Abstract Reasoning Test - 24

Each block in the series contains a diagonal row of three circles: one small; one medium; and one large. At each step in the series, firstly the colour of these circles changes: white changes to grey; black changes to white; and grey changes to black. Secondly, the size of each circle changes: small changes to medium; medium to large; and large to small.

Also note that Block 1 and 4 of the series are the same, as are 2 and 5; therefore 3 match 6.

There is a central circle surrounded by eight circles. The central circle changes colour from grey to having a dotted outline to black. At each step in the series one circle is removed in the order of white, black, grey circles. The order of the remaining circles is randomised.

There are three rules impacting this question. The first one is that as the sequence progresses one more circle turns from shaded to white. So in the first box there is just one white circle, in the second there are two and so on. The second rule applies to the arrow in the bottom right hand corner. This turns 90 degrees clockwise with each step in the sequence. The third and final rule relates to the blue shaded line at the top of the box. It moves from partially shaded to completely shaded and then not shaded at all. It then reverts back to partial shading, then complete then none. Option D meets all three rules and is therefore the correct response.

Set B since the central figure is a square.

Each block in the series contains three rows of three circles. At each step in the series there are two rules. The first is that the black shading of each circle moves across the row of circles, one circle at a time. The second rule is that as the circles reach the end of a row, it moves to the beginning of the same row.

The black circles in the top and bottom rows both move one step to the right from block to block (returning to the left once they get to the end); whereas the black circle in the second row moves one step to the left at each step of the series (and vice versa about restarting the row)

The correct answer is Set B because one of the shapes contains half (or less) of a circle. This is the common feature for all six of the Set B figures. The position, size and colour of each of the figures doesn’t affect the answer.

In this question, the rule that dictates what shapes appear in the top boxes relates to the number of crosses in the box below. How ever many crosses are in the box below must equate to the number of triangles in the box above.

In this question the sequence runs from left to right. The blue ‘row’ of circles runs in the sequence 1-2-3-1-2-3. This means that the correct answer must have three blue circles on the left. Further, these blue circles move position with each step in the sequence. They move in the order Top-Middle-Bottom-Top-Middle-Bottom. This means that the correct answer must have the three blue circles placed at the bottom of the square. Finally, there must always be two white and two filled circles at the right hand side of the square. Option B is the only square that meets all three criteria.

In this question the left hand image in each row always contains the shapes from the last two images in the same row.

The shape from the third image in the row is placed at the left hand side of the first image and the shape from the fourth image in the row is placed at the right hand side of the first image.

The missing shape therefore contains the sun and the cloud in that order.