IBM Company question papers 1

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I appeared for the IBM recruitment test in our campus. Luckily, I got through. Now there were 3 rounds of qualifying exams.

First round is the Aptitude test. (55 marks total, cutoff 30 for boys)

For aptitude test remember the first and most important thing is Time Management. Practice R.S.Aggarwal, it's more than enough for the aptitude.

It has 4 sections in its paper: (1 hr test)

(I) Verbal (10 mins)

This will consist of filling up prepositions in the blanks.

e.g.

1. He had been singing for a very long time, but until now he has never been seen ____ the opera house

Options: (a) at (b) in (c) on (d) none

2. The sea food did not agree ____ him.

Options: (a) with (b) on (c) for (d) in

There will be at least 2 of these questions.

Then there would be few other 'fill in the blanks'.

Then there is a comprehension. Our passage was from "Origin of Species". It was fairly easy.

They are mostly in sequential order from passage paragraphs.

(II) Quantitative (25 questions, 30 mins)

First question was on venn diagrams (credit card holder problem).

Then there are questions on direction, 4-5 questions on data sufficiency, 4-5 questions on replacing 0 and 1 by * & #, age problems etc.

(iii) Attention to details (10 mins)

This section is careful. Section is very easy but be attentive to details.

There will be 2-3 questions on similarity like

234222272451 23422272451 234222272451

Find any dissimilarity.

Then there will problem on relation- father, son like that

Then replacing + by *, - by + and so on.

Last question will be on case study.

They had given us a criteria list for admission and few bio-data’s for considering whether their applications will be accepted.

(iv)Technical (10 mins)

This portion will contain checking output, choosing correct answer etc. It will be based on DBMS, C, and UNIX commands and may few other topics.

Essay writing:

They will provide 15 mins after aptitude test for writing this passage. About 300 words. Aptitude marks most probably don't include essay marks.

But they do pay importance to this.

128 were selected from 200-220 after aptitude tests.

Next is the GD round.

There were 12 in a group. They check your communication skills and your ideas. Just remember you have to talk.

If u get through this u will face Tech+hr interview and mostly they will be conducted by the People who conducted your GD.

It was as follows:

Sir: i didn't get time to read your essay, tell me about it in brief.

Me: explained (they were satisfied)

Sir: tell us something about yourself.

Me: told (stress on your extracurricular activities if you have good ones.

Sir: have u got any other job offer?

Me: yes sir, from cognizant.

Sir: why do u want to join IBM, cognizant is the fastest growing company now?

Me: explained (go through the press releases or news of the company you are sitting for, because if you talk about those they really get impressed, Just visit The Company's Home Site, you can get all details there)

Sir: Ok, what is your favorite subject?

Me: Principles of programming language

Sir: tell me difference b/w structure in C and C++?

Me: told

Sir: tell me a function where you don't have to define a body?

Me: pure virtual function

Sir: explain that.

Me: (that was the only thing I couldn't recall)

Sir: anyway, tell me about header files

Sir: Ok, let’s say I give u a job not challenging, a job that class 12 boys can do, would u do it?

Me: well a job is only as challenging as u make it, and I think there's no harm in starting with a class 12 job, I can surely work my way up.

Sir: tell me a phase of your life where u went through a big change.

Me: from my school to college.

Sir: Are u mobile?

Me: absolutely

Sir: ok, let’s say I send u to jungle rural place and tell u set up an IT workshop, what will the 3 most important challenges you will be facing?

(I) requirement analysis: planning, gathering info on what is necessary to get the job done, framework etc

(ii) Man power= local technically ignorant people + technically experienced people --> Managing them Together

(iii) Handling unexpected events that are bound to occur in any large scale job.

They were totally impressed with this answer.

Sir: you have any question for me?

Me: sir can you tell me about the training program in your company?

Sir: any more questions?

Me: yes sir, can u tell me more about 10 yr pact made between IBM and Idea cellular and Aditya birla?

Sir: Explains anymore?

Me: no sir.

Luckily I was selected.