Multi-Rule Pattern — Very Hard Matrix Reasoning Question

What to learn from this pattern

Two rules run at the same time: rotation and position.

Explanation

Two rules run at the same time: rotation and position. • Rotation: the chevron turns 90° clockwise at each step, cycling 0°→90°→180°→270°→0°… This cycle runs across all 9 cells in reading order — it does not restart each row. Cell 9 follows cell 8 (270°), so it returns to 0° (pointing right). • Position: the chevron moves centre → bottom-right → top-left, then repeats. Cell 7 is centre, cell 8 is bottom-right, so cell 9 must be top-left. • Option C shows a 0° chevron placed in the top-left — both rules match. • Other options either use the wrong rotation, the wrong position, or get both wrong.

Why the other options are wrong

• Asolved-movement-ignored-rotation — Applied the movement rule but ignored the rotation rule.
• Bsolved-rotation-ignored-movement — Applied the rotation rule but ignored the movement rule.
• Dwrong-both-axes — Matches neither the movement rule nor the rotation rule.
• Ewrong-both-axes — Matches neither rule (a different off-pattern combination).