TYPE -2 : CHOOSING THE MISSING FIGURE IN A SERIES

1 TYPE -2 : CHOOSING THE MISSING FIGURE IN A SERIES . In this type of questions, two sets of figures 2. are. The given first set will be the question set and it consists of five figures , labelled A, B, C, D, E. The second set is the answer set. There A B C D E. are five answer choices numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. However the FIGURE at C is MISSING . The candi- date is required to choose this FIGURE from the alternatives 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The number of se- lected FIGURE is the answer. 1 2 3 4 5. The easiest method for CHOOSING the MISSING At first note the movement. The star moves FIGURE is to observe the SERIES from the first and one side ACW and the triangle moves one side CW. So eliminate the figures (1) and last FIGURE .

2 (3). Note the rotation of triangle. Triangle move 900 CW. So eliminate the figures (4). 1. and (5). Hence answer is (2). 3. A B C D E A B C D E. 1 2 3 4 5. In upper right corner of the square, appears 1 2 3 4 5 a new FIGURE . The FIGURE (3) can be elimi- nated. The element in the square rotates in In eg: (1) The lines and dots decrease by an order. So figures (1), (2) and (4) are ruled one in each step. So the answer is (4). out. Hence the answer is (5). PRACTICE TEST. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS Also an arrow is added to the FIGURE in one 1.

3 (3) : The step increases by 1 in each turn. step and it gets reversed. 18. (2) : The dot moves half side and one side 2. (1) : One leaf is added in each step and the of the square alternately ACW and the sym- FIGURE is rotated 450 CW direction. bols are added before and after the dot in 3. (5) : The dot in the upper part increases by alternate steps. one in each step. So the figures (1), (3) and 19. (1) : In each step the rightmost element be- (4) are ruled out. The dot in the lower part comes the left most and the other elements decreases by one in each step. So elimi- nate the FIGURE (2). move to the right. The element that reaches 4. (2) : Three, four, five, .. lines are added the middle position rotates 900 CW while in subsequent steps.

4 The third element gets replaced by a new one. 5. (3) : The three central figures move one step 20. (5) : The outerfigure rotates 900 ACW in towards left and the cross moves from cor- every second step. ner to corner in CW direction each time. 21. (3) : The arrow gets laterally inverted in every 6. (4) : The inner small FIGURE becomes the second step. The remaining part of the fig- outer large and a new small FIGURE appears ure rotates through 1800 in one step and inside it in. gets inverted in alternate step. The com- 7. (5) : The squares in the upper left, lower left plete FIGURE moves to the adjacent corner and lower right corners rotate 900 CW while one ACW in each step. in the upper right corner rotates 900 ACW.

5 22. (3) : The triangle changes its position in each 8. (3) : The two pairs of symbols interchange step and gets inverted in all steps while the other positions in one step and a new symbol is symbol at the end of the line changes its posi- added to each pair in the next step. tion and is replaced by a new one in each step. 9. (5) : Arcs on the right side and left side of 23. (1) : The elements rotates 900 ACW after striaght line are inverted in alternate steps. every two steps. 10. (2) : The symbols move ACW each time 24. (2) : The number of dots increased by one and the symbol that reaches the left side and the dots move in a set pattern. position gets replaced by a new symbol.

6 25. (2) At first, the first, second and third trian- 11. (3) : One line is added inside the square in each gles get rotated through 1800; next step, sec- step. One plus sign is removed each time and ond, third and fourth triangles get rotated through the remaining plus signs are rotated 450. 1800; in the third step, third, fourth and fifth tri- 12. (1) : Horizontal shading moves clockwise angles get rotated through 1800 and so on. and vertical shading moves anticlockwise. 26. (1) The element at the north-west moves to 13. (5) : The left side symbols interchange their the north - east in each step. New element positions with the right side symbols. One is placed at south-east in each step.

7 The of the right side symbol is replaced by a middle FIGURE s' becomes K ' in each step. new one in each time. 14. (2) : In each step. Also the symbol that 27. (2) : The elements rotate 900 ACW and a new reaches the lower right position gets in- L' shaped element is introduced in the FIGURE . verted and the symbol that reaches the 28. (1) : The first and last symbols interchange upper left position gets replaced by a new their positions in each step. A new symbol one in each step. appears as the first symbol (counting in a 15. (4) : The FIGURE rotates, 450, 900, 1350, 1800, CW direction) and all the symbols move half a .. CW in each step. side of the square boundary, in ACW direction.

8 16. (2) : The symbols move in an order in each 29. (5) : Fourth element in first step, first ele- step. The symbol in the lower right corner ment in second step, second element in disappears and a new symbol appears in third step, ..remains no change. the upper right corner. Amongst the other elements, the smaller 17. (4): An arc is added inside the square in ones are enlarged while the larger ones are one step and it comes out of the square made smaller. The triangle gets rotated 1800. and reverses its direction in the other step. and the arc gets rotated through 1800. 30. (2) : The first unit in cloumn 1, the third unit in 39. (3) : The elements move half distance CW. coloumn 1, the third unit in column 2, and the and a new FIGURE is added to it in each step.

9 First unit in column 2 are removed respectively. The first, third, fifth symbols rotate 900 CW. 31. (4) : In each step the leftmost element becomes in each step, while the second, forth, .. the rightmost and all other element moves one symbols rotates 900 ACW in each step. step to the left. The J' shaped element gets 40. (4) : The lines move one step ACW in each laterally inverted in each step; the elements with turn. Simultaneously the sign placed oppo- triangle and arc at their end get inverted in each site to these lines move one step ACW and in step and the arrow gets inverted and also the each turn the sign is replaced by a new one. arrowhead reverses its direction in each step.

10 41. The first, second, third and fourth symbols 32. (3) : The shading portion in the upper left from the top become fourth, third, first and and lower right rotate 900 CW and the shading second symbols respectively. The P' shaped portion in the upper right and lower left rotates symbol gets inverted and laterally inverted 900 ACW in each step. Also the lower half of a alternately. The arrow gets inverted and its new square gets shaded in each step. arrowhead also gets inverted in each step;. 33. (2) : In each step the symbols move in the the L' shaped symbol rotates through 1800. order. T he tri angle rotates and gets inverted. The U' shaped element 900 CW in each step; the arrow rotates 900.