Alphabets

Probelems related to Alphabets ?

  • Alphabet series is a series of letters which are positioned differently following a logical pattern.

  • We have to analyze that what pattern the series is following ? and accordingly find out the missing or wrong alphabet of the series.

  • To solve this, we have to memorize the position of each alphabet.

How to solve the probelms related to Alphabets ?

  • As we know the English Alphabet contains 26 letters, It will be little difficult to remember the position of all letters in both direct and inverse.

  • So there are some tricks or consepts that we have to follow to do it easily :

    1. The alphabet Concept
    2. EJOTY Concept
    3. RHS Concept

Alphabets Concepts

  • This is the most convinient to solve any kind of problems related to Alphabets.

  • Bellow are the steps to use this method.

    1. In this first we devide all the alphabets to two parts, 13 each.
    2. Now put them in order like shown in the figure.
    3. Which fulfills all the requrement to solve any problem quicker.

  • Disadvantage: This may be the most sutiable way but this is hard to rember. The solution for this is only to write down all these things at first and solve any probelms by refering to this.
EJOYT concept

  • By using this concept, we can easily remember the position of different alphabets and accordingly find out any letter without much effort.

  • All we have to do is remember the place of these five letters which is mentioned in the figure .

  • Hence the EJOTY concept helps in memorizing and finding the position of any letter in the alphabetical series.

RHS Concept

  • Sometimes we are being asked to find the position of the letters from the opposite side or right-hand side of the series; this concept simplifies the task of finding out that letter.

  • This is illustrated in a better way with the help of an example below:

    1. Let’s imagine eight friends A B C D E F G H are standing in a row; now we have to find out the position of E from both the left-hand side and from the right-hand side of the row?
    2. It is better explained with the help of a diagram
    3. By looking at the above figure it is evident that E is at the 5’th position from the left side of the row, but he is placed at the 4’th position when it comes to finding his location from the right-hand side.
    4. This can be presented with the help of a simple formula:

      5. Let the position of the person (given in the question) be r.

      Hence his position from the right-hand side will be = n+1-r

      Where n= Total number of people in the series

      In this case, it will be

      N= 8 r= 5 (position of E from the LHS that is given in the question)

      Therefore his position from the RHS = 8+1-5= 4

      Hence he will stand at the 4’th position from the RHS.

      The same formula can be applied with vertical series as well.

Some Problems :

    For Example :Here we have to find the middle letter of any sequence that is provided in the question.

    Find the middle letter between the 10’th letter and the 22’nd letter of the left-hand side of the series?

    Solution :

    This can be quickly found out by adding the positions and getting their average.

    In this case, it will be 10+22= 32/2= 16

    Hence the 16’th letter will be the center of the given series, and since we all know from the BJOTY series that O is the 15’th item from LHS, hence the 16’th term will be P.

    Therefore P comes in the middle of 10’th and 22’nd series.

    In case of finding the middle letter from the RHS :

    Consider the same above question

    Find the middle letter between the 10’th letter and the 22’nd letter of the right-hand side of the series?

    10+22/2= 16’th item from the right that is K.

    And if we convert it to LHS method, then all we have to do is to deduct the above number from 27= 27-16= 11’th item

    And we know that BJOTY concept that the 10’th article is J Hence the 11’th article will be K.

    Hence all the above concepts are generally used to solve alphabetical series questions asked in competitive exams.