Test Date : 25 September 2010
Test Location : Crescent College of Engineering,Chennai
Posted By : Karthiga
Hai, I am Karthiga. I attended IBM recruitment on 25 th and 26th September at Crescent Engineering college, Chennai. I got selected in it. I like to share my experience with you.
Written test consists of:
1. Matrix type questions(no negative)(time duration:13 min, no of questions: 15)
2. Series(absolutely easy)(negative ¼)(20 questions, time duration: 4 min)
3. Aptitude questions(negative ¼)(12 questions, time duration: 15 min)
In matrix type,
Following are the questions I remember.
Its 5*5 matrix:
# 8 @ ? $
K * Z + 8
S ? $ 2 Z
I P ? F +
F Q 8 Z 2
It's not actual data given. Questions was like this.
1) If number of occurrence of 8 is >4 then replace $ by 2, Z by 3 then which column has maximum value
If less than <4 then replace ? by 4, which row has maximum value.
2) If sum of all numbers is an even number then replace column 1 by row 3 and row4 by row 2. What is the 3rd element in row 4.
If it is odd number then some condition given like this.
3) If all rows and columns are interchanged what is the second element in row 5?
4) What is the element that is left to the element that is below the element in row 2, column 2?
5) Traverse from fourth element of row 5, go to row 2, then row 4 (like this)what is the element that you reach finally?
6) Replace row 2 by column4, column1 by column 3 then reverse the elements along the diagonal (from top left to bottom right) the what s the fourth element in row 4?
Same pattern is repeated again and again.
Matrix type is really easy. I solved 11 questions out of 15. There is no need for preparation for this part. Then 20 series given. Same series questions repeated. Go for freshersworld and try some series if needed. Time duration is 4 min. My friends solved up to 16 series. Beaware that it consists of negative marks.
1) 42,43,43,44,44,____
2) 2,9,3,16,4,25,5,____
3) 2,1,4,2,6,3,_____
4) 11,22,23,11,24,25,___
5) 21,22,33,34,41,____
6) 16,17,22,24,18,19,26,_____
I solved only 12 series. Out of which 10 may be correct.
Aptitude test(Time duration: 15 min)(12 questions)
1) A printer started its work at 8.15 a.m and ended its work at 9.20 p.m. It was interrupted twice for the time duration of 42 min. It can print 100 instructions per hour. Approximate how many instructions it can print?
2) Person A can finish 2/5 of work and person B can finish 3/5 of work. If A completed some 1/9 of his work and B completed 5/18 of his work. what fraction of work is not yet completed by both?
3) A room has 50 m length, 30 m width and 720 cm height. Then what is the volume?
4) A room has width half of its length. When 6 is decreased from both length and width then its area is differed by 108 so find the length.
5) Machine A is got for rent and maintatence cost of 250$ is spent per month. Another machine B is purchased for 1500$ and cost of maintenance is 75$ per month. what is the expenditure difference?
6) Printer A prints 8192 character per min and printer B prints 13862 character per min four character ar e equal to one word. Printer A starts at 7:15 am while Printer B starts at 7:29 am then at what time both will have same no of words printed . (2 questions are asked in the same pattern)
Most of them solved 4 or 5 applications questions. Many questions were based on time and work.
Out of 370, 180 passed written test.
In GD:
I had “Is Indian media using its freedom correctly or not”
GD went around for 30 minutes. Everybody was given equal chance to speak, equal chance to conclude. one minute was given to think points. They told to give introduction in our group. When we give introduction itself they marked something in their papers.
Other GD topic is: Is IT overshading other engineering studies?
(even non-IT students go to job in IT only. Not to their respective jobs. So, one can speak a lot about this.)
These 2 topics only got repeated to all 12 groups. They are checking for basic communication skills and participation.
Next day we had technical. Interviewer was very friendly.
He asked about my project, basic DBMS queries, inheritance types, code for multilevel inheritance. I made mistakes in queries and writing code he kindly corrected my mistakes. Make sure you know about the final project clearly.
In HR round, he asked
1. My strength and weakness
2. Symposiums
3. To tell something that is not in resume.
4. Again basic queries, some basic oops concepts which is my area of interest.
5. Willing to relocate or not, asked abt my family.
6. What I know about IBM
That’s it.
For my friends also, they asked abt project, models in S/W Engineering, area of interest, basic math problems to solve.
If one know basic concepts it’s enough.
IBM process is easy compared to other companies. No need to be panic. I enjoyed IBM recruitment. In technical and HR mostly all students got selected except few.
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