Rotation Pattern — Hard Matrix Reasoning Question

What to learn from this pattern

read the cells in order, left to right then top to bottom.

Explanation

Rule: read the cells in order, left to right then top to bottom. The figure turns clockwise every step, but the size of the turn is not fixed. Each turn is 90° more than the one before, so after a 270° turn the next one wraps round to 0°. • The turns so far run 90°, 180°, 270°, 0°, 90°, 180°, 270°. • That makes the next turn 0°. • The 8th cell sits at 0°, and 0° + 0° = 0° → option C. • A single fixed step does not fit this grid. The traps sit a quarter-turn either side of 0°, a half-turn away, or are a mirror of it rather than a turn.

Why the other options are wrong

• ATurned the figure one quarter-turn too far.
• BMirrored the figure instead of rotating it — the handedness is flipped.
• DTurned the figure a half-turn off the correct orientation.
• EStopped one quarter-turn short (or turned the wrong way).