Capgemini — Technical & English: Pattern, Syllabus & Mock Test
Capgemini — Technical & English pattern: 70 questions in 75 minutes across 2 sections. Sample questions, a preparation guide and a free timed mock.
- Pattern: Capgemini
- Duration: 75 minutes
- Questions: 70
- Timing: Sectional — each section on its own clock
- Negative marking: None
A heavy technical block with pseudocode, then thirty questions of English. Each section must be cleared on its own.
- Sectional cut-offs
- No negative marking
- Technical-heavy
Sections
| Section | Questions | Time | Kind | Marks each |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical MCQs & Pseudocode | 40 | 45 min | Multiple choice | 1 |
| English Communication | 30 | 30 min | Multiple choice | 1 |
Capgemini — Technical & English syllabus
Technical MCQs & Pseudocode
English Communication
Instructions
Capgemini gates section by section: each one has its own cut-off and you must clear it to reach the next.
- Technical MCQs and Pseudocode are one forty-question block covering programming fundamentals, data structures, OS, DBMS and networks. The reported cut-off is 60–65%.
- English Communication is thirty questions of grammar, vocabulary and comprehension. The reported cut-off is 65%.
- No negative marking.
The game-based cognitive round, the behavioural inventory and the coding round are not part of this paper. The games are genuinely adaptive and cannot be practised as multiple choice.
How to prepare for this pattern
A guide to the Capgemini Technical and English paper, which is gated section by section: each part has to be cleared on its own.
What the paper looks like
Two sections, sat in order: Technical MCQs & Pseudocode, 40 questions in 45 minutes, and English Communication, 30 questions in 30 minutes. That is 70 questions in 75 minutes. Each question is worth one mark and there is no negative marking. Each section has its own clock and closes when you leave it. The paper is not adaptive. Each section has its own cut-off, reported at 60–65 per cent for the technical block and 65 per cent for English, and you must clear one to reach the next. The game-based cognitive round, the behavioural inventory and the coding round are not part of this paper.
How to prepare, section by section
- Technical MCQs & Pseudocode draws ten pseudocode questions, twelve on programming fundamentals, ten on data structures and eight on OS, DBMS and networks. Start with Programming Fundamentals and Pseudocode, which together make up more than half the section, then Data Structures & Algorithms and OS, DBMS & Networks. Output-prediction questions turn on language rules such as integer division, operator precedence and scope; the early modules of the C++, Java and Python study plans cover them. Solving problems stage by stage on the DSA roadmap makes the data structure questions familiar from use rather than from memory.
- English Communication is grammar, vocabulary and comprehension: Sentence Correction, Fill in the Blanks & Para Jumbles, Synonyms & Antonyms and Reading Comprehension. Thirty questions at a minute each is steady rather than rushed, but the reported cut-off here is the higher of the two.
On the day
There is no negative marking, so answer every question before each section closes. The technical block allows about 67 seconds a question. Pseudocode tracing is the slowest item in it, so answer the factual questions on OS, DBMS and data structures first and give the tracing questions the time that is left, writing variable values down as you go. Because each section must be cleared on its own, make accuracy the goal rather than finishing early: time left over in a section does not carry to the next. In English, reading the question before the passage saves reading the passage twice.
This mock is modelled on the section sizes two prep portals agree on, 40 technical and 30 English, though one source reports 30 technical, and leaves out the four-game cognitive round; CodeKairo is not affiliated with Capgemini.
Practice questions for the Capgemini — Technical & English test
Pointer updates in a doubly linked list
A new node is inserted between two existing nodes of a doubly linked list. How many pointer fields have to be assigned?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Show the answer
D. 4 Worked solution
Collision and broadcast domains
A single 24-port Ethernet switch has one host on each port and no VLANs configured. How many collision domains and broadcast domains exist?
- 1 collision domain and 1 broadcast domain
- 1 collision domain and 24 broadcast domains
- 24 collision domains and 1 broadcast domain
- 24 collision domains and 24 broadcast domains
Show the answer
C. 24 collision domains and 1 broadcast domain Worked solution
Subscripting written backwards
What does this C program print?
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int a[5] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50};
printf("%d", 3[a] - a[1]);
return 0;
}- 10
- 20
- 30
- 40
Show the answer
B. 20 Worked solution
Leaving the loop early
What is printed?
Integer i, s
Set s = 0
Set i = 1
While i <= 20
If s > 15 Then
Break
End If
Set s = s + i
Set i = i + 1
End While
Print s- 15
- 21
- 28
- 36
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B. 21 Worked solution
Inserting into a min-heap
A min-heap is stored as the array [10, 20, 15, 30, 40]. The key 5 is inserted. What does the array look like afterwards?
- 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 15
- 5, 20, 10, 30, 40, 15
- 5, 20, 15, 30, 40, 10
- 10, 20, 15, 30, 40, 5
Show the answer
B. 5, 20, 10, 30, 40, 15 Worked solution
Counting candidate keys
For R(A, B, C, D) with the functional dependencies AB → C, C → D and D → A, how many candidate keys does R have?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Show the answer
C. 3 Worked solution
Pre-increment against post-increment
What does this C program print?
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int i = 5;
int j = i++;
int k = ++i;
printf("%d %d %d", i, j, k);
return 0;
}- 5 5 7
- 6 5 6
- 7 5 7
- 7 6 7
Show the answer
C. 7 5 7 Worked solution
The point of the monsoon passage
India's monsoon is often described as a single event, but it is really two. The south-west monsoon arrives in Kerala in early June and works north over six weeks, bringing roughly three-quarters of the country's annual rainfall. The north-east monsoon, far smaller, returns in October and waters the south-eastern coast. Forecasting either has improved markedly since the 1990s, though the models remain better at predicting the total than its distribution — which is unfortunate, because it is the distribution that determines whether a crop survives.
What is the main point of the passage?
- Monsoon forecasting has not improved since the 1990s.
- The monsoon is two distinct events, and forecasts predict its total better than its distribution.
- The north-east monsoon matters more to agriculture than the south-west.
- Kerala receives most of India's annual rainfall.
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B. The monsoon is two distinct events, and forecasts predict its total better than its distribution. Worked solution
Two blanks with a contrast
Fill in the blanks:
The proposal was ______ in ambition but ______ in detail.
- modest … thin
- grand … vague
- grand … precise
- weak … poor
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B. grand … vague Worked solution
A or an
Choose the correct sentence:
- He is an university student.
- He is a university student.
- He is an unique candidate.
- He is a hour late.
Show the answer
B. He is a university student. Worked solution
Antonym of ACCELERATE
Choose the word most opposite in meaning to ACCELERATE:
- Hasten
- Retard
- Continue
- Steer
Show the answer
B. Retard Worked solution
What follows from the argument
Planners once assumed that widening a road would ease congestion. Decades of evidence suggest otherwise. Additional capacity lowers the effective cost of driving, which draws in journeys that were previously not made at all, until the road is as crowded as before. Economists call this induced demand. The finding does not mean roads should never be built, but it does mean that congestion cannot be engineered away by supply alone.
Which statement is most consistent with the passage?
- Measures that change the cost of driving may affect congestion more than new capacity does.
- Congestion has no solution.
- Planners in the past had no evidence to work with.
- Induced demand applies only to cities.
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A. Measures that change the cost of driving may affect congestion more than new capacity does. Worked solution
About this pattern
Section sizes from PrepInsta and placementpreparation.io, which agree on 40 technical and 30 English. One source reports 30 technical instead. The four-game cognitive round, drawn from a pool of twenty-four, is excluded.
Modelled on the published pattern; not affiliated with Capgemini. Every sitting draws a fresh paper from the aptitude bank.
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