A quicker way to crack this kind of figure series is to build a small position table for each shape instead of staring at the whole picture at once. List where the circle is in each frame, then do the same for the triangle, and the pattern usually stands out.
Circle positions: frame 1, middle row and left column; frame 2, bottom row and left column; frame 3, top row and left column. The column never changes, and the row keeps stepping down by one, cycling back to the top once it passes the bottom row.
Triangle positions: frame 1, top row and right column; frame 2, middle row and right column; frame 3, bottom row and one column left of the right edge. The row again steps down by one each time without fail, and the column begins sliding left once the triangle has nowhere further right to go.
Predicting frame 4: the circle's row-down-by-one rule takes it from the top row (frame 3) to the middle row, still on the left. The triangle's row-down-by-one rule pushes it one row further, while its leftward drift continues.
Checking the options: option (A) matches both predictions at once, circle back in the middle-left cell and the triangle a step further down and left. Option (B) has the two shapes trading positions, which no earlier frame supports. Option (C) drops the circle into the middle of the grid, away from the left edge it has occupied in all three frames. Option (D) simply repeats an earlier frame's layout for the circle instead of moving it forward.
Since only option (A) continues both shapes' one-step-per-frame movement without breaking either rule, it is the correct next figure.
Let's summarize:
Solve multi-shape figure series by tracking one shape at a time, not the whole picture together.
A shape that always stays on one edge of the grid usually keeps to that edge in the answer too, ruling out any option that moves it into the interior.
