Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

General Ability

Topic

Odd One Out/Classification

Question:

Three of the following letter - clusters are alike in some manner and hence form a group. Which letter-cluster does not belong to that group ?

Options:

PONM

EDCB

SRQP

BYXW

Correct Answer:

BYXW

Explanation:

1   2    3    4   5    6   7     8    9  10  11  12  13

 A   B   C    D   E    F   G    H    I    J    K    L   M

 ↓    ↓    ↓    ↓    ↓     ↓   ↓    ↓     ↓   ↓    ↓    ↓    ↓

 Z   Y    X   W   V    U   T    S    R   Q   P    O   N

26  25  24  23  22  21  20  19  18  17  16  15  14

 

THE LOGIC FOLLOWED HERE IS;

1) PONM,

P → (-1) → O

O → (-1) → N

N → (-1)) → M

2) EDCB,

E → (-1) → D

D → (-1) → C

C → (-1)) → B

3) SRQP,

S → (-1) → R

R → (-1) → Q

Q → (-1)) → P

4) BYXW,

B → (-3) → Y

Y → (-1) → X

X → (-1)) → W

Thus, BYXW  does not belong to that group.