Abstract Reasoning Test - 18

The correct answer is Set A because one of the shapes is half of a square’s shape (the first triangle). This is the common feature for all six of the Set A figures. The position, size and colour of each of the figures doesn’t affect the answer.

Correct Answer; Set A

Each block in the series contains four figures. One of these figures rotates by 90-degrees at each step in the series, starting with the square, then the semi-circle i.e. ‘moving around’ the set of four figures in a clockwise direction.

Correct Answer; A

Neither, since the central block is a triangle i.e. neither a square (the common feature of all Set B blocks), nor is it a circle (the common feature of all Set A blockss).

Correct Answer; Neither

The rule in this question is that the shape moves one place counterclockwise as it goes around the box.

The shape also rotates 90 degrees clockwise every time it moves.

Box E works in accordance with both of these rules and is therefore the correct answer.

Each block in the series contains a central figure inside a larger shape: (i) The central figure firstly gradually increases in size; (ii) Secondly changes in colour from white to beige to black, then back to white and so on; (iii) The larger figure changes from a ‘square with rounded corners’ to a square to a pentagon, then back to a ‘square with rounded corners’, and so on.

Correct Answer; F

The simple rule in this question is that the number of grey arrows in the box below must equal the number of black shaded shapes in the box above. There are three grey arrows below the missing box so the correct answer must contain three black shapes.

There is a lot of superfluous information in this question. The key concept is that the stars run in a pattern of 3 – 5 – 2 – 3 – 5 -2 hence the correct answer must have two stars. There are multiple options with two stars but only one of them (option D) has a mix of black and white stars - a further requirement.

At each step in the series a “new point of the compass” is added. The first block contains a single line “pointing north”. The next step in the series adds South, then South-West and so on in a clockwise direction.

Each block in the series contains two to three rows of squares, to which one is added at each step in the series. The first block is added to the bottom left-hand corner and then a subsequent new square is added to each of the other three corners, in an anticlockwise direction.

Correct Answer; A

Within the pattern, the shaded shape moves a space to the right each time. When it reaches the end, it starts from the left again. Likewise, the shape that's on the right will always become the shape on the left. Finally, the total number of edges for all the shapes adds up to 10.

With these 3 rules, the correct answer is E.