SNAP 2016: Check exam analysis

The other change was that the reasoning section had one mark per question compared to two marks per question earlier. This led the total marks to come down to 150 from 180 earlier.

General English
In General English, the number of questions asked were 40 out of which if a candidate has attempted 20-22 questions, then the chances of scoring high is good. The PFQs with 6 sentences and the sentence equivalence questions were difficult. The remaining question types were easy to moderate.

Quantitative, Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency
This section was a lengthy and trickier. About 40 questions were asked and unlike last year, the section was lot more doable. The questions were both from arithmetic as well as pure maths.

There were two DI sets in the exam which were calculation based and should be on the moderate side for most of the students. Similar to last year’s SNAP, there were no DS questions this year as well.

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General Awareness
The candidates who have strong hold on current affairs have found the section easy. Around 12-15 attempts in the section in around 15 minute would have been good for this section

Analytical & Logical Reasoning
All the questions asked were stand alone questions, unlike the set based ones that we are used to see in the “CAT”. Added to this, there were quite a few tough ones to crack.

The difficulty level of the section could be pegged at moderate-difficult.

An overall score of 68-70 or above should be a good score for SIBM, 63-65 for SCMHRD, and 56-60 for SIBM Bangalore and SIIB. Please note the there are no sectional cut-offs for SNAP.

— with inputs from Ankur Jain, Chief Knowledge Expert, T.I.M.E.

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