Prelims · 8 Mental Ability · 8.10 Blood relations and direction sense

8.10.3 Direction sense: turns and final direction

Give every direction an angle (North 0°, East 90°, South 180°, West 270°), count clockwise turns as plus and anticlockwise as minus, add them up, and read the final angle back as a direction.

  • APPSC Group 2 · Prelims
  • Standard level
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Key terms

  • direction sense
  • cardinal directions
  • intercardinal directions
  • clockwise
  • anticlockwise
  • left turn
  • right turn
  • net rotation
  • final direction
  • renamed directions
  • clock on a table
  • relative position
  • sun and facing

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