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Non-Verbal Reasoning

8 categories · 32 topics

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Not every area tests non-verbal reasoning. It isn't in the FSCE schools' tests, or in Torbay, Sutton or Essex (CSSE). Gloucestershire drops it from 2028 entry.

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Classification

Identify which figure is most unlike or most like others based on shared visual features: size, shape, fill, and orientation

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Series & Sequences

Identify the rule governing a sequence of figures and find the next or missing figure

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Analogies

Apply the relationship between a pair of figures to a new figure

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Matrices

A grid of figures follows a rule across rows and columns: find the missing cell

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Codes

Figures are encoded using letter codes that describe their features: decode a new figure or encode a given one

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Reflection, Rotation & Symmetry

Visual recognition of transformed shapes: no coordinate grids, purely visual

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Shape Construction & Transformation

How shapes combine, overlap, or change when features are added or removed

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Spatial Reasoning

Three-dimensional thinking, mental manipulation, and spatial analysis

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