SNAP 2015 Analysis

The overall difficulty level of the paper was moderate to difficult. A well-prepared student should be able to attempt upwards of 85 questions. In comparison to last year, the Verbal Ability, Reasoning and General Awareness sections were on the tougher side while the Quantitative Aptitude section was on the easier side.

The analysis of individual sections is given below.

SNAP 2015 Verbal Ability Section Analysis

The detailed break-up of the section is given as follows:

 

The section was dominated by vocabulary. The emphasis was on migratory words and word usage. There were questions on grammatical usage and verbal analogy. There was only one Reading Comprehension passage which was difficult to read but the questions were simple. The students found the section to be quite difficult to attempt. It was certainly more difficult than the 2014 SNAP paper. An attempt of 21-23 with a net score of 18-20 would be considered to be a reasonably good score. One should have taken around 22-25 minutes to attempt the section.

SNAP 2015 Quantitative Aptitude Section Analysis

The detailed break-up of the section is given as follows:

The difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate. While most questions were easy, 4-5 questions were tricky. Questions from Number System and Arithmetic dominated the paper. An attempt of 30-32 with 85% accuracy should fetch a good score in this section.

SNAP 2015 Reasoning Section Analysis

The detailed break-up of the section is given as follows:

 

This section had 4 questions that could be put in Quantitative Aptitude section as well. The two caselets were easy. Almost all the typical areas of the Reasoning section were present. The questions based upon Analogy and Coding Decoding were quite difficult. An attempt of 18-20 and a score of 32-34 in 45-50 minutes is possible in this section. This is about 10 marks lesser than what was possible last year.

SNAP 2015 General Awareness Section Analysis

The detailed break-up of the section is given as follows:

Static

 

Current

This section was a good mix of almost all the areas of GK (Current Affairs, History, Geography, Polity, Economics, Ecology, etc.). The overall difficulty level of this section was on the higher side as compared to the last year’s paper. An attempt of 10-12 with a score of 6-8 was achievable in 10-12 minutes.

Overall SNAP 2015 Exam Analysis

Suggested time and attempts

Sections	Time (min)	Good Attempts	Good Net Score
Quantitative Aptitude	40	30-32	24-26
Reasoning	45	18-20	32-34
Verbal Ability	25	21-23	18-20
General Awareness	10	10-12	6-8
Total	120	79-87	~85

 

Likely cutoffs (Score) for SIBM - Pune and SCMHRD

	General	SC	ST/DA
SIBM P	~85	~55	~40
SCMHRD	~83	~53	~35
SIIB and SIBM B	~75	~45	~30

 

All the luck for CAT'15 results!!!