In the sequence of tiles shown below, the missing tile indicated by the question mark should be

Question

In the 2020 summer Olympics' Javelin throw finals, Neeraj Chopra exhibited a spectacular performance to win the gold medal. The silver medal was won by Jakub Vadlejch and the bronze medal was won by Vitezlav Vesely. There were six rounds of throws with each athlete having one throw per round. The best of all the throws of each athlete is considered for the medal. Following were the observations about the throws:
(i) The first and second rounds were dominated by Neeraj Chopra with a gold medal performance in his second throw, while the other two athletes did not have any medal winning throws in these rounds.
(ii) The throws in the last round by both Jakub Vadlejch and Vitezlav Vesely were fouls and were not considered for scoring.
(iii) After four rounds, Vitezlav Vesely was in the second position and could not improve upon his best throw in the succeeding rounds.
(iv) In the fourth round, the throw by Jakub Vadlejch was the best in that round.
In which round did Vitezlav Vesely have his best throw?

Answer 1

Apply a two-step elimination: first discard any option whose dot count breaks the numeric progression seen across the given tiles, then among the survivors discard any option whose dot layout does not match the established grouping style. Only one candidate tile passes both filters, and it corresponds to option (D), which matches the officially released GATE 2026 answer key.

The final answer is option (D).

In the sequence of tiles shown below, the missing tile indicated by the question mark should be

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The Correct Option is D

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