Cognizant opens with an AI-scored communication round before any technical assessment, which catches candidates who prepared only for aptitude. The technical block that follows is the heaviest single sitting of any service-company process.
4 rounds you can sit here, each gated behind the last, the way the real process gates them.
The 1 stage marked not simulated is part of Cognizant's real process, but not something a practice platform can honestly reproduce. It is described here so nothing on the day surprises you.
One 60-minute AI-scored session covering reading, listening, speaking and grammar. Like Accenture's, it scores delivery rather than content, so we do not simulate it. It is a real gate: candidates are filtered here before any technical round.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Reading · Listening · Speaking · Grammar | 0 | 60 min |
Cognizant pairs quantitative aptitude with a game-based logical section. The quantitative and reasoning work below is what that section actually measures, timed and proctored. The real GenC paper runs 40 questions in 40 minutes; this is a 24-question version you can sit in one go.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative | 6 | 6 min |
| Logical Reasoning | 6 | 6 min |
| Verbal Ability | 6 | 6 min |
| Analytical Reasoning | 6 | 6 min |
Cognizant's technical block also carries SQL and cloud MCQs, which we do not simulate. Three problems of increasing difficulty, each on its own timer, run against real test cases in a sandbox.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Problem 1 — easy | 1 | 5 min |
| Problem 2 — medium | 1 | 7 min |
| Problem 3 — hard | 1 | 10 min |
A spoken round built from your own resume — your projects, your stack, your decisions — with follow-ups based on what you actually say. Cognizant leans on fundamentals over puzzles: OOP, DBMS, OS basics and simple data structures, tied back to what you built.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Project deep-dive | 4 | 10 min |
| CS fundamentals | 4 | 10 min |
The final conversation. Classic HR questions mixed with situational STAR ones — strengths and weaknesses, why Cognizant, handling pressure, willingness to relocate — scored on clarity, self-awareness and whether you gave a concrete example rather than a rehearsed one.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Classic HR | 3 | 8 min |
| Situational / STAR | 3 | 7 min |
The first round is free and takes 24 minutes. You will know your score and your weakest section by the end of it.
Try Cognizant free · 24 min →Sections are timed separately, so time saved in one does not carry into the next. These are the same splits the simulation runs.
| Section | Questions | Minutes | Per question |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 2 · Aptitude Assessment | |||
| Quantitative | 6 | 6 | 60 seconds |
| Logical Reasoning | 6 | 6 | 60 seconds |
| Verbal Ability | 6 | 6 | 60 seconds |
| Analytical Reasoning | 6 | 6 | 60 seconds |
| Round 3 · Coding Round | |||
| Problem 1 — easy | 1 | 5 | 300 seconds |
| Problem 2 — medium | 1 | 7 | 420 seconds |
| Problem 3 — hard | 1 | 10 | 600 seconds |
| Round 4 · Technical Interview | |||
| Project deep-dive | 4 | 10 | 150 seconds |
| CS fundamentals | 4 | 10 | 150 seconds |
| Round 5 · HR Interview | |||
| Classic HR | 3 | 8 | 160 seconds |
| Situational / STAR | 3 | 7 | 140 seconds |
The topics our question bank draws on for each section of this paper, most-used first. Every attempt serves a different set, so the topics repeat and the questions do not.
number systems, averages, mensuration, ratio and proportion, simple interest, problems on ages, percentages, profit and loss.
number series, ranking, seating arrangement, coding-decoding, clocks, calendars, direction sense, blood relations.
synonyms, antonyms, sentence complete, vocabulary, grammar, sentence correct, spelling, comprehension.
6 questions from the bank this simulation draws on, across the sections Cognizant GenC actually tests, each with the worked solution — the method, not just the right letter.
4 rounds — Aptitude Assessment, Coding Round, Technical Interview and HR Interview. 41 questions, about 81 minutes in total.
Round 1 (Aptitude Assessment) is free — no card, no credits. The remaining 3 rounds unlock for Rs 99, down from Rs 199, once, with two attempts at every round.
Round 1 takes 24 minutes over 24 questions; all 4 rounds come to about 81 minutes. Rounds unlock one at a time, so you need not sit them together.
60%. Below that the simulation ends there, as the real process would. You keep the report for the round you sat.
Aptitude Assessment, 4 separately timed sections. Quantitative — 6 questions in 6 min; Logical Reasoning — 6 questions in 6 min; Verbal Ability — 6 questions in 6 min; Analytical Reasoning — 6 questions in 6 min.
For Technical Interview and HR Interview, yes — the questions are generated from your own resume, so the projects you list are the projects you are asked about.
Each one runs that company's own hiring pattern, and Round 1 is free on all of them.