CAT4 - Cognitive Abilities Test Fourth Edition Figure Matrices Questions and Answers Flashcards

Row 1 shows a triangle, square, pentagon. Row 2 shows a square, pentagon, ?. What completes row 2?

Answer: Hexagon

Each step across a row adds one side, so a pentagon is followed by a 6-sided hexagon.

In a 3x3 matrix, each row and column contains one circle, one square and one triangle. The bottom row shows a triangle, a circle, and ?. What is missing?

Answer: Square

Each shape appears once per row, so the only shape missing from the bottom row is the square.

A dot sits in the top-left corner of a square, then top-right, then bottom-right. Where is the dot in the next cell?

Answer: Bottom-left

The dot moves clockwise one corner at a time, so after bottom-right it moves to bottom-left.

Cell 1 shows lines on the top and left sides of a box. Cell 2 shows lines on the top and right sides. Cell 3 keeps only lines that appear in just one of the first two cells. What does cell 3 show?

Answer: Left and right

The shared top line cancels out, leaving only the left and right lines.

An arrow pointing up becomes an arrow pointing up-right. Applying the same rule, what does an arrow pointing right become?

Answer: Arrow pointing down-right

The rule is a 45° clockwise turn, so right becomes down-right.

On the CAT4, Figure Matrices belongs to which battery?

Answer: Non-verbal Reasoning

Figure Matrices, together with Figure Classification, makes up the CAT4 Non-verbal Reasoning battery.

A large circle containing 4 small dots becomes a large circle containing 2 small dots. Using the same rule, what does a large circle containing 6 dots become?

Answer: A large circle with 3 dots

The rule halves the number of dots, so 6 dots become 3.