Overseas development institute Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Ques:- What have you learned from mistakes on the job?
Ques:- Whats your current posting?
Ques:- What gets you up in the morning?
Ques:- Why Syntel?
Ques:- You r given a thermometer. What can u do by this without measuring the temperature?
Ques:- Pipes P and Q would fill a cistern 18 and 24 minutes respectively. Both pipes being opened, find when the first pipe must be turned off so that the cistern may be just filled in 12 minutes?
Recent Answer : Added by Shamruthi On 2021-10-02 15:45:25:

P’s one min work=1/18
Q’s one min work=1/24
P’s x min work+Q’s 12 min work = tank fully filled ( 1 )
x(1/18)+12(1/24)=1
x=9 min

Ques:- Delhi University has conferred an honorary doctorate degree for the first time on a film personality. Who is that film personality ?
Ques:- 80% pass in english, 70%pass in maths , 10%fail in both , 144 pass in both . How many all appeared to the test?
Recent Answer : Added by Admin On 2020-05-17 12:01:09:

pass English =80%
fail=100-80=20%
pass Math = 70%
fail in Math=100-70=30%
fail in both=10%
total fail students= fail in Eng+fail in Math-common
= 20+30-10=40%
if 40% fail then 60% will pass
let total students=x
hence
60% 0f (total students)=144
60/100 of (x)= 144
x=(144×100)/60
X=240
total students=240

Ques:- A banana plantation is located next to a desert. The plantation owner has 3000 bananas that he wants to transport to the market by camel, across a 1000 kilometer stretch of desert. The owner has only one camel, which carries a maximum of 1000 bananas at any moment in time, and eats one banana every kilometre it travels. What is the largest number of bananas that can be delivered at the market?
Recent Answer : Added by Dinesh Pandi On 2021-07-16 13:55:08:

there will be no banana left

Ques:- Find out the wrong number in a given series.
644, 328, 164, 84, 44, 24, 14
A. 44
B. 84
C. 164
D. 328
Recent Answer : Added by Demelash On 2022-05-17 08:55:46:

D

Ques:- How many numbers up to 500 are divisible by 23?
Recent Answer : Added by pooja Jawade On 2021-11-25 15:47:47:

21

Ques:- When the hr ask us tell me some thing about you then what should we include in what not plz help me by giving some examples.
Ques:- Are you comfortable for working 6 days?
Ques:- A,H,A,L,?,H,E
Recent Answer : Added by Admin On 2020-05-17 12:04:28:

the answer is E

Ques:- Tell about friendship
Ques:- A person walks 4 km towards west, then turns to his right to travel 9 km. He turns towards east and travels 12 km. Finally, he travels 3 km towards south. How far is he from the initial position (in km) ?
Recent Answer : Added by Pratyusha On 2021-09-02 08:08:04:

Answer is 10km

Ques:- A person is staying in the 25th floor of a 30 storied building. While going to the office, he uses the lift upto zeroth floor. But while returning back from office, the person is using the lift upto 18th floor and use the staircase to reach his home. Can you explain a probable reason?
Recent Answer : Added by SARAVANAN E On 2021-06-11 05:14:16:

Because he is very short for his height he can press upto 18th floor button only

Ques:- A team of eight entered for a shooting competition. The best marks man scored 85 points. If he had scored 92 points, the average scores for. The team would have been 84. How many points altogether did the team score?
Recent Answer : Added by Pritam Das On 2022-03-09 16:33:22:

665

Ques:- How does this job fit in with your overall career goals?
Ques:- Is detail important to you? Do you think details should be left to your assistant?
Ques:- You have 50 white beads and 50 black beads and you MUST put all of the beads into two bins (50 beads in each), how do you maximize your chance of choosing a white bead (from either bin)
Ques:- The prob of finding the parking slot occupied is 1/3. U find it empty for 9 consecutive days. Find the prob that it will be empty on the 10th day.
Ques:- A part of certain sum of money is invested at 9% per annum and the rest at 12% per annum, if the interest earned in each case for the same period is equal, then ratio of the sums invested is?
Recent Answer : Added by uma On 2022-02-20 07:56:22:

3;4

Ques:- A frog in a well 30 ft deep jumps 3 ft slips 2 ft each day.How many days does take on the whole?
Recent Answer : Added by Pat On 2023-04-26 17:34:54:

Day 1: 30-3ft = 27+2ft = 29
Day 8: 23 jumps 3ft = 20 slips 2ft = 22
Day 16: 13 jumps 3ft = 10 slips 2ft = 12
Day 24: 3 jumps 3ft = Out?

Ques:- The largest natural number by which the product of three consecutive even natural numbers is always divisible by
A. 16
B. 24
C. 48
D. 96
Recent Answer : Added by Shashank Panddey On 2022-09-15 16:36:27:

Let three consecutive even numbers be 2n,2n+2,2n+4
product=2n(2n+2)(2n+4)
If n=1,
product =2(4)(6)=48.
So, all the numbers will be divisible by 48 if change n.

Ques:- What is your favorite book?
Ques:- The ratio of the present ages of Suman and Renu is 5 : 7 respectively. Four years hence the ratio will become 3 : 4 respectively. What is the present age of Renu in years? (a) 28 (b) 24 (c) 20 (d) 21 (e) None of these
Recent Answer : Added by Admin On 2020-05-17 12:03:41:

( a ) 28

Ques:- Can you work under pressure?Give an example.
Ques:- My qualification
Ques:- The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%, then what is the value of x ?
Recent Answer : Added by Lavish Garg On 2022-08-14 16:31:11:

16

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