Non Verbal Reasoning Figure Matrix (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 5 May, 2026

A figure matrix (also called a _pattern matrix or _non-verbal reasoning matrix) is a type of question where you see a grid of shapes or figures, and one part is missing. The aim is to find the missing figure by understanding the pattern.

Follow the below steps to solve any type of figure matrix question:

**Step 1: Analyze the pattern: Look at rows and columns. Identify changes like rotation, number, shape, or shading.

**Step 2: Find the missing figure: Apply the same pattern to predict the missing box.

**Step 3: Verify with options: Match your answer and eliminate choices that don’t fit all patterns.

Questions and Answers

**Q1. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

**Solution:

The correct answer is (c) as the number of components in each row is either increasing or decreasing from left to right. In the third row, it increases. In each step, one pattern is added. In row 1 with increase in step leaf is increasing. In row 2 line is decreasing.

**Q2. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

The correct answer is (c), we can see that the opposite two semicircles are filling up as we move towards the right. The circles that are filled are vertical semicircles.

**Q3. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option (b) is the right answer, By carefully observing we can see last figure in each row comprises of parts that are not common to the first two figures. Here first and second figures are getting combined and the common line is deleted after combining the figures. Red-marked lines are common in the first two figures.

**Q4. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option (a) is the correct answer. Firstly, We can observe the center circle and line is moving either in a clockwise direction or anti-clockwise.

Secondly, the outer shapes i.e. rectangle, circle, and triangle are moving in a loop, one after the other in this sequence only.

**Q5. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

We can observe one line is increasing in each subsequent figure. Option (b) is the correct answer.

**Q6. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

The number of dots in the second figure is clearly twice that of the first figure in the upper row.

Similarly, the number of dots in the second figure in the lower row must be twice the number of dots in the lower first figure. As a result, the total number of dots in the missing segment is = 2x3 = 6. As a result, (d) is the correct answer.

**Q7. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

We can observe, that combining the first and third figures of each row makes the second figure. So, option (d) is the correct answer.

**Q8. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives to complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option (d) is the correct answer. In each row (and column), the superimposition of all three figures results in a darkened circle.

**Q9. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

In the question figure, all the arrows are headed in the same direction. They are all pointing in an anticlockwise direction. So the answer can either be (b) or (d). In (b), the shape of the arrow is unnecessarily peculiar. Hence the only shape that fits the matrix will be (d).

**Q10. Select the correct option from 1 to 8.

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**Solution:

Option 8 is the correct answer. We can visualize the third figure as the superimposition of the first and second figures.

**Q11. Select the correct option from 1 to 8.

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**Solution:

Option 3 is the correct answer. As we can see in each row pattern is increasing. In row 1 circle increased from 1, 2, to 3, and in row 2 pair of two circles was added Similarly in row 3, the group of three circles increased.

**Q12. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option (b) is the correct answer. The side triangle is moving clockwise in the corner of the square.

**Q13. Select a suitable figure from the six alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option 4 is the correct answer. The rhombus diagonal is removed in the next figure of the first row. Similarly in the second row Lines are removed from the square.

**Q14. Select a suitable figure from the eight alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option 4 is the correct answer. After combining the 1st and 2nd figures upper and lower figures are combined and the 3rd figure is formed. Hence after combining the first and second figures from 3rd row circle will be placed upward and the Rhombus will be downward

**Q15. Select a suitable figure from the four alternatives that would complete the figure matrix.

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**Solution:

Option (d) is the correct answer. The first and third figures are mirror images of each other.