 wow that was a difficult one let's see if i got it right five and five correct let's go what is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose i'm really excited to be doing today's video we're finally going back to answering UK cat questions or you can't questions as the test is now called if you guys don't know i'm a second year medical student studying at kings college london and last year on this channel i did a similar series where i answered you cat questions live on camera so that i could walk you guys through my thought process and through what it is that i was thinking about while actually doing the questions this video is brought to you in partnership with medify an online you cat question bank with over 10 000 questions and i'm going to be using their question bank for the content and the questions that i'm doing in this video so abstract reasoning if you don't know is the part of the you cat that's supposed to test your ability to find underlying or hidden patterns in information and shapes so usually how it works is that they present you with a series of shapes in box a and a series of shapes in box b and then they present you with a new shape and you have to decide if it belongs in a or if it belongs in b there are other questions as well such as completing a series or analogy type questions so this shape is to this shape as this shape is to that shape all right this isn't making any sense let's get into the general tips and then you'll see the questions so abstract reasoning general tips for this section it's so so so important that you do a wide wide wide variety of questions the more questions that you do the more patterns that you're going to see and the more types of patterns you're going to see come up more and more often the second general tip i want to say is that for abstract reasoning you generally have a very short amount of time to be answering these questions so if you can't figure out the pattern if you get stuck or if you're confused or whatever just skip it and come back later it's not worth wasting time trying to figure out any one pattern because the uk cat is marked in positive marking so you get marks for every question you answer you want to answer as many questions as possible some of those patterns that i'm talking about can be easily broken down into an acronym called scans so s c a n s so the s in scans stands for shape and what i mean by shape is take a look at the shapes that are in the boxes so are they circles are they squares are they triangles are they curvy are they straight do they have right angles are they open or closed are they irregular are they regular the next part of scans is c so c stands for color and for this you want to look at are the shapes shaded a certain way so are they either black are they white do they have stripes are they cross hatched you want to take a look at the color of the shapes then in scans we have a which stands for arrangement so our shapes always present in a certain area so for example on the left half of the boxes on the right half in the bottom in the top right corner in the bottom left corner do arrows point in a certain direction are the shapes positions in a certain way these are the kinds of things they want to take a look at for arrangement and then for n you want to look at number so is there always a certain number of odd shapes a certain number of even shapes is there always a certain number of circles or triangles or squares also there could be a total number of shapes within a single box or something like that and then lastly in scans there's the second s which stands for size and that might be able to give you a clue as to the underlying pattern last thing i want to say for general tips is if you take a look at a set of shapes and you think it's really really confusing start off by looking at the most simple box first that simple box is going to have to follow the same rule as all the other more difficult and complex boxes so starting off with the most simple box can usually lead you to finding that pattern if you guys want to see more general tips check out my abstract reasoning video from last summer and now let's jump straight into answering questions live on camera all right guys so i've got metaphy's question bank open on my computer like i said today we're starting with abstract reasoning as i go through these questions you might want to pause before i go through it and show my reasoning and show what's going on if you want to try and figure out the questions on your own and see if we both come up with the same rules i'm pretty nervous not gonna lie as you can see i haven't attempted any of these questions yet this year um so hopefully it all goes well and i don't embarrass myself on camera here we go first question this shape is to this shape as this shape is to that shape okay so what i want to do for a question like this is i want to take a look at one single object okay i'm not going to look at all four of these squares at the same time i'm going to start by looking at one of those squares and all i want to do is see what happens what changes when moving from that left shape over here to the right shape over here so let's focus on the top left one these two gray boxes here become top and bottom on the right so it's almost like they've rotated this way or they've moved that way let's see if that happens to anything else here so black and white it should be white here black here which it is okay so look already i've only looked at one of the four squares and i already know what the pattern is i don't i'm not going to look at anything else i don't care about anything else i know what the pattern is so let me figure out what this answer is going to be so if i know for example that these top two shapes let's look at this because it's more simple so these top two black ones are going to get rotated like this so i know that in my answer the upper right most box is going to have two black shapes one on the top and one on the bottom so let's look at the answers oh and they they know that i know that too so this answer this answer and this answer all have the the two blacks in the top right corner so i know it's either a b or c i'm gonna eliminate d so now i have to look at something else that changes in order to distinguish these three different answers these two gray ones here they now need to move to the bottom here in my answer so oh just kidding they don't rotate like that let's see what happens here oh okay interesting so so now in looking at the answers i've discovered another rule so in the top left box here we said that those two gray shaded ones rotate like this but in the bottom here let's take a look at these two gray ones they rotate anti-clockwise so the bottom row rotates anti-clockwise and the top row rotates clockwise so let's see if this rotates clockwise here for the three answers so it doesn't do that here so this cross and this white square needs to rotate clockwise and be like this which is present here it is present here but it's not present here so we can eliminate c as well so now we know it's between a and b let's look at the bottom row so here we know this needs to rotate anti-clockwise now so these two gray ones need to be on the top in our final answer which is only present in a one correct let's go first question got it right we started with these two gray things here those get rotated then when we looked at the answers we realized that something else has to be going on because i couldn't choose one of those three answers so we went back and we saw that the bottom bottom two squares were getting rotated anti-clockwise boom let's go on to question number two another analogy question so this is to this as this is to that so what's going on here pacman circle pacman triangle pacman diamond okay so i'm assuming depending on where this right angle is it's going to make a different shape i'm assuming so okay so nice i got it so these two shapes are black and the cutout has come from the right half of the circle these three shapes are white and the cutout has come from the left half of the circle so this is from the right half here and this is also from the right half so so this shape this shape and this shape in our answer have to be black so this fits that description and this also fits that description so b and d let's take a look at these two shapes they're cut out from the left half so they need to be white in our final shape which fits the description here but does not fit the description here so i think b is the answer correct okay all right next question which figure completes the series so again in this shape in each of these boxes we have three shapes so let's just focus on one shape at a time let's focus on this arrow it goes from facing right to down to left to up so now we know it's gonna have to face right so let's see which of these faces right nope yes yes yes so we know that it's either b c or d now let's look at this white circle it goes from black to white to black to white so let's look here we know it needs to be black so white so nope black black so we know it's either c or d and then we have this gray arrow on the bottom left right left right left so we know the answer has to be c this is an example of a very simple question that through very systematic reasoning and logical reasoning you can come to a good conclusion so like we said instead of looking at this in one go and getting confused you take one shape at a time and see what changes and you move on okay so this is our first set a set b question okay so when i'm presented with this question okay what is what are the first things that i'm looking at first of all both set a and set b are all colored black so i'm just gonna forget about color for a little bit the second thing that i'm gonna do is quickly count the shapes so i see that there's two here two here three four five one two three four so any ideas that i had about odd or even total numbers of shapes are have gone out of the window because there's two here three here five here so that's out of the way what else can i notice in here these guys kind of make a face this also makes a face but that's probably just to distract me i'm kind of thinking that over here the shapes on top have more sides than the shapes on the bottom that's kind of what i'm seeing here whereas here the shapes on the bottom have more sides than the shapes on the top not this one this one would fit that description this one would also fit that description and this one would fit that description so i know that there's something wrong i know that i don't have the pattern 100 down otherwise it would be easy to choose one of these options so let's take a look at this one this should be easier to do the shape with the most should be at the bottom and moving up so i would choose this one here so this has five sides four sides one side set b um we want the one with the most at the bottom so it'd be this here set a the one at the top should have the most number of sides so this one here let's see if i got this one right or wrong okay nice so i actually got four out of five this is a good lesson so even if you're not 100 sure of the pattern even if you think you have at least one of the rules so sometimes in a pattern there's one rule two rules and then if they're really mean they'll put three rules in a pattern so if you're not 100 sure if you feel like your rule works most of the time but not all of the time it means that you probably have at least part of the rule correct and so as you can see even with just part of the rule i still managed to score four out of five correct so if i scroll down here i can see the reasoning so this is what i'm talking about i had figured out the rule that the shape with the greatest number of sides is the top most shape and that managed to score me four out of five points for this question the second rule was if there are two or more triangles a circle appears that is super complex that is going to be super difficult to notice so it's something that i personally wouldn't waste my time on if you have a rule and you know it works most of the time just go for it because you don't have a lot of time to answer these questions so just make sure you find the rule and you start answering boom boom boom boom boom even if you score four out of five that's good that's great it's better than wasting time trying to find all the different rules and trying to score five out of five because you can use that same time on easier questions that are going to appear later on in the test circles and triangles great and here we also have circles and triangles so let's talk about number two two two two four three three three three one two three four five six damn it one two three four five six this could still be a rule i can still say in set b there are either three or six circles and triangles whereas in set a there's either two and four okay so we can say multiples of two in set a multiples of three in set b so this is going to belong to a next this is going to belong to a next because it's four this is two four six that's going to be b this is three so that's going to be b and don't forget there's also a neither oh that would have helped me in the first one that we did the first thing that i got wrong when i got four out of five it was probably neither i forgot about that so yeah this is set a let's see what went wrong the number of triangles equates to the number of circles and set b is doubling the number of triangles equates to the number of circles if you find a rule that you think is too simple kind of like this one i should have known if the rule is a bit too simple then it might be the case that there's another rule going on but having said that we did this question very quickly and we still scored three out of five it's not the end of the world it's actually not a bad thing at all next question let's just get an overview of what's going on here okay two black two white two black two white two black two white two black two white one black one white so they're equal here this is four black two white four black two black okay cool i figured out that in set a there's an equal number of black and white shapes uh circles whereas in set b there's only one color which of the following test shapes belongs in set b so it needs to be all one color not this this could be it not this and not this okay so we know that it must be b which of the following test shapes belongs in a so this could be the case this could be the case and this could be the case so now we know that there's at least something missing to our rule what else can i see there's never black um there's never black and black on the same half vertically so here we can see on the right half there's black and white there's black and white there's black and white so here i'm going to look for something so these are on opposite sides black and white which is never the case this is on the same side so no this is this is it yeah so here you can see that on the left half of this man there's one white circle one black which is the same here on the left half there's always one white one black one white one black so now i know that there's a second part of the rule that i've missed before but it's okay i've caught on to it whereas here it's always on opposite sides same color you see right half white circle left half white circle and same here left half black circle right half black circle so let's keep that in mind moving forward let's check a actually to see that we got that right well it can only be this one here anyway because they all have to be the same color within one picture in set b which of the following test shapes belongs in set b um so remember they have to be opposite sides and same color so it could be this cannot be this cannot be this which of the following test shapes belongs in set b um so again we need to have opposite sides of the thing same color see this can get really confusing it helps if you write some of these things down so it's not going to be either of these because they're lopsided here on the left half there's three circles here on the right half there's three circles so it's not going to be that one another one which of the following test shapes belongs in set a set a um it was opposite colors so not this not this can be this and can be that yeah so not this one has to be c five out of five correct not gonna lie that was really tricky um let me click on them just so we can see what exactly the thing was so in set a a black eye means there is a white circle on one of the limbs on the same side of the body what I figured out is the exact same thing as this except I had it in a much more simple layman's terms way that allowed me to identify the shapes quickly so you don't have to come up with this perfect wording over here or the perfect way like a black eye means there's a white circle on the limbs on the same side of the body however you can think about it like for example for me I just split the shape into left and right vertically and I said opposite colors I said top down colors however it works for you if you find a pattern and if you find a way to distinguish what's going on stick with it all right guys I think I'm going to cut off this video here so this is going to be part one of answering abstract reasoning questions live on camera I'm going to be posting part two in a couple of days so make sure that you like this video subscribe to the channel so that you're notified as soon as that one goes live don't forget to follow me on instagram if you want to see more content from me about my daily life as a medical student and a researcher leave me a comment down below letting me know how you found this video and anything that you want me to improve for the next one and I will see you in the 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