Which answer figure will continue the series (replace the '?')?
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Answer: Option A
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The black dot moves one place clockwise and the white triangle moves two places anticlockwise in each step.
Continuing the pattern one more step gives answer figure (A).
The other answer figures move the elements by the wrong number of steps or in the wrong direction.
Hence, option (A).
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Image Series — Preparation
This question tests your understanding of Image Series, a key topic in the Logical Reasoning section. The detailed solution above uses a step-by-step approach to show the reasoning, and where available, a shortcut that helps you solve similar questions in under 90 seconds during the actual exam.
Image series is an abstract (non-verbal) reasoning question type. You are shown a sequence of figures that change according to a pattern, and you must choose the figure that comes next or fills a gap in the series. There are no words or numbers, so the questions test pure pattern recognition. The most common changes are rotation (by 45, 90 or 180 degrees, clockwise or anticlockwise), movement of elements from one position to another, addition or removal of elements, changes in shading, and changes in size. Often two or three of these happen at once. Track one element at a time, such as a small circle or an arrow, and note how it changes from each figure to the next. Then check which option continues every pattern you have found. Eliminating options that break even one pattern is usually faster than predicting the answer outright. Practise the image series questions below. Each solution explains the pattern step by step.