Raphaël Bélanger

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not studying in physics, but in finance. I like to think that I have good spatial reasoning skills but I've never taken any kind of test to confirm it, aside from highschool physics courses.   If I'm doing this for a test about spatial reasoning questions, I tend to approach the question methodically. I'll find specific sections of the test image that are relevant to the answer and try to rotate or move them in accordance to the question. I can't do this in my head, so I tend to move my eyes across the test sheet to help me "visualize" the answer. In other words, I've I'm trying to "visualize" a square, I'll move my eyes across the paper in the shape of a square. I'm not sure of the mechanism behind it, but it seem to help me. A lone square is probably a bad example, but this only really works with 2D shapes. If I'm doing something with 3D shapes, I'll compress them down to 2D and do the same thing. If that's not possible, I would probably draw something in the margins to help me understand how two or more 3D objects interact with each other. Drawing something in the air also seems to help, even though it makes me look like a crazy person. Really, just use all the tool at your disposal, draw something in the margins, in the air, move your hands, etc. Anything that can help you is fair game.  I'm not sure if this will be helpful to you, but it works for me, so it can't hurt to give it a try.