Solve the easiest official-type tasks correctly, without notes.
A row of four pictures follows a rule, and you find the next two. Each picture is a 4 × 4 grid holding one or more symbols. From picture to picture a symbol can move, turn or change colour, and under each of the two question marks there are three options to choose from.
The skill is not artistic; it is bookkeeping. You follow one symbol and one property at a time, say the rule to yourself, predict both missing pictures, and only then look at the options.
Every picture is the same 4 × 4 grid. To talk about where a symbol is, number the cells 1 to 16 in reading order: left to right along the top row (1–4), then the second row (5–8), and so on down to 16 in the bottom right corner.
At this level one symbol moves and nothing else changes. Most often it moves forward in reading order a fixed number of cells each time; sometimes it moves straight down a column, or a fixed number of cells right or down, coming back on the opposite edge when it leaves the grid.
Count the step from picture 1 to 2, from 2 to 3 and from 3 to 4. If all three steps are equal, you have the rule. Apply it twice: once for picture 5 and once more for picture 6.
Only now look at the options. Below each question mark exactly one option matches your prediction. Choosing from your prediction is faster and safer than comparing options with each other.
Try each task first. Then open the solution and compare the steps with yours.
Ten tasks at this level. Check each one as you go, or all ten at the end. Aim for about 75 seconds per task.
Eight new tasks with a timer, like a short piece of the real test. Reach 6 of 8 correct within 12 minutes to move up.
| Task | Answer | How to find it |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | 1st ?: bottom 2nd ?: bottom | The white square moves three cells down the columns. |
| P2 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: top | The black square moves two cells down the columns. |
| P3 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: middle | The black square moves three cells down the columns. |
| P4 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: top | The black diamond moves two cells in reading order. |
| P5 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: bottom | The white circle moves two cells in reading order. |
| P6 | 1st ?: bottom 2nd ?: bottom | The black diamond moves two cells in reading order. |
| P7 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: top | The black square moves one cell in reading order. |
| P8 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: middle | The black circle moves two cells in reading order. |
| P9 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: top | The black diamond moves two cells in reading order. |
| P10 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: top | The grey circle moves two cells down the columns. |
| Task | Answer | How to find it |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: middle | The black diamond moves two right each time (off one edge, back on the opposite edge). |
| C2 | 1st ?: bottom 2nd ?: middle | The grey square moves two cells down the columns. |
| C3 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: middle | The black diamond moves one cell in reading order. |
| C4 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: top | The grey diamond moves one down each time (off one edge, back on the opposite edge). |
| C5 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: middle | The white square moves two cells down the columns. |
| C6 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: top | The grey circle moves three cells down the columns. |
| C7 | 1st ?: top 2nd ?: top | The grey diamond moves three cells down the columns. |
| C8 | 1st ?: middle 2nd ?: top | The black square moves three cells in reading order. |
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