Fifty questions on shape sequences, pattern rules, visual classification and spatial reasoning, scored automatically.
50 questions|100 marks|Suggested time: 40 minutes
✦
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Ready for the Patterns and Shapes test?
Work on your own and choose the best answer for each question. You can move backwards and forwards, review unanswered questions, and finish when you are ready.
50Questions
100Maximum marks
40Suggested minutes
Please note: This is an IQ-style reasoning activity, not a clinically validated or standardized IQ test. Your result is a practice score, not an official IQ score.
Each correct answer earns 2 marks; there is no negative marking.
Choose one answer for each question.
A timer is provided as a guide; you can still submit after it reaches zero.
For the fairest result, avoid calculators, search engines and help from others.
SECTION 1 OF 5
Numerical Reasoning
TIME ELAPSED00:00
Question 1 of 500 answered
QUESTION 012 MARKS
Tip: You can change any answer before submitting.
✓
ASSESSMENT COMPLETE
Your results
0/100
0 correct0 incorrect0 unanswered
Performance by section
How to interpret this: This score reflects performance on this practice question set only. It must not be converted into an IQ number or used to diagnose ability. The test has not been standardized across age groups.
Answer review
Correct answers and a short explanation for each question are shown below for learning. Your selected answers are identified where available.
Last updated: 30 October 2026. Written by the EDUSAMBAM Editorial Team. This is an IQ-style practice activity for learning. It is not a clinically validated IQ test and does not give an IQ score.
About this patterns and shapes test
Pattern and spatial reasoning is the closest to the matrix-style items used in many IQ tests. Here the shapes and symbols are shown as text, so you will find sequences, classify shapes, imagine turning and folding, and decide which rule fits.
How to get the most from it
For each sequence, write down what changes at every step: the shape, the count, the position or the direction. Try to state the rule in one sentence before you look at the options.
What this test practises
Spatial and pattern reasoning asks you to build a picture in your mind and then change it: turn it, fold it or extend it. Because the shapes here are described with words and symbols, the test also trains you to translate a description into an image. These skills are used in geometry, map reading, engineering drawing, packing a suitcase and assembling furniture from a diagram.
A worked example
Rotation: An arrow points up. At each step it turns 90° clockwise. Where does it point after three steps?
Answer: Left. Step 1: right. Step 2: down. Step 3: left. Picture the hand of a clock moving from 12 to 3, then 6, then 9.
Repeating pattern: ▲ ● ■ ▲ ● ■ ▲ ?
Answer: ●. The group of three shapes repeats, so after ▲ comes ● again.
Common mistakes and how to avoid them
Turning the shape the wrong way. Always check whether the question says clockwise or anticlockwise.
Noticing one change in a sequence and missing a second change that happens at the same time.
Guessing from the answer options instead of stating the rule first.
Trying to hold a complex fold in your head when a quick sketch would be faster.
Your mark out of 100 shows how you did on these 50 questions on one day. It is not an IQ number, because a real IQ score comes from a standardised test given and interpreted by a qualified psychologist and compared with a large norm group. Use the section scores to choose what to practise, and retake the test after a week or two to see progress. Tiredness, noise and stress change results, so one low score is not a verdict on your ability.
Sources and evidence
Raven, J. (2000). The Raven’s Progressive Matrices: Change and stability over culture and time. Cognitive Psychology, 41(1), 1-48.
Uttal, D. H. et al. (2013). The malleability of spatial skills: A meta-analysis of training studies. Psychological Bulletin, 139(2), 352-402.
Carroll, J. B. (1993). Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies. Cambridge University Press.