Symbiosis International Education Centre 2007 M.B.A SNAP TEST - Question Paper

1. There are 6 parts.

2. The total time allotted is two hours exactly.

3. Please fill all the details, as asked on top of the ans sheet.

4. Please try to maximize your attempt overall but you need to do well in all 4 parts.

5. All ques. carry equal marks.

6. There is 25% negative marking for every wrong ans.

7. Since it is a time constrained test and you have only two hours, and all ques. carry equal marks please do not get struck on any question, but move fast to try and do the easier ones.

8. Please do all scratch work on paper only, no extra sheets to be used. Put all your answers on the ans sheet.

9. Relax. You are competing against yourself.

DIRECTIONS for ques. one and 2: ans the ques. based on the subsequent data:

A salesman enters the volume sold and the price into the computer. Both the numbers are two-digit numbers. Once, by mistake, both the numbers were entered with their digits interchanged. The total sales value remained the same, i.e. Rs. 1148, but the inventory decreased by 54.

1. What is the true price per piece?
1. 82 2. 41 3. 56 4. 28

2. What is the true volume sold?
1. 28 2. 14 3. 82 4. 41

DIRECTIONS for ques. three and 4: ans the ques. based on the subsequent data:

A thief, after committing a burglary, started fleeing at 12:00 noon, at a speed of 60 kmph. He was then chased by a policeman X. X started the chase 15 minutes after the thief had started, at a speed of 65 kmph.

3. At what time did X catch the thief?
1. 3:30 p.m. 2. 3:00 p.m. 3. 3:15 p.m. 4. None of these

4. If a different policeman had started the identical chase along with X, but at a speed of 60 kmph, then how far behind was he when X caught the thief?
1. 18.75 km 2. 15 km 3. 21 km 4. 37.5 km

5. The cost of a diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. Once, this diamond broke into 4 pieces with weights in the ratio one : two : three : 4. When the pieces were sold, the merchant got Rs. 70,000 less. obtain the original price of the diamond.
1. Rs. 1.4 lakh 2. Rs. 2.0 lakh 3. Rs. 1.0 lakh 4. Rs. 2.1 lakh

6. A cube of side 12 cm is painted red on all the faces and then cut into smaller cubes, every of side three cm. What is the total number of smaller cubes having none of their faces painted?
1. 16 2. eight 3. 12 4. 24

7. The points of intersection of 3 lines, 2X + 3Y - five = 0, 5X - 7Y + two = 0, and 9X - 5Y - four = 0:
1. form a triangle. 2. are on lines perpendicular to every other.
3. are on lines parallel to every other. 4. are coincident.

8. If n is any odd number greater than 1, then n (n² - 1) is

Earning:   Approval pending.