1 General Mental and Psychological Abilities · 1.1.2 Coding–decoding

1.1.2.1 Letter coding: shifting, reversal and position values

In letter coding every letter of a word is changed by one rule (a shift, an opposite, a reversal of order, or a mix); write the word and its code one above the other, find the rule letter by letter, and apply it.

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Key terms

  • coding-decoding
  • letter shift
  • forward shift
  • backward shift
  • opposite letters
  • reversal
  • alternate shift
  • increasing shift
  • pair swap
  • halves reversed
  • vowel and consonant rule
  • neighbouring letters
  • first and last interchanged
  • decoding

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