Cognizant Recruitment Pattern, Important Topics and About the Company

Cognizant Recruitment Pattern, Important Topics and About the Company

About Cognizant

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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (CTS) is an American multinational corporation that provides custom information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services.Originally founded as an in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet in 1994, Cognizant started serving external clients in 1996.

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Founder: Kumar Mahadeva, Francisco D’Souza
CEO: Francisco D’Souza
Founded: January 26, 1994
Headquarters: Teaneck, New Jersey, United States

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Cognizant Placement Pattern – Online Test Pattern (Based on AMCAT Pattern)

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Analytical Ability Test

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Quantitative Ability

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Number of questions – 16

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Duration – 16 minutes

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Logical Reasoning

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Number of questions – 14

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Duration – 14 minutes

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Verbal Ability

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Number of questions – 25

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Duration – 25 minutes

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Total

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Number of questions – 55

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Duration – 55 minutes

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Cognizant Placement Pattern – Online Test Pattern (Based on MeritTrac Pattern)

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Analytical Ability Test

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Number of questions – 30

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Verbal Ability Test

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Number of questions – 25

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Total

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Number of questions – 55

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Duration – 50 minutes

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AMCAT Pattern

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Features of the test

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> No negative marking for wrong answers

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> It is a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) – it is a form of computer-based test that adapts to the examinee’s ability level. For this reason, it has also been called tailored testing. If a student gives a wrong answer, the computer follows up with an easier question; if the student answers correctly, the next question will be more difficult

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> No option of coming back to previous questions

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Topic Importance

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High Occurence – Questions from these topics are asked frequently. If these topics are your strong areas, you will be able to solve more questions thus score more!

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Medium Occurence – Questions from these topics are asked in moderate frequency. You should aim to attempt all questions that come your way from these areas.

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Low Occurence – These topics are not the question paper setters favourites. However, if you prepare for these topics you might score extra in questions other students are not targeting!

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Quantitative Aptitude

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Medium Occurence

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> Numbers

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> Time and Work

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> Ratios and Proportions

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> Averages, Profit and Loss

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> Time, Speed and Distance

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> Percentages

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Low Occurence

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> Permutations and Combinations

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> Probability

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> Logarithms and Geometry

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Verbal Ability

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High Occurence

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> Reading Comprehension

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> Para-jumbles

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> Sentence Completion

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> Sentence Correction

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> Vocabulary 

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Medium Occurence

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> Sentence Improvement

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Logical Reasoning

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High Occurence

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> Data Arrangements

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> Blood Relations

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> Coding and Decoding Series

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> Analogy

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> Odd man out

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Medium Occurence

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> Data Sufficiency

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> Direction Sense

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Low Occurence

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> Logical Sequence

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MeritTrac Pattern

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Features of the test

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> No negative marking for wrong answers

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> There are sectional cut-offs (Expected cut-offs given below)
Analytical ability – 15 to 18 Marks
Verbal ability reasoning – 13 to 15 Marks

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Analytical Ability

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Medium Occurence

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> Data Interpretation

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> Visual Reasoning

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> Data Sufficiency

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> Syllogism

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> Coding Decoding

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> Data Arrangements

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Verbal Ability

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High Occurence

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> Reading Comprehension

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> Sentence Correction

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Medium Occurence

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> Para-jumbles

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