Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Alphabet Test - Reasoning


Alphabetical Order Of Words

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In this type of questions, certain words are given. The candidate is required to arrange them in the order in which they shall be arranged in a dictionary and then state the word which is placed in the desired place. For such questions, the candidate requires basic knowledge of the ‘Dictionary Usage’. In a dictionary, the words are put in alphabetical order with respect to the second alphabet of the words and so on.

1. Arrange the given words Alphabetical Order and choose the one that comes first.
A. Wasp                B. Waste            C. War                D. Wrinkle            E. Wrist
 Answer: C . War
 Justification: War, Wasp, Waste, Wrinkle, Wrist.

2. Arrange the given words Alphabetical Order and choose the one that comes first.
A. Science             B. Scrutiny                C. Scripture                   D. Scramble                 E. Script
 Answer: A . Science
 Justification: Science, Scramble, Script, Scripture, Scrutiny

3. Arrange the given words Alphabetical Order and choose the one that comes first.
A. Didactic              B. Dictum                C. Dictionary              D. Diastole                 E. Dictate
 Answer: D . Diastole
 Justification: Diastole, Dictate, Dictionary, Dictum, Didactic

4. Arrange the given words Alphabetical Order and choose the one that comes first.
A. Tenacious             B. Terminate            C. Temperature                D. TempleE. Tenant
 Answer: C . Temperature
 Justification: The correct alphabetical order of the given words is shown below :
Temperature, Temple, Tenacious, Tenant, Terminate

5. How many pairs of letters in the word 'CHAIRS' have as many letters between them in the word as in the alphabet?
A) 2             B) 3               C) 1               D) 4
Answer: A) 2
Explanation:
Letters in the word           Letters in the alphabet
CHA                                             CBA
 RS                                                 RS

6. How many letters are there in the word 'CREATIVE' which have as many letters between them in the word as in the alphabet ?
A. 1            B. 2                C. 3                D. 4              E. None of these
 Answer: C . 3
 Justification:
Letters in the word              Letters in the alphabet
C  R  E                                        C  D  E
A  T  I  V  E                                A  B  C  D  E
T  I  V                                         T  U  V     

7. How many pairs of letters are there in the word 'PENCIL' which have as many letters between them in the word as in the alphanet ?
A. Nil            B. One                  C. Two               D. Three              E. None of these
 Answer: C . Two
 Justification:
Letters in the word                Letters in the alphabet
P  E  N                                                P  O  N
E  N  C                                                E  D  C

8. How many meaningful English words can be formed with the letters ESRO using each letter only once in each word?
A) None              B) One                 C) Two              D) Three
Answer: D) Three
Explanation:
Meaningful words are ROSE, SORE and EROS.

9. Number of letters skipped in between adjacent letters in the series is odd.
Which of the following series observes this rule ?
A. BDHLR              B. FIMRX                C. EIMQV               D. MPRUX
 Answer: A . BDHLR
 Justification:
B         C         D         E  F  G            H         I  J  K  L          M  N  O  P  Q     R
            1                          3                                    3                      5
 1, 3, 3, 5 are all odd numbers.

10. Number of lettters skipped in between adjacent letters in the series increases by one.
Which of the following series observes this rule ?
A. CPTOV                B. HCFKP                   C. HJHQV                 D. IKNRW
 Answer: D . IKNRW
 Justification:
I           J           K         L  M    N         O  P  Q            R         S  T  U  V        W
            1                      2                         3                    4     
                        +1                   +1                   +1       

11. Number of letters skipped in between adjacent letters in the series is two. Which of the following series observes this rule ?
A. MPSVYBE                B. QSVYZCF               C. SVZCGJN              D. ZCGKMPR
 Answer: A . MPSVYBE
 Justification:
M         N  O    P          Q  R    S          T  U     V         W  X   Y         Z  A     B         C  D    E
             2                     2                     2                      2                     2                     2       

12. The following question is based on the following alphabet series.
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M
N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
Which letter is exactly midway between H and S in the given alphabet ?
A. L               B. M               C. N            D. O               E. No such letter
 Answer: E . No such letter
 Justification:
There are ten letters between H and S and as such, there is no letter which lies exactly in the middle.

13. The following question is based on the following alphabet series.
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M
N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
Which letter is the seventh to the right of the thirteenth letter from your left ?
A. S              B. T                 C. U               D. V            E. None of these
 Answer: B . T
 Justification:
Counting from the left i.e. A in the given alphabet, the thirteenth letter is M. Counting from M towards the right, the seventh letter is T.

14. In the following question, a group of letters is given which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Below are given four alternatives containing combinations of these numbers. Select that combination of numbers so that letters arranged accordingly, form a meaningful word.
R  U  S  G  A
1  2  3  4  5
A. 1, 5, 4, 2, 3                B. 5, 3, 4, 1, 2              C. 3, 2, 4, 5, 1           D. 4, 5, 3, 2, 1
 Answer: C . 3, 2, 4, 5, 1
 Justification:
SUGAR

15. The letter of the word NUMKIPP are in disorder. If they are arranged in proper order, the name of a vegetable is formed.
What is the last letter of the .word so formed ?
A. K                B. M               C. N                D. P            E. U
 Answer: C . N
 Justification:
The name of the vegetable is PUMPKIN. The last letter is N.

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