CSAT (PYQ)
Previous Year Questions
(Logical Reasoning)
Topic: CODING - DECODING
CSAT-PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS (PYQ)
1. If in a certain code, ‘ABCD’ is written as 24 and
‘EFGH’ is written as 1680, then how is ‘IJKL’
written in that code? (2024)
(a) 11880
(b) 11240
(c) 7920
(d) 5940
2. If in a certain code, ‘POT' is written ATOP and
‘TRAP’ is written as APART, then how is
‘ARENA’ written in that code? (2024)
(a) AARENA
(b) AANREA
(c) AANEAR
(d) AANERA
3. If 7 ⊕ 9 ⊕ 10 = 8, 9 ⊕ 11 ⊕ 30 = 5, 11 ⊕ 17 ⊕
21 = 13, what is the value of 23 ⊕ 4 ⊕ 15 ? (2023)
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 13
(d) 15
4. If ‘ZERO’ is written as ‘CHUR’, then how is
‘PLAYER’ written ? (2023)
(a) SOCAGT
(b) SODBGT
(c) SODBHT
(d) SODBHU
5. If the order of the letters in the English alphabet is
reversed and each letter represents the letter whose
position it occupies, then which one of the following
represents ‘LUCKNOW’? (2022)
(a) OGXPMLD
(b) OGXQMLE
(c) OFXPMLE
(d) OFXPMLD
6. In the English alphabet, the first 4 letters are written
in opposite order; and the next 4 letters are written
in opposite order and so on; and at the end Y and Z
are interchanged. Which will be the fourth letter to
the right of the 13th letter? (2021)
(a) N
(b) T
(c) H
(d) I
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CSAT-PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS (PYQ)
7. In a code language ‘MATHEMATICS’ is written as
‘LBSIDNZUHDR’. How is ‘CHEMISTRY’ written
in that code language? (2021)
(a) DIDLHRSSX
(b) BIDNHTSSX
(c) BIDLHTSSX
(d) DGFLIRUQZ
8. In the sum ⨂ + 1 ⨂ + 5 ⨂ + ⨂ ⨂ + ⨂ 1 =
1 ⨂⨂ for which digit does the symbol ⨂ stand?
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 4 (d) 5
9. Let A3BC and DE2F be four-digit numbers where
each letter represents a different digit greater than 3.
If the sum of the numbers is 15902, then what is the
difference between the values of A and D? (2020)
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
10. The letters from A to Z are numbered from 1 to 26
respectively. If GHI = 1578 and DEF = 912, then
what is ABC equal to? (2020)
(a) 492
(b) 468
(c) 262
(d) 246
11. Number 136 is added to 5B7 and the sum obtained
is 7A3, where A and B are integers. It is given that
7A3 is exactly divisible by 3. The only possible
value of B is (2019)
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 8
12. If every alternative letter of the English alphabet
from B onwards (including B) is written in lower
case (small letters) and the remaining letters are
capitalized, then how is the first month of the second
half of the year written? (2019)
(a) JuLY
(b) jULy
(c) jUly
(d) jUIY
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CSAT-PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS (PYQ)
13. If $ means ‘divided by’; @ means ‘multiplied by’; #
means ‘minus’, then the value of 10#5@1$5 is
(2019)
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 9
14. Consider the following sum:
• + 1 • + 2 • + • 3 + • 1 = 21 •
In the above sum, • stands for (2018)
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 8
15. If LSJXVC is the code for MUMBAI, the code for
DELHI is (2018)
(a) CCIDD (b) CDKGH
(c) CCJFG (d) CCIFE
16. If RAMON is written as 12345 and DINESH as
675849, then HAMAM will be written as (2018)
(a) 92233 (b) 92323
(c) 9332 (d) 93232
17. In a certain code, ‘256’ means ‘red colour chalk’,
‘589’ means ‘green colour flower’ and ‘254’ means
‘white colour chalk’. The digit in the code that
indicates ‘white’ is (2017)
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 8
18. A military code writes SYSTEM as SYSMET and
NEARER as AENRER. Using the same code,
FRACTION can be written as: (2016)
(a) CARFTION
(b) FRACNOIT
(c) NOITCARF
(d) CARFNOIT
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CSAT-PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS (PYQ)
19. If ABC x DEED = ABCABC; where A, B, C, D and
E are different digits, what are the values of D and
E? (2015)
(a) D = 2, E = 0
(b) D = 0, E = 1
(c) D = 1, E = 0
(d) D = 1, E = 2
20. The letters L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T in their order
are substituted by nine integers 1 to 9 but not in that
order. 4 is assigned to P. The difference between P
and T is 5. The difference between N and T is 3.
What is the integer assigned to N ? (2014)
(a) 7
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 6
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CSAT-PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS (PYQ)
Topic: CODING AND DECODING
Answer key
1 A 5. D 9. C 13. D 17. B
2. D 6. B 10. D 14. D 18. D
3. A 7. B 11. D 15. A 19. C
4. D 8. B 12. D 16. B 20. D
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