Plant Operator Selection System Test Plant Operator Selection System Figural Reasoning 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A sequence shows: square with 1 dot inside → square with 2 dots inside → square with 3 dots inside. What comes next?
- Square with 4 dots inside (Correct answer)
- Circle with 3 dots inside
- Triangle with 4 dots inside
- Square with 2 dots inside
Correct answer: Square with 4 dots inside
The pattern adds one dot inside the square with each step, so the next figure has 4 dots.
Question 2: A figure analogy: Large circle is to small circle as large triangle is to ___.
- Large square
- Small triangle (Correct answer)
- Small circle
- Large triangle
Correct answer: Small triangle
The relationship is size reduction within the same shape, so large triangle corresponds to small triangle.
Question 3: A 3×3 matrix has circles in the top row, squares in the middle row, and triangles in the bottom row. Each row has shapes shaded: white, gray, black left to right. What shape fills the empty bottom-right cell?
- White triangle
- Gray triangle
- Black triangle (Correct answer)
- Black square
Correct answer: Black triangle
The bottom row contains triangles, and the right column always contains black shapes, making it a black triangle.
Question 4: A pattern sequence shows a shape rotating 90° clockwise each step. If step 1 is an arrow pointing right, what does step 3 show?
- Arrow pointing right
- Arrow pointing down
- Arrow pointing left (Correct answer)
- Arrow pointing up
Correct answer: Arrow pointing left
Step 1 points right, step 2 points down (90° CW), and step 3 points left (another 90° CW).
Question 5: In a series of figures, the outer shape gains one side with each step: triangle → square → pentagon. What is the next shape?
- Pentagon
- Hexagon (Correct answer)
- Heptagon
- Circle
Correct answer: Hexagon
Each step adds one side: 3→4→5 sides, so the next shape has 6 sides (hexagon).
Question 6: Two overlapping circles create three regions: left-only, overlap, right-only. If the left region has 2 stars and the overlap has 1 star, which statement describes the pattern where the right region has 0 stars?
- Stars decrease from left to right by 2
- Stars decrease from left to right by 1 (Correct answer)
- Stars increase from left to right
- Stars stay constant across regions
Correct answer: Stars decrease from left to right by 1
The star count goes 2, 1, 0 — decreasing by 1 from each region to the next moving right.
Question 7: A figure shows a 2×2 grid. Top-left: black square. Top-right: white square. Bottom-left: white circle. What belongs in the bottom-right to complete the pattern?
- Black square
- White circle
- Black circle (Correct answer)
- White square
Correct answer: Black circle
The top row alternates black/white; the left column alternates square/circle; the bottom-right must be the black and circle combination.
A sequence shows: square with 1 dot inside → square with 2 dots inside → square with 3 dots inside.
What comes next?