Alphabet Test Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: B

Reading through H D Y S M W N B Q P O C R T B L Z V E G U F, the letter B appears twice - at the eighth position and again at the fifteenth.

The series has twenty-two letters and every other letter appears once, so B is the only repeat. Working systematically rather than by impression is what makes this quick: a single pass marking each letter as it is met finds the duplicate without rereading.

Answer: C

The new alphabet series is :
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
The third month after July is October.
Clearly, 'OCTOBER' will be written as 'ocToBeR'.

Answer: D

The new series is :
A  3  C  5  E  7  G  9  I  11  K  13  M
15  O  17  Q  19  S  21  U  23  W  25  Y  27
Counting from the right, the tenth character is Q.
The third character to the right of Q is 21.

Answer: D

Correct answer: J

Two steps. In QUICKSILVER, K is the 5th letter and R the 11th, so the letter midway between them is the 8th, L.

The distance from C to L in the alphabet is

\[ 12 - 3 = 9 \]

and the letter nine from A is the 10th:

\[ 1 + 9 = 10 \rightarrow J \]

The care needed is in switching frames: the midpoint is found by position within the word, and the distance is then measured in the alphabet.

Answer: C

A  M  B  Z  A  N  A  A  B  Z  A  B  A  Z  B  A  P  Z  A  B  A  Z  A  B

Answer: C

The new alphabet series is :
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
Clearly, 'SEPTEMBER' will be written as 'SEptEMbEr'.

Answer: B

The new alphabet series is :
J  I  H  G  F  E  D  C  B  A  K  L  M
N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
The twelfth letter from the right is O.
The seventh letter to the left of O is C

Answer: C

The new alphabet series is :
B  A  D  C  F  E  H  G  J  I  L  K  N
M  P  O  R  Q  T  S  V  U  X  W  Z  Y
The seventeenth letter from the right is I

Answer: C

Correct answer: O

The tenth letter from the left is J, at position 10. The seventh from the right is T, at position

\[ 26 - 7 + 1 = 20 \]

The letter exactly between positions 10 and 20 is at position 15, which is O.

A midpoint exists here because the two positions differ by an even number; had they differed by an odd number, no single letter would lie between them.

Answer: B

Correct answer: E

Take the letters at the stated positions in SPHERVLVODS: the 1st is S, the 4th is E, the 7th is L and the 11th is S.

Those four letters - S, E, L, S - rearrange to make LESS, so a word can be formed and the fallback answer X does not apply.

The second letter of LESS is E. Note that the question asks for a letter of the word formed, not of the original, which is where the answer S would come from.