Archive for December 22nd, 2008

SNAP 2008 analysis

December 22, 2008
Sections  
Verbal Ability
The Verbal Ability Section was an easy section and a good student would have easily taken advantage of it. There were also some grammatical mistakes in the paper. The 2 marks questions were simple enough and must have been attempted to score 10 marks easily. Overall a student could have attempted 20-25 questions in this section and a score of 20+ was achievable.
SIBM cutoff: 17+
Reasoning
The reasoning sections was a tricky one and student had to be prudent to pick questions and attempt as there were some sitters in between some confusing ones. Overall a good student would have attempted 18-20 questions and scored around 32+ marks.
SIBM cutoff:32+
  

GK
The GK section involved some very tough questions like the ICICI bank ones while it also had sitters like Opera etc.Overall a person good in GK could easily maximize chances in this section. Overall attempts by a good student 20-22 questions with 75 percent accuracy.
SIBM cutoff: 12+
Quant and DI
This was an easy section and engineers and people good at maths would have scored highly.The DI questions were virtually sitters and some of them like the defective components one could even be solved just be looking at the graph.A good student would have solved 20-22 questions for a score of 17+ marks.
SIBM cutoff:15+

Overall cutoffs:
SIBM:80+
SCMHRD:70+ and profile based