NNAT Serial Reasoning 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A visual series shows a black dot moving clockwise through the four corners of a square frame: top-left, top-right, bottom-right, ___. Where does the dot appear next?
- Bottom-left corner (Correct answer)
- Top-left corner
- Center of the frame
- Middle of the bottom edge
Correct answer: Bottom-left corner
The dot moves clockwise through the corners, so after bottom-right it moves to the bottom-left corner.
Question 2: A sequence of shapes is based on number of sides: triangle (3), square (4), pentagon (5), hexagon (6), ___. What shape comes next?
- Heptagon (7 sides) (Correct answer)
- Octagon (8 sides)
- Circle
- Triangle (3 sides)
Correct answer: Heptagon (7 sides)
Each shape has one more side than the previous, so after hexagon (6) comes heptagon (7 sides).
Question 3: A pattern row shows three versions of the same shape in increasing size: small, medium, ___. What completes the row?
- Large (Correct answer)
- Extra small
- Medium again
- A different shape
Correct answer: Large
The serial pattern shows sizes increasing from small to medium to large.
Question 4: A series alternates between filled (solid black) and outlined (empty white) squares: filled, outlined, filled, outlined, ___. What comes next?
- Filled square (Correct answer)
- Outlined circle
- Filled triangle
- Outlined triangle
Correct answer: Filled square
The pattern strictly alternates filled and outlined, so the fifth item is a filled square.
Question 5: A horizontal arrow rotates 45° clockwise at each step. Starting at 0° (pointing right), what angle does it show after three rotations?
- 135° (pointing down-left) (Correct answer)
- 90° (pointing down)
- 180° (pointing left)
- 45° (pointing down-right)
Correct answer: 135° (pointing down-left)
Three 45° clockwise rotations from 0° total 135°, pointing diagonally down and to the left.
Question 6: A pattern shows a decreasing number of dots per frame: 4, 3, 2, 1, ___. What comes next?
- 0 dots (empty frame) (Correct answer)
- 4 dots
- 5 dots
- 2 dots
Correct answer: 0 dots (empty frame)
The count decreases by 1 each step, so after 1 comes 0 dots — an empty frame.
Question 7: Shapes in a series cycle through three shades — white, gray, black — then repeat. If position 1 is white, what shade appears at position 7?
- White (Correct answer)
- Gray
- Black
- Striped
Correct answer: White
The 3-shade cycle repeats, and 7 mod 3 = 1, which corresponds to the first shade: white.
NNAT Serial Reasoning 2
A visual series shows a black dot moving clockwise through the four corners of a square frame: top-left, top-right, bottom-right, ___.
Where does the dot appear next?