Tata Consultancy Services Placement Paper

Company: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Placement Question 1

Statement :: Men cause more accidents than women while driving. However men are still better drivers than women. Question :: Which of the following is true considering the above statement

a) Men drive much faster than women
b) Percentage of women causing accidents is greater than that of men.
c) Percentage of men causing accidents is greater than that of women.

Answer : Clear answer is “b) Percentage of women causing accidents is greater than that of men”. The inference from this statement is that though men cause more accidents, there are more men drivers than women and hence more accidents from men. However the percentage of men drivers causing accidents is lesser than that of women.

Placement Question 2

Statement :: There is another planet X similar to earth where the total time taken for the completion of an year matches the duration of 365 days and 6 hours. However the total time taken for 4 years to get completed in that planet X matches exactly to that of the earth. How is this possible ?? Question :: Which of the following is true considering the above statement
a) Earth revolves slower than that of the planet X.
b) Leap year accounts for the delayed time of planet X.
c) Clocks measure times differently in both the planets.

Answer : Answer would be “b) Leap year accounts for the delayed time of planet X”. During leap year the number of days become 366. The extra one day (24 hours) accounts for 4 years of delay between times of planet X and earth.
Placement Question 3

Statement :: Total economy of India is much higher than that of United Kingdom. But an average Indian man has lesser income than that of a man from UK. Question :: Which of the following is true considering the above statement

a) Currencies in India and UK are different.
b) Though Indian economy is larger the population of India is huge.
c) UK has more jobs than India.

Answer : Correct answer is “b) Though Indian economy is larger the population of India is huge.” Since population of India is much higher than that of UK, the income per individual in India is lesser than that of UK.

Tata Consultancy Services Placement Paper

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra and largest campus and workforce in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Founded: 1 April 1968
Headquarter: Mumbai
Founders: Faquir Chand Kohli, Tata Sons, J. R. D. Tata

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