CFAT Spatial Ability: Pattern Recognition 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A square has a dot in its top-left corner. After a 90° clockwise rotation, where is the dot?
- Top-right corner (Correct answer)
- Bottom-left corner
- Bottom-right corner
- Center
Correct answer: Top-right corner
A 90° clockwise rotation maps top-left to top-right.
Question 2: A pattern alternates between even-sided and odd-sided shapes with decreasing sides: hexagon, pentagon, square, triangle, ____. What comes next?
- Hexagon (Correct answer)
- Pentagon
- Octagon
- Square
Correct 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.
Question 3: 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?
- 3 dots, 2 rings (Correct answer)
- 2 dots, 3 rings
- 3 dots, 3 rings
- 2 dots, 2 rings
Correct answer: 3 dots, 2 rings
Column 3 gives 3 dots (1 base + 2 added); row 3 gives 2 rings (0 base + 2 added).
Question 4: Four quadrilaterals are shown: square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus. Which is the ODD ONE OUT because it is NOT guaranteed to have any right angles?
- Parallelogram (Correct answer)
- Square
- Rectangle
- Rhombus
Correct answer: Parallelogram
A general parallelogram has no right angles, while squares and rectangles always do; the parallelogram is the odd one out.
Question 5: A shape with a bump on its RIGHT side is reflected across a vertical mirror line. Where is the bump on the reflected image?
- Left side (Correct answer)
- Right side
- Top
- Bottom
Correct answer: Left side
Vertical reflection swaps left and right, so the bump moves to the left side.
Question 6: 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?
- Octagon (Correct answer)
- Hexagon
- Heptagon
- Nonagon
Correct answer: Octagon
Eight sides corresponds to an octagon.
Question 7: A circle is divided into equal sectors: the sequence shows 2, 4, 8, ____ sectors. How many sectors does the next figure have?
- 16 (Correct answer)
- 12
- 10
- 6
Correct answer: 16
The number of sectors doubles each time: 2→4→8→16.
CFAT Spatial Ability: Pattern Recognition 3
A square has a dot in its top-left corner.
After a 90° clockwise rotation, where is the dot?