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TCS NQT placement preparation
Free TCS NQT mock tests with the integrated Foundation + Advanced pattern, sectional timers and coding.
Free mock tests
- Full mockTCS NQT Full Mock Test 177 questions · 3h 10m · 1 attemptsStart free →
- Full mockTCS NQT Full Mock Test 277 questions · 3h 10mStart free →
- SectionalTCS NQT Numerical Ability — Practice Set 120 questions · 25 minStart free →
- SectionalTCS NQT Reasoning — Practice Set 120 questions · 25 minStart free →
How TCS hires freshers
TCS hires most freshers through the National Qualifier Test (NQT), run on the TCS iON platform. Your NQT score decides which role you are considered for — commonly reported as Ninja, Digital and Prime, with higher scores (especially in the Advanced section and coding) opening the higher-paying roles.
Typical process: NQT online test → Technical interview → Managerial / HR interview.
Test pattern (as commonly reported for 2025–26)
| Part | Section | What it tests |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Numerical Ability | percentages, profit & loss, interest, time & work, speed, ratios, number system, probability |
| Foundation | Verbal Ability | grammar, vocabulary, sentence correction, reading comprehension, para jumbles |
| Foundation | Reasoning Ability | series, coding–decoding, directions, blood relations, seating, clocks & calendars |
| Advanced | Advanced Quant & Reasoning | harder versions of the above |
| Advanced | Advanced Coding | usually 2 problems, any common language |
The whole test is about 3 hours in one sitting. Sources report no negative marking. Patterns change between drives and sources report them differently — always follow your official test invitation.
How to prepare in 30 days
- Week 1: Take Full Mock 1 cold to find your weak sections. Revise percentages, ratios and time–speed–distance.
- Week 2: Reasoning and verbal every day (20 minutes each). Solve the easy coding problems below.
- Week 3: Advanced quant and medium coding problems (arrays, strings, hashing).
- Week 4: One full mock every 2–3 days, under exam conditions. Review every wrong answer.
Tip: In coding, partial marks matter — always submit a working solution first, then optimise.
Coding practice for this test
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- Two Sumeasy
- Reverse a Stringeasy
- Count Vowelseasy
- Valid Palindromeeasy
- Move Zeroeseasy
- Majority Elementeasy
- Best Time to Buy and Sell Stockeasy
- Longest Common Prefixeasy
- Missing Numbereasy
- Maximum Subarray Summedium
- Longest Consecutive Sequencemedium
- Rotate Arraymedium
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Skills101 is not affiliated with TCS NQT. All questions are original, written in the style of the commonly reported pattern. Hiring processes change — always follow the official TCS NQT careers page and your test invitation.