SNAP Mock Test - 2 (New Pattern) - CAT

Directions: Select the meaning of the underlined phrase/idiom.

Q. In order to succeed in this competitive world, it is important to make hay while the sun shines.

Directions: In this question, an incomplete sentence is given which must be filled/completed with one of the phrases given as options. Choose the correct option and complete the given sentence.

Q. Since their hands were full, they had to ___________ several new orders during the festive season.

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the question given below them.

A. A variety of measures will have to be introduced to put the family planning campaign back on its feet.

B. For this, the programme has to look inwards and treat itself as a development input in its own right.

C. In fact, development is the best method of controlling population growth, though the reverse is also true that high population growth is a sure recipe for slow, if not negative, development.

D. Family planning needs to be salvaged from the morass into which it has drifted.

E. Legal measures may help, but what is urgently required is social awareness and involvement to create responsible parenthood.

Q. Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Choose the option which is not similar in meaning to the other options.

Directions: Choose an appropriate idiom/phrase to fill in the blank.

Q. Legal battles are slow and expensive. In many cases, the appeals process _________ for years.

Directions: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Q. I have to _____________ him because he is in trouble.

Directions: In the following question, a pair of words is given. The two words have a certain relationship with each other. From the alternatives, select one word pair which bears the same relationship as the original pair of words.

Correspondence : Clerk

Directions: Select the most appropriate option to fill the blank from the given alternatives.

Q. Never _______ met any girl so beautiful.

Directions: Identify the relevant figure of speech in the following sentence.

Q. Technology is a process of creative destruction.

Directions: Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the given sentence.

Q. A kind person is one who behaves kindly.

Directions: Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

Q. The employee did not ______ to the argument of the manager.

Directions: Choose the alternative that best describes the meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase.

Q. To be a good orator, you don't have to play to the galleries.

Directions: Find the wrong term in the following number series.

18, 19.5, 41.5, 128, 513.5, 2588, 15534.5

Directions: In the following question, a letter-number combination series is given with one missing as indicated by (?). Choose the missing term out of the given alternatives.

W - 144, ?, S - 100, Q - 81, O - 64

If / means +, - means /, × means -, and + means ×, then the value of ((36 × 4) - 8 × 4) - (4 + 8 × 2 + 16/1) will be

Durai said to Natraj, "The man who is playing football is the younger of the two brothers of the daughter of my father's wife." How is the man playing football related to Durai?

Directions: Read the following information and answer the given question.

'A + B' means 'A is the daughter of B'.

'A - B' means 'A is the son of B'.

'A × B' means 'A is the wife of B'.

Q. If the relation between Z, T, S, U and B is indicated by Z - T - S × U - B, then how is U related to Z?

Directions: Read the information given below and answer the following question.

1. U + V means V is the father of U.

2. U / V means V is the sister of U.

3. U × V means U is the son of V.

4. U - V means U is the daughter of V.

5. U = V means U is the husband of V.

Q. Which of the following statements shows that A is the niece of E?

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.

When a word and number arrangement machine is given an input line of words and numbers, it arranges them following a particular rule. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: engineer 30 marble famous 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump

Step 1: engineer famous 30 marble 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump

Step 2: engineer famous 89 61 30 marble 41 52 seven rough 36 jump

Step 3: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 30 41 52 seven rough 36

Step 4: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 30 seven rough 36

Step 5: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 30 36

Step 6: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 36 30

Step 6 is the last step of the above input.

Now, as per the rules followed in the above steps, answer the given question based on the following input:

Input: bone 11 alluring 25 major 47 81 enough 49 simple 16 anxious.

Q. Which of the following terms exactly comes between '49' and 'enough' in Step 3?

Directions: Study the given information and answer the question that follows.

(i) Seven members A, B, C, D, E, F and G are sitting in a circle facing the centre.

(ii) G is third to the left of A.

(iii) F is third to the left of B.

(iv) D is not a neighbour of G.

(v) C is a neighbour of A.

(vi) B is to the immediate left of A.

Q. Which of the following pairs has its first member sitting to the immediate right of the second member?

In a certain code, TEMPLE is written as METELP. How is FAITHFUL written in that code?

What is the longest gap that any person will have to wait between his two birthdays?

Directions: The given statement is followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions to decide which of the assumptions is/are implicit.

Statement:

Justin Trudeau attended the India Day Parade in Montreal, Quebec wearing a traditional kurta-pyjama on Sunday.

Assumptions:

I. There is a sizeable affluent Indian-origin population in Quebec.

II. The Canadians of Indian origin have all voted for the ruling party.

Directions: In the given question, a statement is given followed by two courses of action numbered I and II. A course of action is a practicable and feasible step or administrative decision to be taken for follow-up, improvement or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true and decide which of the suggested courses of action follow(s) for pursuing.

Statement: The state police is ill-equipped to respond quickly to a possible terrorist strike.

Courses of Action:

I. It is always wise for the state police to call the Anti-Terrorist Squad in event of such strike.

II. State police need to keep the terrorists engaged till additional forces arrive.

Directions: In the following question, there is a certain relationship between the two terms given on one side of the symbol (: :). The same relationship exists between the terms on the other side, of which one term is missing. Find the missing term.

Heart : Blood : : Lung : ?

Directions: Find the missing number from the given responses.

Directions: Read the given statement and answer the question asked.

Statement: There lies a deep-seated crisis in India's agricultural economy. The usual populist fixes - such as farm loan waivers - are not going to defuse this crisis. Rather, policy makers must now remove the structural bottlenecks in India's farm economy. Agriculture supports more than half of India's population but makes up just 15% of its economic activity.

Q. Which of the following can be concluded from the above statement?

Directions: In the question below, a statement is given followed by two courses of action numbered I and II. A course of action is a practicable and feasible step or administrative decision to be taken for follow-up, improvement or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true and decide which of the suggested courses of action follow(s) for pursuing.

Statement: Tax revenues almost always fall short of government's expenditure.

Courses of Action:

I. The Indian government should widen the tax net.

II. The government should devise innovative ways of taxation to make up the deficit.

Directions: In the question below are given two statements followed by two conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read both the conclusions and then decide which of them logically follow(s) from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:

Only a few chairs are tables.

All benches are tables.

Conclusions:

I. At least some benches are chairs.

II. All chairs can never be benches.

A bus starts from point A and runs 20 km towards South. Afterwards, it turns to its right and runs 25 km. It then turns right again and runs 20 km. Afterwards, it runs 5 km in the East direction and reaches point B. How far is the bus from the starting point?

Directions: Study the given information and answer the question that follows.

(i) Seven members A, B, C, D, E, F and G are sitting in a circle facing the centre.

(ii) G is third to the left of A.

(iii) F is third to the left of B.

(iv) D is not a neighbour of G.

(v) C is a neighbour of A.

(vi) B is to the immediate left of A.

Q. What is the position of E?

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the given question.

When a word and number arrangement machine is given an input line of words and numbers, it arranges them following a particular rule. The following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: engineer 30 marble famous 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump

Step 1: engineer famous 30 marble 41 52 seven 61 rough 36 89 jump

Step 2: engineer famous 89 61 30 marble 41 52 seven rough 36 jump

Step 3: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 30 41 52 seven rough 36

Step 4: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 30 seven rough 36

Step 5: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 30 36

Step 6: engineer famous 89 61 jump marble 52 41 rough seven 36 30

Step 6 is the last step of the above input.

Now, as per the rules followed in the above steps, answer the given question based on the following input:

Input: bone 11 alluring 25 major 47 81 enough 49 simple 16 anxious

Q. How many elements are there between '25' and '16' in Step 5?

Directions: Study the following information and answer the given question.

F, G, H, P, R, S and T are members of a family. In them, there are only two sons, one daughter and more than two married couples. P is the mother-in-law of H. F is the son-in-law of G. T is the only grandson of P, the son of P has no child. R is the sister-in-law of H. S is the brother-in-law of F.

Q. How is S related to T?

Directions: Study the following information and answer the given question.

Anju is taller than Malti. Jayant is taller than Malti but shorter than Anju. Both Hari and Malti are taller than Kalim. Malti is taller than Hari.

Q. Whose height is between the heights of Jayant and Hari?

Directions: There is some relationship between the two terms/numbers on the left of the sign (: :). The same relationship exists between the two terms/numbers on the right of which one is missing. Find the missing term from the given alternatives.

8 : 27 : : 64 : ?

Directions: In the following question, which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it?

_qr_srq_p_rs_r_p

Directions: In the following question, a number series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and replace the question mark in the given series.

30, 70, 40, 50, 50, 30, 60, ?

A bus travels a certain distance in 40 minutes if it runs at a speed of 60 km/hr on an average. Find the speed (in km/hr) at which the bus must run to reduce the journey time to 20 minutes.

A liquid costing $12 per litre is sold at $13.75, so as to make a profit of 25% after addition of water to it. Find the ratio of liquid to water added.

Mr. Raj wants to throw a party for his friends and for that, he requires 37 kg of sweets. Assuming 19% wastage and knowing that the sweets are available in 2 kg packets only, what would be the cost of the sweets purchased if one packet costs Rs. 15?

A trader gives a discount of 11.11% on his products. What percent above the cost price should he mark his goods in order to gain 14.28%?

A bowl contains 6 red marbles and 5 yellow marbles. From the bowl, one marble is taken out. What is the probability that the marble taken out is not yellow?

Find the value of P, if log₁₀ 250 = 2log₁₀ P + 1

Consider the following figure:

ABCD is a rectangle. The area of the isosceles triangle BCE, shown in the figure, is 10 sq. yards and AE = 2BE. Find the area of the figure AECD.

A number when divided by 779 gives 47 as the remainder. On dividing the same number by 19, what would be the remainder?

How many positive values will 'x' take such that 4^{x + 1} - 18 × 2^x + 8 = 0?

Directions: Answer the question based on the following graph.

Q. If 30% of the consumption of chocobars for the first five years was in marriage parties, then find the number of cartons of chocobars supplied to the marriage parties. (It is given that each carton has 120 bars.)

Directions: In the following question, a number series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern and replace the question mark in the given series.

1, 1, 2, 6, 24, ?, 720

If and = x - y, then x is equal to

A crew of 30 soldiers in merchant navy cadre, 40 soldiers in green zone cadre and 50 soldiers in blue zone cadre are to be seated in a row such that each row contains soldiers from same cadres only. Which of the following could be the least number of rows in which all the soldiers can be seated?

EFG is a triangle, where E is the vertex with coordinates (2, 1) and FG is the base with end coordinates (6, -2) and (8, 9). EH is an angle bisector, where H meets FG. What are the coordinates of H?

If the value of 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + ........ + n³ = 2025, then the value of 1 + 2 + 3 + ...... + n is

In a survey, 39% of the persons preferred Amazon for online shopping and 35% preferred e-Bay for online shopping. If 25% of the persons preferred both websites for online shopping, then what percent of persons did not prefer any website out of the given two for online shopping?

A company secretary has ten letters and as many addressed envelopes to put the letters in. She puts the letters in the envelopes randomly and sends them for posting. What is the probability that at least one letter is put in an incorrect envelope?

If sin θ = 15/17, then for 0° < θ="" />< />

John borrowed Rs. 3000 from Mohan at a rate of 10% p.a simple interest for 3 years. At the end of the year, he paid the interest for that year and part of the loan, altogether Rs. 800. Similarly, he paid Rs. 800 at the end of the 2nd year. What sum must he pay now to clear off the debt?

If 3 is added to both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction, it becomes 5/7. If 6 is subtracted from both the numerator and the denominator, it becomes 1/2. What is the fraction?