These are questions where a group of five or six two
dimensional shapes or elements are presented and you need to
determine which groups are rotations of each other. This is
slightly more complex than the rotations in the two-dimensional
shape matching questions.
1) Which of the Answer Figures is a rotation of the Question
Figure?
Answers
1) C
You need to be careful that you don’t identify reflections. The
best strategy is to choose the most asymmetrical shape in the
group – in this case the arrow. Then determine the shapes
‘clockwise’ and ‘anticlockwise’ and opposite. Thinking in these
terms is more logical than ‘right’, ‘left’ ‘above’ or ‘below’ as
‘clockwise’ etc are constant even when the figures are rotated.
In the example above, the white square is clockwise from the
arrow. This means that A, B and D cannot be rotations of the
Question Figure. This leaves only C as a possibility which can
quickly be checked element by element.
Remember that no logical manipulation of the figures is necessary,
you are only interested in identifying which of the answer figures
is identical to the question figure. These spatial rotation
questions are very common and are used in the tests supplied by
many of the major test providers. Because rotation only requires
manipulation in two-dimensions, these questions are much easier
than the three-dimensional cube questions.
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