Walk in prepared.Practise for SHL inductive reasoning.

The format differs: SHL shows a series, the app a grid. The rules are of the same kind, and a row in a matrix reads as a series. For the format itself, SHL has its own practice tests.

The interactive version has 15 tasks in 18 minutes and adapts the difficulty to your answers.

No. The app is independent and the tasks are our own.

A matrix reasoning test, often called a logic test, abstract reasoning test or aptitude test, measures the ability to see patterns in figures. Each task is a grid of three by three cells. Eight of them contain figures that follow one or more rules, and the ninth is missing. The task is to find the rules and choose the option that fits the empty cell.

The rules hold in both rows and columns and govern different parts of the figure: shape, number, size, fill, direction, lines at the edge or a dot that moves. The easiest tasks have one rule. The hardest have three or four at once, and the options differ in one detail only.

The format is common in recruitment, as part of the screening before interviews, and it can be practised. Someone who has seen the format before loses no time working out the task and goes in calmer. More is on the pages What is a matrix reasoning test and Logical reasoning tests in recruitment.

1. Split the cell into parts: shape, number, size, fill, direction, lines, dot.
2. Find the rule for each part in rows 1 and 2. Check that it holds in the columns.
3. Build the answer in your head before you look at the options.
4. Eliminate options that break a rule. Several differ in one detail only.
5. Use the time. A rushed mistake costs more than a few extra seconds.

The format settles in after a few days. What matters is having seen every rule type and having done a few tasks against the clock. A few focused sessions give more than weeks of scattered practice.

Practice makes a difference on this type of task. Someone who knows the format does not have to learn it during the test, makes fewer careless mistakes and uses the time better. Nobody can promise a result, and the level in the app is the app's own scale.

The words are used interchangeably. Aptitude test is the broad term for tests that measure thinking. Logic test is the part about patterns and inference. Matrix test is the format: a grid of three by three figures with one cell missing.

The app has eighteen rule types: step by step change, three values distributed, constant, patterns combined, patterns cancelling out, patterns in common, arithmetic on the number, movement along a path, mirroring, rotation of the whole cell, nested figures, number of sides, degree of fill, conditional rule, covariation, slot by slot combination, growing step and turn and change in the cross. The answer tells you which ones applied in each task. Every rule has a page of its own with a solved example.

Yes. The Alva Labs logic test is built on matrix tasks of the same kind: three by three figures, one cell missing, rising difficulty. Matrix Reasoning Trainer is independent and has no connection to Alva Labs. More about the format is under Good preparation for the Alva Labs logic test.

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