🏁 TCS Interview Prep: 4-Day Intensive Study Plan
This study plan is structured to cover all the syllabus topics systematically over 4 days. It is designed to optimize retention and practice.
📅 Day 1: Verbal Ability, Basic Quant & Series
Focus Areas: Verbal Aptitude, Basic Numerical Ability, and Foundation Reasoning.
Total Study Time: ~8 Hours
1. Verbal Ability (2.5 Hours)
- Sentence Completion (Slide 1) — Verbal Ability:
- Details: 20 questions, 25 seconds each (Total 6m 20s). Type only one word that best fits (no options given).
- Practice: Focus on context clues, vocabulary, syntax, and rapid typing.
- Email Writing (Slide 4) — Verbal Ability:
- Details: Read situation, write email (1 email, ~9 mins, min 100 words). Professional tone required, complete sentences, no abbreviations (no “u”, “Hi”).
- Practice: Practice writing 3 email drafts based on situational prompts.
2. Numerical Ability & Advanced Quant - Foundations (4 Hours)
- Core Math Topics (Slide 6 & 7):
- Number System HCF LCM — Number System, HCF & LCM, and Divisibility rules.
- Percentages.
- Averages.
- Equations (Linear & Quadratic).
- Profit and Loss.
- Ratios and Proportion.
- Simplifications and Calculations (Rational/Irrational numbers, Simple Arithmetic Operations).
- Ages (Slide 2, 6, 7).
3. Reasoning Ability - Basics (1.5 Hours)
- Patterns & Series (Slide 3) — Patterns and Series:
- Word Patterns.
- Letter Series.
- Number Series.
- Coding-Decoding.
📅 Day 2: Commercial Math, Basic Reasoning & Core Coding
Focus Areas: Word Problems, Visual Reasoning, and Core Data Structures.
Total Study Time: ~8.5 Hours
1. Quantitative & Numerical Ability - Commercial Math (2 Hours)
- Work & Motion Problems (Slide 6 & 7):
2. Reasoning Ability - Relations, Directions & Visuals (3 Hours)
- Logical Relations & Directions (Slide 2 & 3):
- Blood Relations.
- Directions and Distance (Distance & Directions).
- Odd Man Out and Analogy (covers Odd Man Out, Letter Analogy, Words Identification, Meaningful Word Creation).
- Visual & Spatial Reasoning (Slide 2 & 3) — Visual and Spatial Reasoning:
- Cube Folding, Paper Cuts, and Folds.
- Visual Reasoning.
3. Advanced Coding - Data Structures (3.5 Hours)
- Arrays & Hashing (Slide 5) — Arrays and Hashing:
- Subarrays.
- Sliding Window.
- Two Pointers.
- Hashing (Hash Maps, Frequency Tables).
- Strings (Slide 5) — Strings:
- Anagrams.
- Palindromes.
- Frequency Counting.
- Pattern Matching.
📅 Day 3: Advanced Reasoning, Modern Math & Coding Algorithms
Focus Areas: Complex Logic, Combinatorics, and Algorithmic Logic.
Total Study Time: ~8.5 Hours
1. Advanced Reasoning - Complex Logic (3 Hours)
- Complex Arrangements & Notations (Slide 2 & 3) — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms:
- Complex Seating Arrangements (Linear, Circular).
- Syllogisms.
- Symbols and Notations.
- Prepositional Reasoning.
- Logical Venn Diagrams (Slide 3) — Logical Venn Diagrams:
- Logical Venn Diagram Based DI.
2. Advanced Quantitative Ability - Modern Math (3 Hours)
- Probability & Progressions (Slide 7):
3. Advanced Coding - Algorithms (2.5 Hours)
- Greedy Algorithms, Number Theory & Bit Manipulation (Slide 5) — Greedy Number Theory and Bit Manipulation:
- Greedy Algorithms (Optimization Problems).
- Number Theory (Prime Numbers, GCD, LCM).
- Bit Manipulation.
📅 Day 4: Dynamic Programming, Statistics, Data Interpretation & Mock Exam
Focus Areas: Advanced Coding, Statistical Math, Data Analysis, and Exam Strategy.
Total Study Time: ~9 Hours
1. Advanced Coding - Dynamic Programming (3 Hours)
- DP Problems (Slide 5) — Dynamic Programming:
- Coin Change.
- Minimum Edit Distance.
- Strategy: Practice recursion, memoization (top-down), and tabulation (bottom-up).
2. Data Interpretation & Statistics (2.5 Hours)
- Statistics (Slide 6 & 7) — Statistics:
- Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, and Standard Deviation.
- Data Interpretation (DI) (Slide 6 & 7) — Data Interpretation:
- Pie Charts.
- Tabular Data Interpretation.
- Graphical DI / Data Interpretation.
3. Advanced Reasoning - Decision Making (1.5 Hours)
- Critical Thinking & Evaluation (Slide 2 & 3) — Decision Making and Data Sufficiency:
- Decision Making.
- Data Sufficiency (Reasoning and Quant).
- Statement and Conclusion.
4. Full Simulation & Mock Test (2 Hours)
- Mock Test Strategy — Simulate a full-length mock test matching the TCS pattern:
- Practice time management across sections.
- Review wrong answers and consolidate formulas/tricks.
📚 Raw Syllabus Reference
Slide 1: Verbal Ability - New
A. Sentence Completion — Verbal Ability
- 20 questions
- 25 seconds for each sentence (Total 6 mins 20 secs)
- Type only one word that best fits the meaning of the sentence,
- No-options will be given
- Click Next after Typing
Slide 2: Advanced Reasoning Ability
- Words Identification — Odd Man Out and Analogy
- Meaningful Word Creation — Odd Man Out and Analogy
- Numerical Patterns — Patterns and Series
- Letter Analogy — Odd Man Out and Analogy
- Ages — Ages
- Blood Relations — Blood Relations
- Complex Seating Arrangements — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms
- Distance and Directions — Directions and Distance
- Odd Man Out — Odd Man Out and Analogy
- Symbols and Notations — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms
- Cube and Paper Folding — Visual and Spatial Reasoning
- Data Sufficiency — Decision Making and Data Sufficiency
- Decision Making — Decision Making and Data Sufficiency
- Syllogism — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms
- Prepositional Reasoning — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms
- Visual Reasoning — Visual and Spatial Reasoning
Slide 3: Reasoning Ability
- Word Pattern — Patterns and Series
- Letter Series — Patterns and Series
- Number Series — Patterns and Series
- Seating Arrangements — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms
- Coding-Decoding — Patterns and Series
- Blood Relations — Blood Relations
- Directional Sense — Directions and Distance
- Cube Folding, Paper Cuts and Folds — Visual and Spatial Reasoning
- Statement and Conclusion — Decision Making and Data Sufficiency
- Syllogism — Seating Arrangements and Syllogisms
- Data Sufficiency — Decision Making and Data Sufficiency
- Logical Venn Diagram Based DI — Logical Venn Diagrams
- Visual Reasoning — Visual and Spatial Reasoning
Slide 4: Verbal Ability - New
C. Email Writing — Verbal Ability
- Read a description of a situation and write an email addressing the issues described in the situation.
- 1 email
- Around 9 minutes
- Minimum 100 words
- Professional tone required
- Complete sentences only
- No short forms like “u”, “Hi”
- Word count and time may be flexible
Slide 5: Advanced Coding
- Arrays — Arrays and Hashing
- Subarrays — Arrays and Hashing
- Sliding Window — Arrays and Hashing
- Two Pointers — Arrays and Hashing
- Strings — Strings
- Hashing — Arrays and Hashing
- Hash Maps — Arrays and Hashing
- Frequency Tables — Arrays and Hashing
- Dynamic Programming — Dynamic Programming
- Coin Change — Dynamic Programming
- Minimum Edit Distance — Dynamic Programming
- Greedy Algorithms — Greedy Number Theory and Bit Manipulation
- Optimization Problems — Greedy Number Theory and Bit Manipulation
- Number Theory — Greedy Number Theory and Bit Manipulation
- Bit Manipulation — Greedy Number Theory and Bit Manipulation
Slide 6: Numerical Ability
- Number System, LCM & HCF, Divisibility — Number System HCF LCM
- Geometry, Area, Shapes & Perimeter — Geometry Area and Shapes
- Percentages — Percentages
- Allegations and Mixtures — Allegations and Mixtures
- Ratios & Proportion — Ratios and Proportion
- Time and Work — Time and Work
- Time Speed and Distance — Time Speed and Distance
- Profit & Loss — Profit and Loss
- Averages — Averages
- Equations — Equations
- Ages — Ages
- Series and Progressions — Series and Progressions
- Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, and Standard Deviation — Statistics
- Pie Charts — Data Interpretation
- Tabular DI — Data Interpretation
- Graphical DI — Data Interpretation
- Simplifications and Calculations (Rational and Irrational Number) — Number System HCF LCM
Slide 7: Advanced Quantitative Ability
- HCF & LCM and Number System — Number System HCF LCM
- Geometry — Geometry Area and Shapes
- Ages — Ages
- Allegations and Mixtures — Allegations and Mixtures
- Averages — Averages
- Clocks and Calendars — Clocks and Calendars
- Equations — Equations
- Percentages — Percentages
- Permutations, Combinations & Probability — Permutations Combinations and Probability
- Profit and Loss — Profit and Loss
- Ratios and Proportion — Ratios and Proportion
- Series and Progressions — Series and Progressions
- Time, Speed and Distance — Time Speed and Distance
- Time and Work — Time and Work
- Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, and Variance — Statistics
- Data Interpretation — Data Interpretation
- Pie Charts — Data Interpretation
- Tabular Data Interpretation — Data Interpretation
- Simple Arithmetic Operations — Number System HCF LCM
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- Mock Test Strategy — Mock test timing and strategies
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