Non-Verbal Reasoning Flashcards

A shape is rotated 180 degrees. It originally looked like the letter 'L'. What does it look like now?

Answer: Like an upside-down L (Γ)

Rotating the letter L by 180 degrees turns it upside down, creating a shape like the Greek letter Gamma (Γ), with the horizontal line at the top going right and the vertical line going down.

Which shape has rotational symmetry of order 4 but no lines of symmetry?

Answer: A pinwheel with 4 curved blades

A pinwheel (or triskele-like shape with 4 curved blades) has rotational symmetry of order 4 (looks the same 4 times in a full turn) but the curved blades mean it has no lines of symmetry.

Three views of the same cube are shown. One face is black, one is grey, one has stripes, one has dots, one is white, one has a cross. If black is on top and stripes face you, what is on the bottom?

Answer: White

Based on the three views of the cube, when black is on top and stripes face you, the opposite face (bottom) is white.

A sequence shows a triangle moving around the corners of a square, visiting each corner in turn. After 6 moves, which corner is the triangle at?

Answer: Bottom-right

A square has 4 corners. After 6 moves: 6 mod 4 = 2. Starting at top-left (position 0), after 2 moves the triangle is at the bottom-right corner.

A figure consists of overlapping shapes. A circle overlaps a square. The overlapping region is shaded. If the circle moves to the right and no longer overlaps, what happens to the shaded region?

Answer: It disappears

The shaded region represents the overlap between the two shapes. If the circle moves away and there is no longer any overlap, the shaded region disappears entirely.

A 2D net is folded into a 3D shape. The net is a rectangle with two circles attached to the shorter ends. What 3D shape does it form?

Answer: Cylinder

A rectangle that curves to form a tube, with circles at each end, forms a cylinder. The rectangle becomes the curved surface and the circles become the flat ends.