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Tata Motors Limited

Posted July 25th, 2007 by unknown
Career Details
Eligibility:

Engineering Degree with 65%

Selection Process:

Written
GD
Interview

Entry Package:
2.7
Organization Details
Industry:
Automobiles & Materials
Web-Site:

http://www.tatamotors.com

Company Profile :

Tata Motors Limited is India's largest automobile company, with revenues of Rs. 32,426 crores (USD 7.2 billion) in 2006-07. It is the leader by far in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, midsize car and utility vehicle segments. The company is the world's fifth largest medium and heavy commercial vehicle manufacturer, and the world's second largest medium and heavy bus manufacturer.

The company's 22,000 employees are guided by the vision to be "best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value system and ethics." Tata Motors helps its employees realise their potential through innovative HR practices. The company's goal is to empower and provide employees with dynamic career paths in congruence with corporate objectives. All-round potential development and performance improvement is ensured by regular in-house and external training. The company has won several awards recognising its training programmes.

Established in 1945, Tata Motors' presence indeed cuts across the length and breadth of India. Over 4 million Tata vehicles ply on Indian roads, since the first rolled out in 1954. The company's manufacturing base is spread across India - Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) in the east, Pune (Maharashtra) in the west, and in the north in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Pantnagar (Uttarakhand). A new plant is being set up in Singur (close to Kolkata in West Bengal) to manufacture the company's small car. The nation-wide dealership, sales, services and spare parts network comprises over 2,000 touch points. The company also has a strong auto finance operation, TML Financial Services Limited, supporting customers to purchase Tata Motors vehicles.

Tata Motors, the first company from India's engineering sector to be listed in the New York Stock Exchange (September 2004), has also emerged as an international automobile company. In 2004, it acquired the Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company, Korea's second largest truck maker. The rechristened Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company has launched several new products in the Korean market, while also exporting these products to several international markets. Today two-thirds of heavy commercial vehicle exports out of South Korea are from Tata Daewoo. In 2005, Tata Motors acquired a 21% stake in Hispano Carrocera, a reputed Spanish bus and coach manufacturer, with an option to acquire the remaining stake as well. Hispano's presence is being expanded in other markets. In 2006, it formed a joint venture with the Brazil-based Marcopolo, a global leader in body-building for buses and coaches to manufacture fully-built buses and coaches for India and select international markets. Tata Motors also entered into a joint venture in 2006 with Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Company of Thailand to manufacture and market the company's pickup vehicles in Thailand. In 2006, Tata Motors and Fiat Auto formed an industrial joint venture at Ranjangaon (near Pune in Maharashtra, India) to produce both Fiat and Tata cars and Fiat powertrains for the Indian and overseas markets; Tata Motors already distributes and markets Fiat branded cars in India. In 2007, Tata Motors and Fiat Auto entered into an agreement for a Tata license to build a pick-up vehicle bearing the Fiat nameplate at Fiat Group Automobiles' Plant at Córdoba, Argentina. The pick-up will be sold in South and Central America and select European markets.

These linkages will further extend Tata Motors' international footprint, established through exports since 1961. While currently about 18% of its revenues are from international business, the company's objective is to expand its international business, both through organic and inorganic growth routes. The company's commercial and passenger vehicles are already being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, South East Asia and South Asia. It has assembly operations in Malaysia, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Russia and Senegal.

1) Hypothesis :problem (below 4 he will give)
2) Mirror:Image
3)money:Misapprobation
4)nackles:Adoration
5)construction:building
6)file:pile
7)ours:we
8)1/3,1 1/3,3,5 1/3, next
9)Selling price of 4 articles=Cost price of 3 articles then %loss(ans. 25%)
10)|x-3|=3-x then x=
11)data sufficiency p>q?
1)p,q positive
2)q-1=q*2+p
This type you can see in GMAT book.
Reasoning
1) ABCDEF attended for an interview, in which 3 were selected
A is worst of the lot
C got equal marks as F(C=F)
DE is not selected
B>C

There are 5 questions below this.
2)There are 7 fellows sat in the following way C and F always sit as a apart as follows No. of fellows sat b/w c and D and D and F are equal like that he has given
Ans: Order is as follows C E B D A G F by using this you can answer all About 4 to 5 are there

3)ABCDE are five brothers. There are twins(only one pair of equal age) both are neither younger nor older. D is younger to 3 brothers.
B is older than E and C. q's like who is youngest? Eldest ? About 4 are there.

4)A person has meet a king for that ha has to cross 7 gates. At each gate he has to pay half the amount he is carrying. Finally he gave Rs 3/- to the king. Then the amount he carried at the beginning and some questions (about 5)like that.

5) Heros tell truth and cowards lie.There PQR three persons. P tells Q "I may be hero or I may be coward". Q tells R "P was telling that he was coward. Then R tells Q "P was not a coward but he was a hero".
you better study the question it may not be entirely correct.
In thus 3 q"s are there

Part 1: (Verbal/English, 25 Q - 15 min)
This was cool.
All Antonyms, Analogies got repeated from previous papers.

Antonyms:
1)equanimity
2)sequester
3)apathetic
4)dislodge
5)sedate

Analogies:
1)celeberate:marriage::
a. window:bedroom
b. lument:barevemant
c. pot:pan
d. face:penalty
2)neglegent:requirement::
remises:duty cognet:argument
easy:hard careful:position
3)Germ:disease::
man:women doctor:medicine
war:destrustion shopkeeper:goods
4)bouquet:flower::
skin:body chain:link
product:factory page:book
5)letter:word::
club:people page:book
product:factory picture:paper

Time is sufficient.
No special preparation needed (provided u r good enough)
Just gaze thru previous papers' antonyms & analogies
Sentence completion & fill ups are easy.
Instead of mugging up antonyms, I personally recommend u to read Synonyms, so that u can easily locate their opposites. (U can refer TCS papers also if needed)

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Part 2: (Quantitative Aptitude, 45 Q - 30 min)

This was tough.

Repeated Q's:

One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60 mts , how much time it will take to reach the top?
a. 31 b.33 c.37 d.40 (ans: 37)

X men work for X days to produce X products, then Y men can produce Y products in - - - - days. (ans: y^3/x^2)

successive discounts problem

sqrt(12 + sqrt(12) + ((sqrt(12) +......................infinity) = ? (ans: 4)

6 locks & 6 keys (permutation) problem

Other Q's:

consider a square ABCD, in which E is the mid-point of BC & F is that of CD. Now find the ratio of area of triangle AEF to the area of square ABCD. (ans: 3/8)

Do not remember rest of the them.

Bottom Line:
This section makes the difference.
Special preparation is mandatory.
Try to solve problems of every type from R.S. Agarwal
Leave complex Q's & proceed forward.

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Part 3: (Reasoning, 30 Q - 30 min)

This was 50 - 50
I confidently solved around 16 of them.

1)There are 4 buses - A,B,C,D. There are 220 students in a school.
A can carry 60 students. B can carry 50 students. C can carry 40 students. D can carry 35 students
Cost of travelling in the 4 buses were given, A - 160 , B- 140, C- 125 , D- 95 (not exact values)
a) Find the bus combinations, so that all the students can be carried in the minimum cost
(One can use any no. of buses of a particular type)
b) Find the min. no. of buses required to carry all students
etc.

2) ( not exact )
P speakes Italian & French
Q speakes Spanish & English
R speakes Italian & German
S speakes Spanish & French
T speakes English & German
etc.

Find a) Mediator between P & Q
b) Most popular language
etc

3) All P's are Q's
some R's are not C's
Some C's are P's
& so on ( 5 Q's based on these facts)

4) One Logical Venn diagram problem

5) One simple flow chart

Go thru R.S. Agarwal(Verbal Reasoning) & then Barrons(Analytical Reasoning Only)

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recently underwent

On August 7th, 2007 unknown says:

recently underwent placement test of Tata Motors.
The test consisted of 2 parts aptitude and technical.
Aptitude part cosisted of regular stuff like RC's, Maths, Analogies Word Meanings etc.
There was negative marking of abt 1/3 mark for every wrong question.
The maths section of Aptitude consisted of a lots of questions of probability.
I woud suggest that u get all your probability fundas in place before the test.
Rest all was regular stuff.
English section was relatively the easiest.
Then there was technical section.
U need to be technically very sound to answer these question.
Technical questions were really tough and they had some question from the stuff we study in +2 like ideal gas equation, vander wals eqn etc.
Bottom line for clearing the test is to give in your best in aptitude section. Questions in apt are easier and less time consuming.

After the test there was GD for the students who got through.
We got to discuss on the topic "Should higher education in India be Privatised"

After GD students who got through were interviewed.
There were around 6-7 DGM and AGM's(Was really Scary Situation) throwing questions of all sorts at you.
There were some HR questions in start like Tell us something about yourself, what does your father do,would you be comfortable if sent to Places like Pune, Jamshedpur , Dharwad or Lucknow etc
Then there was some hardcore technical stuff. Most of the people were asked about their Projects both while Training and their major projects. Sp be very clear about them.
Some people like me were asked about their fav subject which in my case was quality control and inspection and i was asked about control charts...... and about engine working.
One amazing thing i found was that all the people taking interview were really polite and were really encouraging.
So i would suggest you to be calm and composed, if u dont know something just potray your ignorance and they would not mind. Wromg answers and guesses irritated them.

Average time taken up in interview was around 25minutes.

Finally after the interview process results were declared and by God's grace i got through the process

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