If ENGLAND is coded as 1234526 and FRANCE is written as 785291. How will GREECE be written In this coding system?

The correct answer is A.

This is a letter-to-digit substitution code, so each letter has one fixed digit throughout. From ENGLAND (1234526) we get E=1, N=2, G=3, L=4, A=5, D=6. FRANCE (785291) then fits the same mapping: F=7, R=8, A=5, N=2, C=9, E=1. Every letter shared by the two words gets the same digit, which confirms the mapping.

Now decode GREECE letter by letter: G=3, R=8, E=1, E=1, C=9, E=1. The code is 381191.

The other options break the fixed mapping. B (381911) gives the two E's different digits (1 and 9). C (394132) gives R the digit 9 and E the digit 4 in the third position. D (562134) gives G the digit 5, while G is 3 in ENGLAND.

Core concept: coding-decoding with a fixed letter-digit cipher. Build the mapping from one example, check it against a second, then apply it consistently. This habit carries over to reasoning questions in Prelims and to analytical answers in GS papers.

Trap: candidates read the code by position without checking repeated letters. The repeated E's in GREECE are the whole point of the question.