SNAP 2008 Question Paper

Honeypot: A honeypot is using romance to trap and blackmail a target.
honeysuckle: A honeysuckle is a particular type of shrub.
Honeycomb: A honeycomb is built by honeybees.

The above three are meaningful words. Honeytaste is however not meaningful. Hence, it is the correct answer.

"Although the buy orders were minimal, they were counting on their reputations to restore confidence on the part of the smaller investors,"

From the above sentence, it is clear that option D, their reputation, is the correct answer.

Option A is incorrect. This is because the passage does not attribute the cause of the downfall of the share market to inexperienced investors. It was not an investing error that lead to the Great depression.

Option B is vague and is incorrect.

Option C cites the lack of confidence in the stock market's ability. This option misrepresents the information present in the passage. The traders experienced a lack of confidence in the ability of market to continue the phenomenal rise. They still had confidence in the stock market, they just did not have confidence that it would keep having the phenomenal rise that it had.

Option D is the most appropriate answer. The initial drop produced a panic, that cascaded rapidly and culminated in the great depression.

The only antonym for the word minimal from the options would be significant.

The word opposite itself can be used as a preposition. 
When "opposite to" is used, opposite acts as an adjective to the preposition to. While this is grammatically correct, the more accepted English usage would be to use opposite only.

Hence, option B is correct.

If we consider the string BAD, it shows that the wheel B should turn in the anti clockwise direction. 

But when we consider the string DCEFGB, it shows the wheel should move in the clockwise direction. Since, both are contradictory, wheel B won't move.

In statements A and B, 'brightly' is the only common word used and in their interpretation, 'ba' is the only common word used. So, 'brightly' corresponds to 'ba'.

In statements A and C, 'sun' is the only common word used and in  their interpretation, 'lo' is the only common word used. So, 'sun'  corresponds to 'lo'.

Let us represent a square, circle, triangle and rhombus as s, c, t and r respectively and form eqns.

1) s*c=t

2) s=c*r

3) (t^2)=(r^3)

Expressing t and r in 3rd eqn in terms of s and c, we get:

=>((s*c)^2) = ((s/c)^3)

=> s = (c^5) which is shown in option A.

If a girl has 4 brothers, then for the boy the number of brothers will be 3. Therefore to satisfy the conditions of brothers, there are 5 male children.

Similarly, if a boy has 3 sisters, then for one of the sisters, the number of sisters she has will be 2. And hence to satisfy the condition for number of sisters, there has to be 4 female children. 

Therefore, the smallest number of children a family can have is 9. 

From the given statements we can understand that foolish doctors are a subset of all doctors. So, if Joshi is doctor, he need not necessarily be a fool too. So, conclusion 1 doesn't follow.

Just like foolish doctors are a subset of all doctors, they are also a subset of all fools. So, some fools are doctors as well. Therefore, conclusion 2 follows.