Practice Mock Test for SNAP - 3 - CAT

DIRECTIONS for the question: For the pair of sentences below choose the right option.
1. Recently I read about a unique wedding that took place in the newspaper.
2. Recently I read in the newspaper about a unique wedding that took place.

DIRECTIONS for the question: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and expresses the meaning of sentence correctly.

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it. 

Today's developing economies use much less energy per capita than developed countries such as the United States did at similar incomes, showing the potential for lower-carbon growth. Adaptation and mitigation need to be integrated into a climate-smart development strategy that increases resilience, reduces the threat of further global warming, and improves development outcomes. Adaptation and mitigation measures can advance development, and prosperity can raise incomes and foster better institutions. A healthier population living in better-built houses and with access to bank loans and social security is better equipped to deal with a changing climate and its consequences. Advancing robust, resilient development policies that promote adaptation is needed today because changes in the climate, already begun, will increase even in the short term.
The spread of economic prosperity has always been intertwined with adaptation to changing ecological conditions. But as growth has altered the environment and as environmental change has accelerated, sustaining growth and adaptability demands greater capacity to understand our environment, generate new adaptive technologies and practices, and diffuse them widely. As economic historians have explained, much of humankind's creative potential has been directed at adapting to the changing world. But adaptation cannot cope with all the impact related to climate' change, especially as larger changes unfold in the long term. Countries cannot grow out of harm's way fast enough to match the changing climate. And some growth strategies, whether driven by the governments the market, can also add to vulnerability — particularly if they overexploit natural resources. Under the Soviet development plan, irrigated cotton cultivation expanded in water-stressed Central Asia and led to the near disappearance of the Aral Sea, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen, herders and farmers. And clearing mangroves — the natural coastal buffers against storm surges —to make way for intensive farming or housing development, increases the physical vulnerability of coastal settlements, whether in Guinea or in Louisiana.

Q. Which of the following conditions of growth can add to vulnerability?
(a) When the growth occurs due to excessive exploitation of mineral resources and forests,
(b) When the growth brings about a change in humankind's creative potential.
(c) When the growth is envisaged only for providing houses and social security to the people.
(d) When the growth occurs due to emphasis on farming only.

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Today's developing economies use much less energy per capita than developed countries such as the United States did at similar incomes, showing the potential for lower-carbon growth. Adaptation and mitigation need to be integrated into a climate-smart development strategy that increases resilience, reduces the threat of further global warming, and improves development outcomes. Adaptation and mitigation measures can advance development, and prosperity can raise incomes and foster better institutions. A healthier population living in better-built houses and with access to bank loans and social security is better equipped to deal with a changing climate and its consequences. Advancing robust, resilient development policies that promote adaptation is needed today because changes in the climate, already begun, will increase even in the short term.
The spread of economic prosperity has always been intertwined with adaptation to changing ecological conditions. But as growth has altered the environment and as environmental change has accelerated, sustaining growth and adaptability demands greater capacity to understand our environment, generate new adaptive technologies and practices, and diffuse them widely. As economic historians have explained, much of humankind's creative potential has been directed at adapting to the changing world. But adaptation cannot cope with all the impact related to climate' change, especially as larger changes unfold in the long term. Countries cannot grow out of harm's way fast enough to match the changing climate. And some growth strategies, whether driven by the governments the market, can also add to vulnerability — particularly if they overexploit natural resources. Under the Soviet development plan, irrigated cotton cultivation expanded in water-stressed Central Asia and led to the near disappearance of the Aral Sea, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen, herders and farmers. And clearing mangroves — the natural coastal buffers against storm surges —to make way for intensive farming or housing development, increases the physical vulnerability of coastal settlements, whether in Guinea or in Louisiana.

Q. What does low-carbon growth imply in the present context?
(a) More emphasis on the use of renewable sources of energy.
(b) Less emphasis on manufacturing sector and more emphasis on agriculture sector.
(c) Switching over from monoculture practices to mixed farming.
(d) Less demand for goods and services.
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DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it. 

Today's developing economies use much less energy per capita than developed countries such as the United States did at similar incomes, showing the potential for lower-carbon growth. Adaptation and mitigation need to be integrated into a climate-smart development strategy that increases resilience, reduces the threat of further global warming, and improves development outcomes. Adaptation and mitigation measures can advance development, and prosperity can raise incomes and foster better institutions. A healthier population living in better-built houses and with access to bank loans and social security is better equipped to deal with a changing climate and its consequences. Advancing robust, resilient development policies that promote adaptation is needed today because changes in the climate, already begun, will increase even in the short term.
The spread of economic prosperity has always been intertwined with adaptation to changing ecological conditions. But as growth has altered the environment and as environmental change has accelerated, sustaining growth and adaptability demands greater capacity to understand our environment, generate new adaptive technologies and practices, and diffuse them widely. As economic historians have explained, much of humankind's creative potential has been directed at adapting to the changing world. But adaptation cannot cope with all the impact related to climate' change, especially as larger changes unfold in the long term. Countries cannot grow out of harm's way fast enough to match the changing climate. And some growth strategies, whether driven by the governments the market, can also add to vulnerability — particularly if they overexploit natural resources. Under the Soviet development plan, irrigated cotton cultivation expanded in water-stressed Central Asia and led to the near disappearance of the Aral Sea, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen, herders and farmers. And clearing mangroves — the natural coastal buffers against storm surges —to make way for intensive farming or housing development, increases the physical vulnerability of coastal settlements, whether in Guinea or in Louisiana.

Q. Which of the following conditions is/are necessary for sustainable economic growth?
(a) Spreading of economic prosperity more.
(b) Popularising/spreading of adaptive technologies widely.
(c) Investing on research in adaptation and mitigation technologies.

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DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it. 

Today's developing economies use much less energy per capita than developed countries such as the United States did at similar incomes, showing the potential for lower-carbon growth. Adaptation and mitigation need to be integrated into a climate-smart development strategy that increases resilience, reduces the threat of further global warming, and improves development outcomes. Adaptation and mitigation measures can advance development, and prosperity can raise incomes and foster better institutions. A healthier population living in better-built houses and with access to bank loans and social security is better equipped to deal with a changing climate and its consequences. Advancing robust, resilient development policies that promote adaptation is needed today because changes in the climate, already begun, will increase even in the short term.
The spread of economic prosperity has always been intertwined with adaptation to changing ecological conditions. But as growth has altered the environment and as environmental change has accelerated, sustaining growth and adaptability demands greater capacity to understand our environment, generate new adaptive technologies and practices, and diffuse them widely. As economic historians have explained, much of humankind's creative potential has been directed at adapting to the changing world. But adaptation cannot cope with all the impact related to climate' change, especially as larger changes unfold in the long term. Countries cannot grow out of harm's way fast enough to match the changing climate. And some growth strategies, whether driven by the governments the market, can also add to vulnerability — particularly if they overexploit natural resources. Under the Soviet development plan, irrigated cotton cultivation expanded in water-stressed Central Asia and led to the near disappearance of the Aral Sea, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen, herders and farmers. And clearing mangroves — the natural coastal buffers against storm surges —to make way for intensive farming or housing development, increases the physical vulnerability of coastal settlements, whether in Guinea or in Louisiana.

Q. Which of the following inferences can be made from the passage?
(a) Rainfed crops should not be cultivated in irrigated areas.
(b) Farming under water-deficient areas should not be a part of development strategy.

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DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the question and answer accordingly.

Which of these is not a compound word?

DIRECTIONS for the question: The question has four/five sentences. One of them is acceptable in formal english as it is grammatically correct. Spot that sentence.

Choose the sentence which is grammatically correct

DIRECTIONS for the question: Complete the sentence by filling in the appropriate blank/blanks from the options provided.

The company believes in getting value for money and it is wrong of the employees to view its______ as _______

DIRECTIONS for the question: Complete the sentence by filling in the appropriate blank/blanks from the options provided.

If thieves ________ our house, I _______ frightened to death.

DIRECTION for the question: The word in bold has been used as different parts of speech in a few sentences. Choose the correct matches Up

DIRECTIONS for the question: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. The Kalari tradition is struggling to survive in the land of its origin.

B. The palace guards are no bunch of extras in funny costumes, menacingly waving plastic swords.

C. The exclusive heritage of the warrior clans of North Kerala, this fading martial arts tradition is finding celluloid resurrection on the extravagant and surreal sets of the Bombay film industry and Hollywood’s tryst with Kalaripayattu possibly couldn’t have come at a better time.

D. They are real-life fighters trained in Kalaripayattu, Kerala’s ancient martial art.

Due to 20% hike in bus fare, a 10% fall in the passenger traffic was recorded. Yet the daily collection of a bus depot increased by Rs. 150. What was the daily collection of the bus depot after the fare hike?

A square ABCD is inscribed in a circle of radius R. Another circle is inscribed in ABCD and a square EFGH is inscribed in this circle. The side EF is equal to

Simplify log ₆ (216) + [ log(42) - log(6) ]/log(49)

DIRECTIONS for the question: The question given below has a problem and four alternatives. You have to choose the best answer from the alternatives a, b, c and d.

The sum of the second and the fifth term of an AP is 8 and that of the third and the seventh term is 14. Find the eleventh term.

A man walks from A to B and back in a certain time at the rate of 3.5 km per hour. But if he had walked from A to B at the rate of 3 km an hour and back from B to A at the rate of 4 km an hour, he would have taken 5 minutes longer. Find the distance between A and B.

If n = 7 + 4√3, then the value of (√n + 1/√n) is 

Mona invests Rs. 50000 for 3 years at 5% p.a compound interest reckoned annually. A tax called ‘hidden income tax’ is deducted annually at the rate of 20% on the interest. Find the net interest after 3 years.

Amol was asked to calculate the arithmetic mean of ten positive integers each of which had two digits. By mistake, he interchanged the two digits, say a and b, in one of these ten integers. As a result, his answer for the arithmetic mean was 1.8 more than what it should have been. Then b –a equals

A speaks the truth 75% of the time he is asked something, while B speaks the truth 80% of the time when he is asked something. What are the chances of them contradicting each other when asked the same set of questions?

The letters of the word PROMISE are to be arranged so that no two of the vowels should come together. Find total number of arrangements.

Sonam has a rectangular garden. If the length of the garden is reduced by 5 m and breadth is increased by 3 m, then the area of the garden gets reduced by 9 m². However, if we increase the length by 3 m and breadth by 2 m, the area is increased by 67m². What is the length of the garden?

What will be the last non-zero digit of (25!)^45!?

In a factory where toys are manufactured, machines A, B and C produce 25%, 35% and 40% of the total toys respectively. Of their output, 5%, 4% and 2% respectively, are defective toys. If a toy drawn at random is found to be defective, what is the probability that it is manufactured on machine B?

A, B and C can complete a piece of work in 32, 36 and 40 days respectively. A and B started the work but after two days, A left the job and C joined B and both of them continued the job for next 4 days when C left the job. Now A again joined B and they continued to do the work together but B left the job just 2 days before the actual completion of the job. In how many days the work was completed? 
(Note: A and B like each other, so whenever they work together, B’s efficiency increases by 20%)

DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

A survey conducted on a sample of people residing in Puri city had found that there were 50 people who used Motorola mobile phones whereas 34 people used both Motorola and Nokia phones. The people who used only Motorola phones were 10 more than the number of people who used Samsung, Nokia and Motorola phones. Among this surveyed sample, the number of citizens who did not use Motorola phones but used both Nokia and Samsung was twice that of the number of people who used Motorola and Samsung. The number of people who did not used Motorola phones but used both Nokia and Samsung were ________

DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the question on the basis of the information given below.

There are seven cities A, B, C, D, E, F and G connected to each other by a circular track. The following table shows the shortest possible distance between some cities along the circular track. There is no city between F and D.

Q. What is the total length of the circular track?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the question on the basis of the information given below.
There are seven cities A, B, C, D, E, F and G connected to each other by a circular track. The following table shows the shortest possible distance between some cities along the circular track. There is no city between F and D.

Q. What is the shortest distance between B and F?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the question on the basis of the information given below.

There are seven cities A, B, C, D, E, F and G connected to each other by a circular track. The following table shows the shortest possible distance between some cities along the circular track. There is no city between F and D.

Q. If you can travel along just one diameter, then what is the shortest possible distance between D and A?

If x varies directly as y and inversely as z and x = a, y = b and z = c. If y = b² and z = c², the value of x is

In a staff room of 25 teachers, 13 drink black coffee, 7 milk coffee, 9 drink both tea and either type of coffee, and everyone drinks either of the beverages. How many teachers drink only tea?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
In a certain code language ‘lep bag kut’ stands for ‘pastry is tasty’, ‘bag cal chi’ stands for ‘apple is sweet’ and ‘cal tip fos’ stands for ‘they are sweet’.

Q. How would you write ‘they tasty apple’ in the above code language?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

Choose the right water-image of the question figure from the given answer figures

Six members of a family namely A, B, C, D, E and F are travelling together. B is the son of C but C is not the mother of B. A and C are married couple. E is the brother of C. D is the daughter of A. F is the brother of B. How many male members are there in the family?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Select the pair of words, which exhibits the same relationship between each other as the given capitalized pair of words.

SIMMER : BOIL : :

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.

From among the five doctors 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, four engineers G, H, K, L and six teachers M, N, O, P, Q and R, some teams are to be selected. Of these 1, 2, G; H, O, P, Q are females and the rest are males. The formation of teams is subject to the following conditions.
Wherever there is a male doctor, there will not be a female teacher. Wherever there is a male engineer, there will not be a female doctor. There shall not be more than two male teachers in any team.

Q. If the team consists of two doctors, two female teachers and two engineers, then all the following teams are possible except:

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.
From among the five doctors 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, four engineers G, H, K, L and six teachers M, N, O, P, Q and R, some teams are to be selected. Of these 1, 2, G; H, O, P, Q are females and the rest are males. The formation of teams is subject to the following conditions.
Wherever there is a male doctor, there will not be a female teacher. Wherever there is a male engineer, there will not be a female doctor. There shall not be more than two male teachers in any team.

Q. If the team consists of two doctors, three female teachers and two engineers, then the members of the team are:

A post man was returning to the post office which was in front of him to the North. When the post office was 100 metres away from him, he turned to the left and moved 50 metres to deliver the last letter. He then moved to the same direction for 40 metres, turned to his right and moved 100 metres. How many metres was he away from the post office?

When seen through the mirror, a clock shows 8 : 30. The exact time is:

If 17^th June 1976, was Sunday, what will be the day on 21^st October, 1981?

DIRECTIONS for the question: What should come in place of question mark (?) in the following number/alphabetic series?

7, 21, 64, 194, ?

DIRECTION for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

The Dido snakes and ladders game was peculiar in nature. Every prime number had a snake on it which would slide the player down to the predecessor of the previous prime number. Every number of the series Tn = 4 × n had a ladder which would take it to the smallest prime number greater than T_n. Thus if:

Q. John is on 27 and the dice throws a 5 then he will be on:

DIRECTION for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

The Dido snakes and ladders game was peculiar in nature. Every prime number had a snake on it which would slide the player down to the predecessor of the previous prime number. Every number of the series Tn = 4 × n had a ladder which would take it to the smallest prime number greater than T_n. Thus if:

Q. Rekha is on 10 and throws a 3 then she will be on:

DIRECTIONS for the question: In the question given below which one of the answer figures should come after the problem figures given, if the sequence were continued?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

If X + Y means X is the mother of Y; X - Y means X is the brother Y; X % Y means X is the father of Y and X × Y means X is the sister of Y, which of the following shows that P is the maternal uncle of Q?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

Q. Which of the given choices contains a figure, which is hidden in the picture given above?

16 January 1997 was a Thursday. What day of the week was 4 January 2000?

There are 100 MBA aspirants in a classroom and 99% of them are engineers. How many engineers must leave the classroom in order to reduce the percentage of engineers in the classroom to 98% ?

DIRECTION for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.

Which letter from the options given will replace the " ? " in the table given below

DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the following question as per the best of your judgment.

Q. In the given diagram, circle represents professionals, square represents dancers, triangle represents musicians and rectangle represents Europeans. Different regions in the diagram are numbered 1 to 11. Who among the following is neither a dancer nor a musician but is professional and not a European?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the following question as per the best of your judgment.

Q. Start at one of the corner letters and spiral clockwise round the perimeter, finishing at the center letter to spell out a nine-letter word. Identify the missing letters in Row 1 and Row 2 to make a meaningful word.

DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the following question as per the best of your judgment.

Q. Which image from the bottom row (1, 2, 3 or 4) should replace the question mark?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.

Six classes, one each of the six subjects - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Statistics and English - are held in a school one after the other (not necessarily in the same order) abiding the following conditions.
(i) Two classes are held between Chemistry and English.
(ii) Neither Biology nor Physics is the first or the last class.
(iii) The number of classes between Chemistry and Statistics is one more than that between Maths and Physics.
(iv) The Chemistry class is held immediately after the Biology  class  and immediately before the Maths class.

Q. If the Physics class is held immediately after the Maths class, then which of the following statements is true?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.

Six classes, one each of the six subjects - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Statistics and English - are held in a school one after the other (not necessarily in the same order) abiding the following conditions.

(i) Two classes are held between Chemistry and English.
(ii) Neither Biology nor Physics is the first or the last class.
(iii) The number of classes between Chemistry and Statistics is one more than that between Maths and Physics.
(iv) The Chemistry class is held immediately after the Biology  class  and immediately before the Maths class.

Q. Which of the following statements is definitely true?

DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the information given below and answer the question that follows.

Six classes, one each of the six subjects - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Statistics and English - are held in a school one after the other (not necessarily in the same order) abiding the following conditions.

(i) Two classes are held between Chemistry and English.
(ii) Neither Biology nor Physics is the first or the last class.
(iii) The number of classes between Chemistry and Statistics is one more than that between Maths and Physics.
(iv) The Chemistry class is held immediately after the Biology  class  and immediately before the Maths class.

Q. If English is not the last class, then which of the following gives the correct  arrangement of classes?

DIRECTIONS for the question: After a few statements, conclusion/conclusions is/are given. Mark your answer as which of conclusions follows the statement.

Statement
One research study reveals that children's personality can't be understood without detailed study about their home environment.
Conclusions
(I) Teachers' as well as parents' role are equally important for the betterment of the child.
(II) Schools are ignoring the importance of home atmosphere.