Placement Papers - Mahindra Satyam
SATYAM PAPER - 2003 - BANGALORE
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SATYAM 2003 TEST at PESIT, Bangalore by Jatin RM
15 q\'s in 30 mins
All Aptitude
1. get the correct arrangment of sentences.
i. This is.
ii.This is sentence with 4 references.
iii.This is to say that this sentence is a lonf sentence.
iv.This is not the last sentence of the paragraph.
v. The previous sentence to this is the longest sentence.
vi.This is first sentence of last paragraph.
vii.This refers to last sentence.
There were 2 more sentncs similar 2 this. For the correct soln look at the answers & get it. By lookin at the stmts u wont get anythin.
2. Somethin bout _a\'s,ii b\'s,ii c\'s. .i didnt get the question.
3. A third of this value is 1/2. What is the value.
Ans: 3/2
4. How to measure 4 l by using 5 l & 3 l vessels only.
Choices were 5 l - 520254 3 l - 032..u will get it by lookin at answers.
5. there are 6 somethins..lets call it cups.. .holding 19,14,21,35,10,8 nails each. Joe and Jack bought 5 of them with Jack buying twice number of nails than Joe. How much did they buy.
Ans: Jack-21,35,10 Joe-19,14 U can get it by lookin at ans(again). Easy.
6. Truck is travellin at 60 kmph. Wat rate should car travel to be ahead of truck for 2 mins.
Choices were 72, 66.8, 90,.. Me thinks its 66.8. Not sure.
7. Ther are 10 red balls,6 white and 5 blue. How many balls should i pick to make sure that i have atleast 1 of each.
8. A horribly phrased & really long question bout base 3..If u do get it attempt it only if time permits.
9.Next 4 Very very easy.
Old code
BLUE SKY (or somethin)..most of my qs r not xact
1234 567
New Code
SKY BLUE
123 4567
A company initially had a code for keepin price secret(god knows why)..dat was old code. They felt it was time 2 change & adopted to new code.
Q: If LKY was old code..wat is correspondin new code
10. Refer above for a similar q
11.Again from the 8th one..somethin bout letters repeatin themselves.
12. If SUE was in old code & was overlooked during new code..wat will the price be if salesman does not change code. Again refer 8.
from 4 mostly can score easily.
13. There are 1 way routes from A to G, Mto H, A to F..(A, G etc are given as some place) Which is the shortest route from A to F.
Ans: U dont even have to draw a graph. Just look at q & ans is urs.
14. A Fence was being erected by Jatin. The poles were to be 5 ft apart, but as Jatin(the fool that he is) forgot to bring 4 poles, he erected them 7 ft apart. The q is how much distance was the fence to cover.
Choice: 70 ft 92 ft 100 ft 75 ft.. Ans: 70 ft.
15. A friend of my, a teacher, lives in a house. When i asked her address she told me that she lived in a street where her side had the houses marked successively with consecutive even house numbers. She told me that the block of 6 houses near her house on the same side had a total of the house numbers as 8790 & that her house had the lowest number among them. Wat was the number of her house.
Another easy one.
16. There r some code given for some company.like
P Q R S T G H J K J
4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 0 9
Due to some security reasons the codes r changed .
G O P E B Z X C V L
1 2 3 9 0 6 7 8 5 4
four ques based on it.. which can be simple solved by comparing alphabets to their corresponding numbers.
17. If there r five students ( A B C D E ) who can comunicate through emails.. then some routes r given
like A- B
A - E
B - D
........
que is to find how can B comunicate with c in min number of stoppages.( remebr if ther is direct route from b to c then that is not the one with min stoppage. min means atleast one, so don\'t consider as direct from b to c)
18. One was like that there r certain number wroitten to the base 3 ... then to identify some relations between no..
it was a question with 4 subparts n full page question. as 15 ques has to be done in 30 mins . so better leave such long ques .. as they can\'t be solved in less then 1.5 mins.
19. 2 nos: , LCM=693 , GCM=11 one no: 77 find the other ? ans: 99
20. 5 children,youngest 3yrs old and no 2 children hve the same age ,sum of their age is 26.Find the age of eldest.
7,8,10,... ans:8
21. Second no is twice the first no and first no is thrice the third no Their avg is
22. Find the greatest no: ans: 36
23. RS232 cable - bit transfer rate ?0-50000,5000-50000..
24. If CPU wants to stop the IO process and continue with main processing, then which device it uses :
Control Unit,IO Divertor,Channel Divertor,None
Following this was a GD. There were 5 topics
1. US war on iraq-justified or not.
2. Role of UN in peacekeeping.
3. Position of Women in India compared to other nations.
4. Environment MAnagement.
5. Is China better than India in software.
Ppl appearin for test: 828
PPl selected for gd: 300
Ppl selected for interviews: 142
15 q\'s in 30 mins
All Aptitude
1. get the correct arrangment of sentences.
i. This is.
ii.This is sentence with 4 references.
iii.This is to say that this sentence is a lonf sentence.
iv.This is not the last sentence of the paragraph.
v. The previous sentence to this is the longest sentence.
vi.This is first sentence of last paragraph.
vii.This refers to last sentence.
There were 2 more sentncs similar 2 this. For the correct soln look at the answers & get it. By lookin at the stmts u wont get anythin.
2. Somethin bout _a\'s,ii b\'s,ii c\'s. .i didnt get the question.
3. A third of this value is 1/2. What is the value.
Ans: 3/2
4. How to measure 4 l by using 5 l & 3 l vessels only.
Choices were 5 l - 520254 3 l - 032..u will get it by lookin at answers.
5. there are 6 somethins..lets call it cups.. .holding 19,14,21,35,10,8 nails each. Joe and Jack bought 5 of them with Jack buying twice number of nails than Joe. How much did they buy.
Ans: Jack-21,35,10 Joe-19,14 U can get it by lookin at ans(again). Easy.
6. Truck is travellin at 60 kmph. Wat rate should car travel to be ahead of truck for 2 mins.
Choices were 72, 66.8, 90,.. Me thinks its 66.8. Not sure.
7. Ther are 10 red balls,6 white and 5 blue. How many balls should i pick to make sure that i have atleast 1 of each.
8. A horribly phrased & really long question bout base 3..If u do get it attempt it only if time permits.
9.Next 4 Very very easy.
Old code
BLUE SKY (or somethin)..most of my qs r not xact
1234 567
New Code
SKY BLUE
123 4567
A company initially had a code for keepin price secret(god knows why)..dat was old code. They felt it was time 2 change & adopted to new code.
Q: If LKY was old code..wat is correspondin new code
10. Refer above for a similar q
11.Again from the 8th one..somethin bout letters repeatin themselves.
12. If SUE was in old code & was overlooked during new code..wat will the price be if salesman does not change code. Again refer 8.
from 4 mostly can score easily.
13. There are 1 way routes from A to G, Mto H, A to F..(A, G etc are given as some place) Which is the shortest route from A to F.
Ans: U dont even have to draw a graph. Just look at q & ans is urs.
14. A Fence was being erected by Jatin. The poles were to be 5 ft apart, but as Jatin(the fool that he is) forgot to bring 4 poles, he erected them 7 ft apart. The q is how much distance was the fence to cover.
Choice: 70 ft 92 ft 100 ft 75 ft.. Ans: 70 ft.
15. A friend of my, a teacher, lives in a house. When i asked her address she told me that she lived in a street where her side had the houses marked successively with consecutive even house numbers. She told me that the block of 6 houses near her house on the same side had a total of the house numbers as 8790 & that her house had the lowest number among them. Wat was the number of her house.
Another easy one.
16. There r some code given for some company.like
P Q R S T G H J K J
4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 0 9
Due to some security reasons the codes r changed .
G O P E B Z X C V L
1 2 3 9 0 6 7 8 5 4
four ques based on it.. which can be simple solved by comparing alphabets to their corresponding numbers.
17. If there r five students ( A B C D E ) who can comunicate through emails.. then some routes r given
like A- B
A - E
B - D
........
que is to find how can B comunicate with c in min number of stoppages.( remebr if ther is direct route from b to c then that is not the one with min stoppage. min means atleast one, so don\'t consider as direct from b to c)
18. One was like that there r certain number wroitten to the base 3 ... then to identify some relations between no..
it was a question with 4 subparts n full page question. as 15 ques has to be done in 30 mins . so better leave such long ques .. as they can\'t be solved in less then 1.5 mins.
19. 2 nos: , LCM=693 , GCM=11 one no: 77 find the other ? ans: 99
20. 5 children,youngest 3yrs old and no 2 children hve the same age ,sum of their age is 26.Find the age of eldest.
7,8,10,... ans:8
21. Second no is twice the first no and first no is thrice the third no Their avg is
22. Find the greatest no: ans: 36
23. RS232 cable - bit transfer rate ?0-50000,5000-50000..
24. If CPU wants to stop the IO process and continue with main processing, then which device it uses :
Control Unit,IO Divertor,Channel Divertor,None
Following this was a GD. There were 5 topics
1. US war on iraq-justified or not.
2. Role of UN in peacekeeping.
3. Position of Women in India compared to other nations.
4. Environment MAnagement.
5. Is China better than India in software.
Ppl appearin for test: 828
PPl selected for gd: 300
Ppl selected for interviews: 142
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