Inductive Reasoning

Every item has one answer, and that is checked

The trap in this format is an item where two tiles are defensible: the one that breaks the rule you meant, and the one that happens to be the only red one. Before an item is served, all nine tiles are tested against every property a solver could read off them, and the item is thrown away unless exactly one tile stands alone. Practising against ambiguous items teaches you to distrust an answer you had right.

Where we had to choose

Aon publishes the format but not UBS's configuration of it, and the accounts disagree. The most consistent description of scales ix is 20 items in 5 minutes, and that is what this runs. UBS's own sitting has also been reported at 6 minutes, and at 12 items in 12 minutes for a different test in the same battery. Sources also disagree about whether wrong answers are deducted. Aon's own guidance describes getting as many right as it can inside the clock and mentions no penalty, so nothing is deducted here. Guessing when you are out of ideas is the correct play on that scoring, and we would rather not train you out of it over a penalty that may not exist.

How to work through one

Check one property at a time rather than staring at the whole grid: shape first, then colour, then how many shapes, then solid against hollow, then the marks inside. Eight against one on any of those is the answer. When none of them splits cleanly the rule ties two properties together, and the usual pair is fill against count.