Abstract Reasoning assesses your ability to identify patterns amongst abstract shapes where irrelevant and distracting material may lead to incorrect conclusions. The test therefore measures your ability to change track, critically evaluate and generate hypotheses and requires you to query judgements as you go along.
When considering possible diagnoses, medical practitioners may be presented with a set of symptoms and/or results. Some information may be more reliable, more relevant and clearer than other information. Doctors and Dentists need to make judgements about such information, identifying the information which helps them reach conclusions. Carrying out research involving data often involves identifying patterns in results in order to generate further hypotheses.
You are presented with questions associated with sets of shapes.
Most questions are shown in sets of five, each connected to the same sets of shapes. There are some questions that standalone. Each question has three or four answer options. You may only select one response.
There are four different question types in this subtest. You may be asked to:
