Advanced Inductive Reasoning Patterns
Non-verbal reasoning tests are made up of wide range of abstract images combined in particular order to make up logical sequence of events governed by underlying principles. Whether you are just a beginner or someone who has spent extensive time learning about these it is important to keep your skills and abilities well honed. It is always good practice to search for ways to enhance your competencies in areas of improvements as often as possible. Even though you have already learned certain things and managed to reach some milestones in your practice it continues to be important to revisit and revise until understanding and making connections between shapes, symbols or items becomes your second nature. Bellow we will look at some of the questions that you may encounter in logical or inductive reasoning tests.
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To break the code of the above chain of images may be difficult however when you look at each tile and consider how shapes overlap and what shapes are created as a result of overlapping you should know which tile from the five answer choices provided would come next. Majority of candidates may only take one approach to searching for rules that govern this sequence such as looking only at the size or form of the shapes and not considering further possibilities. However, to work out the problem you need to approach it in number of ways. Notice that in each square the shape that is created by overlapping of two shapes will become big shape in the next tile with randomly selected small shape which will create overlapping. Hence, we can rule out options C, D and E and state that option B must be the correct answers.
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Remember, to perform well you need to employ your analytical and critical thinking aptitude and consider more ways to approach the given question. Remember, the more possibilities you reflect up on the greater the chances are that you will spot pattern or underlying rationale.
Now, you can try to work out the second series which displays particular number of circles in each box or you can move on to our further chapter that present you with opportunity to practice similar questions related to crossing or touching logic patterns. Set your time for 30 seconds and see if you can find the links. You may start now.
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How did it go? Did you break the code? If not don’t worry you will gain better understanding of these as you will go through our tutorials. Many test takers may try to find directive by counting circles or particular sizes of circles at each stage. However, the only rule the above sequence is based upon lies in increasing number of penetrations in each square. So, you can see that the first tile starts with one penetration, second tile has two and so forth so the fifth square must have five penetrations. Hence, it may be concluded that the only correct answer must be A. Thus, at abstract logical reasoning tests you need to approach the test question in number of different ways and think outside the box to find relationships or analogies to spot how images are linked or connected.