Matrix Reasoning Test
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Lesson 8 of 31 · The ten patterns · 20 min

Size

What you see: the figure grows or shrinks.

What you see: the figure grows or shrinks. Behind it: progression on size.

Start here — one guess

Look at this for 20 seconds. What goes in the empty cell?

The tell: one thing changes steadily across the cells — it gets bigger, or there are more of it, or the colour moves along. Find what's growing and by how much.

The family in one sentence

Sequences & growth: one attribute changes by a steady step along an axis.

Something grows or shrinks in a regular way — size, the number of elements, the colour along a wheel. The shape stays the same; one feature steps. Your job is to find which feature, and the size of the step, then project it.

Same shape · size grows along one axis

A shape growing by a fixed step across the cells — same shape, steadily larger.

What growth looks like

  • One feature changes in one direction. Everything else is constant.
  • The patterns differ by which feature grows:
  • Size — the shape gets larger (or smaller) by a fixed step.
  • Count — the number of elements increases by a fixed amount.
  • Colour cycle — the colour steps along a wheel (red → blue → green → red).
  • Fill — the shape moves through states (outline → half → solid).
  • Scale + position — size and position grow together.

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