Directions
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 9:34
It’s a long time since the last post. Well I apologise. Our vacation aint exactly a vacation.
Well coming to the point. Another aspect to Logic is Directions. This comes under Analytical Reasoning. One of the easiest questions to score in and also one of the easiest to get carried away and lose track of what’s happening.
These are the basic directions you will be needing for CLAT. There is nothing much to explain.
A sample question would be:
1. Aymen walked 40 metres west from point A. He then takes a left and walks 50 ms. He takes a right and walks 40 mts. Then moves northwards and walks 50 mts. He finally takes a left and walks another 20 mts to reach point B. In which direction is he walking now and how far is he from point A?
Solution:
Ans. Aymen is Walking Eastwards. He is 100 metres away from Point A.
2. Promoth starts from X and walks northwards. He then takes a right and after walking for sometime moves in the south east direction. A little while later he takes a left turn. In which direction is he walking?
Answer: He is walking in the North-East direction.
These are basic questions. In the CLAT directions will come for just one or two marks maybe. But you should solve it carefully as these 1 or 2 marks have huge differences in ranks.(Believe us, we KNOW!)
A few simple suggestions and tips for solving direction questions:
1. Always draw diagrams like the ones I have drawn above. Never try it mentally.Chances of a mistake are great!
2. Also, while drawing these diagrams read EACH word of the question carefully. People generally go wrong with right or left. Remember the directions change according to the way the person is facing. This is a very common mistake.
Diagram A shows a person facing Northward take a left. Whereas
Diagram B shows a person facing southwards take a left.
Be very careful that you don not draw the direction according to the way in which you are sitting at your table. It all goes wrong. It is similar for all directions.
3. READ the question carefully.
An exercise on this is coming up soon.
All the best,
Nishant Prasad,
ClatGyan Team
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Premangsu said on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 14:38
I particularly love the scribbles in the diagrams.
Nice article..but Im through with this..
I only have some confusions with questions on ‘shadow falling right/left’
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Nishant Prasad said on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 16:41
I am glad that you are done with it and thank you for liking my scribbles premangsu
But there may be others who arent done with this dont you think?
I agree its simple. But our job is to put up all that we can. I hope you understand!
All the best!
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Subhankar said on Sunday, December 5, 2010, 10:29
Hey , in the first question, isnt aymen walking towards the west?? even the diagram shows this…
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Dhruv Garg said on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 0:29
yeah i also believe that aymen is walking towards WEST
(though he went south to nalsar)
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Aymen Mohammed Reply:
December 7th, 2010 at 3:08 PM
I actually stayed put, I am Hyderabadi.
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Adithya Reddy said on Thursday, February 10, 2011, 14:07
yea….aymen is walking westwards…!!!!! how come the answer is “eastwards”?
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noopur said on Friday, March 4, 2011, 18:40
the explanation is indeed very helpful ….
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devanshu said on Thursday, March 17, 2011, 14:26
sir i also have the same question.plz tell the answer of ques.1 with the explanation.plz mail me at devanshu.2008@gmail.com
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sonakshi said on Saturday, April 2, 2011, 16:02
very very very very VERY helpful! thanks!
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ananta said on Sunday, April 3, 2011, 20:29
Sir,could you please mail me the solutions of question No. 1 and 2 at ananta.saxena@gmailcom. That would be a great help.
Thank you
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saiteja said on Monday, April 25, 2011, 16:15
nothing but walking of Aymen towards east was wrong answer
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saurabh Reply:
May 11th, 2012 at 5:00 PM
I ALSO AGREE WITH U AYMEN WAS WALKING TOWARD WEST
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vidushi Reply:
February 8th, 2013 at 12:45 AM
i also agree
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sitwat said on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 19:59
itz helpful thnx
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shristi said on Saturday, October 6, 2012, 19:14
could you pls tell me…how Aymen is walking in eastwards direction?????ITS A BIG ERROR………………………….
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zania said on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 14:07
please explain me the calculation of the distance between point a and b in question 1
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meghna kothari said on Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 13:49
How come the dist is 100m.I think it should be 90..??
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Abhishek Barwal Reply:
March 31st, 2013 at 10:31 AM
yeah! the answer has to be 90!
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