SNAP 2007 analysis &Tips and strategies for SNAP 2008 - By PT Education

Total Number of Questions:150
Total Time:120 minutes
The Marking Scheme:Differential marking with all questions carrying 1 mark except for questions in "Analytical & Logical reasoning section" which carried 2 marks. There was negative marking @ 25% for every wrong answer.
Number of Options:4
Overall Difficulty:Easy to Moderate

Last year, in SNAP 2007, you could call no section as tough; not even GK!. There were 150 questions with 40 questions each in GK, Quant+DI+DS and General English and 30 questions in Analytic and Logical Reasoning; but, the LR questions carried 2 marks each. So, the paper was of 180 marks. 

One would have expected, looking at their weightage, that the LR questions would be tough; but they were not so. It was a game of speed and 100+ attempts were expected with reasonable accuracy. GK was straight from newspapers and current affairs of the past 5-6 months and anyone with a decent reading habit would have scored heavily from this section.

For SNAP 2008, the total number of questions has been declared and it is the same as last year. We can assume that the pattern of last year will be maintained this year also. My expectations would be: No change in the paper pattern as compared to SNAP 2007.

Since all questions (other than LR) carry one mark each, and your overall score would be a factor of scores in all the individual section, look to score heavily from the GK section. Unlike the MAT in which the GK scores are not taken into account, the SNAP does factor in your GK scores. This can be a very huge advantage for those with a good GK. This section can give you a lot of marks in a very short time. The GK questions are from Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports etc. and students with an above average consumption of newspapers and magazines should be in a position to maximize their returns from this section.

Some of the questions that I can recollect having being asked in SNAP 2007 are:

The leading brand of artificial sweetener in India, 'Sugar Free' is owned by
Ans. Cadila
An Indian company manufacturing automobiles for Mitsubishi is
Ans. Hindustan Motors
The name 'Koneru Humpy' is associated with which of the following sport?
Ans. Chess.
One of the following allows an individual to start and continue to share regularly any of his/her own personal experience, knowledge, opinion or thought with the internet community?
Ans. Blog
In the sports world, the sobriquet 'Indo-Pak Express' is applied to:
Ans. Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul- Haq Quareshi
In banking terminology, CRR means
Ans. Cash Reserve Ratio
Major oil finds in India have been reported in
Ans. Krishna Godavari Basin
"In God we trust, the rest have to bring data on the table." This statement was made by the famous industrialist
Ans. N R Narayan Murthy
The following newspaper was voted as the largest selling newspaper in the world
Ans. The Times of India
The three largest economies in the world (year 2006) were
Ans. USA, Japan, & Germany
A major US toy manufacturer which suffered a breakdown in supply chain from China on account of legally unacceptable toxic substances in its products is
Ans. Mattel Toys

Also, General English questions, dealing with Vocabulary and Grammar can be attempted first for the same reason. Scan through the paper quickly and locate such questions. They will provide a tremendous morale-boost if you can attempt and get them correct!

I have again reproduced some of the questions from this sections that were asked in the previous year's SNAP and you can see for yourself the truth in what I have just said.

There are three underlined words below, followed by their usages. Determine the sentences, in which the use of words is correct or appropriate.
Pray. Prey. Prying
A. If you pray with faith, they say, it will be answered.
B. He has fallen a prey to cheats
C. Prying into the affairs of others is bad.
Ans. A, B and C

Choose the option which is closest in meaning to the word
SUBTLE
Ans. Innocent

The following sentence has a missing punctuation mark, choose the right answer. My mother who is from the village is very superstitious.
Ans. Comma

For the pair of sentences below choose the right option.
1. Those are them.
2. Those are they.

Ans. The first sentence has an error.

Additionally, if the LR questions carry 2 marks each (same as last year), then it would really make sense to attempt as many of these questions as is possible. After all, your first target would be to score 100+ marks. Questions from LR are - at least traditionally are - pretty direct and require more of quick thinking rather than anything else. So be agile in your mental processes and do your best here. I have reproduced some questions from last year's paper that I can recollect.
A man has a job which requires him to work 8 straight days and rest on the ninth day. If he started work on a Monday, the 12th time he rests will be on what day of the week?
Ans. Wednesday

Jaideep was given some money by his mother on his birthday. Jaideep spent all of it in five stores. In each store he spent one rupee more than half of what he had when he came in. How much did he get from his mother?
Ans. Rs. 30

At a family reunion were the following people: one grandfather, one grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daughter-in-law. But not as many people attended as it sounds. How many were there?
Ans.7

Do not look to or think of leaving any section completely - not even GK. If you are targeting calls from SIBM and SCMHRD then target a net score of 90+ out of 180. Be quick with your calculations - here short-cuts, approximations, quick conversions can come in handy.