The recurring Mental Agility Test question types and a method for each: series, coding, blood relations, direction sense, syllogisms, clocks and calendars — 20 marks most candidates leave on the table.
MAT is 20 of the 200 marks — the same weight as a tenth of the paper — and it is the block candidates most often walk into unprepared, on the theory that reasoning cannot be revised. The question types repeat every year. Learn the method for each and you convert a slow, uncertain block into the fastest marks on the paper.
Pace: at 54 seconds a question overall, MAT items should take you well under that so the time banks for Physics and Chemistry.
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See the plansCracking the Mental Agility Test (MAT)
The four MAT question types with fast techniques for each — 20 easy marks if you prepare.
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