So yesterday was my 1st Placement Exam, it was TCS NQT
I spent the previous 2 days practicing Aptitude and Revising DSA
As My DSA practice was gone , every minute I was revising it I blamed myself and had a lot of regret that why didn't I focus on DSA
Then the Day of NQT came, I revised the Aptitude formula's in the Train. Reporting Time was 7:30, nothing was allowed in the center.
After Entering the college, I went to my Exam Hall, There had to sit with a blank mind as the Exam was gonna begin at 9:00 AM
Then the Time came, I was very nervous, started the Exam
The 1st section was Numerical Ability. It had 20 questions to solve in 25 mins.
Solved the 1st 3 questions, which were quite lengthy and comprised of some extra steps than I would have guessed. Then Interpreted a question wrong, spent time resolving it, looked at the timer, and knew I was cooked
Was only able to solve around 10 questions (can't remember the exact number) and had to guess others, cuz of lack of time
So the 1st Section went pretty Bad.
The Next Section was Logical reasoning, it also had 20 questions to be solved in 25 mins , which was not as hard and complex but couldn't complete it in time either, Ig I left 3-5 questions in that section.
Then came the Advanced Quant and Reasoning Section, with 14 questions to be solved withing 25 mins.
These questions were decent but required a lot of time for solving, solved around 10-12 questions in this section.
Yeah was not able to Complete it either 🙂
Then came the verbal ability section.
The Sentence Completion section was pretty good.
In Passage recall, we will be provided a passage to read for 30 sec and then it will not be displayed, then we get 90 sec to write that passage from memory.
Wrote 2 passage well , and 2 passage I wrote were meh
Email Writing went pretty good too.
Then came the Coding round, where Every thing Fked up.
The 1st question was very easy question on Arrays, but the prblem came in the compiler of TCS system.
It is not like our usual DSA platforms like leetcode, here we need to declare the function ourselves and then take the input manually and instead of returning the answer we have to print it.
I initially started with C , I declared everything correctly still their compiler was unable to identify Cin
LITERALLY CIN 😭??????
After a lot of attempts Gave up and switched to Python, Still it was giving Compiler issue, it took ages to compile the code.
Solved few syntax issues, but still it would not compile no matter what. So desparately submitted the code.
Then Proceeded to the next question , saw that it was on Binary Trees , so I gave up for 55 mins lol.
Tried some code on Java, still it was unable to identify the SCANNER , event after importing😭
Then TCS members took our User Id and the issues we faced, a lot of people faced the same issue as me, some even faced worse
The 2nd shift in our college was cancelled by TCS, due to the amount of Technical problems we faced in the 1st Shift.
TCS held NQT Exam in other colleges to, in one of my friend's college, TCS has declared retest cuz of the Technical issues.
Waiting for update by TCS on the shift in which I gave the NQT Exam.
After Coming Home, I had the regret that I could have prepared more for this, as it was not that difficult with proper preparation.
Regretting for not revising DSA sooner and not getting my hands on it, Regretting for not preparing Aptitude Enough
Feeling quite guilty for the blunders.
Will try to perform and prepare better in the further placement opportunities
Hoping for the Best✨
Thanks for Reading Such a long Post❤️