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1. If [x] indicates integral of x i.e is the largest integer less than x and |x|
indicates absolute value of x then what is the maximum value of [x]/|x|.
A. 1 B. 0 C.-1 D. None of these Ans: A
2. In the above question what is the minimum value of [x]/|x|.
A. 1 B. 0 C.-1 D. None of these Ans: D
(3-6) If the clock(Conventional clock with numbers from 1 to 12 in order) is cut
into 3 pieces such that the sum of numbers on each piece are in Arithemetic
Progression(A.P) with a common difference of 1.
3. What is the sum of even numbers in the group where 5 is present?
A. 4 B. 10 C. 12 D. 14 Ans: B
4. What is the product of all numbers in the group in which 12 is present
A. 212 B. 252 C. 244 D. None of these
5. What is the count of numbers in each piece.
A. 2,2,5 B. 5,5,2 C. 3,4,5 D. 6,4,2 Ans: C
6. What is the count of numbers in each piece.
A. 2,2,5 B. 5,5,2 C. 3,4,5 D. 6,4,2 Ans: C
7. Avinash takes 15 days to complete a work and Bada takes 12 days to
complete the same work. If they work in alternate days, In how many days they
finish the work.
A. 13 days B. 13 1/4 days C. 6 1/4 days D. None Ans:
8. There is a circular track of length 400 mts. If A and B Starts at the same
point but in opposite direction with a speeds of 8 m/sec and 12 m/s
respectively.Then at what time after the begining they will meet for the second
time.
A. 1hr 40 sec B. 20 sec C. 40sec D. 3hr 20 sec Ans: C
9. In the above question when will they meet for the first time at the starting
point.
A. 1hr 40 sec B. 20 sec C. 40sec D. 3hr 20 sec Ans: A
10. If the vertices of the triangle are A(1,2), B(-2,-3) and C(2,3) then which is
the largest angle?
A. Angle(ABC) B.Angle(BAC) C.Angle(ACB) D.None Ans:B
11. If (-1,0), (0,-1) and (-1,-1) are three vertices of a square then what is the
4th vertex.
12. If [x] indicates integral of x i.e is the largest integer less than x and |x|
indicates absolute value of x then find the value of
[1.99]+[-2.99]+[1.03]+[2.50]
A. 2 B.1 C.-2 D. -5
Ans: A
Step1: Add all the numbers
Step2: If it is less than 10 STOP, else go to Step1.
13. If X=6724 then what is the end result after applying the above algorithm.
A. 19 B.10 C.1 D. None Ans:C
14. If the 4 numbers are arranged in all possible orders then how many
solutions are possible.
A. ONE B. TWO 3.THREE 4. NONE Ans A
15. A trader frauds by 10% while buying and 10% while selling the same.
What is the total gain he obtained during the transaction?
A. 13 B.221/4 C.20 D.None of these Ans.
16. There are three cylinders with same height and surface area. If a new
cylinder is created by melting these three with the same height as before what is
the surface area of the new cylinder when compared to that of the previous.
A. 25% more B.50% more C.100% more D.None
17. If x=a then y=b except when x=b and y=a. If x=a, then p,q,r,s but when x
not equal to a then p,q,r,s=e,f,g,h. If x=m or n then both charecters preeciding it
and following it also equals the same with the precedence to the preceding
charecter.
There r 5 questions based on the above.
Technical & HR questions
1. Transistor advantage over FET
2. Use of DFT.
3. Whether a DC source can be used to run a computer
4. Storage class in C ?
5. what type of I/O device is required for C.
6. Application of the various bands in Satellite communication
7. Process to convert a transistor to diode
8. effect of quantisation on the BW of a signal.
HR Questions
9. How wud u like to spend 7 day holiday
10. what u expect from CTS
11. short term & long term goals
12. How u can contribute from ECE to software
13. Physical realization of Phase modulation.
CTS PAPER IN N.I.T. JAMSHEDPUR
Booklet color: Red
1. Using the digits 1,5,2,8 four digit numbers are formed and the sum of all possible
such numbers. 106656
2. Four persons can cross a bridge in 3, 7, 13, 17 minutes. Only two can cross at a
time. Find the minimum time taken by the four to cross the bridge. 20
3. Find the product of the prime numbers between 1-20 Ans:9699690
4. 2, 3, 6, 7--- using these numbers form the possible four digit numbers that are
divisible by 4. ans----8
5. Two trains are traveling at 18kmph and are 60 km apart. There is flying in the
train. It flies at 80kmph. It flies and hits the second train and then it starts to oscillate
between the two trains. At one instance when the two trains collide it dies. At what
distance travel by the fly. Ans---12km
6. There are 1000 doors that are of the open-close type. When a person opens the
door he closes it and then opens the other. When the first person goes he opens-closes
the doors ion the multiples of 1 i.e., he opens and closes all the doors .when the second
goes he opens and closes the doors 2, 4 6 8 resly. Similarly when the third one goes he
does this for 3 6 9 12 15th doors resly. Find number of doors that are open at
last.666
7. There are 9 balls of these one is defective. Find the minimum no. of chances of
finding the defective one.2
8. There are coins of Rs.5, 2, 1,50p, 25p, 10p, 5p. each one has got a weight. Rs 5
coin weighs 20gms.find the minimum number of coins to get a total of 196.5gms.
9. A can do a work in 8 days, B can do a work in 7 days, C can do a work in 6 days.
A works on the first day, B works on the second day and C on the third day resly.that is
they work on alternate days. When will they finish the work.(which day will they finish
the work) (7+7/168)->>8
10. A batsman scores 23 runs and increases his average from 15 to 16. Find the runs
to be made if he wants top Inc the average to 18 in the same match. 39
11. A man sells apples. First he gives half of the total apples what he has and a half
apple. Then he gives half of the remaining and a half apple. He gives it in the same
manner. After 7 times all are over. How many apples did he initially
have?Ans:127
12. In a club there are male and female members. If 15 female quit then the number
of males will become double the number of males. If 45 males quit no. of female
becomes five times the number of males. Find the number of females.Ans: 160/3, 83/3
13. When I was married 10 years back my wife was the sixth member of my family.
Now I have a baby. Today my father was dead and I had a new baby. Now the average
age of my family is the same as that when I was married. Find the age of my father
when he was. 60
14. I and two of my friends were playing a game. For each win I get Rs 3. Totally I
had three wins. Player 2 got Rs9 and player 3 got Rs 12. How many games had been
played? 10
15. A person gives a secret to two other persons in 5 minutes. How long will he take
to tell the secret to 768 people?
16. There are 40 seats in a bus. People agree to share the money for the number of
seats. The total money comes to 70.37. How many seats were free?Ans: 31
17. I had Rs100 and I play. If I win I will hav Rs110 and if I lose I will have Rs90. at
the end I have 2 wins and 2 lose. How much do I have? Ans: Rs.
100
18. There were sums related to diagrams. They asked to calculate the areas of the
circle, rectangle that were enclosed in other objects. They were simple. There were
many questions on logical reasoning.
Eg: There are two identical islands. Same tribe lives in the islands. But their
receptiveness
varies.
This is the question. There were four choices and we have to select the most
appropriate
one.
For the abov one the answer is ----- because of climatic changes There was a
question in
which they
gave a polygon with all the external angles. We have to calculate the asked
interior
angle
19 A says " the horse is not black".
B says " the horse is either brown or grey."
C says " the hoese is brown"
At least one is telling truth and atleast one is lying. tell the colour of horse?
Answer : grey
20. A son and father goes for boating in river upstream . After rowing for mile son
notices the hat
of his fathefalling in the river.After 5 min. he tells his father that his hat has
fallen. So they
turn round and are able topick the hat at the point from where they began boating
after 5min.
Tell the speed of river? Ans...6 miles/hr
21. A+B+C+D=D+E+F+G=G+H+I=17 where each letter represent a number from 1
to 9. Find
out what does letter D and G represent if letter A=4. (8 marks) Ans.
D=5 G=1
22. Argentina had football team of 22 player of which captain is from Brazilian team
and goalki from
European team. For remainig palayer they have picked 6 from argentinan and 14
from european.
Now for a team of 11 they must have goalki and captain so out of 9 now they plan
to select 3
from rgentinian and 6 from European. Find out no of methods avilable for it. (2
marks)
Ans : 160600 ( check out for right no. 6C3 * 14C6)
23 Three thives were caught stealing sheep, mule and
camel.
A says " B had stolen sheep "
C says " B had stolen mule"
B says he had stolen nothing.
The one who had stolen horse is speaking truth. the one who had stolen camel is lying . Tell
who
had stolen what? Ans. A- camel ;B- mule ;C- horse
24 A group of friends goes for dinner and gets bill of Rs 2400 . Two of them says that they have
forgotten their purse so remaining make an extra contribution of Rs 100 to pay up the bill. Tell
the
no. of person in that group. Ans - 8 person
25 In acolony there are some families. Each of them have children but different in
numbers.Following
are conditions:
A) No of adult no of sons no of daughters no of families.
B) Each sister must have atleast one brother and should have at the most 1 sister.
C) No of children in one family exceeds the sum of no of children in the rest families.
D) Tell the no of families.(5 marks)
Ans : 3 families
26 There are 6 people W,H,M,C,G,F who are murderer , victim , judge , police, witness,
hangman.
There was n eye witness only circumtancial witness. The murderer was sentenced to death.
read following statement and determne who is who.
1. M knew both murderer and victim.
2. Judge asked C to discribe murder incident.
3. W was last to see F alive.
4. Police found G at the murder site.
5 H and W never met.
Verbal 20 minutes 25 marks.
Analytical 25 minutes 25 marks.
Mental ability 20 minutes 20 marks.
Analytical section
1. 68 routes are there in railway track. 3 connect A,B,C. 4 connect A and C. 3
connect A B. 2 connect B C. Routes to ABC are in the ration 11:15:8.
Find only A
Only B
Only C
The rest were simple questions.
2. This is algorithm based question
Algorithm.
Step 1: x=0,y=1,z=1;
2: x=z;
3: y=x*x-1;
4: y=y+2;
5: if(z>100)
Goto step 6
Else
Goto step 2
6: Exit
Five questions were based on this algorithm.
Find the value of y after one iteration.
Find the value of x,y,z after the exit of program
Find the value of z after 3 iterations
3. Then the next 5 questions (11 to 15) are like
P+q=5; q+r=10 like that and to find the value of P+q+r one statement is enough or
two statement is enough and questions like that.
The answer for 11 to 15 (3 1 0 4 -)
Answer for 16 n 17 (2 4)
4. Question based on binary system. (5 marks)
Find the value of
$**$*
$***$
$$*$$
**$**
$*$*$
The clue is that it is binary system based. Clue ll be in the question itself.
Substitute 1 for $ and 0 for *
5. In a race if x leads y by 10 meters and y leads z by 10 meters in a 100 m race.
Find the difference between x ad z.
And two more questions were asked based on probability and trains
Verbal
Reading comprehension 2 for 10 marks
Then choose the best sentence from the given sentences that was for 5 mark (very
easy)
Preposition and articles for 5 marks.
(no synonym and antonyms )
Mental ability.
The first 10 questions in mental ability was purely pictorial based questions (similar
to the one which ll be there in IQ books easy stuff)
The first 5 were picking the odd one out and the next five were like finding the next
picture in the given series of pictures.
The rest of the questions were deduction based questions.
1. All books are pages
All pages are books
a All box are book
b all books are boxes
c no books are oxes
d both a and b
2 no train is a bus
no bus is a truck
a no truck is a train
b no train is a truck
c both a and b
d none of the above few more questions were like this only