SSC CGL Dice, Cube, Cuboid & Dot Situation Questions 2026 — Free Chapter Wise Practice Test

Dice, Cube & Dot Situation Tests — Pick a Level and Start

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This chapter is really three small chapters that share one habit: seeing a solid from the outside and working out what you cannot see. A dice shows three faces at a time, so every question about opposite faces is a question about the three faces that are hidden. A painted cube cut into pieces hides most of its pieces inside. A stack of cubes hides the ones that hold the visible ones up. Dot situation is the flat cousin: the dot you see fixes a region, and you look for that region elsewhere.

Each form has a fixed method, given in full in every solution: the two rules for opposite faces, the straight-line and Z rules for open sheets, the (n − 2) formulas for painted cubes, layer counting for stacks, and the inside-and-outside test for dots. With the methods in hand these are one-minute marks.

How Many Dice, Cube and Dot Situation Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

Usually one question from this group in a Tier I shift, sometimes two, and the same forms turn up in CHSL, MTS and Tier II. Dice and cube & cuboid are the regulars; dot situation appears now and then. The forms are listed below, most common first.

Figure series, figure classification, figure analogy and counting of triangles are practised in the Figure Series, Classification, Analogy & Counting chapter; mirror and water images in Mirror & Water Image.

What You Will Practice in the Dice, Cube & Dot Situation Chapter

Dice

• Two positions with two common faces — the third faces are opposite
• Two positions with one common face — read clockwise from it and match places
• Three or four positions — a face seen with four others is opposite the sixth; chains of deductions (Level 2)
• Dice with numbers, letters, symbols and dot faces; which face is at the bottom, which is not adjacent
• The missing ‘?’ face in a new position, the impossible position, pairs of opposite faces and their sum (Level 2)

Open sheets (nets)

• The face opposite a given square when the sheet is folded
• Which of four cubes can be formed from the sheet — wrong cubes show opposite faces together (Level 1) or the right faces in the reverse order (Level 2)

Cube & cuboid

• A painted cube cut into n × n × n pieces: three, two, one or no painted face; at least or at most one
• The reverse: the number of unpainted (or one-face) pieces is given, find another count
• A painted cuboid a × b × c; blocks shown as figures with the cutting lines drawn
• Minimum cuts for N pieces, maximum pieces from k cuts, small cubes of side s from a cube of side L
• Counting the cubes in a stacked figure; cubes needed to complete the cuboid (Level 2)
• Three colours on the three pairs of opposite faces; some faces left unpainted, counted layer by layer (Level 2)

Dot situation

• Three overlapping shapes, one or two dots (Level 1); four shapes, two or three dots (Level 2)
• Every solution names each dot’s region — inside which shapes, outside which — and says why each wrong figure fails

The three dice rules, in pictures

The three mistakes that cost the most marks

• Pairing faces that sit in the same spot. Two drawings with 4 on top do not make 4 opposite anything; only the rules above give opposite faces.
• Using n instead of (n − 2). Edge cubes are 12(n − 2), not 12n — the corners must not be counted again.
• Counting only what you can see. In a stack the hidden cubes under and behind the visible ones count too; in a dot figure the region must also be outside every shape that the dot is not in.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Dice, Cube & Dot Situation

How the Dice, Cube & Dot Situation Tests Work

• 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
• Every form in every level — each test mixes 10 dice and open-sheet questions, 9 cube and cuboid questions and 6 dot situation questions.
• Figures drawn sharp on any screen — dice, sheets, stacks and dot figures are pictures made for the page, so they stay clear on a phone.
• Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock to build exam speed, without it while you are still learning the chapter.
• Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
• Solutions, shortcut tricks and concept notes open after you submit — every opposite pair is deduced step by step, every count is shown group by group or layer by layer, and every wrong figure is given its reason.
• English and हिंदी, chosen at the start of every test.
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How to Prepare Dice, Cube & Dot Situation for SSC CGL

1. Learn the three dice rules and say them aloud. Two common faces, one common face (clockwise), four faces seen with one face. Every dice question is one of these or a chain of them.
2. On an open sheet, mark the straight lines first, then the Z shapes. Three pairs, and the sheet is solved.
3. For painted cubes, write n and (n − 2) before anything else. Then 8, 12(n − 2), 6(n − 2)², (n − 2)³ — check that they add to n³.
4. Count stacks layer by layer. Every column reaches the floor; the hidden cubes are real.
5. For dots, write each condition as IN and OUT. Then test the figures one condition at a time.
6. Do Level 1 untimed first, then with the 15-minute clock. Move to Level 2 once Level 1 is steady, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.

Related SSC CGL Reasoning Chapters

Dice and cube questions sit with the other figure-based chapters of General Intelligence. Practising them together builds the habit of turning a picture into a rule.

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