Logical Reasoning Test Practice
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Logical Reasoning Practice Tests

Inductive Reasoning
Identify the rule(s) governing a sequence of shape frames and select the correct next frame. Mirrors the SHL Verify Inductive Reasoning test format.

scales ix (Inductive Reasoning)
Nine objects are shown and eight of them obey a hidden rule. Find the one that breaks it. Five minutes, rapid-fire, negative marking. Mirrors the Aon cut-e scales ix test.

scales cls (Inductive Reasoning)
Two groups of grids each follow a different hidden rule. Work out the rules, then decide which group an unmarked grid belongs to. Mirrors the Aon cut-e scales cls logical test. Twelve minutes, negatively marked, so skip rather than guess.

Deductive Reasoning
Given a set of premises, judge whether each conclusion definitely follows, possibly follows, or does not follow. Mirrors the SHL Verify Deductive Reasoning test.

Logic Word Problems
Fifteen long word problems on ordering, scheduling, rules and tables, each with five options and exactly one forced answer. One 20-minute clock, no going back, and an unanswered question counts against you.

Spatial: Aircraft Relationships
A large aircraft, a small aircraft and sometimes an eye, shown for two seconds, with a statement such as "the small aircraft is on the left". Decide True or False from the right point of view before the picture goes.

switchChallenge (Deductive Logic)
A row of symbols is rearranged into a new order by hidden operator "codes". Work out the missing code that produces the output. Six minutes of gamified deductive logic. Mirrors the Aon smartPredict switchChallenge (scales sx).

Elements Logical
Work out the rule governing a sequence of abstract figures and pick the frame that comes next. Individually timed questions that get harder while you keep answering correctly. Mirrors the Talent Q Elements Logical test.

Occupational Reasoning
The reasoning part of the USA Hire battery: statements you mark True, False or Insufficient Information, scheduling puzzles and short arguments. Each question has its own five-minute clock and gets harder while you keep answering correctly.

Assembling Objects (AO)
The last CAT-ASVAB subtest: 15 adaptive questions in 18 minutes. Choose which figure shows the parts put together, either by matching lettered points along a line or by fitting pieces like a puzzle. Pieces turn but never flip.

Logiks Abstract
Complete the 3x3 matrix by selecting the shape that fits the pattern. Modelled on Raven-style matrices, this mirrors the abstract section of the Cubiks Logiks General test.

Abstract Reasoning
Spot the rule across a sequence of shape frames and choose what comes next. Mirrors the abstract items in the PI Cognitive Assessment (PICA) - the strongest single predictor of learning speed.

Diagrammatic Reasoning
Trace inputs through flowchart rules to determine the correct output shape. Tests logical rule application and sequential processing.

BRAIN
Build the missing figure in a sequence by stacking pieces, with three minutes a sequence and a Pass button. Adaptive: the next item gets harder or easier with each answer, as in AssessFirst’s real reasoning test.

CCAT Spatial Reasoning
Rotate and flip figures mentally, identify the odd one out and complete figure series. The spatial third of the CCAT, and the item type candidates most often skip when they should be guessing.

EEI Figural Reasoning
Figural Reasoning from POSS, the plant operator battery: 20 questions in 10 minutes across Picture Series, Picture Comparison and Picture Progression, each with five options.

EEI Assembling Objects
Assembling Objects from MASS, the power plant maintenance battery: 20 questions in 15 minutes. Join lettered parts at the matching points, or fit unlabelled pieces together like a puzzle, and pick the one correct assembly of four.

EEI Analytic Thinking Skills
Analytic Thinking Skills from SO/PD II, the system operator battery: 23 questions in 45 minutes. Seven argument questions, five problem-solving questions on two passages and a fact list, and eleven statements to judge TRUE, FALSE or INDETERMINABLE.

EEI Reasoning from Rules
Reasoning from Rules from TECH, the technician battery: short sets of routing rules and cases to apply them to, four options each. EEI publishes no length or clock, so 15 questions in 15 minutes is our practice clock.

EEI Interpreting Diagrams
Interpreting Diagrams from TECH: a sector map with a symbol legend, and questions on how many of something are where and what state it is in. EEI publishes no length or clock, so 20 questions in 15 minutes is our practice clock.

Revelian Abstract Reasoning Test (RART)
Revelian’s separately sold abstract paper: 32 questions in 10 minutes. Four of the six figures are alike in some way; your job is to pick the other two.

GCAT Abstract Drill
The GCAT's abstract questions on their own: 20 in 10 minutes, adaptive, six options, generated fresh every time. Rotating shapes, clock faces, shapes moving round a tile and symbol sets. A practice format, not a separate Podium test.

GIA Spatial Visualisation
Each box holds two symbols. Count how many boxes hold a rotated copy rather than a mirror image, and click that number. Extra speed here buys nothing if it costs errors.

Kenexa Logical Reasoning
Work out the rule governing a sequence of shape frames and pick the frame that continues it. 24 questions on one 20-minute clock, no words and no numbers. Mirrors the Kenexa / IBM logical reasoning test (LRT).

Kenexa Computer Adaptive Test
One adaptive sitting mixing verbal, numerical and logical items. Answer correctly and the next item gets harder; answer wrongly and it gets easier. You cannot go back, and your result reflects the difficulty you reached rather than the raw count you got right.

DAA Spatial Reasoning
Two separately timed parts: join flat shapes by their labelled sides (10 in 4 minutes), then spot which turned pair of block objects keeps both marked corners (10 in 3 minutes). Mirrors the Spatial Reasoning section of the Defence Aptitude Assessment.

Adaptive Matrigma
Twelve minutes of 3x3 matrix puzzles that get harder when you are right and easier when you are wrong, with a separate sixty-second clock on every single item. Eight figures are shown and you pick the ninth from six options. Mirrors the Adaptive Matrigma, the version Assessio calls the most common.

Classic Matrigma
The older fixed form: thirty-five matrix items in one generous forty-minute sitting, where difficulty rather than the clock is what stops you. Only thirty of the thirty-five count toward your score, exactly as in the real test.

Q1000 Capaciteiten
The Dutch Assessio Bloom capacity battery, sold as eelloo until 2024: four timed subtests back to back, each question on its own clock of twenty-five to seventy seconds, with no going back. Diagrammen gives you twenty-five seconds a question, the tightest budget of any test on this site.

Alva Logic Test
Twenty 3x3 matrix tasks, each on its own two-minute clock with no overall timer. The test picks every task from how you are doing, a blank counts as wrong, and your result comes back on Alva’s own 1 to 10 scale.

Bridge Abstract
Not a matrix test. Worked examples show what each operator key does to a figure, then you are shown a start figure and an end figure and have to say which key did it. Working the rule out backwards is the whole task. 25 questions on one 17-minute clock. Mirrors the Bridge Abstract subtest of The Bridge Ability Suite.

Figurenreeksen (Abstract Reasoning)
Ixly figural reasoning, mixing the 3x3 grid its own manual shows with the progressive figure series its product page describes. Four options labelled A to D, 45 seconds an item, adaptive difficulty.

Cognitive Ability Pro
Ixly's current flagship: one integrated 15-minute run with no blocks, where the question type changes almost every item in random order. The switching cost is the point, and it is what makes this a different test from the three subtests sat back to back.

Stroomdiagrammen (Procedural Reasoning)
Learn a legend of operations, then trace a starting figure through a chain of them and pick the figure that comes out. Ixly sells this for logistics, technical and software roles at HBO level and above.

Insights Inductive Reasoning
Fifteen figure sequences with the next frame missing, sixty seconds each and no borrowing time from the next item. Adaptive, with difficulty tuned to the 70% success rate Test Partnership targets.

Concepts Critical Thinking
The high-stakes test in the range, and four item types in one sitting: constraint deduction, conclusion evaluation, argument strength on a six-point scale, and inference. Each block carries its own clock.

MindmetriQ Pipe Puzzle
Rotate pipe segments to join two endpoints around solid obstacles, with a limited supply of pipes. Planning the route before you touch anything is the whole skill.

Logical Reasoning
Find the rule running through a sequence of shape frames and choose the frame that comes next. Sova describes it as pattern recognition and abstract thinking using shapes and sequences.

ACER Abstract Reasoning (TAR)
Shape sequences and matrices in ACER's own three styles: next in the sequence, complete the pattern, and order the shapes and choose the middle one. Choose the Victoria Police clock (45 questions in 20 minutes) or the Fire Rescue Victoria and Queensland Police clock (30 in 35), because the same test runs at 2.6 times the pace depending on who invited you.

Sea Wolf Ocean Treatment
Clean three contaminated ocean sites, each with exactly three microbes whose average attributes must land inside the site ranges. Efficiency starts at 100% and every violated constraint costs 20. Procedurally generated, so no two runs deal the same microbes, and a perfect treatment is not always available.

Shapedance
Spot the two tiles carrying the same pattern while the shapes rotate and the patterns grow more intricate.

Singularity
Find the one shape that differs, as distractors multiply and the difference narrows to a single feature.

Pathfinder
Slide the tiles to build a continuous path between two endpoints, with five minutes on the clock.

Exam 955: Spatial Relations
The second part of Exam 955: which figure the pieces make, and which block object has the top, front and right views shown. 68 questions in 40 minutes.

2D to 3D
The third TAB section, and the one candidates find hardest: match the numbered edges of a flat pattern to the lettered edges of the solid it folds into. Six drawings in 15 minutes, with no going back.

Letterpatronen (Letter Patterns)
A part of the Dutch police cognitietest. A row or a small table of letters with two cells missing, and you type the two letters that make the pattern work. Adaptive, starting easy, with no clock on screen until ten seconds remain.

Cognitietest (Full CCT)
The whole cognitieve capaciteitentest in one sitting: Letterpatronen, Woordrelaties and Cijferpatronen back to back, each adaptive on its own, with a pause allowed between parts and never inside one. The police decide on the three parts combined.

Connector Ability: Figure Series
The first part of GITP’s Connector Ability (Figuurreeksen). Four frames of small shapes that move round a three by three grid, and you pick the fifth from four. Adaptive, 90 seconds an item, an unanswered item counts as wrong, and speed is not scored.

Connector Ability: Matrices
The second part of Connector Ability (Matrixen). A 3x3 grid of figures with the bottom-right cell missing, changing along the rows and down the columns at the same time. Four options, adaptive, 90 seconds an item.

Connector Ability (Full Test)
The whole Connector Ability in one sitting: Figure Series, Matrices and Number Series in GITP’s order, each adaptive with its own clock on every item and an untimed break between parts. Your overall result is estimated from every answer together, as GITP’s G-factor is.

ACT Deductive Reasoning
Two statements compare three people or things. Press Next, the statements vanish, and answer a question about them from memory. The one section descended directly from the old BARB.

ACT Orientation
Memorise two rules about a stacked pair of black and white arrows, then pick the one pair of six that obeys both with the rules gone. Arrows point in eight directions, diagonals included.

Matrizen (Matrices)
A 3 x 3 grid of figures with the bottom-right cell missing: choose which of eight numbered figures completes it. Adaptive over five levels, as the Bundeswehr says its CAT is, with the eight options beside the grid as in its own Assessment Trainer.

Fahrtstrecken (Route Turns)
A route with right-angled corners enters a frame and ends in an arrowhead: count how many turns go left, or right, from the traveller’s point of view. Routes grow longer and run down the page more as you get them right.

Clevry Abstract Reasoning (Enhanced)
Sixteen shape sequences with one or two rules each, 24 minutes on one clock. Choose the frame that comes next; there is no Skip and no Back.

Clevry Abstract Reasoning (Expert)
Sixteen shape sequences with two or three rules moving at once, and 45 minutes to find them: the most generous clock Clevry sets, because the items need it.

TMA Logisch Figuurlijk Inzicht (Figure Series)
Fifteen figure series, grids and odd-one-out rows in 10 minutes. The question line tells you whether to find the figure for the gap or the one that does not belong, and reading it is half the test.

Abstracte Matrix test
LTP’s own abstract reasoning test, the LTP Matrix: twenty-five 3x3 figure puzzles in twenty minutes, getting harder as you go. Eight figures are shown and you pick the ninth from eight options. You can skip an item and come back, and only correct answers count.

G-test
LTP’s general ability test: fifty non-verbal items with matrices, number series, number analogies, figure analogies, figure series and pattern folding mixed through one paper. LTP does not publish the time limit; this uses the twenty minutes preparation sites report, and nobody is expected to finish.

Exclusion (Logisch nadenken met plaatjes)
Five figures in a row: four share a principle and one does not. Find the odd one out. 30 items on one 7-minute clock, easy to hard, no penalty for a wrong answer. Mirrors the Exclusie subtest of the NOA MCT-M and MCT-H capaciteitentest, and the item type in Harver’s Logical Reasoning (Exclusion).

Components (Combineren van vormen)
A figure cut into two, three or four pieces, turned and pulled apart. Tick the two complete shapes, out of six, that those pieces make. 30 items in 9 minutes. Mirrors the Componenten subtest of the NOA capaciteitentest, and Harver’s Spatial Ability (Components).

Mirror Images (Omdraaien van plaatjes)
One line figure and six turned copies of it. Exactly two of the six have also been flipped over: tick them. 30 items on a 15-minute clock. Mirrors the Spiegelbeelden subtest of the NOA MCT-M and MCT-H.

Logical Reasoning (Exclusion)
Five figures: four follow a rule and one does not. Pick the odd one out, then press Next. 30 items on one 7-minute clock, easy to hard, with no Skip and no penalty for a wrong answer. Mirrors the Logical Reasoning subtest of Harver’s NOA Cognitive Ability module.

Spatial Ability (Components)
A figure cut into pieces and pulled apart, and six whole shapes. Select the 2 shapes that match the example, as Harver’s own screen puts it. 30 items in 10 minutes, and both picks must be right. Mirrors Harver’s Spatial Ability subtest.

EPSO Abstract Reasoning
Ten series of five figures in 10 minutes: work out the rule and choose which of five options comes next. Elements move and swap cells, turn, flip between outline and solid, change shape or multiply. Generated fresh every sitting. Scored with numerical reasoning against one combined bar of 10 out of 20.

Master CORE (Matrices)
Master International’s screening test: 19 figure matrices from easy to hard on a 35-minute clock. Unlike most matrix tests you can skip a question and it comes back after the last one, so a hard item never has to cost you the easy ones behind it.

Master ACE (Adaptive Reasoning)
The adaptive Adjustable Competence Evaluation: 12 questions in 30 minutes mixing number problems, figure matrices, word analogies and logic grids. Each answer sets the difficulty of the next, a calculator is allowed, and a skipped question counts as a wrong one.

General Competency Test: Level 2 Abridged (GCT-2A)
The GCT-2A-324 that replaced the GCT2-314 in July 2025: number and letter series, office numerical problems and analytical reasoning sets, 50 questions in 120 minutes with a calculator. Free navigation, Mark for Review and a question list as on the Candidate Assessment Tool, scored against the real pass mark of 31 out of 50. Half paper option.

General Competency Test: Level 1 (GCT-1)
The GCT-1-207 used in place of a secondary school diploma: short memos, practical numerical problems and rules to apply, including the A only, B only, Both or Neither questions. 50 questions in 85 minutes with a calculator, scored against the real pass mark of 28 out of 50. Half paper option.

CritiCall Map Reading
Street maps with one-way streets, turn bans, rivers and railway lines. Choose the most direct legal route, or follow directions and say where you end up, without mixing up left and right.

TestGorilla Critical Thinking
Syllogisms, statement relationships, assumptions and strengthen or weaken items, each opened by the long definitions TestGorilla puts on every question. 12 questions in 12 minutes (TestGorilla does not publish the count, so 12 is ours). The only cognitive test TestGorilla rates Advanced.

TestGorilla Problem Solving
Scheduling and rate problems, six-slot ordering puzzles with rules, and tables to filter against a customer's requirements. 12 questions in 9 minutes, the shortest clock in TestGorilla's cognitive library, with the ordering puzzles generated fresh each sitting.

TestGorilla Abstract Reasoning
Fifty figure series in 10 minutes: four panels change by a rule and you pick the fifth from options A to E. Built so that almost nobody finishes, and scored as a percentile. Generated fresh every sitting.

TestGorilla Rapid Cognitive Index
TestGorilla's RCI, a 10-minute general screener for entry-level and high-volume roles: verbal, then abstract, then numerical questions. 30 questions, ten of each (TestGorilla does not publish the count, so 30 is ours).

TestGorilla Computational Thinking
Short scenarios with no code: encode a list as runs, trace a step-by-step method, break a feature into ordered steps and pick the abstraction that fits. 12 questions in 10 minutes (TestGorilla does not publish the count, so 12 is ours).

TestGorilla Spatial Reasoning
Turn solids made of cubes in your head, fold nets into cubes, fit flat pieces into a shape and find the next figure in a series. 12 questions in 10 minutes, four options each.
What Logical Reasoning Measures
Rule finding
Almost every item comes down to identifying one or two rules operating at once, then applying them one step further. The rules themselves are simple; spotting which one is in play is the test.
Working memory
You have to hold several candidate rules in mind while you check each against the sequence. This is why performance drops so sharply when candidates are tired or rushed.
Resistance to red herrings
Every item contains features that vary without meaning anything. Deciding what to ignore is as important as deciding what to track.
Question Formats
Inductive reasoning
Infer the rule from a series of examples and choose what comes next. This is the SHL Inductive test and the Aon scales ix and scales cls tests. It is the most widely used of the five.
Deductive reasoning
Apply rules you have been given to reach a conclusion that must be true. Covers syllogisms, seating and ordering puzzles, and the Aon switchChallenge, where you apply a stated operator to a display under heavy time pressure.
Abstract reasoning
Identify the rule running across a matrix or a row of shape frames and select the missing frame. Used by Cubiks Logiks Abstract and by the abstract section of the PI Cognitive Assessment.
Diagrammatic reasoning
Follow an input through a flowchart of operators and work out the output, or work backwards to find the missing operator. This is the Saville Diagrammatic Analysis format, and it is common in engineering and technology recruitment.
Spatial reasoning
Rotate, fold, reflect or match shapes in your head. It appears as its own section in the Criteria CCAT and inside broader cognitive batteries rather than as a standalone test.
How to Prepare
Check one feature at a time
Run a fixed checklist: shape, count, shading, rotation, position, size. Working through it in the same order every time is faster than staring at the whole frame hoping the rule appears.
Rotation and reflection are the usual suspects
They are the two most common rules and the two most often confused. If a shape looks rotated, check whether it is actually mirrored before you commit.
Eliminate rather than search
Finding one feature that rules out three of five options is normally quicker than proving the correct answer outright, and it is far more reliable under time pressure.
Know whether your test is adaptive
Aon scales ix and Korn Ferry Elements adapt: a correct answer makes the next item harder. Getting questions wrong late on is expected and is not the disaster it feels like.
Set a hard time limit per item
If no rule has surfaced in about 20 seconds, guess and move. On these tests one abandoned question costs far less than two rushed ones later.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning tests?
Inductive tests give you examples and ask you to infer the general rule, so you are reasoning from specific cases to a pattern. Deductive tests give you the rules and ask you to apply them to reach a conclusion that must follow. Inductive tests are the more common of the two in graduate screening.
What is an abstract reasoning test?
A test that uses shapes and symbols with no verbal or numerical content, asking you to identify the pattern across a sequence or matrix and select the missing element. In practice, abstract, inductive and non-verbal reasoning are used almost interchangeably by different vendors for very similar tests.
Can you improve at logical reasoning tests?
Yes. The underlying ability moves slowly, but scores move quickly, because most of the early gain comes from knowing the rule vocabulary. Once rotation, reflection, alternation, progression and addition or subtraction of elements are familiar, you spend your time applying rules rather than discovering that they exist.
How are adaptive logical reasoning tests scored?
Adaptive tests such as Aon scales ix adjust difficulty as you go and score on the difficulty of the items you answered correctly, not on the raw number right. That is why two candidates can answer the same number correctly and receive different scores, and why a run of hard questions near the end is a good sign.
Which employers use logical reasoning tests?
They are heavily used in engineering, technology, consulting and finance, where the roles involve unfamiliar problems rather than a fixed body of knowledge. Airbus, Siemens, Thales and WSP screen with game-based and reasoning assessments, and Aon cut-e tests are common across European graduate hiring.
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