List of top Questions asked in SNAP- 2008

The writer blames India for

The most suitable title for this passage is

Find the correct match of grammatical function with usage for the word THEN.

Item	Function
1	Noun
2	Adjective
3	Adverb
4	Conjunction

Item	Usage
5	He was the then King of Nepal.
6	I have not heard about him since then.
7	He is not feeling well, then how can he possibly go for the picnic.
8	He was not a graduate then.

We can never make our beliefs regarding the world certain. Even scientific theory of a most rigorous and well-confirmed nature is likely to change over a decade or even tomorrow. If we refuse to even try to understand, then it is like resigning from the human race. Undoubtedly life of an unexamined kind is worth living in other respects, as it is no mean thing to be a vegetable or an animal. It is also true that a man wishes to see this speculation domain beyond his next dinner.

From the above passage it is clear that the author believes that

By 'Sanctimonious greens' the writer refers to

The elite are

The paradox of the situation is that

Find the maximum number of times any one of the given words fits the sets of sentences.

Words: RAISE, ARISE, AROSE, RISE

i) Opportunities will ______, and you must grab them.
ii) A hot wind ______ from the desert.
iii) I ______ at dawn on most days.
iv) A mood of optimism ______ among the people.

Which two sentences in the following convey the same idea? Choose from the combinations listed below.

1) He is in a fool's paradise.
2) He can't see the wood for the trees.
3) He can't distinguish between reality and fancy.
4) He is unable to separate unimportant details from the really important ones.

Match the following idiomatic references to parts of the human anatomy.

Item	Body Part
1	palm
2	foot
3	eye
4	stomach

Item	Meaning
5	could not tolerate the insult
6	to look at with envy and desire
7	to put the blame on someone else
8	forced to pay the bill

Choose the word with incorrect spelling

This question consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II. Decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
What is the 57th number in a series of numbers?
I. Each number in the series is three more than the preceding number.
II. The tenth number in the series is 29.

In the following series find the one number that is wrong
2, 3, 13, 37, 86, 167, 288

The 288th term of the sequence a, b, b, c, c, c, d, d, d, d... is

A number lock consists of 3 rings each marked with 10 different numbers. In how many cases the lock cannot be opened?

In a row at a bus stop, A is 7th from the left and B is 9th from the right. They both interchange their positions. A becomes 11th from the left. How many people are there in the row?

The water from a roof, 9 sq. metres in area, flows down to a cylindrical container of 900 cm base. To what height will the water rise in cylinder if there is a rainfall of 0.1 mm?

When the Sun ray’s inclination increases from to , the length of the shadow of a tower decreases by 60 m. Find the height of the tower.

The cost of levelling and turfing a square field at Rs. 160 per hectare is Rs. 2624.40. The cost of surrounding it with a railing costing 25 paise per metre is:

Two sea trawlers left a sea port simultaneously in two mutually perpendicular directions. Half an hour later, the shortest distance between them was 17 km and another 15 minutes later, one sea trawler was 10.5 km farther from the original than the other. Find the speed of each sea trawler

A cyclist drove one kilometer, with the wind in his back, in three minutes and drove the same way back, against the wind in four minutes. If we assume that the cyclist always puts constant force on the pedals, how much time would it take him to drive one kilometer without wind?

A and B throw one dice for a stake of Rs.11, which is to be won by the player who first throws a six. The game ends when stake is won by A or B. If A has the first throw, what are their respective expectations?

Study the questions and the statements given below. Decide whether any information provided in the statement(s) is redundant and/or can be dispensed with, to answer it.
If 7 is added to numerator and denominator each of fraction a/b, will the new fraction be less than the original one?
Statement I: a = 73, b = 103
Statement II: The average of a and b is less than b
Statement III: a − 5 is greater than b − 5

A clock loses 12 minutes every 24 hours. It is set right at 7:25 p.m. on Monday. What will be the time when clock shows 1:45 p.m. the following day?

A merchant wants to make profit by selling food grains. Which of the following will maximize his profit?