Typical length: 30-60
questions
Typical time to
complete: 30 - 40 minutes
We can loosely group tests of spatial and mechanical ability
together into a general category of technical ability. Tests such as these
measure a person’s ability to understand and apply what they know of the
characteristics of the physical world to solving problems which require the
manipulation of physical objects.
Mechanical reasoning ability looks specifically at how well
a person can understand the basic mechanical and physical principles behind
operating machinery, tools, temperature, pressure, geometry and so on.
Mechanical reasoning tests are quite specialist so we will just look at spatial
ability tests here.
These are concerned with how well a person can manipulate
either a 2 or 3 dimensional object in their head and perform some
operation it in the process. A couple of examples are below. A variation
on the theme involves folding or unfolding 3 dimensional objects.
Example Questions
(The answers are at the bottom of the page)
Your task here is to look at the target figure and decide
which of the rotated figures below is identical to it. If you do not think any
of the figures is the same as the target shape then choose the answer option
(e) ‘none of these’.
Question 1
Question 2
Answers to example questions:
1 (e) 2 (c)
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