IBM Placement Paper 30th June 2007, Andhrapradesh

IBM PAPER ON 30th JUNE AT ANDHRAPRADESH

Hi Friends, I am a student  of  JNTU College of Engineering,Anantapur,Andhrapradesh. IBM came to our campus on 30th JUN 2007 .

 

Candidates appeared for written test :  307

              Cleared written test             :  136

              Cleared GD                        :   93

    Finally  Selected Candidates          :  38

And I am one of those 38 candidates.

 

Procedure:  

1.WRITTEN TEST & ESSAY WRITING

2.GROUP DISCUSSION

3.TECHNICAL CUM HR INTERVIEW

 

1.WRITTEN TEST:  

This is the new pattern of IBM. Ours is the 5th college in which this new pattern has been implemented. it contains 3 sections.

SECTION 1, some information is given in the form of matrices, with headings for rows as row1,row2 …. Etc.For columns with headings as column1,column 2…. Etc.those matrices r as follows.

                                   Column1           column2           column3           column4

Row1                           @                    *                      2                      Z

Row2                           S                      K                     ?                      $

Row3                           I                       P                      Z                      +

Row4                           #                      8                      F                      Q

 

Questons r as follows ( not same questions but same type)  

1.if column1 , Column 4 r interchanged and row3 , row4 r interchanged and diagonal elements from top left to bottom right r  written in reverse order then what is the element in row1 and column 1?              

2.if  Z’s in odd numbered rows r replced with 7’s and S’s in odd numbered columns r replaced with 5’s then which column elements sum equals to 9?

3.After giving similar type of conditions , what is the element left to H?

 

In this section they gave around 4 matrices of this type and gave some questions for each matrix.

 

Total  No. of  Questions r 15. these r multiple choice questions.5 answers were given for each question. No negative marks for this section. Time Limit is 13 minutes.

 

SECTION-2  

All questions in this section r from number series. Total number of questions  r 20.time limit is 4 minutes.these r also multiple choice questions( 5 options).Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.

 

SECTION-3  

Analytical type Questions . this secton is little bit tough.u must have practice to do this section.questions 12.time 15 minutes.Negative marking(1/4) is there for this section.

 

*** REMEMBER***

à time management is very very important. don’t waste time on questions which needs calculations. First attempt direct questions only.

à if there is no negative marking then attempt all questions.

 

ESSAY WRITING:

After written test immediately they will give a topic.we have to write an essay on that topic within 15 minutes in 200 to 300 words.our topic is LIFE AT CAMPUS.

 

GROUP DISCUSSION:

12 to 16 members in a group. time is 15 minutes.they gave  us POVERTY IN INDIA.u have to speak something.otherwise u won’t go to next round.don’t give only intialisation or only conclusion.u have to be interactive throughout the session.other topics r MONEY MAKES IRRESPONSIBILITY,FOREIGN JOBS.

 

TECHNICAL CUM HR INTERVIEW:

Next day means on 1st july thy conducted interviews.

The persons of IBM r very cool .Most of the questions for me r of General type and  HR .

What is interrupt.

Interrupt handler.

By opening a MS-WORD document if u press ‘A’, what r the different things will be happened.will this interrupt the OS or processor.

What is the turning point in ur life.

Hobbies.i said news paper reading. We discussed a lot of  time regarding politics in Andhrapradesh.

 

à if u score good marks in written test,Essay writing,GD then ur interview will be shortened. So,be cool and confident ,then easily u can get.

Finally, they announced results at 2 p.m on 1st july 2007 .

 

All the best.

B.Raghavender Reddy.