Mental Ability Direction Sense Test - Practice Questions

Question 1

X and Y start moving towards each other from two places 200 m apart. After walking 60 m, B turns left and goes 20 m, then turns right and goes 40 m. He then turns right again and comes back to the road on which he had started walking. If A and B walk with the same speed, what is the distance between them now ?

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Question 2

The town of Paranda is located on Green Lake. The town of Akram is west of Paranda. Tokhada is east of Akram but west of Paranda. Kakran is east of Bopri but west of Tokhada and Akram. If they are all in the same district, which town is the fatherest west ?

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Question 3

A direction pole was situated on the crossing. Due to an accident the pole turned in such a manner that the pointer which was showing East, started showing South. One traveller went to the wrong direction thinking it to be West. In what direction actually he was travelling ?

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Question 4

Ravi wants to go to the university. He starts from his home which is in the East and comes to a crossing. The road to the left ends in a theatre, straight ahead is the hospital. In which direction is the university ?

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Question 5

Read the following informatin carefully and answer the questions given below it:

On a playing ground, Dinesh, Kunal, Nitin, Atal and Prashant are standing as described below facing the North.
  (i) Kunal is 40 metres to the right of Atul
  (ii) Dinesh is 60 metres to the south of kunal.
  (iii) Nitin is 25 metres to the west of Atul.
  (iv)  Prashant is 90 metreshe north of Dinesh.

Who is to the north-east of the person who is to the left of Kunal ?

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Question 6

Lokesh's school bus is facing North when it reaches his school. After starting from Lokesh's house, it turns right twice and then left befire reaching the school. What direction was the bus facing when it left the bus stop in front of Lokesh's house ?

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Question 7

Two buses start from the opposite points of a main road, 150 kms apart. The first bus runs for 25 kms and takes a right turn and then runs for 15 kms. It then turns left and runs for another 25 kms and takes the direction back to reach the main road. In the meantime, due to minor break down, the other bus has run only 35 kms along the main road. What would be the distance between the two buses at this point /

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Question 8

The post office is to the east of the schol while my house is to the south of the school. The market is to the north of the pot office. if the distance of the market from the post office is equal to the distance of my house from the school, in which diection is the market with respect to my school ?

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Question 9

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it :

(i) Six flats on a floorin two rows facing North and South are allotted to P. Q, R, S, T and U.
(ii) Q gets a North facing flat and is not next to S.
(iii) S and U get diagonally opposite flats.
(iv) R, next to U, gets a South facing flat and T gets a North facing flat.

If the flats of T and P are interchanged, whose flat will be next to that of U ?

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Question 10

There are four towns P, Q, R and T Q is to the South-west of P, R is to the east of Q and south-east of P, and T is to the north of R in line with QP. In which direction of P is T located ?

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