Syntel placement paper 4

Syntel placement paper 4


COMPANY NAME : Syntel

Question pattern of SYNTEL test conducted at COCHIN(SHREDS) ON 23-8-
2003:

section I: 25 questions (ENGLISH) in 15 minutes..
section II: 45 questions (QUANTITATIVE) in 45 minutes....
section III: 30 questons (REASONING) in 30 minutes.....

we were first asked to do section II and then section I.....

SECTION II
QUANTITATIVE
(TIME IS A SEVERE CONSTRAINT)



Qn 1.) (this was the first question)
Maximum numbers that can be formed using all the 4 digits 6 4 8 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 is
1.imag 2.real 3.coincidental 4.zero

4.) Difference b/w the compound interest and simple interest for
Rs.2500 for 2 years is given-----. find the rate of interest.

5.) there was one more question on S.I and C.I

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 iff it takes 18hrs to fill and 18 hrs to empty.... (don't
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 don't recall) 8

12.) (think the last but three question)Travelling 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 (don't 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. abt getting a change
of 10ps and 25 coins for ------Rs.(how many possible combinations or
so possible)

27.) x/y+y/x=40/21(don't 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 women's work. 3/5 of the work is
done by -----boys and -----women. How much time would be taken by the
women to complete the work?

30.) using false weight a man gains -----%, for a k.g. then he uses a
weight of.....(this kind of question has some formula that can be
found in R.S.Agarwal)

31.) there was one question on L.C.M. and co primes(don't remember
the question)

32.) there was one question on triangle

33.) 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.....

This is all i can remember from section II