Diagrammatic reasoning practice
A diagrammatic item shows a process with a defined before and after. Symbols or arrows stand for operators, each operator does one stated thing, and the work is applying them in the right order and saying what comes out. It is procedural rather than intuitive, which is why it is worth drilling.
20 questions · 12 minutes · first set free, no signup
What the questions look like
A row of tokens passes through one or more operators to produce an output. A legend says what each operator does, and four pictures are offered as the answer. Some items give both ends of the chain and ask for the operator between them, some ask what the row looks like part-way through, and some give the output and ask for the input.
What the bank covers
192 questions written for this site and its sister sites, grouped into 5 areas. Each drill is 10 questions from one area, untimed, with the answer explained after every question.
Input, operator, output
Running a row through the operators in the order given, and choosing what comes out at the end.
55 questions
Working out an operator
Deducing what an unknown operator does from a worked example, then applying it to a row you have not seen.
29 questions
Missing operator
Both ends of the chain are shown. Finding the operator between them that does exactly that and nothing else.
33 questions
Intermediate states
What the row looks like part-way through a chain, after one operator has acted but before the next one does.
35 questions
Reverse operations
The output is given and the input is the answer. Undoing the operators in the opposite order to the one they ran in.
40 questions
Where you will meet this format
Saville-style diagrammatic analysis and reasoning use explicit visual operators of this kind, and some Aon-style inductive formats share the operator and transformation mechanics in a more compact interface. The word is used loosely in job adverts: SHL notes that inductive reasoning tests are sometimes called diagrammatic style tests. This practice keeps the narrower meaning — operators acting in sequence, with a defined before and after.
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What this practice does not reproduce
- No publisher's item count or time limit. The timed set here is our own envelope, not anyone's test.
- No adaptive delivery. Aon-style switchChallenge generates a new item as you finish one; this set is fixed.
- No score conversion. Nothing here converts to a provider's scale, a percentile or a pass mark.
Where these questions come from
The questions are original, written and reviewed in our own question bank and served from a local copy of one approved release. They are not taken from any publisher’s test, and no published test’s items appear anywhere on this site.