Reasoning is one of the crucial part in Banking Examinations. One such area where students can score more marks is the coding decoding part. All it takes is just practice and you can pocket 5 marks.

Coding - Decoding
A CODE is a ‘system of signals’. Therefore, Coding is a method of transmitting a message between the sender and the receiver without a third person knowing it.
The Coding and Decoding Test is set up to judge the candidate’s ability to decipher the rule that codes a particular word / message and break the code to decipher the message.

First and foremost all you need to learn is to write alphabets with their numbers in the order shown below.


See the above image and try to learn the numbers assigned to each alphabet.

1. See that you write the alphabets from A to M in the top row and N to Z in the bottom row as shown in the figure.

2. A-Z, B-Y, C-X, D-W, E-V, F-U, G-T, H-S, I-R, J-Q, K-P, L-O, M-N are called as paired letters. Note that Z-A, Y-B, X-C and so on also mean the same....

3. Sum of Paired letters is always 27.
Ex: A is 1 Z is 26 1+26= 27,     I=9+R=18 i.e 9+18=27...

4. Usually in exams they give replace the alphabets with their paired letters.

Ex: In a certain code JOSHUA is written as 'QLHSFZ' and CALEB is written as 'XZOVY' Then how is 'MOSES' written as?
Ans: NLHVH

So the above question is solved based on paired letters. So in your exam you need to right the alphabets and the numbers as shown in the example above...