Symbiosis International University 2008 SNAP - Question Paper

c. the person who isn‘t misanthropic
d. the person who believes that people always act from selfish motives
19. select the word with accurate spelling
a. categories
b. diarrhea
c. omission
d. inaugurate
20. Pick out the right phrases.
1. I will go with you.
2. There was nobody I could go with.
3. I have a glass with painting on it.
4. The curtains do not match with the furniture.
a. one & 2
b. two & 3
c. one & 4
d. all
21. About the subsequent pair of phrases, select the accurate choice.
i. A 2 days‘ visit
ii. A 2 day‘s visit
a. The 1st phrase is erroneous
b. The 2nd phrase is erroneous
c. Both phrases are erroneous
d. Both phrases are accurate
SNAP
SNAP Test 2008 E 7
Directions for ques. No. 22 – 24: learn the subsequent passage and ans within its situation. Nearly 2 thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected influx, few inns would have managed to accommodate the weary guests. Now it is the census taker that does the travelling in the fond hope that a highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a good sampling. Methods of gathering, recording and evaluating info have presumably been improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to find a simple head count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated statistical series furnished by governmental agencies and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages and seers to get a clue for future events. The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regards our more immediate concern, the reliability of present-day economic forecasting, there are considerable differences of opinion. They were aired at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the American Statistical Association. There was the thought that business forecasting might well be on its way from an art to a science, and a few speakers talked about new-fangled computers and high-faulting mathematical systems in terms of excitement and endearment, which we, at lowest in our younger years when these things mattered, would have associated more readily with the description of a fair maiden. But others pointed to a deplorable record of highly esteemed forecasts and forecasters with a batting avg. beneath that of the Mets and the President-elect of the Association cautioned that ?high-powered statistical methods are usually in order where the facts are crude and inadequate, statisticians presume.? We left his birthday party somewhere ranging from hope and despair and with the conviction, not really newly acquired, that proper statistical methods applied to ascertainable facts have their merits in economic forecasting as long as neither forecaster nor public is deluded into mistaking the delineation of probabilities and patterns for a prediction of certainties of mathematical exactitude.

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