Alphabet Test Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: 2

The test is that the gap between two letters in the word equals the gap between them in the alphabet.

In C-H-A-I-R-S two pairs qualify: C and A, two apart in the word (positions 1 and 3) and two apart in the alphabet (3 and 1); and R and S, adjacent in the word (positions 5 and 6) and adjacent in the alphabet (18 and 19).

No other pair matches. Working through the pairs in order of separation - adjacent first, then two apart - is the systematic way to be sure none is missed.

Answer: B

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

Answer: D

Correct answer: P

In the series H D Y S M W N B Q P O C R T B L Z V E G U F, the letter P has Q before it and O after it.

In the alphabet P also sits between O and Q. The same two letters flank it, though they have swapped sides - which is exactly what the question means by "changed places".

Checking the others: M has S and W as neighbours, N has W and B, and O has P and C, none of which is an alphabetical pairing.

Answer: C

S  T  P  Q  T  S  P  T  R  P  T  S  R  P  S  T  Q  P  T  R  P  T  M  P  T  S

Answer: B

Correct answer: L

M is the 13th letter, so the letter immediately to its left is the 12th, L.

The two-line presentation is a distraction: the alphabet runs continuously from A to Z, and breaking it after M for display does not make N the neighbour of M on the left. Reading the series as one line settles the question at once.

Answer: B

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

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.

Answer: C

Correct answer: 3

Keeping the letters of HEARTLESS in order and using each once, the word divides into three: HE, ART and LESS.

All nine letters are used, none is repeated and none is moved out of sequence. The obvious two-way split into HEART and LESS is a correct division too, but the question asks for the greatest number of independent words the letters will yield, and breaking HEART into HE and ART gives three.

Answer: D

Correct answer: 24

Build the positions from the front. Ramu is 5th. Rani is six places after him, so Rani is 11th.

Rani is midway between Ramu and Raju, so Raju is as far beyond Rani as Rani is beyond Ramu - six more places, putting Raju 17th from the front.

Raju is also 8th from the last, so the class holds

\[ 17 + 8 - 1 = 24 \]

The subtraction avoids counting Raju twice, once from each end.

Answer: B

Correct answer: L

Seventeen letters counted from the end run from Z back to J, positions 10 to 26. Fourteen from the beginning run from A to N, positions 1 to 14.

The overlap is J to N, positions 10 to 14, and its middle is

\[ \frac{10+14}{2} = 12 \rightarrow L \]

As with the companion questions, the two counts overlap in the middle of the alphabet rather than meeting end to end, and it is the shared stretch whose midpoint is wanted.