Spatial Reasoning Test Practice

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mentally rotate the figure by the angle shown, then rebuild it on the grid. Mirrors the Cognify Resemble spatial-reasoning game.

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.

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.

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.