CAMPUS PLACEMENTS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Free NCERT Text Books

2010-01-31T00:19:00.000-08:00

NCERT has made all the Text books from class I to Class XII freely available in Internet.These are available for free Downloading.

NCERT text books are the basis for various entrance exams conducted by different states for Medical and Engineering courses. Also NCERT text books are basis for all UPSC based exams,

Here are the links for the Text books for class XII

Mathematics

Mathematics Text Book -Part 1

Mathematics Text Book -Part 11

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Economics

Introductory Macro Economics

Macro Economics

Sociology

Indian Society

Social Change and Development in India

Political Science

Contemporary World Politics

Politics 11

General Knowledge for Civil Service Prelims

2010-01-18T05:22:00.000-08:00

General Knowledge for Civil Service Examination

Which is the Largest Peninsula

Ans : Arabia

Which is the Largest Freshwater Lake

Ans : Lake Superior

Which is the Largest Archipelago

Ans : Indonesia

Which is the Largest Saltwater Lake

Ans : Caspian Sea

Which is the Largest Desert

Ans : Sahara (Africa)

Which is the Largest Delta

Ans : Sunderbans (Bengal)

Which is the Largest River

Ans : Nile

Which is the Smallest Continent

Ans : Australia

Which is the Highest Plateau

Ans : Pamir (Tibet)

Which is the Highest Mountain Peak

Ans : Everest (Nepal)

Which is the first state in India has been formed on purely linguistic basis?

Ans : Andra Pradesh

The famous Thirumala Thirupathi Venkateswara Temple is in which district?

Ans : Chittoor

Which is known as twin cities?

Ans : Hyderabad and Secunderabad

Which state is known as the 'Orchid Paradise of India?

Ans : Arunachal Pradesh

Jammu & Kashmir was acceded to India on

Ans : 26th October 1947

Sea of Tranquility' and 'Ocean of Storms' are in

Ans : Moon

The alliance of non-communist parties against congress in the 1972 elections were known as

Ans : Grand Alliance

In a vacuum flask, silvering reduces the loss of heat by

Ans : radiation

The period of oscillation of a pendulum depends on

Ans : length of the spring

The boiling point of a liquid ......... if pressure is decreased

Ans : decreases

No sound is heard on the moon because there is ..... on the moon

Ans : no atmosphere

Why do water pipes, in hilly areas, often burst on a cold, frosty night?

Ans : When water in the pipe freezes, it expands. So pipes break

Why do we sweat on a hot day?

Ans : In order to maintain a constant temperature, sweating is necessary

Why do the clothes keep us warm during winter?

Ans : Clothes prevent the heat of the body to escape.

Why do we hear better on water than land?

Ans : Sound travels faster in water than air

Why are the mountains cooler than plains?

Ans : Air on the mountains is less dense so it absorbs less heat.

Why is it easier to swim in sea water than in river?

Ans : Density of sea water is higher

The first human-made objects to reach altitudes above 80 km is

Ans : V-2s, a rocket

The slogan associated with French Revolution

Ans : Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

In 1815 Napoleon was defeated in the battle of

Ans : Waterloo

Whose period was known as the Golden Age of Rome?

Ans : Augustus Caesar

The king ruled in the period of French revolution

Ans : Louis 16th

The political party of Hitler

Ans : National Socialist Party (Nazi)

Brown shirts were associated with

Ans : Hitler

The political party of Mussolini

Ans : Fascist Party

Black shirts were associated with

Ans : Mussolini

Who organized 'Red Army'

Ans : Trotsky

AIDS disease was first identified in which country

Ans : America in 1981

The first woman I.P.S Officer of India

Ans : Kiran Bedi

Mandi House' is

Ans : The office of the Director General of Doordarshan

Speed' the improved quality of petrol was introduced by

Ans : B.P. (Bharat Petroleum)

Gobi desert is situated in

Ans : Mangolia/Northeastern China

Kalahari desert is situated in

Ans : Botswana

Java island is in which ocean

Ans : Indian Ocean

Four divided stages of prehistoric periods are

Ans : Paleolithic period, Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Chalcolithic period

Who proposed the germ theory of disease

Ans : Louis Pasture

First woman Governor

Ans : Sarojini Naidu

First woman Minister

Ans : Vijayalakshmy Pandit

First woman Chief Minister

Ans : Sucheta Kripalani

First woman Ruler in Delhi

Ans : Raziya Begum

First woman Speaker

Ans : Suseela Nayar

Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

Ans : Annie Besant

Group Discussion :Tips of the trade

2010-01-13T23:39:00.000-08:00

Group Discussion (GD)Videos

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Group Discussion has become an integral part in the selection process of all the Management colleges, MBA programs and also in job market.During the post recession when recruitment fairs are reappearing,candidates with good softskills has an edge.group discussion provess and So its a must that candidates should know about the basic rules of GD.

Here are a collection of videos which explains about the basic rules of GD.

This videos explains about who is a Leader,what are the roles of a leader in the GD and also the members roles.It shows you what should be the check points you need to look into while participating in a GD.

Just check out the videos below..

Leader of GD: Role and Responsibilities

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Tips for the whole GD group

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Group Members Responsibilities

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Tone of the Group

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Hope the above tips be helpful to you guys

More yet to come..

Lecturer in CUSAT kochi

2009-08-20T06:14:00.000-07:00

Lecturer in CUSAT kochi

Cochin University of Science and Technology offers vacancies for Lecturers in Engineering College.

Sl.No	Division/Branch	Qualification
1	Mechanical Engineering	1st Class B.Tech / M.Tech in the concerned branch
2	Safety & Fire Engineering	1st Class B.Tech / M.Tech in the concerned branch
3	Mathematics	Post Graduation in the concerned subject with 55% marks with NET. Candidates with M.Phil/Ph.D are exempted from NET

Duration:- Contract will be initially for one year or till regular appointment.

Salary:- A consolidated pay of Rs.18,000/- for candidates having B.Tech Degree, Rs.19,000/- for candidates having M.Tech and Rs.20,000/- for candidates having ph.D (with an annual increase of Rs.400/-).

Eligible candidatesare requested to send their application to :-
The Principal,
School of Engineering
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Kochi-22

IAS Prelims 2009 Results

2009-08-20T05:54:00.000-07:00

IAS Prelims 2009 Results Published

The results for IAS prelims 2009 has been published by UPSC
Go to the 'Whats new' tab
Given are the Roll number ranges.
You have to click on your range of roll number link.

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MBA Exams-2009-10 Notifications

2009-08-19T06:09:00.000-07:00

MBA Exams-2009-10 Notifications

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade(IIFT)
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Pattern of Admission Test
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The admission test is a multiple choice objective type written test (in English).
Duration of the test is two hours and will cover English Comprehension, General Knowledge & Awareness, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Analysis.

Important Dates
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• Last date for Sale of Prospectus across the counter at IIFT : 3rd September 2009
• Last Date for Receipt of completed Applications : 3rd September 2009
• Written Test : 22nd November 2009 (10 a.m - 12 noon)

JMET for IITs
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Commencement of :
online application form submission-7 Sept 2009

Last date for :
1) Online application form submission (website closure)--9 Oct 2009 (6.00pm)
2) Receipt of completed online application form at IISc Bangalore--16 Oct 2009

EXAMINATION DATE
between 1000 and 1300 hours 13 Dec 2009

Announcement of RESULTS
4 Jan 2010

Probationary Officers in Corporation Bank -Apply online

2009-08-18T04:24:00.000-07:00

Probationary Officers in Corporation Bank

Corporation Bank offers vacancies for 50 Probationary officers
(SC-7, ST-3, OBC-15, GEN-25, VH-3, HI-6, OH-1)

Educational Qualification : (Candidates whose result is waited are not eligible.
Second Class with 55% or more (45% for SC/ST/VH/HI/OH candidates) marks graduate from a recognised University or any equivalent examination recognised as such by the Government of India.

Age Limit : 21 years - 30 years as on 01.08.2009

Pay Scale : Rs. 10000-470/6-12820-500/3-14320-560/7-18240.

Application Fee :
Rs.300/- (Rs.50/- for SC/ST/PH candidates) to be deposited in the in A/c no. 0377/CA/01/696 for Probationary Officers

Important Dates : -

Opening date for On-line registration 18/08/2009
Last date for online registration 18/09/2009
Last date for receipt of Print out of the online application 25/09/2009
Last date for receipt of Print out of the online application from far-flung areas 01/10/2009
Date of Exam Sunday, 22 Nov 2009

Detailed advertisement given below
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Apply online here

Opportunities for Diploma holders in BARC

2009-08-12T06:52:00.000-07:00

Opportunities for Diploma holders in BARC,Mysore as Trainees.
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Applications are invited for Stipendiary Trainees (Category I & II)
for training in BARC,Mysore.

Read for more details....
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LIC has vacancies for Financial Executives

2009-08-12T06:38:00.000-07:00

Financial Service Executives in LIC
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Nearly 100 Financial Services Executives are proposed to be engaged by various Offices of the LIC on Contract basis for 3 years .this appointments comes under the jurisdiction of the corresponding zonal offices.
More details given below
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Kerala PSC requires Engineer in KSRTC

2009-08-11T05:06:00.000-07:00

Kerala PSC have vacancies for Engineers in KSRTC
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Automobile and Mechanical Engineers have vacancies in KSRTC depots.
The total number of vacancies is 30.
More details are given here.

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DRDO -Technical Paper sample

2009-08-08T18:35:00.000-07:00

DRDO -Technical Paper
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DRDO SET is going to happen on september 6,2009.
Its time to get some exposition to the previous years question Paper.
The technical paper consists of 100 objective type questions covering the entire B-tech Syllabus.

Some questions from previous DRDO papers are given below
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What is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086?
5 Mhz

What is Jitter?

Differentiate between static response and dynamic response?

If 100ns is Memory Access Time & 125 microsec is 1frame period. The no. of line that can be
supported in a Time Divison Switch is
a)125 Lines
b)625 Lines
c)525 Lines
d)465 Lines

Explain noise margin in Amplifiers?

The no. of edjes in disjoint Hamilton circuit in a complex graph with 17 edges is
a) 8
b) 9
c) 136
d) 17^2

Assume a system has 16MB cache mean Disk Access Time & cache Access time is 76.5 ns & 1.5 overall mean Access time us 465ms for each tripling the memory the miss rate is halved. The memory required to bring down the mean Access time to 24ns is
a) 16 MB
b) 24 MB
c) 32 MB
d) 48 MB

What are different types of micro processor architectures?

Average transfer speed of a i/p serial line is minimum 25,000 Bytes & maximum 60000 Bytes.Polling Strategy adopted takes 4microsec(whether there is any i/p byte or not). It is assured that byte that retrived from controller before next byte arrives are lost. Then the maximum safe polling interveal is
a) 12
b) 12.33
c) 12.67
d) 32

Expand CPLD and FPGA.

A harddisk has a rotation speed of 4500RPM. then the latency time is
a) .4
b) .6
c) .7
d) .9

Suppose all elements above the principal diagonal od n x n matix A are zero. If non zero elements of the lower triangular Matrix is stored in an array B with A[1][1] stored at B[1]. The addressing formula to the nonzero element in A[i][j]=?
a) A[i][j]
b) i(j-1)/2 +i
c) j(i-1)/2 +i
d) i(i-1)/2 +j

The minumum number of comparisons required to find the second smallest element in a 1000
element array is
a) 1008
b) 1010
c) 1999
d) 2000

The internal path length of a Bonary Tree with 10nodes is 25. The external path length is
a) 25
b) 35
c) 40
d) 45

Average No. of Comparisons required to sort 3 elements is
a) 2
b) 2.33
c) 2.67
d) 3

In a switch the mean arrival rate of packets is 800 Packets/sec and the the mean service rate is
925 Packets/sec
a) .008 Sec
b) .08 sec
c) .8 sec
d) 1.1 sec

What is Interface Control Information?

Expand HCMOS?
ans.High-density n- type Complimentary Metal Oxide Silicon field effect transistor.

The minumum no. of Multiplications needed to compute x^768 is
a) 9
b) 10
c) 425
d) 767

Give examples for Maskable interrupts?
ans.RST 7.5, RST6.5, RST5.5 are Maskable interrupts

Which of the following require a driver?
Disk
Cache
RAM
CPU

Explain the 4 segments of IP addresses.

IIM Notification FAQ-6-August-2009

2009-08-07T23:36:00.000-07:00

IIM Notification FAQ-6-August-2009

Summary:
Important Dates:
Advertisement for CAT 2009: Sunday, 30 August 2009.(in leading newspapers)
Sale of vouchers: 9 September 2009 to Thursday, 1 October 2009
(available at leading banks)
Online Registration: 9 September 2009 to Thursday, 1 October 2009
(Information available in the voucher)
CAT 2009 Test Dates: 28 November 2009 – Monday, 7 December 20009.
* You can choose your test date, session and test center
* Number of sessions: Two daily morning & afternoon
* No. of Test Centers: 30 cities

What does this mean for CIO users?
1. Make up your mind which session day of the week, session and test
center works best for you! We have always stressed that practice Mock
CATs in the exact exam like scenario. If you have been most
comfortable writing Mock CATs in 10 am - 12:30 pm time slots, then you
must reserve that slot for yourself. If you are most comfortable being
at home before CAT 2009, then choose test center closest to your home.
If Sundays work best for you as the test 'day', try to book that day
for your CAT 2009.

2. Once you have made up your mind regarding test date, center and
session, get yourself registered online ASAP. Any delay may rob you
off of your most optimal environment for test taking and may very
adversely impact your performance!!

We are committed to your best performance in CAT 2009! Because in your
spectacular success lies our success!

JMET for MBA in IITs-Notifications

2009-08-05T06:36:00.000-07:00

JMET notification published

oint Management Entrance Test (JMET ) is the first step in the process of admission to the TWO YEAR FULL TIME Postgraduate Degree Programmes in Management offered by the IITs. Currently IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee offer Programmes in Management.
The results of JMET provide a basis to each participating Institute to shortlist potential candidates for conducting its own selection process like, Group Discussion/Interview etc.

Important Dates

Commencement of :
online application form submission-7 Sept 2009

Last date for :
1) Online application form submission (website closure)--9 Oct 2009 (6.00pm)
2) Receipt of completed online application form at IISc Bangalore--16 Oct 2009

EXAMINATION DATE

between 1000 and 1300 hours 13 Dec 2009

Announcement of RESULTS
4 Jan 2010

How to apply

Opportunity in Indian AirForce Technical branches

2009-08-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

Opportunity in Indian Air Force Technical branches
Application form is given here.Click on the icon to download the form

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Food Corporation of India -GD short list EAST zone

2009-08-04T06:14:00.000-07:00

The following candidates have provisionally been qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of East Zone

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Download GD/PI Call-letter here

Food Corporation of India-GD list North zone

2009-08-04T05:59:00.000-07:00

The following candidates have provisionally been qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of North Zone.

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Food Corporation of India-GD list North-East

2009-08-04T05:51:00.000-07:00

The following candidates have provisionally been qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of North East Zone

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Food Corporation of India-GD short list MTs

2009-08-04T05:34:00.000-07:00

South Zone GD shortlist candidates
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Candidates qualified for Group Discussions and Interviews of South Zone to be conducted with effect from 12 June 2009 to 19 June 2009.
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Mathematics-Research Institutes in India

2009-07-31T06:22:00.000-07:00

Mathematics-Research Institutes in India
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India has some world-class research institutes in the field of Mathematics.These institutes have nurtured a fair good collection of PhD holders and world class research fellows.But lots of people are oblivious about these research institutes and many are trying for universities abroad.
Here we give an introduction of these famous research institutes in India.

1.Chennai Mathematical Institute,Chennai
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Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI)is a centre of excellence for teaching and research in the mathematical sciences. Founded in 1989 as part of the SPIC Science Foundation, it has been an autonomous institute since 1996.
The research groups in Mathematics and Computer Science at CMI are among the best known in the country. The Institute has nurtured an impressive collection of PhD students.

CMI offers the following programmes.

* B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science (3 year integrated course).
* B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics (3 year course).
* M.Sc. in Mathematics.
* M.Sc. in Applications of Mathematics.
* M.Sc. in Computer Science.
* Ph.D. in Mathematics.
* Ph.D. in Computer Science.
for more details read here

2.Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI),Allahabad
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The Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) is an institution dedicated to research in mathematics, and in theoretical physics. It is located in Allahabad, India, and is funded by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. You can learn more about the institute and ongoing activities by following links from the menu on the left.
The research subjects are Mathematics and Physics

Mathematics Research Topics

Algebra
Analysis
Geometry and topology
Number Theory

Physics Research Topics

Astrophysics
Condensed Matter Physics
High Energy Physics
String Theory

For more details click here

3.The Institute of Mathematical Sciences,Chennai (IMSc)
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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) is a national institute for fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences: Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematics, and Theoretical Physics.

Mathematics Research Topics
The Mathematicians at IMSc work in the areas of
Algebra
Algebraic geometry
Number theory
Partial Differential Equations
Schroedinger and Jacobi operators
Subfactors
Representation theory
Topology.

Theoretical computer science (TCS)
Research is pursued in foundational areas of
Computer science, including Algorithms and Data Structures,
Automata Theory
Computational Complexity
Distributed Computing
Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Logics of Programs and Semantics.

Theoretical Physics
Condensed Matter Theory
High Energy Physics
Mathematical physics
Nonlinear Dynamics
Optics

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4.Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai
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The Tata Institute is now a Deemed University and runs a Graduate Programme leading to award of a Ph.D. degree. Bright young students aspiring for a career of research in mathematics are invited to apply for Research Scholarships in the School of Mathematics of the Institute. With its distinguished faculty engaged in high quality research in a broad spectrum of areas, the School provides a stimulating environment for pursuing doctoral studies.

Research Topics

Algebra
Real Analysis
Topology and Functional Analysis
Complex Analysis

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Non-IIM MBA Schools using CAT scores

2009-07-29T04:53:00.000-07:00

Non-IIM MBA Schools using CAT scores

There are lot of MBA institutes in India which takes CAT score as their criterion for admissions.So even if one doesn't get in to IIMs,still there is high chance to end up in some of prestigious MBA schools in India.Here is a list of Non-IIM MBA Schools using CAT scores

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Quantitative Problems for Bank Tests

2009-07-27T07:06:00.000-07:00

Quantitative Problems for Bank Tests
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Bank Probationary Officer Test has a Quantitative section whose difficulty will be much lesser than Competitive entrance exams like CAT,MAT etc.Here most important factor is your speed.so always try to practice more.Here we have some sample bank Quantitative questions

One night 18 percent of the female officers on a police force were on duty. If 180 officers were on duty that night and half of these were female officers, how many female officers were on the police force?
(A) 90
(B) 180
(C) 270
(D) 500
(E) 1,000

If an integer n is divisible by both 6 and 8, then it must also be divisible by which of the following?
(A) 10
(B) 12
(C) 14
(D) 16
(E) 18

On the number line, if x is halfway between -5 and 3, and if y is halfway between -2 and 6, what number is halfway between x and y ?
(A) -1
(B)
(C) 0
(D)
(E) 1

Out of their annual net income, a couple spent 25 percent for food, 13.5 percent for entertainment, 20 percent for housing, 8 percent for car expenses, 15 percent for clothing, and saved the rest. What was the ratio of the amount saved to the amount spent for entertainment?
(A)19/27
(B) 6/5
(C) 37/27
(D) 19/9
(E) 7/3

If z+3/(z-1) + z+1/(z-3) =2, then z =
(A) 2
(B) 1
(C) -1
(D) -2
(E) -3

The population of city X increased from 325,000 in 1980 to 350,000 in 1990, and it is projected that the population will increase by the same number from 1990 to 2000. Approximately what is the projected percent increase in population from 1990 to 2000 ?
(A) 7.1%
(B) 7.7%
(C) 8.3%
(D) 14.3%
(E) 15.3%

Of the z students at a certain college, x are studying French and y are studying German. If w are studying both French and German, which of the following expresses the number of students at the college not studying either French or German ?
(A) z + w – x – y
(B) z – w – x – y
(C) z – w – x + y
(D) w + x + y – z
(E) w – x – y – z

Of the science books in a certain supply room, 50 are on botany, 65 are on zoology, 90 are on physics. 50 are on geology, and 110 are on chemistry. If science books are removed randomly from the supply room, how many must be removed to ensure that 80 of the books removed are on the same science?
(A) 81
(B) 159
(C) 166
(D) 285
(E) 324

A certain shade of gray paint is obtained by mixing 3 parts of white paint with 5 parts of black paint. If 2 gallons of the mixture is needed and the individual colors can be purchased only in one-gallon or half- gallon cans, what is the least amount of paint, in gallons, that must be purchased in order to measure out the portions needed for the mixture?
(A) 2
(B) 2.5
(C) 3
(D) 3.5
(E) 4

–2 (– 4 – (– 3 + 5)) =
(A) – 16
(B) – 10
(C) 6
(D) 12
(E) 16

On a certain test, 3 students each had a score of 90, 9 students each had a score of 80, 4 students each had a score of 70, and 4 students each had a score of 60. What was the average (arithmetic mean) score for the 20 students ?
(A) 70.5
(B) 75.0
(C) 75.5
(D) 80.0
(E) 80.5

. In the manufacture of a certain product, 5 percent of the units produced are defective and 4 percent of the defective units are shipped for sale. What percent of the units produced are defective units that are shipped for sale?
(A) 0.125%
(B) 0.2%
(C) 0.8%
(D) 1.25%
(E) 2.0%

The numbers in which of the following pairs do NOT have a pair of distinct prime divisors in common ?
(A) 10 and 20
(B) 12 and 18
(C) 24 and 32
(D) 21 and 63
(E) 22 and 88.

A certain fraction is equivalent to 2/5 . If the numerator of the fraction is increased by 4 and the denominator is doubled, the new fraction is equivalent to 1/3 . What is the sum of the numerator and denominator of the original fraction?
(A) 49
(B) 35
(C) 28
(D) 26
(E) 21

If all of the telephone extensions in a certain company must be even numbers, and if each of the extensions uses all four of the digits 1, 2, 3, and 6, what is the greatest number of four-digit extensions that the company can have?
(A) 4
(B) 6
(C) 12
(D) 16
(E) 24

The product of the first twelve positive integers is divisible by all of the following EXCEPT
(A) 210
(B) 88
(C) 75
(D) 60
(E) 34

MAT Notification-Paper-Pencil & Computer Based Test

2009-07-27T06:36:00.000-07:00

MAT Notification -Paper-Pencil Test & Computer Based Test
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Candidate can choose any one of the two options to take the test:
Paper- Pencil Test (Offline Test)
or
Computer Based Test-(Online Test)

For more details and application see below

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Latest Govt Job Opportunities

2009-07-23T06:48:00.001-07:00

Latest Govt Job Opportunities
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National Institute of Ocean Technology
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National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, a technical arm of the
Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, is functioning with the broad objective of promoting technology development in various mission mode project activities related to Ocean Engineering and Ocean Resource Exploitation.
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
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ISRO is looking for young, dynamic and dedicated administrative staff in the Pay Band of Rs.5200-20200/- alongwith Grade Pay of Rs.2,400/- for Centres/Units across India for supporting the Scientists/Engineers in their challenging tasks ahead and realizing the goals.
For applying online click here

Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS)
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Applications are invited from ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES for filling up the existing vacancies
and preparing a panel for future vacancies to the under mentioned posts for office of this
Bureau (BIS), functioning under the administrative control of Ministry of Consumer Affairs,
Food & Public Distribution, Govt. of India, located at New Delhi and its various Branch Offices
spread all over India.
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Electronics Corporation of India Limited
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Electronics Corporation of India Limited, is a leading Public Sector Company in the area of Strategic Electronics with thrust on innovation & indigenization. A technology leader and pioneer, engineers at ECIL have opportunities to work in some of the most exciting national and international projects in Nuclear, Defence, Space, Security, Telecom, IT, Medical and e-governance sectors in the functional areas of Design & Development, Project execution, Engineering, Production, Testing & qualification, Marketing and maintenance.
ECIL requires graduate engineering trainees read more..

Concepts in Unit Digits for CAT QA

2009-07-22T06:53:00.000-07:00

Concepts in Unit Digits for CAT QA and DI
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Unit digit concepts play a lot of time saving tricks in the CAT format.We can use the concept of unit digits in eliminating answer options in all the objective type competitive examinations.

The unit digit has got huge significance when it comes to eliminate the answer options.Lot of questions involving rigorous multiplications can be solved within no time by eliminating the answer options

CASE 1...
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Lets take the case of the product of two successive numbers,n(n+1)
We will see the possible unit digits of the products.

0*1=0
1*2=2
2*3=6
3*4=2
4*5=0
5*6=0
6*7=2
7*8=6
8*9=2

we can see that, the unit digits of products of successive numbers will end in 0,2,6 only.
Now we have the formula for sum of first n natural numbers, n(n+1)/2
So we will see the possible unit digits for these products.
We know that,n(n+1) ends in 0,2,6.
So we consider the possible digits, we will get, when we divides n(n+1) by 2.
0 gives 0,5
2 gives 1,6
6 gives 3,8
So these are the possible unit digits for the sum of first n natural numbers.

*Product of successive numbers,n(n+1) ends in 0,2,6

*The sum of first n, natural numbers will never end in 2,4,7,9

*Perfect squares never end in 2,3,7,8

*If there are n terms in an AP, the difference between sum of odd terms and sum of even terms is (n/2)*d where d is the common difference.

CAT Lessons-Progressions

2009-07-21T04:40:00.000-07:00

CAT Lessons-Progressions
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Progressions is a comparatively easy section that comes in CAT.
Once you understand the concepts in progressions, you can answer almost all the questions. Identifying that the questions belong to progressions is the most difficult part. Now we can go to the detailed study of the Progressions.
For a person aiming very high score in QA section,I would advise that he should definitely do the Progressions questions

Progressions can be divided into
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Arithmetic Progression (AP)
Geometric Progression (GP)
Harmonic Progression. (HP)
Arithmetic Geometric Progression. (AGP)

Arithmetic Progression (AP)
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In Arithmetic Progression, the successive terms always has a constant difference between them. The example of an AP is given below.

1,3,5,7,9…….This is an AP series with first term (a or t1)=1 and the constant difference (common difference or cd)=2.
2,4,6,8,10…… This is an AP series with first term (a or t1)=2 and the constant difference (common difference or cd)=2.

The nth term for an AP with first term =‘a’ and cd=’d’ is
tn =a+(n-1)d.
The sum of first n terms of an AP is
Sn=n/2{2a+(n-1)d}

Take the case of AP,2,4,6,8,10……

The 5th term can be found out by
t5=2+ (5-1)2
=2+4*2
=2+8
=10.
As we can see from the series the 5th term is indeed 10.

The sum of first 5 terms can be found out by
S5=5/2{2*2+(5-1)*2)
=5/2{4+8}
=5*6
=30.

Also we can see that sum of first 5 terms are 2+4+6+8+10=30.

Arithmetic Mean (AM)
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AM of an AP with terms a and b is AM = (a+b)/2.
Between two terms of an AP we can put any number of AMs.

Eg.
Suppose we need to put 4 AMs between a and b.,
Now the total number of terms in AP is 6.
Now the common difference in the AP is (b-a)/(4+1)= (b-a)/5..

Properties useful in solving questions in APs
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If in an AP, mth term is n and nth term is m, then (m+n)th term is always zero.
Eg. Consider the AP 4,3,2,1,0,-1,-2…..
1st term is 4 and 4th term is 1,therefore (4+1) term ie 5th term ,according to the property should be 0.We can see that the property holds true here.

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If in an AP, sum of first m terms is equal to sum of first m tems, then sum of first (m+n) term is always zero.
Eg. Consider the AP -2.-1,0,1,2,…..
Sum of first 1 term is -2.
Sum of first 4 terms is -2.
Therefore according to property, sum of first (1+4) ie 5 terms should be 0.
We can verify that the property holds true.

Geometric Progression (GP)
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In Geometric Progression, the successive terms always has a constant ratio between them. The example of an GP is given below.

1,3,9,27,81…….This is a GP series with first term (a or t1)= 1 and the constant ratio (common ratio or cr)=3.
2,4,8,16,32…… This is a GP series with first term (a or t1)= 2 and the constant ratio (common ratio or r)=2.

The nth term for an GP with first term =‘a’ and common ratio=’r’ is
tn =ar^(n-1)
The sum of first n terms of a GP is
Sn=a{r^(n-1)/(r-1)} r>1
&
Sn = a{r^(n-1)/(1-r)} r<1

Geometric Mean (AM)
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GM of a GP with terms a and b is GM = (a*b)^0.5
Between two terms of an GP we can put any number of GMs.

Eg.
Suppose we need to put 4 =GMs between a and b.
Now the total number of terms in =GP is 6.
Now the common ratio of the GP is (b/a)^(4+1)= (b/a)^0.5

But in Competitive exams like CAT,GMAT etc, in GP, sum to infinity is more significant than sum of n terms.
Sum to infinity of GP is infinity if r>1,so the cases where, r<1 only we will get a definite sum.
Sum to infinity of a GP with first term,a and common ratio,r is
S∞=a/(1-r).

Eg. Find the sum to infinity of the series 1,1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16…….
a=1,r=1/2
S∞=1/(1-1/2)=2.

Harmonic Progression
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If a,b,c are in Harmonic Progression(HP),then 1/a,1/b,1/c are in AP.
This is the standard definition of an HP.

Also we have the general rules
1. AM>=GM>=HM
2. GM^2=AM*HM

Strategies for solving problems in Progressions.
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In all questions that has Tn and Sn variable, n, always put values for n and check for the answer option.

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Always try to make up a progression satisfying the conditions given in the questions and solve that progression only instead of doing with unknown numbers.

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Suppose we need to take one AP,one GP and one HP having 3 terms with same first and last terms,then we an take the following progressions,

AP: 1, 2/3,1/3 cd=1/3
GP : 1,1/(3^.5),1/3 cr=1/(3^.5)
HP: 1,1/2,1/3 HM=1/2.

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Find the 625th term of the series 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5………

Analysing the series, we see

Last 2 is the 3rd term ie 2*3/2
Last 3 is the 6th term ie 3*4/2
So we got the pattern,Last n will be the n(n+1)/2 th term
Also the previous n terms will be same,n only.

So if we consider,the case of 625th term, consider 35*36/2 gives 630.
Means 630th term will be 35,also previous 35 terms will be same 35 only.
So our answer is 625th term is 35.

Oppertunities in SBI

2009-07-20T07:01:00.000-07:00

Oppertunities in SBI
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RECRUITMENT OF MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES IN SBI

RECRUITMENT OF CIVIL / ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS & MEDICAL OFFICER

RECRUITMENT OF POSITIONS FOR OFFICERS - MARKETING AND RECOVERY (RURAL) -S1 & TECHNICAL OFFICER (FARM SECTOR) - S1 IN SBI

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Effective Resume Writing

2009-07-20T06:35:00.000-07:00

Important Tips for Effective Resumes
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If one plans heading out of the front door for finding a new job, they would need a good resume to plant that foot in somebody else’s door. It is surprising about the number of mistakes which are made in sending the resume. These would however not be made now with the following tips for better resumes.

Resume Tip 1 - Be Neat
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Some job seekers drop in resumes with the coffee stains and some wrinkles creating huge mess. If one is looking for jobs, they need to see as though they could handle being employees. If you would never turn in the weekly sales report in sheets of toilet paper then why on earth will you send a resume which is not presentable?

Some standard grade office paper for printing the resume on along with a matching envelope would always make good sense. It would not cost you too much, but would keep the resume from landing up in trash.

Keep the size of the font fairly large, around 12 points is standard and also easy to read. It is not the time for any fancy lettering or the bold type. A person needs to look crisp and clean; not like trying to get the reader to hire you right away, even if you actually are towards that.

Resume Tip 2 - Corrections
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A way to get the resume to the nearest bin of trash is by having many spelling and grammatical errors in it. One need not have a degree in the English language for sending in a perfect resume. People should run a spell check program for reading through the sentences quite a few times and ensure that they are not missing any words or are saying things that they do not mean.

A right way of handling this is by reading the resume backwards. It does sound quite odd, but perhaps helps to stop the brain from skipping the words. We need to focus right so as to read text backwards. This would help you to get hold of the errors more quickly.

Besides, another good way of finding mistakes is by reading aloud the text. One may find a quiet or a private area for doing this. You would be amazed about how different the words would sound. It is one of the good classic tips for the resumes taken from various writers as the computer screen would not always translate the content well.

Resume Tip 3 - Sending it to right people
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As people send their resumes to companies without any direct person in address, they are as well sending resume to the trash bin of the company. One would need to spend few moments knowing who is the hiring head and this is well worth every effort.

You could just call in to the human resources department for seeing the person in charge of departments which you plan to apply for. Having one name for referring is a good way to leave impressions in people’s mind.

These are few simple tips for the resumes which are nearly guaranteed for getting the resume seen and also read. All you would now have to do would be starting to write it. And that is the easy part.

Thanking note:-
These tips are taken from an article by Abhishek Agarval,career consultant

IIFT-MBA(IB) Notification published

2009-07-17T05:03:00.000-07:00

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
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IIFT provides world class education and training in international trade and business,besides having a premier Centre of Research.The institutes invites applications for MBA(International Business)degree programme being offered at Delhi &Kolkata campuses

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Examination Calender August-Kerala PSC

2009-07-17T04:36:00.000-07:00

Kerala PSC-Examination Calender August 2009
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Aptitude Questions for Competitive Exams

2009-07-15T06:29:00.000-07:00

Sample Aptitude Questions for Competitive Exams
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The 180 students in a group are to be seated in rows so that there is an equal number of students in each row. Each of the following could be the number of rows EXCEPT
(A) 4
(B) 20
(C) 30
(D) 40
(E) 90

A parking garage rents parking spaces for Rs.10 per week or Rs.30 per month. How much does a person save in a year by renting by the month rather than by the week?
(A) 140
(B) 160
(C) 220
(D) 240
(E) 260

Of the following, which is the best approximation to (0.0026)^0.5
(A) 0.05
(B) 0.06
(C) 0.16
(D) 0.5
(E) 0.6

In the expression (a/b)/c above, a, b, and c are different numbers and each is one of the numbers 2, 3, or 5. What is the least possible value of the expression?
(A)1/30
(B)2/15
(C)1/6
(D)3/10
(E)5/6

What is the total number of integers between 100 and 200 that are divisible by 3?
(A) 33
(B) 32
(C) 31
(D) 30
(E) 29

Dan and Karen, who live 10 miles apart meet at a cafe that is directly north of Dan’s house and directly east of Karen’s house. If the cafe is 2 miles closer to Dan’s house than to Karen’s house, how many miles is the cafe from Karen’s house?
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
(E) 10

What percent of 50 is 15?
(A) 30%
(B) 35%
(C) 70%
(D) 300%

If 2x = 3y = 10, then 12xy =
(A) 1,200
(B) 200
(C) 120
(D) 40
(E) 20

If Jack walked 5 km in 1 hour and 15 minutes, what was his rate of walking in km per hour?
(A) 4
(B) 4.5
(C) 6
(D) 6.25
(E) 15

After paying a 10 percent tax on all income over $3,000, a person had a net income of $12,000. What was the income before taxes?
(A) $13,300
(B) $13,000
(C) $12,900
(D) $10,000
(E) $9,000

1-[2-(3-{4-5}+6)+7]=
(A) –2
(B) 0
(C) 1
(D) 2
(E) 16

Working alone, R can complete a certain kind of job in 9 hours. R and S, working together at their respective rates, can complete one of these jobs in 6 hours. In how many hours can S, working alone, complete one of these jobs?
(A) 18 (B) 12 (C) 9
(D) 6 (E) 3

If 0.497 mark has the value of one dollar, what is the value to the nearest dollar of 350 marks?
(A) $174 (B) $176 (C) $524
(D) $696 (E) $704

If a sequence of 8 consecutive odd integers with increasing values has 9 as its 7th term, what is the sum of the terms of the sequence?
(A) 22 (B) 32 (C) 36
(D) 40 (E) 44

Bank Tests-English Questions

2009-07-14T06:31:00.000-07:00

English Questions-Bank Tests and other competitive entrances
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Bank Tests have compulsorily an English section.
It mainly contains synonyms,antonyms,vocabulary,paragraph formation,sentence correction etc
In this post we have got a variety of sentence correction questions for Bank tests and for various other competitive entrances like MBA or recruitment exams.

Pick the right alternatives for the italicized parts from the given choices below

1. A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them on systematic astronomical observation.
(A) that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them
(B) of the North American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them
(C) of the development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians, basing them
(D) of the North American Indians and their development of advanced full-year calendars based
(E) that the North American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based

2. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump
(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump
(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

3. A collection of 38 poems by Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the 1770’s, the first book by a Black woman and it was only the second published by an American woman.
(A) it was only the second published by an American woman
(B) it was only the second that an American woman published
(C) the second one only published by an American woman
(D) the second one only that an American woman published
(E) only the second published by an American woman

4. A common disability in test pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time.
(A) a consequence of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time
(B) a consequence from sitting for long periods of time too near to large jet engines
(C) a consequence which resulted from sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time
(D) damaged from sitting too near to large jet engines for long periods of time
(E) damaged because they sat too close to large jet engines for long periods of time

5. A controversial figure throughout most of his public life, the Black leader Marcus Garvey advocated that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom.
(A) that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom
(B) that some Blacks return to the African land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him
(C) that some Blacks return to Africa which was the land which symbolized the possibility of freedom to him
(D) some Black’s returning to Africa which was the land that to him symbolized the possibility of freedom
(E) some Black’s return to the land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him, Africa

6. A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.
(A) flames spreading
(B) flame spreads
(C) flames are caused to spread
(D) causing flames to spread
(E) causing spreading of the flames

7. A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

8. A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be

9. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade andaccounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

10. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago

11. A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published, reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.
(A) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published,
(B) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
(C) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published,
(D) Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year as he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that
(E) Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that

12. A little under a million years ago, the briny waters of the Baltic Sea began flooding into the cold North Atlantic: geologists are still debating whether the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm.
(A) whether the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm
(B) if the flood was gradual or created a cataclysm
(C) about whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic
(D) whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic
(E) whether the flood was gradual or it created a cataclysm

13. A majority of the international journalists surveyed view nuclear power stations as unsafe at present but that they will, or could, be made sufficiently safe in the future.
(A) that they will, or could,
(B) that they would, or could,
(C) they will be or could
(D) think that they will be or could
(E) think the power stations would or could

14. A migraine typically afflicts one side of the head, lasts for hours or days, and may recur as infrequently as once every other month or often, as daily.
(A) as infrequently as once every other month or often, as
(B) as infrequently as once every other month or as often as
(C) infrequently, as often as once every other month, or often, like
(D) infrequently, like once every other month, or often, like
(E) infrequently, like once every other month, or as often as

15. A new phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and mob cars at the stoplights.
(A) A new phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and
(B) Visible at Managua’s major intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many children, new phenomena that
(C) A new phenomenon visible at Managua’s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who
(D) Phenomenally new waves of vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managua’s major intersections, which
(E) A wave of vendors and beggars, many of whom are children, are visible at Managua’s major intersections, where they are a new phenomenon and

16. A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world’s five billion people

17. A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove damage if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify about proper medical procedures.
(A) if there is a lack of some other doctor to testify
(B) unless there will be another doctor to testify
(C) without another doctor’s testimony
(D) should there be no testimony from some other doctor
(E) lacking another doctor to testify

18. A peculiar feature of the embryonic mammalian circulatory system is that in the area of the heart the cells adhere to one another, beating in unison and adopting specialized orientations exclusive of one another.
(A) beating in unison and adopting
(B) they beat in unison while adopting
(C) beat in unison, and adopt
(D) beating in unison yet adopting
(E) even though they beat in unison and adopt

19. A President entering the final two years of a second term is likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to carry out a legislative program.
(A) likely to be at a severe disadvantage and is often unable to
(B) likely severely disadvantaged and often unable to
(C) liable to be severely disadvantaged and cannot often
(D) liable that he or she is at a severe disadvantage and cannot often
(E) at a severe disadvantage, often likely to be unable that he or she can

20. A prolific architect who worked from the turn of the century until the late 1950’s, Julia Morgan designed nearly 800 buildings in California, perhaps most notably William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon.
(A) Julia Morgan designed nearly 800 buildings in California, perhaps most notably William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon
(B) perhaps the most notable of the nearly 800 buildings in California designed by Julia Morgan was William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon
(C) of the nearly 800 buildings in California designed by Julia Morgan, perhaps the most notable was William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon
(D) nearly 800 buildings in California were designed by Julia Morgan, of which William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon is perhaps the most notable
(E) William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon is perhaps the most notable of the nearly 800 buildings in California designed by Julia Morgan

21. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed.
(A) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are
(B) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one once their horns are
(C) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns have been
(D) if tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns are
(E) if tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one after the animals’ horns have been

22. A recent national study of the public schools shows that there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were four years ago.
(A) there are now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were
(B) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many than there were
(C) there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were
(D) every thirty-two pupils now have one microcomputer, four times as many than there were
(E) every thirty-two pupils now has one microcomputer, four times as many as

23. A recent New York Times editorial criticized the city’s election board for, first of all, failing to replace outmoded voting machines prone to breakdowns, and secondarily, for their failure to investigate allegations of corruption involving board members.
(A) secondarily, for their failure to
(B) secondly, for their failure to
(C) secondly, that they failed and did not
(D) second, that they failed to
(E) second, for failing to

24. A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face

25. A recent study of ancient clay deposits has provided new evidence supporting the theory of global forest fires ignited by a meteorite impact that contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other creatures some 65 million years ago.
(A) supporting the theory of global forest fires ignited by a meteorite impact that
(B) supporting the theory that global forest fires ignited by a meteorite impact
(C) that supports the theory of global forest fires that were ignited by a meteorite impact and that
(D) in support of the theory that global forest fires were ignited by a meteorite impact and that
(E) of support for the theory of a meteorite impact that ignited global forest fires and

26. A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed.
(A) A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that
(B) So secret was a recording system installation and operation in the Kennedy Oval Office
(C) It was so secret that a recording system was installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office
(D) A recording system that was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office
(E) Installed and operated so secretly in the Kennedy Oval Office was a recording system that

27. A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has concluded that much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes from the incineration of wastes.
(A) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes
(B) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins that North Americans are exposed to come
(C) much of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and that North Americans are exposed to comes
(D) many of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and North Americans are exposed to come
(E) many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come

28. A representative of the Women’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor contends that employers who offer benefits which permit that employees can balance home and work responsibilities better, realizing gains in attendance, recruiting, and retention.
(A) which permit that employees can balance home and work responsibilities better, realizing
(B) which permit employees balancing home and work responsibilities better will realize
(C) that permit employees to balance the responsibilities of home and work better will realize
(D) that permit employees a better balance between the responsibilities of home and
work, thus realizing
(E) such that employees are permitted a balance between home and work responsibilities, and they will realize

29. A shy, religious-minded publisher who had married a duke’s daughter, Harold Macmillan’s rise to the position of Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many, though Churchill had since the 1930s been extolling Macmillan’s courage.
(A) Harold Macmillan’s rise to the position of Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many
(B) Harold Macmillan’s rise in 1957 to the position of Prime Minister surprised many
(C) Harold Macmillan’s becoming Prime Minister in 1957 surprised many
(D) Harold Macmillan surprised many by rising to the position of Prime Minister in 1957
(E) the position of Prime Minister attained by Harold Macmillan in 1957 surprised many

30. A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered as a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(A) A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered as a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(B) Considered to be a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, genmai-cha is a special green tea that contains brown rice, virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(C) A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered a gourmet delicacy by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(D) Most Japanese consider genmai-cha, a special green tea which contains brown rice, as a delicacy virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(E) Though virtually unavailable outside Yokohama, most Japanese consider genmai-cha, a special green tea that contains brown rice, a gourmet delicacy.

31. A star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
(A) A star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole after it passes through a red giant stage, depending on mass.
(B) After passing through a red giant stage, depending on its mass, a star will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(C) After passing through a red giant stage, a star’s mass will determine if it compresses itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(D) Mass determines whether a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
(E) The mass of a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will determine whether it compresses itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.

32. A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves exercise and associated with other calves, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do those raised in confinement.

(A) associated with other calves, they will require less medication and gain weight quicker than do
(B) associated with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight quicker than
(C) associate with other calves, they required less medication and will gain weight quicker than do
(D) associate with other calves, they have required less medication and will gain weight more quickly than do
(E) associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than

33. A substance derived from the Madagascar periwinkle, which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients, is cultivated in China as part of a program to integrate traditional herbal medicine into a contemporary system of health care.
(A) A substance derived from the Madagascar periwinkle, which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients,
(B) A derivative, which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients, of the Madagascar periwinkle,
(C) A Madagascar periwinkle derivative, which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients,
(D) The Madagascar periwinkle has a derivative which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients, that
(E) The Madagascar periwinkle, a derivative of which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients,

34. A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern Minnesota would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than one wolf for every 39 square miles.
(A) would fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more numerous than
(B) would fail provided the density of the timber wolf population in that region is more than
(C) should fail if the timber wolf density in that region was greater than
(D) will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater than
(E) will fail if the timber wolf density in that region were more numerous than

35. According to a panel of health officials, there has been a great deal of confusion in the medical profession about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition more related to appearance than to health.
(A) about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition more related to appearance than to
(B) with respect to obesity being a biological disorder posing serious health risks or if it is related more to appearance than
(C) over whether or not obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or it is a condition more related to appearance than to
(D) about obesity and if it is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition related to appearance more than to
(E) concerning whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or it is a condition related to appearance more than

Reserve Bank of India-Sample Objective Paper

2009-07-11T21:25:00.000-07:00

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)-Sample Objective Paper
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RBI selection is held through Written Examinations (WE) and Interview.

'WE' will be held in two phases as under:

Phase I-Objective Type

Phase II-Descriptive Type

i) Phase I (Objective Type Test): This Paper of 3 hours duration for 200 marks will be held on Sunday, the October 11, 2009.

The Paper consists tests of 4 areas

i) General Awareness

ii) English Language

iii) Quantitative Aptitude

iv) Reasoning.

ii) Phase II (Descriptive Type Test): This paper has the following sections
1) Paper I – English

2) Paper II – Economic and Social Issues

3) Paper III – Finance and Management.
Each of these papers is of 3 hours duration carrying 100 marks.

Phase I- Reasoning section
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Answer the following questions by marking the answer options a,b,c,d or e.
a.The question can be answered by statement 1 alone.
b.The question can be answered by statement 2 alone.
c.The question can be answered by either statement alone.
d.The question can be answered only by combining both statements together.
e.The question cannot be answered by given data.

John and Aby each received a salary increase. Which one received the greater salary increase?
(1) John’s salary increased 8 percent.
(2) Aby’s salary increased 5 percent

At a certain picnic, each of the guests was served either a single scoop or a double scoop of ice cream. How many of the guests were served a double scoop of ice cream?
(1) At the picnic, 60 percent of the guests were served a double scoop of ice cream.
(2) A total of 120 scoops of ice cream were served to all the guests at the picnic.

By what percent was the price of a certain candy bar increased?
(1) The price of the candy bar was increased by 5 Rs.
(2) The price of the candy bar after the increase was 45 Rs.

Is it true that a > b?
(1) 2a > 2b
(2) a + c > b + c

If m and n are consecutive positive integers, is m greater than n?
(1) m – 1 and n +1 are consecutive positive integers.
(2) m is an even integer

If x + 2y + 1 = y – x, what is the value of x?
(1) y2 = 9
(2) y = 3

If n is an integer, then n is divisible by how many positive integers?
(1) n is the product of two different prime numbers.
(2) n and 23 are each divisible by the same number of positive integers

If x and y are positive, what’s the value of x ?
(1) x = 3.927y
(2) y = 2.279

What is the value of the sum of a list of n odd integers?
(1) n = 8
(2) The square of the number of integers on the list is 64

What is the ratio of x to y?
(1) x is 4 more than twice y.
(2) The ratio of 0.5x to 2y is 3 to 5.

What was the average number of kilometers per litre of petrol for a car during a certain trip?
(1) The total cost of the petrol used by the car for the 180-km trip was Rs12.00.
(2) The cost of the petrol used by the car for the trip was Rs.1.20 per litre.

Is the prime number p equal to 37?
(1) p = n2 +1, where n is an integer.
(2) p2 is greater than 200.

Data sufficiency Questions for Competitive Exams

2009-07-10T06:57:00.000-07:00

Data Sufficiency Questions
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Data sufficiency questions are a good source for scoring marks in competitive entrances using very less time.The advantage is that you never has to find the exact answers.You have to find whether the given statements are enough to find out the answer to the question.
This needs a bit of practice,since we need to analyse the given statements,individually first and then combined form.Also the answer options will be tricky sometimes.But practice it and you can increase your score easily .Also in lot of exams like CAT,GMAT,XAT etc,Data Sufficiency appears in both Quantitative section and Data Interpretation section.So its very easy to clear the cut-off marks if you can convert 4-5 DS questions.Also DS is now appearing in Bank entrances also
Here are some examples of DS questions for competitive exams...

Data Sufficiency Questions
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Answer the following questions by marking the answer options a,b,c,d or e.
a.The question can be answered by statement 1 alone.
b.The question can be answered by statement 2 alone.
c.The question can be answered by either statement alone.
d.The question can be answered only by combining both statements together.
e.The question cannot be answered by given data.

Who types at a faster rate, Raju or Renju?
(1) The difference between their typing rates is 10 words per minute.
(2) Renju types at a constant rate of 80 words per minute.

What was Anil’s average (arithmetic mean) grade for all of his courses?
(1) His grade in social studies was 75, and his grade in science was 75.
(2) His grade in mathematics was 95.

If today the price of an item is $3,600, what was the price of the item exactly 2 years ago?
(1) The price of the item increased by 10 per-cent per year during this 2-year period.
(2) Today the price of the item is 1.21 times its price exactly 2 years ago.

If the Eden ground is rectangular, what is its width?
(1) The ratio of its length to its width is 7 to 2.
(2) The perimeter of the playground is 396 meters

What is the value of x –1?
(1) x + 1 =3
(2) x – 1 <> r – s?
(1) x > r and y < y =" 2," s =" 3," r =" 5," x =" 6." y =" 7" y =" 3"> 9
If x and y are consecutive odd integers, what is the sum of x and y?
(1) The product of x and y is negative.
(2) One of the integers is equal to –1.

What is the value of x?
(1) 3 + x + y = 14 and 2x + y = 15
(2) 3x + 2y = 12 + 2y

If John is exactly 4 years older than Anil, how old is Aby?
(1) Exactly 9 years ago Aby was 5 times as old as Anil was then.
(2) Anil is more than 9 years old.

Top Universities in Germany

2009-07-08T06:19:00.000-07:00

Top 5 Universities in Germany
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Germany has many world class Universities,which are research oriented and produces world class scientists and nobel laureates,also here lots of overseas students take admissions and study every year. Although there are lots of aspects involving in judging the quality of Germany's Universities by reputation, here is a list of the 'all time best' universities of Germany. These Universities have attracted most of the students for quite some time and are judged 'great universities' internationally:

Technical University, Munich Germany(TUM)
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Since its inception in 1868, TUM has established its reputation as a foremost academic institution with 6 Nobel prizes and many other prestigious awards, making it repeatedly the number one German university in various rankings, including the most recent ones. the university covers a large spectrum of fundamental and applied research with studies ranging from engineering, natural sciences, including life and medical sciences, to economics.Technical University, Munich also features prominently in top universities in the world.
read more..

University of Bonn, Germany
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The University of Bonn was founded almost 200 years ago and is considered to be one of Germany's and indeed Europe's most important institutes of higher education. The University of Bonn is one of the world's leading research based Universities and therefore it is no surprise that we operate on an international level. We particularly specialize in the fields of research and teaching and this has led to our evolving into the position of a truly prominent international institution.
read more..

University of Freiburg, Germany
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The University of Freiburg was founded by Archduke Albrecht IV of Austria in 1457, the second university on Habsburg territory after Vienna.This University offers a wide range of fields of studies with over 168 courses in offer
read more..

University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Soon after its foundation, the University had firmly established its position in Europe's intellectual landscape. In the initial period, renowned theologians and jurists figured prominently among the Elector's counsellors, while the list of alumni included chancellors, bishops and royal emissaries. Later, in the 15th century, Heidelberg developed into a stronghold of humanism.
read more..

University of Munich, Germany
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LMU Munich is one of the leading research universities in Europe, with a more than 500-year-long tradition. We build upon our success in the Excellence Initiative, a Germany-wide competition promoting top-level university research, to enhance our research profile over the next years and strengthen our position at an international level.
read more..

These universities are selected based on the research activities happening on them,international students participation,worldwide rankings in various international rankings...

CAT -DI --Interesting Questions

2009-07-08T05:47:00.000-07:00

CAT -DI --Interesting Questions continues
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Last post we have discussed one of the important frequently asked DI question,which appears in CAT and other competitive management entrances.This question appears in lot of variant forms.Here we will see the most important variationsof the same question.The detailed explanation is given here.

Match-stick problem--Type 2.
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There are n matchsticks, and 2 players A and B. One person should take minimum of 1 stick and can take maximum of 5 sticks at a time. The person who takes the last stick is the winner. Each player will play intelligently in order to win.
a.If there are 10 matchsticks and A has to play next, how many sticks he has to take to ensure that he wins?

Explanation:-
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Consider the situation of 7 matchsticks and A has to play.
A can take max 5 and min 1.

Consider the sequence of steps that will follows if A plays intelligently to win

1. A will take 1 and remaining is 6.
2. Now B can take a max of 5, suppose he takes 5,then ,1 will remaining.
3. A will take 1 and he will win.

Consider another sequence where in step 2,B takes min 1.

1. A will take 1 and remaining is 6.
2. Now B takes 1,then ,5 will remaining.
3. A will take 5 and he will win again.
So in both these extreme cases, irrespective of B’s play, A is winning.
This leads us the conclusion that, in this variant also,

‘Winner is decided by initial number of matchsticks and the first play.”

So the aim of the player who plays first will always be to leave {(min. limit + max. limit)} ie here {(1+5)}=6 numbers of matchsticks to his opponent.
The same scenario will occur even if he leaves the multiples of this number.
ie in our question, the player who plays first, should aim to leave either 6 or a multiple of 6 matchsticks to his opponents so that irrespective of the future moves he is sure about his success.
So, in a game with the above min and max limits, the first player should aim at leaving the number of matchsticks as 6,12,18,24……..

The aim of the player who plays first will always be to leave
(min. limit + max. limit) numbers of matchsticks to his opponent.

Note:
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Here if initially the number of matchsticks is a multiple of 6, then the first player will always lose.

In the above case the min. limit was 1.
Suppose the min. limit has been increased to a higher number,say2.
Then also we need to apply our general formula,
ie the aim of the player who plays first will always be to leave
(min. limit + max. limit) numbers of matchsticks to his opponent.

So in this case, the player who plays first, should aim to leave either 6 or 7 or a multiple of 6 or 7 matchsticks to his opponents so that irrespective of the future moves he is sure about his success.

CAT Data Interpretation-Interesting Question

2009-07-07T09:20:00.000-07:00

CAT Data Interpretation-Interesting Question
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Matchstick problem
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The Matchstick problem is a cult problem, which is frequently appearing in TIME-AIMCATs and its variants appear in lot of competitive exams like CAT,XAT,MAT, Campus placement papers….This problem appears in various forms,like two people going for a drive taking turns while driving for a max. & min. kilometer limits.
The variants of same question came 2-3 times in original CAT papers.

Mainly 2 variants are there for this problem, we will discuss the type 1 variant in this post.

Type 1.
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There are n matchsticks, and 2 players A and B. One person should take minimum of 1 stick and can take maximum of 5 sticks at a time. The person who takes the last stick is the loser. Each player will play intelligently in order to win.
a.If there are 10 matchsticks and A has to play next, how many sticks he has to take to ensure that he wins?
b.If there are 21 matchsticks, and B is to play, Is there a chance for B to win?

Explanation:-

Consider the situation of 8 matchsticks and A has to play.
A can take max 5 and min 1.
Consider the sequence of steps that will follows if A plays intelligently to win

1. A will take 1 and remaining is 7.
2. Now B can take a max of 5, suppose he takes 5,then ,2 will remaining.
3. A will take 1 and 1 will remain.
4. B has to take min. 1.so he will lose and A will win.

Consider another sequence where in step 2,B takes min 1.

1. A will take 1 and remaining is 7.
2. Now B takes 1,then ,6 will remaining.
3. A will take 5 and 1 will remain.
4. B has to take min. 1.so he will lose and A will win.
So in both these extreme cases, irrespective of B’s play, A is winning.

This leads us the conclusion that, in this problem,
‘Winner is decided by initial number of matchsticks and the first play.”

Also, the aim of the player who plays first will always be to leave
{(min. limit + max. limit)+1}
ie here {(1+5)+1}=7 numbers of matchsticks to his opponent.
The same scenario will occur even if he leaves the multiples of this number.
ie in our question, the player who plays first, should aim to leave either 7 or a multiple of 7 matchsticks to his opponents so that irrespective of the future moves he is sure about his success.
So, in a game with the above min and max limits, the first player should aim at leaving the number of matchsticks as 7,14,21,28,35……..

The aim of the player who plays first will always be to leave
{(min. limit + max. limit) +1} numbers of matchsticks to his opponent.

Note:
Here if initially the number of matchsticks is a multiple of 7, then the first player will always lose.

Variant of Type 1:
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In the above case the min. limit was 1.
Suppose the min. limit has been increased to a higher number,say2.
Then also we need to apply our general formula,
ie the aim of the player who plays first will always be to leave
{(min. limit + max. limit) +1} or {(min. limit + max. limit) +2} numbers of matchsticks to his opponent.

So in this case, the player who plays first, should aim to leave either 8 or 9 or a multiple of 8 or 9 matchsticks to his opponents so that irrespective of the future moves he is sure about his success

Type 2 --will be discussed in coming posts...

Assistant Engineer (Civil) in Kerala State Electricity Board

2009-07-06T07:17:00.000-07:00

Assistant Engineer (Civil) in Kerala State Electricity Board
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Kerala PSC Vacancies

2009-07-06T06:46:00.000-07:00

Kerala PSC invites application for Lecturer for Computer Science
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Kerala PSC invites applications from candidates for the post of Lecturer in Computer Science in Technical Education Department.there are 3 vacancies with a pay-scale of Rs 11,910-19,350/-

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Pattern of examination for IES

2009-06-30T23:20:00.000-07:00

1. The EXAMINATION shall be conducted according to the following plan:-

Part I-The written examination will comprise two sections-Section I consisting only of objective types of questions and Section II of conventional papers. Both Sections will cover the entire syllabus of the relevant engineering disciplines viz. Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. The standard and syllabi prescribed for these papers are given in Schedule to the Appendix. The details of the written examination i.e. subject, duration and maximum marks allotted to each subject are given in para 2 below.

Part II-Personality test carrying a maximum of 200 marks of such of the candidates who qualify on the basis of the written examination.

2. The following will be the subjects for the written examination:-

Note: Candidates are advised to read carefully special instruction to candidates for conventional type tests and objective type tests given in Appendix-IV (Part A & Part B) including the procedure regarding filling in the Answer Sheet of objective type tests in the Examination Hall.

3. In the Personality Test special attention will be paid to assessing the candidate's capacity for leadership, initiative and intellectual curiosity, tact and other social qualities, mental and physical energy, powers of practical application and integrity of character.

4. Conventional papers must be answered in English. Question papers will be set in English only.

5. Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write the answers for them.

6. The Commission have discretion to fix minimum qualifying marks in any or all the papers of the examination. The Objective Type papers as contained in Section-I of the Plan of the Examination will be evaluated first and evaluation of the Conventional Type papers contained in Section-II of the Plan of Examination will be done only of those candidates who obtain the minimum qualifying marks in Objective types papers, as fixed by the Commission.

7. Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.

8. Deduction up to 5 per cent of the maximum marks for the written papers will be made for illegible handwriting.

9. Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in the conventional papers of the examination.

10. In the question papers, wherever required, SI units will be used.

Category	Section	Subject	Duration	Maximum Marks
I-CIVIL ENGINEERING	I-Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English)(Part B: General Studies)	2 Hrs	200
		Civil Engineering Paper I	2Hrs	200
		Civil Engineering Paper II	2Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Civil Engineering Paper I	3Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Civil Engineering Paper II	3Hrs	200
	Total			1000
I-Mechanical ENGINEERING	I-Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English)(Part B: General Studies)	2 Hrs	200
		Mechanical Engineering Paper I	2Hrs	200
		Mechanical Engineering Paper II	2Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Mechanical Engineering Paper I	3Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Mechanical Engineering Paper II	3Hrs	200
	Total			1000
III-Electrical ENGINEERING	I-Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English)(Part B: General Studies)	2 Hrs	200
		Electrical Engineering Paper I	2Hrs	200
		Electrical Engineering Paper II	2Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Electrical Engineering Paper I	3Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Electrical Engineering Paper II	3Hrs	200
	Total			1000
IV-Electronics & Telecommunication ENGINEERING	I-Objective Papers	General Ability Test (Part A: General English)(Part B: General Studies)	2 Hrs	200
		Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper I	2Hrs	200
		Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper II	2Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper I	3Hrs	200
	II-Conventional Papers	Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper II	3Hrs	200
	Total			1000

NOTE: Candidates will be supplied with standard tables/charts in SI units in the Examination hall for reference purpose, wherever considered necessary.

11. Candidates are permitted to bring and use battery operated pocket calculators for conventional (essay) type papers only. Loaning or inter-changing of calculators in the Examination hall is not permitted.

It is also important to note that candidates are not permitted to use calculators for answering objective type paper (Test book lets). They should not, therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.

12. Candidates should use only International form of Indian numerals (e.g. 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc.) while answering question papers.

SCHEDULE TO APPENDIX I

Standard and Syllabi

The standard of paper in General Ability Test will be such as may be expected of a Engineering/Science Graduate. The standard of papers in other subjects will approximately be that of an Engineering Degree Examination of an Indian University. There will be no practical examination in any of the subjects.

GENERAL ABILITY TEST

Part A: General English. The question paper in General English will be designed to test the candidate's understanding of English and workmanlike use of words.

Part B: General Studies: The paper in General Studies will include knowledge of current events and of such matters as of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person. The paper will also include questions on History of India and Geography of a nature which candidates should be able to answer without special study.

Aptitude questions for Banks

2009-06-30T05:19:00.000-07:00

Bank Tests-Aptitude Paper
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Aptitude questions frequently asked in Banks-PSUs and Private
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SBI, ICICI,Central Bank,Federal Bank,Corporation Bank and other banks include aptitude tests in their recruitment. Some sample Bank test questions are given taken from different bank tests

A man buys 12 lts of liquid which contains 20% of the liquid and the rest is water. He then mixes it with 10 lts of another mixture with 30% of liquid.What is the % of water in the new mixture?

If a man buys 1 lt of milk for Rs.12 and mixes it with 20% water and sells it for Rs.15, then what is the percentage of gain?

Pipe A can fill a tank in 30 mins and Pipe B can fill it in 28 mins.If 3/4th of the tank is filled by Pipe B alone and both are opened, how much time is required by both the pipes to fill the tank completely ?

If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage.
(a) 40%
(b) 55%
(c) 35%
(d) 30%
(Ans . D)

A certain number of men can finish a piece of work in 10 days. If however there were 10 men less it will take 10 days more for the work to be finished. How many men were there originally?
(a) 110 men
(b) 130 men
(c) 100 men
(d) none of these
(Ans . A)

In simple interest what sum amounts of Rs.1120/- in 4 years and Rs.1200/- in 5 years ?
(a) Rs. 500
(b) Rs. 600
(c) Rs. 800
(d) Rs. 900
(Ans . C)

If a sum of money compound annually amounts of thrice itself in 3 years. In how many years will it become 9 times itself.
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 10
(d) 12
(Ans A)

Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train ?
(a) 100m
(b) 75m
(c) 120m
(d) 50m
(Ans B)

How many mashes are there in 1 square meter of wire gauge if each mesh
is 8mm long and 5mm wide ?
(a) 2500
(b) 25000
(c) 250
(d) 250000
(Ans B)

x% of y is y% of ?

(a) x/y
(b) 2y
(c) x
(d) can t be determined

The price of sugar increases by 20%, by what % should a housewife reduce the consumption of sugar so that expenditure on sugar can be same as before ?
(a) 15%
(b) 16.66%
(c) 12%
(d) 9%
(Ans B)

A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary ?
(a) Rs.500
(b) Rs.1500
(c) Rs.1000
(d) Rs. 900
(Ans C)

The population of a city increases @ 4% p.a. There is an additional annual increase of 4% of the population due to the influx of job seekers, find the % increase in population after 2 years ?

The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3:2 Out of these 10% the boys and 25% of girls are scholarship holders. % of students who are not scholarship holders.?

15 men take 21 days of 8 hrs. each to do a piece of work. How many days of 6 hrs. each would it take for 21 women if 3 women do as much work as 2 men?
(a) 30
(b) 20
(c) 19 }
(d) 29
(Ans . A)

A cylinder is 6 cms in diameter and 6 cms in height. If spheres of the same size are made from the material obtained, what is the diameter of each sphere?
(a) 5 cms
(b) 2 cms
(c) 3 cms
(d) 4 cms
(Ans C)

A rectangular plank (2)1/2 meters wide can be placed so that it is on either side of the diagonal of a square shown below.(Figure is not available)What is the area of the plank?
( Ans :7*(2)1/2 )

What is the smallest number by which 2880 must be divided in order to make it into a perfect square ?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 6
(Ans . C)

A father is 30 years older than his son however he will be only thrice as old as the son after 5 years what is father s present age ?
(a) 40 yrs
(b) 30 yrs
(c) 50 yrs
(d) none of these
(Ans . A)

An article sold at a profit of 20% if both the cost price and selling price would be Rs.20/- the profit would be 10% more. What is the cost price of that article?

If an item costs Rs.3 in 99 and Rs.203 in 00.What is the % increase in price?
(a) 200/3 %
(b) 200/6 %
(c) 100%
(d) none of these
(Ans . A)

5 men or 8 women do equal amount of work in a day. a job requires 3 men and 5 women to finish the job in 10 days how many woman are required to finish the job in 14 days.
a) 10
b) 7
c) 6
d) 12
(Ans 7)

A simple interest amount of rs 5000 for six month is rs 200. what is the anual rate of interest?
a) 10%
b) 6%
c) 8%
d) 9%
(Ans 8%)

In objective test a correct Ans score 4 marks and on a wrong Ans 2 marks are ---. a student score 480 marks from 150 question. how many Ans were correct?
a) 120
b) 130
c) 110
d) 150
(Ans 130)

An artical sold at amount of 50% the net sale price is rs 425 .what is the list price of the artical?
a) 500
b) 488
c) 480
d) 510
(Ans 500)

A man leaves office daily at 7pm A driver with car comes from his home to pick him from office and bring back home.One day he gets free at 5:30 and instead of waiting for driver he starts walking towards home. In the way he meets the car and returns home on car He reaches home 20 minutes earlier than usual. In how much time does the man reach home usually?
(Ans . 1hr 20min)

A works thrice as much as B. If A takes 60 days less than B to do a work then find the number of days it would take to complete the work if both work together?

How many 1 s are there in the binary form of 8*1024 + 3*64 + 3
Ans . 4

In a digital circuit which was to implement (A B) + (A)XOR(B), the designer implements (A B) (A)XOR(B) What is the probability of error in it ?

A boy has Rs 2. He wins or loses Re 1 at a time If he wins he gets Re 1 and if he loses the game he loses Re 1.He can loose only 5 times. He is out of the game if he earns Rs 5.Find the number of ways in which this is possible?
(Ans . 16)

If there are 1024*1280 pixels on a screen and each pixel can have around 16 million colors. Find the memory required for this?
(Ans . 4MB)

On a particular day A and B decide that they would either speak the truth or will lie. C asks A whether he is speaking truth or lying? He Ans wers and B listens to what he said. C then asks B what A has said B says "A says that he is a liar" What is B speaking ?
(a) Truth
(b) Lie
(c) Truth when A lies
(d) Cannot be determined
Ans . (b)

What is the angle between the two hands of a clock when time is 8:30
Ans . 75(approx)

A student is ranked 13th from right and 8th from left. How many students are there in totality ?

A man walks east and turns right and then from there to his left and then 45degrees to his right.In which direction did he go ]
(Ans . North west)

A student gets 70% in one subject, 80% in the other. To get an overall of 75% how much should get in third subject.

A man shows his friend a woman sitting in a park and says that she the daughter of my grandmother s only son.What is the relation between the two
Ans . Daughter

CAT Lessons--Quantitative Aptitude

2009-06-29T05:40:00.000-07:00

CAT Lessons--Quantitative Aptitude
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Targeting High marks in CAT,Improve your Quant.....

Numbers
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In last post we discussed about finding unit digit of a large power using Fermat's theorem and co-prime Technique.Now move 1 step forward,Find last 2 digits.
To find tens digit or last two digits, we will follow the same techniques except for this time we will divide by 100. 100 has 40 relative primes.
100(1-1/2)(1-1/5)=40

So to find tens digit of 69^83 we will divide 83 by 40 [power by relative primes]. We will get 3 as remainder. So we are left with 69^3 divided by 100.
this can be done manually by multiplying only the last 2 digits.
we will get 69.

Similarly we can do it for last three digits, method remains same but this time we will divide by 1000.
also remember,no. of co-primes for 1000=1000(1-1/2)(1-1/5)=400

Some examples are given
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* “What will be the remainder when 68^66 is divided by 5”.

First find relative primes of 5 [ 5 is prime so its relative primes are 4]
Now divide the power of 68^66 by 4, so we get 2.
Now we are left with 68^2 divided by 5.
Do 8^2/5, will get remainder as 4.

Suppose the base of numerator and denominator are not relative primes then take out the relative prime from Nr and Dr and multiply it in the end.

*Find the remainder when 78^67 is divided by 8.

Here we take out 2 from base of Nr and Dr. Hence we are left with
2*{39^67/4}.
Applying our usual method to get remainder as 3 multiplying with 2 to get the result as 6.

More posts on quant and DI are coming soon......

Online CAT Lessons -Remainder questions

2009-06-29T05:18:00.000-07:00

Online CAT coaching:-
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Quantitative Analysis :Numbers,Remainder questions,Fermat's Theorem
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Fermats theorem:-

This theorem is very important for solving the remainder questions with large powers or with large divisor. This can be used easily in solving almost all CAT level difficult remainder questions quickly.

The Theorem is as given below.on

If a & b are co-primes or relative primes and b is prime then
rem{a^(b-1)/b}=1.

If the divisor ,b is composite, then find n, the no. of co-primes between 1 and the no. Now we get rem(a^n/b) is 1.

Two relative prime numbers are those which have no common factor besides 1, such as 57 and 59], to find relative primes of number N we can use the formula N(1-1/p1)(1-1/p3)(1-1/p2)...................(1-1/pn). Where p1,p2,pn are prime factors of N.

Relative primes of 12 are 12(1-1/2)(1-1/3)=4 and those are 1,5,7,11
here 2 and 3 are the prime factors of 12.

Some practice questions are given here..

Eg.1. Find the rem(3^40/13)?

Since 3 & 13 are co-primes also 13 is prime, using Fermats theorem,rem(3^12/13)=1.So rem(3^36/13) =1.Therefore now we need to find out rem(3^4/13).
ie rem(81/13)=3.

Eg. 2. Find the rem(5^72/11)?

Since 5 & 11 are co-primes also 11 is prime, using Fermats theorem,rem(5^10/11)=1.So rem(5^70/11) =1.Therefore now we need to find out rem(5^2/11).
ie rem(25/11)=3.

Eg.3. Find the rem(5^72/12)?

Here 12 is not a prime no.
12=2^2*3.
No. of co-primes of 12 is 12(1-1/2)(1-1/3)=4.
Therefore rem(5^4/12)=1.
So rem(5^72/12)=1.

Find the Unit digit of 69^77?

What we need to find is the rem{(69^77)/10},since it will be the unit digit.
Now no. of relative primes of 10 is 10(1-1/2)(1-1/5)=4

According to Fermat's theorem,rem(69^4)/10 will be 1
Now what we do is divide the power(77) with number of relative primes(4).
So divide 77 by 4 you will get 19 remainder 1. So you are left with 69^1 divided by 10 and that is easy. So the remainder is 9 [89/10 gives 9 as remainder].
And 9 is your unit digit.

OR

But,this question can be done very easily by another method,
Use power cycle.
unit digit 9 has power frequency 2(9,1)
9 raise to any odd number is 9 only.
so the remainder(here unit digit is 9 only).

Online CAT- Expected Pattern,Surprises...

2009-06-27T10:45:00.000-07:00

What to expect in ONLINE CAT

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CAT is always famous for its surprise elements,it can be ina change in question pattern or change in weightage for different section or sometimes the it can be the change in the exam mode itself.Well,this year its something like this.The era of HB pencils and OMR sheets are gone.Now its online CAT.
CAT 2009 is going to be a computer based test like GRE,GMAT. IIMs have confirmed about it. The test will be conducted in a window of about ten days sometime at the end of the calendar year, 2009. Instead of a single exam paper for all, the online test will have several different papers of the same level of difficulty.
There are a lot of questions pouring in about online CAT. What will be the difficulty level? How easy or tough it will be to take the Computer Based Test? How can we do RC and DI in online CAT? But one thing should be bear in mind. Till the information brochure or any guidelines hasn’t been released by IIMs nothing is certain. So please keep a blank mind and study hard and always remember that everyone is going to get the same pattern and same difficulty level and its an level ground.

Some surprise elements to be expected in Computer Based CAT.

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1. A computer based test will require some amount of practice done on a range of Computer Based mock-tests. People who are used to the paper based test need not panic though. The skills will be useful now as well, but aspirants will require some acclimatization.

2. Those used to underlining the passages in RC, will suffer, as you wont be able to do so now. Now, you will have to note the important points/words down on a piece of paper given to you. It will require some practice though. So its very important to do as many online RCs so that you get over the habit of marking or underlining the important words.

3. Similarly with DI/DS, you will not be able to mark anything in the data/charts etc given. So start practicing the online way now and prepare for CAT 2009.But I surely suspect the new DI pattern will be having questions like number puzzles or game type questions.

4. There could be an essay as well, following GRE pattern and XAT.So start horning your essay writing skills now. Concentrate on current affairs as well, you never know.

So its high time to start reading online editions of newspapers and other articles,so that you get the familiar feeling of reading online articles.
More information about online CAT and guidelines for belling the new format of the CAT will be featured in coming days. So all the best for all the CAT aspirants.

CAT lessons-Important Number Questions

2009-06-25T05:45:00.000-07:00

Important Number Questions
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Some typical number questions are given in this posts.The variants of the same questions are frequently coming in CAT and various other competitive exams like XAT,GMAT,MAT,IIFT,Symbiosis....So have a look at these questions...

1*Find the number of factors 24 has?

Explanation:-
24 can be written as 2^3*3.
We know that if N=a^m*b^n. Then the number of factors of N is (n+1)*(m+1)
Here we have, number of factors= (3+1) (1+1) = 8.

2*Find the least number with no. of factors as 24.

Explanation:-
A number can have 24 factors,
If its in the form, N=a^23,
or a*b^11
or a^2*b^7
or a^3*b^5
or a*b*c^5
or a*b*c*d^2 .

Here if we want to find the smallest number we need to fit in the smallest prime numbers as far as possible.
So better if you put the last choice, a*b*c*d^2, also put d=2,c=3,b=5,a=7
So the number becomes 2^2*3*5*7 ie
4*3*5*7= 420.
So this is the smallest number with 24 factors.
If we put any other forms of the number, the resulting number will be higher than 420.

*A number has unequal prime factors and the total number of factors is 4.
The sum of the factors without 1 and the number itself is 30. Find the smallest number with this characteristics.

Explanation:-
The number with 4 factors can be with the form a^3 or a*b.
Since its given that number has unequal prime factors, it can take the form of a*b.
Then the factors are 1, a, b, ab where ab is the number itself.
The condition given is a+b=30, where a and b are prime numbers.
a,b can be 7 & 23
11 & 19
13 & 17.
Then the smallest number is 7*23 = 161.

*How many numbers are there <1000, which has exactly 3 factors.

Only squares of prime numbers have exactly 3 factors.
So we need to find the number of prime number squares<1000.
The highest prime number square less than 1000 is 31^2.
So all prime number squares up to 31 can be regarded as the answer.
They are squares of 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31.So there are total 11 numbers.
So answer is 11.

Feel free to post new questions in these topics..

Data Interpretation for CAT--Introduction & BasicFundas

2009-06-25T05:02:00.000-07:00

Data Interpretation for CAT--Introduction & Basic Fundas
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Data interpretation is one most critical section in CAT and other management exams which can become a nightmare for a lot of students. In this section, different caselets with 4-5 questions will be there. The questions and pattern in this section may change year after year, so always make sure that you score the cut-off marks for DI section and be safe.

The questions can be normal puzzles, numbers based puzzles, pattern matching, graph based caselets, game based caselets….

You must be fast in calculations, especially with fractions and percentages, in order to score high marks in DI section. Also in lot of graph based questions, you can answer them by mere observation alone.

If you analyze the DI questions, in recent CATS, a lot of reasoning questions are also appearing in CAT DI.

Some important concepts helpful in CAT-DI

Percentage concepts
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When a number becomes double, we say that it increased by 100%.
Also if it becomes thrice,the number increased by 200%.
ie the percentage increase ,if number got multiplied by ‘n’ times is
(n-1)*100.
If the number increases 14 times,the percentage increase is (14-1)*100=1300%

Similarly,if we say that a number got percentage increase of 1200,we mean that it became,{(1200/100) +1} ie 13 times its original value.

Also finding the squares of numbers, quickly is another important need for scoring high marks in DI section.

Fast way of finding Squares of numbers.
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For finding squares of all numbers,we have a rather easy way.

Eg 1.Find the square of 32.

(32-2)*(32+2)+2*2= 30*34+4=1020+4=1024.

The advantage of this method is that we are converting the squaring procedure to a single digit multiplication plus addition. This is quite easy compared to the usual 2-digit multiplication.
In the example given above,the 32*32 multiplication is changed to a simple single digit multiplication of 34*3. and addition.

Eg. 2. Find the square of 26.

(26-6)*(26+6)+6*6=20*32+36=640+36=676
or this can be done in one more way,
(26+4)(26-4)+4*4=30*22+16=660+16=676.

Both ways are easier than the original multiplication of 26*26.

We can do any square using this method; however we need to improve our speed in single digit multiplication.

Faster way of finding Square-roots of numbers
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Finding approximate roots of numbers can also be useful in DI sections.
We have an easy method for that too.

Eg1. Suppose we need to find the root of 30.

The largest number with its square within 30 is 5(5*5=25).
Now 30/5 is 6.
So square root of 30 is (5+6)/2 = 5.5

If you take the square root of 30,it will come to 5.477. Approximately 5.5.

Eg2. Find the root of 40.

The largest number with its square within 40 is 6(6*6=36).
Now 40/6 is 6.667
So square root of 40 is (6+6.667)/2 = 6.333.
If you take the square root of 40,it will come to 6.324. Approximately 6.333.

Central Bank of India-Aptitude Sample Paper 2008

2009-06-24T05:51:00.000-07:00

Aptitude Questions Sample Paper 2008--Central Bank of India
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Central Bank of India, a leading Public Sector Bank, invites applications
from Indian Citizens for appointment of Probationary Officers & Specialist Officers in the Various Scales.There is a total of 1275 officer posts.So there is a great chance of getting selection,if you improve your aptitude skills a little better.

Selection Procedure :
Selection will be on the basis of Written Test and/ or Group Discussions, Interview depending on the number of applications received for each posts.

Written Test :
Written Test will comprise
(i) Objective Test on Quantities Aptitude,Reasoning, General Awareness and English
(ii) Descriptive Test.
The Descriptive Test shall be to assess the candidate's knowledge on Socio-economic development and communication skills.

So lets see a sample Aptitude test for Bank Test:--

• If 13 = 13w/(1-w) ,then (2w)2 =
A.1/4 B.1/2 C.1 D.2 (Ans.C)

• If a and b are positive integers and (a-b)/3.5 = 4/7, then
(A) b <> a (C) b = a (D) b >= a (Ans. A)

• In june a baseball team that played 60 games had won 30% of its game played. After a phenomenal winning streak this team raised its average to 50% .How many games must the team have won in a row to attain this average?
A. 12 B. 20 C. 24 D. 30 (Ans. C)

• M men agree to purchase a gift for Rs. D. If three men drop out how much more will each have to contribute towards the purchase of the gift/
A. D/(M-3) B. MD/3 C. M/(D-3) D. 3D/(M2-3M) (Ans. D)

• . A company contracts to paint 3 houses. Mr.Brown can paint a house in 6 days while Mr.Black would take 8 days and Mr.Blue 12 days. After 8 days Mr.Brown goes on vacation and Mr. Black begins to work for a period of 6 days. How many days will it take Mr.Blue to complete the contract?
A. 7 B. 8 C. 11 D. 12 (Ans.C)

• The price of a product is reduced by 30% . By what percentage should it be increased to make it 100% (Ans: 42.857%)

• There is a square of side 6cm . A circle is inscribed inside the square. Find the ratio of the area of circle to square. (Ans. 11/14 )

• There are two candles of equal lengths and of different thickness. The thicker one lasts of six hours. The thinner 2 hours less than the thicker one. Ramesh lights the two candles at the same time. When he went to bed he saw the thicker one is twice the length of the thinner one. How long ago did Ramesh light the two candles .
Ans: 3 hours.

• If M/N = 6/5,then 3M+2N = ?

• If p/q = 5/4 , then 2p+q= ?

• If PQRST is a parallelogram what it the ratio of triangle PQS & parallelogram PQRST . (Ans: 1:2 )

• The cost of an item is Rs 12.60. If the profit is 10% over selling price what is the selling price ?

(Ans: Rs 13.86/- )

• To 15 lts of water containing 20% alcohol, we add 5 lts of pure water. What is % alcohol. (Ans : 15% )

• A worker is paid Rs.20/- for a full days work. He works 1,1/3,2/3,1/8.3/4 days in a week. What is the total amount paid for that worker ? (Ans : 57.50 )

• If the value of x lies between 0 & 1 which of the following is the largest?
(a) x b) x2 (c) –x (d)1/x (Ans : (d) )

• If the total distance of a journey is 120 km .If one goes by 60 kmph and comes back at 40kmph what is the average speed during the journey? Ans: 48kmph
• A school has 30% students from Maharashtra .Out of these 20% are Bombey students. Find the total percentage of Bombay? (Ans: 6%)

• An equilateral triangle of sides 3 inch each is given. How many equilateral triangles of side 1 inch can be formed from it? (Ans: 9)
• If A/B = 3/5,then 15A = ? (Ans : 9B)

• Each side of a rectangle is increased by 100% .By what percentage does the area increase? (Ans : 300%)

• Perimeter of the back wheel = 9 feet, front wheel = 7 feet on a certain distance, the front wheel gets 10 revolutions more than the back wheel .What is the distance? Ans : 315 feet

• Perimeter of front wheel =30, back wheel = 20. If front wheel revolves 240 times. How many revolutions will the back wheel take? Ans: 360 times

• 20% of a 6 litre solution and 60% of 4 litre solution are mixed. What percentage of the mixture of solution
(Ans: 36%)

• City A's population is 68000, decreasing at a rate of 80 people per year. City B having population 42000 is increasing at a rate of 120 people per year. In how many years both the cities will have same population? (Ans: 130 years)

• Two cars are 15 kms apart. One is turning at a speed of 50kmph and the other at 40kmph . How much time will it take for the two cars to meet? (Ans: 3/2 hours)

• A person wants to buy 3 paise and 5 paise stamps costing exactly one rupee. If he buys which of the following number of stamps he won't able to buy 3 paise stamps. Ans: 9

• There are 12 boys and 15 girls, How many different dancing groups can be formed with 2 boys and 3 girls.

• Which of the following fractions is less than 1/3
(a) 22/62 (b) 15/46 (c) 2/3 (d) 1 (Ans: (b))

• There are two circles, one circle is inscribed and another circle is circumscribed over a square. What is the ratio of area of inner to outer circle? Ans: 1 : 2

• Three types of tea the a,b,c costs Rs. 95/kg,100/kg and70/kg respectively.How many kgs of each should be blended to produce 100 kg of mixture worth Rs.90/kg, given that the quantities of band c are equal
a)70,15,15 b)50,25,25 c)60,20,20 d)40,30,30 (Ans. (b))

• in a class, except 18 all are above 50 years.15 are below 50 years of age. How many people are there
(a) 30 (b) 33 (c) 36 (d) none of these. (Ans. (d))

• If a boat is moving in upstream with velocity of 14 km/hr and goes downstream with a velocity of 40 km/hr, then what is the speed of the stream ?
(a) 13 km/hr (b) 26 km/hr (c) 34 km/hr (d) none of these (Ans. A)

• Find the value of ( 0.75 * 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.001 ) / ( 0.75 * 0.75 - 0.075 + 0.01)
(a) 0.845 (b) 1.908 (c) 2.312 (d) 0.001 (Ans. A)

• A can have a piece of work done in 8 days, B can work three times faster than the A, C can work five times faster than A. How many days will they take to do the work together ?
(a) 3 days (b) 8/9 days (c) 4 days (d) can't say (Ans. B)

• A car travels a certain distance taking 7 hrs in forward journey, during the return journey increased speed 12km/hr takes the times 5 hrs.What is the distance travelled

(a) 210 kms (b) 30 kms (c) 20 kms (c) none of these (Ans. B)

• Instead of multiplying a number by 7, the number is divided by 7. What is the percentage of error obtained ?

• Find (7x + 4y ) / (x-2y) if x/2y = 3/2 ?
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 7 (d) data insufficient (Ans. C)

• A man buys 12 lts of liquid which contains 20% of the liquid and the rest is water. He then mixes it with 10 lts of another mixture with 30% of liquid.What is the % of water in the new mixture?

• If a man buys 1 lt of milk for Rs.12 and mixes it with 20% water and sells it for Rs.15, then what is the percentage of gain?

Test of English as a Foreign Language(TOEFL)

2009-06-23T07:00:00.000-07:00

TOEFL(Test of English as a Foreign Language)
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TOEFL is an admission requirement common for non-native English speakers at many English-speaking colleges and universities.Almost all European and American universities uses TOEFL as a basic criteria for their admissions in addition to the GRE(Graduate Record Examination).TOEFL basically tests the ability of a person with non-English as his mother tongue to understand and communicate in English when he studies in an English country.Here we have provided you with some sample vocabulary questions which comes in usual TOEFL.

TOEFL Vocabulary
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1. We haven't ___ our son for three months. He is not much of a letter writer.
1) seen
2) written to
3) heard from
4) kept touch with

Answer: 3

2. ___ the morning news, many houses on the island were destroyed.
1) According to
2) In addition to
3) In contrast to
4) In spite of

Answer: 1

3. Jack has a lot of clothes, but most of them are out of ___.
1) age
2) fashion
3) order
4) time

Answer: 2

4. That copying machine is ___ order. Why don't you use this one?.
1) out of
2) off of
3) in
4) by

Answer: 1

5. My son dropped ___ college and joined the army.
1) away from
2) by
3) off
4) out of

Answer: 4

6. The police signaled the driver to ___ and stop.
1) pull over
2) put in
3) pass by
4) pick up

Answer: 4

7. Don't speak so fast, please. I cannot keep ___ with you.
1) on
2) out
3) away
4) up

Answer: 4

8. Since I came in half an hour later this morning, I have to stay until 5:30 to ___ for it.
1) save up
2) make up
3) keep up
4) hold up

Answer: 4

9. I deposited 10,000 yen every month for three years and ___ enough money to go the United States.
1) saved up
2) made up
3) kept up
4) held up

Answer: 1

10. Would you turn ___ the TV? I'm afraid the baby will wake up.
1) off
2) on
3) up
4) over

Answer: 1

11. We will ___ the picnic, since it started raining.
1) put off
2) take off
3) turn off
4) brush off

Answer: 1

12. Most of our customers ___ their meals rather than eating here.
1) take out
2) take back
3) take in
4) take off

Answer: 1

13. I ___ my old friend when I was shopping downtown yesterday.
1) came around
2) ran into
3) stopped by
4) dropped in

Answer: 2

14. May I ___ this suit? It if fits, I'll buy it.
1) try on
2) put on
3) pull on
4) get on

Answer: 1

15. I quit my job because I could not ___ with my boss.
1) get up
2) make up
3) take up
4) put up

Answer: 4

16. Sorry, but that book is ___. We'll get some copies from the publisher next Monday.
1) out of print
2) out of order
3) off shelf
4) out of stock

Answer: 4

17. The new policies brought ___ many changes in our company.
1) about
2) down
3) out
4) up

Answer: 1

18. The farmers broke ___ the stone wall and started the revolution.
1) down
2) in
3) off
4) out

Answer:1

20. The economy was so bad that I carried red ink ___ into this fiscal year.
1) away
2) on
3) out
4) over

Answer: 4

21. Because of the bad weather, communication with the base camp was cut ___.
1) down
2) off
3) out
4) in

Answer: 2

22. This letter was so badly written that I could not ___ what it said.
1) get out
2) figure out
3) take out
4) count out

Answer:2

23. We ___ gas, so we have to wait until a car passes by.
1) gave out on
2) ran out of
3) walked out on
4) disposed of

Answer: 2

24. I ___ my boss's work after he left.
1) got on
2) pulled over
3) ran over
4) took over

Answer: 4

25. Could you ___ the baby? She's been sleeping all afternoon.
1) look to
2) check on
3) take care
4) look up

Answer: 2

26. Could you ___ the names of the people who are not coming to the party?
1) cut down
2) cross out
3) sign up
4) keep up

Answer:2

27. Jan and Celia went to see a movie and ( ran into ) an old friend of theirs in the lobby of the movie theater.
1) talked to
2) saw
3) happened to meet
4) ran over

Answer: 3

28. During an earthquake, it is important that you turn off the gas, stay under a table or something sturdy and ( keep your head ).
1) hide
2) be quiet
3) stay alive
4) stay calm

Answer: 4

29. I imagine that other people have told you many different things, but please ( keep in mind ) what I have said.
1) think about
2) remind
3) remember
4) announce

Answer: 4

30. The party is going to start soon. Would you please check and see how many bottles of wine we have ( on hand )?
1) in your hand
2) available
3) for that purpose
4) chilled

Answer: 2

SAIL- Interview Questions

2009-06-20T19:35:00.000-07:00

Steel Authority of India Ltd(SAIL)- Interview Questions
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SAIL Interview questions & details for a Computer Science Candidate is given here...

The Interview will be about 30-40 minutes. There will be 4-5 members in the panel. One person will be from HR department .The questions can come from the entire span of engineering.But if you are a fresher,be prepared to explain about your engineering project in detail.For experienced people,if you are from related field of work,expect questions from your domain.

Some of the questions were...

What are the components of LAN?

How do we connect the systems in a LAN?

What is UTP? (Unshielded Twisted Pair)

How much distance it supports?

How much distance does a Fiber optic supports?

What is the throughput of the Ethernet LAN?

Describe about OSI Layers?

In which layer encryption can be done? And other than presentation layer?

What is the function of Bridge? Router?

Which layer is responsible for end 2 end connection?

What is RAID? (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)

For what it is used for?

How can achieve fault tolerance through RAID?

Where the Static variable stored in C?

What are the functions of the OS?

Which OS you are familiar with?

What is the process?

What r its attributes?

How the process interacts with each others?

What r the mechanisms for inter process communication?

What is semaphore?

What is critical region?

How can semaphore avoid conflicts?

What is a virtual function?

What is late binding?

What is scope resolution operator?

Differentiate between testing and debugging?

Distinguish black box testing and white box testing?

What is unit testing?

How can u control the lost acknowledgement issue?

Is there is any difference between switch and hub? Which is good?

Principle behind the working of zenor diode?

Give examples for 8 / 16 / 32 bit Microprocessors?

Why an 8 bit processor is called so?

Define HCMOS?

What is a Compiler?

Differentiate between Compiler and Interpretor?

What are the various interrupts in 8086? Explain each?

What is SIM and RIM instructions?

The above were the Technical Questions,then the HR person took over.
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What do you prefer to be a team leader or team member?

What are the qualities you have for being a leader?

How can you solve the conflicts in a team?

How can you react if some one else competing with you in your
team for promotion?

Can you tell me a instance in your college that insists your leadership attitude?

The most important point is that you should be confident.

Also for technical questions,don't bluff.

If you don't know the answer,just say that you don't know.

Nobody can answer the entire range of questions so be honest and confident.

All the best.....

Group Discussion Topics for Bank Interviews

2009-06-19T07:34:00.000-07:00

Group Discussion topics for Bank Tests

Nowadays GDS are becoming common in bank recruitment also.GD topics given for these interviews are normally simple. Most probably it will be very generic and won't be that specific which needs indepth knowledge in any particular area.You will be able to speak on them comfortably with a moderate level of knowledge in current affairs. The focus here is on the logic of the points that the participant puts forward, his communication skills and how well he is able to mix with the group.

We strongly advise students to read an English Newspaper daily and be abreast of current happenings and issues.

Sample Group Discussion Topics for Campus Recruitment

I. IT INDUSTRY RELATED

1. Is Recession good for Indian IT industry.
2. The future of Indian IT industry.
3. BPO - a rising opportunity or a passing fad?
4. With the increasing use of IT in daily life, machines are controlling man.
5. Is India Industry more dependent on IT and services sector?
6. IT helps social integration
7. Increasing use of computers is de-humanizing society.

II. SPORTS

1. Is cricket hampering the growth of other sports in India?
2. Twenty20 -Future of world cricket?
3. One billon people and only one Olympic medal!
4. How can we make India a sporting super power?
5. Sania Mirza - the Indian Kournikova
6. Are Indian cricketers over-rated?
7. Should the Indian cricket team have a foreign coach?
8. Cricket telecast is a waste of time.

III. SOCIAL

1. Should euthanasia be legalized?
2. Capital punishment should be abolished.
3. Cloning of human beings should be allowed.
4. Is pocket money enough for the youth of today?
5. Love cannot be confined to Valentine's Day.
6. A women's place is at home.
7. Parents don't understand children.
8. Are we raising a society of burnt out children?
9. Should we have job reservation in the private sector?
10. Beauty pageants are a waste of time and should be banned.
11. Is women empowerment a myth?
12. The biggest problem facing India is unskilled labour
13 Film awards are a farce and should be stopped.
14 Brain drain vs brain in the drain.
15. The media should be more socially responsible.

IV. POLITICS

1. Politics is the root cause of all problems in India.
2. Politics of criminals vs criminalisation of politics.
3. For true democracy to happen, it must first happen within all political parties.
4. Women's reservation in Parliament.
5. Should India give up Kashmir?

V. CAMPUS

1. Should use of mobile phones be banned on campus?
2. Should college students wear uniforms?
3. Privatisation of professional education: Is it good or bad?
4. Should politics be allowed on campus?
5. We should shift to Open Book Policy for examinations.
6. Our education system should be revamped.

VI. ETHICAL

1. Is honesty the best policy for a citizen of India?
2. Profit is a bad word in business.
3. Ethics and business do not co-exist.
4. Advertising is all glitter and no truth.

VII. ABSTRACT

1.The world is flat.
2.The Sun always rises in the East.
3. The colour of the cat is not a matter of concern as long as it catches mice.
4. Green is better than red.
5. Life is like a box of chocolates.

Online CAT Coaching-Quantitave Methods

2009-06-18T05:02:00.000-07:00

Quantitative Aptitude Techniques.
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Here we will discuss some more quantitative methods for typical MBA examination questions.

Highest power of a number in a factorial.
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This is a typical CAT question, which is being asked for many competitive entrance exams.
To find out the highest power of a no. in a factorial, we should find the no. of times the particular no. is repeating in that factorial. Hence we will divide the factorial no. continuously until we get a no. less than the original divisor.

Eg.Find the highest power of 5 in 100!

5)100
5)20
5)4.
Therefore the max. power of 5 in 1001! is 20+4=24

If the divisor is a composite no, we need to find the highest power of all the prime no. components and we can fix the highest power of the no, as the power of largest prime num. component.

Eg. Find the highest power of 10 in 100!
As we know 10 =5*2( both are prime numbers.)
Also 5>2.
So we need to find the highest power of 5 in 100! And this will be the answer.
(Anyway the highest power of 2 is more than that of 5, but we can’t take that since,
for getting a 10 we need both 5 and 2, so whichever is least, only that many 10s will be there).

Number of zeroes in a factorial.(n!)

The num. of zeroes will depend on the highest power of 10 in that factorial. That in turn depends on the highest power of 5( as we mentioned earlier.)

****In any number system, the number of zeroes depends on the highest power of the base number of that factorial****

Expressing a number as the difference between 2 squares.
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Suppose we have a number N=a.b
We can express N as
N= a.b=(a+b/2)^2-(a-b/2)^2
So we conclude that
In order for N to be an integer, both a &b should be either odd or even.
****So any multiple of 4 can be expressed as the difference between 2 squares.****

Lets take an example.

a.How many ways we can express 24 as the difference between 2 squares?
Explanation:-

24=1*24(format N=a*b)
24=2*12
24=3*8
24=4*6

Here 2*12 and 4*6 are the 2 forms where both a and b are even or odd. So 24 can be expressed as the difference between 2 squares in 2 ways.

2*12 as 7^2-5^2
4*6 as 5^2-1^2

Odd
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All odd prime no. can be expressed in only 1 way
Odd composite no. can be expressed in more than 1 way

Even
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4 can be expressed in only 1 way.
Prime multiple of 4 can be expressed in only 1 form.
Other multiples of 4 can be expressed in more than 1 form.
Non multiples of 4 can’t be expressed as difference between 2 squares.

Eg.
How many no. are there below 1000,that can’t be expressed as a difference between two squares?
Explanation:-

All odd num. can be expressed as the difference between two squares.
In even num., only which are non-multiples of 4 can’t be expressed.
So in 999 num. 499 even numbers are there.
Out of which ,250 are multiples of 4.
So non- multiples are 499-250=249.
So the answer is 249.

Online CAT Coaching -Divisibility Checks II

2009-06-18T04:49:00.000-07:00

Online CAT Lessons
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In CAT ,in Quantitative section,we can save a lot of time by eliminating the answer options,and divisibility checks comes in handy in this process.especially if you know the checks for prime numbers like 11,13,17...
So lets check out this quantitative methods...

Divisibility Checks for 11

We know that rem (10^1/11)=-1
Therefore the rem(10^2/11)=+1

So for a no. in the form ‘abcdef’, the divisibility can be checked by taking the diff. b/w
Sum of the odd numbered digits and even numbered digits.Check whether that difference is divisible by 11.If that is divisible then the large no. is divisible by 11.

Eg. Take the no. 1331
D
Odd numbered dig. Are 1,3 from right, sum =4
Even numbered dig. are 3,1 from right , sum =4
Difference of the sum is 0. So its divisible by 11

Divisibility Checks for 13

We know that rem (10^3/13)=-1
Therefore the rem(10^6/13)=+1

So for a no. in the form ‘abcdef’, the divisibility can be checked by taking the diff. b/w
abc and def. Check whether that difference is divisible by 13.If that is divisible then the large no. is divisible by 13.

Eg. Check the divisibility of 214175?
Split the no. in to 2 as 214 and 175.
214-175= 39
Since the difference 39 is divisible by 13, the no. 214175 is also divisible by 13.

Divisibility Checks for 17

We know that rem (10^9/17)=-1
Therefore the rem(10^18/17)=+1

So for checking the divisibility of 17,we need to take blocks of 9 digits and do the same procedure as we do for that of 7 or 13.

The knowledge of divisibility of various numbers will help you to eliminate some answer options without doing a single calculation. This types of small time savings can make a big difference in the whole exam.(As I said earlier, reaching answer quickly is the important thing…..)

Top Colleges in Kerala

2009-06-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

Medical Colleges in Kerala
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The official list of all govt. and self-financed medical institutions are given in this post.
The list is categorized as Medical,Dental,Ayurvedic and Pharmacy colleges.
Also list of both govt. and private are given separately.

Medical Colleges

Dental Colleges

Ayurvedic Colleges

Pharmacy Colleges

SL.NO	CODE	COLLEGE	PHONE No
GOVT. MEDICAL COLLEGES (UNDER THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL EDUCATION)
1	TVM	Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2528386
2	ALP	Medical College, Alappuzha	0477-2282015
3	KTM	Medical College, Kottayam	0481-2597279
4	TCM	Medical College, Thrissur	0487-2200311
5	KKM	Medical College, Kozhikode	0495-2356531
STATE-OWNED SELF-FINANCING MEDICAL COLLEGE
6	KNM	Academy of Medical Sciences, Pariyaram, Kannur	0497-2800362
7	CMG	Co-operative Medical College, Ernakulam #	0484-2313731
PRIVATE SELF-FINANCING MEDICAL COLLEGE
8	SMC	Dr.Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram #	0471-2252451
9	MMC	Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Medical College, Kolencherry #	0484-2760251
10	PMC	Pushpagiri Inst. Of Medical Sciences & Research, Thiruvalla #	04733-600755
GOVT. DENTAL COLLEGES
11	TVD	Dental College, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2444092
12	KKD	Dental College, Kozhikode	0495-2356781
13	KTD	Dental College, Kottayam	0481-2594046
PRIVATE SELF FINCING DENTAL COLLEGES
14	MBD	Mar Baselious Dental College, Kothamangalam	0485-2823740
15	PMS	PMS College of Dental Sciences & Research, Vattappara, Tvpm.	0472-2587878
GOVT./AIDED AYURVEDA COLLEGES
16	TVA	Govt.Ayurveda College, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2460190
17	TPA	Govt.Ayurveda College, Trippunithura	0484-2777374
18	KTL	VPSV Ayurveda College, Kottackal	0483-2742274
19	OLR	Vaidya Retnam Ayurveda College, Ollur	0487-2352503
20	KNA	Govt.Ayurveda College, Kannur	0497-2800167
PRIVATE SELF FINANCING AYURDEVA COLLEGES
21	NGL	Nangelil Ayurveda College,Kothamangalam, Ernakulam	0485-2851115
22	PKJ	Pankaja Kasthuri Ayurveda College, Kattakada, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2293808
23	PRK	Parassinikadavu Ayurveda Medical College, Kannur	0497-2781453
24	SGA	Santhigiri Ayurveda Medical College, Palakkad	0491-2570574
25	VSH	Vishnu Ayurveda College, Shornur, Palakkad	04926-220555
PRIVATE SELF FINANCING SIDHA COLLEGE
26	SGS	Santhigiri Sidha College, Koliacode, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2719343
GOVT./AIDED HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGES
27	TVH	Govt.Homoeopathic Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2459459
28	NEM	Sree Vidyadhiraja Homoeopathic Medical College, Nemom, TVM (Pvt.)	0471-2391213
29	KTH	ANSS, Homoeopathic Medical College, Kottayam	0481-430729
30	EKM	Dr.Padiyar Memorial Homoeopathic M.C, Ernakulam	0484-2711030
31	KKH	Govt.Homoeopathic Medical College, Kozhikode	0495-2370883
COLLEGES UNDER THE KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (KAU)
32	COA	College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2381002
33	COH	College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, Thrissur	0487-2370822
34	CON	College of Agriculture, Pilicode, Nileswar	0499-7280616
35	COF	College of Fisheries, Panangad, Ernakulam	0484-2700598
36	COR	College of Forestry, Vellanikkara, Thrissur	0487-2370050
37	TCV	College of Vet. & Animal Science, Mannuthy	0487-2370344
38	WYV	College of Vet. & Animal Science, Pookkotte, WYD.	0487-2373050
GOVT.NURSING COLLEGES
39	TVN	College of Nursing, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2444290
40	KTN	College of Nursing, Kottayam	0481-2598469
41	KKN	College of Nursing, Kozhikode	0495-2357621
PRIVATE SELF FINANCING NURSING COLLEGES
42	LHC	Lourdes Hospital, Kochi, Ernakulam	0484-2391452
43	SHP	Samaritan Hospital, Pazhanganad, Kizhakkambalam, Alwaye, Ernakulam	0484-2680511
44	SJD	St.Joseph’s College of Nursing, Dharmagiri, Kothamangalam	0485-2824308
45	ACN	Alshifa College of Nursing, Perinthalmanna	04933-225291
46	KVM	K V M College of Nursing, Cherthala	0478-2812228
47	BAY	Baby Memorial College of Nursing, Kozhikode	0495-2744739
48	JBL	Jubilee Nursing College, Chalakudi	0480-2705117
49	LIT	Little Flower College of Nursing, Angamaly	0484-2456448
50	STJ	St.Joseph’s College of Nursing, Anchal	0475-2271341
51	MLK	College of Nursing, Malik Deenar Charitable Hospital, Kasaragod	04994-230936
52	MLN	College of Nursing, Moulana Hospital, Malappuram	04933-225344
53	NTL	National Hospital College of Nursing	0495-2723061
54	MTC	Medical Trust College of Nursing, Kochi	0484-2322331
55	LIS	Lisie College of Nursing, Kochi	0484-2401102
56	CAR	Caritas College of Nursing, Kottayam	0481-2790025
57	WST	West Fort College of Nursing, Thrissur	0487-2382130
58	STN	St.Thomas College of Nursing, Changanassery
59	KNN	Academy of Medical Science, Pariyaram	0497-2800362
60	HFH	Holy Family Hospital, Muthalakodam, Thodupuzha	04862-222231
61	CSN	C S I College of Nursing, Karakonam, Thiruvananthapuram	0471-2250239
62	TCN	Theophilus College of Nursing, Devagiri, Kottayam #	0481-2495045
63	PMN	Pushpagiri College of Nursing, Thiruvalla #	0473-2635205
PRIVATE SELF FINANCING PHARMACY COLLEGES
64	NCP	National College of Pharmacy, Kozhikode	0495-2297440
65	ACP	Alshifa College of Pharmacy, Perinthalmanna	04933-271416
66	GCP	Grace College of Pharmacy, Palakkad	0491-2534537

Kerala Entrance Results

2009-06-14T19:35:00.000-07:00

Login to view your Entrance rank at these sites

www.keralaresults.nic.in

www.cee.kerala.gov.in

www.results.kerala.nic.in

Kerala Entrance Results-2009

2009-06-14T09:51:00.000-07:00

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Multimedia Design Courses and Top Colleges in Singapore

2009-06-12T10:07:00.000-07:00

Multimedia Design Courses and Top Colleges - Singapore
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In this new communication era,Animation,Multimedia and web based courses offer lot of job opportunities worldwide.Singapore offers these new emerging career oriented courses in a much affordable fees to people in third world including India.Also the universities in Singapore are recognised all over the globe.So here are some relevant links top colleges in Singapore

Animation,Multimedia & web- designing:-

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)
NAFA offers diploma courses in 3D animation,Multimedia and Web Designing
click here for more details.

Management Development Institute of Singapore.(MDIS)
The MDIS School of Media and Communications is a pioneer in this field. It was one of the first schools to offer mass communications degree programmes more

Nanyang Polytechnic
Diploma in Game Development:
Nanyang Polytechnic is launching a Specialist Diploma in Games Development programme to train and convert professionals who have keen interest to develop a career in the games industry. read more

Raffles University:
Raffles College of Design and Commerce is one of the premier centres for creative arts education in Singapore. It offers a wide variety of degrees that will equip students with the skills and knowledge to pursue a career in the creative industries -more

Online CAT Lessons---Numbers:Divisibility Checks I

2009-06-12T09:03:00.000-07:00

Online CAT Lessons:-
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Divisibility Checks for various digits.
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Its always advantageous to know the divisibility rules of various digits so that we can save a lot of time during our calculations and its extremely useful for elimination of answer choices.
In an exam like CAT or GMAT, the most important thing is not to arrive at the answer, but arrive at the answer fast if possible, without doing any calculation you will have to find the answer. So,when you get an objective type question,uy first aim should be to eliminate at least 2 options. The knowledge in rules like divisibility, factors etc will come handy there.

The basic rule in finding the divisibility of a number is that we should find a power of 10(if we r using decimal system) which is completely divisible by the specific digit.
Or we need to find the power which gives a rem. of +/-1.

Divisibility Checks for 2
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We know that rem (10/2)=0.
ie rem(10^1/2) = 0.So we need to check the last digit of a no. only for checking its divisibility by 2.
****The last digit should be 2,4,6,8 or 0.****

Divisibility Checks for 3
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We can write any no. in decimal abc in the form 100a+10b+c
Again, abc = 99a+9b+(a+b+c)

Here except the last term,all terms are divisibe by 9 hence also by 3
Hence if the term ( a+b+c) which is the digit sum of the no. is divisible by 3,the no.abc is divisible by 3.

****The digit sum of a no. should be a multiple of 3****

Divisibility Checks for 4
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We know that rem (10^2/4)=0.
So we need to check the last 2 digits of a no. for checking its divisibility by 4.

****The last 2 digits should be divisible by 4.****

Divisibility Checks for 5
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The last digit should be 5 or 0.

****The last digit should be divisible by 5 or 0.****

Divisibility Checks for 6
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6=2*3.
A no. is divisible by 6,if its divisible by both 2 &3.

****The no. should be divisible by both 2 &3****

Divisibility Checks for 7
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We know that rem (10^3/7)=-1.
therefore rem(10^6/7) = +1.
So if we need to check the divisibility of a 6 digit number 'abcdef'
we need to split the number in to 2, 'abc' and 'def'
Now we need to take the difference between the two numbers and check whether its divisible by 7.If its divisible,then the large number is divisible by 7.

Divisibility Checks for 8
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We know that rem (10^3/8)=0.
So we need to check the last 3 digits of a no. for checking its divisibility by 8.

****The last 3 digits should be divisible by 8.****

Divisibility Checks for 9
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We can write any no. in decimal abc in the form 100a+10b+c
Again, abc = 99a+9b+(a+b+c)

Here except the last term,all terms are divisibe by 9.
Hence if the term ( a+b+c) which is the digit sum of the no. is 9,the no.abc is divisible by 9.

****The digit sum of a no. should be 9****

The divisibility check for higher prime numbers will be given in next lesson

Online CAT Lessons-Tips for Quantitative section

2009-06-10T10:15:00.000-07:00

Lets start with the most important section in Quantitative section,Numbers..

Numbers
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Numbers has lot of properties to be studied in detail and certain set piece questions are there.from where CAT questions are frequently coming..

Power cycle
Power cycle for digits 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Divisibility checks
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,13…

Remainder questions
a) Using power cycle
b) Using binomial theorem

Highest power of a number in n!

Problems related to factors of a number
No. of factors.
Sum of factors
No. of co-primes
Product of factors

Express a no. in different forms
Expressing as difference of squares.

Fermats theorem
Eulers no.
Solving remainder questions using Fermat’s Theorem

Miscellaneous properties
1.Properties of a^n- b^n when ‘n’ is odd,even…
2.n^p-p when p is prime.

a. Lets start with Power cycles

No.	Power cycle	Frequency
0	0	1
1	1	1
2	2,4,8,6	4
3	3,9,7,1	4
4	4,6	2
5	5	1
6	6	1
7	7,9,3,1	4
8	8,4,2,6	4
9	9,1	2

****The frequency of the power cycles of various digits is very important.
This helps you to solve remainder questions involving large powers.*****

Let us take some example.

1. Find the remainder of 3^75/5?

Explanation:-

We know the power cycle frequency of 3.Its 4and the power cycle is 3,9,7,1
So convert the large power in the question (here 75) to a much smaller number using this freq. 75=4*18+3
Therefore 3^75 is now 3^{(4*18)+3},this can still be shortened as 3^3 only.
Since the other power frequencies will be repeating only.
Hence our question reduces to finding rem. of 3^3/5
This is quite easy, 27/5,rem. is 2.(or since we know power cycle of 3,3^3 ends with 7,so remainder is 7/5=2).

2.Find the remainder of 2^102/3?

Explanation:-
We know the power cycle frequency of 2.Its 4and the power cycle is 2,4,8,6.
Now we convert the large power in the question (here 102) to a much smaller number using this freq. 102=4*25+2.
Therefore 2^102 is now 2^{(4*25)+2},this can still be shortened as 2^2 only.
Since the other power frequencies will be repeating only.
Hence our question reduces to finding rem. of 2^2/3.Its 4 /3,remainder is 1.

OR

This question can be done in a very easy method.
We knew that rem. of 2/3 is -1.

3.Find the rem. of {(2^203)*(3^506)}/5?

Explanation:-
Here we can use the fact that ,

*****The rem. of a product is the product of the individual rem.****

So the ques. changes to rem(2^203)/5 * rem.(3^506)/5
Rem(2^203)/5 can be found out by using power cycle..
203 = 4*50 +3 (since 4 is power cycle freq of 2).
So rem(2^203)/5 changes to rem2^3/5 ie rem8/5 =3.

Rem(3^506)/5 can also be found out by using power cycle.
506=4*126+2 (since 4 is power cycle freq of 3).
So rem(3^506)/5 changes to rem3^2/5 ie rem9/5 =4

Now indiv. rem. are 3 and 4.
Whole remainder is rem(3*4/5) { since the product is greater than devisor,we need to take rem.of the product again.
So answer is rem(12/5) ie 2.

Now rem. of 2^102/3 is equivalent to (rem. 2/3) ^102 that is (-1)^102 =1.

****For finding out the unit place of a very large power of a no. we can use power cycle****

Points to be remembered.
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The frequency of the power cycles of various digits is very important.
This helps you to solve remainder questions involving large powers.
The rem. of a product is the product of the individual rem.
For finding out the unit place of a very large power of a no. we can use power cycle.

How to crack Quantitative Section in CAT,GMAT....

2009-06-10T07:57:00.000-07:00

Lessons for scoring high marks in Quantitative section in CAT,GMAT...
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Quantitative section in CAT is one of the most dreaded sections by a majority of aspirants. But if we analyze the CAT papers of previous years, Quantitative is one section which can easily increase your overall score and percentile.
In order to increase the score in Quantitative section we need to study Quantitative in a more systematic way. First we need to categorize whole Quantitative portion in to different sections.

Main Categories of Quantitative section
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Numbers
Geometry& Trigonometry
Permutations & Combinations
Progressions
Equations
Functions & Graphs
Algebra
Time & Work
Time & Distance

In a CAT scenario, the sections like Numbers, Geometry , Progressions, P&C are having higher weightage compared to topics like Time & Work, Time & Distance etc. The most important being Numbers. The topic numbers are extensively used for giving questions in both Quantitative and Data Interpretation sections.

Different Approaches to solve Quantitative Questions:-

a.Direct or convectional method of going from the question to the answer.But this method is least preferable in competitive exams like CAT.

b.Elimination of answer options or going with the options.This is the best and quickest way to reach the required answer.

c.Substitution of some values in the question.This method is very much useful for algebra problems

The detailed analysis of each sections and tips for each sections with examples are coming in next posts....

SAIL Recruitment Papoer (MT)-Sample

2009-06-09T06:44:00.000-07:00

Steel Authority of India Ltd(SAIL)
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The written test paper uaually has the following 5 sections.

1. General knowledge
2. Reasoning and mental ability
3. Quantitative aptitude
4. Vocabulary
5. Technical Question ( 100 ).

The number of questions in each section may vary year to year,but the number of sections and total time will be same.Time will be 2 hour 30 minutes.Separate sectional cut-offs will be there and overall cut-off will be there.

Sample Paper
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Quantitative Aptitude
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1) A 2 digit number is formed by either subtracting 16 from 8 times the sum of the digits or by adding 20 to 22 times the difference between difference of digits.find the number?

2) It takes 16 days for 24 men to plough 15 acres of land,the how many days would be required for 32 men to plough 30 acres of land?

3) A Work can be done by 8 men and 10 women in 25 days, the same work can be done by 10 children and 5 women . In how many days 2 children and 3 men can do the same work?

4) One man or two women or three boys can do a work in 44 days then one man, one women and one boy together can finish the same work in -days?

5) 4 years from now ,prakash's age will be 4 times his son's age.12 years from now,he will be 2.5 times his son's age.find their present ages?

6) In how many ways can a lock be opened if that lock has three digit number lock if
i) the last digit is 9
ii) and sum of the first two digits is less than or equal to the last digit.

7) If the numerator and denomenator of a certain fraction are increased by 2,the fraction becomes 3/5.If numerator and denomenator are increased by 1,it becomes 1/2.find the fraction?

8) There are 76 persons. 53 can read hindu,46 can read times,39 can read deccan
and 15 can read all.If 22 can read hindu and deccan and 23 can read deccan and times
then what is the number of persons who read only times and hindu ?

9) In pure milk if 20% replaced by water and in this again 20% is replaced by water and again 20% is replaced by water then what is the proportion of milk in that mixture?
10) After 10 years A will be twice the age of B before 10 years.and now if the difference is 9 years between them then what is the age of B after 10 years?

11)Praveen's present age is twice that of Mahesh's age 4 yrs ago.Praveen would be twice as old as Mahesh today.Find sum of their present ages?

12)The cost of 2 balls,3 bats and 8 pair of gloves is 2500.While cost of 4 balls,5 bats and 10 pair of gloves is 4000.Find cost of each bat?

13) From a 20 l mixutre conatining milk and water in the ratio 3:5, 4 litres of mixture is replaced with 4 litres of water .Then what is the final ratio of milk and water?

14) The cost of 4 apples is equal to the selling price of 6 apples.find the profit/loss percentage?

15)Nikhil bought 12 kg of cashew for Rs.360.He was forced to sell them at a loss of as much money as the selling price of 3kg.find his selling price?

Reasoning and mental ability to be posted soon........

General Knowledge ---II

2009-06-08T08:00:00.000-07:00

General Knowledge for Civil Services and Upsc tests
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WHAT IS FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY?

Fuel cell technology is an energy production technology which uses the fuel cell, an electrochemical energy conversion device. A fuel cell converts hydrogen and oxygen into water, and in the process it produces electricity. Most fuel cells in use today use hydrogen and oxygen as the chemicals.

WHAT IS Murphy's Law?

"Anything that can possibly go wrong, does."

WHAT ARE CFCS?

CFCs stands for chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigeration, air-conditioning, aerosols, etc. When these gases rise up in the atmosphere and reach the ozone layer they destroy it. Many nations have agreed to discontinue the use and production of chloro-fluro carbons for the purpose of refrigeration or air-conditioning to protect the ozone layer.

WHAT IS THE CHANDRASHEKAR LIMIT?

Chandrashekar Limit is the maximum limit of 1.44 times the solar mass (or sun's mass) of a star, to end its life as a white dwarf star. This is the basic principle to determine the future of a star after the red giant phase. The stars with a mass more than 1.44 times the solar mass go through supernova explosions and end their lives as neutron stars or black holes. This limit was discovered by Indian astrophysicist S.Chandrashekar and hence the name.

WHAT IS WATER MEMORY? ,

Water is said to have the power of memory — if certain chemicals are dissolved in water and then completely removed through a chemical process, the water may still retain some properties of the dissolved chemicals. Although this concept seems difficult to accept or comprehend, French scientist Jacques Benveniste allegedly proved it.

WHAT IS PELOTA?
Pelota is a very fast ball game of Basque derivation (language spoken by the people who inhabit the Pyrenees in north central Spain and the adjoining region of south western France). Pelota is popular in Latin American countries and in the USA where it's a betting sport. It's played by two, four or six players in a walled court or cancha and resembles squash. Each player uses a long curved wickerwork basket or cesta strapped to the hand to hurl the ball or pelota against the walls.
WHO WAS THE FIRST BATSMAN TO BE DECLARED OUT BY A THIRD UMPIRE IN ODI?

Sachin Tendulkar, on November 14,1992 at Durban, against South Africa.

WHY IS AUSTRALIA REFERRED TO AS DOWN UNDER?

Australia is known as 'the land Down Under' because of its position in the southern hemisphere. The discovery of Australia began when European explorers searched for a land under the continent of Asia.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS FOR CIVIL SERVICE INTERVIEW

2009-06-06T06:16:00.000-07:00

General Knowledge Questions for Civil Service Exams
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What is Steaming Distance?

Steaming distance is the shortest distance between two ports, which a ship traverses while sailing from one port to another. It need not be along a straight line as, due to various physical and political constraints, it may not be always be desirable to sail along a straight route.

What is Mach Number?

Mach number is the speed of an object moving through air, or any fluid substance, divided by the speedof sound as it is in that substance. It is commonly used to represent aircraft's or missile speed, when it is travelling at velocities greater than or equal to the speed of sound.

Subsonic: M <1

Sonic: M=1

Transonic:0.8<1.2

Supersonic:1.2<5

Hypersonic:M>5

WHICH NATION HAS THE SMALLEST ARMY IN THE WORLD?

Vatican City, the world's smallest country, has the smallest army. This army of 110 men, is also known as the Swiss Guard.The Swiss Guard's primary duty is the safety and protection of the Pope.

WHAT IS A HYPERCUBE?

Hypercube is the generalization in n-dimensions of a square in two dimensions and a cube in three dimensions.A Hypercube of n-dimensions have 2n vertices.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY GDP OF A COUNTRY?

GDP or Gross Domestic Product is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. GDP is customarily reported on an annual basis.GDP can be taken as the measure of a country's growth.

HOW IS THE TERM COCKPIT COINED?

The term 'Cockpit' is most likely related to the sailer's cabin for the coxswain's station in a Royal Navy ship, and later the location of the ship's rudder controls.

WHAT IS MEANT BY SECURITISATION?

Securitisation is the process through which existing assets or future cash flows are converted into marketable securities. Those assets or cash flows are, inherently, not marketable. There are two types of securitisation — assetbacked securitisation and futureflows securitisation.

WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES?

India tops the list with 8,407 universities. It's followed by the United States (5,759), Argentina (1,705) and Spain (1,415).

WHAT ARE P-NOTES?
P-Notes are financial instruments that facilitate investment in Indian securities by foreign investors or hedge funds that are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

WHAT CAUSES THE HEILIGENSCHEIN EFFECT?
Heiligenschein is a bright spot of light around the shadow of the observer's head, cast on dewy grass land.It occurs because the dew droplets act as tiny lenses focusing both the sunlight falling on the surface on which the shadow is cast, and the light that is back-scattered by the surface. In general, when a long shadow is cast on certain irregular surfaces with specific optical characteristics, the above effect occurs.

WHAT IS THE MONTY HALL PROBLEM?

The Monty Hall problem talks about a situation where there are three closed doors —a goat lies behind two and a car behind the third. A person is asked to select a door (which is not opened immediately). Instead, one of the two unchosen doors are opened and with the content is a goat. The person is now asked whether he would like to switch his choice to the other unopened door.
The crux of the problem is whether the swaping of the doors will change the probability of the person's winning the car.

WHAT IS BLOCK BOX?WHAT IS ITS COLOR?

Black box is a device for recording the flight crew's conversation on an airplane and of protecting that recording in the event of a crash or fire. The purpose of the Black Box is to help identify the reasons for a plane crash, by recording any clues in the flight crew's conversation.
The color of Black Box is red or orange to make them easier to find after a crash.
Dr David Warren invented the "Black Box" flight data recorder.

TOP PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES IN INDIA

2009-06-05T06:01:00.000-07:00

Top 10 Engineering colleges in India
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IIT-D (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
IIT-K (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
IIT-M(Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
IIT-B (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
IIT-K (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
IIT-R(Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
IIT-G (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
IIIT - Ahmedabad
College of Engineering,Anna University,Chennai
NIT Trichy

(ratings as per Outlook-2008)

Top 10 Medical colleges in India
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All India Institute of Medical Science - AIIMS, Delhi
Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) , Pune
Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore
JIPMER, Punducherry
Kasturba Medical College , Manipal
Lady Hardinge Medical College , Delhi
Maulana Azad Medical College , Delhi
Grant Medical College , Mumbai
St. John’s Medical College , Bangalore
Madras Medical College , Chennai

(ratings as per Outlook-2008)

Top 10 Law colleges in India
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National Law School of India University, Bangalore(NLSIU)
NALSAR University of Law , Hyderabad
NIKU, Bhopal
National Law University , Jodhpur
Campus Law Centre, Delhi University , Delhi
NUJS, Kolkata
Symbiosis Society’s Law College , Pune
ILS Law College , Pune
Government Law College , Mumbai
Amity Law School , Delhi

MBA EXAM CALENDER 2009-10

2009-06-03T05:07:00.000-07:00

MBA ENTRANCES CALENDER 2009-10

Name of

Examination

Date of

Issuing Form

Last Date of

Receipt of Forms

Date of

Entrance Exam

Expected Date of

Result

Availability of

Seats

CAT 2009

From 2009 CAT will be a Computer Based Test

Application forms are available from mid July 2009 (by Axis
Bank) till 2^nd week of August and till mid August from
IIMs

Completed CAT forms should be submitted by September 2009

Nov, 2009

Jan, 2010

MAT December 2009

Application forms are available from March to Beginning of
April 2009

April, 2009

May, 2009

June End

IIFT MBA Admission Test 2009

2 year MBA entrance exam:

Mid November of previous year

Second Sunday of January

XAT, 2009

Prospectus is available from 1^st September 2009 to
to November, 2009

January, 2009

The list of short listed candidates will be published on
January end, 2009.

Indira
Gandhi
National Open University, ‘OPENMAT-XXV’

November 2008

End December 2008

February, 2009

Results can be viewed at: www.ignou.ac.in

NMAT 2009

Jan 2010

March 2010

IRMA Entrance test, Institute of Rural Management Ananad
written Test

September

First week of October

2^nd week of November

Punjab Agricultural University MBA Admissions 2010

September 2008

November 2009

November 2009, GD and P.I. will be held from
March 2010

ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test, IBSAT 2009

Up to November, 2009

November 2009

December 2009. Interview and admission from February
2010

January 2010. Online results at www.ibsat.org

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) MBA Entrance Test, 2010

October 2009 to December 2009

1st December 2008

January, 2009

IMT Entrance Test 2010, IMT Ghaziabad Entrance Test for
executive PGDM Program

February 2010

March 2010

April 2010, GD and PI from April to May

Allahabad University MBA Entrance Exam, 2009

April 2010

May 2010. GD and PI in June 2010

30 (in MONIRBA, Motilal Nehru Institute of Research and
Business Administration

National Institute of Technology Warangal MBA Entrtance Test
2010, NITWET 2009

March 2010

1^st week of May 2010

Last week of May 2010

Early June 2010

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad MBA
Entrance Test, IIIT Allahabad MBA Entrance Test 2009

November 2009

January 2010

February 2010

RMAT 2010, Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test, 2010

Around mid April 2010

May 2010

June 2010

July 2010

Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management Aptitude
Test, 2009, IITTM Aptitude Test, 2010.

May 2010

May 2010, GD will be held
June 2010.

June, 2010

Symbiosis

National
Aptitude Programme (SNAP) 2009

Online application at www.snaptest.org

Dec 2009

Dec end 2009

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, (Delhi & Kolkata) MBA
(IB) 2009

Dec 2009

Jan 2010

KERALA ENTRANCE ANSWER KEYS....II

2009-05-30T05:18:00.000-07:00

KERALA ENTRANCE ANSWER KEYS...

MEDICAL ANSWER KEYS
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KERALA ENTRANCE ANSWER KEYS....

2009-05-30T05:11:00.000-07:00

KERALA ENTRANCE KEY..

ENGINEERING
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LIST OF ENGINEERING COLLEGES IN KERALA

2009-05-30T04:43:00.000-07:00

GOVT & SELF FINANCED ENGINEERING COLLEGES IN KERALA
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DRDO SET- Pattern and Sample Paper

2009-05-27T06:41:00.000-07:00

DRDO SET- Pattern and Sample Paper
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DRDO Question Pattern

DRDO Scientist Entry Test(SET) is a 3 hour test.
It consists of
100 Technical Questions
25 Genral Knowledge Questions
25 Aptitude.

Technical Questions
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The technical questionnaire will be covering the entire engineering syllabus,whatever the stream you have applied for.It may contain questions from basic subjects to the advanced level.
So better use GATE coaching tests for the preparation.
Electronics and Communication paper usually have the following specialized subjects
Radar and Television
Satellite communication,
Electro magnetic and Antenna theory,
Digital communication and filter design
Microprocessors.
The questions from basic subjects like analog and digital electronics,networks will be usually easy but sometimes a little twisted.

Aptitude
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The aptitude questions will be covering the usual topics like
Ratio & Proportion
Time and distance.
Time and work
Progression based questions.
Simple geometry.
Logarithms.
Standard aptitude text books like Agarwaal is recommended.

General knowledge.
----------------------
A sample GK paper is posted recently in this site.Current affairs and general questions on history,geography,science etc are asked.
Magazines like Competition Success Review,Year Books and GK related websites can be used.

Sample Questions of DRDO SET for E&C stream
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1.The ethernet protocol uses
a. CSMA/CA
b.SCPC
c.CSMA/CD
d.Slotted ALOHA

2.A 1 kHz carrier is Amplitude Modulated to a depth of 60%.the total power of the modulated carrier is
a.1kW
b.1.06kW
c.1.6kW
d.1.18kW

3.A micro controller differs from microprocessor in terms of
a.I/O interfaces and memory configuration.
b.Data bus width and clock speed
c.memory configuration and instruction decoding.
d.I/O interfaces and instruction decoding.

4.An inductance of 1H is realised using air core with 100 turns.What will be the inductance if the number of turns are doubled?
a.1H
b.0.5H
c.2H
d.None of the above.

5.The divergence of magnetic flux density is

6.A straight line and a circle of radius r are given.a chord is drawn at random to this circle parallel to the given line.expected lenght of the chord ois
a. 2a
b.∏a
c.∏a/2
d.none

7.An inductor of inductance 0.1H,carrying a current of 6A will store energy of
a.6 J
b.36J
c.1.8J
d.3.6 J

8.When signal frequency is 2000KHz and IF is 455 KHz,the image frequency is
a.2910KHz
b.1645KHz
c.2455KHz
d.2090KHz

9.A source produces 4 symbols with a probability of 1/2,1/4,1/8,1/8.The avg. code word length is 2 bits/symbol.The efficiency of the code is
a.1
b.7/8
c.1/2
d.1/4

10.A man with n keys wants to open a lock.He tries his keys at random.The expected no. of attempts for his success is
a.n
b.n/2
c.n^1/2
d.none

11.In Radar equation,how the range depends upon frequency of the signal used.

12.The purpose of Cassegrain feed in parabolic reflector antenna is to
a.Acheive higher antenna gain
b.Reduce antenna size
c.Reduce beam-width
d.Ease of locating feed.

13.The advantage of ∏/4QPSK compared to conventional QPSKis

14.Unattenuated radiation field at the surface of the earth of a quarter-wave monopole will exist if the earth surface is
a.Lossy dielectric
b.Perfect insulator
c.Perfect conductor
d.None

15.What is the approximate skin depth in copper at 100MHz.
a.0.1 micron
b.10 micron
c.10mm
d.100 mm

GENERAL KNOWLDGE for DRDO SET, BANK TEST

2009-05-27T06:27:00.000-07:00

General Knowledge for DRDO SET, Bank Probationary Test

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1. In the absence of both the President and the Vice-President, who shall act as the President of India?

(a)Prime Minister

(b)Speaker of the Lok Sabha

(c)Chief Justice of India

(d)Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha

ANS (c)

2. Who among the following advocated Scientific Socialism?

(a) Robert

(b)Proudhon Pierre Joseph

(c)Karl Marx

(d)Saint Simon Henri Claude

ANS (c)

3. During the Mughal period, which one of the following trades were the first to come to India?

(a) Portuguese

(b) Dutch

(d) English

ANS (a)

4. Among the following States, which one sends the highest number of members to the Lok Sabha?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Bihar

(d) Madhya Pradesh

ANS (a)

5. With reference to the Indian Parliament, consider the following statements :

1. A member of the Lok Sabha cannot be arrested by the police under any case when the Parliament is in session.

2. Members of the Indian Parliament have the privilege of exemption from attendance as witnesses in the law courts.

Which of these statement is/are correct ?

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

ANS (b)

6. Who among the following was appointed by Ashoka to administer justice in his empire?

(a) Shramana

(b) Uparika

(d) Kumaramaya

ANS (c)

7. Consider the following statement :

1. Jainism in ancient India condemned the varna system.

2. Jain religious literature was written in Ardhamgadhi.

3. Mahavira admitted women into the order of his follows.

Which if these statement is/are correct ?

(a) G. G. Agarkar

(b) M. G. Ranade

(d) G. H. Deshmukh

ANS (b)

8. Who among the following was the author of Rajtarangini, commonly regarded as the first genuine history of India written by an Indian?

(a) Banbhatta

(b) Ravikirti

(d) Kalhana

ANS (d)

9. Who among the following was the first economist to hold the office of Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs in the Union Finance Ministry?

(a) Dr. I.G. Patel

(b) Dr. Manmohan Singh

(d) Dr. M.S. Ahluwalia

ANS (a)

10.What does the abbreviation ATR stand for?

(a) Action Taken Result

(b) Actually True Report

(d) Action Taken Rejoinder

ANS (c)

11. Which of the following cities will host 2012 Olympics Games?

(a) Paris

(b) New York

(d) Madrid

ANS (c)

12. Why among the following was the founder of the Nyay Darshan, on of the six, major schools of ancient Indian philosophy?

(a) Patanjali

(b) Panini

(d) Gautam

ANS (d)

13. Which of the following companies has started a rural marketing network called “e-chaupal”?

(a) ITC

(b)Dabur

(d) Procter & Gamble

ANS (a)

14. Th e decision to from the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) was taken at :

(a) Rangoon

(b) Bangkok

(d) Tokyo

ANS (d)

15. Th e decision to from the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) was taken at :

(a) Rangoon

(b) Bangkok

(d) Tokyo

ANS (d)

16. Give the correct chronological sequence of the following :

1. Russian Revolution

2. American War of Independence

3. Spanish Revolution

4. The French Revolution

(a) 1 2 4 3

(b) 2 4 3 1

(d) 4 2 3 1

ANS (b)

17. Which of the following States has the highest female literacy rate, according to 2001 Census?

(a) Mizoram

(b) Kerala

(d) Meghalaya

ANS (b)

18. Who among the following has been choosen the FDI Personality of the Year 2007 in Asia?

(a) P. Chidambaram

(b) Kamal Nath

(d) Kaushik Rai

ANS (b)

19. At which of the following places India’s fist Net Route Server has been set up?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Noida

(d) Hyderabad

ANS (c)

20. Which of the following Fortune 500 Indian companies has suffered loss for the first time in the first quarter of 2005-06? (a) Indian Oil Corporation

(b) ONGC

(d) Bharat Petroleum Corporation

ANS (a)

21. Answers Correct Answer User Answer

(a) V.K. Duggal

(b) Jairam Ramesh

(d) Jagmohan

ANS (d)

22. Which one of the following is not a land-locked country?

(a) Afghanistan

(b ) Nepal

(d) Thailand

ANS (d)

23. Who invented polio vaccine (oral)?

(a) Albert Sabin

(b) Burkholder

(d) Jonas Salk

ANS (a)

24. Which one of the following processes is not related with chemical weathering?

(a) Exfoliation

(b) Carbonation

(d) Oxidation

ANS (a)

25. Mist is caused by :

(a) Dry ice

(b) Ice at low temperature

(d) Carbon-monoxide in solid form

ANS (c)

16. What is the full form of the term ?PIARC? ?

(A) Permanent International Association of Road Congress

(B) Permanent Indian Association of Road Congress

(D) Permanent International Association of Rapid Congress

(E) None of these

Ans (A)

17. What is the percentage of the African countries in the earth areas ?

(A) 28%

(B) 18%

(D) 25%

(E) 35%

Ans (C)

18. International women?s day is celebrated every year on ?

(A) January 26

(B) March 8

(D) December 8

(E) None of these

Ans (B)

19. Gary Kirsten signed a two year contract with BCCI to coach the Indian Cricket team, belongs to :

(A) South Africa

(B) England

(D) Australia

(E) New Zealand

Ans (A)

20. Capital formation in an economy depends on :

(A) Total income

(B) Total savings

(D) Total Production

(E) None of these

Ans (D)

21. The National Old age Pension Scheme has now been extended to cover the entire BPL people above———- of age

(A) 55 years

(B) 60 years

(D) 65 years

(E) None of these

Ans (D)

22. According to the Union Finance Minister , by which year will India become middle income nation ?

(A) 2015

(B) 2025

(D) 2032

(E) 2040

Ans (B)

ANALOG ELECTRONICS INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ..II

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ANALOG ELECTRONICS INTERVIEW QUESTIONS-PART II
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1) what are the different modes of operation of mosfet and BJT ( Linear & Switching and Cut off)
2) how do you implement a current source using BJT or MOSFET.
3) what is hysteresis. and what are the advantages and disadvantages of it.
4) what are the effects of vias on PCB.
5) how do you design a voltage to frequency converter.
6) 8051 architecture.
7) Ethernet communication
8) Different types of serial communications ex. I2C
9) Different types of memory devices ( ROM, RAM,SRAM and EEPROM etc)
10) How to select an Opto coupler.
11) what is the main advantage of using a bridge rectifier rather than using a full wave rectifier.
12) what are the applications of zener diode.
13) what are the applications of schottky diode.
14) why do we need a Gate Driver for Mosfet in Switching operations.
15) what is pulse width modulation. give any examples.
16) how does SMPS ( Switch mode power supply works)
17) what does it mean by PID control.
18) what are different types of Flip flops.
19) what is meant by quiescent current and what is the significance of it.
20) How does an instrumentation amplifier differs from normal operational amplifier
21) What are snubbers and how does they protect switching circuits.
22) What is sampling time and how to fix it.
23) What is Rogowski coil and what are its advantages over normal current transformer.
24) What is Ringing, Overshoot and Undershoot how to reduce them.
25) what is a relaxation oscillator.
26) what is hysteresis.
27) what are the different applications of comparators.
28) how does a Unijunction Transistor works.
29) how does programable unijunction transistor works.
30) what are the differences between ASIC, FPGA and CPLD.
31) how to select a network processor.
32) what is the difference between radiated emissions and conducted emissions how to detect and reduce them.
33) what are the different types of negative resistance devices and what are their applications.
34) What is the major application of Zener Diode.
35) When do we use Schottky diode.
36) What is the difference between RISC and CISC processors.
37) What is tri-state logic.
38) What is the difference between Hardware reset and Software reset.
39) How do you determine the response time of any circuit.[loop response]
40) What is an integrator how do design it.
41) What factors will impact the characteristic impedance of the PCB (Dielectric property of insulating material, Seperation between the planes, thickness of the trace.)
42) What are the advantages of using differential signal routing in PCB.
43) How do we make sure that the impedance matching between driver and reciever are maintained?

ANALOG ELECTRONICS INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

2009-05-24T01:46:00.000-07:00

ANALOG ELECTRONICS INTERVIEW QUESTIONS & TUTORIALS
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Its said that Analog Electronics is the most difficult area in elctronics engineering stream and analog electronics engineers and circuit designers are the most intelligent among the
elctronics engineers.Hence analog electronics questions are asked in most Electronics Interviews
for testing the indepth knowledge of the candidate.Here is a question bank for Analog Electronics containing important interview questions asked in major technical interviews a from this topic.

ANALOG ELECTRONICS --PART I
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1) How does a MosFet works.
2) What are different types of BJT configurations and when do we use them.
3) What is the difference between TTL and CMOS ?
4) What is noise margin?
5) Which is the most important pin the micro-controller?
6) Explain about Ground Bounce and Vcc Sag.
7) What is EMI and what are different types of it.
8) One question on any kind of sensors you are aware of Ex: hall sensor etc.
9) What is LVDT.
10) How do we select the correct value of decoupling capacitor (or) what is the purpose of using a decoupling capacitor.
11) What is parasitic capacitance & what are the effects of it.
12) What is the difference between microprocessor and micro controller.
13) What are different types of micro processor architectures
14) What is the difference between by pass capacitor and decoupling capacitor
15) How do you select an op amp ( this can apply to other components also)
16) Single ended and Differential signals.
17) How do you decide the layer stack up on PCB.
18) Questions fromFilter Design: Analog and Digital Filters, different types of filters.
19) What is signal integrity?
20) What is meta stability?
21) Difference between CPLD and FPGA
22) Difference between DDR and DDR2 RAM.
23) What is termination? What are the different types of terminations?
24) When do you need to use an heat sink and how do you decide on that?
25) What is the difference between clock buffer and clock driver?
26) What is Jitter?
27) What is gain bandwidth product?
28) Define settling time of op amp?
29) What is slew rate of op amp, define common mode rejection ratio and input offset voltage?
30) What is the difference between static response and dynamic response?
31) What is an integrator and differentiator?
32) Define the parameters of an ADC or types of ADC etc?
33) What is sample and hold circuit?
34) What is a comparator?( some questions related to schmitt trigger or positive feed back of op amp)
35) What is Fan Out?
36) Different types of Voltage regulators. ( Linear, Switching etc..)
37) How do you create a basic delay circuit?
38) What is characteristic impedance?
39) What is ringing, undershoot and overshoot of a signal why do they occur and how to reduce them?
40)What are the parameters to be taken into consideration while selecting a mosfet?

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PROFESSIONAL RESUME WRITING TIPS

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Tips for Professional Resume Writing

If you're writing a resume for a technical position here are a few valid guidelines.

1) Put your Technical Skills first

The most important resume tip is to highlight your technical skills, training and knowledge in the best manner. Make sure it is detailed and organized and that your technical expertise is clear. Your resume will most likely be electronically perused for the important keywords before routing it to the prospective employer. So always make sure you include relevant keywords, such as industry or job jargon, on all operating systems and programs with which you are proficient.

2) Customize Your Qualifications for the applied position.

The second resume tip is to customize your qualifications according to their relevance to the position for which you are applying, with the most relevant listed first. Your degree or certification is only listed if relevant to the available position. If, for example, you are applying for a graphic designer post and one of the prior positions you've held is as a graphic designer that job should be listed first - no matter where it appeared in your work experience chronologically.

3) Quantify Your Past Results

The third tip is to quantify your past experience and the knowledge gained. You could, for instance, enumerate the code lines you debugged, the amount of money you contributed to company’s turn-over, or the number of websites you have designed or developed.

4) Be active in your reference.

The fourth resume tip is to be active rather than passive in your resume. Begin each sentence with an action, keeping it in the past tense.
Eg. - Provided website maintenance services to an average of 25 customers per day for a period of 2 years.
It is important to clearly describe the value you provided to the employer in the past tense and starting with an action word. This will surely boost your chances since employers always prefer actions to words.

5) Sell yourself well.

The fifth resume tip is to blow your own horn. This is not the time to be shy. Treat your resume as a marketing and sales tool for yourself. Write it as if you are the product and the employer the consumer. Sell yourself. If you have a significant accomplishment that doesn't seem relevant to the job list it separately, but do list it.

6) Clear and Concise

The sixth tip is to be concise but the at same time put your point. Try to complete your resume in one to two pages. Don’t elaborate the details of past projects where you were not a vital part. Also keep in mind not to give any unnecessary information regarding yourself or your previous company to the potential employer.

7) Check for Silly Mistakes

The final tip is to check for errors. Check yourself for grammatical and punctuation errors or typographical mistakes. These types of mistakes gives you an image of carelessness.

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PUZZLES FOR EXAMS....

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PUZZLES FOR JOB EXAMS

1.Three friends divided some bullets equally. After all of them shot 4 bullets the total number of bullets remaining is equal to the bullets each had after division. Find the original number divided.
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2.Find sum of digits of D.
Let A= 19991999
B = sum of digits of A, C = sum of digits of B, D = sum of digits of C. (HINT: A = B = C = D (mod 9))

3.There is a 50m long army platoon marching ahead. The last person in the platoon wants to give a letter to the first person leading the platoon. So while the platoon is marching he runs ahead, reaches the first person and hands over the letter to him and without stopping he runs and comes back to his original position.
In the mean time the whole platoon has moved ahead by 50m.
The question is how much distance did the last person cover in that time. Assuming that he ran the whole distance with uniform speed.

4.If you take a marker & start from a corner on a cube, what is the maximum number of edges you can trace across if you never trace across the same edge twice, never remove the marker from the cube, & never trace anywhere on the cube, except for the corners & edges?

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5.One of Mr. Bajaj, his wife, their son and Mr. Bajaj's mother is an Engineer and another is a Doctor.
If the Doctor is a male, then the Engineer is a male.
If the Engineer is younger than the Doctor, then the Engineer and the Doctor are not blood relatives.
If the Engineer is a female, then she and the Doctor are blood relatives.
Can you tell who is the Doctor and the Engineer?

6.Three men - Sam, Cam and Laurie - are married to Carrie, Billy and Tina, but not necessarily in the same order.
Sam's wife and Billy's Husband play Carrie and Tina's husband at bridge. No wife partners her husband and Cam does not play bridge.
Who is married to Cam?

7.There are 3 persons X, Y and Z. On some day, X lent tractors to Y and Z as many as they had. After a month Y gave as many tractors to X and Z as many as they have. After a month Z did the same thing. At the end of this transaction each one of them had 24.
Find the tractors each originally had?

8.A certain street has 1000 buildings. A sign-maker is contracted to number the houses from 1 to 1000. How many zeroes will he need?

9.There are 9 coins. Out of which one is odd one i.e weight is less or more. How many iterations of weighing are required to find odd coin?

10.In a sports contest there were m medals awarded on n successive days (n > 1).
On the first day 1 medal and 1/7 of the remaining m - 1 medals were awarded.
On the second day 2 medals and 1/7 of the now remaining medals was awarded; and so on.
On the nth and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded.
How many days did the contest last, and how many medals were awarded altogether?

11.A number of 9 digits has the following properties:
The number comprising the leftmost two digits is divisible by 2, that comprising the leftmost three digits is divisible by 3, the leftmost four by 4, the leftmost five by 5, and so on for the nine digits of the number i.e. the number formed from the first n digits is divisible by n, 2<=n<=9.
Each digit in the number is different i.e. no digits are repeated.
The digit 0 does not occur in the number i.e. it is comprised only of the digits 1-9 in some order.
Find the number.

12. 1/3 rd of the contents of a container evaporated on the 1st day. 3/4th of the remaining contents of the container evaporated on the second day.
What part of the contents of the container is left at the end of the second day?
(x-1/3x)-((x-1/3x)3/4)=2/3x-1/2x= 1/6x

13.Vipul was studying for his examinations and the lights went off. It was around 1:00 AM. He lighted two uniform candles of equal length but one thicker than the other. The thick candle is supposed to last six hours and the thin one two hours less. When he finally went to sleep, the thick candle was twice as long as the thin one.
For how long did Vipul study in candle light? 3 hrs

14.If you started a business in which you earned Rs.1 on the first day, Rs.3 on the second day, Rs.5 on the third day, Rs.7 on the fourth day, & so on.
How much would you have earned with this business after 50 years (assuming there are exactly 365 days in every year)?

15.A worker earns a 5% raise. A year later, the worker receives a 2.5% cut in pay, & now his salary is Rs. 22702.68
What was his salary to begin with?

16.At 6'o a clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks is 30 seconds. How long does it tick at 12'o.

17.In Mr. Mehta's family, there are one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters and one daughter-in-law. How many members are there in Mr. Mehta's family? Give minimal possible answer.

19.When Alexander the Great attacked the forces of Porus, an Indian soldier was captured by the Greeks. He had displayed such bravery in battle, however, that the enemy offered to let him choose how he wanted to be killed. They told him, "If you tell a lie, you will put to the sword, and if you tell the truth you will be hanged."
The soldier could make only one statement. He made that statement and went free. What did he say?

20.A person wanted to withdraw X rupees and Y paise from the bank. But cashier made a mistake and gave him Y rupees and X paise. Neither the person nor the cashier noticed that.
After spending 20 paise, the person counts the money. And to his surprise, he has double the amount he wanted to withdraw.
Find X and Y. (1 Rupee = 100 Paise)