I-Gate
First was aptitude test. 15 questions. 30 minutes.. No choices.. No working sheets also! Find answer on ur own and write it down.. No -ve marking!
Questions: All quesion are easy if u have read R S AGGARWAL.
some quesitions: (numerical figures not correct)
--> if traveleld faster by 30kmph he would have reached 3 minuets earlier.. if travveled 30 lmph slower he will reach 3 minutes later.. so whts the original speed?
--->sea:bank then ____:coast (ans OCEAN)
--> a question on mixtures. water and milk in some ratio.. total price is given.. wht is the amount of milk....
--->ratio of 1t class and 2nd class ticket is 1:4.. no of tickets sold in the ratio 4:1. total amount collected is given.. fine colection from first clas alone
--->some coding related question.. ABC HAKDH IAS is denoted as JIADJ ADH AH 9some thign like tht) simple ones!
-->number series.. x/5, x/4 x/3 x/2 x/1 was the series..
cut off was 8 i think..
Took 28 from total of around 450 people.
Next was interviews
1)tech interview: most students said a lot of tech question were asked.. from c,cpp,dbms,os, data structures, sorting algortithms.
Simple Rule: BE Confident in wht u say!! else they ask us more details..
Interviewer asked me which all sorting algorithm i know."i said quick bubblle insertion slection"
then asked complexity of each.. thts all
Some were asked linked lists.. (no program was asked.. just explain concepts)
then referential integrity,foreign keys, types of sql quires (seletc, delet etc) etc etc
for me tech was little only! my resume said i have good interests in stock markets. so he asked a lot about that! i answered all of them and then asked 4-5 tech questions.. and about MINI PROJECT was aked..
Then interviewer will ask about ur marks in each sem.. if there is any drop,, he asks why..
for me its was a drop from 92 in 10th to 82% in 12th to 69% in betch! he asked me why.. just admitted i didnt study well ..and said i will score better in coming semester and will mak aggragate to 73%.. he asked 3-4 times ARE U CONFIDENT? ( like in KBC -BIG B ;) ) i said yeas! confident! sure!!
he said" if u dont make 73. i wont take u to igate!1 =)) )
then asked me why i want to join i gate..
then asked where u see ur self after 5 years.
then give me HR form.. and feedback also was given on spot! (my accent was week.. he told to improbve it..)
then HR..
HR interviewer hd nothing new to ask me . she just repeated wht was asked in tech!!
why igate?? dream achievement? tell us about parenst etc etc
at last "are u wiling to sign a bond for 2 years."
i didnt accept.. still they took me in!

1. Aptitude Test of 30
1. Aptitude Test of 30 min and Questions were 15.
2. GD
3. Technical Interview.
Aptitude Questions are
1.) Mr. Yellow ,Mr. Brown and Mr. Green. They were wearing Tie of Yellow, Brown and Green Color. Mr. Brown said “We all r wearing Ties of color which do not match with our name”. One person says “Yes u r absolutely right” who was in green tie. Can U say which person wear the tie of which color?
2.) 5,14,33,52,__,__ (81,140)
3.) The angle in a triangle r in the ration ratio of 2:3:4. Can u find out the smallest angle of the triangle. (40)
4.) 4 white balls & 8 blue ball in the bucket 1 and in bucket 2 there were 4 white and 8 black balls. Find the probability of taking the white balls when one ball is drawn from each bucket. (either 2/3 or 1/3)
5.) Mother says to a boy to bring 9 marble from the market. But boy can bring only 2 marble at a time. Can you say how many trip to market the boy had to go to bring 9 marbles. (5)
6.) One fish tank is half full. After adding 10 gallons the tank is 7/8 of the tank. Calculate the capacity of the fish tank.(26.66)
7.) Mr. X, Mr. Y, Mr. Z collect Rs. 1,00,000 in the ratio of 2:3:5. Can U say how much extra money is given by Mr. Z than Mr. X? (30,000)
8.) One boy is having some coins and after adding 10z coin the boy is now having (5y-1) times of the coin he had at the beginning. Calculate the coins the boy had initially in terms of y & z. (2z/y)
9.) A shopkeeper gives a discount of 20% on the sale. By what percent he had to increase the S.P of the item so that after giving discount he got the price of the its C.P.
10.) A man holds 13th position from the first and 13th position from the last. How many participant were there in the completion. (25)
11.) A fashion designer and sold it to retailer at the profit of 40% and retailer sold it customer at a profit of 25%.Can u say how much extra money paid by the customer from the cost manufacturing. Calculate the price in percentage.
12.) A taxi driver charges 1.75$ for first quarter of mile and then charges 15 cents for each quarter. How much distance can be covered in 4.9$. (5.4 mile)
13.) Out of 170 baseball player 95 were right handed. Can u calculate the percent of players who were not right handed.
14.) 8 eggs were identical except one is lighter. How many times we have to weight to find out to find out the lighter. (3)
15.) Out of 35 students if the ratio of the girls to boys is 4:3. Then by what number the girls are more than boys. (5)
GD Topics:
1.) Should cold drinks be band in India or not.
2.) Westernization
3.) Reservation
Technical Interviews:
Questions related to C,C++, projects and general HR question….
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