With one year in hand, how should i prepare for campus placement?

Well,I hope you are a CSE student,coz m gonna write from the point of view of CSE Campus Placements. First of all, you need to check out what all companies do visit your college.Ask you seniors which all companies did visit during their time and what was the selection procedure(including eligibility criteria as well) because it will be almost same at you time as,so keep good rappo with your seniors,as they are the ones who will guide you about the companies.Get the rough estimate of companies visiting this year and in which all companies you are eligible and start preparing according to it. There are basically 2 types of companies visiting every college,that is 1)Non Dream( usually Mass Recruiter) Companies  e.g Accenture,Infosys,TCS,Capgemini etc 2)Dream Companies  e.g Morgan Stanley,JP Morgan,SAP labs,Nomura etc There are 2 types of preparation basically for Non-Dream Companies- Basic Prep and for Dream Companies-Advanced Prep So the Basic Prep will be 1) Aptitude a) Quantitative Aptitude b)Verbal Ability(dont get confused between verbal reasoning n verbal ability,dey are different) c)Analytical Ability/Logical Reasoning Quant- R.S Agarwal is more than enough Well,one should cover all chapters of this book. No need to do all sums from all chapters.Once your concepts gets cleared and you are sure that you will be able to solve all kind of sums related to that topic,then you can move on to further topics.I suggest not to follow R.S index to cover the topics...Do not consider single at a time...always form the group of similar chapters and try to cover that way. Here is the formation of group of chapters which i followed - 1) Basic Chapters- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 2) Percentage,Stock & shares etc - 10,11,13,21,22,29,32,33 3)Ratio n Proportion,chain rule etc- 12,14,20 4)Logarithm and Surds/Indices- 9,23 5)Time n Work sort of chapters- 15,16,17,18,19,26,34 6)Area-24,25 7)Calender,Clock-27,28 8)Permutation n Combination- 30,31 9) Remaining Chapters all together. Dont ignore DI n pie chart questions even dey do come Verbal Ability- Verbal usually consists of RCs,syntonyms,antonyms,meaning of the word,error finding & arranging the sentences in correct order to form a para. There is actually no need to prepare for this if you are good at grammer n have good vocab..If u r nt den stdy some imp gre words and you will go through this. Logic- Its the most easiest section i can say. No need to prepare for this too Blood Relations,Deductions,conclusions,puzzles etc can be encountered here Verbal and Logic can be prepared when you are bored of Quant/Tech.Its for refreshing mind :p These 2 section can be done 4rm CAT notes of TIME.They have covered everything. As you have short span of time,..dont focus more on the above 2 sections. And 1 more thing...Quant and Technical should be studied hand-in-hand. 2) Technical Interviee i) Programming Languages- C/java or C++/java basically 1 structured programming and 1 oop ii)DSA iii)DBMS In basic prep these 3 subjects are enough n in during if its asked ur fav subject always opt for dbms...coz u will encounter the most easy questions in it. Revise all projects in hand which are written in the resume..questions are usually asked on projects so you should know in and out of the projects HR interview- Study your Resume well & frame question set based on your resume and try to answer them,As all 75% questions will be based on your resume. Some of the FAQs asked in HR are strenghts,weakness,how will you overcome you weakness,where you will see yourselves after 5/10 yrs,what are you career goals etc so be prepared for such questions. And 1 day before interview try to research about Company you are appearing for, about their work,vision and mission,core values,locations etc Coz they want to see how much u r interested in the company n wat all things u know about them. After you are done with these prep give online tests on Indiabix jsut b4 2-3 days before co. comes.And you will also get co. papers on freshers worls as well as on india-bix,From previous question papers you will get an idea of pattern usually company follow in aptitude section People usually say,questions get repeat from previous years,but personally i have not experienced this,but there is no harm in solving them,you might be lucky enough to get repeated ones. Ok,So Advanced Prep will consist only of Test Series and few subject learning   like OS,Networking,SE and test series on quant,verbal,logic,c,java,os,dsa,dbms,networking. Non Dream companies usually do have 3 sections- quant.verbal,logic in apti, but dream co. include technical section too. Technical apti consist of programming questions based on - control stuctures,pointers,dsa based questions n few on othr subjects may be dbms/os In Technical Interview of Dream Co. they expect us to know basics of all subjects studied during engg. HR interview will be more or less same as Non-Dream co. Some of the Dream/Non-Dream co. do have GD also...so prepare for it according to which co. you are applying Tips for clearing Apti 1) If there is no sectional cut-off,then the order of solving should be logic-> verbal->quant, as per my knowledge only accenture dont have sectional cut-off 2)If there is no negative marking, end mein sab inky pinky ponky karke aana :p "b/c option is lucky fr me" chk it out wch 1 is urs ;) " 3)If there is -ve marking & sectional cut-off then too follow the same order as before and try to solve 3/4th of the total questions from each section.dont try to solve all questions.And evn if der is -ve marking and time is less and you hv nt covered 3/4 of the questions 4rm the remaining section den 3-4 questions mein inky pinky ponky kar lena :p ,coz -ve marking is negligible and clearing each section is also imp. Tips for clearing Interviews 1) Dont be nervous,Be Confident 2) Try to be clear with your answers,whatever it may be... dont fumble 3) If you dont know the exact answer of any of his question,just say " Sir,I dont know the exact answer but what i know is................" 4) And try to show that you are interested in their company That's it ! Hope its useful All the Best !!!

Aptitude tests, Logical Reasoning and little bit of verbal ability test are common in campus placement rounds. Almost 99% start with these rounds and short list first set of candidates. If you want to get selected in campus placement round then I strongly suggest you to practice as many questions as you can. We often think that we know how to solve these questions but we fail to realize that speed matters! Yeah... In campus placement test when 1000 of students like you are competing (specially in Tier II or Tier III) institutes companies do not have sufficient time to go through each and every candidates, thus they almost cut down 50-75% of the participants on the basis of aptitude test itself. Those left have to go through another Technical round or GD/PI or something similar sort of round. How you can prepare for campus placement test? I can recommend you 100's of online portals available on internet but I personally feel that there are few with good quality campus placement questions but no one is personalized and give you a add free learning environment. Plus there is practically no placement preparation portal that can give you insights (for free!) where you are weak and where you are strong. Hence I developed one for all of us check https://www.freedu.in/. It have over thousands of campus placement practice questions and mock tests For aptitude questions click here https://freedu.in/qb/578/ For aptitude Mock Test go to https://freedu.in/quiz/578/ For Logical Reasoning Question : https://freedu.in/qb/583/ For Pocket Quiz in Logical Reasoning : https://freedu.in/quiz/583/ For tips and tricks how to solve these questions you can go through best online courses available over internet at this link : https://freedu.in/courses/ What more ? Freedu give you detailed performance analysis so that you can practice more in right area All the questions on freedu are individually solved by IITians so that you can have the best practice material for the most important exam of your life. When you can ask for no more Freedu gives you something which you can not even imagine https://freedu.in/coupons/coupon_home/ Yes you get freebies from Local National and International brands for learning online for FREE

Just aptitude, great marks wont cut it... You need to be able to give what the employer is looking for