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General Aptitude · Spatial Aptitude
Official IIT answer key · IIT Kanpur · Audited Aug 2026
GATE CSE 2023 Q5 · MCQ · 1 mark
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Spatial Aptitude in GATE assesses a candidate's ability to manipulate, transform, and reason about 2D and 3D geometric objects, patterns, and maps. Questions consistently test spatial transformations (rotations, reflections, line symmetry), paper folding and unfolding/cutting, 3D cube nets and orthographic projections, and 2D tessellation/tiling invariants. All 16 questions in this dataset are Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), heavily reliant on visual diagrams (75% image-based) with a split between 1-mark perceptual checks and 2-mark multi-step geometric reasoning.
Full Spatial Aptitude guide →Looking at the surface of a smooth 3-dimensional object from the outside, which one of the following options is TRUE?
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