ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 05 APR 2008 – NOIDA

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 05 APR 2008 – NOIDA

1. Verbal-20 questions
2. Quantitative-20 questions
3. Analytical-15 questions

It was a 1 hr paper with sectional cutoffs and no negative marking. So, devote ur time properly on each section.

Analytical section was very easy. Try to attend it first.

In verbal, there were two comprehensions. They were little bit difficult. First read questions and then comprehension. Correct use of prepositions and articles were there. I would advice u to go through verbal ability book of any MBA coaching.

Quantitative section was a little bit difficult. Mostly questions were from venn diagram applications, trains, distance and time, time and work, etc.

Next round was Group Discussion. Some of GD topics were as follows:
1.Impact of American elections on India
2.Single-party multiple party system
3.Media crossing limits
4.Alcohol or cigarette-which would u prefer?
5.Domestic companies and multi-national companies
6.ICL VS IPL
7.Reservation
9.Sex education
10.Education system of India
11. Impact of IT on India
12.Casteless society-possibility or myth?
13.Status of women in India

Other topics can be on inflation, economy of India and comparison it with China, and recent events. Results re announced hand to hand on ur face. There is no limit, they can take any no. of students from a group. Then students were divided, some had their technical first, while others had their HR first.

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 08 MAR 2008 – NEW DELHI

PAPER : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 08 MAR 2008 – NEW DELHI

WRITTEN EXAM
The test consisted of 55 ques to be done in 60 mins.It had three sections i.e. Verbal ability, logical reasoning, and mathematical ability.All the questions were very easy. U just need to have gud speed to clear the exam. There was no -ve marking. So attempt all questions. The paper was very easy.After 1 hour got completed, we were given a topic on which we had write an essay of approx 100-150 words in 10 mins. The topic of essay was “IMPACT OF IT ON INDIA”. Beware this essay may be evaluated in ur HR interview. Try to write it in good handwriting.After 1 hour or so result was announced. 122 students out of 244 got selected and immediately after that we were divided in groups and sent for gd.

GROUP DISCUSSION
Well I must tell u tht I didn’t had a GD, I had a kind of extempore instead. All of us were given a topic on which we had to speak for 1 min. Then after all hv completed speakin we were told to contradict others or to give a conclusion. Our topic was “Impact of Cell phones-Good or Bad”
Other topics were “Microsoft taking over google” ; “Products, Services and Outsourcing companies”.7 students out of 13 got selected in our group.
A total of 80 students out of 122 cleared the gd.

HR Cum TECH ROUND
After waiting for around 1.5 hours I got the chance to appear for interview. In this round I was asked technical as well as hr. The person was really a nice and cool dude. I was asked to talk abt myself for a min. and after that he asked ques on my ans. Some very basic questions were asked regarding C++. They also asked about hw much I knew abt the company etc.. They just checked our confidence level. Just after the interview I was told that I got through with the tech round.

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 26 FEB 2008

Pattern : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 26 FEB 2008

Aptitude round: It was very easy, nd was conducted by people 4m MERIT TRAC. Max Qns were of Profit n Loss. Some were of type if /stands for *, + stands for – and so on.

English part was extremely easy. In all there were 55 Qns that were 2 b done in 60 min. also there was an essay which has to be written in 10 min and the topic was given after completion of the apti. My topic was “Education sytem in India”. Apti’s result was out on the same day n rest of the rounds took place on 5th.

GD round : Students were divided in the groups of 12 each. It was a tough round. Topics were easy but the elimination was of about 40%. They were mainly concerned about the communication skills. Some of the topics were Budget-2008, should Cricket be made National Game of India, Red, Economy of India, Will India b superpower by 2020,…

Technical and HR interviews : My interviews took place around 11 in night. firstly I gone through the HR round. My HR was very gud. There were very easy questions like, Tell me about urself which is nt dere in CV, who is ur ideal n why?, Which book u read recently n what did u learn, ny problem in relocation. thankfully I was selected n then appeared 4 Tech. It was a bit tough round but was very easy in my case. As that person was bit impressed vd my academics. He asked me 2-3 simple Questions of sorting, Pointers, n rDBMS. Interviews continued on the 6th also.

ACCENTURE PAPER & INTERVIEW – 23 FEB 2008 – KOLKATA

PAPER : ACCENTURE PAPER & INTERVIEW – 23 FEB 2008 – KOLKATA

It has 4 rounds:
1) Aptitude test along with that essay writing.
2) Group Discussion.
3) Technical / HR Interview.
4) HR / Technical Intervew.

1)APTITUDE TEST:
Questions = 55 ; time limit = 60 minutes…along with that an essay to write in the same sheet in another 10 minutes…
No sectional cut off, no negative marking..

questions were easy.. all u need to do is planning which questions to attempt first and which one to attempt at last and yeah 1 more thing ..you have to be very fast and u can achieve dat only through regular practice.. all u have to do is to solve few chapters from R.S.AGGARWAL (verbal & Non-verbal as well as quantitaive).. I will suggest you some chapters… you jus do those chapters properly and it will be more than sufficient for you…

The Aptitude test paper is divided into 3 sections:
1st section : consist of 20 questions which is completely based on English…
Questions 1 – 10: These are very easy.. its completly based on prepositions and fill in the blanks with correct articles… if u have a gud command in English then do it in the begining else do it some time later on after solving some easier questions which will mention later on…

Questions 11 – 20 :
questions 11 – 15 contains one comprehension followed by another comprehension from ques 16 – 20… I will suggest you all to do the comprehensions at last.. and attempt the first comprehension before than the second one…coz according to my experience first comprehensions are always easier than the second one…

TIPS : DO THE COMPREHENSIONS AT LAST AND ALWAYS READ THE QUESTIONS FIRST AND THEN LOOK FOR THE ANSWERS IN THE PASSAGE…NEVER WASTE YOUR TIME IN READING THE WHOLE PASSAGE..

2nd section : consists of 20 questions which is based on quantitative as well as verbal and non-verbal…
It contains questions from data sufficiency, venn diagram, time and work, percentage, time and distance, directions, blood relations, and the most important topic LOGIC (syllogism) which is the first chapter of the second part of R.S.AGGARWAL (verbal & non-verbal)…prepare these chapters very nicely…

3rd section : consists of 15 questions which is v.v.v.easy, only a difficult portion can be of puzzle types..
questions are like :
Q.41- Q.45 Mark the answers according to the following:
A- If all the three options match
B- If FIRST and SECOND options match
C- If FIRST and THIRD options match
D- If none of the three match

Example:
KKTUJNGDFTSR KKTUJHGDFTSR KKTUJNGDFTSR
Ans: C

Another example:
1896.5738491023 1896.5783491023 1896.5738461023
Ans: D

Q.46-Q.49 were based on the Puzzle-type question. It said:
Following was the criteria decided by the selection committee of Indian Cricket Board:
1) Player’s age should be 18-28 years
2) He must be the captain of any cricket team for at least 2 years
3) He must be a Ranji Player for at least 2 years
4) He must have taken at least 20 wickets or made 1000 runs in a calendar year in Ranji

If 1st condition is not fulfilled .. referred to chairman
If 2nd condition is not fulfilled .. he must be an all rounder with at least 500 runs and 15 wickets
If 4th condition is not fulfilled .. referred to VP

Questions were like following example:
Rahul was born on Dec.10,1979 and is a captain of Ranji team since Feb 2005. He won man of the tournament last year for taking 24 wickets last year. He is:
a) Selected b) Rejected c) Referred to Chairman d)Data Insufficient
Ans: a
(These questions are also easy if you draw a table with names of the aspirant in rows and criteria in the columns, and then checking whether he/she fulfils it or not)

Q.50- Q.55 were also a bit easy and were of two types:
Example of type 1:
If * means +, + means -, – means / and / means *, then what is the value of-
8+4-9*7/12+3

Example of type 2:
If * means /, / means -, – means + and + means *, then which of the following is true:
a) 7+43*2/13-7+8 = 22.6 b) 4-9*7/4*2/3-7+2 = 25 .. ..

(The type 1 are easier and less time consuming and type 2 are more time consuming but still can be solved. 3 of the questions were of type 1 and other 3 of type two)..

NOTE: Friends i will suggest you all to start with this section… first do the question 41 – 45 and then do the questions from 50 – 52 and then do whatever u like…. coz these questions are v.v.v.v.easy and so u will gain lots of confidence after solving these 8 questions.. if u can then solve the ques 53 – 55 also else leave it for later on as it is very much time consuming…

IMPORTANT CHAPTERS TO BE DONE FOR THE APTITUDE TEST:

FOR ACCENTURE EMPHASIZE MORE ON VERBAL & VON-VERBAL RATHER THAN QUANTITAVE…

VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL :
1) LOGIC (syllogism).
2) DATA SUFFICIENCY.
3) LOGIACL VENN DIAGRAM.
4) DIRECTION SENSE TEST.
5) BLOOD RELATIONS.
6) PUZZLE TEST.

QUANTITATIVE :
1) TIME AND WORK.
2) TIME AND DISTANCE.
3) RATIO AND PROPORTION.
4) PERCENTAGE.
5) PROBLEMS ON TRAINS.
6) BOATS AND STREAMS.
7) PIPES AND CISTERNS. PROFIT AND LOSS.

Do only these chapters which i have mentioned …. its more than sufficient and once again emphasize more on Verbal and non-verbal rather than quantitative… coz 70% are from verb&non-verb and 30% are from quanti.. in comparision to these two…

After the completion of 60 minutes we were asked to write an essay in 10 minutes time and word limit was atleast 100 words and the topic was “US recession and its impact in the IT industry”…. dont bother about the essay much, just make it sure that u have to fill that page with correct grammatical statements… it does not play an role in clearing ur aptitude… It is checked by the HR usually during ur HR interview and it may happen that no one bother to check it also…

2) GROUP DISCUSSION :
The topic which was given to us was “liberalisation”… time limit was 10 minutes… 12 students were there in a group, a topic was thrown and you all have to share your views regarding that given topic…they selected only 5 students from each group of 12…so you can see that you have to give ur best effort and you wont get much chance to speak also coz it so happens sometimes that they make the GD go by person to person clockwise..

TIPS : Initially they may ask you to introduce urself… and u have to hit in this very moment only.. ur introduction shud be very strong…then u will have 2 – 3 chances to speak on the topic.. friends u have to be louder and clear during your GD… with full of passions…

3) HR INTERVIEW :
Questions were like: Tell me sumthing about yourself which is not there in the CV… then what do u do in your leisure time… then how can you prove that you have managerial skills and then few questions were asked which was related to my answers… i m not writng all those things coz answers vary from person to person… all i wanna say is dat u need to be very much confident during your interview, there should be smile on your face, eyes contact with the HR is a must…

4) TECHNICAL INTERVIEW :
First of all HR asked me to introduce myself… then he asked me what do u do in your leisure time..then he asked me what are your favourite subjects…then he gave me a program and asked me 2 answer hm whether this program will run or not…then he told me dat i m giving u 16 seconds..u have to sell urself…then he gav me some situation reaction test which i answered wonderfully…

In situation reaction test they just want to see how good you are as a leader as well as a team member and how hard working, determined and confident you are..

ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 24 FEB 2008 – DELHI

Pattern : ACCENTURE PATTERN & INTERVIEW – 24 FEB 2008 – DELHI

APTITUDE TEST
The Aptitude test is of 1 hr 10 mins in total this is as usual the first round after the ppt. the aptitude paper consists of three sections…..

1.Verbal Ability:- In this there will be fill in the blanks with the correct words, word meanings (very simple ones), and two passages which will have 5 to 6 questions from it. it is better that before reading the passage you go through the questions as this will save time.

2.Mathematical questions:-very easy only sums frm r s agarwal (quantitative) come

3.Data interpretation and logical reasoning :-
AFTR THE 1 HR 10 MINS ARE OVER u will be given additional 10 minutes to write an essay on any topic for atleast 100 words.. I was given SHLD MOBILE PHONES BE BANNED IN COLLEGE?

Around 50 people cleard the apti frm 500 odd ppl

GROUP DISCUSSION
This is also an imp elimination round. In this i ll advice that you dnt get tensed. watevr b the topic atleast say 2 to 3 points which make sense.. n yes always listen to what others want to say also…. most imp.. thru the entire gd never look at the person who is conducting the gd… just look at the people who r in your group.

aftr the gd around 40 ppl were left

HR+TECH
In this round you may be asked anything from technical or hr or may be both. dnt worry they r very nice ppl and they ll make u feel comfortable…. very basic questions were asked regarding me, my hobbies and my future plans.

IF THEY DO NOT LIKE YOU IN THIS ROUND THEY WILL STRAIGHT AWAY ASK YOU TO LEAVE. SPOKEN ENGLISH IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ACCENTURE. SO TRY TO BE VERY CLEAR AND FLUENT.

This is the final round and this is also same as previous round. In this also tech may be askd or hr or may be both. So they have a two stage process. I was askd bout my favorite movie and y i likd it n y m i shifting frm my stream i.e electronics to IT industry. just prepare good answers for these ques and i m sure u ll b thru.

After this we waited for an hour and then our results were declared..