Embedded Figures Tips and Tricks for Government Exams

Theory

• Embedded figures are the figures hidden inside another figure. In other words, a figure (x) is said to be embedded inside figure (y), if figure (y) contains figure (x) in it.
• Embedded figure questions consist of unique figure which is hidden or embedded in one of the four option figures.
  

Types

• Complex answer figure
  A question figure (x) is given followed by four complex option figures in such a way that the question figure (x) is embedded in only one of the given four options. The candidate must identify the correct figure in which figure (x) is hidden.
• Complex question figure
  A complex question figure (x) is given followed by four option figures in such a way that only one of the option figures is embedded inside the given question figure. The candidate must identify the correct option figure which is hidden inside the question figure (x).

Solved Examples

Direction: In each of the following questions, you are given a figure (X) followed by four alternative figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) such that figure (X) is embedded in one of them. Trace out the alternative figure which contains fig. (X) as its part.