HOW TO CRACK INTO TCS

PHASE ONE: APTITUDE TEST
We had an Online Aptitude Test...NO NEGATIVE MARKING BUT SECTIONAL CUT-OFF(so everyone attend every single question,provided you have the same conditions).

We had three sections in the Aptitude Test:
Verbal was difficult....in the sense that it didn't have words from previous papers!!!
Quantitative Aptitude was the easiest,i had already seen 90% of the questions from this section,in the previous TCS papers.
Logical Reasoning or whatever one calls it,was Latin and Greek for me. I think one can get a good idea about it from BARRONS 12th EDITON.

PHASE TWO:TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
Once you clear the aptitude test(level one) you are  75% done.We then move on to the Technical interview.The interviewers were really friendly...especially mine.There was a gentleman(also a KVites).I opened the door and asked their permission to enter,with a 1000W smile on my face.They asked me take my seat...I thanked him and sat down.My resume was on my lap..they never asked for it.All they referred to was the application form that I had filled.

The gentleman(sadly i do not remember his name) broke the ice by asking an informal questions...anyway my reply was confident.He then asked me about my favourite subject,which was as i said,Physics(surprised??so was i,when he asked about school subjects!!).

He asked me what SONAR meant...i really didn't remember..so i managed by telling him,it was related with sound and had DOPPLER EFFECT as a basis.He said,"That's good.But can you explain?". I told him i didn't remember.

Then he asked me about Concave & Convex Lens and Kepler's Law Of Gravitation. I managed both correctly,and we moved on to the core subjects(at last!!!!). My areas of interest are DBMS. He asked me about the Various Phases of S/w Engineering (a very general question). I was able to answer them. Then I was asked to write a c-program to reverse a string(a success) and later on,the question was about Singularly Linked-List from Data-Structures.And finally,DBMS concepts were touched upon....i spoke confidentially for two minutes,when they asked me to stop. I had the feeling things were going to turn out well...!

In between I had actually stammered once,but I was not reprimanded.They reassured me by letting me know that they knew exactly how I was feeling.I was asked to relax,ask a glass of water if needed and then to continue…from hereon I spoke confidently till the end of the HR,making sure i made no lapse in speech.

At the end,they asked me weather I had any questions..I enquired about the prospect of higher education through TCS.After giving me satisfactory answers,they asked to wait outside.

And there I was,waiting nervously outside my TECHNICAL interview room...and when finally,I was asked to go down for the MR(same as HR) interview.....RELIEF ebbed through my entire body.I knew for sure that once I had reached this level,i was not going to return home disappointed.

THE FINAL PHASE:
I could see happy faces outside the HR room..evidently fuelled by the fact that they will get selected.I had to wait a long time to meet my HR interviewer(he was a bit busy) which I did not mind at all.Meanwhile I asked my other friends as to what they were asked…some unlucky guys were drilled a lot on tech..most of the people had just a casual chat.
Finally i went in to meet my interviewer.I was beaming at him and when I reached the table,we shook hands and sat down.He was really sweet.He actually apologised for the delay(3hours actually)..i said it was no problem.

He initially asked me why i wanted to join TCS..i answered it straight from the books.
Next,"OK these are the reasons u want to join TCS. Why should we hire you?". Bookish answer again.

Moving on,we had a good chat on F1 as he too was a follower.We had a good fight over whether "Micheal Schumacher" should return or not. Later did i realized that it went too informal, i should have restrained from being too augmentative. Finally he asked me as to weather i have any questions....i asked him not one,but THREE!!

1.sir,the prospects of higher education in TCS.
2.What does TCS actually expect from its newly-joining freshers??
3.What actually happens during the training?and after the training??

When we were finished, we shook hands and left with the words,"it was a pleasure meeting u Sir." I had a feeling of jubilation when i came out. It was a long wait for the results starting at 5pm which eventually ended at 8:30pm. When my name was read out it was like,” oh my god, I really made it through”.I was delighted. I thanked GOD and congratulated all my friends.