NNAT Study Guide 2026

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📋 NNAT Exam Format at a Glance

48
Questions
30 min
Time Limit
70.00%
Passing Score

📚 NNAT Topics to Study (58)

✍️ Sample NNAT Questions & Answers

1. In a pattern, a shape is reflected vertically (flipped upside-down) at each step. Step 1: right-side-up triangle. Step 2: upside-down triangle. Step 3: ___.
Right-side-up triangle

Each step applies one vertical flip; Step 3 flips Step 2's upside-down triangle back to right-side-up.

2. Three figures each have a horizontal line running through the exact center of the shape. Which answer fits?
A shape with a horizontal center line

The classifying feature is a horizontal line through the center, not any line at all.

3. In a 3×3 matrix, each row contains a circle, triangle, and square in different orders. If row 1 starts with circle and row 2 starts with triangle, what shape starts row 3?
Square

Each shape must start exactly one row, so since circle and triangle are taken, square must start row 3.

4. What is the best approach when you encounter an NNAT question that seems unusually difficult?
Use process of elimination to remove wrong answers, then make your best guess and move on

The NNAT has no wrong-answer penalty, so eliminating obvious distractors and guessing improves your expected score.

5. What is the most common error in visual memory tasks?
Confusing the orientation or position of elements within the figure

Spatial relationships and orientations are often the most difficult aspects to remember accurately.

6. What comes next in the series? 1, 4, 2, 8, 3, 12, __
4

Two interleaved sequences: odd positions 1, 2, 3, 4, ... and even positions 4, 8, 12, ...; the 7th term is 4.

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