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INSTRUCTIONS – Please read these carefully before attempting the test

1. This test is based on pattern of this years’ SNAP paper.
2. There are five sections.
Section 1- General English (24 questions)
Section 2- Quantitative Ability (30 questions)
Section 3- Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency (40 questions)
Section 4-Analytical reasoning and Logical ability(40 Questions)
Section 5-Business Awareness and GK(25 Questions)

3. The total time allotted is 2 hours exactly. Please note your start time and end time on the answer sheet. Do not take more than 2 hours, or you will get a wrong assessment.
4. Please fill all the details, as asked on top of the answer sheet.
5. Please try to maximize your attempt overall, but you need to do well in all sections.
6. There is 1 mark for every right answer and 0.25 negative mark for every wrong one.
7. There is no sectional time limit.
8. Since it is a time constrained test and you have 2 hours, and all questions carry equal marks, please do not get stuck on any question, move fast to try and do easier ones.

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SECTION 1
Directions for questions 1 to 8:
In each of the following questions, statements 1 t
o 6 are
respectively the first and last sentences of a para
graph. Statements A ,B ,C and D come in
between them. Rearrange A, B, C and D in such a man
ner that they make a coherent
paragraph together with statements 1 and 6. Select
the correct order from the given choices
and mark its number as your answer.
1. 1. Women’s health status is basic to their advance
ment in all the fields
of endeavour.
A The fundamental issues concerning women and their
health are nutrition,
sanitation, overwork, etc.
B. They face high risk of malnutrition, retardation
in growth and development,
etc . at almost every stage of their lives.
C. The main reason of this decline in the sex ratio
is high mortality rates among
females in all age groups.
D. This has resulted in the fact that in India, ther
e are fewer women than men.
6. In girls, malnutrition, under nutrition and limit
ed access to health care are
seen as the main causes of mortality.
(1) DCAB (2) BADC (3) ACDB (4) ABDC
2. 1. One obvious explanation of the striking continu
ity and independence of the
Chinese civilization is the following.
A It was also endowed with an even greater capacity
to assimilate alien
influence, probably because the tradition of civili
zation rested on different
foundations in different countries.
B. Islamic rule made more difference to India than t
o any dynasty’s rise or fall
in China.
C. China was remote, inaccessible to alien influence
, far from sources of
disturbance in other great civilizations.
D. In India, the great stabilizers were rested on th
e foundation of religion and a
caste system inseparable from it.
6. In China they rested on the culture of an administ
rative elite which survived
dynasties and empires and kept China on the same co
urse.
(1) CABD (2) CDBA (3) CBAD (4) ABCD
3. 1. The ethnographic composition and history of the
Himalayan regions of
Kumaon, Garwal and Himachal Pradesh form a fascinat
ing field of study.
A. Besides, the indepth study of place names offers
interesting insights.
B. ‘Himachal’ has been explained as ‘the land of sno
w’.
C. The author has endeavoured to trace the roots of
the Himalayan culture and
discuss the cultural components of the ancient inha
bitants of that society.
D. More than a dozen communities which have played a
n important part in the
formation of history and culture of this region are
studied in the book called
“The Ancient Communities of India ”.
6. Similarly, ‘ Kumaon
’
has been derived from the name of Kurmavana.
(1) CADB (2) ACBD (3) DCBA (4) DCAB
4. 1. The study of social change, in the view of the
nebulous nature of its
History is a difficult task.
A. This job becomes more difficult in the case of a
society like India’s.
B. In this form, change ceases to be viewed as a nor
mal social process.
C. This is because India has a fathomless historical
depth and a plurality of
traditions, but it is also engulfed in a movement o
f nationalistic aspirations
under which concepts of change and modernization have
ideological
meanings.
D. Instead, change becomes desirable in itself, and
must be sought for.
6. This phenomenon of change is treated by some soci
al scientists as equivalent
to ‘development’ and ‘progress’.
(1) ACBD (2) CABD (3) CBDA (4) BADC
5. 1. The system of the composition of the Legislativ
e Council of a State
as laid down in the Constitution is not final.
A. But until the Parliament legislates on the matter
, the comp osition
be as given in the Constitution, which is as follow
s.
B. The final power of providing the composition of t
his chamber of the state
Legislature is given to the Union Parliament.
C. The Council will be a partly elected and partly n
ominated body.
D. The election of the members will be an indirect o
ne and in accordance with
the principle of proportional representation by a s
ingle transferable vote.
6. The members being drawn from various sources, the
Council shall have a
variegated composition.
(1) DABC (2) CBDA (3) BACD (4) DCAB
6. 1. Green Revolution refers to a significant improv
ement in agricultural
production in a short period and the sustenance of
higher level of
agricultural production over a fairly long period o
f time.
A. This new strategy envis aged raising farm output t
hrough the use of High -
Yielding Varieties (HYV) pr seeds, chemical fertili
zers, implements and
machinery, etc.
B. It was sponsored by the Ford Foundation which was
invited by the
Government of India to suggest means to increase ag
ricultural production.
C. The necessity for such increase arose due to the
continued stagnation of
production and the rapidly increasing demands.
D. This type of green revolution has occurred in Ind
ia as a result of adopting the
‘new agricultural strategy’ in 1964-65.
6. As one of the results, the increase in the demand
for some cereals has been
met with to some extent.
(1) BADC (2) DABC (3) CDBA (4) BCAD
7. 1. Economists differ over the causes that lead to
inflationary rise in prices.
A. Cost-Push inflation is caused by wage -push and pr
ofit -push to prices.
B. There are the quantity theorists or monetarists w
ho attribute inflation to
demand pull or excess demand.
C. Other economists ascribe inflation to cost-push f
actors.
D. According to them, inflation is the result of exc
essive increase in money
supply in the face of an elastic supply of goods an
d services.
6. The basic cause of wage-push inflation is the ris
e in money wages more
rapidly than the productivity of labour.
(1) ABCD (2) BDAC (3) CBAD (4) BDCA
8. 1. The first of the recent spate of conventions ai
ming to govern global industrial
activity is the one to protect the ozone layer.
A. India signed the Montreal Protocol on 17 Septembe
r 1992.
B. But China has, till recently, not signed the trea
ty, calling its provisions unfair
and discriminatory.
C. The convention, known as the Vienna Convention fo
r the Protection of the
Ozone Layer, 1985, was followed by the Montreal Pro
tocol on Substances
that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
D. It was signed in 1987 by the United States, the E
u ropean Community and 22
other countries, including India.
6. Such an act came unexpectedly from China which is
one of the most rapidly
developing countries.
(1) CDBA (2) CDAB (3) ABCD (4) CADB
DIRECTIONS for questions 9 TO 14:
A number of sentences are given below which, when
properly sequenced , form a coherent paragraph. Choos
e the most logical order of sentences
from among the four choices given to construct a co
herent paragraph.
9. A. By releasing an ultraviolet photon, the atom fa
lls back to the origi nal energy
level.
B. From this high energy level, the atom will almost
always release an electron,
whereby the energy of the ultraviolet photon is dis
sipated.
C. In the absence of green light, when a strontium a
tom absorbs a photon of
ultraviolet radiations, its energy increases by a d
iscrete amount.
D. But, ever so often, the high -energy atom will emi
t a photon of other
ultraviolet or green light.
(1) CBDA (2) CBAD (3) CADB (4) CABD
10. A. Frictions accruing from bilateral trade have b
een on the increase since the
1980s.
B. Apart from the electronic problem, the automobile
issue began to assume the
character of a significant irritant.
C. The protective policy followed by Japan has its a
dverse impact on trading
partners, particularly the US.
D. Japan in the 1970s continued to maintain an excep
tionally high tariff even
after lifting of quantitative restrictions on impor
ts of automobiles.
(1) DBCA (2) DBAC (3) BDCA (4) BDAC
11. A. Instead, one could always help in averting the
se situations.
B. Often in a religion, people fight with each other
on issues that are thoroughly
irrational and illogical.
C. If one used scientific reasoning and logic, exami
ned facts and the basis.
D. Much of the rising and blood shed in communal vio
lence can be avoided if
the people involved don’t blindly believe the rumou
rs or get swayed by
those who preached hatred.
(1) CBAD (2) BDCA (3) DBCA (4) CADB
12. A. With the pressure on resources of development
becoming increasingly
severe, the issue of tapping the agricultural surpl
us cannot be put off.
B. But the methods of utilizing these resources more
efficiently have not been
debated sufficiently
C. The existence of a substantial surplus in this se
ctor is not in doubt.
D. There has been a tendency to concentrate on the p
ossibilities of using an
agricultural income tax to tap these resources.
(1) ABCD (2) ACBD (3) CBDA (4) DCBA
13. A. And, at its best such programming represents a
creative collaboration
between the educational faculty and production team
s.
B. Tele-education or telecourses have been beamed in
the United States since
the early 1950s.
C. Today, televised learning for the distant learner
has come to use all the
capabilities of the medium to bring a subject alive
.
D. The early programmes merely telecast the teacher
at a black board, or used
the simplest of visual aids.
(1) BCDA (2) BDCA (3) DCBA (4) BDAC
14. A. Yet, paradoxically, there is greater mass disc
ontent in nearly the whole of
Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and p
arts of Asia.
B. Commodity prices have been at levels yielding muc
h better terms of trade
than they were before the war.
C. Real income has risen faster than ever before, so
cial services have improved.
D. The decade and a half since the end of the war, h
as over-all been a good
period for the underdeveloped countries.
(1)
CADB
(2)
DCBA
(3)
DBCA
(4)
CDBA
DIRECTIONS for questions I5 to 19
:
Select the correct word/words from the choices tha
t
complete the given sentence as your answer. Please
note that more than once choice may fit in
to make synta ctically correct sentence but select t
he choice that is logical in the context of the
sentence
15. An experienced politician, who knew better than
to launch a campaign in troubled
political waters, she intended to wait for a more__
__ occasion before she announced
her plans.
(1) propitious (2) provocative
(3) questionable (4) perfect
16. The judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissib
le on the grounds that it was not___
to the issue at hand
(1) useful (2) germane (3) manifest (4) inchoate
17. To seek ____ from the ____ summer of the plains
many people prefer going to cooler
climes during the summer months.
(1) refuge ......
. scalding (2) shelter.........
. boiling
(3) respite......
.. scorching (4) solace .........
..blazing
18. The columnist was almost__________ when he menti
oned his friends but he was
unpleasant and even ____ when he discussed people w
ho irritated him.
(1) recalcitrant. . . sarcastic (2) reverential ......
..acrimonious
(3) sensitive ....... remorseful (4) insipid ............
militant
19. Quick -breeding and immune to most pesticides, c
ockroaches are so _______ that
even a professional exterminator may fail to_______
them.
(1) Vulnerable......
. Eradicate (2) widespread ......
.. discern
(3) Fragile ......
. destroy (4) hardy ......
..eliminate
Directions: for question 20 -24:
Each pair of CAPITALIZED words given below is follo
wed
by four pairs of words Choose the pair which exhibi
t the relationship similar to that
expressed in the capitalized pair
20. ROTATE: GYRATE
(1) Putrefy: Reject (2) Anachronism: Cubism
(3) Accolade: Criticism (4) Absolve
: Exonerate
21. TEPEE
:
RED INDIAN
(1) Tree: Bark (2) Tent: Camping
(3) Igloo: Eskimo (4) House: Man
22. WOOL: ACRYLIC
(I) Minutes: Day (2) Cotton: Polyester
(3) India: Assam (4) Nylon Rayon