Visualising Solids - Question Type 1 - Example 3

One means of solving this item is to begin by looking at a detail which does not occur in all four answer options. Look, for example, at the figure which looks like an upside-down "L" on the left edge of Option (B) and (D). – Does this figure result from the view from above and the view from the front? Yes, it does, because the "upside-down L" is the unobstructed view of the high surface at the figure’s centre. Accordingly, you can already rule out Options (A) and (C). Options (B) und (D) differ in that, in Figure (B), a step has been indicated over the rectangular figure to the right, whereas (D) shows a straight edge all the way to the top. In the view from above, however, you can see the protruding section which forms the step: Therefore (B) is the correct answer here.