The Placement Season for the 2015 Batch has begun with the IT majors like Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, Accenture and TCS started visiting the campuses. We haven’t seen any change in the Recruitment process of Cognizant, Wipro, Accenture and TCS compared to last year. But Infosys has changed their Aptitude Test Pattern and we shall look into the details of it and our recommended strategy.

2. 10 To 13 Questions
35 Minutes

3. 40 Questions
35 Minutes

4. 15 To 18 Questions
25 Minutes

5. 11-15 Questions

6. 1-5 Questions

7. Sectional Cut-off – Yes
Negative Marks – No

9. Quantitative Ability
This is a new section introduced by
Infosys this year and it clearly indicates
that Infosys is looking for candidates’
with good Problem Solving and
Analytical skills. 10-13 Questions and 35
Minutes to solve so expect time
consuming. The focus was more on
Numbers and concepts like Permutation
and Combination, Probability. Few
questions from topics like Time and
Work, Time Speed and Distance, Mixture
& allegation, Business maths were also
seen.

10. Verbal Ability
 Infosys is probably the only company
which stresses a lot on Verbal Ability
and they continue to do the same by
retaining the same old pattern for this
section. 40 Questions testing almost
all the areas of Verbal ie) Grammar,
Comprehension, Vocabulary and
Critical Reasoning, 10 Questions
each.

11. Also like
 10 Questions on Sentence Correction.
10 Questions on Insert the correct
phrase.
5 Questions, fill in the blanks with
prepositions.
10 Questions on Comprehensions which
were also unexpectedly easy.
5 Questions were on Sentence
Improvement

12. Reasoning Ability
 Similar to older Infosys pattern we have
seen questions from Logical Reasoning,
Data Arrangement, Data Interpretation,
Data Sufficiency, Syllogism, Visual
Reasoning and Puzzle Test. Earlier there
were sets of 5 questions in each set and
now it was reduced to 2 or 3 per
question set and this makes it time
consuming to solve. Apart from this we
didn’t notice any change in the difficulty
level of the questions.

13. PlacementSeason.Com’s
Expected Cut-Off:
 Quantitative Ability – 8 to 10 Marks
 Reasoning Ability – 11 to 12 Marks
 Verbal Ability – 20-22 marks

15. Quantitative Ability
 Focus on getting 7 Questions correct by
choosing the less time consuming
questions and attempt it with-in the first
15 Minutes. We have noticed 4 to 5 very
easy questions which can be solved in
less than 5 minutes. Once you are
through with this then you will have close
to 20 Minutes for the remaining 4
questions and out of which even if you
get 1 question correct you will most likely
clear the expected cut-off. Hence the key
here is to identify the 7 less time
consuming questions.

16. Reasoning Ability
 Attempt Individual questions first, like questions
from Logical Reasoning, Syllogism, Data
Sufficiency, Visual Reasoning and Puzzles.
Because these questions will not have common
data to be solved and each question might take
a maximum of 2 minutes to solve and a
majority can be solved in less than a minute.
You can easily solve 10 such questions with-in
first 15 Minutes. Now you will be left with Data
Arrangement and Data Interpretation type of
questions and we recommend to solve data
Arrangement at the end because there is high
probability of getting it wrong compared to Data
Interpretation. Hence out of the remaining 10
Minutes even if you get 4 to 4 questions correct
you will comfortably clear he expected cut-off.

17. Verbal Ability
 Attempt Sentence Correction or Error Spotting and
Vocabulary first, ie) with-in first 15 Minutes try to complete
these 20 Questions. Next go for Reading Comprehension
and here if you find a lengthy passage then you will get 2 to
3 direct questions hence read the question first and try to
find the answer from the passage. Don’t try to read and
understand the passage completely. You can comfortably
attempt only the direct questions with-in 5 minutes and take
a chance in the other type of questions since there is no
negative marks. Don’t waste your time in inference type of
questions. If you get a short passage better attempt it at the
end because the questions will be tougher. We have seen
at-least one passage in Infosys lengthy hence you can
attempt that first. Last type of question is Critical Reasoning
here try to attempt 5 to 6 questions with-in 10 Minutes. By
now you would have attempted close to 30 questions in 30
Minutes and with an accuracy of 85% you will comfortable
clear the cut-off and you still have 5 Minutes left to attempt
the remaining questions.

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19. Disclaimer:
 The information provided above is based on the feedback we receive from our
students, we don’t guarantee that Infosys will follow the same hiring process in
their future recruitment drives.