Letter & Semantic Series Quiz: Reasoning Practice
10 timed series questions. Letter gaps, alternating and alphanumeric series, repeating letter patterns, wrong-term spotting and logical word order.
Letter & Semantic Series Quiz: Reasoning Practice
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Answers to the starter quiz
Spoilers! These are the Starter quiz’s answers. Easy, Medium, Hard and Mixed rounds show their own answers when you finish.
Find the next letter: A, C, F, J, O, ?
- T
- U
- V
- S
Answer: U. The gaps grow by one: +2, +3, +4, +5, so the next gap is +6. O is 15, and 15 + 6 = 21, which is U.
Find the next term: BDF, GIK, LNP, ?
- QSU
- QRS
- PRT
- RTV
Answer: QSU. Each group is three letters with a gap of 2, and each group starts 5 letters after the previous one: B(2), G(7), L(12), Q(17). Q + 2 = S, S + 2 = U.
Find the next term: AZ, CX, EV, GT, ?
- IS
- HR
- JQ
- IR
Answer: IR. The first letters move +2 (A, C, E, G, I) and the second letters move −2 (Z, X, V, T, R), giving IR.
Find the next term: KM5, IP8, GS11, EV14, ?
- CX17
- DY17
- CY17
- CY18
Answer: CY17. First letters go −2 (K, I, G, E, C), second letters +3 (M, P, S, V, Y) and the numbers +3 (5, 8, 11, 14, 17).
Arrange in a logical sequence: 1. Seed 2. Flower 3. Tree 4. Fruit 5. Sapling
- 1, 5, 3, 2, 4
- 1, 3, 5, 2, 4
- 5, 1, 3, 4, 2
- 1, 5, 2, 3, 4
Answer: 1, 5, 3, 2, 4. A seed grows into a sapling, the sapling into a tree, the tree flowers, and the flower develops into fruit.
Arrange in a logical sequence: 1. Paragraph 2. Letter 3. Word 4. Sentence 5. Chapter
- 3, 2, 4, 1, 5
- 2, 3, 1, 4, 5
- 2, 4, 3, 1, 5
- 2, 3, 4, 1, 5
Answer: 2, 3, 4, 1, 5. From smallest unit to largest: letter, word, sentence, paragraph, chapter.
Arrange from shortest to longest: 1. Decade 2. Month 3. Century 4. Fortnight 5. Week
- 4, 5, 2, 1, 3
- 5, 4, 2, 1, 3
- 5, 4, 1, 2, 3
- 5, 2, 4, 1, 3
Answer: 5, 4, 2, 1, 3. Week (7 days) < fortnight (14 days) < month < decade (10 years) < century (100 years).
Which letters fill the blanks, in order? ab_da_cd_bcd
- cab
- bca
- cba
- abc
Answer: cba. The block "abcd" repeats: ab(c)d a(b)cd (a)bcd. The blanks are c, b and a.
Find the wrong term in the series: C, F, I, L, P, R
- F
- L
- R
- P
Answer: P. The series moves +3: C(3), F(6), I(9), L(12), O(15), R(18). The fifth term should be O, so P is wrong.
Which letter is 7th to the right of the 12th letter from the left of the English alphabet?
- S
- R
- T
- E
Answer: S. The 12th letter is L. Seven places to its right is position 12 + 7 = 19, which is S.
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