Transfer the visual relationship from one figure pair to complete a second pair.
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Practise it now
A becomes B. Watch how - then do the very same thing to C.
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A worked example
One question of the kind this skill is tested with, worked all the way through: the reasoning, and what the wrong answers are there to catch.
One move, applied twice
Track the foot and the dot separately as the first figure moves.
foot right, dot top → foot up, dot left, so foot down, dot top → ?
foot up, dot bottom
foot left, dot right
foot right, dot left
foot down, dot top
Answer: foot right, dot left
How you get there
Going from the first figure to the second is a quarter turn anticlockwise, which means the same move takes foot down, dot top to foot right, dot left - the foot and the dot both travel together.
Why the other answers tempt
Moving the foot but leaving the dot where it was is the commonest slip - both parts turn together.
If they are stuck, say this
Follow the foot first to find the move, then check the dot has travelled the same way.
A becomes B. Watch how - then do the very same thing to C.
The bridge from A to B says: take 1 away. A visual analogy asks you to carry the very same change across to C - so compare A and B attribute by attribute (shape, shading, how many, which way up), name the one that moved, and leave everything else alone.
What to say if they get stuck
Press and hold WATCH to see A turn into B. What changed, and what stayed the same?
Only one thing matters here: take 1 away. Everything else stays as it was.
How complete a visual analogy differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises one other skill, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: transfer the visual relationship from one figure pair to complete a second pair, and it stops where uses an A to B as C to unknown structure. It excludes row or column matrix completion.
Questions parents ask about complete a visual analogy
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Transfer the visual relationship from one figure pair to complete a second pair. It is one of 22 named non-verbal reasoning skills in the 11+, in the pattern strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
Moving the foot but leaving the dot where it was is the commonest slip - both parts turn together. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Follow the foot first to find the move, then check the dot has travelled the same way.
The skill map draws the line here: Uses an A to B as C to unknown structure. It excludes row or column matrix completion. A question past that line is testing a different named non-verbal reasoning skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The pattern strand holds 5 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to complete a visual analogy are identify a visual odd one out, compare visual attributes and complete a visual matrix. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Analogy Bridge, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to complete a visual analogy, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Non-verbal reasoning is the paper families most often leave until last
A free diagnostic covers matrices, series, odd one out, rotation, reflection and the 3D questions, and shows where the time is worth spending.
