1 General Mental and Psychological Abilities · 1.1.1 Series, analogies and classification
1.1.1.6 Letter repetition series and alphabet position tricks
Blank-filling letter series repeat a short unit (sometimes rotated, mirrored or growing), so find the unit from the length of the series; alphabet questions are pure position arithmetic, so turn every letter into its number before you count.
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Key terms
- letter repetition series
- blanks series
- repeating unit
- rotation pattern
- mirror pattern
- growing pattern
- alphabet positions
- EJOTY
- opposite letters
- reverse alphabet
- letters between
- midway letter
- modified alphabet
- letter pairs in a word
- nth letter of a repeated word
- counting in a sequence
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