Infosys Test Experience

On 28th October I attended Infosys Off campus held at Anna University, Trichy.I downloaded the question pattern and got some idea while reading the candidates experience. The Logical questions are mostly asked in First part. Second part is English part.
In Logical reasoning R.S.Agarwal's Verbal and Non-verbal reasoning is enough. The questions were from the following chapters
1. Direction related problems(1-5)
2.Find the missing figure in the series(6-10)
3.Data Sufficiency(11-15)
4.Data Interpretation(15-20)
5.Decision making(20-25)
6.Vendiagram type Logical question(26-30)
I did the logical part very well. They time duration for Logical part is 40 min. I finished it by 32 min and I reviced the answers for the rest of the time. I have confidence in this part.

After 40 min they gave the next part ie English question. This section consists of 40 questions and the time limit is for 35 min. The questions are in the sequence like

2 very big passages followed by 5 questions each
The questions are in such a way that we have to read the passage , else we cant answer for the question.
Phrase questions
In these questions they will give one sentence underlined in some part of the sentence.For this underlined sentense we have to find the equivalent phrase.
Grammer Correction questions
Sentences with grammer errors should be corrected.
Conclusion of a paragraph
Five paragraphs are given and conclusion should be given.

I did the grammer correction and conclusion questions well. I dont have confidence in phrase questions and passage questions. I think,was slow in passage reading. I should read fast. Still I expected because I did well in Logical part. But I didnt clear it. The cutoff for the second part I might lost I think. I was disappointed when results were announced. Later when I think over it, I felt that I had a very good experience of attending alone. No one from our college attended. So me alone went . I met my UG friend there.She did her MCA in Trichy. Now I want to improve my reading speed. So I have decided to read articles and books more.

24-10-07 Wed

As I have gone to passport office already with my sister to apply for her passport, I had confidence of going alone. I know all the procedures.I went to Anna Bus stand ,the stop is also called as Collector office stop. After get down from the bus I reached the main road.Leftside there is one traffic signal on the way should walk for 5min then one can reach the Collector's office. On the way to office there is X-man service is available for helping to fill the form. I went there. He helped me to fill the details. The documents required are
1.Any original Certificate for the proof of Date of Birth
2.Any origianl Certificate for the educational qualification
3.Address Proof(Ration card or Voter's Id )
4.Passport size photo-5
5.Photo print of all the certificates-2 copies
6.1000Rs DD

The details filled in the form are
Name(Full Name)
Father's Name
Date of birth
Temporary Address
Permanent Address
Contact number
DD number
Attached photo prints list
Bottom of all the photo prints should be signed
2 neighours names and contact numbers for verification
Nearest Police station from the home
Should paste the photo in the given space and should sign on it
There is as option,one can put sign or put thumb impression in the first page.

These are the details I remember. The filled forms should be given to the collector's office. In the collector's office passport section is left side of the main building. The working hour of the office is 9am-1pm. Inside the office after the computer section there are two ladies in the table. The filled forms should be given to them. They will verify all the details given in the form with the originals. After checking the lady will put her sign. Then she aill ask as to give the form in the front. The form should be given to the first person in the computer section. Within 5min he'll call and give the receipt. All the procedure is over with this. The enquiry from the police office will be done within 20 days from the day. After that within two months passport will come to home address.

23-10-07 Tues

Today I have tried some puzzels and logical reasoning.In logical reasoning I solved Odd man out in diagrams , finding the next sequence and some basic grammer in English. In Infosys the highest cutoff is given to English section. The grammatical errors identifying questions will be given.So I just go through the Basic grammer. Still I have to prepare for phrase identifying section and comprehension in English section.In logical reasoning I have to study deduction,data interpretation.

22-10-07 Monday

Today I am very happy that I have done the Sudoku in Hindu. Most of the days I try to do the hard type of Sudoku. But I used to leave it without completing it. Today I completed it. I am doing solving problems in the Infosys previous question papers. Doing some exercises in Agarwal's Verbal nonverbal reasoning book. I solved data sufficiency type questions and seating arrangements questions.I like seating arrangement questions . It was very interesting. I am trying it with time limit. It takes more time(3-4 min) for me. I am finishing it but takes time. So I need practise. I plan to do it.

17-10-07 Wed

Today I read about a Java IDE IntelliJIDEA 7.0. This IDE has great performance and better usability. It has full coding assistance. It supports all webservices like Apache Axis,JAX RPC,JAXWS and XFire and dynamic languages like Ruby/JRuby. It provides visual Dependency Structured Matrix(DSM) for class dependencies analysis.DSM reflects the real dependencies between classes in a project, showing them sorted in a way that lets you get the overall picture at a glance. We can see a better debugger here.TestNG provides automatic unit testing. It has many new refactorings,coding inspections and quick fixes.

15-10-07Mon

Today I read about XML. I have worked with HTML but dont know about XML. I read about it. I came to know that XML(EXtensible Markup Language), is designed to describe data.while HTML is used to design or decorate the content/data.One more difference is that in XML tags are not predefined.Customers can define their own tags. XML uses DTD(Document Type Description) to describe data. There is XML parser to manipulate the XML document.
The parser loads the document into the computer's memory. Once the document is loaded, its data can be manipulated using the DOM(Document Object Model). The DOM treats the XML document as a tree.
There are some differences between using XML parser in different browsers.But one can create cross browser scripts to work in different browsers. I have downloaded some XML sample programs and think to write small programs of mine.

12-10-07Friday

Yesterday itself I thought to try a program to connect to a given Url. This idea came while reading about social bookmarking. I wrote a program to get connection with a URL in Java. Then I get the content of the URL and store them in a file. When the stored file is opened it has the content and all the links of the webpage and it will work. I now think to display the content of the URL without storing into a file. So I am going to try this.

10-10-07 Wed

I have not heard the website named del.icio.us, and dont know about it. So I searched it in the net. I found that it is a social bookmarking site. But I dont know about bookmarks. So I just read about bookmarks. Bookmark is a named location on a page that can be the target of a hyperlink.
In this social bookmarking system the users save links to webpages that they want to remember and/or share.These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on the service's features, may be saved privately.It can be shared only with specific people or groups, shared only inside certain networks. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.There are functionalities like favorities, links for the author to connect to other users, popular tags and recent bookmarks. I just registered in it and subscribed two tags for my favorites. And I analysed about this application. What are all the technologies can be involved to build such application?. I listed them, and still thinking regarding it.

08-10-07 Monday

Today I tried sudoku given in hindu and completed it. After a long gap I tried and completed it. I read google reader and I read about LRWP(Long Running Web Process). It is a protocol that is used by the web server to communicate with it's peers.LRWP implementation in Java using GlassFish was faster than the implementation in C and Xitami.There was a news about NetBeans IDE 6.0, the Visual Web tools, and Java Persistence API (JPA) give you greater flexibility for writing database-dependent applications.