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Placement essentials (aptitude, reasoning, verbal, communication, interviews, Excel, workplace) notes
Free study notes for Placement essentials (aptitude, reasoning, verbal, communication, interviews, Excel, workplace) (All) students in India: 79 topics across 6 subjects - Quantitative aptitude, Logical reasoning, Verbal ability, Communication, Interviews and offers and Workplace skills. Each note explains the concept, works the examples with the numbers done, gives the Indian standards, codes and laws in force today, and ends with interview questions and the mistakes examiners look for - for semester exams, competitive exams, campus placements and job interviews.
Quantitative aptitude
- Number system and divisibility
- Percentages
- Profit, loss and discount
- Simple and compound interest
- Ratio, proportion and partnership
- Averages, mixtures and alligation
- Time and work
- Time, speed and distance
- Permutations and combinations
- Probability
- Data interpretation
- Algebra: linear and quadratic equations
- Clocks and calendars
- Data interpretation: pie charts, line graphs and caselets
- Geometry and coordinate basics
- Mensuration: areas and perimeters
- Mensuration: volumes and surface areas
- Pipes and cisterns
- Problems on ages and numbers
- Progressions and logarithms
- Simplification and approximation
- Squares, cubes, roots and surds
- Trains, boats and streams
Logical reasoning
- Number and letter series
- Coding-decoding
- Blood relations
- Direction sense
- Seating arrangement and puzzles
- Syllogisms
- Data sufficiency
- Analogies and classification
- Cause and effect and course of action
- Critical reasoning: arguments and inferences
- Cubes and dice
- Floor, box and scheduling puzzles
- Inequalities
- Input-output
- Non-verbal reasoning: figures and patterns
- Statements and assumptions
- Statements and conclusions
Verbal ability
- Reading comprehension
- Grammar and sentence correction
- Vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms
- Para jumbles and sentence completion
- Articles, prepositions and conjunctions
- Cloze tests and sentence improvement
- Idioms and phrasal verbs
- Tenses and verb forms
Communication
- Writing a professional email
- Self-introduction for interviews
- Group discussion
- Presentation skills
- Body language and presence
- Business writing: reports, minutes and proposals
- Listening skills
- Spoken English and pronunciation
- Telephone and video-call etiquette
Interviews and offers
- HR interview questions
- Answering technical interview questions
- CTC, salary slips and offer letters
- Online assessments and test strategy
- Case interviews and guesstimates
- Internships: finding and making the most of them
- LinkedIn and personal branding
- Negotiating and choosing between offers
- Resume writing for freshers
- Stress and panel interviews
Workplace skills
- Excel essentials
- Excel formulas: lookup, logic and pivot tables
- Workplace etiquette and first-job basics
- Email, calendar and productivity tools
- Personal finance basics for freshers
- PowerPoint and presentation design
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Professional ethics, data privacy and security at work
- Remote and hybrid work
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Time management and prioritisation
- Word, Google Docs and documentation