Reasoning is a subject in which most people have a strong hand in and consider it to be their ace or ticket to clearing the cut off as they call it.
It might seem unfair to you that we are giving more preference to reasoning but the fact is that most of the people who have cleared the banking exams have scored maximum in reasoning. You can learn the time management according to your strength and weaknesses because in the end, you are going to decide everything. It's just guidance, not the final picture.
Yet we find students making errors and coming out dissatisfied and unsure about the section after the exam. This usually happens when people get attached to questions and end up wasting their time. Do not forget that the purpose of these exams is not to test your knowledge but to test your ability to manage your time and speed. So attempt as many questions you can and that too accurately.
Coding-decoding is an important section of reasoning. Today we will discuss some tips and tricks to solve coding - decoding smartly.
CODING - DECODING
Coding and decoding questions are quite tricky to answer. But these questions can be solved faster than most other questions if practised well. Let us discuss more about the type of questions we can expect in this section and some tips as well as tricks for solving them.
TYPES OF QUESTIONS
The questions can be classified into six main types:
1. Letter Coding2. Number Coding3. Mixed Coding4. Mixed Number Coding5. Decoding6. Symbols Coding
POINTS TO REMEMBER
We should consider the following points while solving these questions:
Never assume anything in any question.
Always verify the way of coding with all the letters or words or sentences.
The number of letters or words is always constant before and after the code.
Learning and practicing patterns will help to solve these questions faster.
There may be some questions which may partially satisfy multiple logics, but require to be solved completely to select the right logic.
TIPS AND TRICKS
Read the question first and then look at the options before trying to solve the question itself, unless the question seems very obvious.
Prefer a systematic approach instead of solving by trial and error if the question is not very long and options in the answers are similar. Similar options actually make it difficult to differentiate at the time of trial and error.
For example, you decoded the first four letters to be 'DCVC' but there are two options satisfying that criterion 'DCVCBX' and 'DCVCBY'. In this case, you may have to go back and solve it again, resulting in wastage of time.
If the options in the answer are very different from each other, solving by trial and error may actually be helpful in saving time. But this should be done very carefully, and it is very risky unless you are very well acquainted with prior practice.
Try to find out alternative logics which you might be missing in case you are not getting the answer from the options.
Prefer verifying your answer in all cases so that you can be sure of your logic.
Learn this table and remember this in exam time
Alphabets
Alphabetical Order
Reserve Order
A
1
26
B
2
25
C
3
24
D
4
23
E
5
22
F
6
21
G
7
20
H
8
19
I
9
18
J
10
17
K
11
16
L
12
15
M
13
14
N
14
13
O
15
12
P
16
11
Q
17
10
R
18
9
S
19
8
T
20
7
U
21
6
V
22
5
W
23
4
X
24
3
Y
25
2
Z
26
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Example 1:
If COURSE is coded as FRXUVH, how is RACE coded in that code?
(1) HFDU
(2) UCFH
(3) UDFH
(4) UDHF
(5) UDFG
In the given code, each letter is moved three steps forward than the corresponding letter in the word. So R is coded as U, A as D, C as F, E as H. Hence (3) is the answer.
Example 2:
If in a certain code ROPE is coded as 6821, CHAIR is coded as 73456 what will be the code for CRAPE?
(1) 73456
(2) 76421
(3) 77246
(4) 77123
(5) None of these
Clearly, in the given code, the alphabets are coded as follows.
R O P E C H A I
6 8 2 1 7 3 4 5
So CRAPE is coded as 76421, so the answer is (2)
