hi everybody is Richard McMunn from the
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teacher how to prepare for and pass a
logical reasoning test so these kind of
tests are being used more commonly by
employers and recruiters to assess your
ability to interpret different shapes
and patterns so within this tutorial I
will give you a breakdown of what the
kind of questions are that you get asked
I will give you some tips on how to
score highly how to answer them quickly
and I will also give you some sample
questions to try out yourself before I
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much okay so logical reasoning tests do
not basically assess your knowledge per
se but rather they assess your non
verbal reasoning skills so our logical
reasoning is basically a broad spectrum
that covers spatial reasoning abstract
reasoning and also inductive reasoning
and we will look at those kind of
questions within this tutorial not a
purpose of these types of tests is to
see how you identify and evaluate
different patterns and relationships
between different shapes
now logical reasoning tests covers
different kind of cube nets and we will
look at that kind of question in a
second
completing sequences of shapes looking
for identical shapes within sequences
you have to connect shapes together and
you also have to look for rotations of
shapes and it's quite a broad spectrum
of different questions that you will
encounter so let's start looking at some
kind of different types of logical
reasoning tests so this question is
which cube can be made from the net that
is the net and we have to decide which
one when it's made up forms a B C or D
now for this type of question you need
to imagine that you are building the
cube from the net so the net has shapes
on it so you will see here on the net
that there are four black circles
there's a gray circle and a white circle
so we have to imagine folding down the
creases in
order to make the cube and then we need
to work out where each shape will be
positioned from the options available of
a B C or D so my advice is to choose one
particular area of the net and in this
particular aspect I'm going to choose
that gray circle and then if I look
around it I can see it's surrounded by
black circles and I can immediately
answer this question really quickly by
following that process because the only
one that has the gray circle that is
surrounded by black circles is D so my
answer would be straight away D so my
point is when tackling these kind of
questions is to focus on one particular
area of the net I mean you could focus
if you wanted to on the white circle and
then have a look for corresponding
shapes or colors of shapes around it and
either eliminate incorrect answers or
just choose straight away the correct
answer so let's have a go yourself now
it's your turn to have a go at a logical
reasoning test question so put your
answer to question two in the comments
section below the video and we will come
on in each day and mark them for you now
I have created a timer for you on the
right hand side that gives you around
about 15 seconds to answer the question
which is quite tough I will admit if you
find you need more time to answer the
question please do pause the video it's
important that you try this and get it
correct
so which cube from a B C or D can be
made from the net is the time
don't forget to put your answer in the
comment section below the video now what
I would like to do is try a similar
logical reasoning test question but
let's make it a little bit harder this
time
so which cube can be made from this net
so again don't just look at the whole
net and try and create a cube from it
just focus on one particular aspect or a
couple of aspects of the net to make the
cube so in this particular part I'm
going to look at that part there so we
can see that we've got that square with
those particular shapes and the one
above it now straight away I can see
that a is a match for that part but that
doesn't necessarily mean it's the
correct answer we would then need to
look at another aspect of the net and I
will look at that one there and then if
I join it up with that part when the the
actual net is made up a is actually the
correct answer now if I was working
through these and going along I might
find that a isn't the correct answer and
therefore I would eliminate that until I
actually reached the correct answer so
the correct answer for three is a so now
it's your turn to have a go at another
one and please put your answer to
question four in the comment section
below the video for marking so there's
the timer question for which cube can be
made from that net here's the timer put
your answer in the comment section below
please thank you
okay next question let's move on to a
different type of logical reasoning test
question this time so question five
which answer option completes the
sequence so we now have a sequence
across the top we have some rotating
arrows so we have to look at that one
that one that one that one and decide
from the answer options of ABC Theory
which one goes there now this is the way
to answer it
identify any pattern or trend in the
sequence so I can identify a cut in
there where the arrows are all pointing
clockwise so they're all going clockwise
all of them so from my point of view if
I look to the answer options any that
were going anti-clockwise or
counterclockwise stepping two is the
number of arrow shapes within each
square actually increases by one each
time so if we look that we've got one
arrow going clockwise then we've got two
which are both going clockwise three
clockwise for Chloe so there it would
need to be all arrows five of them going
clockwise and the only option from ABCD
or E is e so you can see there that
there are five all rotating clockwise so
the correct answer is e so again it's
just identifying any patterns or trends
in this case it's arrows going clockwise
and step two you can see that it's
increasing by one each time until we get
to five so it's just about remaining
calm when you're looking at these
questions and looking for a pattern or a
trend and even eliminating incorrect
answers or just going straight away for
the correct one so now it's your turn to
have another go please put your answer
question six in the comment section
below the video for marking again you
have a timer now I've given you a little
bit longer here because I think it's a
little bit tougher but I'll given you 20
seconds to answer this question so which
answer option completes the sequence
from ABCD or a here's a time
okay well done so hopefully you managed
to see what's going on there
with the sequence okay how its
developing look as they can eat more
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let's now take a look at a different
type of logical reasoning test question
this time we have to assess these shapes
and decide which to answer options are
identical now upon first inspection they
look all the same but my advice is to
use a process of elimination now this is
quite clever you have to focus on one
aspect of each shape and then decide you
know which one doesn't match so if we
look at a we can see there that there's
an eye there's actually a prominent
pattern there there are two rectangles
that are the same now if you look at B C
and D you can't see that pattern
anywhere else so therefore we can
eliminate a straight away now if we look
for another prominent feature on one of
the shapes if we look at those two
rectangles in C they align up okay now
you can't see that anywhere else on B C
or D so we can eliminate C straight away
and if we do the same on e we can see
that those two at the top are quite
close and it doesn't feature anywhere on
B or D which just leaves as B and D as
the correct answer so those two answer
options are identical and if you take
the time to look at them you'll see they
are identical so now if you'll turn to
our ago please put your answer to
question eight in the comment section
below the video for marking which to
answer options are identical and here's
the timer
brilliant well done try one more please
so this is a little bit tougher please
put your answer to question nine in the
comment section below the video for
marking which to answer options are
identical a b c d e so you choosing to
answer options here
here's a time
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a look at a different type of logical
reasoning test question and that is
question ten which answer option is made
by joining all of the shapes together
with the corresponding letter so we have
to join the the shapes together in the
place where the letters are so you'll
see that each arrow is surrounded by
letters we have to join them up in our
mind and decide from the answer options
a B C or D which is the correct one that
is a great way to tackle these what the
majority of people do is they try and
create the whole shape in their mind by
joining all of them up that's not the
way to do it the best way to tackle this
is to join one letter at a time and then
eliminate any obvious incorrect answers
so let me show you what I mean by that
if we look at D there we have to join D
with that part there because that's
where D goes and that would just look
like that so just do that first of all
and then eliminate any incorrect answers
well if we look at a the white arrow
there has a black arrow below it well
that means that it's incorrect the same
with be the same you see and that just
leaves D as the correct answer so
straight away without having to make the
whole the whole shape up by joining them
all together we can straight away answer
that as D and that is the trick forearms
are in these quickly is to just join one
part up together first of all and
eliminate any incorrect answers so now
if you'll turn 12 ago please put your
ass question 11 in the comment section
below the video for marking so which
answer option is made by joining all of
the shapes together with the
corresponding letters here's a time
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