Abstract Reasoning

[sarcastic_strawberries]

Okay, I have the UKCAT tomorrow (eek!) and I really can't make links between the sets. Like I can't find the differences at ALL. I did the practice test online and the short practice and got around 40% right on both.

How do you go about it? I used the "Passing the UKCAT" book but it doesn't seem to work. Please help!!! I only have a couple of hours to do something. ThanksSs!!

[Nerrep]

Look at the answer sheet on the UKCAT website: it describes some of the commonly used patterns. You can't (and shouldn't - it wouldn't help that much) expect to learn them, but it will give you an idea of things to hunt for in the sets.

[Doc.Oc]

well I have my test on tuesday and I can't seem to get anything higher than 40-60% on any AR practice I do either. The way I see it though, they are trying to trick you with all the difference shapes. -- It's rarely about if there are triangles in this but not in that or squares in this and not in that, although that'd probably be your first thought. It's always going to be some subtle hidden feature that likely has nothing to do with the orientation or particular shapes of the items. So just look for the unifying features of each set. "What is it about all these shapes in set A that makes them so special?" - probably something like the fact that they all have enclosed white spaces or something.

[sarcastic_strawberries]

Thanks for the advice.

I've just gone through all the answers in the book and on the site and noted down what they use to make distinctions between the two sets. Now trying to memorise them all like mental!

Hopefully it will help. Going through the book again (Passing the UKCAT 2008 edition). I hate AR and QR. There is no time on QR at all to do any decent calculations imo...