Answers and explanations
1. All three examples are different solid black shapes containing one white circular spot. The solid black ellipse with a white spot follows the rule without repeating a shape from the row. Answer: C.
2. Each figure is an unshaded outline shape crossed by a horizontal line. Answer: A.
3. Each pair contains two identical shapes. The left shape is solid black and the right shape is unshaded. The pentagon pair is the only option that preserves both conditions. Answer: B.
4. Each figure has a solid shape above a different unshaded shape. Answer: A.
5. Each example contains exactly three matching unshaded shapes. But the mumber of their sides grows from 0 in a cicrle ( informally called as 1 curved side) to 5 in a pentagon. The group of three unshaded pentagons follows the same rule. Answer: D.
6. Each example has an unshaded outer shape and a smaller solid shape of a different kind inside it. Answer: A.
7. Each example is unshaded and has one black dot at the top. The solid ellipse is a distractor because it introduces an extra change. Answer: A.
8. The arrow points to the right in every example. The ellipse with a right-pointing arrow continues the rule without repeating a shape from the row. Answer: C.
9. The row contains three different solid black shapes. A solid black heart adds another different shape while preserving the shared feature. Answer: A.
10. Each figure contains 2 different unshaded shapes placed side by side. Answer: A.
11. Each outer shape contains a smaller unshaded copy of itself. The pentagon containing a smaller unshaded pentagon follows the rule. Answer: C.
12. Each example contains exactly two identical solid shapes. The pair of solid hearts is the only option that keeps all three features. Answer: B.
13. Each unshaded shape has one black dot on its left side. The pentagon follows the same rule and introduces a new shape. Answer: A.
14. The arrows rotate clockwise from up to right to down, so the next arrow must point left. The pentagon also keeps the shapes different. Answer: D.
15. The smaller white shape moves clockwise around the larger black shape: top, right, bottom, then left. The black heart with a smaller white heart on its left continues the sequence. Answer: A.
16. Each pair contains 2 different shapes, with only the right-hand shape solid. Answer: A.
17. The crossing bar alternates horizontal, vertical, horizontal, so the next bar must be vertical. The heart is a new figure and therefore continues the changing-shape pattern. Answer: A.
18. Each example contains exactly four identical unshaded shapes in the same arrangement. The four unshaded pentagons follow the rule. Answer: D.
19. The small solid shape moves anticlockwise around the inside edge of the larger outline shape: right, top, left, then bottom; besides, it is always different. The pentagon with the small solid heart at the bottom continues the sequence. Answer: A.
20. Each figure contains two identical shapes stacked vertically, with the upper shape unshaded and the lower shape solid. At the same time there is a vertical line which moves from left to right from figure to figure and should start the loop again fron its position on the left of the upper figure. The pair of hexagons with such a line follows the rule without repeating a shape from the row. Answer: A.
21. The dot moves around the outside of the figures by quarter-turns: right, bottom, left, then top. The unshaded heart with a black dot at the top continues the sequence. Answer: A.
22. Every arrow begins at the centre of the outline shape and points left. The pentagon with a left-pointing arrow follows the rule while introducing a new shape. Answer: D.
23. The two shapes in each pair are identical, with one solid and one unshaded. The solid shape alternates right, left, right, so it must be on the left next; therefore, the unshaded hexagon is on the right. Answer: C.
24. Each outline shape is crossed by a rising dotted diagonal line. The hexagon with the same dotted diagonal line follows the rule and introduces a new shape. Answer: B.
