SNAP 2015 GK Preparation
SNAP 2015 GK Preparation series. GK is a differentiator when it comes to SNAP. Most of the aspirants don’t prepare for the section and end up scoring below expectations. Though one cannot prepare for GK in a month, one can always do things that are enough to do reasonably well in the test. One can prepare topic wise, go through past papers and find the commonly asked GK topics and even take calculated guesses in the test. To help you prepare for SNAP 2015 GK section, we are going to write a series of articles focusing on GK. Every article will also be available in PDF format for download and easy viewing. Let’s dive into our #15 article in this series: Books and authors
Any GK section will be incomplete without questions on books and authors. It is very difficult to remember names of authors and books because thousands of new books get written every year and unless you are a keen follower of the world of books and literature, the information overload can be infinitely daunting.
Top authors (Fiction)
William Shakespeare’s works appear quite often in GK sections of various tests.
Comedies: The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night.
Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline.
Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers, is known for the novels Les Misérables, and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
George Orwell, a British novelist, is best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
Herbert George Wells (H. G. Wells), was a prolific English writer. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
Jules Verne was a French novelist known for Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Jane Austen is one of the most widely read writers in English literature and is known for Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), was an American author who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888).
Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel, and often considered his finest work in English.
Clive Staples Lewis was a British novelist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer. He was best known for his novels including Brave New World. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Harper Lee is an American novelist widely known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. In February 2015, her second novel Go Set a Watchman was published.
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. His famous works are: The Adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American novelist. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Let us look at top Management books and authors.
| Name of the book | Author(s) |
| Built to Last | Jim Collins and Jerry Porras |
| Competing for the Future | Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad |
| Competitive Strategy | Michael E. Porter |
| Emotional Intelligence | Daniel Goleman |
| Every Business Is a Growth Business | Ram Charan |
| First, Break All the Rules | Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins |
| Guerilla Marketing | Jay Conrad Levinson |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| In Search of Excellence | Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. |
| Leading Change | John P. Kotter |
| Losing my virginity | Richard Branson |
| Managing | Henry Mintzberg |
| My Years with General Motors | Alfred P. Sloan Jr. |
| On Becoming a Leader | Warren Bennis |
| Out of the Crisis | W. Edwards Deming |
| Reengineering the Corporation | James Champy and Michael Hammer |
| Six Thinking Hats | Edward de Bono |
| The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey |
| The Age of Unreason | Charles Handy |
| The Balanced Scorecard | David P. Norton and Robert S. Kaplan |
| The Effective Executive | Peter Drucker |
| The E-Myth Revisited | Michael E. Gerber |
| The Fifth Discipline | Peter Senge |
| The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid | C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart |
| The future of Management | Gary Hamel |
| The Goal | Eliyahu Goldratt |
| The Human Side of Enterprise | Douglas McGregor |
| The Innovator’s Dilemma | Clayton Christensen |
| The One Minute Manager | Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson |
| The Six Sigma Way | Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh |
| The why of work | Dave Ulrich |
| Toyota Production System | Taiichi Ohno |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | Spencer Johnson |
| Winning | Jack Welch |
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