TCS BSc Ignite Syllabus

TCS does not publish a topic list for Ignite, but the test is built from the same question bank as the NQT Foundation section. The topics below are compiled from the sample paper TCS shares on the Ignite page and from candidate reports across the 2025 and 2026 drives.

Numerical Ability & Data Interpretation (22 questions)

Number system, HCF & LCM, divisibility, percentages, profit & loss, simple & compound interest, ratio & proportion, averages, ages, mixtures & alligation, time & work, speed–time–distance, series & progressions, mensuration (area, perimeter, volume), permutations & combinations, probability, elementary statistics (mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation — a fixed part of the Ignite syllabus) and three data-interpretation sets on tables, bar, pie and line charts.

Reasoning Ability (11 questions)

Number and letter series, word patterns, coding–decoding, blood relations, direction sense, seating arrangements (linear and circular), syllogisms, data sufficiency, cube folding and paper cutting, visual/spatial reasoning, odd-one-out and analogies.

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (17 questions)

Error identification, sentence completion and word completion, synonyms and antonyms, phrasal verbs and idioms, sentence rearrangement (para-jumbles), one-word substitution, and a reading comprehension passage carrying about five questions.

Programming (1 hands-on problem)

One easy program: string manipulation (reverse, duplicates, vowels, palindrome), number logic (LCM/GCD, Armstrong, prime, factorial), or array basics (frequency count, maximum/minimum, sum of even numbers). Input from standard input, output to standard output. Any of C, C++, Java, Python or Perl.

Weightage snapshot

Ignite has no Advanced Quantitative or Advanced Coding section — do not spend time on the NQT Advanced material unless you are also sitting NQT.