CFAT Spatial Ability: Pattern Recognition 3

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Top-right corner

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Hexagon

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

3 dots, 2 rings

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Parallelogram

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Left side

Answer

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

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CFAT Spatial Ability: Pattern Recognition 3