Abstract & Inductive Reasoning Practice

The formats inside

Sequences

Five figures follow one rule and you pick the sixth. Harder items run two rules at once, which is where most marks go.

Odd one out

Nine figures, eight of which obey a rule. The rule may be a progression, a constant or an alternation, and the figure that breaks it breaks it on the attribute the rule is about, never on something incidental.

Matrices

A three by three grid with the last cell missing. One rule runs across each row and another down each column, so you can check an answer from two directions before committing to it.

How the questions are made

These are original TestSolve questions, generated rather than written. A rule is chosen first — rotate ninety degrees, cycle the fill, gain a side — and the figures are derived from it. The answer is what that same rule produces applied once more, so a question and its answer cannot disagree.

The wrong options are not filler either. Each is the result of a specific misreading: the rule carried one step too far, the right rule with one attribute changed as well, two operators applied in the wrong order, a reflection where a rotation was wanted. The explanation names which mistake each option represents, so a wrong answer tells you something.

Every option set is also checked to be visibly different. A square rotated ninety degrees is the same picture as the square you started with, and an early build shipped items where two options were indistinguishable for exactly that reason. Rotation is now compared against each shape’s own symmetry.

What it does not do

This is preparation material for practising the format. It is not any real assessment, it is not affiliated with any test publisher, and a score here is not a prediction of a score there.