Symbiosis International (Deemed University) will conduct the Phase 2 Examination of SNAP 2021 on January 8, 2022.  On December 23, 2021, the admit card for the SNAP phase 2 exam was published on the official website of SNAP.

Applicants can check and download the SNAP 2021 admit card from the official website of Symbiosis National Aptitude Online Test. (SNAP), snaptest.org.

Applicants must bring their SNAP admit card and a government-issued ID card to the test centre in order to give the examination. Furthermore, applicants must carry a printed coloured copy of the SNAP 2021 admit card on A4 paper in order to show their pictures clearly.

It is prohibited to bring cell phones, electrical gadgets, or any other items to the examination hall. Although, no locker room facility will be provided to the candidates to keep their things at the SNAP examination centre.

As a result, applicants must refrain from bringing such items to the examination centre.

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Paper Pattern of SNAP Exam 2021 Phase 2

The SNAP 2021 question paper will include a total of 60 questions, with applicants having 60 minutes to answer them. It will be a computer-based examination, with 1 point given for each correct answer and 0.25 points deducted for each wrong response.

Applicants will be able to take a maximum of two SNAP 2021 attempts, with the one with the highest score being used to calculate the final score. Applicants should be aware that the score will not be normalised.

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The Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP test) 2021 will begin from today December 19, 2021. Symbiosis International University (SIU) will hold the SNAP exam 2021 on December 19, 2021, January 8 and 16, 2022.

The SNAP 2021 exams are completely computer-based. The SNAP 2021 exams will be held in 94 places across the country. The exam will consist of 60 multiple-choice questions divided into three sections. The SNAP exam will be conducted in English.

SNAP examinations are conducted by Symbiosis International University (SIU) to select applicants for postgraduate management programmes (MBA) and postgraduate management diploma programmes (PGDM). On December 4, 2021, SIU has published the December SNAP test 2021 admit cards.

Candidates will need to log in to the official website, snaptest.org by using their usernames and passwords in order to check and download their SNAP 2021 exam entrance cards.

What are the guidelines for SNAP exam 2021

• It is compulsory for the students to carry coloured SNAP exam admit cards 2021 with them as black and white copies of SNAP admit cards will not be accepted in the examination hall.
• According to the SNAP notifications, no students will be allowed to get inside after 11:00 am.
• Candidates have to report to the examination hall at 12:00 pm.
• Black and blue pens are allowed in the examination hall. However, students also have to bring their own sanitiser and a transparent water bottle will be only allowed in the exam hall.
• Also, mobile phones, calculators and other electronic devices are strictly prohibited inside the exam hall. Due to Covid-19, it is compulsory for the candidates to wear a face mask.
• Students need to bring a valid photo ID card to the examination centre.

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New Delhi, June 14 (India Science Wire): Engineering students at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee have developed a mobile app that can help farmers practice precision agriculture, particularly in application of precise amounts of fertilizers.

By determining health of the crops using hyperspectral imaging of crop leaves, the app could help in rational use of fertilizers. The development has won IIT Roorkee students the Ericsson Innovation Award 2017. Over 900 teams from 75 countries participated in the global contest for developing innovative ICT ideas on the theme of ‘Future of Food’.

Farmers apply fertilizer based on their experience rather than on any rational input. Therefore, if they chose not to apply fertilisers, perhaps they may be taking a risk and suffer economic losses. On the other hand, excessive application spoils the soil and damages the environment. “If only the farmers can know the health status of the plant, then they can make a more rational choice. The app developed by our students would be handy to the farmers. They would be able to know if the crops need fertilisers or not in just a snap,” says Prof Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee.

Named SNAP, the app uses a precision agriculture technology to determine the optimum fertiliser inputs for the crop and works on the principle of hyperspectral imaging of plant leaves. Spectral lines are like fingerprints that indicate presence or absence of a chemical by studying the light reflected by the leaf. Hyperspectral imaging combines conventional spectroscopy with imaging techniques to acquire both spectral and spatial information simultaneously for detecting physical, chemical, and biological attributes of the samples.

When the sunlight falls on a leaf, the reflected visible light and the near-infrared rays contain specific signals that tell about its chemical constituents. Water content, amount of macronutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), as well as micronutrients such as sulfur (S), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), boron (B), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) and so on can be effectively measured using the hyperspectral imaging technology.

“The app uses mobile phone camera as the imaging device and hence could be profusely used in the field by the farmers,” pointed out Prof Chaturvedi.

The award winning team included Ekdeep Lubana, Anisha Godha Ankit Bagaria and Utkarsh Saxena with diverse expertise of electronics and communication, chemical and metallurgy. After an intense global competition, the team was one of the three global finalists to compete at Noble Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The low-cost handheld imaging device for optimising fertiliser use in agricultural was declared the global winner and the team were awarded 25,000 Euro.

The jury was chaired by Sara Mazur, Head of Ericsson Research, had Caleb Harper, MIT Media Lab, Dr Catherine Mulligan, Imperial College London, Mattias Fyrenius, CEO Nobel Media, and Johan Jörgensen, Founder Stockholm FoodTech as members.

India Institute of Technology Delhi’s ICT product ‘Enigma’ that seeks to reduce weevil infestations in rice crop storage won the second place while  students of Aalto University, Finland who developed  ‘Foodgrid’, an attempt at minimizing the distance between farm and table by building a social and commercial platform to connect urban farmers, landowners with green space, and consumers won the third place. (India Science Wire)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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