SNAP Overview SNAP 2009 : Following institutes are participating in the SNAP 2009.

Choose as per your choice and pay Rs.1000/- as Institute Application fee to desire institutes. For payment details please contact to desire institute or visit institutes website.

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management [SIBM]. Pune. Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research[SICSR]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication [SIMC]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of International Business [SIIB]. Pune Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development. [SCMHRD]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management. [SITM]. Pune Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology[SCIT]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of Management studies [SIMS]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics[SIG]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management [SIOM]. Nashik Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences. [SIHS]. Pune Symbiosis Institute of Business Management [SIBM]. Bengaluru Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication [SIMC]. Bengaluru

SNAP Test duration will be of 120 minutes.It will be an objective test. Each question has 4 responses. Candidate should choose an appropriate response.Each wrong answer attracts 25% negative marks. The four sections are: Sr.No. 1. 2. 3. 4. Section General English: Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Verbal Ability Quantitative, Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency General Awareness: General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Business Scenario Analytical & Logical Reasoning Total Total Marks 40 40 40 60 180

The Date of exam is Dec 20,while the results will be announced on Jan 12,2010.

SNAP 2005-07 brief : Particulars Duration Sections Total questions VA + RC GK QA + DI + DS AR + LR Maximum Marks 2007 120 min 4 150 40 40 40 30 200 2006 120 min 4 165 40 40 50 35 300 2005 120 min 5 160 40 40 40 + 20 20 180

SYMBIOSIS NATIONAL APTITUDE TEST (SNAP) 2008 ANALYSIS STRUCTURE OF THE PAPER: Total Time: 120 minutes, Total Questions: 135, Total Marks: 180, 4 answer options for each question.Negative Marking: 25% of the maximum marks of the question Marks Ideal Difficulty Possible Possible Total Questions per Time Level Attempts Scores Marks question Allocation

Sections

5 General English (VA) 30

2 40 1 25 minutes Easy 22-25 18+

Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation

5 30

2 1 40 35 Easy to 20-21 minutes Moderate 15+

Logical and Analytical Reasoning

30

60

45 Moderate 15-19 minutes

25-30

General Awareness (GK)

5 30

2 40 1

15 Moderate 20-24 minutes to Tough

17+

HIGHLIGHTS

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The first five questions of each section carried two marks each. The students were allowed to take the paper home. Thought provoking questions in General Awareness. Reasonably low key reasoning caselets in the Analytical and Logical Reasoning section. A good spread of sitters in the QA & DI section. A few tricky questions in the VA section.

COMMENT This paper was intelligently constructed with a right mix of straight forward to tricky questions. A lot of common sense was required in selecting the questions as well in answering them. The first five questions of three sections carried 2 marks and were of a higher difficulty than the ones that carried 1 mark each. A judicious move should have been to attempt the 1 mark questions first in order to gain an upper edge in number of attempts. Time permitting, the 2 mark questions should have been attempted later, thus minimizing loss through negative marking. QUANTITATIVE ABILITY SECTION (QA & DI) This section was of Easy to Moderate level. The two mark questions were time consuming but were not conceptually difficult. The distribution of question types in the Quantitative Ability section was very similar to what was seen in the past SNAP papers. There was equal weightage on Algebra and Arithmetic but Geometry was left in the dark. There were no direct questions on numbers. Algebra - 9 questions. Arithmetic - 9 questions. Mathematical Reasoning - 1 question. Data Sufficiency - 2 questions. Number Series - 2 questions. Position and arrangement type - 1 question. Data Interpretation - 11 questions. An approach that would have fetched you more marks would have been to solve the 1 mark questions first and then go back to the 2 mark ones. A good score entails an attempt of 20-22 marks with around 80% accuracy. Hence, this would give you a score of 14+ marks in this section. This would suffice minimum score requirement in this section for the top three Symbiosis B-schools. ANALYTICAL And LOGICAL REASONING SECTION (AR & LR) Common Sense was the key to this section. The Analytical Reasoning questions were easy. Logical Reasoning questions required careful reading. Overall, a moderately difficult section. The breakup is as given below.

 Directions 2 questions Blood Relations -2 questions Coding decoding - 2 questions Cubes - 3 questions Number series - 1 question Analytical Reasoning - 5 questions Positioning - 1 question Puzzles -2 Tackling the single questions which were abundant in number would have been the smartest move. These alone could have fetched you a good amount of quick marks. A good score entails an attempt of 30-34 marks with around 80% accuracy. Hence, this would give you a score of 25 marks in this section. This would suffice minimum score requirement in this section for the top three Symbiosis B-schools. THE GENERAL ENGLISH SECTION (VA) The first five questions were a mixed bag. They were of average difficulty level, based mainly on idiomatic and grammatical usage. Though the reading passages had visual appeal due to their short length, but some of the questions were tricky. In the first five questions an attempt of 3 questions @ 2 marks gives you 6 marks In the remaining questions an attempt of 20 questions @ 1 mark gives you 20 marks A good score entails an attempt of 23-26 marks with around 80% accuracy. Hence, this would give you a score of 17+ marks in this section. This would suffice minimum score requirement in this section for the top three Symbiosis B-schools. GENERAL AWARENESS SECTION Completely based on the awareness of the global corporate environment, the first five questions were tough. Of the remaining 30 questions, a number of them could be solved with ease. A good score entails an attempt of 20-22 marks with around 80% accuracy. Hence, this would give you a score of 17+ marks in this section. This would suffice minimum score requirement in this section for the top three Symbiosis B-schools Cutoffs for different Symbiosis Institutes will vary greatly. Some Institutes might use sectional as well as overall cutoffs for short listing candidates for GD/PI. However for the ambitious Symbiosis B-school aspirant an overall score of 75-80 will be necessary .The probable cut-offs is as given below Institute Estimated Cut-

offs SIBM,Pun e SCMHRD SIIB SITM SIOM SCIT SIMS OTHERS 75-77 68-73 60-64 56-60 52-56 62+ 50+ AROUND 45-50