These coding decoding questions mix the two forms the exam actually sets: letter-shift codes, where a rule moves each letter a fixed distance, and message coding, where whole words map to symbols across several sentences. Every question is engine-minted with its answer validated against its own options, and each walkthrough is the solver's decoding, step by step.
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The 15 questions below are ordered the way an exam block is rather than easiest-first: two gentle openers, then a run of medium, and a hard one every sixth question — 2 of the 15 sit in the hard band. The set mixes coding-decoding (letter shift) and message coding-decoding, in the round-robin the paper itself sets rather than one form at a time.
Work each question on paper before you open its solution. The walkthrough is the method itself, step for step, so reading it first turns a practice set into a reading exercise and teaches nothing. If you are stuck on the method rather than on one question, the method guide is a better place to start than the next question: How to crack a coding decoding rule.
Every question below was generated by the same engine that mints the Deduce daily puzzle round, and machine-checked before it reached this page — a multiple-choice question validates its own answer against its own options at generation, and ships only with a walkthrough attached. The walkthrough is the engine's own.
In a certain code, "SUN" is written as "RTM". The code for a word is "ADC". What was the original word?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to find the original word.
What is the code for "blue"?
"blue garden paper" is coded as "su ki ro".
"blue garden school" is coded as "ro du ki".
If "ROSE" is written as "WTXJ" in a certain code, how is "DESK" written in that code?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to the target word.
What is the code for "train"?
"garden silver train" is coded as "mi du fi".
"garden silver market" is coded as "fi la mi".
If "LION" is written as "TQWV" in a certain code, how is "FISH" written in that code?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to the target word.
What is the code for "paper"?
"bright green paper" is coded as "ne ro pa".
"bright green garden" is coded as "pa ki ro".
If "JAR" is written as "IZQ" in a certain code, how is "ICE" written in that code?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to the target word.
What is the code for "train"?
"train silver bright" is coded as "to ki za".
"train silver green" is coded as "ki za du".
If "MOON" is written as "UWWV" in a certain code, how is "SHIP" written in that code?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to the target word.
Which word is coded as "la"?
"green garden school" is coded as "la ro za".
"green garden blue" is coded as "ro za mi".
In a certain code, "KING" is written as "FDIB". The code for a word is "GVHK". What was the original word?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to find the original word.
What is the code for "bright"?
"garden paper bright" is coded as "du fi ro".
"garden paper silver" is coded as "la ro fi".
If "KEY" is written as "NHB" in a certain code, how is "HAT" written in that code?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to the target word.
Which word is coded as "ro"?
"silver garden blue" is coded as "ki ro mi".
"silver garden red" is coded as "mi ki du".
If "KING" is written as "QOTM" in a certain code, how is "WIND" written in that code?
Determine the coding pattern from the example and apply it to the target word.
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Write the alphabet positions of the first two or three letters under the original and the code, and read the differences. A constant difference is a plain shift; alternating differences mean the rule depends on position; a reversed sequence means the word was flipped before the shift was applied.
Compare sentences in pairs. Two sentences sharing exactly one word must share exactly one code, and that pairing is fixed. Work every certain pairing first and write it down; only then use elimination on what is left. Guessing early is what makes the last two words unresolvable.
Yes, and it is usually easier there. SSC favours single-word letter shifts and number codes, while IBPS and SBI lean on multi-sentence message coding and conditional coding. The underlying skill is the same: find the rule from the smallest reliable comparison, never from the longest word.
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