SNAP Mock Test - 5 (New Pattern) Included RC's - CAT MCQ

The passage is about how the duration and start of seasons are calculated or figured out. In this context the word insolation has been used to describe the phenomena of changes in season brought about by the angle of the Sun in relation to the Earth.

►Option 2 is ruled out because this (‘therapeutic exposure’) would not fit in the context of the seasons.

►Option 3 is ruled out as there is no reference to ‘protection’ in the passage.

►Option 4 is too generalised an answer.

►Option 1, with solar radiation striking Earth, makes a perfect allusion to the subject matter - seasons. In the context in which it is mentioned, the word is used to signify that, “summer has the greatest insolation (solar radiation striking earth) and winter has the least (solar radiation striking earth)”.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.

According to the first two lines of the passage, “Meteorological seasons are reckoned by temperature, with summer being the hottest quarter of the year and winter the coldest quarter of the year. Using this reckoning, the Roman calendar began the year and the spring season on the first of March, with each season occupying three months.” All the options are valid synonyms of ‘reckon’, but in this context, the meaning is that of ‘calculating’ or figuring out the start and end of the seasons.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

►Option 1 is correct because it is mentioned in the passage that ‘Ecologically speaking, a season is a period of the year in which only certain types of floral and animal events happen... so, if we can observe a change in daily floral/animal events, the season is changing’. And ‘In Australia, the traditional aboriginal people defined the seasons by what was happening to the plants, animals and weather around them’. Therefore, this statement can be inferred.

►Option 2 can also be inferred because it is mentioned - ‘In 1780 the Societas Meteorologica Palatina... defined seasons... Ever since, professional meteorologists all over the world have used this definition...’

►Option 4 can also be inferred because it is mentioned, ‘...a season is a period of the year in which only certain types of floral and animal events happen...hedgehogs hibernate— winter... So, if we can observe a change...the season is changing.’

►Option 3 cannot be inferred because the statement itself is incorrect. The passage mentions The solstices and equinoxes are the midpoints of these seasons’. Therefore, summer does not begin on the day of the solstice.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

Both the options have been mentioned verbatim in the passage.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

“Attached from” should be corrected to ‘attached to’. Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

“Lacuna” means ‘a break, pause or interruption’. Its opposite would be “continuation.” Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

The clues in the sentence are “free from the demands of social position” and “noisy”. You know that the people around that table are at ease with each other. Therefore “hilarity” which means ‘cheerfulness; merriment; mirthfulness’ fits the first blank whereas “trammels” which means ‘a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint’ fits the second. “Indecency” means ‘obscenity or indelicacy’ and “hedonism” means ‘devotion to pleasure as a way of life’- both are misfits. Therefore, option 1 is eliminated. “Haplessness” means ‘unlucky; luckless; unfortunate’ and does not fit the first blank. Therefore, option 2 is eliminated. “Facetiousness” means ‘lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous’. Though the latter probably makes sense there, “discipline” simply does not make sense with ‘noisy’ and hence option 4 is eliminated.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

An “iconoclast” is a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions.
An “atheist” doesn’t believe in a deity or god.
An “agnostic” is ‘a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience, therefore he doubts the existence of God’. Option 2 does not share the same antonymous relationship as option 1.
A “philanderer” is ‘a man who carries on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one cannot or does not intend to marry’. “Debauchery” is ‘excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance’. A “philanderer” on some level believes in “debauchery”, hence option 3 is eliminated.
A “devotee” indulges in “idolatry” which is ‘the worship of idols or excessive devotion’. Therefore, option 4 is eliminated.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.

The correct spelling of the word is “proselytize”.
Options 1, 3 and 4 spell the word incorrectly.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

A “pleonasm” is the usage of more words than necessary to add rhetoric to a sentence.
In option 1, the word “most” is unnecessary since ‘unkindest’ is already in the superlative form.
In the second option, since a gift is something that is given to a person without expecting a payment in return, the word “free” isn’t required.
In the third sentence, the act of raising one’s hands implies moving them upwards; hence, the word “up” is unnecessary.
Thus, the fourth statement which contains no such redundancy is the correct answer.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

There is a clear link between D and A. A follows D as A speaks about the layout which is described in D.
Out of B and C, C cannot be the opening sentence of the sequence because it speaks about the structure described in D and implies that C can come only after D has been covered in the paragraph. This eliminates options 3 and 4.
B introduces Bayerische Motoren Werke as a motorcycle maker. E speaks about the motorcycle models of Bayerische Motoren Werke.
D starts with “These had a boxer twin engine...” and describes the layout that the motorcycles had. This implies that D is immediately preceded by E.
There is only one option (option 2) which satisfies all the conditions.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

The verb form of ‘like’ appears in 6 (likened) - where the act of showing something to be similar to something else is described. Therefore, 1-6. Options 1 and 3 can be easily eliminated.
The use of like as a noun appears in sentence 5 (likeness) where the word means ‘the image of, or resemblance’. Option 4 can be eliminated.
Sentence 7 uses ‘like’ as a preposition, where the meaning is ‘in a like manner with; similarly to’.
Sentence 8 uses the adverb ‘likewise’, meaning ‘in the same way’.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2

The intended meaning in sentence A is the equal distribution of wealth among the “better off’ meaning 'economically fortunate people' and “worse off’ meaning 'economically less fortunate people'. So, the phrase to be used in sentence A is “worse off’ to make the sentence grammatically correct.
In sentence C, “educational” has been wrongly used. “Educational” is an adjective and dollars cannot be described as educational. Hence, the correct usage here is the noun “education” along with “dollars” which is also a noun, both forming the noun phrase “education dollars".
Sentence B is correct.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

The correct sentence is - “He was thinking of buying a new car,” she said.
The rest of the options have tense errors.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

Referring to something as “the bee’s knees” is an informal way of saying that something is ‘excellent or of the highest quality’. Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

Average milk consumption on weekdays (total 22 days) is 3 litres per day.

►Total milk consumed on weekdays = 22 x 3 = 66 litres

►Total milk delivered in January = 98 litres So total milk delivered (and consumed) on weekends = 98 - 66 = 32 litres

►Number of weekend days in April = Total days - Number of weekdays = 30 - 22 = 8

►Average milk consumption on weekends = 32/8 = 4 litres

15^7k-3 > 1
► => 15^7k-3 > 15⁰
► => 7k-3 > 0 => k > 3 / 7

log₆ 169 x log₁₃ 6 x log₇ 64 x log₄ 49
► = log 13² / log 6 x log 6 / log 13 x log 4³ / log 7 x log 7² / log 4
► = 2 x 1 x 3 x 2
► = 12

Consider annual compounding.
Interest for the first year is the same, irrespective of whether it is simple interest or compound interest.
Hence, the difference between the two interest amounts is due to the extra compound interest earned in the second year.
The C.l. earned in the first year is added to the original principal and this sum becomes the principal for the second year.
Hence, the situation is equivalent to placing (original principal + C.l. of first year (say x)) at 8% simple interest for one year.
Hence, effectively, Rs.30.72 is the simple interest earned by placing Rs. x at 8% S.l. for a year 30.72 = x(0.08) x = 384
This is also the S.l. earned by keeping the original principal at 8% for a year
Original principal = 384 / 0.08 = 4800
Hence, at half-yearly compounding, amount due at the end of 2 years = 4800[1 +
(4 / 100)] ⁴ = 5615.32
C.l. = 5615.32 - 4800 = Rs. 815.32
S.l. for Rs.4,800 at 8% for 2 years = (4800 x 8 x 2) / 100 = Rs. 768
Required difference = 815.32 - 768 = Rs. 47.32

Let x₁, x₂, x₃, x₄ and x₅ be the number of prizes given to the 5 boys respectively.
We have x₁ + x₂ + x₃ + x₄ + x₅ = 101 Since each boy received odd number of prizes, let
► x₁ = 2y₁ - 1, x₂ = 2y₂ - 1, x₃ = 2y₃ - 1, x₄ = 2y₄ - 1, x₅ = 2y₅ - 1
where y_1, y_2, y₃, y₄ and ys are positive integers
So we have (2y₁ - 1) + (2y₂ - 1) (2y₃ - 1) (2y₄ - 1) (2y₅ - 1) = 101
► i.e y₁ + y ₂ + y₃ + y₄, + y₅ = 53
Now imagine that these 53 prizes are placed one beside the other. So we have 52 spaces in between these prizes. To divide them into 5 groups, we need to select 4 spaces from the available 52 spaces which can be done in ⁵²C₄ ways.

Observe that the series does not show a clear subtraction based or multiplication based pattern.
However, observe that 1² = 1 and 2² = 4.
Similarly, 1² = 1 and 4² = 16 Thus, the logic followed is as follows:
► First term = 12
► Second term = 1²2² = 14
► Third term = 1²4² = 116
► Fourth term = 1²1²6² = 1136
► Fifth term = 1²1²3²6² = 11936

S + 5 = X, M + 5 = R, l + 5 = N, L + 5 = Q and E + 5 = J Thus, each letter is replaced by a letter that is 5 places ahead in the alphabet.
Consider the letters of MOUSE.
M + 5 = R, 0 + 5 = T, U + 5 = Z, S + 5 = X and E + 5 = J Thus, MOUSE is coded as RTZXJ.

Number of students studying Physics and Maths but not Biology or Chemistry is given by the number inside the circle and triangle but outside the square and rectangle.
This condition is satisfied by the number 7.

Total number of students = 4 + 8 + 25 + 3 + 2 + 27 + 9 + 18 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 14 + 7 + 2 + 11 + 12 = 155
Number of students studying exactly one subject = 4 + 8 + 9 + 27 + 5 + 12 + 11 + 2 = 78
Number of students studying atleast two subjects = 155 - 78 = 77.

SP of first item = 0.75 x 200 = Rs. 150 and CP of this item = Rs. 80
CP and SP of the other item = Rs. x (as it is being sold at cost).
Total CP in the transaction = Rs. (80 + x)
Total SP in the transaction = Rs. (150 + x)
Since profit = 50%
► 150 + x= 1.5(80 + x)
► 150 + x= 120 + 1.5x
► x = 60.

When three unbiased dice are thrown, there are 63 = 216 combinations possible.
The least possible sum is 3 and the highest possible sum is 18.
The multiples of 4 in this range are 4, 8, 12 and 16
Sum = 4:
Obtained for the combination (1,1, 2).
This combination can be made in 3!/2! = 3 ways
Sum = 8:
Obtained for the combinations(1, 1,6)- possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways (1,2, 5) - possible in 3! = 6 ways (1, 3, 4) - possible in 3! = 6 ways (2, 2, 4) - possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways (2, 3, 3) - possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways
Total number of ways = 3 + 6 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 21
Sum = 12:
Obtained for the combinations
(1, 5, 6) - possible in 3! = 6 ways
(2, 4, 6) - possible in 3! = 6 ways
(2, 5, 5) - possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways (3, 3, 6) - possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways
(3, 4, 5) - possible in 3! = 6 ways
(4, 4, 4) - possible in 1 way
Total number of ways = 6 + 6 + 3 + 3 + 6 + 1 = 25
Sum = 16:
Obtained for the combinations
(4, 6, 6) - possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways
(5, 5, 6) - possible in 3!/2! = 3 ways Total number of ways = 3 + 3 = 6 Overall total unmber of ways = 3 + 21 + 25 + 6 = 55
Required probability = 55 / 216 = 0.254

Let the speeds of P and Q be p and q respectively.
Given that P beats Q by 20 m. This means that the time taken by P to cover 100 m is same as that taken by Q to cover 80 m. Therefore, 4p = 5q.
Given that P and Q start simultaneously from A and B respectively, and they meet in 4 seconds.


⇒ 500 / 9p = 4
⇒ p = 125 / 9 m/s
Time taken by P to cover 200m = 200 / p = 200 x 9 / 125 = 14.4 seconds

The score of Vikas in the 2nd game = 0.2 * 3000 = 600
Thus, Vikas’ score would now become 3000 - 600 = 2400.
There was no change in the score of the other players.
Vikas’ original rank was 2nd and his new rank is still 2^nd.
Thus, there is no change in his rank.

Total score of Vikas = 3000
The 4^th, 5^th and 7^th together account for (15 + 16 + 9)% i.e. 40% of his total score.
Therefore, his combined score in these three games taken together = 0.4 * 3000 = 1200.

Deepu’s score in the 3^rd game = 0.1 x 2200 = 220
Mayank’s score in the ^3rd game = 0.15 x 3200 = 480