CET Alphabet Series Questions with Solutions

  • 47 questions from MBA CET 2025 (17) and 2026 (30)
  • Asked in 12 of 13 slots
  • Difficulty: 38 Easy / 9 Medium / 0 Hard
  • Question and answer free · detailed solution after free login · updated 28 Oct 2026

Alphabet Series questions give a series of letters with a missing term. You use the alphabet positions and the gaps between letters to find the rule.

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CET 2026 Slot 1 · MBA CET 2026 Attempt 1 Slot 1 · Q2Medium
Find the number of pairs of alphabets in the English word PHYSICAL that have as many alphabets between them in the given word as they have in the actual English alphabet series ?
  1. One
  2. Four
  3. Zero
  4. Two
  5. Three
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Answer: D. Two

CET 2026 Slot 1 · MBA CET 2026 Attempt 1 Slot 1 · Q33Medium
If the alphabets from T to Z are interchanged in opposite direction by the alphabets A to G of the English language alphabet series in such way tthat A takes the positions of T and so on, then which will be the third alphabet to the right of the18th letter from the left ?
  1. D
  2. E
  3. C
  4. F
  5. B
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Official CET answer: E. B

Cetking's answer: B. E — it differs from the official key; the detailed solution shows the working.

CET 2026 Slot 2 · MBA CET 2026 Attempt 1 Slot 2 · Q31Medium

In the word “ANALYTICS”:

  • Letters at odd positions are changed to the letter two steps forward in the English alphabetical series,
  • Letters at even positions are changed to the letter one step backward in the English alphabetical series,
  • After this change, the letters at positions which are perfect squares are interchanged with the letters immediately following them.
After performing all the above operations, determine the alphabets that shall appear between the third and the seventh alphabets of the newly formed word, when compared to the alphabets that appear in an ordinary English dictionary.
  1. 8
  2. 5
  3. 7
  4. 9
  5. 4
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Answer: C. 7

CET 2026 Slot 2 · MBA CET 2026 Attempt 1 Slot 2 · Q32Easy
If all the alphabets of the word UNIDENTIFIED are arranged in an alphabetical order, then the position of how many alphabets shall remain unchanged in the newly formed word?
  1. 3
  2. 2
  3. 1
  4. 4
  5. 5
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Official CET answer: C. 1

Cetking's answer: A. 3 — it differs from the official key; the detailed solution shows the working.

CET 2026 Slot 2 · MBA CET 2026 Attempt 1 Slot 2 · Q33Medium
If in the word SEPTUAGENARIAN first three and then next three letters are written in reverse order and the rest of the letters are written as they appear in English alphabet, the positions of how many letters get changed in the new arrangement?
  1. 10
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 11
  5. 12
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Official CET answer: E. 12

Cetking's answer: A. 10 — it differs from the official key; the detailed solution shows the working.

Frequently asked questions

How many Alphabet Series questions came in MBA CET 2025 and 2026?

47 Alphabet Series questions were asked: 17 in MBA CET 2025 and 30 in MBA CET 2026. Every one is on this page with its answer (twin papers are not counted).

Which CET slots asked Alphabet Series? Which had the most?

Alphabet Series questions came in 12 of 13 slots. CET 2026 Slot 6 had the most (9 questions). Slot-wise lists: CET 2026 and CET 2025.

How difficult are CET Alphabet Series questions?

Of the 47 Alphabet Series questions that carry a difficulty rating, 38 are Easy, 9 Medium and 0 Hard.

Are the solutions free?

The question and its answer are free for everyone. The detailed Cetking solution opens after a free login with your mobile number (OTP).

How is a set shown on this page?

Each set gets one page with all its questions together (4 sets here), so you never solve half of one. Questions that stand alone are shown five to a page.

Where can I practise more Alphabet Series?

Open all Traditional Logic chapters for the other chapters, all CET papers and topics for every slot, or the Arena to practise.

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