Practice Lab · Pattern and matrix reasoning

Pattern and matrix reasoning

Practice completing visual and symbolic matrices with worked explanations.

Untimed instructional practice for the Novus Reasoning Challenge. Explanations teach the reasoning process. These items are not unseen scored-form questions and do not produce an IQ score.

1. ■□■□■ ?
2. ▲▼▲▼▲ ?
3. Matrix row: 2 4 6 / next row starts 3 → ?
4. ◇◆◇◆◇ ?
5. Grid A B A / B A B / A B ?
6. ●○○●○○● ?
7. 1 0 1 / 0 1 0 / 1 0 ?
8. △ □ △ □ △ ?
9. Row sums equal 9: 2 3 4 / 1 5 ?
10. ▣▢▣▢▣ ?
11. Odd one in ■ ■ ■ ▲
12. X Y X / Y X Y / X Y ?
13. ◐◑◐◑ ?
14. 2 2 3 / 3 3 4 / 4 4 ?
15. ★☆★☆★ ?
16. Corners of a square grid labeled 1–4 clockwise from NW. After NW, NE is ?
17. Sequence of fills: solid hollow solid hollow — next?
18. ■ ■ □ / ■ □ ■ / □ ■ ?
19. 3×3 with center must match corners that are ●. Corners ●.○.● / ○.?.○ / ●.○.● → center?
20. Finish ▧▨▧▨ ?

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