UKCAT Intermediate Abstract Test Patterns
UKCAT abstract reasoning test evaluates your ability to make sense of abstract patterns. In these tests you will be presented with patterns where irrelevant and distracting material may lead you to incorrect answers. Hence, to gain high score it is important that you practice in advance so that you can make correct judgements to identify patterns quickly and accurately. For the following the below builds up on the previous tutorial and reviews another type of abstract reasoning pattern that you can find in your test.
In the previous section you have learned about simple abstract test patterns that comprise single rule. Below we will review questions in which patterns consist of two or more rules. In these questions you have to identify two rules to arrive at the correct answer. Adding on rules is a way to make the question more challenging. For the following let’s have a look at the first abstract reasoning question involving two rule pattern. Your task is to find similarity between the boxes of set A and Set B and then determine to which set test shapes belong. Set up your timer for 90 seconds to complete the below. You may begin now.
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Determine whether the test shapes belong to set A, set B or neither.
Did you figure out the pattern? If not don’t worry you are just getting started. If you inspect sets carefully you will find that each of the small symbols in boxes of set A touches the sides of the boxes whereas in set B the small shapes are away from the sides of the boxes. So, you can conclude the following.
- Test shape 1 contains items which are and aren't touching the sides of the boxes hence you can conclude that the correct answer must be C. That is, the test shape 1 does not belong to neither set because it contains both rules of set A and Set B.
- Looking at the test shape 2, based on the small shapes touching the edges you could conclude that it belongs to set A however considering that the Set A has large shape in the centre of each of its boxes you must conclude that this set does not belong to neither sets as the shape at centre of test shape is small. Remember to inspect the test pattern carefully in UKCAT abstract reasoning test and don’t jump into conclusions too soon.
- The test shape 3 has all its small shapes away from the edges of the box with large shape at its centre and thus you can conclude that the correct answer must be B. This example attempted to demonstrate abstract reasoning test patterns where you have to identify two rules to arrive at the correct answer.
Let’s review further UKCAT abstract reasoning question that consists of similar patterns. Set you stopwatch for 90 seconds and try to identify to which of the sets test shapes belong. You may begin now.
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Determine whether the test shapes belong to set A, set B or neither.
Did you find the pattern difficult? Note that each of the sets has three items in the boxes where each of the box of Set A comprise moon whereas boxes in Set B comprises diamond. Hence, based on this observation you may conclude that test shape 1 must belong to set A whereas test shapes 2 and 3 belongs to neither of the sets as they consist of only two shapes. If you found this useful and want to review more patterns then refer to tutorial on UKCAT abstract reasoning test patterns which will help you become familiar with test taking techniques and strategies.