient data
36. What is the order in which the three residents statements are true/false
(a) True, True, False (b) False, False, True
(c) True, True, True (d) Insufficient data
DIRECTIONS for Question 37:This is a standalone question.
37. In a batch of 120 postgraduate History students each student has to select at least one subject out of American History, Ancient Indian History. Modern Indian History and History of Modern Europe.
90 students selected History of Modern Europe and an equal number. American History. 105 students selected Ancient Indian History and an equal number. Modern Indian History. AT least how many students selected all the four subjects.
(a)75 (b) 45 (c) 30 (d) Insufficient data
Directions for Questions 38 to 42: Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follows.
All the roads of city Z are either perpendicular or parallel to one another. The roads are all straight. Road, A, B, C, D and E are parallel to one another. Roads G, H, I, H, J, K, L and M are parallel to one another.
i. Road A is 1 mile east of road B ii. Road B is 1/2 mile west of C. iii. Road D is 1 mile west of E. iv. Road G is 1/2 mile south of H.
v. Road I is 1 mile north of J vi. Road K is 1/2 mile north of L. vii. Road K is 1 mile south of M
38. Which of the following statements is necessarily true?
(a) I is 1 mile north of L
(b) D is 2 miles west of B
(c) E and B intersect
(d) M is 1.5 miles north of L
39. If E is midway between B and C, then which of the following statement is false?
(a) D is less than 1 mile from B.
(b) C is less than 1.5 miles from D.
(c) Distance from E to B added to distance of E to C is 1/2 mile.
(d) D is 2 miles west of A
40. Which of the following possibilities would make two roads coincide?
(a) L is 1/2 mile north of I
(b) D is 1/2 mile east of A
(c) I is 1/2 mile north of K
(d) C is 1 mile west of D
41. If X is parallel to I& X is 1/2 mile south of J & I north of G, then which road would be ½ mile apart?
(a) I and X
(b) X and H
(c) J and G
(d) J and H
42. If road E is midway between B and C, then the distance between A and D is
(a) 1/2 mile
(b) 1 mile
(c) 1.75 miles
(d) 2.5 miles
Directions for Questions 43 to 45: Refer to the sequence below and answer the questions that follow:
2 z 5 ? 9 t r 2 × m + 3 b 7 – S
43. How many even numbers are located in even places from left to right?
(a) Two (b) Three (c) One (d) None of these
44. How many letters in the above sequence are immediately preceded as well as immediately followed by numbers?
(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) None of these
45. The element located third to the right of the thirteen element from the right is:
(a) r (b) t (c) 2 (d) 9
Directions for questions 46 to 48: Choose the set of three statements where the third statement can be logically derived from the previous two.
46.
1. All Tricks are Loops. 2. No Puzzles are Loops.
3. All Puzzles are Tricks. 4. No Puzzles are Tricks.
5. All Puzzles are Loops. 6. All Loops are Tricks. (a) 341 (b) 642 (c) 352 (d) 156 47.
1. All Spaces are Bust. 2. No Curves are Spaces.
3. Some Curves are not Squares. 4. Some Squares are Bust.
5. All Spaces are Squares. 6. All Squares are Curves. (a) 514 (b) 124 (c) 316 (d) 523
48.
1. All S are R. 2. All G are S.
3. All Y are R. 4. Some M are Y.
5. All Y are S. 6. No S are M.
(a) 654 (b) 153 (c) 361 (d) 145
DIRECTIONS for Questions 49and50:Complete the series
49. 12345671467, 1234567146, 234567146, 23456714,………….
(a)34567141 (b)456714 (c)2345671 (d)3456714
50.
(a) (b) (c)10 (d)20 