Figural Analogies

Overview

Figural Analogies measures non-verbal inductive reasoning — your ability to infer an abstract transformation from a worked example and apply it to a new case, with no reliance on language or prior knowledge. You are shown the relationship "A is to B as C is to ?": study how the first shape is transformed into the second (rotation, reflection, resizing, recolouring, a fill change, an added/removed element, or a polygon gaining a side — triangle to square to pentagon), then select the figure that stands in the same relationship to C. Harder items give the figure a second part — a line motif or a small nested shape inside the outer one, or a satellite dot orbiting it — and move the two independently: the square whose inner cross turns from a + into an × while the square itself stays put, the pentagon that turns a quarter-turn while the shape inside it holds its position, the circle and its nested square that trade places entirely, or the shield that rotates carrying its dot while the dot orbits further on its own. The hardest items stack up to three rules at once, so you have to track each transformation separately rather than read one. This is the classic figural-analogy format used in DLR-style selection and comparable abstract-reasoning batteries, where the challenge is to isolate the single rule at work and resist distractors that transform the shape in a plausible but wrong way. Note that cut-e (Aon) tests figural reasoning through different presentations — its scales ix, for example, shows nine objects and asks for the odd one out — so treat this as training for the underlying rule-induction skill rather than a replica of the cut-e screen. Every item is generated fresh, so the pattern — never the picture — is what you learn.

Assessments

Could show up in DLR-based selections.

Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.

Example: which figure completes the analogy?

Work out the rule that turns the first shape into the second, then apply that exact rule to the third shape and pick the option that results. Only one option follows the same rule.

These three are only a sample. The test draws on many more rules — shapes change size, colour or fill, gain or lose sides or elements, mirror, nest a small shape that can trade places with its container, and combine several of these at once on the hardest items. Whatever the rule, the method above never changes: work out exactly what turned A into B, then apply it to C.