Continue the pattern: which option belongs in the empty fifth box? Four boxes in a row, then a fifth box marked with a question mark. Box 1: an arrow pointing up-right, with a dot at the top-left corner. Box 2: an arrow pointing down-right, with a dot at the middle of the right edge. Box 3: an arrow pointing down-left, with a dot at the bottom-left corner. Box 4: an arrow pointing up-left, with a dot at the middle of the top edge.

Figure 1 (A box containing an arrow pointing up-left, with a dot at the bottom-right corner.)

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Continue the pattern: which option belongs in the empty fifth box?

Figure 1

Correct answerYour answerFigure 2 A box containing an arrow pointing up-right, with a dot at the middle of the top edge.

Correct answerYour answerFigure 3 A box containing an arrow pointing up-right, with a dot at the bottom-right corner.

Correct answerYour answerFigure 4 A box containing an arrow pointing down-left, with a dot at the bottom-right corner.

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer C

Correct answer: C

The arrow turns 90° clockwise each time: up-right, down-right, down-left, up-left, so next it points up-right.
The dot moves 3 places clockwise round the box each time (the 4 corners and 4 edge midpoints are the 8 places): from the middle of the top edge it goes to the bottom-right corner.
Figure 3 shows an arrow pointing up-right, with a dot at the bottom-right corner.

Worth noting

Track one element at a time across all four boxes, and check each option against every rule; each wrong figure here breaks exactly one of them.

Ten questions from Non-verbal Reasoning, at your own pace.

Ten questions from Non-verbal Reasoning, at your own pace.