Spatial Ability: Pattern Recognition Flashcards

A square has a dot in its top-left corner. After a 90° clockwise rotation, where is the dot?

Answer: Top-right corner

A 90° clockwise rotation maps top-left to top-right.

A pattern alternates between even-sided and odd-sided shapes with decreasing sides: hexagon, pentagon, square, triangle, ____. What comes next?

Answer: Hexagon

Sides decrease by 1 each step (6,5,4,3) and the pattern is even-odd-even-odd; after the minimum it loops back to hexagon.

A grid adds one dot per column to the right and one ring per row downward. The top-left cell has 1 dot and 0 rings. What does the cell at row 3, column 3 contain?

Answer: 3 dots, 2 rings

Column 3 gives 3 dots (1 base + 2 added); row 3 gives 2 rings (0 base + 2 added).

Four quadrilaterals are shown: square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus. Which is the ODD ONE OUT because it is NOT guaranteed to have any right angles?

Answer: Parallelogram

A general parallelogram has no right angles, while squares and rectangles always do; the parallelogram is the odd one out.

A shape with a bump on its RIGHT side is reflected across a vertical mirror line. Where is the bump on the reflected image?

Answer: Left side

Vertical reflection swaps left and right, so the bump moves to the left side.

In a pattern, each shape contains a number equal to its side count: triangle=3, square=4, pentagon=5. A shape contains the number 8. What shape is it?

Answer: Octagon

Eight sides corresponds to an octagon.

A circle is divided into equal sectors: the sequence shows 2, 4, 8, ____ sectors. How many sectors does the next figure have?

Answer: 16

The number of sectors doubles each time: 2→4→8→16.