Direction Sense Test Tips and Tricks for Government Exams

Theory

The main aim of this type of examination is to test the candidate's knowledge of direction and ability to trace and follow or we can say sense the path or direction. Now In this type of direction sense test problems, what we have to do is to make a diagram as quickly as possible on a paper as per the question given. The direction sense test problems involves a person moving in the given directions and the candidate is asked to find out the distance from the initial point or direction in which the person in the question is standing etc.

Types

•  The Right and Left directional movement
  The right and left movement of a person is always with reference to the body moving in the scenario. It is not with respect to the person who is solving the questions.
• The directional reference point
  Observe the five cities on the map shown below. The five cities are New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Kolkata.
• The directions of sun rays and shadow
  A boy is playing with a skipping rope in the playground and is facing North in the morning then, he observes that his shadow was towards his left as the Sun appeared in the East. The boy turned 180 degrees while playing, he is facing the South now. His own shadow will be towards his right as the Sun is in the east.
• Correct map v/s Wrong map
  This section involves the comparison of two maps between which one is definitely wrong. One has to find the correct direction in the wrong map by applying logical analysis.
• Directions in Clocks
  All the pirates and travellers during the 16th and 17th Centuries used the compass as a navigation device which helped them in the discovery of the land that was unknown to mankind. The clocks were lacking directional information as the main task of the clock was just to tell the time.
  Adding the directions to the clock paved the way to the invention of many ideas in the future. The direction in which the number ‘12’ exists was considered as the North for the reference. And all the remaining directions were marked accordingly. Hence, the numbers ‘3’, ‘6’ and ‘9’ were considered to be at East, South, and West, respectively.
• Directions in board games
  In this section, the directional concepts are applied to popular board games like Chess and Carrom board or Snake and ladder to solve the questions.
• Directions of Seating arrangement
  This section involves the combination of directional logic with the seating arrangement.

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