Diagrammatic Reasoning Tests

Diagrammatic reasoning assesses both the strength of your inductive reasoning and your deductive capacity. It can be summed up by referring to these two distinctive categories.

These tests will check if you can draw conclusions from the premises, and how quickly it will take you to do so. Your task would be to deduce the underlying logic of a pattern and guess what is next to follow.

You will be presented with multiple options, and have to choose which one fits. To do this, you’ll need to view the shapes to find rules which can be applied across the sequence.

As this is the type of activity you’ll rarely come across in day-to-day life, it’s important to practice beforehand to familiarise yourself with the types of questions you’ll face.

Like with other psychometric tests, you’ll typically have about one minute per question.

Inductive reasoning is gathering pieces of information to form general conclusion. When applied to psychometric tests, it is when a candidate is able to extract data from multiple sources of provided information and then combine it to form a conclusion that would allow for answering a question.

Deductive reasoning is exactly the opposite of inductive reasoning and is known as “top – down logic”. Deduction means applying general rules to solve specific problems. A candidate that has a good deductive reasoning will be able to use a general rule or a knowledge to answer a specific question.