Abstract Reasoning Flashcards

A pattern shows a shape losing its fill color while gaining a border with each step. At the final step the shape will be:

Answer: Unfilled with a thick border

Following both trends, the shape ends unfilled while its border has thickened.

In an analogy, small circle is to large circle as small square is to:

Answer: Large square

The relationship is size enlargement while keeping the shape, so a small square maps to a large square.

A set of figures each has dots equal to the number of sides minus one. A pentagon would have how many dots?

Answer: 4

A pentagon has five sides, and five minus one equals four dots.

An object moves one cell right and one cell down in each step of a grid. Starting top-left, after three steps it is at:

Answer: Three cells right and three down

Each step adds one right and one down, so after three steps it has moved three cells in each direction diagonally.

A sequence alternates between adding and subtracting elements: +2, -1, +2, -1. Starting at 3, what is the value after four operations?

Answer: 5

Starting at 3: +2=5, -1=4, +2=6, -1=5, ending at 5.

In a matrix, the third figure in each row is the overlap of the first two. If a star and a circle overlap, the result shows:

Answer: Only the shared region of both

Overlap combination keeps only the region shared by both figures.

A figure's shading rotates through black, grey, white, then repeats. If the first is black, what shade is the fifth figure?

Answer: Black

The cycle of three repeats, and the fifth figure lands on the second cycle's black position.