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Coding and Decoding

Coding and decoding questions in competitive exams require determining a code's rules from examples and then encoding or decoding new information. Common rules include coding letters in reverse alphabetical order, skipping letters sequentially, or reversing the word order. Questions may provide a coded phrase and its meaning to reveal the code words, like "letis" meaning "secret" and "mising" meaning "Sunday". Careful analysis is needed to decipher codes with no explicit rules.

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Coding and Decoding

Coding and decoding questions in competitive exams require determining a code's rules from examples and then encoding or decoding new information. Common rules include coding letters in reverse alphabetical order, skipping letters sequentially, or reversing the word order. Questions may provide a coded phrase and its meaning to reveal the code words, like "letis" meaning "secret" and "mising" meaning "Sunday". Careful analysis is needed to decipher codes with no explicit rules.

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CODING AND DECODING

Another set of questions , which often appear


in the competitive examinations are related to
coding and decoding. In such questions, you
are required to decipher a given code by
applying some rule(which you have to
determine from the example given in the
question) and then either encode another code
or decode a code given in the question.
Illustrations
1. If C E J Q is coded as X V Q J , then B D I
P will be coded as ………..
Sol: The first 13 letters of the alphabet are coded
by the 13 letters of the alphabet in reverse,
I.e.
= A B C D E F G H I J K L M(first 13 letters)
=Z Y X W V U T S S R Q P O N(13 in reverse)
It is obvious from the above coding scheme
that: B=Y,D=W and K=P…. Therefore BDIP
will be coded as YWRK
2. Which code should be replaced in the question
mark? MILD:NKOH :: GATE : ?
Sol: Here,letters are coded by skipping letters in
alphabetical order, I.e.., M=N(no skipping)
I = (j) K(letters in the bracket are one’s
skipped)
L = (mn)O
D = (efg) H
The skipping pattern is –1, -2 and –3
Therefore , G A T E will be coded as H C W I
3. If SPTFA stand for BLADE, how will you code
BALE?
Sol: BLADE has been coded as SPTFA. You will
see that all letters in the word BALE,which
have to be coded are also there in the word
BLADE. Hence all that need to be done is to
choose the relevant code letters from the code
word SPTFA. Thus B becomes S, A becomes T, L
becomes P, and E becomes A. Therefore BALE
will be coded as STPA.
4. If MAILED is coded as NBJMFE, how will you
code the word ACTED?
Sol : Here each letter stands for the next letter in
the sequence. Therefore ACTED becomes
BDUFE.
5. If TSEREVE and NOITACUDE stands for
EVEREST and EDUCATION, how will you code
REDFORT?
Sol: Yoy observe that the code is the reverse of
the given word. The answer is obviously
TROFDER which is the reverse of REDFORT.
6. If LODES is coded as 46321, how will you code
the word DOES?
Sol : Here you will observe that all the letters of
DOES are included in the letters of LODES , for
which you have the code D = 3, O = 6, E = 2,
S=1.
Therefore, DOES = 3621.
The questions on coding and decoding may be in
other formats also as illustrated below.
Three enemy messages were intercepted at a
CRPF H.Q. The message was decoded and it
was found that Mising letis Zerox, means
secret attack Sunday and tycoon fox letis
means secret plans included and yphen mising
tiger cage means Sunday victory is ours.
7. What does the code Zerox means here?
8. What does letis stand for?
9. Which is the code for Sunday?
Sol: If you carefully read the coded words and
their meaning, you will find letis=secret;
zerox=attack and mising = Sunday
letis and mising are repeated in each coded
message which makes it obvious letis =secret
and mising = Sunday. Similarly it is obvious
that zerox stands for attack.
There are no rules governing such questions.
Only careful analysis of the coded and the
word they stand for will help you tackle such
questions.

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