  this is vocabulary section in tcs paper!
    with solutions
     -----------
  1 admonish : usurp
  2 meager  : scanty
  3 alineate: estrange
  4 merry :gay
  5 brim: boarder
  6 obstinate:stubborn
  7 adhesive:tenacious
  8 tranquil :serene
  9 solicit: urge
    furtive : stealthy
misery:distress
volume:quantity
hamper :obstruct
 verr :diverge
 belief:conviction
 incentive:merit
 inert:passive
 concur:acquise
 cargo:freight
 dispel:scatter
caprice:whim
heap:to pile
covet:crave
emancipate:liberate
instigate:incite
latitude:scope
 lethargy:stupor
 divulge:discretion
  hover:linger
  embrace:effigy
 baffle:frustate
 lament:wail
  stiffle:snithy
  subside:wane
confiscate:appropriate 
 discretion:prudence
 efface:deliberate
latent:potential 

	The technical comprises of 50 questions on C,Unix and windows.
The interview for us is on a later date.If the questions come for you
also,then intimate me.
	1.const char *
	 char * const
		What is the differnce between the above tow?.
	2.In Unix inter process communication take place using?.
	3.What are the files in /etc directory?.
	4.About i-node numbers
	5.Max relaxable permisssion value with out giving write permission
	to others?.
	6.About ln(linking) 
	7.A question on until
		until (who |grep mary)
			do
			sleep(60)
			done
	8.Linking across directories?.
	
	9.process id for kernell process
	10.very first process created by kernell
	11.function to repaint a window immediately?.
	12.Function entry for DLL in win3.1
	13.win 3.1 is a 
	14.win 3.1 supports which type of multi tasking?.
	15.Message displayed when a window is destroyed
	16.About fork()?
	17.About send message and post message
	18.Message to limit the size of window
	19.System call executable binary file intoa process
	20.About GDI object?.
	21.API used to hide window
	22.Initialize contents  of a dialog?.



            APTITUDE TEST
					20 QUESTIONS;2 MARKS EACH
					TIME-20MINUTES
1) ONE RECTANGULAR PLATE WITH LENGTH 8INCHES,BREADTH 11 INCHES AND
   2 INCHES THICKNESS IS THERE.WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE CIRCULAR ROD
   WITH DIAMETER 8 INCHES AND EQUAL TO VOLUME OF RECTANGULAR PLATE?
ANS: 3.5INCHES
2) WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF ZEROS AT THE END OF THE PRODUCT OF THE NUMBERS
   FROM 1 TO 100
3) in some game 139 members have participated every time one fellow
will
   get bye what is the number of matches to choose the champion to be
   held?
ans: 138
4) one fast typist type some matter in 2hr and
   another slow typist type the
   same matter in 3hr. if both do combinely in how much time they
   will finish.
ans: 1hr 12min
5) in 8*8 chess board what is the total number of squares
   refer odel
ans:204
6) falling height is proportional to square of the time.
   one object falls 64cm in 2sec than in 6sec from how much 
   height the object will fall.
7) gavaskar average in first 50 innings was 50 . after the 51st
   innings his average was 51 how many runs he made in the 51st
   innings
8)2 oranges,3 bananas and  4 apples cost Rs.15 . 3 ornages 2 bananas
 1 apple costs Rs 10. what is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 
  3 apples ANs Rs 15.
9)in 80 coins one coin is counterfiet what is minimum number of 
  weighings to find out counterfiet coin 
10)in a company 30% are supervisors and 40% employees are male
   if 60% of supervisors are male. what is the probability
   that a randomly choosen employee is a male or female?
11)statement: all green are blue are blue, all blue are white
   conclusion: 
   I) some blue are green II) some white are green
   III)some green are not white IV) all white are blue
   a) he has given four choices like gre type
12)all teachers are students. some students are girls.
   this type of questions are there.
   we cant able to reproduce them.

                              TCS

  >     Source : jadavpur university
  >     Dated  : 28/4/99
  >
  >
  >      1. VOCABULARY.(SYNONYMS)               40 BITS.    20 MARKS. 20MIN.
  >      2. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE               15 BITS     30 MARKS  15 
MIN.
  >      3. CRITICAL REASIONING.(COMPREHENSION) 50 BITS     50 MARKS  25 
MIN.
  >      4. PSYHOMETRIC TEST.                   150 BITS    150 MARKS 30 MIN
  >                                                     --------  ------
  >                                                    250 MARKS   90 MIN
  >                                                         --------  
-------
  >
  >
  >                    THE PSYCHOMETRIC TEST IS SIMPLE  AND THERE IS NO
  >     NEED OF OF PREPARATION. IT SIMPLY TEST YOUR PSYCHOLOGY. GIVE MOST
  >     POSITIVE  ANSWERS TO THIS SECTION. I AM SENDING SOME QUESTIONS TO
  >     YOU. THE VOCAB. IS SAME. BUT THERE IS SOME CHANGES IN PASSAGES.BUT
  >     THE IDEA IS SAME.
  >
  >      TAKE FOLLOWING PRECAUTIONS WHILE ANSWERING TEST.
  >      -------------------------------------------------------------
  >     1.  DON'T WRITE FULL ANSWERS  TO VOCAB. SECTION. DO ONLY 36 to 37
  >         QWUE's.BECAUSE THEY DISQUALIFIED SOME CANDIDATES HERE.
  >
  >     2.  WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS TO THIS SECTION. SO YOU SIMPLY MUG UP
  >     ANSWERS.
  >
  >     3.  FOR CRITICAL REASONING SECTION WE ARE  SENDING ANSWERS.BUT
  >     SOME OF THESE ANSWERS MAY CHANGE. SO YOU PLEASE CHECK IN
  >     EXAMINATION. THE ANSWERS IS SIMPLY (TRUE) OR (FALSE) OR
  >     (CAN'T SAY) TYPE.  FOR THIS SECTION YOU HAVE READ AS FAST
  >     AS YOU CAN. IT SIMPLY TEST YOUR COMPREHENSION ABILITY.
  >
  >      4.  EVENTHOUGH  WE ARE SENDING ANSWERS TO MATHEMATICAL ABILITY.
  >      SECTION. YOU DO " ROUGH " WORK BACK OF YOUR PAGE. IT IS ALSO
  >      ONE OF IMPORTNANT CAUTION.
  >
  >      5.  IN PSYCHOLOGY SECTION THE QWE'S MAY REPEATE AT LEAST FOUR
  >      TIMES. BY SIMPLY CHANGING SENTENCE FORMATION. SO BECAREFUL
  >      GIVE SAME ANSWERS TO THOSE QWE'S.
  >
  >
  >
  >
  >
  >THERE WILL BE NO NEGATIVE MARKING. TIME 90 Min., APPEARED FOR EXAM =255
  >STUDENTS
  >SELECTED FOR INTERVIEW =122,        FINALLY SHORT LISTED = 55 STUDENTS.
  >
  >SECTION I   VOCABULARY (SYNONYMS) TIME :15 Min.   MARKS: 20.
  >DIRECT ANSWERS :
  >-----------------------------------------------------------------
  >Admonish : usurp      Meager :scanty         Alienate : estrange
  >Merry : gay              Brim : Boarder              obstinate : stubborn
  >Pretention:pretentioius  Tranquil:serene        solicit : urge
  >subside : wane           furtive :stealthy      misery : disstress
  >volume :quantity         veer : diverge         stiffle :sniths
  >adhesive : ---           Hamper : obstruct      belief : conviction
  >lament : wail            to merit :to deserve   incentive : ----
  >inert: passive           Baffle : Frustrate     Confiscate : appropriat
  >Covet : crave            Caprice : whim         Concur :acquiesce
  >Cargo :freight           Dispel :  Scatter      Divulge : -----
  >Discretion: prudence     Emancipate : liberate  Efface : obliterate
  >Hover : linger           Heap : to pile         Instigate : incite
  >latitude : scope         latent : potential     lethergy : stupor
  >momentary : transient
  >  ----- means , for these words we are not able to reproduce answers.
  >
  >PART II   QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE ,TIME 20 Min. MARKS :30.
  >-----------------------------------------------------------------
  >     1. Two pencils costs 8 cents, then 5 pencils cost how much
  >     (Ans:20 cents).
  >     2. A work is done by the people in 24 min. one of them can do
  >     this work a lonely in 40 min. how much time required to do the
  >same
  >     work for the second person.
  >      (ans:60 min.)
  >     3. A car is filled with four and half gallons of oil for full
  >round
  >     trip. fuel is taken 1/4 gallons mor3 in going than coming. what is
  >     the fiel consumed in coming up? (2 gallons)
  >     4. low temperature at the night in a city is 1/3 more than 1/2
  >     hinge as higher temperature in a day. sum of the low temp and
  >     higherst temp is 100C. then what is the low temperature (40 C)
  >     5. A person who decided to go weekend trip should not exceed 8
  >hours
  >      driving in a day Average speed of forward journy is 40 mph. due
  >to
  >      traffic in sundays, the return journey average speed is 30 mph.
  >      how far he can select a picnic spot (120 miles).
  >
  >     6. A sales person multiplied a number and get the answer is 3,
  >     instead of that number divided by 3. what is th answer he actually
  >     has to get ? (1/3).
  >     7. A ship started from port and moving with I mph and another ship
  >     started from L and moving with H mph. At which place these two
  >ships
  >      meet ?  ( Ans is between  I and J and close to J)
  >
  >              !_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!
  >             port   G     H     I     J     K     L
  >
  >     8. A building with hight D ft shadow upto G A neighbour building
  >with
  >      what height shadow C ft is      (B ft.)
  >
  >       !_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!_____!
  >       A     B     C     D     E     F     G     H
  >
  >     9. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10
  >mph.Another
  >      person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice
  >      the same.  If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35
  >mph.
  >      find the speed limit (15 mph)
  >
  >     10. A bus started from bustand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying
  >at
  >     destination, it returned back to the bustand.  the destination is
  >27
  >      miles from the bustand. the  speed of the bus 50 percent fast
  >speed.
  >       at what time it retur4ns to the bustand (11.00)
  >
  >     11.in a mixture, R is 2 parts, S is 1 part. in order to make S to
  >25%
  >     of the mixture, howmuch R is to be added   ( one part).
  >
  >     12. wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for 80 miles how much time
  >     required.
  >     13. with 4/5 full tank vehicle travels 12 miles, with 1/3 full
  >tank
  >     how much distance travels  ( 5 miles).
  >
  >     14. two trees are there. one grows at 3/5 of the other. in 4
  >years,
  >     total growth of trees is 8 ft.  what growth will smaller tree will
  >     have in 2 years.  (<2ft)
  >
  >     15. A storm will move with a velocity of    towords the center in
  >      hours. At the same rate how much far will it move in hrs.
  >      (but Ans is 8/3 or 2 2/3).
  >
  >PART III: TIME 25 Min, MARKS :50.
  >-----------------------------------------------
  >CRITICAL REASONING : THERE WILL BE 13 PASSAGES WITH 50 QUESTIONS TIME 30
  >MIN.
  >HERE I AM SENDING ONLY SOME OF THE PASSAGES (these will give only rough
  >idea)
  >(ANSWERS WILL BE AS  YES/NO/CAN'T SAY we are giving our answers, please
  >check.)
  >
  >1. My father has no brothers. he has three sisters who has two childs
  >each.
  >
  >       1> my grandfather has two sons (f)
  >       2> three of my aunts have two sons(can't say)
  >       3> my father is only child to his father(f)
  >       4> i have six cousins from my mother side(f)
  >       5> i have one uncle(f)
  >
  >2. Ether injected into gallablader to dissolve galstones. this type 
oneday
  >treatment is enough for gallstones not for calcium stones. this method is
  >alternative to surgery for millions of people who are suffering from this
  >disease.
  >       1> calcium stones can be cured in oneday (f)
  >       2> hundreds of people contains calcium stones(can't say)
  >       3> surgery is the only treatment to calcium stones(t)
  >       4> Eather will be injected into the gallbleder to cure the
  >cholestrol
  >       based gall stones(t).
  >
  >3. Hacking is illigal entry into other computer. this is done mostly
  >because of lack of knowledge of computer networking with networks one
  >machine can access to another machine. hacking go about without knowing
  >that each network is accredited to use network facility.
  >     1> Hacking people never break the code of the company which they
  >     work for (can't say).
  >     2> Hacking is the only vulnerability of the computers for the
  >usage
  >     of the data.(f)
  >         3> Hacking is done mostly due to the lack of computer knowledge
  >(f).
  >    (there will be some more questions in this one )
  >
  >4. alphine tunnels are closed tunnels. in the past 30 yrs not even a
  >single
  >accident has been recorded for there is one accident in the rail road
  >system. even in case of a fire accident it is possible to shift the
  >passengers
  >into adjacent wagons and even the living fire can be detected and
  >extinguished
  >with in the duration of 30 min.
  >     1> no accident can occur in the closed tunnels (True)
  >         2> fire is allowed to live for 30 min.  (False)
  >     3> All the care that travel in the tunnels will be carried by rail
  >     shutters.(t)
  >     4>
  >
  >5. In the past helicopters are forced to ground or crash because of the
  >formation of the ice on the rotors and engines. a new electronic device
  >has
  >been developed which can detect the watercontent in the atmosphere and
  >warns
  >the pilot if the temp.is below freezing temp. about the formation of the
  >ice
  >on the rotors and wings.
  >     1> the electronic device can avoid formation of the ice on the
  >wings (False).
  >     2> There will be the malfunction of rotor & engine because of
  >formation of ice (t)
  >     3> The helicopters are to be crashed or down (t)
  >         4> There is only one device that warn about the formation of
  >ice(t).
  >
  >6.In the survey conducted in mumbai out of 63 newly married house wives
  >not a single house
  >wife felt that the husbands should take equal part in the household work
  >as
  >they felt they loose their power over their husbands. inspite of their
  >careers
  >they opt to do the kitchen work themselves after coming back to home. the
  >wives get half as much leisure time as the husbands get at the week ends.
  >     1> housewives want the husbands to take part equally in the
  >household(f)
  >     2> wives have half as much leisure time as the husbands have(f)
  >     3> 39% of the men will work equally in the house in cleaning and
  >washing
  >     3>
  >
  >7. copernicus is the intelligent. In the days of copernicus the transport
  >and technology
  >development was less & it took place weeks to comunicate a message at 
that
  >time.wherein we can send it through satellite with in no time ----------.
  >even with this fast developments it has become difficult to understand
  >each other.
  >     1> people were not intelligent during Copernicus days (f).
  >     2> Transport facilities are very much improved in noe a days (can'
  >say)
  >     3> Even with the fast developments of the techonology we can't
  >live happily.(can't say)
  >     4> We can understand the people very much with the development of
  >communication(f).
  >
  >     Q8) senior managers warned the workers that because of the
  >intfoductors
  >     of japanese industry in the car market. There is the threat to the
  >workers.
  >       They also said that there will be the reduction in the purchase of
  >the sales of
  >       car in public.the interest rates of the car will be increased with
  >the loss in demand.
  >     1> japanese workers are taking over the jobs of indian
  >industry.(false)
  >     2> managers said car interests will go down after seeing the raise 
in
  >interest rates.(true)
  >     3> japanese investments are ceasing to end in the car 
industry.(false)
  >     4> people are very much interested to buy the cars.(false)
  >
  >     Q9) In the totalitariturican days,the words have very much 
devalued.In
  >     the present day,they are becoming domestic that is the words will be
  >much more devalued.
  >     In that days, the words will be very much effected in political
  >area.but
  >     at present,the words came very cheap .we can say they come free at
  >cost.
  >      1> totalitarian society words are devalued.(false)
  >      2> totalitarian       will have to come much about words(t)
  >      3> The art totalitatian society the words are used for the 
political
  >speeches.
  >      4>
  >
  >       Q10) There should be copyright for all arts. The reele has came 
that
  >all the
  >       arts has come under one copy right society,they were use the money
  >that come from
  >       the arts for the developments . There may be a lot of money will
  >come from
  >       the Tagore works. We have to ask the benifiters from Tagore work 
to
  >help for
  >       the development of his works.
  >      1> Tagore works are came under this copy right rule.(f)
  >      2> People are free to go to the       because of the copy right
  >rule.(can't say)
  >      3> People gives to theater and collect the money for
  >development.(can't say)
  >      4> We have  ask the Tagore resedents to help for the developments 
of
  >art.(can't say)
  >
  >NOTE :  DO 1,2,3,4,5 PASSAGES WHICH ARE EASY. LAST BUT ONE ALSO. DO THAT
  >PASSAGES CAREFULLY. TIME WILL BE INSUFFICIENT. PASSAGES ARE NOT AS 
EXACTLY
  >AS ABOVE. THERE IS HIGHLEVEL ENGLISH IN ALL THE PASSAGES, WE ARE GIVING
  >IN OUR OWN WORDS , U CANNOT EXPECT THE SAME TYPE OF ENGLISH THERE. WHILE
  >ANSWERING U SHOULD BE VERY FAST, DO NOT WASTE TIME, IT IS 
INSUFFICIENT,TRY
  >TO ANSWER
  >AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
  >
  >SECTION 4.  PSYCHOMETRIC TEST.
  >----------------------------------------
  >DO NOT BOTHERE ABOUT MUCH ABOUT THIS TEST. BE OPTIMISTIC WHILE ANSWERE.
  >THERE WILL BE 150 QUESTIONS IN 30 MIN. THE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION MAY
  >REPEATED WITH SLIGHT VARIATIONS ANSWER SHOULD BE SAME IN BOTH THE CASES.
  >(ans will be as yes/no/can't say)
  >
  >for example
  >1> you will be interested in social activities.
  >2> while going upstairs you will move two steps at a time.
  >3> you will be making friendship with same sex or with opposite sex also.
  >4> your friends will consider u as a leader in your group
  >5> people think that your'e serious minded.
  >6> some times you feel dull without any reason.
  >7> your'e host or hostes for several parties.
  >8> relatives come to your house you will entertain them.
  >9> you will do work for longtime without tireness.
  >10> in your company you want lead the organasition.
  >etc..  the qwestions may repeate several times so becareful and give same
  >ans's.

