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(IGP) IAS Pre Paper - 2: GS - General Mental Ability - Alphabet Test (MCQ -7)
General Mental Ability
Alphabet Test (MCQ -7)
Directions (Q. No. 1-10): In each of the following Questions, four words are given which of them will come in the third it all of them are arranged alphabetically as in a dictionary?
1. (a) Bishop
(b) Bifocal
(c) Bicycle
(d) Bitter
2. (a) Parasite
(b) Party
(c) Petal
(d) Paste
3. (a) Research
(b) Rational
(c) Round
(d) Rustic
4. (a) Nature
(b) Native
(c) Narrate
(d) Diastole
5. (a) Didactic
(b) Dictum
(c) Dictionary
(d) Diastole
6. (a) Outrage
(b) Outcase
(c) Overture
(d) Ovary
7. (a) Gradine
(b) Gradient
(c) Graduate
(d) Grading
8. (a) Nozzle
(b) Nausea
(c) Nostril
(d) Normal
9. (a) Prominent
(b) Prohibit
(c) Promise
(d) Prolong
10. (a) Descant
(b) Descent
(c) Derive
(d) Derrick
11. Two letters in the word COUPLE have
as many letters between themas in the alphabet. The letter which
appears first in the alphabet is the answer. If there is no such
pair of letters in the work, then mark your answer as X.
(a) L
(b) O
(c) P
(d) X
12. The position of how many letters in
the word BRAKES remains unchanged when they are arranged in
alphabetical order?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) More than three
13. If the letters of the word TRANSFORM
are rearranged as they appear in the English alphabet, then the
position of how many letters will remain unchanged after such
rearrangement?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
14. The positions of how many letters in
the word WONDERFUL will remain unchanged when the letters within the
word are arranged alphabetically?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
15. If the order of
letters of each of the following words is reversed, then which of
the following will be the meaningful word? If more than one such
word can be formed, mark 'S' as the answer and if no such word can
be formed, mark 'X' as the answer. NAIL, PAIL, RAIL, MADAM, REST
(a) PAIL
(b) RAIL
(c) MADAM
(d) S
16. If the letters in the word
UNDERTAKING are rearranged in the alphabetical order, which one will
be in the middle in order after the rearrangement?
(a) G
(b) I
(c) K
(d) N
17. Which letter in the word CYBERNETICS
occupies the same position as it does in the English alphabet?
(a) C
(b) E
(c) I
(d) T
18. If the first and
second letters in the word DEPRESSION were interchanged, also the
third and the fourth letters, the fifth and the sixth letters and so
on, which of the following would be the seventh letter from the
right?
(a) R
(b) O
(c) S
(d) I
19. If the positions of
the first and the sixth letters in the word DISTRIBUTE are
interchanged; similarly the positions of the second and the seventh,
the third and the eighth and so on, which of the following letters
will be the fifth from left after interchanging the positions?
(a) E
(b) I
(c) S
(d) T
20. The positions of the
first and the eighth letters in the word WORKINGS are interchanged.
Similarly the positions of the second and the seventh letters are
interchanged and the positions of the third letter and the sixth
letter are interchanged and the positions of the remaining two
letters are interchanged with each other, which of the following
will be the third letter to the left of R after rearrangement?
(a) G
(b) I
(c) N
(d) S
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