INTRODUCTION TO REASONING IN THE SNAP EXAM

Unlike the other three exams covered under this section (namely CAT, XAT & IIFT), the SNAP examination is normally associated with an easier level of questions—and consequently a higher score in terms of achieving the overall cut off of the paper.

The experience of reasoning in the SNAP over the past few years also confirms to the overall paper difficulty levels. Thus, the reasoning questions in the SNAP have largely been in the easy variety—and quite rarely reaching the level of moderate difficulty and very rarely reaching difficult levels (& when they do reach the difficult levels any sane strategist would tell you that you should skip the odd difficult reasoning question in the SNAP—as there would be a lot of other ‘doable’ questions which you should attempt first in the test.)

The question variety encompassed in the SNAP over the past few years shows us the use of the following question types:

Se Ie ction crite ria Analogie s

Syllogisms Sequences and Series

Logical Deductions Puzzles

Binary Logic Se ating Arrange me nts

Cubes and Dice Visual Reasoning

Direction test Coding decoding

Quantitative Reasoning Team Selection

(formation) puzzles ∏owcharts-based Reasoning Family Trees

Ranking Mathematical Symbols

Venn Diagrams Input-Output

Critical Reasoning pertaining to argument analysis— strengthening/ weakening arguments, Conclusions,

Assumptions

An analysis of the question break up shows that the SNAP exam has tested candidates on a wide variety of reasoning skills, quite like the IIFT examination—though at a lower level of difficulty.

Hence, it would be appropriate to point out that preparing for Reasoning should be one of the major thrust areas for any student seriously planning an assault on the SNAP exam.