Alphabet Test Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: O

Take the letters at the stated positions in OVERWHELMED: the 1st is O, the 3rd E, the 5th W, the 6th H and the 8th L.

Those five letters - O, E, W, H, L - rearrange to make WHOLE, and no second word can be formed from them, so neither the fallback M nor X applies.

WHOLE has five letters, and its middle letter is the third: O.

Answer: B

Correct answer: M

Twenty-one letters counted from the end run from Z back to F, that is positions 6 to 26. Twenty from the beginning run from A to T, positions 1 to 20.

The sequence common to both is F to T, positions 6 to 20, and its middle is

\[ \frac{6+20}{2} = 13 \rightarrow M \]

The two counts overlap rather than join end to end, which is the step the question is really testing.

Answer: C

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
The eighth letter from the right is H.
The seventh letter to the left of H is O.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Anguish

Comparing letter by letter, the alphabetical order of the five words is:

Anguish → Animate → Animosity → Ankle → Announce

All five share An, and the third letter orders them: g, i, i, k, n. Anguish leads on its g. The two Ani- words then need the sixth letter, where Animate's a precedes Animosity's s.

Answer: D

Letters in the word                                                          Letter in the alphabet

CHA                                                                                           CBA

RS                                                                                               RS

Answer: B

Correct answer: 2

Keeping the letters of POSTSCRIPT in order and using each once, the word divides into two: POST and SCRIPT.

The division is clean, using all ten letters with none repeated and none moved. That completeness is what makes it the intended answer - a third word would need a letter used twice or taken out of sequence, and the question forbids both.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Practical

Comparing letter by letter, the alphabetical order of the five words is:

Practical → Practies → Praise → Prank → Prayer

All five share Pra, and the fourth letter gives c, c, i, n, y. The two Prac- words go first, and among them the sixth letter decides: Practical before Practies, since c precedes e. Five letters agree before anything separates them.

Answer: B

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

Answer: C

Correct answer: Three

The test is that the positional gap equals the alphabetical gap, and "in the same sequence" means the second letter must come later in the alphabet as well as later in the word.

In C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E three pairs qualify: P and R (positions 4 and 6, two apart; alphabet 16 and 18, two apart), P and T (4 and 8; 16 and 20), and R and T (6 and 8; 18 and 20). P and O also match by distance but run backwards alphabetically, so the sequence condition excludes them.

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'.