The TCS National Qualifier Test is the single largest fresher hiring process in India. This simulation runs its shape end to end — a timed, proctored aptitude paper, a coding round on a clock, then the technical and HR interviews, each one gated behind the last, exactly as the real process gates them.
4 rounds you can sit here, each gated behind the last, the way the real process gates them.
A timed, proctored paper across all four sections, drawn fresh per candidate so a retake is never the same paper. TCS splits its own Foundation section into Numerical, Verbal and Reasoning; we add an Analytical section, which the Advanced paper draws on. The real NQT Foundation paper runs 64 questions in 75 minutes; this is a 32-question half, at the same pace.
| Section | Questions | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative (Numerical Ability) | 8 | 9 min |
| Logical (Reasoning Ability) | 8 | 9 min |
| Verbal Ability | 8 | 9 min |
| Analytical Reasoning | 8 | 9 min |
Three problems of increasing difficulty, each on its own timer, run against real test cases in a sandbox. TCS gives two longer problems in its Advanced section; we run three shorter ones so a weak area shows up as a pattern rather than a single unlucky question.
| 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 choices — with follow-ups based on what you actually say. Core CS fundamentals come up the way TCS asks them: 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 this role, 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 36 minutes. You will know your score and your weakest section by the end of it.
Try TCS free · 36 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 1 · Foundation — Aptitude | |||
| Quantitative (Numerical Ability) | 8 | 9 | 68 seconds |
| Logical (Reasoning Ability) | 8 | 9 | 68 seconds |
| Verbal Ability | 8 | 9 | 68 seconds |
| Analytical Reasoning | 8 | 9 | 68 seconds |
| Round 2 · Advanced — Coding | |||
| Problem 1 — easy | 1 | 5 | 300 seconds |
| Problem 2 — medium | 1 | 7 | 420 seconds |
| Problem 3 — hard | 1 | 10 | 600 seconds |
| Round 3 · Technical Interview | |||
| Project deep-dive | 4 | 10 | 150 seconds |
| CS fundamentals | 4 | 10 | 150 seconds |
| Round 4 · 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 TCS NQT actually tests, each with the worked solution — the method, not just the right letter.
4 rounds — Foundation — Aptitude, Advanced — Coding, Technical Interview and HR Interview. 49 questions, about 93 minutes in total.
Round 1 (Foundation — Aptitude) 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 36 minutes over 32 questions; all 4 rounds come to about 93 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.
Foundation — Aptitude, 4 separately timed sections. Quantitative (Numerical Ability) — 8 questions in 9 min; Logical (Reasoning Ability) — 8 questions in 9 min; Verbal Ability — 8 questions in 9 min; Analytical Reasoning — 8 questions in 9 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.