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ZS Associates — Aptitude

Sixty questions, seventy-five minutes, and no section locks. You decide where the time goes.

The pattern and syllabus · 12 sample questions

No sectional locksNo negative markingDI-heavy

The sitting

1h 15m

total time

60

questions

4

sections

None

negative marking

Start the test

The clock starts as soon as you click. Your paper is drawn fresh, so a second sitting is a different set.

Proctored sitting

  • Laptop or desktop only, with a webcam. Phones and tablets can't start a test.
  • The test runs full screen, with the site's navigation hidden.
  • Your webcam stays on and is checked on your computer — nothing is recorded or uploaded.
  • Leaving full screen, switching tab or window or minimising blurs the paper — and so does the camera seeing no one, someone else, a phone, or you looking away. The clock keeps running.
  • Each is a warning; the third ends the sitting. It is graded so you can review it, but marked disqualified and never counted as your best.
  • Pasting, copying, right-click and printing are off.

The paper

1

Quantitative Aptitude

18 Q

22 min

Quantitative Aptitude

2

Logical Reasoning

16 Q

20 min

Logical Reasoning

3

Verbal Ability

14 Q

15 min

Verbal Ability

4

Data Interpretation

12 Q

18 min

Data Interpretation

Before you start

ZS runs a pure aptitude round with no coding at all, and — unusually — no sectional time limits. The seventy-five minutes are yours to spend as you like across all four sections.

  • Move freely between sections. Sweep the data interpretation you can read quickly, then come back.
  • No negative marking and no sectional cut-offs. Leave nothing blank.
  • Data interpretation is a full quarter of the paper.

The eight-video business-scenario round that follows is not part of this paper.

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ZS Associates — Aptitude: Pattern, Syllabus & Mock Test

ZS Associates — Aptitude pattern: 60 questions in 75 minutes across 4 sections. Sample questions, a preparation guide and a free timed mock.

  • Pattern: ZS Associates
  • Duration: 75 minutes
  • Questions: 60
  • Timing: Free — move between sections until the paper's clock ends
  • Negative marking: None

Sixty questions, seventy-five minutes, and no section locks. You decide where the time goes.

  • No sectional locks
  • No negative marking
  • DI-heavy

Sections

SectionQuestionsTimeKindMarks each
Quantitative Aptitude1822 minMultiple choice1
Logical Reasoning1620 minMultiple choice1
Verbal Ability1415 minMultiple choice1
Data Interpretation1218 minMultiple choice1

ZS Associates — Aptitude syllabus

Quantitative Aptitude

Logical Reasoning

Verbal Ability

Data Interpretation

Instructions

ZS runs a pure aptitude round with no coding at all, and — unusually — no sectional time limits. The seventy-five minutes are yours to spend as you like across all four sections.

  • Move freely between sections. Sweep the data interpretation you can read quickly, then come back.
  • No negative marking and no sectional cut-offs. Leave nothing blank.
  • Data interpretation is a full quarter of the paper.

The eight-video business-scenario round that follows is not part of this paper.

How to prepare for this pattern

A guide to the ZS Associates aptitude pattern: sixty questions, seventy-five minutes, no coding, and no section that locks.

What the paper looks like

Four sections: Quantitative Aptitude, 18 questions; Logical Reasoning, 16 questions; Verbal Ability, 14 questions; and Data Interpretation, 12 questions. That is 60 questions on one 75-minute clock. There are no sectional time limits. The sections are budgeted at 22, 20, 15 and 18 minutes, but the time is yours to spend across them as you like, and you can move between sections freely and return to any of them. Each question is worth one mark, there is no negative marking, and there are no sectional cut-offs. The paper is not adaptive. Data Interpretation's eighteen-minute budget is almost a quarter of the clock. The business-scenario video round that follows is not part of this paper. Sources disagree on whether there are four sections or five, one adding an Attention to Detail block; four are modelled here.

How to prepare, section by section

On the day

Free time allocation is the defining feature, so decide your order in advance. A sensible plan is to sweep the data interpretation sets you can read quickly, then the quantitative and logical questions you can finish in under a minute, then return to the long calculations and puzzles with the time that is left. Watch the overall clock rather than the section budgets: at 75 seconds a question on average, a question that has taken three minutes is costing you two others. There is no negative marking and no sectional cut-off, so in the last three minutes put an answer against every blank question in every section.

This mock is modelled on the crowd-sourced ZS pattern, on which sources agree about the free time allocation and the absence of negative marking; CodeKairo is not affiliated with ZS Associates.

Practice questions for the ZS Associates — Aptitude test

Mother and daughter

The sum of the ages of a mother and her daughter is 50. Five years ago the mother was seven times as old as the daughter. How old is the mother now?

  1. 35
  2. 38
  3. 40
  4. 45
Show the answer

C. 40 Worked solution

The middle number of eleven

The average of 11 numbers is 10.9. If the average of the first six is 10.5 and of the last six is 11.4, what is the sixth number?

  1. 10.3
  2. 11.0
  3. 11.5
  4. 12.0
Show the answer

C. 11.5 Worked solution

The three-year gap

The difference between compound and simple interest on a sum for 3 years at 10% per annum is ₹93. What is the sum?

  1. ₹2,500
  2. ₹3,000
  3. ₹3,500
  4. ₹4,000
Show the answer

B. ₹3,000 Worked solution

Cost of carpeting a room

What does it cost to carpet a room 15 m × 12 m with carpet costing ₹40 per square metre?

  1. ₹6,400
  2. ₹7,200
  3. ₹8,000
  4. ₹9,600
Show the answer

B. ₹7,200 Worked solution

The odd place

Which one does not belong?

Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Nepal

  1. Delhi
  2. Mumbai
  3. Chennai
  4. Nepal
Show the answer

D. Nepal Worked solution

Pointing at a photograph

Pointing to a photograph, a man says, 'He is the son of the only son of my father.' How is the man related to the person in the photograph?

  1. Uncle
  2. Father
  3. Cousin
  4. Brother
Show the answer

B. Father Worked solution

Reversed, then shifted

If COMPUTER is written as RFUVQNPC, how is MEDICINE written?

  1. EOJDJEFM
  2. EOJDJEFN
  3. MFEJDJOF
  4. EOJDIEFM
Show the answer

A. EOJDJEFM Worked solution

The meaning of a term

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.

As used in the passage, 'induced demand' refers to:

  1. Journeys that were not made before but are made once capacity increases
  2. Demand created by advertising
  3. The cost of building new roads
  4. Congestion caused by accidents
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A. Journeys that were not made before but are made once capacity increases Worked solution

Two blanks

Fill in the blanks:

Although the novel was ______, critics found its ending strangely ______.

  1. dull … tedious
  2. acclaimed … disappointing
  3. acclaimed … satisfying
  4. brief … short
Show the answer

B. acclaimed … disappointing Worked solution

Since and the perfect tense

Choose the correct sentence:

  1. He is living here since 2015.
  2. He has been living here since 2015.
  3. He lives here since 2015.
  4. He lived here since 2015.
Show the answer

B. He has been living here since 2015. Worked solution

Marks across three papers

A candidate scored 72, 84 and 90 in three papers, each marked out of 100. The papers carry weights of 2, 3 and 5 respectively.

What is the weighted average?

  1. 82.0
  2. 84.6
  3. 85.2
  4. 86.0
Show the answer

B. 84.6 Worked solution

The only decline

Company2022202320242025
Alpha120150180210
Beta200180240300
Gamma80120160240
Delta160200180250

In which year did a company's revenue fall compared with the previous year?

  1. Only in 2023
  2. Only in 2024
  3. In both 2023 and 2024
  4. In no year
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C. In both 2023 and 2024 Worked solution

About this pattern

Crowd-sourced. Sources agree on 75 minutes with free time allocation and no negative marking, but disagree on whether there are four sections or five — one adds an Attention to Detail block. Four are modelled.

Modelled on the published pattern; not affiliated with ZS Associates. Every sitting draws a fresh paper from the aptitude bank.

The ZS Associates interview process, round by round