Practice Mock Test for SNAP - 1 - CAT MCQ

​Read the following passage and answer the question.

The ongoing conflict between two mega cola companies is known to all. All carbonated beverages generally lie under the flagship of two champs in this field, Coca Cola Company and PepsiCo. The brand conflict has furthered to a great extent. The lust to dominate does not extend to supermarkets alone. The turmoil extends from control over restaurants' supply of colas to supplies to big countries. The rivalry is for global control.

This long battle to sweep the global market has lasted for decades. It seems as legendary as the conflict of good and evil. But the choice depends on consumers’ taste buds. The consumer taste criteria adjudge what is ‘good’ and what is the ‘evil’. Both Coca Cola and PepsiCo leave no stone unturned. They go to the extent of deterring the rival company on URLs and through commercials. Despite all the convulsive episodes, and both companies claiming the ball to be in their court, the consumer i.e. the jury is still undecided who rules the market.

The steaming competition is forcing the companies to launch new products. The companies are daily remodelling their marketing strategy. Through commercials, promotional campaigns and consumer benefit schemes, they want to take the market with a stride but the judgment of the winner lies with the rising sales, profits and consumer loyalty. They are trying to increase the market share in other beverage categories.

The war to lead the market goes on. Though Pepsi has often shown the strategy of developing new products, Coke followed the steps and instructed the newly appointed marketing executives to pursue the same technique. Pepsi had innovative advertising ideas which Coca Cola lacked to an extent but both have tried to find and capture any new market (foreign) that they could.

The Coca Cola advertising heads have now tried to capture youth’s fancy by using celebrities. While Coca Cola is trying to bank on nostalgia with its new Vanilla Coke. Pepsi is taking over the young chasers with Blue Pepsi. Whereas Coke is a leader in sodas, Pepsi banks on its snack business. If Pepsi allures the new genre, Coke also has a way to go with new consumers in its kitty.

Q. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

​Read the following passage and answer the question.

The ongoing conflict between two mega cola companies is known to all. All carbonated beverages generally lie under the flagship of two champs in this field, Coca Cola Company and PepsiCo. The brand conflict has furthered to a great extent. The lust to dominate does not extend to supermarkets alone. The turmoil extends from control over restaurants' supply of colas to supplies to big countries. The rivalry is for global control.

This long battle to sweep the global market has lasted for decades. It seems as legendary as the conflict of good and evil. But the choice depends on consumers’ taste buds. The consumer taste criteria adjudge what is ‘good’ and what is the ‘evil’. Both Coca Cola and PepsiCo leave no stone unturned. They go to the extent of deterring the rival company on URLs and through commercials. Despite all the convulsive episodes, and both companies claiming the ball to be in their court, the consumer i.e. the jury is still undecided who rules the market.

The steaming competition is forcing the companies to launch new products. The companies are daily remodelling their marketing strategy. Through commercials, promotional campaigns and consumer benefit schemes, they want to take the market with a stride but the judgment of the winner lies with the rising sales, profits and consumer loyalty. They are trying to increase the market share in other beverage categories.

The war to lead the market goes on. Though Pepsi has often shown the strategy of developing new products, Coke followed the steps and instructed the newly appointed marketing executives to pursue the same technique. Pepsi had innovative advertising ideas which Coca Cola lacked to an extent but both have tried to find and capture any new market (foreign) that they could.

The Coca Cola advertising heads have now tried to capture youth’s fancy by using celebrities. While Coca Cola is trying to bank on nostalgia with its new Vanilla Coke. Pepsi is taking over the young chasers with Blue Pepsi. Whereas Coke is a leader in sodas, Pepsi banks on its snack business. If Pepsi allures the new genre, Coke also has a way to go with new consumers in its kitty.

Q. Which of the following is not a method used by either of the Cola companies stated in the passage to woo consumers?

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

There is a subtle difference between enduring continuance, which in other words is persistence, and firmly adhering to one’s chosen course of action which is called obstinacy. Something of note here is the difference between the attitudes of scientists around the world. While some of them persistently work on some projects; others give them up at some stage or the other. A notable example here is Fleming. Fleming started doing work on penicillin in the late 20s. He tried his best to purify it but failed in his efforts. He wrote in 1932 that he discontinued working on penicillin and gave his reasons as well. He said that it would never be useful and found it to be very unstable. Later on, in 1941 Florey and Chaine started their efforts to purify penicillin. And because of their persistent efforts, they discovered a process to purify it. Both of them along with Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize.

The stumbling blocks for me were in the beginning when we put forward the idea that tumours need to have their own blood supply. The only response that we got was of hostility and jeering disbelief. When we persistently kept on talking about it, other’s response was that this will be a meaningless exercise. ”There will be no molecules”. When we finally proved in 1983 (starting in the late 60s) that these were actually molecules, they gave another observation,” you’ll never prove that that’s what tumours use.” The most cynical group insisted that this discovery might be true on mice but it did not hold true on people. But my response has always been that I would not give up my efforts and I cannot stop if somebody else wanted me to stop. I even made the offer if they would give their observations under signature. If they agreed to do so, it would save huge money of the public and the government and we would stop doing the experiments. But nobody agreed to do so.

So, my final observation is that whatever field you have chosen in life, the success will come to you only by way of dogged determination. A pessimistic would say, "Ok, if they became successful, they were lucky enough.” But I differ with it. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. If you want to be successful, you can become so only with persistence and determination. The only thing is that do not give up making efforts. Keep on pursuing whatever you are after against all odds.

Q. "I even made the offer if they would give their observations under signature." These words reflect

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

There is a subtle difference between enduring continuance, which in other words is persistence, and firmly adhering to one’s chosen course of action which is called obstinacy. Something of note here is the difference between the attitudes of scientists around the world. While some of them persistently work on some projects; others give them up at some stage or the other. A notable example here is Fleming. Fleming started doing work on penicillin in the late 20s. He tried his best to purify it but failed in his efforts. He wrote in 1932 that he discontinued working on penicillin and gave his reasons as well. He said that it would never be useful and found it to be very unstable. Later on, in 1941 Florey and Chaine started their efforts to purify penicillin. And because of their persistent efforts, they discovered a process to purify it. Both of them along with Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize.

The stumbling blocks for me were in the beginning when we put forward the idea that tumours need to have their own blood supply. The only response that we got was of hostility and jeering disbelief. When we persistently kept on talking about it, other’s response was that this will be a meaningless exercise. ”There will be no molecules”. When we finally proved in 1983 (starting in the late 60s) that these were actually molecules, they gave another observation,” you’ll never prove that that’s what tumours use.” The most cynical group insisted that this discovery might be true on mice but it did not hold true on people. But my response has always been that I would not give up my efforts and I cannot stop if somebody else wanted me to stop. I even made the offer if they would give their observations under signature. If they agreed to do so, it would save huge money of the public and the government and we would stop doing the experiments. But nobody agreed to do so.

So, my final observation is that whatever field you have chosen in life, the success will come to you only by way of dogged determination. A pessimistic would say, "Ok, if they became successful, they were lucky enough.” But I differ with it. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. If you want to be successful, you can become so only with persistence and determination. The only thing is that do not give up making efforts. Keep on pursuing whatever you are after against all odds.

Q. Which of the following cannot be ascribed to the cynical group?

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

There is a subtle difference between enduring continuance, which in other words is persistence, and firmly adhering to one’s chosen course of action which is called obstinacy. Something of note here is the difference between the attitudes of scientists around the world. While some of them persistently work on some projects; others give them up at some stage or the other. A notable example here is Fleming. Fleming started doing work on penicillin in the late 20s. He tried his best to purify it but failed in his efforts. He wrote in 1932 that he discontinued working on penicillin and gave his reasons as well. He said that it would never be useful and found it to be very unstable. Later on, in 1941 Florey and Chaine started their efforts to purify penicillin. And because of their persistent efforts, they discovered a process to purify it. Both of them along with Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize.

The stumbling blocks for me were in the beginning when we put forward the idea that tumours need to have their own blood supply. The only response that we got was of hostility and jeering disbelief. When we persistently kept on talking about it, other’s response was that this will be a meaningless exercise. ”There will be no molecules”. When we finally proved in 1983 (starting in the late 60s) that these were actually molecules, they gave another observation,” you’ll never prove that that’s what tumours use.” The most cynical group insisted that this discovery might be true on mice but it did not hold true on people. But my response has always been that I would not give up my efforts and I cannot stop if somebody else wanted me to stop. I even made the offer if they would give their observations under signature. If they agreed to do so, it would save huge money of the public and the government and we would stop doing the experiments. But nobody agreed to do so.

So, my final observation is that whatever field you have chosen in life, the success will come to you only by way of dogged determination. A pessimistic would say, "Ok, if they became successful, they were lucky enough.” But I differ with it. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. If you want to be successful, you can become so only with persistence and determination. The only thing is that do not give up making efforts. Keep on pursuing whatever you are after against all odds.

Q. "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." This means that lucky people

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

There is a subtle difference between enduring continuance, which in other words is persistence, and firmly adhering to one’s chosen course of action which is called obstinacy. Something of note here is the difference between the attitudes of scientists around the world. While some of them persistently work on some projects; others give them up at some stage or the other. A notable example here is Fleming. Fleming started doing work on penicillin in the late 20s. He tried his best to purify it but failed in his efforts. He wrote in 1932 that he discontinued working on penicillin and gave his reasons as well. He said that it would never be useful and found it to be very unstable. Later on, in 1941 Florey and Chaine started their efforts to purify penicillin. And because of their persistent efforts, they discovered a process to purify it. Both of them along with Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize.

The stumbling blocks for me were in the beginning when we put forward the idea that tumours need to have their own blood supply. The only response that we got was of hostility and jeering disbelief. When we persistently kept on talking about it, other’s response was that this will be a meaningless exercise. ”There will be no molecules”. When we finally proved in 1983 (starting in the late 60s) that these were actually molecules, they gave another observation,” you’ll never prove that that’s what tumours use.” The most cynical group insisted that this discovery might be true on mice but it did not hold true on people. But my response has always been that I would not give up my efforts and I cannot stop if somebody else wanted me to stop. I even made the offer if they would give their observations under signature. If they agreed to do so, it would save huge money of the public and the government and we would stop doing the experiments. But nobody agreed to do so.

So, my final observation is that whatever field you have chosen in life, the success will come to you only by way of dogged determination. A pessimistic would say, "Ok, if they became successful, they were lucky enough.” But I differ with it. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. If you want to be successful, you can become so only with persistence and determination. The only thing is that do not give up making efforts. Keep on pursuing whatever you are after against all odds.

Q. The passage is​

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

There is a subtle difference between enduring continuance, which in other words is persistence, and firmly adhering to one’s chosen course of action which is called obstinacy. Something of note here is the difference between the attitudes of scientists around the world. While some of them persistently work on some projects; others give them up at some stage or the other. A notable example here is Fleming. Fleming started doing work on penicillin in the late 20s. He tried his best to purify it but failed in his efforts. He wrote in 1932 that he discontinued working on penicillin and gave his reasons as well. He said that it would never be useful and found it to be very unstable. Later on, in 1941 Florey and Chaine started their efforts to purify penicillin. And because of their persistent efforts, they discovered a process to purify it. Both of them along with Fleming were awarded the Nobel Prize.

The stumbling blocks for me were in the beginning when we put forward the idea that tumours need to have their own blood supply. The only response that we got was of hostility and jeering disbelief. When we persistently kept on talking about it, other’s response was that this will be a meaningless exercise. ”There will be no molecules”. When we finally proved in 1983 (starting in the late 60s) that these were actually molecules, they gave another observation,” you’ll never prove that that’s what tumours use.” The most cynical group insisted that this discovery might be true on mice but it did not hold true on people. But my response has always been that I would not give up my efforts and I cannot stop if somebody else wanted me to stop. I even made the offer if they would give their observations under signature. If they agreed to do so, it would save huge money of the public and the government and we would stop doing the experiments. But nobody agreed to do so.

So, my final observation is that whatever field you have chosen in life, the success will come to you only by way of dogged determination. A pessimistic would say, "Ok, if they became successful, they were lucky enough.” But I differ with it. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. If you want to be successful, you can become so only with persistence and determination. The only thing is that do not give up making efforts. Keep on pursuing whatever you are after against all odds.

Q. Which of the following statements is true?

The pair of words given below has a certain relationship. Select from the given alternatives a pair of words having the same relationship.

Deposit : Withdraw

The pair of words given below has a certain relationship. Select from the given alternatives a pair of words having the same relationship.

Trilogy : Novel

Select the option closest in meaning to the given phrase/idiom.

Q. One who abandons one's religion

Select the option closest in meaning to the given phrase/idiom.

Q. The science or philosophy of beauty

Select the option closest in meaning to the given phrase/idiom.

Q. To get your knickers in a twist

The year next to 1988 with the same calendar as that of 1988 is

A total of 430 mangoes are to be divided among 45 people, consisting of men, women and children. The total mangoes given to men, women and children are in the ratio 12 : 15 : 16. But, the mangoes received by each man, woman and child are in the ratio 6 : 5 : 4. Find the respective numbers of mangoes that each man, each woman and each child got.

There are two numbers. 25% of one of the numbers is greater than the other number by 5. What is the ratio of the greater number to the smaller number, if the sum of the numbers is 70?

In a community, 36% of the total families use desert coolers and 71% of the total use ACs. What is the minimum percentage of families that use both desert coolers and ACs?

A certain amount of money compounded annually becomes Rs. 5120 after 10 years and Rs. 10,000 after 16 years. What is the initial amount?

The speed of a boat in still water is 10 m/s and the speed of the stream is 6 m/s. What is the ratio of the time taken to cover a particular stretch of distance in each direction, if the boat is moving first upstream and back downstream?

How many digits are required to number a book containing 400 pages?

For how many different values of x does the function f(x) = x³ - 4x² + 4x equal 0?

If f(x) = x² + 3x + 2, then f(x + 1) equals

Find the value of 0.5 log₁₀ 25 - 2 log₁₀ 3 + log₁₀ 18.

In the given figure, points A, B, C and D lie on the circle. If AD = 27 cm and BC = 18 cm, then what is the ratio of the area of triangle CBE to that of triangle ADE?

In the figure given below, ABCD is a square with each side measuring 7 cm and a circle is inscribed in the square. 

Q. What is the total area of the shaded region?

Fifteen students are to be placed in a queue. Out of these, 3 always stand together and out of the remaining 12, 2 do not want to stand together. Find the number of possible arrangements.

In a survey of 200 students of a higher secondary school, it was found that 120 studied Mathematics, 90 studied Physics, 70 studied Chemistry, 40 studied Mathematics and Physics, 30 studied Physics and Chemistry, 50 studied Chemistry and Mathematics and 20 studied none of these subjects. Find the number of students who studied all the three subjects.

The table below gives information about the number of products sold during different days at great Indian shopping sale at Flipzon. Use this information to answer the question given below.

Q. If the percentage increase in the number of iPads sold over previous day is calculated and the days are then arranged in ascending order of the increase, then which option represents the correct order?