SNAP 2025

The first slot of the SNAP 2025 exam was conducted on 6th Dec 2025 (Saturday). The test was similar in structure to the previous year's SNAP with 60 questions to be answered in 60 minutes. There were no sectional cut-offs and no sectional time limits. Navigation across the questions/sections was allowed. There was a negative marking of 0.25 for every wrong answer.

The overall difficulty level of the exam was lower as compared to the SNAP of the previous year.

The test pattern was as below:

Section Total questions Total marks
General English 15 15
Quantitative, Data Interpretation and Data sufficiency 20 20
Analytical and Logical Reasoning 25 25
Total 60 60

Given that the paper is only for one hour with no sectional time limits and no sectional cut-offs, students are expected to apportion the time across sections picking the easy questions first. Doing this well would have meant making sure to not get stuck on any question that looks even slightly tough.

Those who did this would have found the paper to be easily manageable.

General English

The section had a total of 15 questions. The distribution of the questions area-wise was as under:

Topic Number of Questions Difficulty Level
Grammar Based6Moderate
Vocab based6Moderate
Para Jumbled1Moderate
Idioms and Proverb2Moderate

The questions were fairly direct, easy to read and pretty short with hardly any complications. No critical reasoning meant questions did not require much contemplation. Overall, the level of difficulty was in the easy–moderate range depending on the language skills of the student.

Out of the 15 questions in this section, an attempt of 10-12 could be considered a good attempt.

Analytical & Logical Reasoning:

The Analytical and Logical Reasoning section had 25 questions, with a good number of easy questions, similar to what was seen in the SNAPs of recent years (60Qs).

The difficulty level of the section could be pegged at an easy-moderate level.

The distribution of questions in the section was as below:

Topic Number of Questions Difficulty Level
Floor Arrangement2Easy - Moderate
Courses of Action2Easy
Verbal Analogy2Easy
Number series2Easy
Linear Arrangement2Easy
Coding & decoding2Easy
Strong and Weak argument1Moderate
Binary Logic1Easy
Calendar2Easy
Number series & Letter series2Easy
Assumptions1Moderate
Deductions1Moderate
Cause & effect1Moderate
Situation analysis1Easy
Blood Relations2Easy
Clocks1Easy

Out of the 25 questions in this section, an attempt of 22-24 could be considered a good attempt.

Quantitative Ability, Data Interpretation, and Data Sufficiency:

The difficulty level of this section was lower as compared to last year. This was on account of a few direct questions from Arithmetic, Numbers, Geometry and Algebra questions. There were no questions based on DI and DS.

There were 20 questions in this section. The distribution of the questions from various areas is as below:

Topic Number of Questions Difficulty Level
Geometry and Mensuration4Easy-Moderate
P & C1Easy
Probability1Easy
Profit and Loss1Moderate
SI-CI1Easy
Time and work2Easy-Moderate
Time and Distance1Easy
Equations2Easy
AMA1Easy
Percentages1Moderate
Progressions1Easy
Numbers2Easy-Moderate
Logarithm1Easy
Venn Diagram1Moderate

Out of the 20 questions in this section, an attempt of 14-15 could be considered a good attempt.

Expected cut-offs: An overall score of 45-47 should be a good enough score for SIBM Pune, and 44-46 for SCMHRD.

Note: The above-mentioned estimated cut-offs are for general category students for their respective flagship programs, the cut-offs for SC/ST/DA/Kashmiri migrants will be lower.