Everything here is built for the six weeks before your drive: checklists, prep guides, cheat sheets, and an ATS resume guide, all for campus placement in India, and all free with no sign-up needed. Use the resources to prepare, then use an AI mock interview to practise what you have read under time pressure.
Start from the week that matches your drive date. Six weeks out, pick your three target companies, learn their exact drive patterns, and baseline your OA score with one unprepared mock so you know your real starting point. In week five, do 30 minutes of quantitative aptitude daily, revise DSA basics with code, run one technical mock for your target company, and prepare 10 likely questions on your final-year project. In week four, add logical reasoning practice, revise OOP, DBMS, and OS, attempt a timed solo GD, and fix every issue flagged by the ATS resume checker. In week three, run a full timed OA mock, do one HR mock, trim your "tell me about yourself" to 90 seconds, and research the company. In week two, run two full OA mocks aiming for the top 30 percent, prepare answers for "why us", "where in five years", and "your weakness", and sort your documents. In drive week, do one light OA mock as a confidence check, sleep eight hours a night, lay out your formals and documents the night before, and review your resume once because every line is fair game.
The Online Aptitude Test is the first cut in most drives. In quantitative aptitude, focus on percentages and ratio proportion, time speed distance and time work, number series and progressions, profit and loss with simple and compound interest, and permutation, combination, and probability. In logical reasoning, focus on blood relations, seating arrangements and puzzles, syllogisms and statement conclusions, coding and decoding, and direction sense and calendar problems. For timing strategy, start with verbal ability because it gives the highest return per minute for most candidates, set a hard rule to flag and move if a question takes over 90 seconds, and in the last five minutes review only flagged questions and never guess blindly when there is negative marking. For TCS NQT the core sections matter more than advanced coding for the Ninja band, while for Wipro NLTH the coding section is mandatory.
Campus technical rounds test five areas most. In DSA, know the two-pointer, sliding window, and prefix-sum patterns, linked-list reversal and cycle detection, tree traversals and BST operations, graph BFS and DFS with shortest paths, and the complexity of common sorts and binary search. In OOP, know the four pillars with code, overloading versus overriding, abstract class versus interface, and at least the first three SOLID principles. In DBMS, know normalization up to BCNF, SQL joins and grouping, ACID properties, indexing trade-offs, and transactions and deadlocks. In operating systems, know process versus thread, process states, deadlock conditions and handling, memory management, and CPU scheduling. In computer networks, know the OSI model, TCP versus UDP with the three-way handshake, HTTP versus HTTPS, IP addressing, and DNS.
An ATS reads and ranks your resume before a recruiter sees it. Use a single-column layout with standard section names and standard fonts, and avoid tables, text boxes, columns, graphics, and icons used as text. For keywords, pull 10 to 15 terms from the job description, use the exact words the job description uses, write your skills section as plain comma-separated text, and place your most important keywords in the top third. For bullets, start with an action verb, add at least one metric per project, avoid passive phrases like "responsible for", and keep each bullet to one or one-and-a-half lines so it is not truncated.
Beyond the OA and technical rounds, most drives include a group discussion and an HR round, and both fail more candidates than students expect. For the GD, practise entering the discussion early with a clear point, building on what others say, and summarising toward a balanced conclusion, because evaluators score initiation, clarity, and listening rather than who talks most. For the HR round, prepare honest, specific answers to the staples such as "tell me about yourself", "your greatest weakness", "why this company", and "where do you see yourself in five years", and always keep two or three thoughtful questions ready for the end. Behavioural questions are best answered with the STAR structure of Situation, Task, Action, and Result, using real examples from your projects, internships, and college activities.
Beyond the guides, Leveluphired offers eight ATS-friendly resume templates, including Classic Clean, Modern Minimal, Mass Drive Ready, and Tech Fresher. Three are free and five come with a free account. Each uses a single-column, parse-safe layout so your resume is read correctly by the ATS before a recruiter ever sees it.
Resources are preparation. An AI mock interview is practice. Put what you have read to the test with a mock that copies the exact round you are preparing for, for your target company.