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Every other reasoning question hands you words or numbers to work with. Non-verbal reasoning hands you a shape and asks you to see. Candidates who are excellent at coding-decoding freeze here, and give back four or five marks that were, on paper, the easiest in the section.
They are the easiest — but only once you stop treating each figure as a fresh puzzle and start treating it as a rule. There are barely five rules in the whole chapter. A mirror flips left and right. Water flips top and bottom. A fold behaves like a mirror. A hidden figure never rotates. A series turns by a fixed angle.
Learn those five sentences and non-verbal stops being a guessing game. SSC alone puts three to five such questions in every Tier-1 paper, and each takes about fifteen seconds once the rule is in your hand.
1. Which of these capital letters looks exactly the same in its MIRROR image?
2. Which capital letter remains unchanged in its WATER image?
3. Which capital letter is unchanged in BOTH its mirror image and its water image?
4. The image of a wall clock in a plane mirror reads 8:20. What is the actual time on the clock?
5. A square sheet of paper is folded in half, then folded in half again, and a single hole is punched through all the layers. How many holes appear when the sheet is fully unfolded?
6. The word BOOK is held against a vertical plane mirror. What does its mirror image show?
7. In a standard embedded-figure (hidden figure) question, the answer figure must appear inside the problem figure:
8. Which digit's water image is identical to the digit itself?