SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 19 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 14 of 100

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If FRIEND becomes FDNIRE, how is TICKET written?

(a)TETKIC
(b)TKETIC
(c)TEKTIC
(d)TTECIK

Answer

Why

Correct — D.
Rule: the code reorders letters by position: 1, 6, 5, 3, 2, 4.

FRIEND = F1 R2 I3 E4 N5 D6
FDNIRE = F1 D6 N5 I3 R2 E4

TICKET = T1 I2 C3 K4 E5 T6
Take positions 1, 6, 5, 3, 2, 4: T, T, E, C, I, K
Code: TTECIK → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
TETKIC — Its second letter is E, TICKET's 5th. The rule puts the 6th letter, T, second, and it ends I, K where this ends I, C.
(b)
TKETIC — Its second letter is K, TICKET's 4th. FRIEND's code puts the 6th letter second, and TICKET's 6th letter is T.
(c)
TEKTIC — It opens TE, taking the 5th letter second. The rule takes the 6th letter, T, second and puts E third.

Concept

A rearrangement code keeps every letter and changes only the order. Number the positions of the given word, read where each one lands in the code, and apply that position list to the new word.

Write the list as numbers, here 1, 6, 5, 3, 2, 4. Tracking letters instead breaks on TICKET, where only the position tells the two Ts apart.

All four options begin with T and use exactly the six letters of TICKET, so only the order separates them.

Key facts

FRIEND becomes FDNIRE by reordering positions 1, 6, 5, 3, 2, 4, with no letter changed.
A rearrangement code is applied by position, not by matching letters.
TICKET under the same order gives TTECIK.

Study next

Rearrangement codes that reverse part of a wordLetter-shift codes (each letter moved +n in the alphabet)Codes that combine a shift with a reordering

Common traps

Checking the first letter only: every option starts with T, so the second letter is the first that separates them
Matching letters instead of positions, which breaks on a word with a repeated letter such as TICKET

13 Sep 2024, 12:30, Reasoning Q.7 is also a pure reordering: RETAINED becomes ENIATERD, the first seven letters reversed and the last kept, so FIREWALL becomes LAWERIFL (keyed c).

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