Non-Verbal Reasoning

Overview

The Non-Verbal Reasoning test measures fluid, non-verbal intelligence: your ability to detect rules in unfamiliar visual patterns. It offers four question types. "Which one doesn't belong?" shows four abstract figures that all share a rule except one — find the odd one out. "Which follows logically?" presents a sequence or matrix of abstract figures with one element missing and four to six visual options below; only one option follows every rule the puzzle uses. "Which is the rotation?" shows a figure with four symbols at the ends of a cross; one option shows the whole figure rigidly rotated, while the rest are mirror images or have symbols swapped — spot the true rotation. "Mixed" interleaves all three types in a single run, the way COMPASS-focused preparation materials present mixed non-verbal items. Each type keeps its own score history.

Assessments

Tested in assessments at KLM.

Could show up in Schuhfried and COMPASS-based selections.

• Preparing for KLM? Train the "Which one doesn't belong?" type — that is the form the Schuhfried battery uses.
• Preparing for COMPASS? Preparation providers for that battery present mixed non-verbal items — "Which follows logically?" matrices and "Which is the rotation?" — in one run; the Mixed mode matches that presentation.
• Assessed through cut-e (Aon)? That battery tests this skill in its own formats — train Odd One Out, Matrix Transformations and Grid Classification.
• Sitting a French selection that runs the matrices? Its boards are 3 × 3 with eight candidates for the missing square and up to three rules acting at once, which is longer and harder than the matrices here. Train the format itself in ENAC Figure Matrices.

Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.

Worked examples

One fixed example per question type. The correct answer is highlighted in each.

Four figures share a hidden rule — three follow it, one breaks it. Study them, then pick the odd one out.

A

B

C

D

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Why A

Boxes B, C and D all have vertical mirror symmetry. You can split them in two with a vertical line through the middle, with both sides of the line being each other's mirror image. Box A has no axis of mirror symmetry at all.