Choose the figure which is different from the rest of the figures that are…

Concept: When every figure in a classification series is built from the same fixed parts (here: one arm ending in an arrow, one ending in a solid dot, one ending in a cross, plus a small extra dot near the centre), the parts themselves can never be the odd-one-out clue, since they repeat identically in every figure. The exception must instead lie in a STRUCTURAL relationship between the parts — here, WHICH TWO of the three arm-tips the small extra dot sits between.

Application

1. List the fixed parts present in every figure: an arrow-tipped arm, a dot-tipped arm, a cross-tipped arm, and one small extra dot floating near the junction.

2. Since the parts match across all five figures, check which two of the three named arm-tips the small extra dot is sandwiched between, figure by figure.

3. In figures (1), (2), (4) and (5), the extra dot sits in the gap between the arrow arm and the plain dot arm — it never drifts toward the cross-arm side.

4. In figure (3), the extra dot instead sits in the gap between the arrow arm and the cross arm — a different pair of arms altogether, unlike every other figure.

Cross-check: Trace around each figure from the cross-tipped arm to the arrow-tipped arm the long way (that is, not through the plain dot arm). In figures (1), (2), (4) and (5), that stretch is empty — the extra dot is tucked on the other side, next to the plain dot arm. In figure (3), that very stretch between the cross arm and the arrow arm is exactly where the extra dot sits, confirming figure (3) breaks the shared placement rule.

Figures (1), (2), (4) and (5) all keep their extra dot next to the plain dot arm. Figure (3) is the only one whose extra dot instead keeps company with the cross arm, so figure (3) is the figure that is different from the rest.