ENAC Figure Matrices
IntellectualPSY1A 3 × 3 matrix of figures with the bottom-right square missing, and 8 options to complete it. The rules run along the rows, down the columns and across the diagonals, and a board often has two or three at once. The exam format is 30 boards in 30 minutes, and you can move between boards and change your answers until you hand in.
Overview
Most boards have two or three rules at once, each on its own feature. So if a rule seems to break on one square, it usually belongs to a different feature. Start with the features that never change, because they rule out options before you've had to think. Then count before you look at positions: sides, dots and lines are where the sums and differences hide.
Assessments
Part of the ENAC EPL selection (PSY1) battery as “Matrices de Raven”.
A 3 × 3 grid of figures with one square missing and eight candidates, run in ENAC EPL PSY1 at 30 boards in 30:00. Rules apply along the rows, down the columns and along the diagonals, and more than one at a time.
Part of the Air France Cadets selection at ENAC (PSY1) battery as “Matrices de Raven”.
The same format in the Cadets afternoon, and the hardest test of the day by a distance: many find a rule they trust on only five to fifteen boards. Several rules act at once and none is announced, so triage decides it. Put a guess on a board whose rule will not come, move on, and bank the ones that do.
Battery mappings are based on public information and may change.
Nine squares, one missing
- The matrix: three rows of three squares. The bottom-right one is missing.
- The rules: each feature of a square follows its own rule. A rule can run along the rows, down the columns, along the diagonals, or through the squares in reading order.
- The options: eight squares, numbered 1 to 8. Exactly one obeys every rule.
Which square completes the matrix?
Choose an option, then hit Check.
Game Phases
One Feature at a Time
Take the shape, its size, its fill, the dots, the lines and the small diamond on the edge one at a time. Each one follows its own rule.
Every Direction
Try the rows, then the columns, then the diagonals, then the squares in reading order.
Strike Out Options
Once you've settled a feature, strike out every option that gets it wrong.
Keep Moving
If a board won't open up, flag it and come back to it at the end.
More Practice
Abstract Reasoning
8 exercisesNon-Verbal Reasoning
Spot the rule in a set of abstract figures — pick the odd one out, the option that completes the pattern, or the true rotation of a figure. Tests non-verbal, fluid reasoning under time pressure.
Figural Analogies
Work out how the first shape becomes the second, then apply the same transformation to the third shape and pick the figure that completes the analogy. Tests non-verbal, abstract inductive reasoning under time pressure.
Rule Application
Hold a small rule-set in mind and apply it to a fast stream of coloured symbols — press the response each rule dictates before the window closes.
Matrix Transformations
Discover the hidden rule linking two example symbol grids, then mark exactly the two of four candidates that follow it — the real cut-e (Aon) scales clx screen, in its official 6-minute length. A classic pair-transformation mode remains as the practice variant.
Odd One Out
Nine abstract objects share a hidden rule — spot the one that breaks it, fast. Replicates the cut-e (Aon) scales ix inductive reasoning test.
Grid Classification
Six example tables, two hidden classes — deduce the rule that separates them and assign new tables to the right class. Adapted from the cut-e (Aon) scales cls format, including an Assessment Format mode that mirrors the real screen: four unmarked tables per item, 12 items in 12 minutes.
Switch Challenge
Deduce which numbered operator — a digit code that reorders a row of symbols — turns the top row into the bottom row. Replicates the cut-e (Aon) switchChallenge from the smartPredict battery.
ENAC Law and Anti-Law
Three numbers, words or figures obey a hidden law, and three don't. Under them are 8 propositions: tick every one that obeys the law. Numbers, words and figures are mixed through the run. The exam format is 35 boards in 30 minutes, and you're free to move between boards and change your ticks until you hand in.