Working with Objects

In this page we will go through step-by-step solutions for some of the

geometric object type of questions commonly asked in CEED Exams. These

types of pictorial questions were asked in exams to test your visual ability

skills and you are required to solve these questions without the help of paper

or pen to save time.

Question: 1

Count the number of faces on geometric objects.

This type of visualization can be solved by counting number of faces on each

direction. You can view the solid in six different directions. They are front-

right-back-left-top-bottom. Fix one particular direction/order to eliminate

confusion. Now you can see the faces in the below images. Face that can be

directly seen has been shaded (hatched) in blue color while the face which is

hidden was shown in red for your convenience

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Total no. of faces is thus 16

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Question: 2

Correct reflection of composition by reflecting four times along the edges.

For this type of questions, you need to fix first the direction of mirroring.

Firstly consider only the main object and first reflection as shown in STEP-

1 below; forget about the remaining part

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Next consider only the first reflected image and the next reflection to be

carried and forget about the remaining triangles. Like this continue visually

and thus you will come to the final answer. You should try this mentally

without using paper or pen.

Question: 3

Identify shadow of the object

First you need to identify the direction of the sun/source; here it is from left

to right. For this cube you will count eight sharp edges. Trick is “higher the

edge from ground and farther the edge from the sun/source, farther will be

the shadow and only the top and side edges will have visible shadows”.

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Question: 4

Count the number of small cubes missing in this figure

The best thing is to count the missing cubes row-wise, starting from

bottom; without being confused. Here I have given number of missing cubes

from the bottom.

Row1 – 2 cubes missing

Row2 – 1 cube missing
Row3 – 3 cubes missing
Row4 – 9 cubes missing

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