SNAP 2015 Preparation series. It is a known fact that although there is no specific syllabus for aptitude tests, the concepts and in some cases, even the questions get repeated a lot. Also, the previous year papers are a fair indication of what level of difficulty should one expect and so, avoid over-preparing. To make sure that you know exactly what to expect in SNAP 2015, we will be running a series under SNAP 2015 preparation. In this, we will be featuring actual SNAP questions segregated section wise for your benefit. There will be 400+ actual questions covered in the SNAP 2015 preparation series. You can browse through the posts here.
Directions for questions 1 – 3: Read the passage and answer within its context.
Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected influx, few inns would have managed to accommodate the weary guests. Now it is the census taker that does the travelling in the fond hope that a highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a good sampling. Methods of gathering, recording and evaluating information have presumably been improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to obtain a simple head count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated statistical series furnished by governmental agencies and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages and seers to get a clue for future events.
The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regards our more immediate concern, the reliability of present-day economic forecasting, there are considerable differences of opinion. They were aired at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the American Statistical Association. There was the thought that business forecasting might well be on its way from an art to a science, and some speakers talked about new-fangled computers and high-faulting mathematical systems in terms of excitement and endearment, which we, at least in our younger years when these things mattered, would have associated more readily with the description of a fair maiden.
But others pointed to a deplorable record of highly esteemed forecasts and forecasters with a batting average below that of the Mets and the President elect of the Association cautioned that “highpowered statistical methods are usually in order where the facts are crude and inadequate, statisticians assume.” We left his birthday party somewhere between hope and despair and with the conviction, not really newly acquired, that proper statistical methods applied to ascertainable facts have their merits in economic forecasting as long as neither forecaster nor public is deluded into mistaking the delineation of probabilities and trends for a prediction of certainties of mathematical exactitude.
1. According to the passage, taxation in Roman times was based on
a. mobility
b. wealth
c. population
d. census takers
2. The author refers to the Mets primarily in order to
a. show that sports do not depend on statistics
b. contrast verifiable and unverifiable methods of record keeping
c. indicate the changes in attitudes from Roman days to the present
d. illustrate the failure of statistical predictions.
3. The author’s tone can best be described as
a. jocular
b. scornful
c. pessimistic
d. humanistic
4. Disinterested is closest in meaning to
a. bored
b. unbiased
c. not interested
d. indifferent
5. Choose the option which is nearly opposite in meaning to BERATE
a. grant
b. praise
c. refer
d. purchase
6. Arrange the following in the right order to make a complete sentence
i. with interconnected vibrating balls and springs
ii. in a naive sense, a field in physics may be envisioned as if space were filled
iii. as the displacement of a ball from its rest position
iv. and the strength of the field can be visualized
a. ii, i, iv, iii
b. i, ii, iii, iv
c. iv, iii, ii, I
d. iii, iv, i, ii
7. Find the odd one out.
a. latent
b. natural
c. inborn
d. inherent
8. He told the teacher that __________ .
a. he was liked by the whole class
b. you are liked by the whole class
c. he is liked by the whole class
d. you were liked by the whole class
9. Match the several meanings of the word COMPLEX with their appropriate usages.
| Meaning | Usage | ||
| 1) | complicated | 5) | A new sports complex is coming up for the Common Wealth Games. |
| 2) | abnormal state of mind |
6) | Culture is a complex whole of many things. |
| 3) | group of structures |
7) | She has a complex about being overweight. |
| 4) | mixture | 8) | His motives in carrying out the crime were complex. |
a. 1-6, 2-8, 3-7, 4-5
b. 1-8, 2-7, 3-5, 4-6
c. 1-5, 2-7, 3-6, 4-8
d. 1-8, 2-5, 3-6, 4-7
10. Which does not make a sensible word/phrase when added to the word: Honey
a. pot
b. suckle
c. comb
d. taste
Answer Key
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. b
5. b
6. a
7. a
8. c
9. b
10. d
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