Alphabet Test Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: QH

Work with positions in the given series S L U A Y J V E I O N Q G Z B D R H.

The first letters are L, U, Y, E at positions 2, 3, 5, 8 - gaps of 1, 2, 3, so the next is position 12, which is Q.

The second letters are A, J, I, G at positions 4, 6, 9, 13 - gaps of 2, 3, 4, so the next is position 18, which is H. The answer is QH.

Answer: B

Correct answer: E

Counting from the left extreme, the sixth letter is F.

The letter immediately before it is E. The question has two steps and each is simple, but they must be taken in order - finding the sixth letter first, and only then stepping back one. Answering F would be to stop after the first step.

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.