Expert Inductive Sequence Series
Occupational psychometric publishers strive to come up with innovative solutions to assess logical intellect and aptitude of individuals in wide range of ways. Hence, logical reasoning tests are living and organic with constant change and evolution that continuously present new challenges. To stand reasonable chances of passing these assessments you need to step out of your comfort zone and go through great deal of problems that will that will stimulate your mind and train your brain. Studying different kinds of problems that you are unfamiliar with will expand upon your competencies and arm you with tricks that will broaden the way you go about approaching and solving such tasks. Below we will demonstrate how to work out some of these questions that may appear in logical or abstract reasoning tests.
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The above series may trick many candidates into wrong answer if they don’t pay enough attention to understand links or analogies that make up relationships. As you can see, in each tile one corner of the shape touches the line of the circle. When you inspect five answer choices given options A and D can be directly ruled out as symbols touch the edge of circle with two of their corners. Further, when you look at the box B you can easily see that the spot of the star overlaps circle so one may automatically eliminate this choice. Now you have to decide between C and E so which one would be the correct box? Well the rationale is simple, note that sequence assumes circles instead of ellipses and hence E must be the correct selection. But now you may ask what about shading? Note that shading serves in this instance as a pure distractor. Usually, at logical reasoning tests there will be more than one principle or rationale to discover and follow and you need to be able to identify and exclude things that are put there to distract you.
Remember, non-verbal reasoning tests constitute great amount of ways to make up abstract relationships between shapes or symbols. For example, links can be created from changing shading, size, shape or position of items in variety of ways. It is important to note that changing of shades would assume array of vertically or horizontally stripped patters with different sized spots and different sized gaps between them as colours can’t be used in symbol aptitude exercises. If you are ready for further practice consider the second series below and try to work out what image completes the sequences in no more than 30 seconds. Alternatively, you can see further similar inductive logical questions on spotting and finding analogies.
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To answer the question correctly you must examine the above series with great care. When you quickly glance at the objects in each square you will notice that half of the area of small object overlaps the larger one. When you inspect the five choices provided you can straightaway rule out options B, C and D as these does not follow such rules. Now, with options A and E left one may conclude that E must be the correct answer because in the tile A the bigger circle does not divide small one into half. Again, as in the previous problem the shading serves here as a distractor.