LOGICAL REASONING
Basic Concepts
Coding and Decoding
LOGICAL REASONING
Syllabus RSM – 01 & RSM – 03 (Class sheet)
➢ RSM – 01 Analytical Reasoning ➢ RSM – 03 Analytical Reasoning
Assignment#18 – Coding and Decoding Assignment#12 – Sequence and Series
Assignment#19 – Direction and Distance Assignment#13 – Miscellaneous Puzzle
Assignment#20 – Blood Relation Assignment#14 – Dice, Cube
Assignment#21 – Syllogism Assignment#15 – Inequality
Assignment#22 – Calendar Assignment#16 – Input - Output
Assignment#23 – Clocks Assignment#17 – Alphabet test & Misce. Series
Assignment#24 – Ranking Test Assignment#18 – Data Sufficiency
Assignment#25 – Sitting Arrangement
Assignment#26 – Tabulation Puzzle
Assignment#27 – Conditional Puzzle
LOGICAL REASONING
Basic Concepts
Coding and Decoding
LOGICAL REASONING ( AR ) – CODING And DECODING
“Coding means to hide the meaning of any message and Decoding
means to understand the actual meaning of that massage”.
Types of concepts:
1. Alphabet coding
2. Number & symbol coding
3. Substitute coding
4. Common code
5. Complex coding
CODING AND DECODING
1. In a certain code language, “STRAIGHT” is written as “VQUXLDKQ” and
“BLAMED” is written as “EIDJHA”. How is “ROSTER” written in that code
language?
(a) ULVQHO (b) VLUQHN (c) UMVPHN (d) UMVPHO
“STRAIGHT” “BLAMED” “ROSTER”
“VQUXLDKQ” “EIDJHA”.
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Alphabet coding – I. Letter coding II. Number coding III. Letters Rearrangement
Alphabet - Number coding
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
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Alphabet coding – I. Letter coding II. Number coding III. Letters Rearrangement
Alphabet - Number coding
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
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2. In a certain code language, ‘PICTURE’ is written as ‘QHDSVQF’. How would
‘BROWSER’ be written in that same code language?
(a) CQVVTDS (b) CQPVTDS (c) CQPUTDS (d) CQVPPDS
Word – ‘P I C T U R E’ Word – ‘B R O W S E R’
Coded- ‘Q H D S V Q F’. Coded-
Rule- 1. Checking the Relation between first letters of the given word and its code.
+1,+1,+1,+1,+1,+1,………., -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,……….
+1,-1,+1,-1,+1,-1,…………
+1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6……….., -1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6…………..
+3,+3,+3,+3,+3,………….
-3,-3,-3,-3,-3,……& so on………..
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3. If LEGAL is written as MBHFM in a certain code, then how is SUPER written in that code?
(a) SFOTT (b) TVQFS (c) SFQVT (d) SGSYX
Word – L E G A L, Word – S U P E R
Code – M C J I Q, Code - ?
2. Checking the Relation between first letters of the given word and last letters of
the given code. (Reverse Order)
+1,+1,+1,+1,+1,+1,………. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,……….
+1,-1,+1,-1,+1,-1,………… +1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6………..
-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6…………..
+3,+3,+3,+3,+3,…………. -3,-3,-3,-3,-3,……& so on………..
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3. Make pairs – Count the Total number of letters in the given word.
4. Word – C O M P U T E R Word- N O T E B O OK
Code - V U F S D P N O Code- ?
5. Word- R E V I S I O N Word- T H I N K I N G
Coded- K X G T L M G Q Coded- ?
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3. Make pairs- Count the total number of letters in the given word.
6. Word – P E R F E C T, Word- C L I M A T E
?
Code – S F Q F S B D, Code-
7. Word – L E G A L E D G E, Word- T O P R A N K E R
?
Code - C H G N K D F C D, Code-
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4. Checking the letters of the given word in opposite letters.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N
A to Z FUn P K Movie
BYe- Bye Gujrat-Tiger LoL/LiOn
CreX Hello- Sir My - Name
DeW Indian-Railway
Electric- Vehicle Jack & Queen
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8. If in a certain code language ‘KNOWLEDGE’ is written as ‘PMLDOVWTV’,
then how will ‘HEALTHY’ be written in that language?
(a) VSZOGSB (b) SVXOGSB (c) SVZGOSB (d) SVZOGSB
Word- ‘KNOWLEDGE’, Word- ‘HEALTHY’
Coded- ‘PMLDOVWTV’, Coded- ?
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9. In a certain code FATHER is written as “GTUIDS” and COUSIN is written as
“DNTTHO”, than how will MASTER will be written?
(a) NZTSFQ (b) NBTUFS (c) NZTUDS (d) NZHGVI
Word- F A T H E R, Word- C O U S I N,
Coded- G Z U I D S, coded- D N T T H O,
Word- M A S T E R
?
Coded-
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Type 02- Number & Symbol Coding
10. In a certain code DOWN is written as “5@9#” and NAME is written as
“#6%3”, than how will MODE will be written?
(a) %5@3 (b) #@53 (c) %@53 (d) @9%6
Word- D O W N, Word- N A M E, Word- M O D E
Code- 5 @ 9 #, Code- # 6 % 3, Code- ?
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11. In a certain code, DESK is written as #&52, RIDE is written as %7#&,
How is RISK written in that code?
(a) %725 (b) %752 (c) %7#2 (d) %7$#
Word – D E S K, Word – R I D E, Word- R I S K
?
Code – # & 5 2, Code - % 7 # &, Coded-
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Type-03 Substitute coding
12. If ‘red’ is called ‘white’, ‘ white’ is called ‘black’, ‘black’ is called
‘blue’, ‘blue’ is called ‘pink’,’ pink’ is called ‘green’ .what is the
colour of sky?
(a) white (b) pink (c)black (d) blue
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13. If ‘red’ is called ‘white’, ‘ white’ is called ‘black’, ‘black’ is called ‘green’,
‘green’ is called ‘yellow’, ‘ yellow’ is called ‘purple’ , ‘purple’ is called
‘red’. what is the colour of Turmeric?
(a) white (b) yellow (c) Purple (d) green
‘ Red’ is called ‘white’,
‘ white’ is called ‘black’,
‘black’ is called ‘green’,
‘green’ is called ‘ yellow’,
‘ yellow’ is called ‘purple’ ,
‘purple’ is called ‘red’.
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Type 04- Common code
14. In a code language ‘you can start’ is written as ‘pk mn xy’, ‘can you
read’ is written as ‘xy ab pk’ and ‘you are good’ is written as ‘cd xy gh’.
What is the code for the word ‘can’ in this language?
(a) xy (b) pk (c) mn (d) ab
‘you can start’ - ‘pk mn xy’,
‘can you read’ - ‘xy ab pk’
‘you are good’ - ‘cd xy gh’.
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Type 04- Common code
Directions (Q.15 and Q.16): Study the following information to answer the given questions:
In a certain coded language,
‘red purple green yellow’ is written as ‘ki mi ai fi’
‘purple white orange green’ is written as ‘li fi gi ki’
‘green orange yellow black’ is written as ‘gi ai zi fi’
‘red black pink white’ is written as ‘oi mi li zi’.
15. How ‘pink’ is written in the given coded language?
(a) oi (b) gi (c) zi (d) Can’t be determined
16. How ‘red black Brown’ is written in the given coded language?
(a) mi zi oi (b) zi li ri
(c) fi oi zi (d) ei zi mi
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17. In a certain code CLAT is written as 2415267 then in the same
code how RANK will be written?
(a) 1811411 (b) 9261411 (c) 911316 (d)9261311
Word- C L A T, Word- R A N K E R
Code- 2415267 Code- ?
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18. If PRODUCT is written as 7964332 in a certain code, the how is INSERT
written in that code?
(a) 951592 (b) 987351 (c) 997513 (d) 113493
Word- P R O D U C T, Word- I N S E R T
Code- 7 9 6 4 3 3 2, Code- ?
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19. If FIRE is written as B3C3C6A5, which word is written as B4A1B7B2?
(a) HAND (b) BAND (c) LAND (d) CANT
Word- F I R E, Word- ?
Code- B3C3C6A5, Code- B3C3C6A5
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20. If in a certain language, PARENTS is coded as SBQDRSM, then how
is TEACHER coded in that language?
(a) BFUDQDG (b) BFUBSFI (c) ZDSBQDG (d) BFUBQDG
Word- P A R E N T S, Word- T E A C H E R,
?
Code- S B Q D R S M, Code-
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21. If in a certain code language ‘STUDENT’ is written as ‘GMVWFGH’,
then how will ‘LOWYER’ be written in that language?
(a) IVBELW (b) IVFXLW (c) IVBDLO (d) OLDBVI
Word- ‘S T U D E N T’ Word- ‘L O W Y E R’
?
Coded- ‘G M V W F G H’, Coded-
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22. If 'K' means 'minus', 'L' means 'divided by', 'M' means 'plus' and 'D'
means 'multiplied by’, then- 117 L 3 K 5 M 12 D 8 = ?
(a) 150
117 L 3 K 5 M 12 D 8 = ?
(b) 125
(c) 130.
(d) 145
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Direction (Q.23-Q.24): In each of the following questions, a word is represented by only one set of numbers as
given in any one of the alternatives. These sets of numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two
classes of alphabets as in the two given matrices. The columns and rows of Matrix I are numbered from 0 to 4
and those of Matrix II from 5 to 9. A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and then the
column number e.g., in the matrices for questions 0 to 4, M can be represented by 14, 21, 33 etc.; O can be
represented by 20, 32, etc. Similarly you have to identify the correct set for the word given in each question.
M- 14/21/33 etc. Matrix I Matrix II
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
O- 20/32 etc. 0 F O M S R 5 A T D I P
1 S R F O M 6 I P A T D
2 O M S R F 7 T D I P A
3 R F O M S 8 P A T D I
4 M S R F O 9 D I P A T
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23. MOST Matrix I Matrix II
(a) 40, 44, 22, 89 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
(b) 33, 20, 11, 79 0 F O M S R 5 A T D I P
(c) 21, 00, 03, 88 1 S R F O M 6 I P A T D
(d) 02, 13, 34, 56 2 O M S R F 7 T D I P A
3 R F O M S 8 P A T D I
4 M S R F O 9 D I P A T
24. ROAD
(a) 42, 32, 79, 58 (b) 23, 32, 98, 99
(c) 11, 13, 67, 69 (d) 04, 20, 55, 78
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25. In a certain code POWER is written as ‘Q4X2S’ then in the same code
IDIOT is written as.
(a) 3E34U (b) 4E45T (c)2E23T (d) 3E35U
Word – P O W E R, Word – I D I O T
Code – Q 4 X 2 S, Code - ?
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**Question of the Day**
26. In a certain code MIRACLE is written as MQHYWNU then in that code
PERSON is written as?
(a) JUPHEL (b) JUHFKL (c) JUHEKL (d) JUHGKL
Word – ‘M I R A C L E’ Word – ‘P E R S O N’
Code – M Q H Y W N U , Code - ?