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Logical and Non-verbal Reasoning

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Logical and Non-verbal Reasoning: name the type, find the move

A skills course for the reasoning questions that aptitude, entrance and employment tests share: deduction, data sufficiency, puzzles, syllogisms, order, figures, space, codes and relations. Every option is explained, and every wrong answer names the slip behind it.

Enrolment is reviewed by our team and opened by hand, so every learner gets set up properly.

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5,000+

original questions, every option explained

12units, each with a lesson pack
5,000+original questions
259interactive practice sets
3full mocks, 40 questions in 50 minutes
5levels, Foundation to Puzzle

What makes this course different

Reasoning questions look new every time, but they come in a few families. This course teaches you to name the family and use its move.

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Name the type first

Unit 1 tours every kind of question and shows where each one is tested. Naming the type in the first few seconds tells you which method to use, so the time goes on the method.

Know the question

Every option explained, every slip named

Guided sets explain every option. Each wrong option names the slip behind it, such as a rule run backwards, a left and right mix-up or a case not tested, so you see the mistake behind the mistake.

Wrong answers teach

Answers checked twice

Every answer is worked out by code and re-derived by a second solver. Puzzles are proved to have exactly one answer, and figure questions are drawn and checked at phone width as well as on a desktop.

Built to be right
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Prove it against the clock

Each unit has a timed set, a checkpoint, a sprint and a boss. Three full mocks give 40 questions in 50 minutes with no negative marking, so you practise answering every question.

Timed sets and mocks

Practice at five levels

After the units, ten Extended practice sections cover the same subjects at Foundation, Core, Advanced, Stretch and Puzzle level, so you can climb at your own pace.

Extended practice
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Lessons with pictures and a principle

Each unit has a lesson pack of short lessons with a drawn picture, quick quizzes and answers at the back. Most lessons end on the principle to remember and the trap to avoid.

Learn the move

Follow the test you care about

Unit 1 ends with a plan: which units to do first for GMAT, GRE, LSAT, UCAT, employer tests or school selection tests. These are examples of where this kind of reasoning appears, not a promise about any exam.

Match your own test

Original questions, unlimited tries

Every question is original and written for this course. Every set can be repeated as many times as you like, and your progress is tracked in the LMS.

Independent practice

Try free sample tests

No sign-up needed. Real questions from this course, with a reason for every answer.

Mini test

Deduction: what must be true

Twelve guided questions from easy to hard on groups and if-then rules. Feedback after each answer and a reason for every option.

12 questions, about 15 minutes

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Mini test

Figures: one feature at a time

Twelve guided questions on figure series and the first grids, each with drawn figures. Read one feature at a time and see the rule behind every answer.

12 questions, about 12 minutes

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Mini test

Name the type: ten kinds of reasoning question

Ten quick questions, one of each kind of reasoning question in the course. Name the type, answer, and see why every option is right or wrong.

10 questions, about 5 minutes

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All free samples for this course

Twelve units, twelve moves

Each unit teaches one move you can use on the day.

Unit 1Start here: what reasoning tests askA tour of every kind of question, and a plan for your own test
Unit 2Deduction: what must be trueStatements, rules and what must, could or cannot be true
Unit 3Data sufficiency in reasoningDecide whether the facts are enough, without solving
Unit 4ArrangementsRows, tables and facing both ways: fix what is certain first
Unit 5Logic puzzlesGrids, schedules and selection rules
Unit 6Syllogisms and Venn diagramsDraw every picture the statements allow
Unit 7Order and inequalitiesChains of signs, rankings and counting a line
Unit 8Abstract reasoningFigure series, grids and odd one out, one feature at a time
Unit 9Spatial reasoningMirrors, folds, dice and nets, one step at a time
Unit 10Sequences, letters and codesLetter series, codes and switch puzzles: write it down
Unit 11Processes and directionsWalks, shadows, machines and procedures: one step, one line
Unit 12Relationships, then general mocksFamily trees and puzzles, then three full mocks

Who this course is for

Students and professionals preparing for tests that ask reasoning questions: admissions, graduate and employer aptitude tests, and school selection tests. It starts from the beginning and climbs to hard puzzles.

Aptitude testsEntrance testsEmployment testsDeduction and puzzlesFigures and spaceCodes and seriesSyllogismsData sufficiency

Prepspire is independent. This course is not an official product of any test body and is not connected to any of the tests named as examples. Every question is original, and nothing here predicts what you would score.

How the course works

One unit at a time, in order or by your own test.

1

Start with Unit 1

A tour of every kind of question and a plan for which units to do first.

2

Learn the move

A lesson pack with pictures and quick quizzes, then worked examples taken apart step by step.

3

Practise with feedback

Three guided sets where every option is explained and every wrong answer names its slip.

4

Prove it against the clock

A timed set, a checkpoint, a sprint and a boss, then the mocks and Extended practice.

Ready to name the type and find the move?

Join the course and begin with Unit 1. Take one unit at a time, and keep the full mocks for when the units feel steady.

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