Points to keep in mind while appearing for the TCS Online Aptitude Test

TCS is going to recruit approx. 4,000 students from this off-campus recruitment 2014. We are the first to give the confirmation that TCS is quite serious for its off-campus this year and soon the process of recruitment will start.  If you have missed that featured post where a TCS HR answered some of the questions related to off-campus, then you can read it now. As we got green signal from HR that they will  surely be organizing its off-campus, we told all our student representatives of different colleges to collect some important points that students could keep in mind while appearing for its Online Aptitude Test.

Point No 1: After you have been allocated a machine for your online Aptitude Test, you will get approx. 10 to 15 minutes or even more before the test starts. Just open Microsoft word or any text editor and type an email about any topic that comes to your mind. As you have to go through the Verbal part just after 10 minutes, this step will help you to increase your typing speed while attending the verbal part. You can skip this step if you are good  at typing. Follow the above step if TCS official has no problem. In most of the colleges it’s allowed, but also we got some rare case where TCS official had not allowed to open anything in desktop.

 Now coming to the verbal part of the online test.

You will have to write an email. Just follow these simple steps, you can crack this round easily.

Below example is taken from TCS Online portal.

Using the following phrases, write an email with minimum of 70 words to the customer Mr. Gill Roy explaining delay to the project.

Payment processing system – Schedule – 10th May (Friday) – Unexpected power outage – 3 days – Overall delay – 7 days – includes recovery of lost work – will not recur

Point No 2: After getting the email question, first built the structure of the email in our mind after reading it twice properly. Take maximum of 3 minutes and after that start writing the email and be fast. If possible keep the last minute for checking it else while you are writing we can check it.

In the above mail receiver name is given but the sender name is not given. In the sender's name place, you have to give your name. In some email, you will find that both sender and receiver's name is given. Take care that who is the sender and who is the receiver, see that they are at the right place. If you make mistakes there, then its game over. So, be careful. At the end don't forget to write 'Regards' and then sender name.

Point No 3: Be careful of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors and also keep track of the number of words. You don't have to calculate it, there is word counter in TCS online test Application. Plus 20 or 30 words will not make any negative impact, but less than 70 words will surely have some negative impact.So, keep it in mind.

Point No 4: It may happen that you find one or two words out of 10 that you cannot figure out how to use it in the email. So, don’t worry, write a grammatical correct sentence related to the email and insert the word so that its matches the sentence. Even its will not make any meaning to the context but as your email will be checked by a computer software, it will not  give any negative marking. This idea is given by a student of NIT, Jamshedpur, who have  actually tested it.

Point No 5: It's always better to use the given words in sequence as they appear in the question. If you are unable to use them in sequence as given in question, then go for the order you like.

Now coming to the Analytical Ability part of Online Test.

Point No 6: TCS has not changed anything in their question set database. So, you will get same set of questions that are already asked in on-campus for the session (2013-14). Just go through all set of questions posted in interviewtime.in, you will surely get some question common in your online aptitude test, but it’s totally depended on your luck that how many you will get common. We will soon post some more TCS latest placement paper so don’t forget to check it out.

Point No 7: Cutoff for this TCS online aptitude test. TCS official said that off-campus cutoff will be same as on-campus recruitment. This year on-campus  cutoff varies from 12 to 18. In off-campus, we think that it will vary from 12 to 15. Generally, the cutoff is high in NIT's and some top colleges, so cutoff  rise to 16 to 18. So, if you give 16 correct answer, you will surely find your name in the selected student list for the interview.

Point No 8: You should know the  truth behind Dummy question. Yes, you may get a Dummy question. Probability of getting dummy question is high. Dummy question simply means that you will not find any correct option for that particular question. So, what to do? Leave the question. Yes, some marks will be added for you if you leave it, but it has more negative impact if you go for guessing for dummy question. If you have answered 20 questions correctly with the dummy question with a guess,  you may not get selected for the interview. Even we are not fully aware about the impact of Dummy question.

One solution to this problem, Don’t go for Guessing. There will be maximum one dummy question, so if you encounter one question having no correct option just skip it without wasting time.

Point No 9: There will be two star mark question, which carries more marks compared to normal question.So, give more time to solve these questions. These questions are difficult to solve compared to normal questions. Also keep one thing in mind these questions has more negative marking than other normal questions. So, again don’t go for any kind of Guessing.

Point No 10: Don’t use the scientific calculator that has been provided on the test screen. It’s always better that you carry a scientific calculator. There is a  big reason why we are saying so. Firstly, TCS on-screen calculator is not totally compatible for use with keyboard, yes you can use the on-screen calculator using a mouse but it will take more time for calculation. It's always better to use your own digital calculator. If you forget to bring your calculator, then use the on-screen calculator using  mouse.

Point No 11:  Don't get panic at any condition. Only solving 15 to 16 question will take you to the interview round.

Point No 12: Just go to TCS Seesame online test portal , and give a test. This will help you to become familiar with their Online test application user interface. The same Online test Application will be used for your online test.

The above 12 points are totally based on on-campus recruitment for the session (2013-14). The same rule surely will help you  to clear the Online Test.

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