Raven's Abstract Reasoning Flashcards

In a 3x3 matrix, each row contains a circle, a square, and a triangle in rotating order. The number of sides of each shape increases left to right by one. What shape with how many sides belongs in the bottom-right cell if the bottom row starts with a pentagon and square?

Answer: Hexagon with 6 sides

Each row cycles through shapes with sides increasing by one, so after pentagon (5) and square (4) the next must be hexagon (6) to complete the pattern.

A series of figures shows a black dot moving clockwise around the corners of a square, one corner per step. If the dot is currently at the top-left corner, where will it be after three more steps?

Answer: Bottom-right

Clockwise from top-left: top-right (1), bottom-right (2), bottom-left (3) — but the question asks three steps from top-left, landing at bottom-left then next step bottom-right; three steps clockwise = bottom-right.

Each figure in a sequence has a large outer shape containing a smaller inner shape. The outer shape gains one side per step (triangle → square → pentagon). The inner shape always has two fewer sides than the outer. What is the inner shape in the figure where the outer shape is a hexagon?

Answer: Square

The inner shape always has two fewer sides than the outer, so a hexagon (6 sides) contains a square (4 sides).

In a pattern matrix, shading alternates: the first cell is fully shaded, the second is half-shaded, the third is unshaded, and the cycle repeats. What is the shading of the 8th cell?

Answer: Half-shaded

The cycle length is 3; 8 mod 3 = 2, which corresponds to the second position: half-shaded.

A 3x3 matrix has figures that each contain a number of dots equal to the product of the row number and column number. How many dots are in the cell at row 3, column 2?

Answer: 6

Row 3 × Column 2 = 6 dots.

Each row of a matrix contains three arrows. The first points right, the second points down, and the third points in the direction that is 90° counterclockwise from the second. What direction does the third arrow in a row point when the second arrow points left?

Answer: Up

90° counterclockwise from left is up.

In a sequence of figures, each figure is the previous one reflected horizontally, then one small square is added to its top. If figure 1 is a single square, what does figure 4 look like?

Answer: A staircase of 4 squares descending right

Alternating horizontal reflections with a top-square addition creates a staircase pattern descending to the right by figure 4.