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Non-verbal reasoning: Cubes practice

Working with the nets of cubes can be tricky, but lots ofpractice will boost your confidence.

The colours and shading on cubes can appear different when you’reexamining the net (vertical lines become horizontal and vice versa when

 folded), so take some time to make and play with these 3D cubes andsee how they change as you move them and put them on different sides.

It’s also helpful to learn to identify the common nets ofcubes at a glance, so here they are:

Even though a cube

has 6 faces, non-verbal

reasoning questions will

only ask you to relate the

3 faces presented in the

different cubes.

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In these questions, the figure shown on the left is a 3D object.Find the top view of the figure from one of the choices.

CUBES PRACTICE EXERCISES 1-8

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Start by discounting obviously wrong answers: B

(features a spot side that isn’t on the net), A and C

(there aren’t two adjacent black sides on the net),

and E (there aren’t three adjacent white sides on

the net). Check your answer, D, to see that all the

sides are in the correct position (which they are).

Answers:

Use the grey side, which appears on all five cubes,

as your anchor. By looking at each cube individually

you’ll find the only potential answer, E.

Discount the cubes which have sides that don’t

appear on the net (B, C, E). On cube A the H side,

dotted side and black side all appear in the correct

position, so that is the right answer.

Discount the cubes which have sides that don’t

appear on the net (B, C, D). The net doesn’t have

three adjacent white sides, so option E can also

be discounted. The correct answer is A.

A, D and E can be discounted immediately as the

net doesn’t have grey sides or two white sides. The

spotted side and black sides aren’t adjacent on the

net, so B can’t be the correct answer, it must be C.

Check the cube to confirm!

Discount option A (the net doesn’t have two white

sides). It can’t be option B, because the dotted side

wouldn’t be visible if the adjacent black sides were

both visible. C and D are also incorrect, because

the sides we can see on the cubes don’t match their

placement on the net. The correct answer is E.

A and C can be discounted (the net doesn’t have

two white sides or two black sides). Working from

left to right, test option B first, and it fits. Check your

answer and move on.

A tricky question, as we can’t discount any options

immediately. Working from left to right, look at each

cube and discount it when you realise that the 3D

view doesn’t match the net. The correct answer is D.

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