Hi Friends,

This is Shyam 2004 passout from VIT.Hope some of you guys may remember
me after placement talk conducted by us recently. Since many of you
people had your exams and not able to make it to the presentation i
just wanted to convey few important points you must follow before
arriving into the grand placement season of VIT by May.
How to Use The May Vacation For the Placement Preparations:
Let me categorize the preparation into two categories.
Written Test
Tech Interview Preparation
Written Test:
Step 1: Quantitative Aptitude Preparations:
Sit and go through all the important chapters in R.S.Agarwal
Quantitative Aptitude book. Practice all the examples and exercise
questions. After finishing this, go through the Short cut methods
given in any MBA preparation book by author "Abhijit Guha"
Step 2: Verbal and Analytical Reasoning Preparations:
Go through the GRE book by Barrons (12th) edition which has the
Analytical and critical Reasoning section.Practice all the questions
in this section and in TCS you would get analytical and critical
reasoning questions only from this. Your seniors used to memorize the
answers for the toughest (Analytical & Critical reasoning) questions
as it helped them to give the answers fast in the online test.
Learn all the words given GRE Barrons book or atleast try to learn
High Frequency words list in Barrons book and all the words given in
the previous years question papers.
Step 3: Puzzles Preparation
Now Puzzles are not frequently appearing in written test paper of
Infosys.So puzzles just practice it as a safety measure. You could
find one or 2 puzzles just show up in some companies question papers.
The standard books for puzzles practice are the ones written by
Shakuntala Devi and George Summers
Step 3: Technical Written Test Preparation
Technical written test would be mostly based on C.Please go through

Test Your C Skills book by Yashavant P. Kanetkar.Few companies would

conduct test in OS,DBMS and C++ and for this if you are non computer
students go through the previous year Q paper of this companies.
Step 4:
Practice all the previous years question papers of TCS, CTS, and
Wipro etc.This is a very step you should follow without fail.
Technical Interview Preparation:
Step 5: C and C++ are just two key words which could always find a
place in any level of company.
Computer Department Students: Make yourself strong in C and C++.Should
be well comfortable with playing around OOPS concepts and Pointers in
C.Should able to write
Programs for implementing data structures like Linkedlist, Doubly
Linked list ,stack and queue.
Non computer department student with C and C++ in Curriculum: Try to
first cover the Computer subjects you had in your curriculum, most of
the department would have C in their curriculum so don't fail to learn
C.If you don't have C++ in your curriculum atleast try to learn basic
OOPS concepts like inheritance ,polymorphism and encapsulation.
Non computer department students with no C and C++ in Curriculum:
Please ask your friends from computer departments to teach you the
basics of C and C++ and you can also learn yourself with the books
written by Yashavant P. Kanetkar AND Bala kuruswamy.
Step 6: Make yourself strong in fundamentals of all the core subjects
of your department. For ex: EEE students should be good in embedded
systems and other core subjects and ECE students should be good in IC,
Signals system subjects etc.
So your duty is to find the core subjects of your department and get
yourself strong in basics.
Step 7: Learn the subjects which you mention as Area of Interest in
resume with the most possible extent you can. You should always go an
extra mile in your area of interest. For computer based students don't
mention in your area of interest as only c and c++ unless you have
done some extreme programming in this languages, as a computer based
student it is by default you should be good in this 2 languages.

For non computer students if you mention c and c++ in your area of
interest it is an added advantage. You can always mention the subjects
from your department in the area of interest and you should be strong
in that.
Hr Interview:
Don't worry about this during the vacation we will be there to help
you out in this once you return from home for the campus placements.
If you finish this 7 steps, no wonder you get palced in very first
company.
If you have reached till this point it's great and well appreciated.
My all the best to you for the exams and campus interview. You are
welcome to mail or call me for any help regarding campus placements
any time any day.
My Mobile no is 9840536665.
Bye
Take Care
Shyam.