Direction Sense: Tracking a Short Journey Quiz — 5 Free Questions

📖 Read the passage, then answer the questions below

Each question below describes a short journey using compass directions, turns, and distances. A right turn changes the direction of travel ninety degrees clockwise (for example, from north to east), and a left turn changes it ninety degrees counter-clockwise (for example, from north to west). Unless a question says otherwise, treat every straight-line distance as measured directly between the start and end points of the journey, not along the path actually walked.

Question 1

A person walks 7 km east, then turns left and walks 24 km. What is the straight-line distance from the starting point?

Question 2

A person walks 5 km east, then turns left and walks 12 km, then turns left again and walks 5 km. How far is the person from the starting point, and in which direction?

Question 3

A person walks 18 km west, then turns left and walks 24 km. What is the straight-line distance from the starting point?

Question 4

Consider the following three statements about a person who starts at point X, walks 6 km north, then turns right and walks 8 km to reach point Y: I. The straight-line distance between X and Y is 10 km. II. Point Y is to the north-east of point X. III. If the person then turns right again and walks 6 km, they would be due east of point X. Which of the statements is/are true?

Question 5

A person walks 15 km south, then turns left and walks 20 km. What is the straight-line distance from the starting point?

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About Direction Sense: Tracking a Short Journey

CLAT's Logical Reasoning section includes direction-sense puzzles: a short journey is described using compass directions, turns, and distances, and the question asks for the final direction faced, the straight-line distance from the start, or the direction of the end point relative to the start -- no outside knowledge is needed beyond the turning conventions given up front.

This quiz is built around one fixed set of turning conventions, given once. Every question below describes its own short, independent journey, so each can be worked out entirely on its own using only basic direction and distance reasoning.

The twenty questions cover final-facing-direction questions, straight-line distance questions using simple right-angled paths, and a few journeys that trace all the way back to the starting point.

Only five of the twenty questions are shown on any single attempt, so replaying this quiz brings a genuinely different mix of journeys rather than the same five memorised by rote.