Follow one thing on paper: what you see, where it goes after a turn or a flip, where a face lands when folded. Don't turn the whole shape in your head.
Spatial Reasoning: Rotation
Methods in this video
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Don't turn the shape, turn one arrow
When to use it: A shape is turned a quarter turn, a half turn or some angle, and the question asks which picture it becomes, where a point ends up, or how many degrees it turned; on a grid it may turn about a point or be slid afterwards.
- Don't turn the whole shape. Pick one arrow to turn: a drawn arrow, a long arm or a point. If there isn't one, draw one.
- Clockwise goes up, right, down, left; a quarter turn goes to the next word.
- If two options are still alive, turn a second arrow.
- A slide doesn't change the arrow: turn that one step and skip the slide.
- Clockwise plus anti-clockwise makes 360°.
Practise exam-style questions with these methods
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