How To Tackle Abstract Reasoning (AR)
The AR section features 50 questions, about 40 of them comprising sets of 5 each. To answer any of them, you have to detect a pattern in a given set of pictures. You have just 12 minutes to answer them all. That is not unreasonable given that whether you can answer any of these questions at a given time depends on your frame of mind at the time. Since the “frame of mind” does not usually change in 5 or 10 minutes, spending more than 15 seconds on any independent question or more than 1 minute on any set of questions is totally useless; if you can’t figure out the pattern in 45 seconds, it’s highly unlikely that you will do it any time in the next 5 minutes. And the failure to identify a pattern does not mean you are dumb. It just means that the question did not match your frame of mind at the time.