Diagrammatic Reasoning Test 5 Solutions
Question 1
There is a central figure and four figures with one in each corner: (i) The central figure
changes from a ‘rectangle with rounded corners’ to a rectangle, trapezoid, 12-sided shape and
then repeats this order of shapes. (ii) The four figures rotate anticlockwise around the four
corners, one corner at a time.
Correct
Question 2
There are three rows of three arrows. At each step in the series, the first arrow from the first
row is added to the end of the second row. The first arrow from the second row is added to
the end of the third row; and the first arrow from the third row is added to the end of the first
row.
Correct


















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Question 3
There are eight figures, plus a central figure. The central figure changes in a series of three:
from a horizontal arrowhead; to a vertical arrowhead; and to a curved arrowhead. The eight
figures that surround this central figure rotate around it in a clockwise direction by 90-degrees
i.e. ‘one side at a time’.
Correct


















Question 4
There are four triangles with one in each corner. At each step of the series: the top right-hand
corner triangle rotates by 180-degrees; the top left-hand corner triangle rotates by 90degrees in an anticlockwise direction; the bottom right-hand corner triangle rotates by 180degrees; and the bottom left-hand corner triangle rotates by 90-degrees in an anticlockwise
direction.
Correct


 
 


   




 





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
Question 5
There are three sets of figures: (i) The triangle alternates between black and white, whilst
moving one step at a time across a horizontal line; (ii) The number of white squares decreases
one at a time until there are no squares and then increases by one square at a time; (iii) The
number of black squares increases one at a time up to a maximum of four squares and then
decreases by one square at a time.
Correct








 





Question 6
Each block in the series contains two columns of three squares. The ‘black shading’ rotates
around the “perimeter made by the two columns combined”, by one square at a time.
Correct


















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Question 7
Each block in the series contains three rows of triangles. Firstly, at each step in the series, the
central triangle alternates between a black shading and a white shading. Secondly, the ‘black
shading’ of the sixth triangle (the third triangle on the second row) moves around the
perimeter by one triangle for each step in the series. Thus the ninth triangle (the third triangle
on the third row) becomes black, and at the same step the ‘black shading’ of the sixth triangle
disappears, leaving its original white shading.
Correct


















Question 8
Each block in the series contains four figures. The flower figure moves around clockwise, one
figure at a time, and swops its position with each of these figures as it does so.
Correct
 
 
     
     
 

 
 
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Question 9
Each block in the series contains two arrows. At each step in the series: the first arrow rotates
anticlockwise by 45-degrees at each step in the series; and the second arrow, which is always
horizontal, alternates between pointing right and pointing left.
Correct






Question 10
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






  







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